Do you worry that your business will collapse without your constant presence? Are you sacrificing your family, friendships, and freedom to keep your business alive? What if instead your business could run itself, freeing you to do what you love when you want, while it continues to grow and turn a profit? It's possible. And it's easier than you think. If you're like most entrepreneurs, you started your business so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you're bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering an endless stream of questions, and continually hunting for cash. Now, Mike Michalowicz, the author of Profit First and other small-business bestsellers, offers a straightforward step-by-step path out of this dilemma. In Clockwork, he draws on more than six years of research and real life examples to explain his simple approach to making your business ultra-efficient. Among other powerful strategies, you will discover how to: • Make your employees act like owners: Free yourself from micromanaging by using a simple technique to empower your people to make smart decisions without you. • Pinpoint your business's most important function: Unleash incredible efficiency by identifying and focusing everyone on the one function that is most crucial to your business. • Know what to fix next: Most entrepreneurs try to fix every inefficiency at once and end up fixing nothing. Use the "weakest link in the chain" method to find the one fix that will add the most value now. Whether you have a staff of one, one hundred, or somewhere in between, whether you're a new entrepreneur or have been overworked and overstressed for years, Clockwork is your path to finally making your business work for you.

Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself

Business & Money

MICHALOWICZ, MIKE

Business Culture

Portfolio

What if you could help your children learn the importance of money management while inspiring them at the same time?\nNow you can build this lifetime skill with your children early on. My Money Bunnies captures the innovative cash management system in Profit First, from perennially bestselling author, keynote speaker, and dad, Mike Michalowicz.\nKids will love going on an adventure with Sophie, who learns how to save for her big dream, while still having funds for her daily experiences. The book concludes with Sophie's greatest lesson: The My Money Bunnies system allows her to serve others, too!\nMy Money Bunnies will engage, entertain, and encourage children (and you!) to effectively manage money for life.

My Money Bunnies: Fun Money Management For Kids

Children's Books

Animals

Obsidian Launch, LLC

From Mike Michalowicz, the author of PROFIT FIRST, CLOCKWORK, and THE PUMPKIN PLAN, comes the ultimate diagnostic tool for every entrepreneur. The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they don't know what their biggest problem is. If you find yourself trapped between stagnating sales, staff turnover, and unhappy customers, what do you fix first? Every issue seems urgent -- but there's no way to address all of them at once. The result? A business that continues to go in endless circles putting out urgent fires and prioritizing the wrong things. Fortunately, Mike Michalowicz has a simple system to help you eradicate these frustrations and get your business moving forward, fast. Mike himself has lived through the struggles and countless distractions of entrepreneurship, and devoted years to finding a simple way to pinpoint exactly where to direct attention for rapid growth. He figured out that every business has a hierarchy of needs, and if you can understand where you are in that hierarchy, you can identify what needs immediate attention. Simply fix that one thing next, and your business will naturally and effortlessly level-up. Over the past decade, Mike has developed an ardent following for his funny, honest, and actionable insights told through the stories of real entrepreneurs. Now, Fix This Next offers a simple, unique, and wildly powerful business compass that has already helped hundreds of companies get to the next level, and will do the same for you. Immediately.

Fix This Next: Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business (Entrepreneurship Simplified)

Industries

Product Description 
From Mike Michalowicz, bestselling author of Profit First, Clockwork, and Fix This Next, a practical and proven guide to standing out in a crowded market.\nMany business owners are frustrated because they feel invisible in a crowded marketplace. They know they are better than their competitors, but when they focus on that fact, they get little in return. That's because, to customers, better is not actually better. Different is better. And those who market differently, win.\nIn his new marketing book, Mike Michalowicz offers a proven, no-bullsh*t method to position your business, service, or brand to get noticed, attract the best prospects, and convert those opportunities into sales. Told with the same humor and straight-talk that's gained Michalowicz an army of ardent followers, with actionable insights drawn from stories of real life entrepreneurs, this book lays out a simple, doable system based on three critical questions every entrepreneur and business owner must ask about their marketing: 
1. Does it differentiate? 
2. Does it attract? 
3. Does it direct?\nGet Different is a game-changer for everyone who struggles to grow because their brand, message, product or service doesn't stand out and connect with customers--the long-anticipated answer to the defining business challenge of our time. 
 Review 
Praise for Get Different:\n“The ultimate primer for anyone who needs great results.”\n--Allan Dib, author of 
The 1-Page Marketing Plan 
 "If you fail to fascinate your consumer, you'll quickly be forgotten and fail. So, how to stand out in a crowded and distracted marketplace? In this book, Michalowicz nails the answer: Get different."\n--Sally Hogshead, author of 
Fascinate 
 “Michalowicz turns the mysterious art of marketing into a series of simple steps. Read this book to set yourself apart from the crowd and grow your business.”\n--Jeff Walker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Launch \n“You will discover the steps you must take to be successful in all your marketing efforts.”\n--Ryan Deiss, author of 
The Invisible Selling Machine 
 "Different marketing wins every time. 
Get Different shows you how."\n--Melinda Emerson, author of 
 Become Your Own Boss In 12 Months 
 “You will up-level your marketing with 
 this book. I have no doubt.”\n--Ramon Ray, Founder of SmartHustle.com\n“A breakthrough book that reveals a fundamental truth about marketing. People remember, talk about, and share things that are different. Different is your job. Different will radically transform your business.”\n--John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing and 
The Ultimate Marketing Engine 
 “Michalowicz reveals the essence of effective marketing in this exceptional book: Get attention, get desire, get business. 
Get Different will accomplish all three for you.”\n--Jon Gordon, bestselling author of The Carpenter 
 About the Author 
Mike Michalowicz (mi-CAL-low-wits) launched and sold two multimillion-dollar companies and is the bestselling author of 
Profit First, 
The Pumpkin Plan, 
Clockwork, 
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, and 
Fix This Next. He is the host of the American Express Turning Points podcast, and he is a popular speaker who has shared his insights on business and entrepreneurship at TEDx, CreativeLive, INCmty, and others. His columns have appeared in 
The Wall Street Journal, 
Box Pro magazine, 
Entrepreneur, 
OPEN Forum, 
Harvard Business Review, and more.

