How to Make Your Business Run Without You: Streamline Your Business Operations to Pave the Way for More Business, Bigger Profits, and a Business That Virtually Runs Itself

By Susan M. Carter

How To Make Your Business Run Without You is a how-to resource for small business owners and entrepreneurs to effectively streamline operations that will pave the way for more business, bigger profits... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967029104
• ISBN13: 9780967029108
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Nasus Pub
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Best Jump Start for Business Building!

If you want to actually apply concepts of operations development to your own business, especially if you have 0-20 employees, you'll do well with Carter's book. You'll find short chapters, with simply stated to-do items and an understandable how to guide for setting up business operations. For my money, it's a steal at the price. If you can't glean one, single idea for bettering your business that's worth the 38 bucks, you're not paying attention. I've shaved thousands of dollars off my overhead expenses thanks to Chapter 15 alone. It's a lot of common sense stuff, but it was obviously common sense stuff I wasn't doing very well. Books can only jump start your thinking and action - you're still the one who has to be willing to do the work. This is the best jump-start I've ever had for building my business.

I Paid $165 per hour to have someone do this for me!

After owning a jewelry store for 20 years with 16 employees I had a consulting company come into my store. 30% of what they did is exactly what this book shows you what to do. I have since sold my store and am a consultant in the jewelry industry helping people run a better buisness. I MAKE the stores I visit get two books:How to make a business run without you by Susan Carter andThe E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber.Both books are about why small businesses fail and what to do about it. The E-Myth is the phsychology of how to run a business so it runs without you but Susan Carters book is a step by stpe on how to actually do it.In a snapshot, it's this: If you can't leave your business because you're "the only one who can do it", think again. Take bank depsoits. Write down exactly how to make the depsoit, where to get the forms, which bank to take it to, where to enter the data.If you did this on your job, coulsn't soemone else take over?After doing this, for the last few years of owning my store, I didn't have a job. The employees ran the store.The best part of this book is the center section, Susan lays out exactly what each chapter of your store operations manual should look like.Did you know that MOSt McDonals franchises do 100% of their potential after only being open 30 days? Why? because of the operations manual for that franchise.$[money] for a lifetime of knowledge? Worth it? Buy it and let it sit on a shelf and it's worthless.Buy it and use it and you get ONLY 5 hours more with your family per week (that's 250 hours per year), is that worth $[money]?i think so. For me I sold my store and am doing what I love, helping others have their store run without them...

How To Make Your Business Run Without You

This book is a must for any business owner. Why pay big consultant fees when you can walk through the process as described in this book. This is truly the best How To book I have ever seen. And the author writes in such a way, it is as though you are conversing as she teaches you how to run your business instead of letting it run you. I'm in my third year of business and I owe a great deal of credit to Carter. It's like having my own personal consultant. Kudos! Five stars!

The BEST how-to business book on my bookshelf!

An associate of mine recommended this book to me and it completely changed my perspective on how to successfully run my small business. It quickly gets to the point about why systemizing your business is important to future growth. It does take work to implement the "repeatable systems" Carter outlines that are used by thousands of successful franchises (I don't have a franchise), but by taking the time to do it, I now have more time to focus on building my business (and a LOT more time to spend with my family!) instead of getting bogged down in doing all the work. This book gave me the "common sense" approach for growth that I SHOULD have had when I first started my own business. Maybe it's elementary stuff for some people, but not for me. I became a Carter fan and signed up for the e-zine she offers, too... I like that this book is short and easy to get through -- a book with more pages doesn't mean it will have more value! I also used one of the employee motivator exercises in the addendum -- it's really made a difference in my small staff's performance. I would recommend it without hesitation to any small business owner.

Much info that was missing

So many business how-to's give a lot of "theory" or "why's". This one goes beyond that, offering many of the actual "actions" needed to get the tasks done. A very good "hands-on" read and resource.