TY - BOOK AU - Symchych,Phil AU - Weiss,Alan TI - The business wealth builders: accelerating business growth, maximizing profits, and creating wealth T2 - Entrepreneurship and small business management collection, SN - 9781631572913 AV - HD .B875 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) PB - Business Expert Press KW - Small business KW - Growth KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Profit KW - Wealth KW - How to grow your business KW - Business funding KW - Business financing KW - Business growth KW - Business capital KW - Business growth strategies KW - Business owner KW - Entrepreneur KW - Business value KW - Business equity KW - Wealth builder KW - Wealth building KW - Succession plan KW - Family business N1 - Part 1: The big impact of small business --; 1. Mindset: it's not personal, it's business, or is it? --; 2. Global economic power: the massive (unappreciated) momentum of the small business entrepreneurs --; Part 2: Control and confidence --; 3. Leadership: you can't lead from the engine room --; 4. Strategy: it's all about the results you create --; 5. Talent scout: turning all employees into recruiters and producers --; 6. Marketing: how the eternal customer will grow your business --; Part 3: Build your business wealth --; 7. From the vault: financial strategies to accelerate profits, valuation, and wealth --; 8. Five secrets to building your business wealth: how firing yourself can make you rich --; Part 4: Special cases --; 9. Succession and transition: why there's no success in succession and what to do about it --; 10. Family business: why you shouldn't get business advice at the dinner table --; 11. Advising small and medium enterprises (SMEs): how to be your own consultant --; Appendices --; Personal balance sheet assessment --; Definitions --; Private web landing page and resources --; Recommended readings --; Index N2 - Provides pragmatic advice for business owners of privately held, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on how to grow their businesses, increase top-line revenues and bottom-line profits, enhance the value of their companies, and build their business wealth. This book is written for business owners, managers, executives, family business members, business advisors such as accountants and bankers, industry and trade associations, entrepreneurs, and students and professors of entrepreneurship and business. SMEs drive half of the economy in North America and generate the majority of net new jobs, so their performance and contributions to our standard of living are critically important. As large companies downsize, rightsize, offshore, and onshore their operations, entrepreneurs are innovating, hiring, and growing their businesses. Readers will benefit by learning techniques to sharpen their strategies, attract and retain more customers, deliver better products and services more quickly, charge higher prices, increase profits, and create businesses that are more valuable, more saleable, and more attractive to future owners, employees, and customers UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ciu.edu?url=https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/BEPB0000419.html ER -