They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right .Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.

    It shows you how to use the Value Proposition Canvas, a practical business tool to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers want. It compliments and perfectly integrates with the Business Model Canvasfrom "Business Model Generation" so you can succeed with great value propositions embedded in scalable and profitable business models.Practical exercises, process illustrations, and workshop suggestions help you immediately apply the tools in the book to your daily work. The book includes an online access to Strategyzer.com to complete and assess exercises interactively, learn from peers, and download pdfs, checklists, and more.You'll love "Value Proposition Design" if you've been overwhelmed by the task of true customer value creation, frustrated by unproductive product meetings and misaligned teams, involved in bold shiny projects that blew up, or simply disappointed by the failure of a good idea."Value Proposition Design" will help you successfully understand the patterns of value creation, leverage the experience and skills of your team, avoid wasting time with ideas that won't work, and guide you through the design and test of products and services that customers want.

    But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators--Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg--Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing.The Everything Store will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.

    Author Matt Blumberg, a technology and marketing entrepreneur, knows this all too well. Back in 1999, he started a company called Return Path, which later became the driving force behind the creation of his blog, OnlyOnce--because "you're only a first time CEO once."Now, more than a decade later, he's written "Startup CEO." As the fifth book in the "StartUp Revolution" series, this reliable resource is based on Blumberg's experience as a startup CEO and covers a number of issues he's faced over the dozen years he's been a CEO.Offers valuable insights into how the CEO sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholdersDiscusses how to build a company's human capital by recruiting, hiring, and retaining the very best talentExamines how a CEO must align available resources with the company's strategy in order to ensure successAddresses what it takes to master the "How" of being a CEO--from leading an executive team to managing in any type of marketEngaging and informative, this book is essential reading for any, and every, CEO.

    In January 2003, I was running a small design firm when I finally snapped. I was using Microsoft Word to bill my clients when I accidently saved over an invoice. The frustration of billing my clients overwhelmed me, and so did the thought of using accounting software—so I built my own solution.”Building my own product company quickly became a passion, but passion projects don’t pay…at least not on day one. To keep the lights on I moved into my parents’ basement for 3.5 years to save money and I completely revamped how I ran my design firm to the point where I worked 19 days in one year and generated over $200,000 to fund my side project. How did I do that? This book will show you—and help you do it too.“Thinking back, my ability to work so little and produce so much income had a lot to do with how I priced and positioned my services, something most small business owners struggle with. So I sat down with Donald Cowper—a best-selling author who joined FreshBooks as our small business writer last year—to try and capture the essence of things. The result is this book—a business fable designed to share the lessons I learned the hard way, so you don’t have to.”

    Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.Hooked is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder—not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior.Eyal provides readers with:• Practical insights to create user habits that stick.• Actionable steps for building products people love.• Fascinating examples from the iPhone to Twitter, Pinterest to the Bible App, and many other habit-forming products.

    Lean Analytics steers you in the right direction.This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers, decide what to build, how to monetize your business, and how to spread the word. Packed with more than thirty case studies and insights from over a hundred business experts, Lean Analytics provides you with hard-won, real-world information no entrepreneur can afford to go without.Understand Lean Startup, analytics fundamentals, and the data-driven mindsetLook at six sample business models and how they map to new ventures of all sizesFind the One Metric That Matters to youLearn how to draw a line in the sand, so you’ll know it’s time to move forwardApply Lean Analytics principles to large enterprises and established products

    With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product to market.No prior experience in UX or design is necessary to get started. If you’re an entrepreneur or an innovator, this book puts you right to work with proven tips and tools for researching, identifying, and designing an intuitive, easy-to-use product.Determine whether people will buy your product before you build itListen to your customers throughout the product’s lifecycleUnderstand why you should design a test before you design a productGet nine tools that are critical to designing your productDiscern the difference between necessary features and nice-to-havesLearn how a Minimum Viable Product affects your UX decisionsUse A/B testing in conjunction with good UX practicesSpeed up your product development process without sacrificing quality

    Today Honest Tea is a rapidly expanding national brand sold in more than 100,0000 grocery stores, restaurants, convenience stores and drugstores across the country. The brand has flourished as American consumers move toward healthier and greener lifestyles.

    The Ten Types of Innovation explores these insights to diagnose patterns of innovation within industries, to identify innovation opportunities, and to evaluate how firms are performing against competitors. The framework has proven to be one of the most enduring and useful ways to start thinking about transformation.Details how you can use these innovation principles to bring about meaningful--and sustainable--growth within your organization Author Larry Keeley is a world renowned speaker, innovation consultant, and president and co-founder of Doblin, the innovation practice of Monitor Group; BusinessWeek named Keeley one of seven Innovation Gurus who are changing the field The Ten Types of Innovation concept has influenced thousands of executives and companies around the world since its discovery in 1998. The Ten Types of Innovation is the first book explaining how to implement it.

    Many believe that it cannot be taught, and those who are successful in starting a business are born with something others do not have. Innovation-based entrepreneurship can be broken down into discreet behaviors and processes that can be taught to the intelligent, hardworking, people using this book.Eric Ries and Steve Blank were wrong; the road to a successful start-up is not just four steps. "Innovation Driven"" Entrepreneurship "breaks it down into 24 steps which include: Market segmentationQuantify the value propositionDefine your coreMap the process to acquire a paying costumerTest key assumptionsDevelop a product plan, and more.

    Waiting for him was not just his own destiny but that of thousands of small, marginalised farmers who, until then, had only known exploitation and deprivation. The story of Dr. Kurien is the story of Amul. It is the story of Operation Flood, the 'billion-liter idea' that set India on the top of the world map for milk production. A die-hard patriot, Kurien was committed to the co-operative cause. He put the milk industry in the hands of the farmers, believing firmly that with ownership would come responsibility and great success. And he was right. Amar Chitra Katha traces the story of the man who is known as the 'Father of the White Revolution'

    MLM is different than a regular job. Every new person in your business should have a copy of this book to guide them in the early days of their network marketing career. This book shows the beginner exactly what to do, exactly what to say, and does it through the eyes of brand-new Distributor Joe. "Big Al" teaches Distributor Joe a very basic system to get to 100 distributors fast. Using just a few contacts and a very simple, rejection-free appointment and presentation system, Distributor Joe learns by observing, and thus builds leadership skills instantly. The magic script to help every new distributor get his first network marketing distributor makes it easy to build deep. In a few words or examples "Big Al" brings to light the real answers to network marketing leadership challenges. You’ll find the same humor and directness that has endeared "Big Al" to his workshop audiences throughout the world. Published as Big Al Tells All (Sponsoring Magic) in 1979, and revised in 1985 and 1999, this latest revision includes updates to match the changes in the network marketing industry. It still retains the classic techniques that are essential to successful network marketing. Every new person deserves instant success in MLM, so why not use this easy system to get them started fast? Motivation, attitude, positive attitude and philosophy are great, but at some point, every new MLM distributor has to learn the skills of what to say and do. This is the book they need. Big Al’s MLM Sponsoring Magic How To Build A Network Marketing Team Quickly is a fun and fascinating network marketing system that every new distributor enjoys. What a great way to start off a new distributor's career, with this easy-to-read book. Order your copy now!

    They don’t last long, they don’t create profound change and what’s more we usually have regrets and hang-ups about them.The Create Your Amazing Year In Life + Biz workbooks will turn your New Year's resolutions from faded-out forgotten wishes in a month’s time into actual dreams come true. This workbook is an essential catalyst and companion to help you unfold your most incredible year yet in life and business.Join the thousands of women who use this workbook every year to change their life + biz!Over the last five years, thousands and thousands of women have used this workbook with the most amazing results. It’s the best planning tool available to help you make 2014 an absolutely incredible year!It uses simple yet powerful techniques to help you not only dream your biggest dream and set your goals, but to actually MAKE THEM HAPPEN too.Gorgeously designed in full colour, and in large format, this workbook will leave you feeling endlessly inspired, motivated + ready to make 2014 your best year yet!Buy now to make sure 2014 is your best year yet!

