Fundamentally, you need to make money, or you don’t have a business.

That’s actually the only true failure in business. No matter what happens, don’t run out of money.

Every other mistake can be fixed.

As simple as that sounds, there’s a reason why you can find over 90,000 business books on Amazon.

Most of what we focus on here at Quick Sprout, is helping you grow your business and make money with digital marketing. This section covers more of the general business advice and expertise that we’ve compiled over the years. Everything from how to start a business to how to control your emotions.

Regardless of your experience or role in business, there’s something here for you.

BUSINESS FOUNDATIONS

Looking back on previous businesses and jobs that we’ve had, the biggest failures all stem from the same lesson.

Get the fundamentals right and you can mess up just about everything else. Get the fundamentals wrong and it doesn’t really matter what you do.

Have you heard the business saying “a rising tide floats all boats”? That saying refers to this exact lesson. Pick the right tide and everything works out. Pick the wrong one and you won’t get very far.

Sounds obvious in theory but it takes a lot of experience and hard-won lessons to spot the subtle differences between a business with healthy fundamentals and a business that’s rotten to the core.

Instead of learning these lessons the hard way yourself, learn from our mistakes. The following guides will show you everything you need to build a healthy foundation for your business:

How to manipulate the law of supply and demand

101 Motivational Business Quotes

7 Lessons Learned From Running a Consulting Company

11 Business Philosophies to Live and Die By

What I Learned from Fighting a 12-Month-Long Lawsuit

16 Tips for Naming Your Startup

How a 23 year old turned $1500 into $128,000 in 1 year

Why Most Business Partnerships Don’t Work

Beginner’s Guide to Corporate Entities

Do Business Like A Drug Dealer

Why Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Write Business Plans

How to Create a Company That Can Run without You

How a Ferrari Made Me a Million Bucks

7 Business Principles That You Have to Follow

How to Analyze Your Competition in Less Than 60 Seconds

7 Lessons Learned From Losing $739,135 In Bad Investments

Effective Marketing Strategy for Your Startup Company

Exercises That Will Help You Become a Better Entrepreneur

Charge More for Your Products by Enhancing Perceived Value

How to Monitor Your Competitors With These 10 Helpful Tools

How a 21 Year-Old Created a 38.5 Million Dollar Business

8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

5 Ways Metrics Can Cause Bad Decisions

How Spending $138,491.42 on Meals Made Me $992,000

53 Ways to Become a Better Entrepreneur

59 Resources For First Time Entrepreneurs

10 Timeless Business Tips From 10 Millionaires

Provide Better Customer Service by Implementing Live Chat

How Spending $162,301.42 on Clothes Made Me $692,500

How to Increase Profits by Analyzing Your Competition

How to Increase Revenue Without Acquiring New Customers

9 Ways to Get Your Startup Funded

How to Identify the Target Market of Your Startup

Generate More Profits by Focusing on Your Pricing Strategy

How to Write a Business Plan for Your Startup

Keep Your Employees Happy While Pushing Them to Their Limits

How to Turn a Failed Startup Launch into a Success Story

How to Write a Great Value Proposition

Business Card Ideas To Help You Stand Out

Brand

A great brand is like having a business super power. Everything gets easier.

Every step of your funnel has a higher conversion rate, you get more traffic, customers stick with you longer, and it’s easier to recruit people to your team. A brand is one of the few aspects of business that impacts everything at once.

Brands don’t just happen though, they need to be built deliberately. Then once you have a brand, you need to protect it.

These guides will show you exactly how to build a brand for your business:

How to Get Your Customers to Recommend Your Brand to Others

6 Branding Approaches You Won’t Learn in Business School

How to Increase Your Brand Exposure with Public Relations

How to Connect With Your Customers

How to Build Brand Awareness for Your Business

The A to Z Guide on Creating a Memorable Brand

Manage Customer Testimonials For Brand Credibility

How to Improve Your Customer Service By Getting Feedback

A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Authenticity and Transparency

Personal Brand

Personal brands, like business brands, have an enormous impact on your success.

But the execution is a bit different for a personal brand. Some things matter much less (like logos) while other things matter a LOT more (like your wardrobe). We break down all the unique aspects of building a personal brand here:

How To Create Your Personal Brand Vision

How To Connect With Mentors To Build Your Personal Brand

Be Yourself Because Everyone Else Is Taken

How To Build Your Brand Through Outreach

How To Define Your Target Audience

How To Build Up Your Online And Offline Assets

How To Get Free Press Coverage For Your Personal Brand

How To Monitor Your Personal Brand

The Complete Guide to Building Your Personal Brand

What Effect Does Swearing Have on Your Brand?

