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| events for business owners: Start Your Own Event Planning Business The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Cheryl Kimball, 2015-04-20 START YOUR OWN EVENT PLANNING BUSINESS AND CELEBRATE ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK! Weddings, graduations, birthday parties, anniversaries, and conferences; what do these all have in common? Everyone would rather hire someone else to plan and run them! That someone can be you. Take your passion for event planning to the next level with in-the-trenches advice and tools you need to start, run, and grow a successful business. From writing a solid contract to finding reliable vendors, our experts help you identify your niche, teach you how to scout potential clients, evaluate the competition, market your business, and more. Discover how to: Identify a niche and establish yourself within the industry Build a loyal customer base for large and small events Implement targeted strategies for planning commercial, political, civic, social events, and more Promote your business, events, and yourself with Pinterest, Instagram, and other social and online marketing tools Develop proposals, vendor agreements, contracts, and manage day-to-day operations and costs Keep within budget using money-saving tips and industry-tested ideas Plus, gain valuable insights from interviews with practicing event planners, and stay on track with checklists, worksheets, and other resources. Everything you need to make your event planning business a successful reality is right here—get the party started today! |
| events for business owners: Business Made Simple Donald Miller, 2021-01-19 Is this blue book more valuable than a business degree? Most people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they’re doing. It’s hard to be successful without a clear understanding of how business works. These 60 daily readings are crucial for any professional or business owner who wants to take their career to the next level. New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Donald Miller knows that business is more than just a good idea made profitable – it’s a system of unspoken rules, rarely taught by MBA schools. If you are attempting to profitably grow your business or career, you need elite business knowledge—knowledge that creates tangible value. Even if you had the time, access, or money to attend a Top 20 business school, you would still be missing the practical knowledge that propels the best and brightest forward. However, there is another way to achieve this insider skill development, which can both drastically improve your career earnings and the satisfaction of achieving your goals. Donald Miller learned how to rise to the top using the principles he shares in this book. He wrote Business Made Simple to teach others what it takes to grow your career and create a company that is healthy and profitable. These short, daily entries and accompanying videos will add enormous value to your business and the organization you work for. In this sixty-day guide, readers will be introduced to the nine areas where truly successful leaders and their businesses excel: Character: What kind of person succeeds in business? Leadership: How do you unite a team around a mission? Personal Productivity: How can you get more done in less time? Messaging: Why aren’t customers paying more attention? Marketing: How do I build a sales funnel? Business Strategy: How does a business really work? Execution: How can we get things done? Sales: How do I close more sales? Management: What does a good manager do? Business Made Simple is the must-have guide for anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed by the modern business climate, even if they attended business school. Learn what the most successful business leaders have known for years through the simple but effective secrets shared in these pages. Take things further: If you want to be worth more as a business professional, read each daily entry and follow along with the free videos that will be sent to you after you buy the book. |
| events for business owners: EntreLeadership Dave Ramsey, 2011-09-20 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Total Money Makeover and radio and podcast host Dave Ramsey comes an informative guide based on how he grew a successful, multimillion dollar company from a card table in his living room. Your company is only as strong as your leaders. These are the men and women doing battle daily beneath the banner that is your brand. Are they courageous or indecisive? Are they serving a motivated team or managing employees? Are they valued? Your team will never grow beyond you, so here’s another question to consider—are you growing? Whether you’re sitting at the CEO’s desk, the middle manager’s cubicle, or a card table in your living-room-based start-up, EntreLeadership provides the practical, step-by-step guidance to grow your business where you want it to go. Dave Ramsey opens up his championship playbook for business to show you how to: -Inspire your team to take ownership and love what they do -Unify your team and get rid of all gossip -Handle money to set your business up for success -Reach every goal you set -And much, much more! EntreLeadership is a one-stop guide filled with accessible advice for businesses and leaders to ensure success even through the toughest of times. |