    For decades, he was a notoriously-successful freelance direct-response copywriter with a global reputation for creating ads that brought home the bacon in almost every possible media (particularly direct mail, magazines and newspapers). And his street-savvy, close-the-deal style of salesmanship has now helped mobs of new entrepreneurs dominate niches online.This book is a collection of his best (and most recent) lesson-dense private articles to insider colleagues. What you’re about to discover is the timeless advice and first-choice strategies that can help rookie entrepreneurs murder their competition, and veteran marketers re-establish dominance in their niche. No theory here. Every lesson is from the front trenches of the business world, where fortunes are won or lost through your ability to craft superior marketing in crowded business environments… and produce jaw-dropping results regardless of the economy, the competition, or any problem currently holding you up.If you have a great product or service, then shame on you if you don’t learn and use the reality-tested, results-proven toolkit of advice and tactics packed into this sizzling tome. It’s your best First Step to becoming an awesome entrepreneur, no matter where you are now or what your experience is or how broke/disadvantaged/clueless you are. You start here, and the greatest adventure of your life can finally begin in earnest.About the author:John Carlton’s notorious 30-year career has become something of a legend among modern marketers. Just some of the highlights:He started out as the “bad boy” freelance copywriter snuck through the back doors of Los Angeles advertising agencies to do the hard-core sales jobs their staff writers couldn’t pull off (because they didn’t understand street-level salesmanship)… He penned game-changing packages for the largest direct response mailers in the world (like Rodale Press)… while single-handedly also completely transforming the way print ads worked in a number of markets (through sizzling long-copy ads the magazine owners hated, but which worked like crazy)… And he pioneered the now-common use of killer “old school” persuasive ad-writing models for online markets when the Web finally became a viable vehicle for entrepreneurs. John’s been called “the most respected and ripped-off copywriting wizard alive”, because so many of his ads are still used as templates by other marketers. (Yes, even the ads written before the Web became a viable marketing medium.) And for over a decade now, John has been the “go-to-teacher” for helping entrepreneurs learn how to craft ads that get results. His first book, “Kick-Ass Copywriting Secrets of a Marketing Rebel”, is still cited as a primary resource by the best writers working today.

    In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed podcasting company. Today Twitter boasts more than 200 million active users and has affected business, politics, media, and other fields in innumerable ways. Now Nick Bilton of the New York Times takes readers behind the scenes with a narrative that shows what happened inside Twitter as it grew at exponential speeds. This is a tale of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles as the four founders—Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Noah Glass—went from everyday engineers to wealthy celebrities, featured on magazine covers, Oprah, The Daily Show, and Time’s list of the world’s most influential people. Bilton’s exclusive access and exhaustive investigative reporting—drawing on hundreds of sources, documents, and internal e-mails—have enabled him to write an intimate portrait of fame, influence, and power. He also captures the zeitgeist and global influence of Twitter, which has been used to help overthrow governments in the Middle East and disrupt the very fabric of the way people communicate.

    The age of theentrepreneur, the agile small business owner, the flexibleinnovator. The days of the industrial age are over. It's timeto break free from the industrial revolution mind-set, quit workingso hard, follow your dream and make a fortune along the way. Theslow dinosaurs of the industrial age are being outpaced byfast-moving start-ups, ambitious small businesses and technologicalinnovators. Entrepreneur Revolution is a master class ingaining an entrepreneurial mind-set, showing you how to change theway you think, the way you network, and the way you make a living.Successful entrepreneur Daniel Priestley will show you how toembrace the Entrepreneur Revolution and thrive in the newage.- From a successful entrepreneur who is reaping the rewardsof the entrepreneurial age- How to shift your mind-set and think like anentrepreneur- Ways to adapt your lifestyle to be more successful

    Chapters focus on why a business plan is necessary, the different aspects of editorial freelancing, training, client focus, getting experience, financial assessment, promotion, networking, tools for the job, and real-world case studies featuring new starters. Additional material includes tips from experienced practitioners that illustrate the tasks and learning goals discussed, as well as useful tools and resources. Published in association with the Publishing Training Centre.'This is exactly the book that would-be editorial freelancers need to read before setting up their businesses.' (Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS; KOK Edit)'If you’re thinking of setting out on the journey to becoming a freelance editorial professional, make sure this is the first book you read.' (Hazel Harris, Wordstitch) 'Essential reading for anyone thinking of setting themselves up as a freelance editor.' (Jen Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing)'Helpful, hopeful, yet realistic about the challenges ahead, this book will leave its readers better informed, and therefore better prepared, for their entry into this highly competitive field.' (Madhubanti Bhattacharyya, Edward Elgar Publishing)

    They choose when, where and how they work, and get paid to do what makes them come alive. They have decided to live their life every day, not just weekends.Lighthearted in style but serious in intention, this is a practical guide to creating a life of fulfillment. Life coach Cantwell - herself a career shifter - helps mid-career professionals work out what they really want. She addresses the things that career changers think they need but don't: a job; an MBA; a big investment; a fancy website, and shows how to build not just a business but a life that works for them. Be a Free Range Human is a valuable contribution for those new to personal growth and struggling with work-life balance.

    But all too often we fail to adapt, clinging to outdated models that are no longer delivering the results we need.The brains behind The Business Model Navigator have discovered that just 55 business models are responsible for 90% of the world's most successful businesses. These 55 models - from the Add-On model used by Ryanair to the Subscription model used by Spotify - provide the blueprints you need to revolutionise your business and drive powerful change.As well as providing a practical framework for adapting and innovating your business model, this book also includes each of the 55 models in a quick-read format that covers:What it is Who invented it and who uses it now When and how to apply it "An excellent toolkit for developing your business model."Dr Heinz Derenbach, CEO, Bosch Software Innovations

    Some people wind up happy with the process and satisfied with the way it turned out while others look back on it as a nightmare. The question I hope to answer in this book is why. What did the people with ‘good’ exits do differently from those who’d had ‘bad’ exits?”When pioneering business journalist and Inc. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem—how to handle the pressure to grow.Now Burlingham is back to tackle an even more common problem—how to exit your company well. Sooner or later, all entrepreneurs leave their businesses and all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated. Whatever your preferred outcome, you need to start planning for it while you still have time and options. The beautiful part is that if you start early enough, the process will lead you to build a better, stronger, more resilient company, as well as one with a higher market value. Unfortunately, most owners don’t start early enough—and pay a steep price for their procrastination.Burlingham interviewed dozens of entrepreneurs across a range of industries and identified eight key factors that determine whether owners are happy after leaving their businesses. His book showcases the insights, exit plans, and cautionary tales of entrepreneurs such asRay Pagano: founder of a leading manufacturer of housings for security cameras. He turned down a bid for his company and instead changed his management style, resulting in a subsequent sale for four times the original offer.Bill Niman: founder of the iconic Niman Ranch, which revolutionized the meat industry. He learned about unhappy exits when he was forced to sell to private equity investors, leaving him with nothing to show for his thirty-five years in business.Gary Hirshberg: founder of organic yogurt pioneer Stonyfield Farm. He pulled off the nearly impossible task of finding a large company that would buy out his 275 small investors at a premium price while letting him retain complete control of the business.Through such stories, Burlingham offers an illuminating and inspirational guide to one of the most stressful, and yet potentially rewarding, processes business owners must go through. And he explores the emotional challenges they face at every step of the way.At the end of the day, owning a business is about more than selling goods and services. It’s about making choices that shape your entire life, both professional and personal. Finish Big helps you figure out how to face your future with confidence and be able to someday look back on your journey with pride.

    As instructive as it is innovative, Unlabel will empower you to channel your creativity, find the courage to defy convention, and summon the confidence to act and compete in any environment. This visual blueprint will teach you how to grow both creatively and commercially by testing your personal brand against the principles of the Authenticity Formula. Marc Ecko shares the bruising mistakes and remarkable triumphs that reveal the truth behind his success, growing from a misfit kid airbrushing T-shirts in his parents’ garage to the bold creator of two hugely successful branded platforms—Ecko Unltd. and Complex Media. As Ecko explains, it’s not enough to simply merge your inner artist with business savvy, you must understand the anatomy of a brand, starting with its authentic spine. With Unlabel, you will learn how to discover your own voice by overcoming fear and taking action, what it means to deliver on your promises, why failure is essential, how to understand how your product or service makes people feel, and how to recognize if your nostalgia for the past is hampering your ability to envision your future. Unlabel is a bold and honest approach to building an authentic personal brand, growing a bootstrap start-up into a sustainable business.