How to Improve Your Online Reputation

Why You Should Dress to Impress – The ROI of Fashion

How to Become the World’s #1 Expert in Your Niche

Personal Brand Building Hacks That Will Earn More Customers

How to Launch Your Personal Brand if You Have No Credibility

7 Ways to Use Your Personal Brand to Find More Clients

The Marketer’s Checklist for Establishing a Personal Brand

Build a Million Dollar Business From Your Personal Brand

15 Things You Need in Place for Creating Your Personal Brand

How to Become the Person Everyone Wants to Interview

A Process to Become an Influencer in Your Industry

Daily Activities To Double the Size of Your Personal Brand

A Guide to Using Live Video to Build Your Personal Brand

Mindset

We’ve worked with a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs and hired hundreds of people in our careers.

Do you want to know what separates those that succeed versus those that flounder for years on end?

It’s mindset.

Even if there’s an unlucky setback in the beginning, the folks with the right mindset always make it eventually. Sooner or later, they achieve their goals.

But no amount of luck can overcome a poor mindset. Year after year goes by and these folks are still struggling with the same problems, never growing into their true potential.

Any improvement that you put into your own mindset will have an immense impact on your goals.

Why Being the Loudest Makes You the Weakest

Why I’ll Never Live in a Rich Neighborhood…

How Much Money Do You Really Need?

Play the man, not the odds

Why Immigrants Are More Successful than You!

What Should You Do if Someone Attacks You Online?

6 Reasons You Won’t Succeed

Why Successful People Are Douchebags

The 10 People Who Led Me to Success

A day in the life of Neil Patel

How to Be a Workaholic And Not Get Burned Out

Tony Soprano’s Top 11 Tips for Success

How to Control Your Emotions

Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

15 Little Life Experiments That Will Change Your Life

11 Rules to Work By

The Two Reasons Why You Aren’t Making Over $100K a Year

10 Efficient Ways to Save Time So You Can Follow Your Dreams

The Less You Know, The More Money You’ll Make

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Career

Whether we’re entrepreneurs or working for someone else, it’s up to us to take control of our careers.

There are reliable steps that anyone can take in order to have an amazing career. Focusing on the right areas, building a network, and attending conferences without wasting time will push you way ahead of your peers.

These guides walk you through all of it:

You’re the Reason Why You Don’t Have a Job

Focus on what you’re good at, and nothing else!

Why Consulting Is A Job Everyone Needs To Experience

Got Screwed? Think twice before burning the bridge!

Conferences can be a waste of time, they can also instantly uplevel your career. If you’re going to do them, do them right:

Beginner’s Guide to Attending Conferences

Is It Worth Speaking at Conferences?

How to Speak in Public… Even If You Hate Public Speaking

Also focus on building your network, it’ll increase the quality and quantity of opportunities that come your way:

How I Got to Know Over 100 Millionaires and How You Can Too

The 10 Secrets That Make Networking Easy, Fun and Effective

How to Build Influential Relationships

The Real Secret to Successful Networking

Sales

The old saying that everything depends on sales may be a cliche but it’s true. Everything we do in our business is fundamentally a sales activity.

Sell your co-founder on a strategy that you want to pursue, sell your team to get behind it, sell a potential partner on co-promoting a marketing campaign, sell someone on joining your team, sell you boss on how you want to accomplish a goal, sell a teammate on helping you with your project, sell a customer.

Some of the selling is a monetary sale, a lot of it isn’t.

No matter what role you have, sharpening your sales skills will accelerate your business and career.

7 Common Sales Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them

10 Tips for a Killer Presentation

Implement a Customer Referral Program That Drives Sales

How to Upsell to Your Customers

The Startup Guide to Building a Killer Sales Team

7 Ways to Gain Lifelong Customers after Making a Sale

Sales 101: Change their mood, not their mind

How to Leverage Your Brand’s Story to Drive Sales

A Guide to Winning (Almost) Every Single Negotiation

How to Generate Sales for a New Product Release

6 Effective Ways to Become a Better Sales Person

Case Study: How I Used a Case Study to Grow My Sales by 185%

8 Psychological Principles That’ll Double Your Sales

What Interviewing 31 Sales People Taught Me About “Sales”

How to Guide People’s Emotions to Drive Sales

Want to be successful? Learn how to sell!

Generate Recurring Sales by Implementing Subscriptions

Boost Your Revenue Through Upselling and Cross Selling

Increase Sales by Implementing a Customer Loyalty Program

Increase Profits by Focusing on Customer Retention Strategies

How to Increase Sales by Mastering the Art of Storytelling

How to Boost Sales by Accommodating the Needs of Mobile Users

Increase Sales by Personalizing the Customer Experience