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Audiobooks by The Staff Of Entrepreneur Media
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Secure Funding to Start, Run, and Grow Your Business!
Starting a business is a journey. From the moment you come up with an idea for the next great product or service to the ribbon cutting and grand opening, you will travel a long, sometimes winding, road toward success. And like any other trip you take in life, this one costs money. While many startups begin with cash already in the bank (lucky them!), most aspiring entrepreneurs have to somehow come up with the cash to build their dreams, whether they choose to borrow, bootstrap, crowdfund, or go with venture capital.
Discover bootstrapping tips and strategies to help you self-fund your business like a boss; traditional lending options and costly traps to watch out for; the basics of borrowing from friends and family, the right way; how corporate incubators and accelerators can give your business a jump-start; and the in and outs of launching a successful crowdfunding campaign.
Get the inside scoop on how to get the money you need and discover dozens of sources of capital.
You've done the work-your small business is a huge success and you're ready for the next step. But amplifying your business into a self-sustaining, exponentially profitable entity requires its own set of skills. With Grow Your Business, you'll learn the modern strategies for taking your burgeoning venture up a notch, all while avoiding the common pitfalls of expansion. Learn the necessary tools to identify and adjust the scale of your business, create symbiotic systems that transition seamlessly from sale leads to payroll, and pinpoint the sales funnels that are right for your unique operation. You'll also discover:
- Fifteen go-to strategies for company growth
- Modern marketing and advertising techniques to bolster your customer base
- Effective sales funnels and verticals to create multiple revenue streams
- Blueprints to determine your company's growth potential
- Personal tips and suggested software to maximize profits without sacrificing efficiency
Scale-up your start-up and discover what Grow Your Business has to offer!
Whether you're a master storyteller, skilled interviewer, branding genius, or have become passionate about making podcasts, now is the time to go from hobby to full-time business owner. And with million of listeners ready to discover your unique offerings, it only makes sense to join the wildly popular podcast community.
Our experts have teamed up with successful podcasters to provide you with Start Your Own Podcast Business, an easy-to-understand, comprehensive blueprint that takes you through setting up, recording, branding, marketing, and managing your podcast business. You'll learn how to: create pod listings and marketing plans that attract the right listeners; choose keywords and tags designed to drive traffic to your podcast; pick the best equipment and tools to help you produce a winning show; define your brand with carefully crafted logos, show listings, and images; reach more shoppers with targeted social media and advertising campaigns; maximize the power of storytelling to enhance your brand and business; and decide when it's time to turn your part-time hobby into a full-time business venture.
If you're ready to share your passion for your pod with millions around the world, this guide is for you.
Everything You Need to Start and Run a Successful Cannabis Business
From retailers to growers, producers, and suppliers, there's a seemingly never-ending list of startup opportunities in this emerging market. In Start Your Own Cannabis Business, cannabis, biotech, and entrepreneurship reporter Javier Hasse introduces forward-thinking entrepreneurs like you to the industry and shares hard-earned tips and success stories from pioneers and visionaries in the marijuana industry.
Take a closer look at the world of weed and what it holds for you and your future as a cannabis entrepreneur. You'll learn how to: put together a solid business plan with tips from cannabis lawyers; estimate startup costs with the help of cannabis-experienced CPAs; assemble a team of employees with insight from legal cannabis recruiting and dispensary training agencies; protect your assets in case something goes wrong with your business; familiarize yourself with the tax and legal regulations of the industry; understand what's legal and what's not in the US in cannabis; and grow your cannabis business into a multistate company.
Improve Your EQ
Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than big ideas and dedication. With threats of burnout and rejection at nearly every turn, the entrepreneurial journey is riddled with obstacles-but the staff, experts, and voices of Entrepreneur want you to know you're not alone.
Entrepreneur Voices on Emotional Intelligence brings you real-world strategies to help you get brutally honest with yourself and boost your emotional intelligence. Dive in and learn how to: assess and manage your own EQ levels; stop negative thoughts in their tracks to stay focused; decipher nonverbal cues that are the key to your success; shut down emotional manipulators before they suck the life out of you; develop a positive relationship with failure; cope with the grief, loneliness, and self-doubt that all entrepreneurs face; and propel your career with regular EQ maintenance. Plus, gain tips and tricks to become more likable, win big in your negotiations, and leverage emotions when marketing your business.
Everything You Need to Know About Managing Your Team
As a manager, you tend to walk a tightrope with executives on one side and employees on the other. But while managing personalities, team dynamics, and company culture aren't your only responsibilities, they are vital to the well-being of any company. To help you boost productivity and find the right management style for you, the staff of Entrepreneur helps you tap into the expertise of over twenty contributors and learn how to: delegate the right jobs to the right people; decentralize management and boost employee productivity; promote accountability with remote and in-house staff; motivate your team with radical candor and genuine appreciation; create a culture that fits your brand and management style; and supervise a staff without breathing down people's necks.
Plus, get an inside look at the management styles of Karim Abouelnaga, founder and CEO of Practice Makes Perfect, Dr. Riaz Khadem, founder of Infotrac and author of Total Alignment, Chung-Man Tam, CEO of Homesuite, and Glenn Llopis, chairman of the Glenn Llopis Group and author of The Innovation Mentality.