    Like most ex-convicts he had no money and very big dreams. Unlike most ex-convicts he went on to become South Africa’s most highly paid motivational speaker, a bestselling co-author of an autobiography, a successful businessman and a mining consultant earning millions.He did this despite only having matric and a violent criminal record. To many, what he achieved should have been impossible.But hustlers succeed not because of anything. They succeed despite everything.The McKenzie story is unique, but there are so many universal truths behind it that a book like this will speak to anyone who has ever been serious about following a seemingly impossible dream.

    There is advice for people who are just starting out and for people who are in the middle of it. As a successful entrepreneur myself, I agreed with most of the points made, whether it's about how to view the world, trying to understand what people's motives are, or how to differentiate between being confident and being arrogant. The book finishes off by explaining what to do when you have been successful, and that's the part that spoke to me the most. I recommend this book as a blueprint, outline or road map to a successful life. - Allen Wong / Rego AppsThe Third Circle Theory is a modern, eloquent & beautifully systematic answer to life's biggest question. Never before have I seen a literary piece combine such a high level of consciousness with functional, step-by-step business building strategy. Pieces like this are satisfying as an entrepreneur because we know we will look back 30 (and more) years from now and recognize with a smile that this was the beginning of a new generation unlocking new levels of consciousness within themselves. The Third Circle Theory garners my highest endorsement and it is my firm conviction that it is a "must read" for every entrepreneur. - Chris McCann / Outlier AcademyWhat if you could take full control of your circumstance, society, and life in the next 30 days?The rules of entrepreneurship have changed. While most books in the world of business and entrepreneurship will teach you about various 'new' methods to becoming successful, they unfortunately don't teach you why only 2% succeed while the other 98% fail. The Third Circle Theory was created to help you understand the key role that your observations play in your success and will enable you to re-live your own life and rediscover what traits, skills, and observations are critical to your success. More importantly this book will help you discover how to tweak your very belief and habit system instantaneously in order to significantly increase your chances of success regardless of which field you undertake. Each circle is designed to help you understand how to stay in control of your emotions and circumstance as you undertake your entrepreneurial journey. Everyone of us is born into a circumstance which we do not control, but all of us are able to take control and alter that circumstance in order to build a strong foundation for ourselves. Regardless that we are born poor or rich, we are can master the 8 components in Circle 1 to progress to a successful state of mind and undertake the challenges that society has created for us. Circle 2 teaches us how to adapt and benefit from other systems and concepts we interact with daily through 6 different components. Our pursuit of wealth and freedom can only take us so far but it is ultimately our drive to define our purpose in life that keeps us motivated. Circle 3 enables us to understand how we create fulfillment for ourselves and define our legacy through entrepreneurship. Understand how your belief controls your perspective and how to control it to create the outcomes you want.When most say "dream big", we'll teach you why dreaming leads straight to failure.Discover how confidence and skills lead to the creation of passion and vision.Uncover how most people, even entrepreneurs, are stuck in the rat race and don't even know it. Learn to escape the mundane.Learn to manipulate your environment to maximize wealth, rather than to become a by-product of it.Understand the new rules of entrepreneurship based on today's new global marketplace.This book is for ANYONE who believes they are worth more than they have today, and never want to settle for anything less but their goals.

    The heart of Stock Smarts is to break it down to its simplest form and inspire employees, professionals and business people to participate and make money in the market.This book is to encourage every Filipino to profit from stocks and forge their way to financial freedom.

    And, just like an excellent wine guide, this richly illustrated volume initiates drinkers into the art of tasting, making, and serving. A careful examination of 50 grand cru teas—including some of the best-known varieties available—will give drinkers a new appreciation of what goes into a cup. A selection of exclusive recipes, along with advice on pairing tea and food, completes this gorgeous book—a must-have for anyone who savors this ancient beverage.

    In Alphabet Success, he has distilled the lessons of those years to what he feels were the key elements driving him and the business to its ultimate success. Whether you want to maximize your career search or are an entrepreneur at heart, Alphabet Success provides timeless gems that will turbo-charge your quest for peak performance. While many business books focus on some “magic formula”, Fargo believes that success and failure lie in the foundation of your business or career. To truly succeed you need to execute on the basics. To illustrate each topic he has divided the alphabet into nine acronyms which will guide you to the essence of what drives success. Alphabet Success is the rare book that will transform your everyday thinking into everyday action. Tim Fargo is an entrepreneur, and two time Inc. 500 winner, and author of “Claimants, Lies and Videotape – A Claims Handler's Guide to Surveillance”. A book which became the investigative standard for the insurance industry on the use of video surveillance. Fargo has also written articles for Claims Magazine, Risk and Insurance, and been featured in Inc. Magazine, The Maddox Report, the St. Petersburg Times as well as Fox News. He has lectured people from students to CEOs all around the world. He lives in Florida, Poland and South Africa.

    Sooner or later, you have a board of directors, three to five (or even seven) Type A personalities who seek your attention and at times will tell you what to do. While you might be hesitant to form a board, establishing an objective outside group is essential for startups, especially to keep you on track, call you out when you flail, and in some cases, save you from yourself. In Startup Boards, Brad Feld—a Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist—shares his experience in this area by talking about the importance of having the right board members on your team and how to manage them well. Along the way, he shares valuable insights on various aspects of the board, including how they can support you, help you understand your startup's milestones and get to them faster, and hold you accountable. Details the process of choosing board members, including interviewing many people, checking references, and remembering that there should be no fear in rejecting a wrong fit Explores the importance of running great meetings, mixing social time with business time, and much more Recommends being a board member yourself at some other organization so you see the other side of the equation Engaging and informative, Startup Boards is a practical guide to one of the most important pieces of the startup puzzle.

    He also launched Steve Jobs' career, along with those of many other brilliant creatives over the course of his five decades in business. In his eagerly awaited first book, Bushnell explains how to find, hire, and nurture the people who could turn your company into the next Atari or the next Apple.The business world is changing faster than ever, and every day your company faces new complications and difficulties. The only way to resolve these issues is to have a staff of wildly creative people who live as much in the future as in the present, who thrive on being different, and whose ideas will guarantee that your company will prosper when other companies fail.

    By following her easy-to-understand method, you will learn to recast your story with people who are in sync with their highest selves, and rewrite scenes to realign with self-love, creativity, peace, and empowerment. By utilizing the Authenticity Frequency Method (AFM) technique Jennifer developed, countless business leaders, artists, and students of all ages and backgrounds have already manifested new careers . . . new realities . . . and all-new lives. With nine gentle daily practices, Jennifer helps you access the authentic emotions you need—week by week—to realize the life you previously only thought was possible in the movies.Here are the tools, the techniques, and the teacher you need to dramatically reimagine your reality. In just 30 days, with a little discipline and diligence, you’ll discover how to live in a world of “lights, camera, action” and bring your own new story to life!

    If there were, with the countless number of salespeople who have trekked their way through the intimidating jungle of sales across dozens of industries over the years, at least one of them would’ve spilled the beans and everyone in sales would be enjoying ridiculous amounts of success. So no, there is no secret to sales.But there is a set of consistently successful selling techniques that most companies don’t teach their salespeople, and which most entrepreneurs and independent sales pros think they don't have time to learn. But some things in life are too important to not take the time to learn, and this is certainly one of them! In Unlimited Sales Success, readers will discover practical, time-tested principles that can be learned and utilized by anyone, including:• The psychology of selling: your own mindset is just as important as your customer’s • Personal sales planning and time management: whether you work for yourself or someone else, great planning equals great success • Prospecting power: get more and better appointments • Consultative and relationship selling: position yourself as a partner with the account • Identifying needs accurately: you’ll know how to arouse their interest and overcome objections • Influencing customer behavior: learn what triggers quick buying decisions • Closing the sale: the five best methods ever discovered • And moreLoaded with eye-popping facts, extremely beneficial exercises, and exhilarating stories of great selling techniques in action, Unlimited Sales Success will provide for you a use-it-now approach that will set you up for becoming a top sales professional in your industry today.

