Entrepreneurship

Prioritizing Profit

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How to build a business that does more than just stay afloat

By The Blinkist Curators

What's it about?

Entrepreneurship Management & Leadership

Being able make a profit in your business allows you to take more risks, reduce stress levels, and invest in key areas of growth. This collection of Blinks and Shortcast episodes offers options for adopting a "profit-first" model and how to make this model central to all your business efforts—from sales and management strategies, to salaries.

Prioritizing Profit

How to build a business that does more than just stay afloat

The 1% Windfall

The 1% Windfall

How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow

Profit First

Mike Michalowicz

Transform Your Business From a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

Pricing For Profit

Pricing For Profit

How to Develop a Powerful Pricing Strategy for Your Business

Are you Optimizing for Profit?

Are you Optimizing for Profit?

Freelance to Founder

Scaling and growing your business as a freelancer can come with some really tough growing pains. What if some of the habits you've cultivated are precisely the things that are making it so hard for you to grow? In this episode, we'll show you the difference between owning your work and doing it, and how to check in and see if doing the work you love is actually a key roadblock for business growth.

Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!

Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!

Greg Crabtree and Beverly Blair Harzog

Four Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential

The One Minute Manager

The One Minute Manager

Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

Increase Productivity, Profits and your own Prosperity

Cut Costs Not Corners

Cut Costs Not Corners

A practical guide to staying competitive and improving profits

How Brands Grow

How Brands Grow

What Marketers Don’t Know

Avoiding Growth: Paul Jarvis

Avoiding Growth: Paul Jarvis

Beyond the To-Do List

Growth is seen as a business essential, but it could be more beneficial to stay small and act as a business of one. Entrepreneur Paul Jarvis presents a case for avoiding growth when overreach could harm your business. Instead, he’ll get you thinking about building a company that is sustainable and manageable, maximizing your happiness and profitability.

You Should Test That!

You Should Test That!

Conversion Optimization for More Leads, Sales and Profit or The Art and Science of Optimized Marketing

Profit and Paying Yourself: Michael Michalowicz

Profit and Paying Yourself: Michael Michalowicz

How can you prioritize profit and pay yourself as a successful creative business? Many creatives find accounting to be a passion-killer, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this episode Emily Thompson and Kathleen Shannon talk to author author Mike Michalowicz about how to set up a simple system to get clarity on your books and make sure profit is at the heart of your business. He'll share his expertise on balancing purpose and profit, including tips on simplifying your accounting so you can be able to pay yourself what you deserve!

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