Get Different: Marketing That Can't Be Ignored! (Entrepreneurship Simplified)

Insurance

"The missing link that will prepare your business and your mind for the next stage of business growth." --from the Foreword by Gino Wickman, author of Entrepreneurial Leap and Traction\nDoes your business own you more than you own it? Are you afraid it will collapse without you? Are you sacrificing your family, friends, and freedom to keep your business in business? What if, instead, your company could run on automatic while it continued to grow and turn a profit?\nIt’s possible—and the revised and expanded edition of Clockwork makes it easier than ever.\nIf you're like most entrepreneurs, you started your company so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you're bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering an endless stream of questions, and continually hunting for cash.\nIn Clockwork, Revised & Expanded, entrepreneurship expert Mike Michalowicz improves on his step-by-step method for getting more done by doing less – making it easier than ever to have your business run itself.\nThe culmination of more than ten years research, with hundreds of new real-life case studies and improved processes drawn—drawn directly from Mike’s hugely successful training program—Clockwork, Revised & Expanded is your recipe for an ultra-efficient business.\nAmong the many new and improved strategies, you will learn how to: 
Transfer any task off your plate and trust that your team will get it done right. Elevate your role in your company (and life) with one single word. Pinpoint the critical function your business must master to avoid mediocrity. Leverage the extraordinary power of the 3.2 hour productivity rule. And finally—do what you want, when you want, in your business and your life. 
Clockwork Revised & Expanded even includes an entirely new section that details how to improve each team member’s efficiency – both individually and within teams – without leadership involvement.\nWith Mike's Clockwork system, you will make your business finally work for you.

Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself (Entrepreneurship Simplified)

Economics

All In: How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams (Entrepreneurship Simplified)

Job Hunting & Careers

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.

Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine (Entrepreneurship Simplified)

"Never started a company before? Struggling with little or no cash? Have no experience, no baseline to judge your progress against? Thank God! You've got a shot at making this work." So says Mike Michalowicz, author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, a business book that is so uniquely useful, so raw and entertaining, it reads like the brainchild of Steve Jobs and Chris Rock.The founder of three multimillion-dollar companies, including Obsidian Launch, a company that partners with first-time entrepreneurs to grow their concepts into industry leaders, Mike Michalowicz knows what it really takes to spin your great idea into pure gold.Whether you're just starting out or have been at this for years, Mike's "get real" approach to business is a much-needed swift kick in the pants. In this book, you'll discover:* Why a business plan is a total waste of your time.* Why fulfilling your own needs is the first and last order of business. * Which three sheets of paper you need to successfully launch, manage and grow your business.* How to get started in business with little or no money.* How to find and exploit resources that no one else knows about.* How to stop procrastinating and take action NOW!

Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Obsidian Launch

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 achieiving 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.

Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

Gildan Media

Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive-let alone grow-it's easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of �sell it-do it, sell it-do it� that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try. This is the exact situation Mike Michalowicz found himself in when he was trying to grow his first company. Although it was making steady money, there was never very much left over and he was chasing customers left and right, putting in twenty-eight-hour days, eight days a week. The punishing grind never let up. His company was alive but stunted, and he was barely breathing. That's when he discovered an unlikely source of inspiration-pumpkin farmers. After reading an article about a local farmer who had dedicated his life to growing giant pump�kins, Michalowicz realized the same process could apply to growing a business. He tested the Pumpkin Plan on his own company and transformed it into a remarkable, multimillion-dollar industry leader. First he did it for himself. Then for others. And now you. So what is the Pumpkin Plan? � Plant the right seeds: Don't waste time doing a bunch of different things just to please your customers. Instead, identify the thing you do better than anyone else and focus all of your attention, money, and time on figuring out how to grow your company doing it. � Weed out the losers: In a pumpkin patch small, rotten pumpkins stunt the growth of the robust, healthy ones. The same is true of customers. Figure out which customers add the most value and provide the best opportunities for sustained growth. Then ditch the worst of the worst. � Nurture the winners: Once you figure out who your best customers are, blow their minds with care. Discover their unfulfilled needs, innovate to make their wishes come true, and overdeliver on every single promise. Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconven�tional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field.

The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field

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