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| events for business owners: Faith Driven Entrepreneur Henry Kaestner, J. D. Greear, Chip Ingram, 2021-08 I'm excited about Faith Driven Entrepreneur. Anyone who is following the example of their creator God can find echoes of their work in this book. --Lecrae Entrepreneurship can be a lonely journey. But it doesn't need to be. God has a purpose and a plan for all those entrepreneurial dreams and creative gifts he gave you. The work you do today--the company you've built, the employees you work with, the customers you serve, the shareholders you report to, all of it--serves as an active part of what God wants to accomplish on earth. You are not alone in this journey. Join other faith-driven entrepreneurs as, together, we identify the values, habits, and traits that empower us to successfully build businesses, serve our communities, and faithfully pursue a loving relationship with God; read stories that exemplify how those values, habits, and traits unfold in everyday life; and discover the potential God wants to unleash through our work. Each book purchase includes access to the eight-session Faith Driven Entrepreneur video series, a discussion guide to encourage conversation among peers, and an invitation to join a Faith Driven Entrepreneur Group to meet other like-minded entrepreneurs. |
| events for business owners: Woke Doesn't Mean Broke Billy Carson, 2020-10-31 This is truly the time to make changes. Do not wait for anything or anybody. Now is the time to make your move. You need to be ahead of the game with the right tools that this book will provide you on your journey into the future. And here is the other thing: This book is right for any point in history. It doesn't matter when you read it... everything presented here is timeless. The steps to your financial wellbeing and improvements to self are the same today as they will be fifty years from now. I have combined spirituality with knowledge about how to navigate the financial matrix. This book is a mental checklist. The analogies were great! Meditation and financial knowledge mixed in one. - Waka Flocka Flame - BET Music Awards Winner and International recording artist. Woke Doesn't Mean Broke explores the behavioral and mindset shifts that are necessary in order to manifest abundance in all areas of one's life. Billy does an amazing job of simplifying the steps for enlightened and conscious people. - Dawn Dickson, Light Worker, Serial Entrepreneur & Inventor. Entrepreneur Of The Year. A very practical, step by step guide in bite-sized pieces to guide you to financial freedom. Billy Carson is on a thoughtful mission to help narrow the disparity between haves and have nots. Dr Tara Swart, MD, PhD, M.I.T Faculty and author of 'The Source' This is truly the time to make changes. Do not wait for anything or anybody. Now is the time to make your move. You need to be ahead of the game with the right tools that this book will provide you on your journey into the future. Donny Arcade - International Music Artist and American Billboard Artist. I recommend this book to all those seeking wisdom and guidance in their life. -Matthew LaCroix - Author of The Stage of Time and The Illusion Of Us. A poignant and profound 'how to' of self actualization and rewarding life success. -- Robert E. Grant, Entrepreneur Mathematician |
| events for business owners: The Routledge Handbook of Business Events Charles Arcodia, 2022-09-08 A timely and up-to-date go-to reference work for business events, The Routledge Handbook of Business Events explores and critically evaluates the key debates and controversies inherent to this rapidly expanding subject of study and industry. The volume brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on management aspects as well as economic, social and environmental impacts and external factors such as transportation. The book incorporates the varied expertise of some 30 expert authors to provide a definitive collection of statements in this field, accompanied by illustrative and engaging case studies embodying real-life scenarios and examples on an international scale. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers and academics of Events, as well as those of related studies in particular Tourism, Hospitality, Sport, Leisure, Marketing, Business and Development Studies. |
