The retail market in the UK is worth more than £400 billion annually and employs over 3 million workers, while in the US 29 million people create over USD $4 trillion of revenue through the industry. Despite the challenge to establish stores and big-box retailers, there's a rapid increase in the number of retail start-ups and consistent growth in the independent sector. From beard shops and barbers, through cafes and coffee shops, to 'retailment' concept stores and boutique consumer-focused experiences, the specialist retail sector is booming. The Retail Start-Up Book provides clear guidance and advice on how to develop a winning retail strategy that seamlessly merges online and offline tactics. Introducing the science of shopping and how to understand customer behaviours and needs, it explores the essential steps of developing a business plan, marketing and promoting a business and advising on buying and visual merchandising. Building on years of retail experience nationally and internationally, in large groups and with independent retailers, The Retail Start-Up Book meticulously provide invaluable practical insights to help new retailers hit the floor running, or more established organizations grow their business and nurture their profits.
From the ABC hit show "Shark Tank," this book-filled with practical advice and introductions from the Sharks themselves-will be the ultimate resource for anyone thinking about starting a business or growing the one they have. Full of tips for navigating the confusing world of entrepreneurship, the book will intersperse words of wisdom with inspirational stories from the show. Throughout the book, readers will learn how to: Determine whether they're compatible with the life of a small business owner, shape a marketable idea and craft a business model around it, plan for a launch, run a business without breaking the bank (or burning themselves out), create a growth plan that will help them handle and harness success, and pitch an idea or business plan like a pro. Responding to the fans' curiosity about past show contestants, readers will also find approximately 10 "Where Are They Now" boxes in which they learn what happened to some of the most asked-about and/or most popular guests ever to try their luck in front of the Sharks-and what they learned in the process.
Tapping into more than 33 years of small business expertise, the staff at Entrepreneur Media takes today’s entrepreneurs beyond opening their doors and through the first three years of ownership. This revised edition features amended chapters on choosing a business, adding partners, getting funded, and managing the business structure and employees, and also includes help understanding the latest tax and healthcare reform information and legalities.
“Transform any type of entrepreneurial activity, new idea, or . . . a business you already own into a much more profitable company” with this book’s strategy. (from the foreword by Kevin Harrington, an original “shark” on Shark Tank and serial entrepreneur) In Click and Grow Rich, readers discover the nine-step proven formula for creating a wildly successful online business. The unsettling truth is that ninety-five percent of all businesses fail within the first two years or keep the owner chained to it like a dead-end job. Click and Grow Rich helps readers create true personal freedom in their lives by learning Brett Fogle and E. Daniel Miller’s unique MP5MS2 formula that they used to generate millions in online sales. It also shares how anybody can implement this simple process to create a successful money-making online business. Click and Grow Rich is useful for readers in all walks of life, whether they just want to earn extra money, quit a job, or build an enormously profitable online business that can be sold later. Click and Grow Rich helps people worldwide take control of their financial future by sharing these simple success principles and giving them a “playbook” for success on how to achieve financial freedom in their lives.
Greg Gianforte, the nation's top Bootstrapper, shows you the advantages of Bootstrapping vs. traditionally financed start-ups. You'll also learn how the unconventional Bootstrapping mindset-inventive, pioneering, and skeptical of conventional wisdom-applies to you and your business. With Bootstrapping Your Business at your side, you'll gain the advantage you need to outperform the competition-and succeed in today's take-no-prisoners marketplace.
