13 Best Small Business Books
Small Business is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Small Business audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 13 Small Business audiobooks below.
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Wisdom-Based Business
- By: Hannah J. Stolze
- Narrator: Hannah J. Stolze
- Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan Academic
- Publish date: April 13, 2021
- Language: English
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4.57(6 ratings)
4.57(6 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDMake Your Business Purposeful and Profitable At its best, business is both purposeful and profitable, dynamic and gainful, commercial and rewarding. Far from being opposites, good business and good behavior go hand-in-hand, and biblical principlesMake Your Business Purposeful and Profitable
At its best, business is both purposeful and profitable, dynamic and gainful, commercial and rewarding. Far from being opposites, good business and good behavior go hand-in-hand, and biblical principles can align with best practices. In Wisdom-Based Business, marketing and supply-chain professor Hannah J. Stolze draws principles from the Bible’s wisdom literature and from evidence-based research to create a framework for business that is oriented toward excellence and sustainability. This book addresses import issues such as:
- The virtue of profit
- Servant leadership
- Wisdom-based values, such as long-term over short-term, stakeholders, and quality
- Beneficial outcomes of wisdom-based business, including reputation and comparative advantage
- The ultimate outcome of eternal impact
Intended for business students and working professionals alike, Wisdom-Based Business demonstrates how to pursue profitability to the honor and glory of God. Unique among Christian books on business, it helps listeners make the right decisions in business by presenting:
- Biblical Principles. Drawing upon the Bible’s wisdom literature, each topic addressed is undergirded by insights from Scripture.
- Evidence-Based Research. Recommendations are thoroughly grounded in the best and latest research in the field.
- Case Studies: Each chapter demonstrates how the principles can be lived out in the real world, amid the inevitable challenges and competition all business confronts.
Any Christian who works in the marketplace or is training to work in the marketplace will benefit from Wisdom-Based Business’ practical guidance on how to reflect Christian values in their corporate tasks and strategies–and on how those values can be not hindrances but keys to success.
Accompanying figures, tables, and bibliography are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Boss Life
- By: Paul Downs
- Narrator: Paul Downs
- Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 04, 2015
- Language: English
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4.2(357 ratings)
4.2(357 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWhen columnist Paul Downs was approached by the New York Times to write for their “You’re the Boss” blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for 24 years strong-or, mostly strong. Now, he embarks on a book lengthWhen columnist Paul Downs was approached by the New York Times to write for their “You’re the Boss” blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for 24 years strong-or, mostly strong. Now, he embarks on a book length essay that intends to show a portrait of a real business, with a real boss, a real set of employees, and the real challenges they face, in hopes of promoting a better understanding of the behaviors of small business owners. In 1986, fresh out of college, Paul Downs opened his first and last business, a small company that builds custom furniture. With no idea how to run a business, or how to build custom furniture, Downs spent a year teaching himself the business and in 1987, he hired his first employee. That’s when things got complicated. As his business began to grow, he had to learn about management, cash flow, taxes, and so much more. Furthermore, globalization and the arrival of the internet made a big impact on the economy, causing him to have to re-evaluate, restructure, and reinvent. Most important, Downs is keenly aware that every small business, no matter the product it makes or the service it provides, starts with people. He writes with tremendous insight about hiring employees, providing motivation to get the best job out of them and incentive to maintain their loyalty and respect, and the difficult decisions he’s made to let some of them go. His insights into each of his employees provides a window into how people work together in any professional situation, and how each of their identities lends to the strength and success of his business, both in daily output and end-of-year dividends. Downs also looks outward to his dealings with vendors, clients old and new, negotiating contracts and providing each client with exemplary customer service along each step of the way, from first sales pitch to final delivery. With honesty and conviction, Downs tells the true story behind building and sustaining a successful company in an ever-evolving economy, often airing his own failures and shortcomings to unveil the difficulties that arise from being a boss and a business person. We’ve heard countless stories from employees about their managers; Boss Life seeks to tell the other side of that story.
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Employee to Entrepreneur
- By: Steve Glaveski
- Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 15, 2019
- Language: English
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3.92(66 ratings)
3.92(66 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDMake the leap and become an entrepreneur today Are you living for the weekend? Are you dissatisfied at work? Are you itching to do something that is important to you? How can you avoid the pitfalls that many first-time entrepreneurs have fallenMake the leap and become an entrepreneur today Are you living for the weekend? Are you dissatisfied at work? Are you itching to do something that is important to you? How can you avoid the pitfalls that many first-time entrepreneurs have fallen into? How do you explore whether entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job? Employee to Entrepreneur is your guide to leaving your job behind and building something for yourself. Author and employee-turned-entrepreneur Steve Glaveski, shows you how to navigate the challenges, find the entrepreneurial success that is right for you and become a better person along the way. Employee to Entrepreneur combines storytelling with a step-by-step framework to teach you how to effectively explore and leverage entrepreneurship to gain freedom, fulfillment and financial security. understand what you want to do by first understanding yourself explore if entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job avoid the common pitfalls faced by first-time entrepreneurs fund, test and prioritise your ideas in a fast and cost-effective way develop the mindset to succeed in your business. If you’re ready to leave your cushy employee life behind and build a business and a life you believe in, reading this essential guidebook is your first step to making it happen.