| events for business owners: Event Success Alon Alroy, Eran Ben-Shushan, Boaz Katz, 2022-03-17 Make events the most powerful marketing tool you have In Event Success: Maximizing the Business Impact of Physical, Virtual, and Hybrid Experiences, Alon Alroy, Eran Ben-Shushan, and Boaz Katz of Bizzabo draw on the knowledge they’ve gained powering events for companies like Amazon, Salesforce, and Uber to deliver an end-to-end playbook for readers wanting to maximize their organization’s return on events. Event Success will help you unlock the full potential of your events and make them your most important marketing channel. You’ll learn how to create elevated experiences in any format that drive strategic business goals, including: How to measure event success with surveys, data, analytics, and key KPIs How to integrate events into a strategic, end-to-end marketing plan How to collect, analyze, and funnel event data to other teams to drive business growth What events are successful, what the data says about them, and real-life examples from SAP, the Financial Times, IBM, and other leading brands that capture the imagination of their audiences through events Event Success is ideal for marketers, event professionals, and anyone responsible for creating buzz, driving new sales, and building thought leadership with in-person, hybrid, or virtual events. It’s also an invaluable resource for maximizing your organization’s “RoE”—or Return on Event—with measurable increases in sales. |
| events for business owners: Event Management: For Tourism, Cultural, Business and Sporting Events Lynn Van der Wagen, Lauren White, 2018-04-01 Event Management, specifically written for the Diploma of Event Management and Advanced Diploma of Event Management, is a comprehensive resource for anyone wanting to build their expertise in professional event management. This edition adopts a scaffold learning pedagogy, helping students move through the material logically and efficiently while building on their understanding of tourism, cultural, business and sporting events. |
| events for business owners: Why Startups Fail Tom Eisenmann, 2021-03-30 If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success. |
| events for business owners: Stand Out Networking Dorie Clark, 2015-06-09 Few professional activities are as nerve-wracking as networking. There’s the paralyzing prospect of entering a room full of strangers. The awkward introductions and stilted small talk. The concern that “networking” means you have to exploit others for personal gain – or might appear that way. It’s no wonder so many talented professionals eschew networking altogether. Unfortunately, that means they’re limiting their chances of making the kind of great personal and professional connections that can expand their worldview, enrich their lives, and – yes – even lead to new business opportunities. That’s why it’s time to reclaim networking. It doesn’t have to be the province of users and takers; instead, as Forbes and Harvard Business Review contributor Dorie Clark makes clear in this short and actionable guide, networking done right is nothing like the stereotype. It’s not about making shallow, insincere connections and filling your wallet with business cards. Instead, the real goal is to turn brief encounters into mutually-beneficial and lasting friendships—in both your personal and professional life. Drawing on wisdom from her own experience and from experts like psychologist Robert Cialdini, marketer Michael Katz, and authors Judy Robinett and Keith Ferrazzi, Clark provides valuable insight on how to be a good networker, including concrete tips on how to: - Turn initial small talk into meaningful exchanges - Unlock the power of social media as a networking tool - Transform casual online contacts into real-world connections - Make the most of conferences - Set a schedule for keeping in regular touch with your network - Repair and strengthen troubled relationships - Create your own events and become a connector Whether you’re an introvert or extrovert, and whether you currently relish or loathe making new connections, Clark will teach you the strategies you need to make networking fun, joyful, and enriching. |
| events for business owners: Powershift Daymond John, Daniel Paisner, 2021-03-09 The bestselling author and star of ABC’s Shark Tank reveals how to master the three prongs of influence: reputation, negotiation, and relationships. Have you ever wanted to make a big change in your life but weren’t sure where to start? In Powershift, Daymond John shares the answer. To take control of your destiny and drive the change you want to see, you need to lay the groundwork so you’re prepared to seize every opportunity that comes your way. And that means mastering • Influence—make an impression: Develop a reputation that highlights what you stand for. • Negotiation—make a deal: Hone a win-win negotiating style. • Relationships—make a connection last: Nurture those connections you make along the way. Through never-before-told stories from his life and career, Daymond shares the lessons that got him to where he is today: from how he remade his public image as he transitioned from clothing mogul to television personality, to how he mastered the negotiation strategies that determine whether deals are won or lost “in the tank,” to his secrets for building long-lasting—and profitable—relationships with founders and brands. Throughout the book, some of the world’s most successful personalities reveal how they shifted their power in meaningful ways: Kris Jenner on determining your value: “You don’t have to go ask somebody else for permission. You have the power to be able to stick to your guns and demand your worth.” Mark Cuban on finding and understanding your why: “Time is the one asset we don’t own, we can’t buy, and we can never get back.” Pitbull on tapping into your inner power: “A lot of people feel that to be powerful is to exude strength. I think it’s the total opposite. To be powerful is to be powerless. It’s when you give everybody what you got.” Whether you’re an innovator working to turn your big idea into a reality, a professional looking to land a major promotion, or a busy parent trying to find more time to focus on what’s really important to you, Daymond shows you how to shift your power and energy towards positive change. |
