Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Small Business - General

Family-owned businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy, responsible for 65 percent of wages paid, adding 78 percent of all new jobs, and contributing over half of the nation's GDP. Unfortunately, less than one-third survive the transition from first to second generation of family ownership.

Now more than ever, many family businesses are in danger of going under as rising health care costs, lack of access to capital, and increasing costs of doing business shrink profit margins. "Sink or Swim: How Lessons from the" Titanic "Can Save Your Family Business" provides critical strategies...

"The Formula For Success In Network Marketing" is a step-by-step guide to building a successful network marketing business. There is a wealth of information to help every networker, from the point of just starting out with no networking experience, to the more advanced strategies needed by seasoned networkers with a large team, keen to progress at a quicker speed. Learn how to work in depth with your team, build with no contact list and no money, become more confident with follow-ups, achieve duplication in your business, use scripts for sponsoring from adverts, work your warm market...

This book is written for you if you want to get to grips with your marketing but you need a helping hand. It's packed with powerful tips, proven tools and many real-life examples and case studies. If you're looking for commonsense marketing advice that you can implement immediately, you'll find it on every page. You'll learn how to: plan and review your marketing activities, write brilliant copy that generates sales, write sales letters that sells, effectively troubleshoot when your marketing is not delivering, make your website a magnet for visitors and loads more Dee Blick is a...

Decision makers in business and government are more reliant than ever on measurements, such as business performance indicators, bond ratings, Six-Sigma indicators, stock ratings, opinion polls, and market research. Yet many popular statistical and business books and courses relating to measurement are based on flawed principles, leading managers to the wrong conclusions--and ultimately, the wrong decisions. "misLeading Indicators: How to Reliably Measure Your Business" provides something unique and invaluable: trustworthy tools for judging measurements.

Each chapter illustrates the four...

The empirical case study research literature on Chinese management is meagre. This rapidly changing market environment requires more research to provide an understanding of empirical processes of management practice and the business landscape in which they operate. This book adopts a holistic view to assess the impact of market socialism upon evolving economic enterprises and their ownership forms, which laid an emphasis on the effects of market socialist policies in shaping contrasting management patterns and behaviours in China between 2005-2010.

The book provides a comparative...