In E-Commerce Power, Jason G. Miles shares a practical framework for starting and scaling a profitable e-commerce brand in the age of Amazon. E-Commerce Power is filled with encouragement, practical advice, tips, strategies, interviews, and proven online marketing methods - all organized to help new entrepreneurs. In 2008, Jason worked with his wife to start their new brand created on eBay selling doll clothes. In 2013, they launched Pixie Faire - a popular sewing supply marketplace that has had over 4 million patterns downloaded which is averaged at 60,000-70,000 orders a month. The site has been featured by Shopify and is in the top 1% of all Shopify sites based on worldwide site traffic. Within E-Commerce Power, Jason aims to teach new entrepreneurs how he and his wife were able to accomplish such a feat and thrive from it. E-Commerce Power is: Packed with interviews featuring small business owners crushing it online. A practical framework that explains how to scale up an e-commerce business for even the most novice reader. An enthusiasm guide of Amazon's 3rd party selling system which has created a boom in Private Label product strategies.

***SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** With straightforward, heart-felt advice, The Business Survival Kit guides you to a thriving business while nurturing your humanity -- Marie Forleo, #1 NY Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable This book will help you make clearer, smarter, braver decisions in all areas of your life -- Emma Gannon, author of The Multi-Hyphen Method Starting a business isn't easy. In fact, it can be scary, exhausting and demoralising. When it finally takes off, even though you're fulfilling a lifelong dream, it can be a struggle to keep up with the rest of your life. How can you cope with the inevitable stresses and strains along the way? In The Business Survival Kit, serial entrepreneurs Byron Cole and Bianca Miller-Cole prepare you for the ride of your life. With straight-talking advice and insights from leading experts it will help you answer the fundamental question of whether you can handle being an entrepreneur in the first place and then help you navigate the inevitable ups and many downs that go hand in hand with that decision. Learn how to: *Cope with stress, anxiety and uncertainty *Build your confidence and tackle impostor syndrome *Maintain a healthy work/life balance *Build strong networks and nurture your personal relationships *And stay motivated (even in the midst of failure)

This book is full of low-cost, and No-cost tips and techniques that will help you to sell more products or services. Whether you are an individual working from your kitchen table or a large company, there are basic marketing principles that must be applied if you are going to be successful. The author applies those key principles specifically to small businesses. From this book you will learn: Five marketing activities every business must engage in; How to find new prospects without spending a penny; How to stop wasting money on 'overflow' advertising; How to design advertising and promotions that get results; Four growth strategies for long-term success.

Are you ready to turn your ideas into reality and build a wildly successful business? There has never been a better time to say yes! With a computer and an Internet connection you can get your ideas, messages and business out there like never before and create so much success. In this book, Carrie Green shows you how. Carrie started her first online business at the age of 20 - she knows what it's like to be an ambitious and creative woman with big dreams and huge determination...but she also knows the challenges of starting and running a business, including the fears, overwhelm, confusion and blocks that entrepreneurs face. Based on her personal, tried-and-tested experience, she offers valuable guidance and powerful exercises to help you: * Get clear on your business vision * Move past the fears and doubts that can get in the way * Understand your audience, so you can truly connect with them * Create your brand and build a tribe of raving fans, subscribers and customers * Manage your time, maintain focus and keep going in the right direction * Condition yourself for success...and so much more! If you're a creative and ambitious female entrepreneur, or are contemplating the entrepreneurial path, this book will provide the honest, realistic and practical tools you need to follow your heart and bring your vision to life.

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the backbone of the Indian economy. They provide immediate large-scale employment, ensure a more equitable distribution of the national income, and facilitate effective mobilisation of resources, both capital and labour, which might otherwise remain unutilised. The need to promote, modernise and reorganise these enterprises is paramount. The needs, problems and potentials of these enterprises differ not just with the nature of activity, but also with size, geographical location and structure. While the sector in general lacks access to marketing and credit facilities, the problem is more pronounced for people belonging to scheduled castes (SCs)/scheduled tribes (STs) and minorities. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce social security, training and health insurance schemes for these vulnerable groups. Though Government is providing several fiscal and monetary incentives for MSMEs, yet many of these enterprises suffer from lack of modern technology, skilled labour, inadequate bank credit, and an inefficient marketing network. All these constraints have resulted in a high cost structure placing this sector at a disadvantage vis-a-vis the large industries. This book contains 8 well-researched papers, authored by experts in the field, which provide valuable inputs pertaining to the problems and potentials of MSMEs in the context of policy emphasis on inclusive growth.

This book contributes to the emerging research on the growth process of firms, with a focus on the expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A comprehensive approach to the issue of small firm growth draws upon empirical findings of the characteristics and economic importance of high-growth enterprises and the extant base of theoretical approaches to the growth of firms, with an emphasis on the literature of firm boundaries (scope and size). Consequently, this research adopts a deductive approach to building the conceptual framework of SME growth by integrating the resource-based view of the firm and transaction cost theory. This integrative theoretical framework was tested by using the multi-case study method to conclude with a proposal of the model of the growth process of SMEs. The model explains the choices of high-growth entrepreneurs regarding contractual arrangements, portfolio development, sources of new products, and associated governance in the expansion process. Consistent with the heterogeneity of SME expansion, the research reveals three equifinal patterns of these choices instead of only one path. This book is valuable for bridging separate and divergent streams of the literature on firms' growth, namely, entrepreneurship, microeconomics, and strategic management literature related to firm boundary decisions.

Der Mittelstand als Ruckgrat der deutschen Wirtschaft steht vor einer kaum beachteten Herausforderung: dem Generationenwechsel auf den Chefsesseln. Demographischer Wandel und Alterung der heutigen Unternehmergeneration erhoehen die Anzahl angebotener Unternehmensubergaben. Aufgrund einer nach wie vor immer weniger werdenden Anzahl an Existenzgrundungen kann dieses Angebot mangels Nachfrage immer schwieriger gedeckt werden. Das Problem hierbei ist: Scheitert der Generationenwechsel, erodiert das Erfolgsmodell Mittelstand. Das Buch liefert allen Interessierten einen Einblick dahingehend, was ein Unternehmer selbst tun kann, damit seine eigene Betriebsubergabe erfolgreich (nicht) scheitert.