| events for business owners: SIMPLEnetworking Chi Chi Okezie, 2019-08 SIMPLEnetworking is a travel size guide packed with 50 tips on how to network like a pro! Categorized in five chapters, these tips offer insight on professionalism, developing relationships, valuing people, establishing credibility and promoting your brand. It gives practical strategies for building profitable and productive networks. |
| events for business owners: Event Success Alon Alroy, Eran Ben-Shushan, Boaz Katz, 2022-03-29 Make events the most powerful marketing tool you have In Event Success: Maximizing the Business Impact of Physical, Virtual, and Hybrid Experiences, Alon Alroy, Eran Ben-Shushan, and Boaz Katz of Bizzabo draw on the knowledge they’ve gained powering events for companies like Amazon, Salesforce, and Uber to deliver an end-to-end playbook for readers wanting to maximize their organization’s return on events. Event Success will help you unlock the full potential of your events and make them your most important marketing channel. You’ll learn how to create elevated experiences in any format that drive strategic business goals, including: How to measure event success with surveys, data, analytics, and key KPIs How to integrate events into a strategic, end-to-end marketing plan How to collect, analyze, and funnel event data to other teams to drive business growth What events are successful, what the data says about them, and real-life examples from SAP, the Financial Times, IBM, and other leading brands that capture the imagination of their audiences through events Event Success is ideal for marketers, event professionals, and anyone responsible for creating buzz, driving new sales, and building thought leadership with in-person, hybrid, or virtual events. It’s also an invaluable resource for maximizing your organization’s “RoE”—or Return on Event—with measurable increases in sales. |
| events for business owners: The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Revised Elaine Pofeldt, 2018-01-02 The self-employment revolution is here. Learn the latest pioneering tactics from real people who are bringing in $1 million a year on their own terms. Join the record number of people who have ended their dependence on traditional employment and embraced entrepreneurship as the ultimate way to control their futures. Determine when, where, and how much you work, and by what values. With up-to-date advice and more real-life success stories, this revised edition of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business shows the latest strategies you can apply from everyday people who--on their own--are bringing in $1 million a year to live exactly how they want. |
| events for business owners: Ask a Manager Alison Green, 2018-05-01 From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together |
| events for business owners: Sales Jiu-Jitsu Elliott Bayev, Daniel Moskowitz, 2021-01-19 There are thousands of books on sales, and there are a growing number of books trying to tease out practical philosophies from Jiu-Jitsu. But what if a book did both? What if it combined proven and repeatable sales tools, systems, and processes with the actionable principles from Jiu-Jitsu to create a framework for success? That would be a book that serious sales leaders-those who want proven effectiveness, not platitudes or theory-could use to start generating results right away. Sales Jiu-Jitsu is that book. Elliott Bayev and Daniel Moskowitz share a complete sales system for elite leaders and entrepreneurs to take their already successful sales teams and turn them into sales black belts. This book provides practical and actionable steps you can use to get results with your teams on their next sales engagements. Whether you are new to sales or a world-class salesperson who is leading sales teams, this book will give you a competitive advantage in your industry. |
| events for business owners: Mastering Leadership Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams, 2015-11-04 Is your leadership a competitive advantage, or is it costing you? How do you know? Are you developing your leadership effectiveness at the pace of change? For most leaders today, complexity is outpacing their personal and collective development. Most leaders are in over their heads, whether they know it or not. The most successful organizations over time are the best led. While this has always been true, today escalating global complexity puts leadership effectiveness at a premium. Mastering Leadership involves developing the effectiveness of leaders—individually and collectively—and turning that leadership into a competitive advantage. This comprehensive roadmap for optimal leadership features: Breakthrough research that connects increased leadership effectiveness with enhanced business performance The first fully