    In this book they share their failures, successes, and perspectives. Our hope is that you can learn from them-not to follow in their footsteps-but to chart your own course in parallel, one that allows you to thrive, add value to the world and love what you do.

    Maybe you’re starting a business or want to grow your company. You might be going for interviews, pitching for a job or contract, getting new clients and keeping existing customers.However you want to get on at work, people buy people…but what they're really buying is your personal brand. Brand You lets people know who you are and what you bring to the table and most importantly, how you’re different from everyone else out there. Click LOOK INSIDE on the photo of the book cover to read a few pages… If you don’t sell yourself you’ll get left behindPersonal branding is becoming more important because working hard and doing a good job are no longer enough – that’s the minimum you should be offering. Instead you have to find a way to stand out from the crowd, discovering the unique selling point that will help you find a job, get a promotion, start a business, land a new client, or just get on at work. If you don’t, you’ll get left behind like an odd sock in the launderette of life.Reputation management mattersEvery single one of us has a personal brand (it’s what’s said when we’re not in the room) but the clever people are the ones who have taken the time to work out what that is. How? By using this book to follow a step-by-step process to not only create their brand but promote it to. Get that confidence boostEveryone I’ve worked with on their personal brand has gained confidence. The great news is you can gain confidence too – it’s not rocket science. The practical techniques in this book, along with the real-life examples of how to create and promote a brand (and how not to), can be taken away and used immediately to improve Brand You.Advance your professional developmentYou’ll learn how to sell yourself in the office, out and about and online, covering everything from: your image, your language, emails, meetings, phone and voicemail, timekeeping, handshakes, your elevator pitch, presentations, CVs and interviews, personal profile, online branding, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, blogs, newsletters and websites…and lots more! Click LOOK INSIDE on the photo of the book cover to read a few pages… So if you’re developing your leadership skills, want some management training, wish to learn about reputation management or fancy a bit of professional development, learning how to create and promote Brand You now are skills you can continue to use throughout your working life.It works…Even though I’m a business of one (it’s just little old me) I’ve worked with major companies like Microsoft, Asda, Barclays, RBS, Hallmark Cards, CBS Outdoors, KPMG and Asos. How? By having the confidence to think big and believe I was good enough to work with them. By knowing who I am (warts and all) and having faith in myself. By understanding I had to sell me before I could sell what I had to offer. By appreciating I had to raise my profile online and offline, even if it took time before it would pay dividends.

    We say great things to people. We share our vision and passion with others.And they don’t buy, they don’t believe us, and they don’t share our vision and passion.We say great things, but people don’t believe us, and they don’t trust us.So we don’t need more good things to say. Instead, we need to learn how to get people to believe and trust the good things we are saying already.It’s not about the presentation. It’s not about the price. It’s not about the salesman’s breath. It is not about the leader’s Power Point presentation.It is all about the magical first few seconds when we meet people. What happens?In the first few seconds, people make an instant decision to:1. Trust you. Believe you.or 2. Turn on the salesman alarm. Put on the “too good to be true” filter. Be skeptical. Look for “the catch”.This decision is immediate, and unfortunately, usually final.Tom "Big Al" Schreiter shows us exactly how to build that bond of trust and belief with prospects in seconds. How? By talking directly to the decision-making part of the brain, the subconscious mind. In this book, "How To Get Instant Trust, Belief, Influence And Rapport! 13 Ways To Create Open Minds By Talking To The Subconscious Mind", you will learn easy four and five-word micro phrases and simple, natural techniques that you can master within seconds. Yes, this is easy to do!Your message should be inside of other people’s heads, not bouncing off their forehead. Your obligation is to get your message inside of their heads so they will have options and choices in their lives.Now, if you can’t get people to trust and believe your message, then you will effectively be withholding your message from them.Use these tested, clear techniques to build that instant rapport with other people and then, everything else is easy.If you are a leader, a salesman, a network marketer, an influencer, a teacher, or someone who needs to communicate quickly and efficiently, this book is for you.

    The outsourcing section contains outsourcing strategies which can be useful for companies around the world. In this second edition I have added certain new facts. Why Should You Buy This Book? I have published many articles related to outsourcing and freelancing and technology in various languages online. You may have read some of my articles or rehashed version of my articles by other people. I have discussed and laid out my tried and true freelancing and outsourcing strategies. When I started freelancing during economic crises in Europe a few years ago, I read a lot of articles online and none of them worked for me. They were beautiful words on paper which had no practical value. I needed money immediately, so I put away self-doubt, fear of failure and worked really hard to see money in my hands. When I got my first client, I found out how to do it. So I wrote all those strategies and tactics in my books related to small business. Solution and Benefits: -How To Make Money Online. -Make The Most Of Your Skills. -What You Should Not Do As A Freelancer -Problem Solving. -Advantages Of Branding -How To Double Your Earnings -Bidding Strategies -Landing A Project -How To Follow Up With A Client -Proven Tips To Landing A Job -Estimating A Fair Price Successful Outsourcing Tips -Outsourcing. - Outsourcing Business - Get The Highest Profit -How To Find Skilled Professionals To Get The Job Done -Advantages Of Outsourcing -Benefit of Decentralizing Operations -Choosing The Right Experts -Why Selecting A Freelancer Is Cost Effective And Beneficial -When The Freelancer is Not Right For Your Project After Being Hired -Hiring A Freelancer -Cost -Recognizing Problem Clients - How To Avoid Pitfalls In Your Project -Optimizing Your Return On Investment (ROI) Scroll up and buy a copy today.

    

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    This range of books offers constructive advice on how to start a business, still be a great mum and have fun while doing it. Together with great advice this book also contains the experiences and tips of over 100 mums who have all successfully started their own companies. Some have reached the Million Pound Mum goal and other are well on the way. Written in a clear, easy way by mums, for mums, this book has all the tools you need to become a Million Pound Mum.

    

    Elon Musk is the main person in the journey through a roller-coaster life. His journey includes everything from Winston Churchill’s adventures in British colonies to demolished sports cars. From failed marriages to German scientists escaping from the Red Army. From the oil industry to the Burning Man festival.Elon has been described as the Steve Jobs of heavy industry, as a modern version of the scientist Nikola Tesla, and as the Henry Ford of rockets. There’s a high probability that the British Secret Intelligence Service has a file on him. As the files of other James Bond villains, it describes secret rocket launches in the Pacific Ocean. But Elon doesn’t own a white cat - he’s more of a dog person. Maybe the most comparable persons are the great explorers who voyaged across the globe. They had an entrepreneurial spirit, were a little crazy, tried what no one else had tried, and thought what no one else had thought.If you want to describe the companies Elon has founded with one theme, you can say that they improve the world with the help of innovative technologies. This is exactly what our world needs.Buy it here: https://leanpub.com/theengineer/

    A yoga instructor opens an organic mattress company. A former steel industry executive forms a limousine service. A retired nurse creates an international golf clothing line. Late-Blooming Entrepreneurs introduces these and other contemporary entrepreneurs who started prosperous businesses in their 40s, 50s and later. Just about all of them say they wouldn't have succeeded if they had started their companies when they were younger. Author Lynne Strang reveals eight simple-but-effective principles these late bloomers used to launch and build profitable businesses. Along the way, you'll find: - Valuable insights on managing risk, retirement, family responsibilities, relationships, health and other potential obstacles that can worry aspiring older entrepreneurs - Uplifting stories about everyday people who took a big leap and reinvented themselves - Ten action steps at the end of each chapter to make the principles work for you and your business idea - A list of useful resources especially for late-blooming entrepreneurs This easy-to-read book shows why the second half of life can be the right time to start a business. It will deliver a healthy dose of inspiration and leave you with a belief that you're never too old to fulfill a dream.

