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E-Commerce Power is filled with encouragement, practical advice, tips, strategies, interviews, and proven online marketing methods - all organized to help new entrepreneurs. In 2008, Jason worked with his wife to start their new brand created on eBay selling doll clothes. In 2013, they launched Pixie Faire - a popular sewing supply marketplace. The site has been featured by Shopify and is in the top one percent of all Shopify sites based on worldwide site traffic.

Are you looking to turn your creative flair into a profitable business? 'How to Start a Home-Based Balloon Decorating Business' is your comprehensive manual for building a thriving balloon decoration enterprise from the comfort of your home. Whether you’re a crafty individual looking to start a side hustle or aiming for a full-time business venture, this guide walks you through every stage of launching, managing, and expanding your business.

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company.

As a leader, you might know exactly what you need to do, but might be less clear on how to do it. You might know you need to have that difficult conversation, but you're less sure about how to have it. You might know you need to hold your team accountable, but don't know how to do it in a manner that builds authentic engagement rather than mere compliance. The Act of Leadership goes beyond the theory. It is a coaching playbook designed to empower you to be the leader you want to be, and the leader your people need you to be.

Harvard-trained lawyer, Columbia University MBA, and longtime high-level Network Marketing professional Amy Powers offers listeners a frank, fun “Ivy League” intro to this smart, yet often misunderstood, business model. Using honesty and humor, Amy weaves her own skeptic-to-believer, failure-to-success story into the larger story of how the “smarter side hustle” of Network Marketing works and the benefits it offers.

Besides actually getting students through your front door, what's the biggest challenge any martial arts school owner can face? That's right—it's student retention! Keeping students and getting parents to be raving fans of your school is the key to long-term martial arts business success. If you can master martial arts marketing, you're halfway there. But, if you can master the art of martial arts student retention, you can bank on keeping the doors to your martial arts school open for a good long time.

Andy Cunningham has been at the forefront of tech and innovation since day one, and she's been helping companies create new product categories ever since. Now she reveals the winning framework she uses to transform markets and industries. Get to Aha! shows how to establish the kind of foundation world-class brands are built on. Too many business leaders fail to ask the most basic questions about their company.

This book will take you by the hand and show you how to make money online in traditional ways but also how to create a never-ending passive income stream so you have more time for the important things in life. Having the ability to work from home comes with many benefits, namely flexibility, independence, and comfort. With these benefits also come a few difficulties. There are challenges unique to working from a home office that can make successfully navigating this work set-up a struggle. You will be like a pro once you listen to this book.

Use storytelling to influence people and move them to action. Need to get your point across? Get staff on board with change? Foster collaboration? Increase sales? Strengthen employee engagement? Build customer loyalty? Drive innovation and creativity? Capture best practices? Align people around a goal? Grow your business? Business Storytelling for Dummies can help you do this - and more.

There is a mountain of hype around positive thinking. But have you noticed that positive thinking doesn’t, well, work? That's because positivity is just an emotion, and at the end of the day it doesn't change the reality of the situations we face. The Simple Shift turns positive thinking on its head and transforms it into something practical - a way of adopting beliefs that can change the way you see reality and make major obstacles into easily resolvable issues.

No matter how motivated and energetic you are - even if you're the greatest salesperson on the planet! - as a network marketer with limited time, there's only so much money you can make without great people to help you sell your products. Recruiting is the life force of any network marketing, multilevel marketing, or party plan business; it lifts the ceiling off your income, the key that will allow you to keep checks rolling in above and beyond what you can do yourself.

If you are the owner of a home-improvement company of any kind and you want to make quantum leaps in the results you get from your life and your business - this book is for you. Inside this book, entrepreneur, marketing strategist, and host of The Wealthy Contractor podcast Brian Kaskavalciyan will share with you the seven “secrets” that drive the results of every wealthy contractor.

Being an entrepreneur is scary. From late payments to bank crisis, often the future of your business rides on one crucial decision - one you have to make all on your own. But it doesn't have to be that way. Others have faced the same problems, and for the first time have gathered to share their advice.

Do you want to know how to turn your pig farm into a profitable business? Look no further! Whether you’re about to buy your first pig or you already have a pig farm, this guide is a must-have. By listening to this audiobook, you will: learn why pig farming is more than just producing meat; discover the various types of pigs and which pig will best suit your needs; how to build proper housing and fencing for your pigs; learn what your pigs need and how to care for them properly; learn the nutritional needs of pigs and how to feed them well; and more.

With roughly 95,000 blogs launched worldwide every 24 hours, making a fledgling site stand out isn't easy. This authoritative audiobook gives creative hopefuls a leg up. Joy Cho, of the award-winning Oh Joy!, offers expert advice on starting and growing a blog, from design and finance to overcoming blogger's block, attracting readers, and more. With a foreword from Grace Bonney of Design*Sponge plus expert interviews, this book will fine-tune what the next generation of bloggers shares with the world.

Gill Hasson, author of the best-selling Mindfulness, is back, and this time you can fit her advice in your pocket! This little audiobook is packed with over 100 quick exercises, each dealing with a different situation, to help you get calm, collected, and balanced. So whenever you start to feel the stress mounting, reach for your Mindfulness Pocketbook, find the relevant exercise, and instantly make life better!

Far from a dry listen, The Lean Law Firm is the first book published by the ABA to employ the novel to teach business lessons. Follow the engaging story of lawyer Carson Wright, who suddenly finds himself responsible for saving a small law firm, as his mentor Guy Chapman imparts the lean techniques that transformed his factory from the brink of bankruptcy to new heights of profitability. As you hear the The Lean Law Firm story unfold, you’ll see how your own firm is really just a system.

Whether you're thinking about driving for Uber, developing apps, or starting an online boutique, Side Hustles For Dummies walks you through every step of the way of starting your own side gig. You'll learn about how to structure your new business and keep records, create backup plans, and steer clear of scams.

Want to motivate your network marketing team into action? We don't have to be screaming drill instructors to get the job done. Through contests, recognition, goal-setting, fill-out forms, personal development and other motivational techniques, we can do our part to create momentum in our teams.

The Art of Communication is for anyone who senses that they could be communicating on a deeper level. There's more to conversation than just clear, rational thinking. Left-brain rationality is important, of course, but neuroscience increasingly shows that the right-brain skills of creativity, intuition, and spontaneity are essential in good communication. In this guide, you'll discover ways of tapping into the full conversational potential that lies dormant within you, adding a level of nuance and watching the result as your relationships blossom.