Review: A guide on how to make a small business actually profitable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2012
Starting a business and making a good living from it are two different things - I know that from my own experience. This is a book that tells you how to make the most profit in the shortest time possible and how to optimize what you do till there are no extra motions left. More importantly, there are examples of how to look at what you are doing, analyze it, and figure out how to take your small business to the next level.I read the book to the end, highlighted a lot of useful tidbits and overall found it just as inspirational and educational as The 4 hour workweek. It's also told from the same actual real-life-experience  point of view as the Tim Ferris' book.The man is obviously is not a writer and it shows. Well, he did make his fortune working with his hands so, I was willing to give the guy a break on the writing front. After you read the book, you'll realize why - he is just as smart as they come; smooth writing, on the other hand, is an acquired skill - no smarts really necessary, take my word for it.Kudos to the author for not making this book 300 pages long. I am really tired digging through otherwise good but long books for the morsels of useful info. On the other hand, a few more stories from his experience wouldn't hurt the book either - there's some pretty interesting stuff here. My favorite bit is that the author doesn't gloss over how much work one needs to do in the initial stages of setting up a business - that's actually a point of emphasis here.This being a true story, meaning the author actually went and did all these things, figuring out a few tricky business principals way before people started writing about them, gets an extra star. My highbrow criticisms aside, this is a book worth reading.