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Your knowledge, passions, and skills can be transformed into a lucrative income stream that requires no college degree, zero employees, and less than $50 to get started. Whether it takes shape as a full-fledged business, a side hustle, or automated earnings is up to you!

Connie Ragen Green is an online marketing strategist, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, international speaker, and serial entrepreneur. In this book, Connie shares her experience and intuitive strategies around online marketing and entrepreneurship and how anyone can follow this path to create a business with both time freedom and passive income. Come along, if you will and experience the life-changing benefits of creating a lifestyle by design as a knowledgeable and respected entrepreneur and marketer. Connie invited three colleagues to contribute to this book, ...

Have you ever dreamed of owning your own business? * Are you a stay home mom or dad that is considering a home-based business? * Did you recently get laid-off from your job and now have an opportunity to be your own boss? * Or maybe you are an adventurous, highly motivated person who loves new challenges? You may have seriously thought about starting your own business, but just did not know where to begin. Starting a new business can be overwhelming and a little intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be! If you aren’t sure how or even where to begin, don’t worry – you will be guided ...

In 1950 Gerald Frank, a determined Black man, arrived in Seattle at the age of eighteen. Fleeing the violence of Detroit and the suffocating grip of Jim Crow Laws, Gerald carried nothing but dreams and drumsticks in his heart. His unwavering belief that he could carve out a better life set the stage for an incredible journey. Today, over seventy years later, the real estate empire forged by Gerald and his wife, Theresa, continues to flourish under the guidance of the third generation of the Frank family. But theirs was not a journey paved with silver spoons.

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.

In Digital Customer Success: The Next Frontier, a team of trailblazing customer success professionals and digital entrepreneurs delivers an insightful discussion of the next stage in customer success management. In the book, you'll discover how to design and deploy touchless and automated digital interventions that help your software users learn and grow as they use your product and unlock the value trapped within it-without ever needing to reach out to a live customer success manager.

In the newly revised third edition of Entrepreneur Revolution: How to Develop Your Entrepreneurial Mindset and Start a Business That Works, serial entrepreneur Daniel Priestley delivers an inspiring and practical book that shows you how to break free from the industrial revolution mindset, quit working so hard, follow your dream, and make a fortune along the way. In the book, you'll find a masterclass in changing how you think, the way you network, and how you make a living.

In this audio edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.

Level Up will revolutionize the way you approach your life and your goals. This book from world-renowned high-performance coach and host of The Mindset Mentor podcast, Rob Dial, presents a groundbreaking roadmap to unlock your full potential and transform your life.

Since you were old enough to hold a job, you've been hoodwinked to believe that wealth can be created by blindly trusting in the uncontrollable and unpredictable markets: the housing market, the stock market, and the job market. I call this soul-sucking, dream-stealing dogma "The Slowlane" - an impotent financial gamble that dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair. For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to "settle-for-less", there is an alternative.

FINALLY! Build an affiliate business that’s so lasting, simple, & profitable you could sell it for millions… This book contains the simple systems and secrets that took me from living in my parents' basement to building lasting affiliate businesses that make me $10,000,000+ per year. Want to know the secret sauce? Pay-per call.

Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.

An avid golfer with a demanding career in the greeting card business, Mike Keiser found a new calling on the authentic links courses of Scotland and Ireland. Seized by the beauty of the landscape and the holes running through it, he determined this was how golf was meant to be: inclusive, not private; played on foot, not riding a cart; the courses natural, neither lavish nor contrived. Vowing to transplant this experience to the States, Keiser entered the golf business and, ignoring the advice of experts, built a true links course in Oregon.

After 30+ years in the Network Marketing industry and having achieved the highest rank as well as being among the top 25 highest income earners in her Network Marketing Company, Donna Weiser's biggest joy is to support others in creating their own success. She says it's her honor and privilege to share her thoughts, wisdom, tips and suggestions in her first book, So You Said Yes: The Weiser Way to Network Marketing

Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model was written to bridge the gap between where most companies are right now and where they need to be. The leaders of these companies know they must transform to compete in an era of rapidly changing enabling technology, but most of them have never operated this way before.

A mainstream sales book has yet to fully explore the linkages between the law of attraction and effective selling. As it applies to sales, this knowledge was hidden for decades within plain sight in self-help texts like The Secret, Think & Grow Rich, and As a Man Thinketh. Every savvy rep is already knee-deep into understanding some flavor of this material. However, you may still need practical tools to directly apply it as an operating system to create massive results in your daily lives.

Using the exact steps you’ll learn in this book, Donald Miller grew his small business from four employees working out of a basement to a 15 million dollar operation, increasing revenue sixfold in just six years. As Miller grew his own business from the ground up, he realized nobody had put together a simple, step-by-step playbook for growing a business. That book didn’t exist. Until now. In this book, you’ll learn the 6 steps to grow a successful small business and create a playbook to implement them—your Flight Plan.

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.

Master the science of funnel building to grow your company online with sales funnels in this updated edition from the $100 million entrepreneur and cofounder of the software company ClickFunnels.

Take control of your future and make the leap from employee to entrepreneur with this enterprising guide. From drafting a business plan to managing costs, you'll profit from expert advice and real-world examples that cover every aspect of building your own business.