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Stephen J. Hunt, award-winning publican and the founder of Hunt Hospitality, turns his 30 years of buying, renovating, and selling pubs into an accessible, practical guide on how to turn a poorly performing business into a highly profitable one. From the early days of formulating an idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, you'll discover the wisdom, practical tools, and tips you need to take control over your business, turn it around, and live the life you've always wanted. 

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.

Content marketing doesn’t work - at least not in the way most people do it. Most people make content marketing harder work than it needs to be. This audiobook will show you how to get your content marketing working hard for you, rather than the other way around! To do the work once and reap the rewards again and again (and again!).

Remote working isn’t a new innovation, but it became far more widespread during the global pandemic. Advances in technology have combined with the rise of knowledge work to make remoting a widely accepted way of working effectively. Many are reluctant to go back to their old ways of working, having realized the benefits that remoting unleashes in their lives. In RETHiNK Remoting, we will share the enormous benefits that can be gained through remote working as a catalyst for your personal reinvention.

Welcome to “AfriCAN” - the can-do continent, the vast, vibrant, and diverse continent offering a wealth of human and natural resources that translate into opportunities for business - your business. Complicated? Not necessarily. Africa, with all its diversity and largesse, can be difficult to understand and to grasp. Just like most new business ventures. However, successful business in Africa is as straightforward as ABC: Appetite, Bandwidth, and Capital.

Certain businesses are legendary, exerting immense influence in their field. Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of those places. Over the years, the flagship deli has expanded into a community of more than a dozen businesses, including a wildly successful mail order operation, restaurants, bakery, coffee roastery, creamery, candy maker, and events space—transforming Ann Arbor into a destination for food lovers.

Like many business owners, renowned politician and activist Stacey Abrams didn’t start a business because she dreamed of calling herself an entrepreneur. Her part-time post (and its $17,310 annual salary) as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives necessitated striking out on her own as a consultant—her first small business. Then, Stacey and her friend Lara Hodgson launched an infrastructure advisory firm—named Insomnia Consulting because they did their best thinking at 3:00 a.m.—and then another business, and then another.

Hire by Design describes design thinking and explains the different ways you can utilize design thinking in talent acquisition. The book covers the different pieces of the talent acquisition strategy and then provides examples of how to use design thinking in each piece. Templates are provided that will enable the listeners to implement design thinking into their business and hiring practices.

Most start-up origin stories are very different from the famous "unicorns" that have achieved valuations of greater than one billion dollars, from Facebook to Google to Uber. In The Unicorn's Shadow Ethan Mollick takes us to the forefront of an empirical revolution in entrepreneurship.

Small business specialist Elaine Pofeldt offers her blueprint for getting a running start with your microbusiness—that is, a business with no more than four employees, including yourself. Following her previous book, The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Pofeldt shows listeners the steps toward their next entrepreneurial venture, including testing an idea’s market viability while limiting risk, finding cash without giving up control, protecting your personal time and avoiding burn out, and knowing when it is time to start micro-scaling.

Seasoned publicist Bob Bradley offers his insight into the world of public relations and explains how any business or entrepreneur can secure online and print media coverage. Drawing inspiration from his hundreds of campaigns over nearly 15 years, Bob takes the listener through a step-by-step process that helps direct an easy to implement PR campaign that gets results.

Food Trucks: How to Get Your Business ‘Moving’ Forward is an audiobook for those inspiring entrepreneurs looking at starting and running their own food-truck business. This audiobook will help you understand what the food-truck industry is all about, including some of the basics relevant to running a successful food-truck business. This audiobook will help you compile your business plan, and highlights the importance of having a good and reasonable one-pager, which becomes your action plan going forward.

Throughout your life, you’ve acquired skills and knowledge that other people want. Million Dollar Micro Business is your step-by-step guide to turning that learning into a highly profitable online course. From ideation to launch, award-winning entrepreneur/educator Tina Tower presents a practical and proven approach that has been used by countless people just like you to realise their dreams.

In Business Basics Bootcamp, author, successful entrepreneur, and branding expert Mitche Graf draws on 35 years of experience launching cutting-edge new businesses and coaching budding entrepreneurs to offer you proven and powerful methods for quickly scaling business ventures, while working less and playing more, utilizing his heralded "24-7 mentality". You will learn how to maximize efficiency, overcome procrastination and self-doubt, and earn significantly more money than you can make in your nine-to-five job, while putting your lifestyle at the top of the food chain.

Two manuscripts in one audiobook! In part one of this audiobook, you will learn the basics of candle-making, discover different candle-making techniques and find out how to turn your hobby into a business. In part two, you will master the art of making soap using different methods, learn about the equipment required to start a soapmaking business, learn how to stay safe and have fun while making your favorite soap, and more. Add this audiobook to your cart now to learn more about how to make candles and soap, and how to make a business of it!

Finding, training and keeping great employees is the greatest challenge to the quick service restaurant industry today. It's actually a challenge to all retailers. This audiobook teaches how to do it. It will show the owners and managers of franchises at Subway, McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, etc. but also anyone in other types of retail - franchising or not - how building the right culture leads not only to keeping the great employees you need, but also to building an effective team that will draw in customers more successfully than any marketing ploy.

With over 50 percent of businesses failing in the first five years, there’s no doubt that the pressure to perform is ever increasing. Most new business owners say they’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and lost on how to create businesses of their dreams. For those who have the goal of becoming a successful entrepreneur, it’s absolutely crucial to understand and develop the skills for running a business so that it doesn’t become the entrepreneurial nightmare.

Do you want to have a home-based business for extra money? Have you tried a bunch of different side-hustles but had little to no success? Are you stuck in the vicious cycle of jumping from business model to business model? This practical and action-oriented audiobook will help you go from stressful e-commerce gig to a proven full-time income where you can work from home! Hundreds of thousands of online sellers attempt to make a living or side-income by buying products at stores and selling them for more money on Amazon and other platforms.

Do you want to start your own business, but you're too afraid to try? Do you dread financial risk and failure? Stop worrying right now, because The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business for the Reluctant Entrepreneur gives you everything you need to start a successful side business! The majority of start-up businesses fail because of a lack of skill, planning, and strategy. You should have a vision. You should work hard to create a product that will break the market. There's no skipping the legwork if you want to make it.

How to build loyalty, generate word-of-mouth, and keep customers coming back - This Ultimate Success Bundle offers key tips, tricks, and information you need to learn how to keep customers coming back. By elevating the customer experience, you’ll make them happy, and happy customers come back time and again. Learn to increase your value in the eye of customers, the dos and don’ts of a positive customer experience, how to build loyalty, generate word of mouth, and encourage customers to come back by crafting the perfect customer experience in this step-by-step guide.