    When Muhammad Yunus lent $27 dollars to 42 women in rural Bangladesh, he sparked what became the microcredit movement that has empowered millions of poor women in nearly 100 countries. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the US Congressional Gold Medal on April 17, 2013. Social psychologist Katharine Esty paints a cool-eyed and richly textured portrait of this charismatic and controversial hero of our time. Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream captures the drama of Yunus s story- the challenges, betrayals and astonishing successes from his founding of the Grameen Bank in 1983 to his removal from his position at the Bank in 2011. Undaunted by his ouster, Yunus is using his celebrity status to promote social businesses around the world. Katharine Esty shows how it happened that one person has been able to change the world and she provides guidance for all those who wish to make a difference themselves. The book is filled with fascinating stories about Yunus from his colleagues, his family and his critics. Katharine Esty s personal impressions of Muhammad Yunus and her experiences in Bangladesh add additional spice to Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream. This book is a wonderful way to learn about microcredit and it provides insight into the strategies and patterns of actions that undergird Yunus s ongoing successes.

    Trump On the heels of the best-selling success of The Ultimate Gift and the major motion picture from 20th Century Fox based on that book, Jim Stovall brings you The Millionaire Map. "This is the book I wished was available 30 years ago when I was desperate and broke with only a dream of one day being a millionaire. Now, as a multimillionaire, I want to share the wisdom I've gained from the journey and provide other travelers with a map to guide them on their journey." -- Jim StovallThe Millionaire Map Reveals:You can't expand your wallet until you expand your mind.Becoming a millionaire is not just about all the things you want to have, but it's about the things you want to do and give.In order to climb to the financial peak, you've got to crawl out of the valley of debt.You will either voluntarily control your money now, or it will force its control on you later.The vast majority of people never arrive at their destination-not because they don't have what it takes but because they don't manage what they have.

    Business Models For Dummies helps you write a solid business model to further define your company's goals and increase attractiveness to customers. Inside, you'll discover how to: make a value proposition; define a market segment; locate your company's position in the value chain; create a revenue generation statement; identify competitors, complementors, and other network effects; develop a competitive strategy; and much more.Shows you how to define the purpose of a business and its profitability to customers Serves as a thorough guide to business modeling techniques Helps to ensure that your business has the very best business model possible If you need to update a business model due to changes in the market or maturation of your company, Business Models For Dummies has you covered.

    Less than 1 out of every 200 pitches gets funded. To win investment, you need the proven formula and the right skills to pitch your startup. Chris Lipp has spent thousands of hours working with the best startups in Silicon Valley and Stanford Graduate School of Business to help startups win investment. His work has been featured at numerous accelerators including StartX, NEXT, and worldwide through the Kauffman Fellows Academy. You will learn the formula for success based on investment pitches that worked, gain strategies to pitch persuasively from research in corporate communications, and discover insights on delivery and slide design for your startup. The Startup Pitch also includes several examples of successful pitches so you can observe these skills in action. If you're an entrepreneur seriously seeking funding, this book will improve your pitch so you win investment faster.

    The author tries to impart advice on how to avoid some of the less obvious pitfalls while providing a guide of how to put a new fund in position from an operational standpoint to be successful before a single investment has been made. The book is intended for all types of people; the sophisticated investor considering investment into a fund, the financial professional looking to launch his or her own fund, or even the average individual curious about hedge funds in general.

    It's a practical guide for putting the lessons learned from Silicon Valley to work in businesses, organizations, and communities around the world. It's the latest development in the Rainforest phenomenon that is now spawning innovation ecosystems on six continents. The Rainforest Blueprint is a do-it-yourself sequel to the 2012 book The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley, the groundbreaking work by Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt that explains the nature of innovation ecosystems like Silicon Valley: human networks that generate extraordinary creativity and output. They make the case that such ecosystems - which they call Rainforests - can only thrive when certain cultural behaviors unlock human potential, and they reveal the mysterious mechanisms of Rainforests. The Rainforest Blueprint by Victor Hwang, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder of T2 Venture Capital, is designed for a different audience than the original Rainforest. Where the earlier book provides the theoretical understanding of how Rainforests work and the rules by which they operate, the Blueprint offers practical steps for putting those theories and rules to work in businesses, organizations, and communities. Sixty six pages long, as compared to the earlier book's 304 pages, The Blueprint provides - with stunning visuals and handy tools - the shared background needed for individuals to create together an innovation ecosystem in whatever setting they choose. The book provides a common entry point into the world of innovation ecosystems, a shared starting point, and a way to begin to create innovations that can be truly transformational.

    How to Run a Lemonade Stand will help you start and run a successful lemonade stand."Everything a Kid Needs to Know About a Lemonade Stand" including answering important questions like; What do you need to start a lemonade stand? Where do you set up your lemonade stand? What do you sell? How much do you sell things for? How do you tell people you are open for business? How do you take care of your customers? What has "being clean" have to do with a Lemonade Stand? Do you want or need a partner? Should you give money to charity? How do you take care of the money? This is the ultimate guide to help kids run a profitable Lemonade Stand.BUY NOW and find your own success in How to Run a Lemonade Stand.

    Even fewer succeed. There is something wrong in the way we go about starting new companies. There is an alternative: create your own idea-masterpiece as a collage or puzzle made from existing pieces; construct your company from pre-existing components that are freely available to everyone. Keep your mind free for the important questions. Look to the horizon; don t drown in routine tasks. Is this just a dream? No, it isn't: with practical examples of successful companies, Guenter Faltin shows how anyone can refine an idea to create a new company, by combining components that already exist. Accounting and bookkeeping? Leave it to those who can do it quickly, reliably and economically. Shipping, packaging and logistics? You can easily find professionals for these tasks. Guenter Faltin has been teaching this approach for many years, and he has applied it with great success in his 'Teekampagne' (Tea Campaign). The largest mail-order tea company in Germany, it has over 200,000 customers and is the largest importer of Darjeeling Tea in the world. A growing number of companies created in Professor Faltin's surroundings uses his principles successfully. This book opens up vistas of opportunity for many people who never thought they would start their own company. Entrepreneurship is not a calling for a select few! Creative work and economic self-realization are goals that anyone can pursue.

    He urges people to arise out of servitude to a vested ruling class, awake from the slumber of a passive democracy, and advance to manifest our destiny of a developed nation. He recommends that by turning inward and listening to the voice of our conscience, we can live a virtuous life and thereby build a strong and secure India.

    Is it luck? Or is it strategy? How to Think Strategically equips you with the skills you need to make the best decisions and develop a powerful strategic mindset. This hands-on guide tackles both the thinking and the doing, helping you develop a robust strategic plan. It offers a six-step framework that addresses key questions, including: Which core challenges do I need to overcome?How do I manage uncertainty and risk?How do I execute my business strategy? Visit www.howtothinkstrategically.org for the accompanying app and the ‘Strategic Thinking Manifesto’.

    Peter Chee to reveal simple, straightforward principles any business leader can use to make lasting positive changes in his or her organization.

