What is a small business?  Is it defined by the number of employees?  The size of the business location?  Is it based on sales?  According to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) a small business is defined by firm revenue and by employment.  The SBA establishes small business size standards on an industry-by-industry basis.  A small business generally has fewer than 500 employees for manufacturing businesses and less than $7.5 million in annual receipts for most non-manufacturing businesses.  No matter your definition of small, this is a vital segment of our economy that drives our economic growth.  If you find yourself as an owner or employee of a small corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship, we’ve rounded up 6 books that you might find helpful on your adventure!  Check them out this month!

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

Grant Cardone https://amzn.to/2H8lWFw

Extreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action. Instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results, take Massive Action with The 10 X Rule, remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success.

Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

Michael Hyatt https://amzn.to/31LhjJg

In Your Best Year Ever, Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving goals.

The Pocket Small Business Owner's Guide to Business Plans

Dee Power https://amzn.to/31H6vMn

Planning is essential to creating a competitive advantage for your small business, and properly done, it can actually be fun. That is the message of this thorough guide, written in easy-to-follow, nontechnical language that you don’t need an MBA to understand. In what areas will your business specialize? What are some of the resources you will need, and challenges you will face? How much do you want your company to grow? Once you have established a vision of your business’s future, you will be on your way to making it a reality.

Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

Harry Beckwith https://amzn.to/31MI2oP

SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them.

Small Business For Dummies

Eric Tyson and Jim Schell https://amzn.to/2KCSzxn

Small Business For Dummies has been a leading resource for starting and running a small business. Calling upon their six decades-plus of combined experience running small businesses, Eric Tyson and Jim Schell once again provide readers with their time-tested advice and the latest information on starting and growing a small business.

Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less

Sam Carpenter https://amzn.to/2Z97KpY

Work The System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less, Third Edition, guides the reader in modifying his or her fundamental perception of the world, moving from an inaccurate vision of barely controlled chaos, to a more accurate one: that life is an orderly collection of individual linear systems each of which can be improved and perfected one at a time.