The Ultimate Business Tune Up

A small-business advisor’s step-by-step strategies for top performance in today’s competitive environment: “Every entrepreneur should read this.” —Micah Grant, owner and CEO, Texas Stone Designs, Inc. Business owners today are constantly faced with difficult challenges, and eight of ten new businesses will not survive the first five years. Competition is difficult and building a sustainable, profitable business is arguably the most challenging sport in all of business today. How can you keep things running smoothly and pull ahead in the race? In The Ultimate Business Tune Up, Rich Allen combines the experiences of his father’s own small business, his personal experiences running and growing a business, and his learning from advising hundreds of small business owners into a powerful, step-by-step guide for small business owners everywhere. Rich introduces a model that is easy to understand—and powerful when used to make strategic business decisions for the best possible results.

This comprehensive book is informed by decades of experience and years of research into how to perform as a professional artist in the 21st century art world (or worlds). This book is filled with easy-to-follow instructions that will help you teach everything -- archiving work, start a mailing list, write a grant, and everything else you can think of. This straightforward book even addresses topics you may not think artists need to know about now! Consider this a handbook for teaching the business aspects of an art career. This book is written and designed to empower you to help artists understand the wild world of art careers. Syllabus and handouts included. Far too often artists find themselves having to compromise their art and their life because they were not taught accurate up-to-date methods for dealing with business situations. Because of this lack of preparedness artists miss out on valuable opportunities, financial rewards, and access to receptive audiences. This book aims to help teachers teach professional practices to artists everywhere, helping to avoid these pitfalls and get on the track to success on their own terms. Whether you are a gallery-bound artist, a public artist, an emerging artist, a hobbyist, a crafts-person, a student, or a seasoned artist in need of a tune up, this manual will help you train artists.

Tune-Up Your Small Business is the ideal guide for small business owners who want to achieve their personal and professional goals by making their businesses more successful. This book focuses on making regular, small changes that can lead to significant improvements over time. Through stories of small businesses that have grown by following the advice in this book, it offers inspiration and practical advice. Dr Sleeman provides easy-to-follow steps to help you define what makes your business unique, communicate effectively with your customers, and present your business accurately online. The book also advises on how to get better by listening to customers, ensuring your team delivers the best service, and discovering what customers are looking to purchase. You will find simple advice on how to price your services and reduce expenses without losing value. This book is a step-by-step guide to developing your business steadily and effectively.

“A comprehensive and holistic guide to dispelling aging concerns by empowering yourself spiritually, emotionally, professionally, financially, and physically.” —Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., author of Radical Curiosity Coming from a baby boomer who has packed more highs and lows into his first forty-eight years than most people dare to dream, Tim Burns’ common-sense lifestyle recommendations, drawn from his own varied experiences and observations, offer sturdy, clear advice for adults at every age. Follow his proven framework; apply your own discipline, focus, and courage. Whether you’re at the top of your game or dismayed by your current direction, you can benefit from his experiences, observations, and research and dramatically improve your life. Approached with insight, zeal, and redirection—if necessary—a midlife tune-up can be the catalyst for a more meaningful, satisfying, and rewarding life. This guidepost illuminates personal passion, purpose, power, planning, perspective, and perseverance. Building on these six empowering elements, Burns offers solid, concrete steps to design your own midlife direction in seven key areas: emotional, financial, career and relationship opportunities, and physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Rousing, inspirational quotes and real-life examples spirit you to higher levels as you make these practical steps work for you. “A practical, comprehensive, well-written guide for anyone wishing to improve the quality of their life in every major dimension. If you want to make the second half of your life much better than the first, this guide points you in the right direction. Bravo, Tim Burns!” —Michael LeBoeuf, author of The Greatest Management Principle in the World

Pain is an epidemic. It prevents you from performing at your best because it robs you of concentration, power, and peace of mind. But most pain is preventable and treatable, and healing is within your grasp. Hundreds of thousands of people around the globe have taken life “by the balls” and circumvented a dismal future of painkillers, surgeries, and hopelessness by using Jill Miller’s groundbreaking Roll Model Method. The Roll Model gives you the tools to change the course of your life in less than 5 minutes a day. You are a fully equipped self-healing organism, and this book will guide you through easy-to-perform self-massage techniques that will erase pain and improve your performance in whatever activities you pursue. The Roll Model teaches you how to improve the quality of your life no matter your size, shape, or condition. Within these pages you will find: • Inspiring stories of people just like you who have altered the course of their lives by using the Roll Model Method • Accessible explanations of how and why this system works based on the science of your body and the physiological effects of rolling • Step-by-step rolling techniques to help awaken your body’s resilience from head to toe so that you have more energy, less stress, and greater performance Whether you’re living with constant discomfort, seeking to improve your mobility, or trying to avoid medication and surgery, this book provides empowering and effective solutions for becoming your own best Roll Model.

NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATED The bestselling business playbook for turbocharging any organization, updated for modern audiences with new and never-before-seen material Every single day 3,076 businesses shut their doors. But what if you could create the finest, most profitable and best-run version of your business without wasting precious dollars on a thousand different strategies? When The Ultimate Sales Machine first published in 2007, legendary sales expert Chet Holmes gave us the key to do just that. All you need is to focus on twelve key areas of improvement—and practice them over and over with pigheaded discipline. Now, a decade later, Chet’s daughter Amanda Holmes breathes new life into her father’s classic advice. With updated language to match our ever-changing times and over 50 new pages of content, The Ultimate Sales Machine will help any modern reader transform their organization into a high-performing, moneymaking force. With practical tools, real-life examples, and proven strategies, this book will show you how to: • Teach your team to work smarter, not harder • Get more bang from your marketing for less • Perfect every sales interaction by working on sales, not just in sales • Land your dream clients This revised edition expands on these proven concepts, with checklists to get faster ROIs, Core Story Frameworks to get your company to number one in your marketplace, and a bonus, never-before-revealed chapter from Chet, “How to Live a Rich and Full Life,” that will put you in the best possible mindset to own your career. For every CEO, manager, and business owner who wants to take their organization to the next level, The Ultimate Sales Machine will put you and your company on the path to success—and help you stay there!

Self-help groups are crucial for employment generation for a large portion of the population. The acceptability of their produce and sustainability is very important for social-economic well-being of the group members. This book (based on my Ph.D. research) focuses on the acceptability of the products of self-help groups by its market and to explore the best business practices adopted by them. When we look at Corporate World, we find the likes of Dhirubhai Ambani, Tata, Birla, Godrej and many others who have made it ‘BIG’ through their indomitable spirit and indefatigable passion to ascend to the pinnacle of greatness. The common aspect of many legendary names in Corporate World is their tireless tirade to achieve their mark despite several handicaps, sometimes in the form of a humble background, financial crisis, social ostracism, tragedies and formal educational acquisitions. These are people who re-write history through the ink of their sweat, tears and blood to provide the world with the deepest thoughts of motivation to overcome the times of crises. All entrepreneurs have the same expectations, same emotions, same problems, same passion to come up in life and progress in their own business. The world deserves to know about these SHGs and their marketing practices to hold on to diversity and humanity together. I humbly present this book to the current and budding Women SHG fraternity to ‘realize’ their contribution towards our country’s economy.