Profit First

Profit First
Author: Mike Michalowicz
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 073521414X

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of.

Reading for Profit

Reading for Profit
Author: Bess Altwerger
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Lead your practice, your school, or your district toward a return to professionalism and away from faceless literacy programs designed with dividends in mind. Get informed with Reading for Profit; read studies that prove NCLB and other reforms hurt kids, and learn how to initiate the change your students need.

Will Post for Profit

Will Post for Profit
Author: Justin Blaney D.M.
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1642935476

Since the rise of social media, Influencer Marketing has emerged as one of the most powerful alternatives to traditional marketing channels that have become too expensive and ineffective for the majority of businesses today. Between 2016 and 2019, spending on Influencer Marketing tripled to over $6 billion. This has created a gold rush of opportunity for those on the cutting edge. However, few resources are available to guide influencers and brands through this rapidly evolving landscape. As a result, millions of dollars in profits are being wasted. Will Post for Profit unpacks the critical components that are necessary to successfully navigate today’s complex digital world, in an in-depth, how-to, and easily digestible format—exploring topics like how to select a platform, FTC compliance, ethics, audience growth strategy, designing successful campaigns, finding brands or influencers to work with, contracts, key performance indicators (KPIs), and more. Included are more than a dozen interviews with successful brands and influencers who reveal their top secrets to success and biggest mistakes to avoid. Whether brand or influencer, just starting out or a well-seasoned social guru, Will Post for Profit will leave readers with the necessary tools and understanding to grow their audience, make the most of their campaigns or collaborations, and ultimately generate profit from social influence.

How to Write and Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit

How to Write and Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit
Author: Robert W. Bly
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1610350200

Packed with income-generating ideas about creating a variety of saleable written works, this guide includes information for researching and writing effective, instructional materials and calling upon a variety of publishing channels, including magazines, traditional book publishers, self-publishing, and the Internet. The mechanics behind becoming a successful writer and information packager are presented in this resource that explores how to write and sell simple information in multiple formats, allowing writers to turn specialized knowledge into money-making books and products.

Profit Or Growth?

Profit Or Growth?
Author: Bala Chakravarthy
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0132339528

The author provides tools and a framework for successfully sustaining profitable growth. Focusing on the execution of renewal strategies, he examines the characteristics of the entrepreneur-manager, explains how to locate a suitable organizational home for the project, and presents ways to create support for its implementation.

The Purpose is Profit

The Purpose is Profit
Author: Ed McLaughlin
Publisher: Blue Sunsets Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780986304347

If you have the dream to become an entrepreneur and start your own business, The Purpose Is Profit was written for you. It covers the full arc-from the struggle to conceive the right idea, to funding your startup, to scaling the business, to executing the exit strategy. The appendix includes The Startup Roadmap and The Startup Funding Guide.

Good Profit

Good Profit
Author: Charles G. Koch
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101904143

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn how to apply the principles of Charles Koch’s revolutionary Market-Based Management® system to generate good profit in your organization, company, and life “This book helps show you the way to good profit—whether you work for an international supermarket chain, a medium-sized regional business, or your own start-up.”—John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO, Whole Foods Market The technological innovations, extreme politics, civil unrest, cyber attacks, demographic shifts, and global pandemic that have affected all businesses since this book was published have only confirmed Charles Koch’s belief that “the only reason a business should exist (and the only way it can legitimately survive long term) is to create value in a responsible way.” Hence, the principles in Good Profit are more important today than ever before. What exactly does Koch Industries, Inc., do and why is it so remarkably profitable? Koch’s name may not be on your home’s plywood, vehicle’s grille, smartphone’s connectors, or baby’s ultra-absorbent diapers but it makes them all. And Koch’s Market-Based Management® (MBM) system is what drives these innovations and many more. The core objective of MBM is to generate good profit. Good profit results from products and services that customers vote for freely with their dollars. It results from a bottom-up culture where employees are empowered to act entrepreneurially to discover customers’ preferences and the best ways to improve their lives. Drawing on six decades of interdisciplinary studies, experimental discovery, and practical implementation across Koch businesses worldwide, Charles Koch walks the reader through the five dimensions of MBM to show how to apply its framework in any business, industry, or organization of any size. Readers will learn how to: • Craft a vision for how to thrive in spite of increasingly rapid disruption and ever-changing consumer values • Select and retain a workforce possessing both virtue and talent • Create an environment of knowledge sharing that prizes respectful challenges from everyone at every level • Award employees with ownership and decision rights based on their comparative advantages and proven contributions, not job title • Motivate all employees to maximize their contributions by structuring incentives so compensation is limited only by the value they create A must-read for any leader, entrepreneur, or student, as well as anyone who wants a more civil, fair, and prosperous society, Good Profit is one of the greatest management books of all time.

Publishing for Profit

Publishing for Profit
Author: Thomas Woll
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1569765642

Publishing is a rapidly changing business, and this comprehensive reference is right in step--covering operations, finances, and personnel management as well as product development, production, and marketing. Written for the practicing professional just starting out or looking to learn new tricks of the trade, this revised and expanded fourth edition contains updated industry statistics and benchmark figures, features up-to-date strategies for creating new revenue streams such as online marketing and sales and e-book publishing, and provides new information on using financial information to make key management decisions. More than two dozen highly practical forms and sample contracts for immediate use are also included.

Lower Ed

Lower Ed
Author: Tressie McMillan Cottom
Publisher: New Press, The
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 162097102X

More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years—during the so-called Wall Street era of for-profit colleges. In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottom—a bold and rising public scholar, herself once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges—expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry to show precisely how it is part and parcel of the growing inequality plaguing the country today. McMillan Cottom discloses the shrewd recruitment and marketing strategies that these schools deploy and explains how, despite the well-documented predatory practices of some and the campus closings of others, ending for-profit colleges won't end the vulnerabilities that made them the fastest growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century. And she doesn't stop there. With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, McMillan Cottom delivers a comprehensive view of postsecondary for-profit education by illuminating the experiences of the everyday people behind the shareholder earnings, congressional battles, and student debt disasters. The relatable human stories in Lower Ed—from mothers struggling to pay for beauty school to working class guys seeking "good jobs" to accomplished professionals pursuing doctoral degrees—illustrate that the growth of for-profit colleges is inextricably linked to larger questions of race, gender, work, and the promise of opportunity in America. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed tells the story of the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of a for-profit education. It is a story about broken social contracts; about education transforming from a public interest to a private gain; and about all Americans and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society.