integrated Universal Model of Leadership—one that integrates the best theory and research in the fields of Leadership and Organizational Development over the last half century A free, online self-assessment of your leadership, using the Leadership Circle Profile, visibly outlining how you are currently leading and how to develop even greater effectiveness The five stages in the evolution of leadership—Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive—along with the organizational structures and cultures that develop at each of these stages Six leadership practices for evolving your leadership capability at a faster pace A map of your optimal path to greater leadership effectiveness Case stories that facilitate pragmatic application of this Leadership Development System to your particular situation This timeless, authoritative text provides a systemic approach for developing your senior leaders and the leadership system of your organization. It does not recommend quick fixes, but argues that real development requires a strategic, long-term, and integrated approach in order to forge more effective leaders and enhanced business performance. Mastering Leadership offers a developmental pathway to bring forth the highest and best use of yourself, your life, and your leadership. By more meaningfully deploying all of who you are every day, individually and collectively, you will achieve a leadership legacy consistent with your highest aspirations. |
| events for business owners: Good to Great Jim Collins, 2001-10-16 The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings? |
| events for business owners: Self Made Bianca Miller-Cole, Byron Cole, 2017-10-05 SELF-MADE IS A TRULY DEFINITIVE GUIDE; A 'GO-TO' BOOK FOR ALL ENTREPRENEURS AT ANY STAGE OF BUSINESS. This authoritative, focused guide by two of the UK's brightest young entrepreneurs - The Apprentice runner-up, Bianca Miller and serial entrepreneur, Byron Cole - is a comprehensive toolkit for anyone who wants to make a success of running their own business. Featuring interviews with well known entrepreneurs, entertainers and industry experts, the book covers every tier of the business development process, from start-up to exit, offering practical, implementable and global advice on the start up process. De-coding the jargon that is prevalent in business circles today, this book provides straightforward advice on converting an innovative business concept into a commercially viable proposition. It will help you to avoid the costly common mistakes of many who have gone before you, and create a sustainable enterprise that will flourish. Read Self Made and run your own business without fear of failure. |
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| events for business owners: Fill Your Funnel Tom Hopkins, 2018-03-30 In sales, filling a sales pipeline with qualified leads is the magic behind predictable income and massive commission checks. In Fill Your Funnel, get step-by-step instructions on using social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter to generate qualified leads and fill your sales funnel. Learn what experts Tom Hopkins and Dan Portik know about social media strategies to generate leads. This book contains social media posts and email templates from successful campaigns to show you how to set up an effective social media campaign that drives conversions. If you're striving to become successful in sales, this book contains the resources you are seeking. Learn how to: create an attractive online presence for professionals,navigate the differences between Instagram and LinkedIn,build social media profiles for salespeople,effectively prospect in LinkedIn Groups,send posts at the most opportune times,format a video post, andcreate social media follow-up templates. Social media selling doesn't need to be hard, if you know the system. By following the system in Fill Your Funnel, you will be set up for an amazing year. |
| events for business owners: The Entrepreneurial Adventure Oliver James, 2022-07-29 This book is perfect for anyone looking at business and entrepreneurship. It is ideal for anyone with an interest in business and anyone who has aspirations to start their own business–outlining key principles of the entrepreneurial adventure and the business world, bringing it to life using case studies. Within this text you will find useful and practical information about business and entrepreneurship. The author provides a robust understanding of the theory and real-world implications of running a successful business. James also describes and explains the whole process from understanding the implications and risks, the start-up stage through to future expansion. He clearly demonstrates that if you consistently follow the good business habits and practices that are described in this book, you really can achieve entrepreneurial success and the opportunities that come with it. |