    It easily and thoroughly explains everything you need to know." Steve Strauss, USA Today"Exporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably is generously sprinkled with Notes and Tips that deliver concise, insightful bursts of advice and counsel. These suggestions alone are worth the price of the book. From planning to execution, Laurel Delaney is like a trusted guide--encouraging one forward, pointing out potential pitfalls, and helping navigate the way through the exciting and challenging world of exporting." John N. Popoli, President and CEO, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management"I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to export. The real world, nuts and bolts kind of advice and information it contains will save you money and time-- and make you a more effective exporter." Steve King and Carolyn Ockels, Small Business Labs"Exporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably is an invaluable guide to navigating the often-challenging waters of exporting." Rieva Lesonsky, SmallBizDaily"Exporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably is the 'how to' manual on how to grow USA factories jobs. Step by step and easy to read." Drew Greenblatt, CEO, Marlin Steel"If you intend to grow your business beyond the U.S. border, Exporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably is a great place to start." Anita Campbell, founder of Small Business Trends"As a valued Chapter Chair of the Women Presidents' Organization, Laurel Delaney has addressed a key issue our members face. While 25% of our members are international, another 25% would like to do business internationally. This book is a powerful guide that will help empower business owners and entrepreneurs by giving them everything they need to know about exporting." Dr. Marsha Firestone, President and Founder of the Women Presidents' Organization"Exporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably takes the fear out of going global. It provides a step-by-step roadmap with very detailed and practical advice. From helping to identify markets to developing the relationships necessary for sales and distribution--this book is a must-have for any business trying to expand globally and profitably." Ellen A. Rudnick, Executive Director and Clinical Professor, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Chicago, Booth School of BusinessExporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably is for entrepreneurs and small business owners--the makers, movers, and shakers in our world--interested in taking their businesses to the next level of growth through exports.In the old days, creating an international business was left to relatively few--those with the wherewithal to move boatloads of goods into foreign countries. But now, thanks to the Internet, businesses of all sizes have a huge new opportunity to sell both goods and services globally. Yet only 1% of all U.S. businesses export. Why?Typically, exporting begins with unsolicited inquiries from foreign customers on the web via email, website, blog, or posting on a Facebook page. People outside your country want your product, and they want it now. The problem is that most small business owners do not know how to service these inquiries. What's the best way to ship goods? Do I need a license? Should I sell through wholesalers in specific countries or directly to consumers? How will I get paid?Help is here--Exporting equips you with the knowledge you need to market, sell, and fulfill orders internationally, taking full advantage of the Internet and the opportunities it creates. It also imparts a can-do spirit on exporting, leading to greater revenues, stability, and profitability for your business. Exporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad ProfitablyLays out simple steps to conduct market research, find customers, open new markets, get paid, and ship goods and services.Takes you through the exporting process via the Internet and other means.Shows how to use social media to expand your international presence.Provides insider tips and strategies to export efficiently and profitably.Explains how the U.S. government helps exporters.Walks readers through the export business plan.With 70 percent of global buying power lying outside U.S. borders, exporting is not just an option for ambitious entrepreneurs--it's an absolute must for building and sustaining a successful future.

    In the same four minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1.2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for less than $1.50.Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly what people need, we just can’t get it to them. They are dying not because we can’t solve a medical problem but because we can’t solve a logistics problem.In this profoundly important book, Eric G. Bing and Marc J. Epstein lay out a solution: a new kind of bottom-up health care that is delivered at the source. We need microclinics, micropharmacies, and microentrepreneurs located in the remote, hard-to-reach communities they serve. By building a new model that “scales down” to train and incentivize all kinds of health-care providers in their own villages and towns, we can create an army of on-site professionals who can prevent tragedy at a fraction of the cost of top-down bureaucratic programs.Bing and Epstein have seen the model work, and they provide example after example of the extraordinary results it has achieved in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is a book about taking health care the last mile—sometimes literally—to prevent widespread, unnecessary, and easily avoided death and suffering. Pharmacy on a Bicycle shows how the same forces of innovation and entrepreneurship that work in first-world business cultures can be unleashed to save the lives of millions.

    Use the book as the perfect companion guide to vacation rental sites like airbnb.com. Follow the step by step instructions of renting your extra living space and learn how to attract those looking for a deal! There is a huge market of traveling people seeking alternatives to hotel lodging, and this book will help them find your place! You won't believe how easy it is to earn extra money from home on your own schedule. The techniques in this book have been proven to produce tens of thousands of dollars. You don't need a fancy second home vacation rental near palm trees on a tropical island. You can rent out your extra city living space! Turn a spare room, guest house, converted garage, or even a backyard yurt into a booming cash machine! Within a mere two weeks or less, you could be earning hundreds or even thousands of dollars in extra income.

    n this CD audio program, SUCCESS Magazine Publisher Darren Hardy guides, motivates and inspires you on your journey as an entrepreneur and new business owner.

    Including:• Why your customers have all the answers• 6 principles to use to wow your customers• Why referrals are great for your business• How to Upsell without feeling salesy• Easy tricks to negotiate so you get the price you want• 4 customer trends you should be getting into

    Try this comprehensive guide, written for the stay-home mom, detailing how to set up a home-based business through eBay and beyond from the perspective of a dress shop but applicable to any product.This book covers:--Setting up a USPS, eBay and PayPal Account--Setting up listings includingExplaining the conditions, brand and categoryTaking photos and editing themItem DescriptionsPayments systems to useShipping preferences and servicesCountries to sell to and some you should avoid--How to Set yourself apart from competitors--Great ImagesWhere to purchase mannequinsWhat camera to purchase--How to purchase merchandise to resellWhere to purchase online merchandise at a great discount sent right to your door.--How to schedule your pick-up through USPS--A typical day in the life of an eBay merchant--How to manage your work area --Managing your profits and much more

    Our goal wasn't to write a long synopsis that you'd have to slog through. The idea is to save you time.If you like our super concise and entertaining summaries, please give us a good review!"The 5 Minute Book Summaries" is part of the ReadSmartly series. Our motto is "Read Less, Know More!"We only cover authors we admire, so if you like the summary, we encourage you to delve deeper and buy the full book.

    Mr. Stoner examines the global energy supply as if it was a single portfolio of assets, and shows it is possible to align the interests of energy investors, suppliers, users, and environmental stewards. He explains how we--as business professionals, students, consumers, and citizens--can transform our current energy system into a system that creates new business opportunities, promotes environmental health, and broadens our understanding of wealth.  He illustrates clearly how climate change and resource use are not just economic and environmental issues, but also existential ones. He likens humanity's relative inaction to the climate crisis--a situation he terms 'environmental suicide'--to his own experience as a survivor of suicide. In a deeply personal account, Mr. Stoner shares his feelings of responsibility for another's self-destructive choice, asking, "What could I have done differently. " Today, he asserts that we must all seek to answer a different question to help humanity avoid environmental suicide:  "What can we do differently?"Tom Stoner's appeal to a shared planetary fate is uniquely grounded in the author's extensive experience as an energy executive. Readers can expect to come away with a better understanding and new perspective on the energy debate, armed with an innovative problem-solving methodology to transform business models into promoters of energy sustainability and a better future for the planet.

    It is based on 10 years of research into idea-generation techniques used by the world's best scientists, artists, CEOs, entrepreneurs and innovators. The book is entertaining to read, has plenty of stories and offers bits of wisdom necessary to increase the quantity and quality of ideas that you create multiple times. Once you begin applying strategies described in this book, you will create successful business ideas regularly and make your life more adventurous. You will realize that there are few things that can bring as much joy and success in business as the moment when an excellent idea comes to your head.

    Kim Kiyosaki, author of Rich Woman and It’s Rising Time!, takes a unique approach providing her key insights to empower women to become financially independent to have the freedom to pursue what truly makes them happy.Through pointed questions and personal stories, Kiyosaki pushes her readers to define Happiness and to use it as their “why,” or purpose. She shapes the context that financial independence allows people to freely enjoy what truly makes them happy. Kiyosaki describes the specific steps women can take for personal fulfillment and financial independence. Written with stark candor and firsthand wisdom, Kiyosaki’s book is a call to action to enjoy what makes you happy on a scale most have never imagined.

    For the first time a book shows us how in India, innovation can be introduced in one’s organization in a systematic, deliberate way. 8 Steps to Innovation explains how you can do this by building an idea pipeline in your organization, improving the velocity of ideas coming in, and implementing the ideas within the given constraints.All this is shown through nice, snappy examples, mostly homegrown Indian ones. Few books in the market talk about innovation in the Indian context with Indian examples as this one does.

    12 Strategies for Highly Productive Entrepreneurial Teams

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    In this book, Keun Lee explores the reasons why examples of successful catching-up are limited and in particular, why the Asian economies, including China, have managed to move, or are moving, beyond middle-income status but economic growth has stalled in some Latin American countries. This is one of the first studies to demonstrate using patent analysis that the secret lies in innovative systems at the firm, sector and country levels which promote investment in what the author calls 'short-cycle' technologies and thereby create a new path different from that of forerunning countries. With its comprehensive policy framework for development as well as useful quantitative methods, this is essential reading for academic researchers and practitioners.

