Complain as Necessary: Seven Rules for a Success Business & Life

Start and grow your successful business your wayUnlike any other small business guide out there, A People’s Guide to Business contains 26 years of institutional wisdom and best practices that you can use no matter what field or type of business you are in. Offering rules like ＂respect the math,＂ ＂no more accidents,＂ and ＂believe in yourself,＂ Biel takes a problem-solving approach to the actual issues small business owners face, like how to earn more than you spend and how and when to bring on a staff person (and how to manage them when you do). Biel translates and simplifies dozens of ＂essential＂ business books into one slim, jargon-free volume! Determine if you are suited for business, establish your niche, think like a small company, ensure your viability, build the thing, get to scale, understand your leverage, align the carrot and the stick, do management well, handle service and sales, solve the most common problems, evaluate your progress, and so much more.

Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly’s #1 fastest growing publisher of 2022. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, PBS, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. Biel is the author of People’s Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business on the Spectrum, Manspressions: Decoding Men’s Behavior, Make a Zine, The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting, Proud to be Retarded, Bicycle Culture Rising, and more. Biel is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, ＄100 & A T-Shirt, and the Groundswell film series. Biel lives in Portland, Ore. Find out more at joebiel.net