| events for business owners: How to Grow Your Small Business Donald Miller, 2023-03-14 The Wall Street Journal Bestseller For so many entrepreneurs, running a small business ended up looking different than they imagined. They’re stressed, discouraged, and not confident in their plan for growth. In How to Grow Your Small Business, Donald Miller gives entrepreneurs a 6-step plan to grow their businesses so they produce dependable, predictable results. Using the exact steps you’ll learn in this book, Donald Miller grew his small business from four employees working out of a basement to a 15 million dollar operation, increasing revenue sixfold in just six years. As Miller grew his own business from the ground up, he realized nobody had put together a simple, step-by-step playbook for growing a business. That book didn’t exist. Until now. In this book, you’ll learn the 6 steps to grow a successful small business and create a playbook to implement them- your Flight Plan. When you have a completed Flight Plan in hand, you can stop drowning in the details and spend more time doing the things you truly love- in your business and your life. In How to Grow Your Small Business, you’ll learn how to: Cast a vision for your company that includes three economic priorities Clarify your marketing message Install a sales framework that makes your customers the hero Optimize your product offering Run a management and productivity playbook that aligns your entire team. Use 5 checking accounts to manage your cash flow If you’re ready to experience freedom, flexibility, and growth for your business, How to Grow Your Small Business is the book you’ve been waiting for. |
| events for business owners: The Best 90 Days Ever Hannah Isted, 2024-03-25 Let's face it: promoting your business often falls to the bottom of your to-do list. The Best 90 Days Ever shows you how to successfully market yourself with a series of daily 10-minute tasks that fit around the rest of your business. Stop wasting time wondering what to do, what to say and how to say it. This guide will give you a weekly theme, from email marketing and engagement to video content and batch creating, to show you how to grow your audience and increase your visibility. After 3 months you will have completed 90 powerful actions that your business will thank you for. |
| events for business owners: Dollars and Events Joe Goldblatt, Frank Supovitz, 1999-03-02 Start, grow, and manage your special events career! To succeed in the world of special events management, you need to develop a vast array of skills and acquire a broad knowledge base that covers everything from planning and management to consulting, production, lighting and sound, decor, catering, and more. You'll also need the critical business know-how that will enable you to plot a course for success, measure your progress along that course, and adapt to changes in the business environment along the way. In short, you need Dollars and Events. The first and only book written specifically for aspiring and established special events professionals, Dollars and Events provides all the information you need to start, grow, and manage a special events-related business or career. You'll learn how to develop a vision, a mission, and a strategy; manage your finances; find the capital you need; create a marketing plan; and hire and keep employees that will help your business thrive. You'll also find: Advice and direction from outstanding special events entrepreneurs and intrepreneurs Help in adapting proven business concepts such as benchmarking, best practices, and quality teams to your business or career End-of-chapter activities to help you learn by doing Whether you are starting your own special events business, running or working in an established firm, or involved in the special events department of a large corporation, this book gives you the tools you need to advance your business, enhance your career opportunities, and enrich yourself and your clients both now and in the future. |
| events for business owners: The Art of Business Succession Craig Holland, 2016-05-04 As the majority of baby boomers retire over the next five to 10 years, succession planning will be vital for the long-term survival of many businesses. Australia is about to see a huge transfer of wealth from the baby boomer generation, yet many businesses, particularly family-owned businesses, struggle to ensure a smooth transition of business management and ownership. Myriad studies show that fewer than 30 per cent of private businesses have an achievable succession plan in place. Most business owners do nothing or they choose to focus on one area in the succession planning process such as tax, while ignoring many of the other key issues that need to be dealt with. For companies that are family owned, the ramifications may be even more sweeping. The personal issues they face, compounding other day-to-day business concerns, range from planning for income taxes to maintaining interpersonal relationships with family members. Succession planning is more complex now as many different business, financial and personal issues come into play. A good succession plan will look at a range of issues such as people and talent, family dynamics, corporate structure, estate planning, insurance and share transfer to name just a few. The Art of Business Succession Planning is for anyone in business who wants to have a change, retire or simply sell their business. It is designed to guide business owners through a comprehensive and strategic approach to the business succession process. The opportunities and benefits are great when succession planning is undertaken in a disciplined way. |