Turn Ordinary Responsibility Into Extraordinary Leadership
Whether you were born with a talent for leadership or had leadership thrust upon you, the success of your business depends on you. With insights from over twenty contributors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders, Entrepreneur Voices on Effective Leadership will help you: define the leadership style that fits you best; grow your business by inspiring your employees; take initiative and lead effectively in any position; earn trust from team members with empathy; develop leaders from within your staff; avoid mistakes that could ruin your reputation; and reinvent yourself and your culture after a crisis.
Plus, gain insider tips from exclusive interviews with Kodak's former CMO Jeffrey Hayzlett, former NFL linebacker Matt Mayberry, and social entrepreneurship advocate and author Jason Haber.
Build the Career of Your Dreams
Are you on the edge of a career burnout? Do you feel bored or uninspired by your business? Have you been thinking about that next step but are too afraid to take it? You are not alone.
In this book, more than thirty successful entrepreneurs and career experts life the veil on what it takes to rise the ranks in your company, build a successful side gig, and set up your business for success. Divided into four parts and packed with game-changing insights, real-world stories, and spot-on advice, Entrepreneur Voices on Careers is the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure guide to help you:
● Make the career move that best fits your goals and lifestyle
● Build a multimillion-dollar side hustle while working your nine to five
● Climb the corporate ladder with an entrepreneurial mindset
● Take the leap from part-time gig to full-time business owner
Leverage your current skills to succeed in a brand-new industry
Breaking into freelance writing has gotten much easier for word-savvy entrepreneurs like you. But even in the golden age of content creation, you still need to know what it takes to launch and consistently pitch your services so you can grow and scale your freelance writing side hustle into a full-fledged career you really love.
Start Your Own Freelance Writing Business is an easy-to-understand, introductory, and nontechnical approach to the world of freelance writing. This book teaches you how to leverage the fast-changing pace of technology to grow a business that gives you the freedom and flexibility you want. You'll learn how to assess your freelancing skillset; determine the best way to position your business to clients; research the most profitable freelance writing opportunities; create a series of pitches that convert to profitable client relationships; use freelance job sites to build a strong client base; master the art of time management so you don't miss a single deadline; and market your business in multiple channels to grow and scale your business.
You'll also get an inside look at a freelance writing business and related tips and strategies from a multi-six figure online freelance writer. So what are you waiting for? The time is 'write' to start today!
Whether you're facing funding sharks or angel investors, we've got the keys to crafting that perfect pitch to help you secure the funds you need to launch your startup, build your business, and achieve your entrepreneurial dreams.
In this new edition of the Entrepreneur Voices series, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and experts from both sides of the board room present the game-winning strategies and deal-closing tactics you need to succeed. Dive in and learn how to:
- Build a business model and financial plan for your new venture
- Make a great first impression and sell your idea in sixty seconds
- Connect with the investors most likely to finance your business idea
- See every 'No' as an opportunity to find the perfect 'Yes'
Plus, gain exclusive insights from stars you've seen on Shark Tank, Planet of the Apps, Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch, and more.
In 2017 34% of the workforce was considered part of the gig economy. This growing workforce of freelancers and side-giggers is also estimated to grow to 43% by 2020. That's 4 million freelancers, soon to be 7 million by 2020.
Whether it's people looking to earn extra money, those tired of their 9-to-5, to entrepreneurs looking to grow their side hustle, Entrepreneur is uniquely qualified to guide a new generation of bold individuals looking to live their best lives and make it happen on their own terms. Whatever industry or jobs this new workforce takes, Start Your Own Business will guide them through the first three years of business. They'll gain the know-how of more than thirty years of collective advice from those who've come before them to:
- How to avoid analysis paralysis when launching a business
- Tips for testing ideas in the real-world before going to market with insights from Gary Vaynerchuk
- Decide between building, buying, or becoming a distributor
- What to consider when looking for funding from venture capitalists, loans, cash advances, etc.
- Whether or not a co-working space is a right move
- Tips on running successful Facebook and Google ads as part of a marketing campaign
- Use micro-influencers to successfully promote your brand on social media
FACT: There is no ultimate blueprint or rulebook to Growth Hacking.
Yes, we know that companies like Airbnb, Uber, and Dropbox have been touted as the case studies for industry disruption and immense growth. But the growth hacking strategies that made them successful sometimes only work once. Lucky for you, there's no shortage of growth hacks.
Entrepreneur Voices on Growth Hacking shares the inspirational stories of unconventional entrepreneurs who retooled companies and industries and were rewarded handsomely for it while giving you the tools you need to do the same. Dive into this audiobook, and you'll learn how to: Achieve rapid business growth with strategic partnerships; Monetize your brand with out-of-the-box content marketing; Streamline every process with a team of hard-working specialists; Build a tribe of brand ambassadors to expand your reach and boost your business; Drive your vision forward with Reid Hoffman's OODA model.
Plus, take a page from the playbooks of rule-breaking businesses like Dollar Shave Club, UGG Boots, Glossier, and Do.