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Wildpreneurs
- By: Tamara Jacobi
- Narrator: Tamara Jacobi
- Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Language: English
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3.89(68 ratings)
3.89(68 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDReal-life “wildpreneur” Tamara Jacobi shares her insights on what it takes to successfully make the leap from a safe yet soul-crushing day job to chasing your dreams. This book illuminates how surf guides, ski builders, yoga and wellnessReal-life “wildpreneur” Tamara Jacobi shares her insights on what it takes to successfully make the leap from a safe yet soul-crushing day job to chasing your dreams.
This book illuminates how surf guides, ski builders, yoga and wellness instructors, environmental activists, nature lovers, podcasters, artisans, and other creatives achieve an adventurous lifestyle and financial viability. Whether you’re stuck in the nine-to-five grind, are an enterprising college grad, a dynamic retiree, or are just an out-of-the-box thinker, it’s time to embrace your free spirit and become a Wildpreneur!
Entrepreneur and author Tamara Jacobi understands the challenge and reward of turning your passion into a business. Over ten years ago, she and her family started the Tailwind Jungle Lodge, a treehouse style eco-lodge in the jungle on the Mexican Pacific coastline. Jacobi shares the lessons she’s learned, alongside stories and wisdom from other Wildpreneurs.
In Wildpreneurs, you will:
- Access a practical blueprint for starting and managing an unconventional business.
- Receive the support needed to stay on track with what can be a difficult path filled with unexpected challenges and is worth it in the end.
- Gain insights into the world of Wildpreneurship, its characters, and the lifestyle that is within anyone’s grasp.
- Discover an alternative to living on autopilot, an opportunity to move beyond fear, come alive, and tune into inspiration while also making a living.
Let Wildpreneurs help you blaze the path to your own journey of meaning, purposefulness, and adventure–and start living the life of your dreams.
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Guerrilla Marketing
- By: Jay Conrad Levinson
- Narrator: Edward Lewis
- Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.89(5281 ratings)
3.89(5281 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDWhenGuerrilla Marketingwas first published in 1983, Jay Levinson was the first person on the block with an innovative take-no-prisoners approach to marketing for the small-business owner. Filled with hundreds of solid ideas that really work,WhenGuerrilla Marketingwas first published in 1983, Jay Levinson was the first person on the block with an innovative take-no-prisoners approach to marketing for the small-business owner. Filled with hundreds of solid ideas that really work, Levinson’s philosophy has given birth to a whole new way of thinking about marketing. But times have changed. This completely revised and expanded edition details Levinson’s wisdom on: the fastest-growing markets, with tips on how to reach and keep them; strategies for marketing during a recession; the most up-to-date information on what consumers care most about; new programs for targeted prospects; how to use the technological explosion for bigger profits; and management lessons for the twenty-first century.
Guerrilla Marketing is the entrepreneur’s marketing bible–and the book every small-business owner should have.
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Mission Entrepreneur
- By: Jen Griswold
- Narrator: Erin Bennett
- Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.8(5 ratings)
3.8(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWhether you are a professional looking to hone your business skills, thinking of launching a new career or side gig, or ready to turn your hobby into a business, this book is for you! In Mission Entrepreneur Jen Griswold, veteran, CEO, and mentor,Whether you are a professional looking to hone your business skills, thinking of launching a new career or side gig, or ready to turn your hobby into a business, this book is for you!
In Mission Entrepreneur Jen Griswold, veteran, CEO, and mentor, shares the journey that led her from twenty years in the military to over $20 million in annual sales. As a wife and mother with a full-time career, Jen watched her peers as they experienced the struggles of keeping their careers afloat while managing family, relocations, and the demands of a busy life. The lessons she learned from her time in the military can be applied to start-ups, to help you launch your business, build wealth, and find happiness.
From her extensive training in the Air Force and her experiences coaching women over the past few years, Griswold has discovered that by giving back to her military community, she can change the world a little bit every day. Using her lifetime of experience and lessons from military life, Jen inspires women to manage the bumpy journey to becoming successful entrepreneurs. Whether a mom, a spouse, or a CEO … Women know what they want, and they’re going for it! You can, too!