| events for business owners: Success Is Easy Debbie Allen, 2019-11-12 Stop Dreaming. Start Doing. Every small business starts with a spark, an idea, a vision. But as doubt, fear, and real-world roadblocks get in the way, that reach-for-the-stars idea seems far-fetched. Motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and success expert Debbie Allen is here to prove that your dream is not nearly as far as you think. With actionable strategies and unapologetic advice, Success Is Easy is your ultimate guide to taking the leap, overcoming obstacles, and earning success on your own terms. You’ll learn how to: Take the right risks and earn big rewards Escape the “Flip-Flop Zone” and make quality decisions Craft your personal action plan for success Tell which opportunities will help you or hurt you Harness your confidence to become a shameless self-promoter Stop self-sabotage and limiting beliefs in their tracks Speak your mind and stick to it Transform failures into progress Conquer procrastination and make things happen Get out of your own way and take the first step towards turning your dream into a reality with this book. |
| events for business owners: Sustainable Business Helen Kopnina, John Blewitt, 2018-04-19 Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics. The book introduces students to the background and key issues of sustainability and suggests ways in which these concepts can be applied in business practice. Though the book takes a business perspective, it is interdisciplinary in its nature and draws on knowledge from socio-economic, political, and environmental studies, thereby providing a practical and critical understanding of sustainability in the changing paradigm of global business. It goes beyond the conventional theories of sustainability and addresses critical issues concerned with population, consumption, and economic growth. It discusses realistic ways forward, in particular the circular economy and Cradle to Cradle frameworks. The book is both a theoretical and practical study guide for undergraduate and postgraduate international students of broad areas of sustainability, teaching ways to recognize opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship at the intersection of environmental, economic, ethical, and social systems. It takes a strategic approach in applying the power of business methods and policy to address issues of global importance such as climate change, poverty, ecosystem degradation, and human rights. This textbook is essential reading for students of business, management, and sustainability courses. It is written in an engaging and accessible style, with each chapter including case studies, discussion questions, end of chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading. This new edition is updated throughout, and contains an additional chapter on the circular economy. |
| events for business owners: The 10X Rule Grant Cardone, 2011-04-26 Achieve Massive Action results and accomplish your business dreams! While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also know as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams. The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of Massive Action, allowing you to blast through business clichŽs and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results. Learn the Estimation of Effort calculation to ensure you exceed your targets Make the Fourth Degree a way of life and defy mediocrity Discover the time management myth Get the exact reasons why people fail and others succeed Know the exact formula to solve problems Extreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action. Instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results, take Massive Action with The 10 X Rule, remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success. |
| events for business owners: How to Start a Business in Colorado Entrepreneur Press, 2007-07-09 SmartStart Your Business Today! How to Start a Business in Colorado is your road map to avoiding operational, legal and financial pitfalls and breaking through the bureaucratic red tape that often entangles new entrepreneurs. This all-in-one resource goes a step beyond other business how-to books to give you a jump-start on planning for your business. It provides you with: Valuable state-specific sample forms and letters on CD-ROM Mailing addresses, telephone numbers and websites for the federal, state, local and private agencies that will help get your business up and running State population statistics, income and consumption rates, major industry trends and overall business incentives to give you a better picture of doing business in Colorado Checklists, sample forms and a complete sample business plan to assist you with numerous startup details State-specific information on issues like choosing a legal form, selecting a business name, obtaining licenses and permits, registering to pay taxes and knowing your employer responsibilities Federal and state options for financing your new venture Resources, cost information, statistics and regulations have all been updated. That, plus a new easier-to-use layout putting all the state-specific information in one block of chapters, make this your must-have guide to getting your business off the ground. |