Do you want to start your business? Afraid to do so? Need a little nudge to do it?Our advice: Go for it! And we have just the book for you-Start It, Grow It, Sell It: The Journey of Business. It's our business literacy guide, and we wrote it just for you.We're seasoned authors and tested business people, with more than sixty years of combined business experience. In our guide, we take complex topics and relate them to practical matters-for you, the budding entrepreneur. Remember: With greater understanding comes greater confidence, and with greater confidence comes a greater likelihood of success!We want you to develop functional business literacy and an understanding of the Journey of Business. The core of our book focuses on business literacy and the interconnection of what we call the Fab Five topics (Economics, Accounting, Finance, Law, and Communication) in the Journey of Business.In our guide, we share many ideas and concepts to build business literacy and financial awareness. And we believe that entrepreneurs should be Working on the Business while Working in the Business. Doing so is necessary to ensure sustainable growth, strong business results, and enhanced value. To bring our concepts to life, we introduce you to Nelli and Harvey, a young couple with dreams and aspirations. They want to start and grow a business. Eventually, they hope to transfer the business, perhaps through a sale, in the future when the time is right.Nelli and Harvey had a good upbringing, yet they were never really taught the topics and concepts shared in this book. As they often say: "Reading the business section of newspapers is like reading a foreign language." Understanding the basics of budgets, financial statements, and other topics will be part of their journey.As Nelli and Harvey toggle between Wall Street and Main Street topics, we share, expand upon, and develop the Fab Five disciplines of business. The case study for their new business is All About Health, "Where Food, Fitness, and Family Come Together."Nelli and Harvey, understand and contribute to our nation's free market structure. As they show us by their example, free-market companies invest capital, take on debt and navigate business cycles and competition to earn a profit and create wealth from new capital investment. The wealth they generate is frequently reinvested locally.Entrepreneurs create well over half of our country's new jobs each year. Nelli and Harvey innovate, continuously learn and develop intellectual capital. Nelli and Harvey offer their ideas and concepts, our best individual currency!Literacy of any kind will remain largely possible only if we are free to learn, make decisions and choose careers as do Nelli and Harvey. Our daily liberty is, therefore, crucial to our personal and collective journeys. Liberty, a pillar of democracy and a free-market economy, sets the stage for our free markets and our young couple's journey in business.Business is, indeed, a foreign language that requires literacy, preparation and planning to understand. Starting or running a business requires both literacy and legitimacy-especially with banks and/or investors-as 80 percent of businesses fail in the first five years. We hope our guide will contribute toward improving that success rate!With literacy comes mastery and value creation over decades of preparation and execution. And with this mastery comes successful, legitimate careers that provide ample rewards and enduring legacies for family and community.In doing so, we are truly focused on the things that matter most as we travel our life's Journey. We wish you well on your journey ahead, as you Take the Next Step in your Journey of Business!
Get it right—from the start! “Entrepreneurship is like a roller coaster ride, exhilarating yet terrifying . . . Allow Ingrid to guide you” (Adam Franklin, bestselling author of Web Marketing That Works). Often, people leap into starting a business to pursue their passion without fully realizing what they’ve gotten themselves into. They may love what they do—but the financial and administrative side of the business ends up being more than they bargained for. So You Want to Start a Business takes you through the seven essential elements required to create a thriving business. With examples, exercises, and invaluable guidance, Ingrid Thompson provides a practical guide to unleashing one’s inner entrepreneur. With over twenty years’ experience helping people create successful businesses, Ingrid knows exactly how to help people decide what kind of business to start—and start out on the right foot.
LESSON 19. CONVINCING INVESTORS IN TEN SLIDES LESSON 21. THE BAR: THE BEATING HEART OF EVERY OFFICE LESSON 30. THE FIFTY-MILLION DOLLAR MODEL 'We learn by doing,' the old adage tells us. And in the case of entrepreneurship, you can take that literally! Becoming a successful entrepreneur involves lots of hard work and learning from your mistakes as you progress. There is no magic formula, but following the right lessons can take you a long way. In Start, Grow, Sell, Jürgen Ingels reveals the lessons he has learned as a top entrepreneur. He gives concrete, practical tips about how you can take your company to the next level, from your business model to operations, from marketing and sales to human resources and from the composition of your team to the financial structure of your organization. Using a series of personal anecdotes, Jürgen illustrates his own entrepreneurial story, which did not always go the way he had planned. With this book, he hopes to inspire others, to pass on his passion for entrepreneurship and technology, and to help the budding entrepreneurs of the future to overcome the problems they will inevitably face.