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The Entrepreneur Equation
- By: Carol Roth
- Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.79(146 ratings)
3.79(146 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThere’s never been a better time to start a business–or so the conventional wisdom would have you believe. But with up to 90 percent of businesses failing within the first five years, it’s time to take off the rose-colored glassesThere’s never been a better time to start a business–or so the conventional wisdom would have you believe. But with up to 90 percent of businesses failing within the first five years, it’s time to take off the rose-colored glasses and think twice before you invest your precious time, money, and energy.
The Entrepreneur Equation helps you do the math before you start down the entrepreneurial path so you can answer not just “Could I be an entrepreneur?” but also “Should I be an entrepreneur?” By understanding what it takes to build a valuable business as well as how to assess the risks and rewards of business ownership based on your personal circumstances, you can learn how to stack the odds of success in your favor and ultimately decide if business ownership is the best possible path for you, now or ever.
Through illustrative examples and personalized exercises, tell-it-like-it-is Carol Roth helps you create and evaluate your own personal “entrepreneur equation” as you
-learn what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in today’s competitive environment;
-save money, time, and effort by avoiding business ownership when the time isn’t right for you;
-identify and evaluate the risks and rewards of a new business based on your goals and circumstances;
-evaluate whether your dreams are best served by a hobby, job, or business; and
-gain the tools that you need to maximize your business success.
The Entrepreneur Equation is essential reading for the aspiring entrepreneur. Before you invest your life savings, invest in this book!
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Guerrilla Marketing Weapons
- By: Jay Conrad Levinson
- Narrator: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.78(142 ratings)
3.78(142 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDToo many small and mid-sized businesses offer gold-medal quality and service yet struggle to pay their bills and stay in business. What they need are guerrilla marketing weapons to put energy behind their dreams. This indispensable nuts-and-boltsToo many small and mid-sized businesses offer gold-medal quality and service yet struggle to pay their bills and stay in business. What they need are guerrilla marketing weapons to put energy behind their dreams. This indispensable nuts-and-bolts guide outlines every weapon you need to make a significant bottom-line difference in your company.
These weapons will add potency to your marketing attack and substantially increase profits. They work for all types of small and medium businesses, even nonprofit organizations. Among them are fourteen powerhouse weapons for start-up businesses and five substantial lifts to already running operations. All are inexpensive to implement and half of them are completely cost free.
Topics covered are:
– Aggressive marketing without cash – The single most valuable business asset – Eight secrets for success in marketing – The weapons that make buying from you easy – Sure-fire tactics that produce instant results – All the strategic offense and defense tools you need to blast your competition, boost your profits, and earn a guerrilla marketer’s fortune
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Boom
- By: Craig Hall
- Narrator: Greg Lockett
- Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 16, 2019
- Language: English
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3.75(7 ratings)
3.75(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFor decades, the United States has been experiencing a shocking decline in the number of new business start-ups–and it has gotten worse since the Great Recession. While new business formation in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston is booming,For decades, the United States has been experiencing a shocking decline in the number of new business start-ups–and it has gotten worse since the Great Recession. While new business formation in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston is booming, entrepreneurship in most of the country–particularly rural regions–is declining. Things are even worse for women and people of color. This is of paramount importance to the United States because start-ups account for all new net-job growth, champion innovation, and strengthen our middle class. From the perspective of an entrepreneur with more than fifty years of experience in diverse industries–from software to real estate to winemaking–author Craig Hall provides his expert evaluation on the challenges facing entrepreneurs today. After careful analysis defining the current environment for startups, Hall optimistically concludes with specific strategies for go-getters to successfully bridge the opportunity gap. We can, and must, reverse these trends in order to level the playing field for entrepreneurs to safeguard the future of the American Dream.
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Startup Money Made Easy
- By: Maria Aspan
- Narrator: Maria Aspan
- Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: February 12, 2019
- Language: English
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3.61(20 ratings)
3.61(20 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDLet the experts at Inc.guide you through every critical step and potential pitfall as their on-the-ground reporting shows how to locate funding, manage your money, and smart hack your way to a comfortable retirement. Startup Money Made Easy gathersLet the experts at Inc.guide you through every critical step and potential pitfall as their on-the-ground reporting shows how to locate funding, manage your money, and smart hack your way to a comfortable retirement.
