“The book I wish I had when I was struggling to figure out how to take my business to the next level. Follow Susie’s strategies and power up your success!” —JJ Virgin, founder of Mindshare Collaborative and New York Times bestselling author
A comprehensive, bulletproof start-to-finish plan for taking your business from startup mode to the multi-million-dollar mark straight from the inventor of the Predictable Success Method™.
In the United States, most people who own small businesses struggle daily to make ends meet. Two-thirds of businesses earn less than $25,000 a year. Thankfully, Susie Carder—entrepreneur and business coach to everyone from Steve Harvey to Paul Mitchell—has developed the ultimate formula for incredible success. But she didn’t create it overnight.
Susie Carder was at rock bottom financially during the Great Recession of 2008 when she was inspired to dig in and rebuild her fortune from the ground up. Today, she takes what she learned during that difficult time and shares her radical business strategies that have helped countless entrepreneurs and small business owners increase their revenues by more than 3,000%.
As the creator of the Predictable Success Method™, Carder has a proven, twenty-year track record that includes building two $10 million companies herself, which she later sold. Filled with clear-eyed and practical advice, Power Your Profits teaches you how to run your daily operations, understand your finances, account for sales, and employ marketing systems that lead to predictable and substantial revenue and profit growth. And now, she’s sharing her hard-won wisdom—worth $5,000 an hour in coaching fees—with you.
I purchased this book as a pre-order after hearing Susie Carder on a podcast. I liked her story of having created and sold several businesses and was eager to learn techniques to make a business more profitable.
There are lots of things I like about this book. Susie writes in a conversational way and uses examples from her own experience in business and that of her clients. Her explanations of business principles are easy to understand. She includes lots of practical forms that can be used in a business. But I found that what is offered in Power Your Profits is a basic level introduction to business that is available through free education sessions from local Small Business Administrations and SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives). I was expecting more tier up strategies.
This book would be good for a new business owner who needs information on basic business principles and systems or for a business owner who has never put consistent systems for money management and growth planning in place.
A must for all business owners. Easy to read, gives REAL charts and money examples, well organized. I bought my own copy so I could mark up and write notes!
-- a no-nonsense set of instructions for would-be entrepreneurs who know nothing about money (like me)
Money is less of a blind spot for me and more of a hot spot. It's uncomfortable to think about, which means I try to ignore it, which means money is a mystery, which causes problems, which are uncomfortable, and around we go. It's fortunate my entrepreneur wife isn't scared of money, so when she recommended this book, I bought it. Carder goes from the absolute basics (what depreciation is) to advanced (the signs your accountant is skimming your funds). Most importantly, she forces you to stare at your motivations and mental blocks. This is a book I will have to return to many times in order to digest and implement. But I am convinced that I should.