| events for business owners: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Peter Drucker, 2014-09-15 How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker’s most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: ‘the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity’. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate. Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers. With a new foreword by Joseph Maciariello |
| events for business owners: Rise Up Kings Skylar Lewis, 2021-07 Welcome to the 90 Day Rise Up Kings journal. This is a 90 day guided journal to help you grow in the areas of faith, family, fitness and finance. Skylar Lewis is the author and founder of Rise Up Kings, a Christian based training program and event for businessmen. The same tools and tactics used in his trainings are found throughout this journal. The journal includes daily bible verses, journaling, affirmations and more. |
| events for business owners: Start Up Nation Jeffrey Sloan, Richard Sloan, 2005 A guide to starting a profitable business includes advice, tips, and strategies for assessing one's tolerance for risk, taking advantage of one's skills, avoiding common mistakes, and focusing on what one loves to do. |
| events for business owners: Master the Art of Planning Live Events A Small Business Owners Guide to Build Your Brand, Drive Revenue, and Grow a Sustainable Business Anza Goodbar, 2023-04-18 In Master the Art of Planning Live Events, small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs will uncover the secrets to hosting successful and memorable events that build their brand, drive revenue, and foster sustainable growth. This comprehensive guide takes readers through every step of the event planning process, from brainstorming ideas to post-event analysis, providing them with the necessary tools and knowledge to create extraordinary live experiences. Drawing on real-life examples and industry insights, this book reveals how to select the perfect venue, create a captivating event theme, and engage with your target audience to maximize impact. It also offers valuable tips on managing budgets, negotiating contracts, and working with vendors, as well as strategies for leveraging social media, marketing, and PR to generate buzz and boost attendance. Whether you are a seasoned professional or a first-time planner, this guide is an indispensable resource that will empower you to transform your small business into a thriving enterprise through the magic of live events. Join countless entrepreneurs who have already mastered the art of planning live events and watch your brand grow exponentially. |
| events for business owners: Mega-events and Urban Image Construction Anne-Marie Broudehoux, 2017-02-17 The focus of this book is the influence of mega-events in the transformation of image construction practices in their host cities. It uses the idea of urban image construction as a lens through which to examine the spectacles of mega-events, with chapters exploring different themes that compose the imagineering process. The physical and social dimensions of these spectacles are addressed, as is the emerging resistance to controversial initiatives. The book explores the unique conditions of mega-event hosting by employing a political-economy point of view and focusing the analytical lenses on Rio de Janeiro and Beijing, two recent Olympic host cities with immense social inequalities. |
| events for business owners: Thriving on the High Street: A Guide to Keeping Your Business Afloat in a Competitive Market David Morgan, In a rapidly changing retail landscape, Thriving on the High Streetis the essential guide for small business owners who want to survive and prosper in today's competitive high street environment. Whether you're opening a new storefront or managing an established one, this book provides actionable strategies to attract customers, manage operations, and increase profitability. From understanding foot traffic patterns to building strong local partnerships, embracing digital marketing, and creating memorable customer experiences, this book offers a comprehensive roadmap to help you navigate the unique challenges of running a successful high street business. Equip yourself with the knowledge to adapt, innovate, and thrive in any economic climate. |
| events for business owners: Organizing Special Events and Conferences Darcy Campion Devney, 2015-10-17 Here is help for anyone who has to produce a public event — from a church social or school fundraiser to a national conference. This comprehensive and practical handbook is the first to reveal all the tricks and techniques of the professional event organizer. Packed with step-by-step instructions, checklists, schedules, and lists of organizations, addresses, and publications, this edition includes updated resources that will prove indispensable to event planners. |
| events for business owners: Recast Your City Ilana Preuss, 2021-06-22 Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill. |
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