Startup Money Made Easy gathers the best advice from the magazine’s pages, spotlighting celebrated entrepreneurs and inspiring stories. You’ll hear from:
- FUBU founder Daymond John, who mortgaged his family home for start-up capital–and built a $6 billion empire
- Makeup artist Bobbi Brown, who turned a modest lipstick line into a profitable 30-store enterprise
- Alexa von Tobel, who dropped out of Harvard Business School to launch the equity-magnate LearnVest.com
- Mark Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck, Max Levchin, and other founders who overcame financial obstacles on their way to the top
Additionally, these stories include on-target tips that explain how to:
- Raise your first $10,000 in capital
- Power through the lean years
- Get friends and family to back you up
- Round up outside investors
- Go public or sell, while still staying in charge
- Reward people with great salaries and benefits
- Eliminate tax season surprises
- Grow without growing pains
Cash flow problems are the number-one business killer. Whether you’re dreaming up a startup idea or knee deep in the craziness, learn to shore up your finances and safeguard the business.
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Direct
- By: Kathryn Judge
- Narrator: Megan Tusing
- Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 07, 2022
- Language: English
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3.6(40 ratings)
3.6(40 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFinance expert, law professor, and fellow overwhelmed consumer Kathryn Judge investigates the surprising ways that middlemen have taken control of the economy at the expense of the rest of us, and provides practical guidance about how to regainFinance expert, law professor, and fellow overwhelmed consumer Kathryn Judge investigates the surprising ways that middlemen have taken control of the economy at the expense of the rest of us, and provides practical guidance about how to regain control, find more meaning, and contribute to a more sustainable economy.
Over the past thirty years, middlemen have built intricate financial and retail empires capable of moving goods across the country and around the world–transforming the economy and our lives. Because of middlemen, we enjoy an unprecedented degree of choice and convenience. But the rise of the middleman economy comes at a steep price.
In Direct, Columbia law professor Kathryn Judge shows how overgrown middlemen became the backbone of modern capitalism and the cause of many of its ailments. Middlemen today shape what people do, how they invest, and what they consume. They use their troves of data to push people to buy more, and more expensive, products. They use their massive profits and expertise to lobby lawmakers, tilting the playing field in their favor. Drawing on a decade of research, Judge shows how to fight back: Go to the source.
The process of direct exchange–and the resulting ecosystem of makers and consumers, investors and entrepreneurs–fosters connection and community and helps promote a more just, resilient, and accountable economic system. Direct exchange reminds us that our actions always and inevitably impact others, as it rekindles an appreciation of our inherent interconnectedness. As Judge reveals in this much-needed book, direct exchange is both the cornerstone of the solution and a tool for revealing just how much is at stake in decisions about “through whom” to buy, invest and give.
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Guerrilla P.R. 2.0
- By: Michael Levine
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.48(31 ratings)
3.48(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDEvery Fortune 500 corporation, movie star, and scandal queen knows that a good publicist is essential to building success and maintaining public support. But if you’re a small-business owner, entrepreneur, or undercapitalized beginner seekingEvery Fortune 500 corporation, movie star, and scandal queen knows that a good publicist is essential to building success and maintaining public support. But if you’re a small-business owner, entrepreneur, or undercapitalized beginner seeking an edge in a highly competitive arena, it’s unlikely that you have your own high-powered publicist.
Guerrilla P.R. 2.0 offers all the resources necessary to mount your own campaign and get the media exposure you need. In clear and concise language, Michael Levine, one of the top public relations counselors in the country, reveals the same procedures he uses every day to get press on major stars—and how those strategies can be utilized on little or no budget. You’ll learn how to think like a publicist and map out the perfect strategy for success.
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Wisdom-Based Business: Audio Lectures
- By: Hannah J. Stolze
- Narrator: Hannah J. Stolze
- Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan Academic
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDMake Your Business Purposeful and Profitable At its best, business is both purposeful and profitable, dynamic and gainful, commercial and rewarding. Far from being opposites, good business and good behavior go hand-in-hand, and biblical principlesMake Your Business Purposeful and Profitable
At its best, business is both purposeful and profitable, dynamic and gainful, commercial and rewarding. Far from being opposites, good business and good behavior go hand-in-hand, and biblical principles can align with best practices. In Wisdom-Based Business, marketing and supply-chain professor Hannah J. Stolze draws principles from the Bible’s wisdom literature and from evidence-based research to create a framework for business that is oriented toward excellence and sustainability. This study addresses import issues such as:
- The virtue of profit
- Servant leadership
- Wisdom-based values, such as long-term over short-term, stakeholders, and quality
- Beneficial outcomes of wisdom-based business, including reputation and comparative advantage
- The ultimate outcome of eternal impact
Christians working in the marketplace or training to do so will benefit from Wisdom-Based Business: Audio Lectures’ practical guidance on how to reflect Christian values in their corporate tasks and strategies. Far from being hindrances, those values can become keys to success.
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