    It is hoped that both the new licensee and old-hands looking for a new start will find in this text a refreshing perspective on the various topics covered.Rather than a rehash of real estate practices, this book is intended to be a “how to” book. It describes current issues and relevant data from the viewpoint of a salesperson. It is designed to show how modern methods of communication, social networking, can be used but not without always falling back to the basics. People sign contracts, people buy homes. Without human contact and interaction, nothing can be accomplished.The Real Estate Primer, a ‘how-to’ book rather than a textbook…This won’t get you past the state exam, but it will get you started in your new life!When I started in real estate brokerage in 1970, I was shown which desk to use, asked if I had given the secretary my name for business cards, and wished good luck – that was my training and my introduction to the business. Had I been armed with only what is in this book, my first “try” at real estate might have been much different.Everything you need today will either be offered by your broker – where is the restroom? What forms do we use? Or, you will find it in this book.So, move forward with my best wishes.William MansfieldThis book has been developed from experiences both "in the trenches" of real estate sales activities and from teaching practical techniques at community colleges, National University, and in brokerage offices. It is hoped that both the new licensee and old-hands looking for a new start will find in this text a refreshing perspective on the various topics covered.Rather than a rehash of real estate practices, this book is intended to be a “how to” book. It describes current issues and relevant data from the viewpoint of a salesperson. It is designed to show how modern methods of communication, social networking, can be used but not without always falling back to the basics. People sign contracts, people buy homes. Without human contact and interaction, nothing can be accomplished.The Real Estate Primer, a ‘how-to’ book rather than a textbook…This won’t get you past the state exam, but it will get you started in your new life!When I started in real estate brokerage in 1970, I was shown which desk to use, asked if I had given the secretary my name for business cards, and wished good luck – that was my training and my introduction to the business. Had I been armed with only what is in this book, my first “try” at real estate might have been much different.Everything you need today will either be offered by your broker – where is the restroom? What forms do we use? Or, you will find it in this book.So, move forward with my best wishes.William Mansfield

    But most SFDC customers won't achieve that potential. Salesforce.com(R) Secrets of Success, Second Edition, is the one guide that will help you transform these opportunities into profit. Drawing on his personal experience with more than a hundred deployments, David Taber guides you through every aspect of Salesforce.com planning, implementation, and management. Building on a first edition that earned rave reviews, Taber focuses on the most valuable innovations in Salesforce.com's most recent releases. Reflecting all that's been learned about making Salesforce.com work, Taber offers results-focused best practices for sales, marketing, customer service, finance, legal, IT, and beyond. You'll find indispensable new insights into accelerating user adoption, achieving stronger operational results, and overcoming today's key obstacles to maximizing the value of Salesforce.com. New coverage in this revised edition includesUsing the Service Cloud to cut costs, accelerate time to revenue, improve agility, and maximize customer lifetime valueLeveraging tablets and smartphones to build your CRM strategyIdentifying prospects and delighting customers through Salesforce.com's Social CRM capabilitiesPromoting more effective internal and external collaboration with ChatterIdentifying best practices for going "all Cloud"--and managing the attendant risksEstablishing realistic "hard" and "soft" metrics for everything from productivity and profitability to social CRM performanceDiscovering today's most valuable third-party AppExchange products Together with its companion website (SFDC-secrets.com), this new edition offers updated questionnaires, worksheets, templates, checklists, and other resources for every executive, team member, developer, and stakeholder.

    You will see a difference in your salesclosing percentages by using simple but failproof Timeshare Sales Techniques. This ebook will help you get you through the toughest of sales objections and close 99% of the time!In all my years in industries like car sales, home improvement, phone solicitating, mortgage sales, real estate brokering, timeshare sales and marketing, and timeshare resales, sales has always been a passion and fun for me. I’ve been teaching Timeshare Sales Techniques for years, but it still amazes me how difficult everyone makes it!This is not just another of those Timeshare Sales Training books where the author never knocked on one door or made one face-to-face presentation that today we see so much of on the Internet these days. This is not a “get rich quick” solution, as you will still need to do the hard work and close the sale. However, this ebook will take you through a real process, from street contact by OPC, to VOL who signs up your new owners, and will show you how to close more deals, more easily than you've ever imagined!It’s a complete Timeshare Sales process that teaches you simple tried and tested timeshare sales closing techniques that I've created and used in a real timeshare salesroom for over 10 years. These techniques set me apart as the number one salesperson who sold more weeks, more volume per day, week, month, and year compared to all my competitors, and it's still being used in Mexico ,Vegas, Hawaii , etc.

    Bestselling author Brad Feld draws upon two decades as an early-stage investor and entrepreneur to share the importance of data measurement, and how startup success depends on collecting the right data. The fourth in the Startup Rev series, this resource provides the insight and guidance of successful entrepreneurs who started with nothing more than an idea and the vision to execute on that idea. With a solid framework for understanding how good metrics drive profits and growth, you'll learn to create a blueprint specific to your business, and gain the ability to manage every aspect of the company more effectively.Startups are all the rage, but success requires more than just hanging out a shingle. Many entrepreneurs lack an understanding of the myriad forces that can work for or against a fledgling business, and as a result, miss out on profits and opportunities that could have kept the business afloat or even propelled it to greatness. Startup Metrics examines the importance of measurement in business planning, and why you cannot manage what you don't measure. More than just a list of accounting methods, the book provides practical guidance toward strategic planning by using the data your business generates. Topics include:What you should - and shouldn't - measure Nailing down the useful metrics for your startup Startups vs. multinationals - why size matters Using your data to drive sustainable growth As an entrepreneur, you cannot rely on luck - you must be strategically aggressive and proactive in steering your company toward sustainable success. Startup Metrics provides the information and insight you need to take advantage of good, useful data that speaks to the health of your company.

    

    Everything marketers need to know to find, engage, and leverage the power of brand evangelists"Think Like a Rock Star" provides step-by-step instructions that show marketing professionals how to connect with customers both online and offline to create a truly fan-centric brand. Using case studies of how rock stars like Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and Blink-182 cultivate fans, it teaches readers how to apply those lessons to create brand advocates who will grow profits, improve business frameworks, and contribute more than ever to the success of the brand. It also identifies successful and easily replicable marketing strategies of top brands such as Dell, Ford, Patagonia, and YouTube. "Think Like a Rock Star "is an indispensable tool for any marketing professional.Mack Collier is a social media strategist, trainer, and speaker who specializes in helping companies better connect with their customers via social media. His clients include businesses of all sizes, from sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies.

    In A Curious Discovery, media titan John Hendricks tells the remarkable story of building one of the most successful media empires in the world, Discovery Communications.John Hendricks, a well-respected corporate leader and brand builder, reveals that his professional achievements would not have been possible without one crucial quality that has informed his life since childhood: curiosity. This entrepreneur’s story takes you behind the scenes of some of the network’s most popular shows and greatest successes, and imparts crucial lessons from the network’s setbacks.With insights, anecdotes, photographs, and real-world wisdom, A Curious Discovery is more than a powerful autobiography and corporate history: It also a valuable primer for business innovators and entrepreneurs.

    What if I don't make any money? What if nobody will buy from me? What if I fail?" These worries are the reason 80% of Americans work jobs they don't like. We've been told that business is difficult, risky and usually fails, but it doesn't have to be that way. In How to Quit Working, you’ll learn how to start a business using what you already know and have customers knocking at your door before you ever quit your job. You'll learn why most of what you've been told about starting a business is a lie and why those lies have kept you trapped in a 9-5 job you don't like. In How to Quit Working you'll learn a simple, easy-to-read and apply system for starting a lifestyle business. You’ll experience chapter after chapter of simple, time-tested practical techniques and innovative strategies that have helped millions of aspiring entrepreneurs overcome the marketing, business and mental barriers that once held them back. Experience compelling stories from successful lifestyle entrepreneurs just like you who once worked a 9-5 job. You'll discover ground-breaking insights that allow you to anticipate, understand and get past the obstacles that stand in the way of leaving the security of your 9-5 job and starting your own business. You will finish How to Quit Working with a complete, customized plan you can easily execute and will be armed with all the tools, attitudes, habits and best of all, eager buyers you need to confidently Quit Working a job you don't like and create the most amazing life of freedom you can imagine.

