Melinda Emerson - Fix Your Business: A 90-Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Remove Chaos From Your Business

Advance Praise for
Fix Your Business

Melinda Emerson has developed a detailed process that when followed, will positively impact your business. She will help you find time to read this book and implement its teachings using her 12 Ps of Running a Successful Business.

W. Kenneth Yancey, Jr.,

CEO, SCORE

Fix Your Business gives you a step-by-step way to get yourself back in charge. Its an organized, practical makeover for your business, written by a world-class expert, known and respected by millions of business owners.

Tim Berry

Author, Lean Business Planning

If you want a roadmap for business success you must read Fix Your Business by Melinda Emerson. Her 12 Ps of Running a Successful Business lay the groundwork to build a scalable business that will allow you to live your dream life.

Jon Gordon

Bestselling Author, The Power of Positive Leadership

Melinda Emerson has written a fabulously practical guide to help small businesses scale and address the many challenges that exist on that journey. I love her 12 Ps which, frankly, businesses of any size could learn from. And the short fixes are genius. This is a must-read for anyone owning their own business.

Sharon Rowlands

CEO, ReachLocal

Melinda Emerson shows you how to accomplish one of the hardest transitions for entrepreneurs: how to turn your small business job into a real company in just 90 days.

Barry Moltz

Author, Getting Your Small Business Unstuck

Melinda F. Emersons book, Fix Your Business, acknowledges a dirty little secret of entrepreneurship: Many people have escaped dead-end jobs only to get stuck in what feels like dead-end businesses...If you are struggling with a business that has become more burden than blessing, this is the book you need to break through from surviving to thriving.

Alfred A. Edmond Jr.

Sr. VP/Editor-at-Large of Black Enterprise

Melinda Emerson has done it again! Shes authored a must-read book for entrepreneurs that is loaded with tactical advice to ramp up your business and reclaim your life. Small business ownership is hard work, but its MUCH easier when you have a solid plan for building processes, getting control of your finances, and growing at a steady pace. This book provides the step-by-step plan youve been waiting for. Highly recommended!

Stephanie Chandler

Author of Own Your Niche, NonfictionAuthorsAssociation.com

Melinda Emerson is a true small business proshe is seasoned, strategic and highly pragmatic. Fix Your Business bottles up Melindas passion and mentorship so you can grow and scale your business while living a meaningful and enjoyable life.

Pamela Slim

Author, Escape from Cubicle Nation and Body of Work

Fix Your Business gives you a step-by-step system to make over your business. Melinda Emerson is a world-class small business expert, and her 12 Ps of Running a Successful Business will help you remove the chaos and get back to running a business you love.

Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach

CEO - TheMoneyCoach.net, LLC

You want to grow your business for REAL? Listen to Melinda Emersons spot-on, step-by-step advice. Buy this book and implement itDO the action steps in each chapterand youll fix ALL your major business growth headaches (people, process, profit, performance, and eight more!). This is THE missing owners manual for smart entrepreneurs who are in it to win it.

David Newman

Author, Do It! Marketing

This is not just another book. This is a content-rich workbook for entrepreneurs to tune-up their businesses and to prepare to soar to the next level. Melindas book is a must-read for entrepreneurs looking to rise above an increasingly crowded space of small businesses.

Sulaiman W. Rahman

CEO, DiverseForce, LLC

Let me add two new Ps to Melindas 12 Ps of Running a Successful Business: Power Packed! In her new book, Fix Your Business, Melinda gives structured, solid strategies and tactics to help entrepreneurs rejuvenate an existing business and become even more profitable.

Misty Young

The Restaurant Lady

FIX YOUR BUSINESS

A 90-Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Remove Chaos From Your Business

By:
Melinda F. Emerson

Authority Publishing
Gold River, California

Copyright 2018 by Melinda F. Emerson. All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for your situation. You should consult with a professional when appropriate. Neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, personal, or other damages.

FIX YOUR BUSINESS: A 90-Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Remove Chaos From Your Business

By Melinda F. Emerson

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Published by Authority Publishing, Gold River, California
www.succeedasyourownboss.com

First Edition

ISBN: 978-1-935953-88-3
Ebook: 978-1-935953-89-0

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DEDICATION

The book is dedicated to my amazing son, JoJo. I cant wait to see what you grow up to be. I love you to the moon and back.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE 12 Ps OF RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS

INTRODUCTION

Why your business needs this book

Youve made it past the hard part. Youve survived a few years, maybe more, in business, but your business is stressing you out. Why? Because youve built a business that cant run without you. It affects your sleep and your health. You are making some money and paying the bills, including your own paycheck (hopefully), but you dread dealing with your business at times.

Are you scared to take a vacation or any real time off? Your company cannot operate three days, let alone three months, without you. You are still the primary rainmaker in your business. You dont have sales staff or you have the wrong people working for you. No one thinks about how your business makes money other than you. Lets face it, if something happened to you, your business would probably cease to exist.

We all know payroll comes every two weeks whether your customers pay you or not. Ive been there, and I wrote this book to help you Fix Your Business. I want you to have a business that allows you to love your dream life. I want you to develop processes and systems to get better control of your business. You might think that signs of failure are the ones you need to look out for when running your small business, but you need to pay just as much attention to evidence that your business is growingbefore it grows so fast that you cant keep up with demand, and ultimately grow yourself out of business.

Ive heard stories about businesses that got the attention of