    So What Do You Do? is appealing because it relates to regular people.  The goal of So What Do You Do? is to draw out stories from those who don’t think they have a story to tell.  It’s Chicken Soup for the Soul, but not only with the goal to inspire but the hope to create action.

    Many novice entrepreneurs have little more than a brilliant idea and a pocketful of ambition. They may not be born financial wizards. This book tells them exactly what they must know, in simple terms, using real-world examples. In a two-hour read, it walks you through the essentials of business finance, and gives seasoned advice in a reader-friendly way.

    That is the message of this thorough guide, written in easy-to-follow, nontechnical language that you don’t need an MBA to understand. In what areas will your business specialize? What are some of the resources you will need, and challenges you will face? How much do you want your company to grow? Once you have established a vision of your business’s future, you will be on your way to making it a reality.        Topics covered include:Creating a business modelIdentifying and beating the competitionCalculating expensesDetermining whether you need additional capitalAvoiding common mistakesWriting your executive summaryDeveloping a marketing strategyEvaluating your teamAnalyzing your progressAnd more!  Whatever your background and whatever kind of business you dream of starting, this latest installment in our popular Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide will help you to achieve your goals!

    If our products are designed to be more energy efficient, so the thinking goes, our environmental impacts will be reduced and our fossil fuels will last longer. In this surprising new look at sustainability and conservation, environmentalist Steve Hallett argues that this thinking is fundamentally flawed. In fact, based on the example of coal use throughout the Industrial Revolution, more efficiency leads to more consumption, faster depletion of resources, and ultimately more stress on the planet. This is the efficiency trap. How do we avoid this trap? Hallett suggests that we focus on protecting natural resources, ecosystems, and social systems by making them more resilient. Knowing that we have reached limits to growth, we should work to decentralize energy-delivery services to give homes and communities some measure of independence. We can also build more sustainable food systems by diversifying the food-production landscape to address the vulnerabilities of the current supply chain. Efficiency does have its place in specific areas such as recycling and home insulation, but it will not work as a long-term approach to our energy dilemma. Yet recognizing the inevitable limits to our growth and the shortcomings of our current approach to addressing our dwindling resources is a necessary first step toward the establishment of sound environmental policy.This realistic appraisal of current environmental thinking will challenge environmentalists and industrialists alike.From the Trade Paperback edition.

    Many have already taken the basic steps in launching a website, creating a Facebook page, and maybe even hiring a so-called SEO expert, but now find themselves dismayed by the lack of results. In Stand Out, online marketing expert and Geek-Free Marketing founder Aaron Fletcher shows every small business owner—no matter their skills or budget—how to create a simple, proven, and easy-to-follow road map to increase online visibility, bring more traffic to their sites, generate more leads, increase profit, and grow!Stand Out includes clear, step-by step instructions opn how to:1. Build a solid marketing foundation using the 5 M’s of Marketing (Mindset, Market, Message, Media, and Metrics) and the basic Online Marketing Funnel2. Launch a simple but powerful website that creates an ideal user experience3. Complete a “Google 101” crash course on understanding search engines (SEO), optimizing your website, and increasing your online visibility4. Create compelling content that speaks directly to your clients’ needs5. Become a “digital citizen,” with tools to help you connect with your audience wherever they hang out online

    More than that, nonprofits are taking up roles that have traditionally been filled by the government--including social welfare, healthcare, and human rights. "GlobalFundraising" provides complete coverage of the implications of this growth for nonprofit culture and how it drives changes in fundraising practices.Organized into thematic chapters--a mixture of geographic and topical issues--it places North American philanthropy in a wider contextIt features a companion website with a variety of online tools and materialsThe book includes contributions by international leading experts Matt Ide, Mair Bosworth, Usha Menon and Anup Tiwari, Paula Guillet de Monthoux, Angela Cluff, Norma Galafassi, Mike Muchilwa, Tariq Cheema, Lu Bo and Nan Fang, Masataka Uo, Chris Carnie, Sean Triner, Andrea McManus, Marcelo Inniarra, Ashley Baldwin, Rebecca Mauger, YoungWoo Choi, R.F. Shangraw, Jr., and Sudeshna Mukherjee.The book skillfully tracks how the world of fundraising is changing rapidly due to a number of factors including: continuing growth of great wealth; non-profit innovation emerging everywhere; growth of indigenous NGOs; increased professionalism in fundraising; and the value and role of new and social technologies. Written by a team of philanthropy leaders, "GlobalFundraising" offers timely coverage of fundraising around the world. A must-have for INGO leaders and anyone, anywhere, interested in the future of philanthropy and effective fundraising practices.

    Agile Business Management is divided into four domains, which each require change to the way your business operates. Chapter 1 looks at your role as a manager. How will your responsibilities change under Agile Business Management? What techniques can you use to manage your staff? Chapter 2 discusses your organisation's relationship and interaction with its customers. What are their needs and goals, and how can you work together to achieve them? Chapter 3 provides the organisational context in which Agile Business Management operates. It discusses lean management structures and the techniques to manage different types of staff, teams and organisations. Chapter 4 looks at how you and your team work the "agile way" and describes tools and techniques to help optimise workflow, exploit change and manage customer requirements. The book closes with a look at associated financial models that support your Agile organisation, the processes you can use to run an Agile Business Management transformation, and the first steps to take towards that transformation. Directing the Agile Organisation will be of interest to managers and senior executives who want to improve business processes in order to remain competitive in today's market."

    Even worse, Washington policymakers seem out of ideas."Where the Jobs Are": "Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy" shows how America can restore its great job-creation machine.Recent research has demonstrated that virtually "all" net new job creation in the United States over the past thirty years has come from businesses less than a year old - true "start-ups." Start-up businesses create an average of three million new jobs each year, while existing businesses of any size or age shed a net average of about one million jobs annually.Unfortunately, the vital signs of America's job-creating entrepreneurial economy are flashing red alert. After remaining remarkably consistent for decades, the rate of new business formation has declined significant in recent years, and the number of new jobs created by new firms is also falling.In "Where the Jobs Are," the authors recount the findings of a remarkable summer they spent traveling the country to meet and conduct roundtables with entrepreneurs in a dozen cities. More than 200 entrepreneurs participated - explaining in specific and vividly personal terms the issues, frustrations, and obstacles that are undermining their efforts to launch new businesses, expand existing young firms, and create jobs. Those obstacles include a dangerously underperforming education system, self-defeating immigration policies that thwart the attraction and retention of the world's best talent, access to capital difficulties, a mounting regulatory burden, unnecessary tax complexity, and severe Washington-produced economic uncertainty.In "Where the Jobs Are," the authors: Explain how start-ups are different from existing businesses, large or small, and why they represent the engine of job creation;Reveal how policymakers' failure to understand the unique nature and needs of start-ups has undermined efforts to stimulate the economy following the Great Recession; and, Present a detailed, innovative, and uniquely credible 30-point policy agenda based on what America's job creators said they urgently need.Engaging and informative, "Where the Jobs Are" reveals with unprecedented precision and clarity the major obstacles undermining the fragile economic recovery, and provides a vitally important game plan to unleash the job-creating capacity of the entrepreneurial economy and put a beleaguered nation back to work.

    If you don't learn these skills, you will not understand everything your business needs to succeed. In this book, I united the key skills you need to start any type of business and grow your wealth to the multi-million dollar level and beyond. Whether you are just starting out or are an experienced business person, the skills you will learn in this book will take you to the next level of your career. You will learn how to be a general business person--how to take advantage of any opportunity in any industry. You will Be Ready for Any Opportunity If you limit yourself to one skill, one career, one type of business, then you will be crushed by the economy and limited to few opportunities. If you look at any wealthy person, they don't have their eggs in one basket; they own several businesses in different industries and invest in real estate and the financial sector. My goal is to take you to that level of business. To make you flexible and ready to take advantage of many money-making opportunities and to ensure you're on the fast track to grow your wealth.