Marketing in the Groundswell


Charlene Li - 2009
    The book includes three core chapters from the original bestseller that focus on market research, marketing, and spreading word-of-mouth among your best customers. Sure, you already know that customers are writing about your products on blogs or talking about your brand on Twitter and Facebook. Now, turn that interest into opportunity and profit. In these economic times, marketers like you are increasing their investment in social technologies, while cutting back on more traditional expenses. Why? Because they work—no matter the economic climate. Marketing in the Groundswell shows you how you can build social applications, measure their results, and use the social technology movement to your company's advantage.

The Facebook Killer: Part 1


M.L. Stewart - 2011
    His wife, his daughter, job and his cherished home. One man is responsible; Abdul Hamid. When his Old Bailey trial collapses, due to a technicality, Madison takes matters into his own hands. His manner of revenge comes to him in a dream; but how can you track down someone's nearest and dearest? You log in, look closely and let the devastation begin. Madison takes you on his journey from being a middle-class banker to a serial killer, through his own eyes. You will feel his emotions, the hatred and rage, pain and guilt, culminating in his descent into absolute obsession itself. This book will leave you with one fear..... Should I ever log in again? PLEASE NOTE: The early versions of FBK series contained spelling & grammatical errors. These have been edited and corrected. Please take this into consideration when browsing the reviews.The Apple iBook Bestseller (over 800 four & five-star ratings) 50 five and four-star reviews on Amazon UK.·Brilliant book - couldn't put it down·I absolutely loved this book; it was so easy to read and I just could not bear to put it down for more than a few minutes at a time.·If you like thrillers with a real human interest factor then you will love this book.·Brilliant book! So cleverly plotted and a unforgettable read!,·ML Stewart is an amazing writer·Gripping! I couldn't put it down - I found it very well written·Love it. Enough said: I received my kindle as an early birthday present on Saturday and I haven't put it down since. The reason? M.L Stewart.·the best ever: you will not be able to put this book down . I am sad that I dont have another book of this style to read now .·Couldn't put it down fantastic: Well done to the author I say and hurry up and write some more please ;o)·Great Read: could not stop reading this book - on the tube; drying my hair; in bed; watching tv - any chance I got I just had to race to the end!·Gripping read and a well thought plot – recommended: Brilliantly written and a fantastic style!·A Fantastic Read: I was hooked from the start and, like many others, found it difficult to put down.·Excellent read!!!!: really good gripping book.·I could hardly sleep with the story line going through my mind, wondering what was going to happen next. Loved it 10/10·could not put it down: Totally brilliant!·product of a very strange mind....But very compelling.·Cracking good read: It is very well written... it is a very compelling story·The storyline is fast moving and keeps you interested all the way through - well done to the author and I am looking forward to the next story.·Gripping read: This was the first book I downloaded on my new kindle, and I'm sure glad I did. I literally couldnt put the thing down. I was so intrigued to find out what happened next.·Riveting!!!: This is my kind of book. VERY unputdownable.·Wow, very powerful: This book is immensely powerful, due to the detail and the emotions you feel as you read it.

Teaser (Hallie Ahern Mysteries)


Jan Brogan - 2008
    Featuring two girls striking provocative poses, the clip promises more to come. As Hallie follows up on the lead, staking out tech shops and high school hangouts in search of the girls in the clip, she discovers that men are buying the girls webcams and lavishing them with gifts to make sure they use them. But those gifts are only a taste of the perils to come.The paper’s new owners love the idea of an exposé that warns parents of the dangers of the Internet, but when girls start dying, and when Hallie’s boyfriend—a prosecutor with the Attorney General’s office—ends up on another side of the story altogether, the situation goes from dark to lethal.As Hallie is caught between her responsibilities as a reporter and as a concerned citizen, her investigation leads her deep into a far-reaching conspiracy in Teaser, Jan Brogan’s latest gripping mystery.

Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner


Nina Munk - 2004
    The news was crazy, incredible. The biggest merger ever, it was, according to the media, an "awesome megadeal" and "a fusion of guts and glory." It was "the deal of the century" and "a mega-marriage of earth and cyberspace." An Internet upstart, AOL was buying the world's most powerful media and entertainment company. "A company that isn't old enough to buy beer," marveled the Wall Street Journal, "has essentially swallowed an ancien régime media conglomerate that took most of a century to construct."Two years later, after the smoke had cleared, $200 billion of shareholder value had vanished into cyberspace. On the trail of possible fraud, the SEC and the Justice Department started investigating AOL Time Warner's accounting practices. Meanwhile, a civil war had broken out inside the company, complete with backstabbing and personal betrayals. Before long, almost every major player was out of the company, discredited, and humiliated. Jerry Levin, Time Warner's "resident genius," lost his job, lost his reputation, and, in the view of some people, simply "lost it." Steve Case, the visionary leader of AOL, was forced out of the company he had created. Gone too was the telegenic wonder-boy Bob Pittman, and his gang of fast-talking salesmen. As for Ted Turner, he resigned from his post as vice-chairman of AOL Time Warner in early 2003, bitter, wiser, and $8.5 billion poorer.Fools Rush In is the definitive account of one of the greatest fiascos in the history of corporate America. In a narrative fraught with drama, Nina Munk reveals the overweening ambition and moral posturing that brought down the Deal of the Century. With painstaking reporting and the remarkable eye for detail she's known for, Munk lays out, step by step, the anatomy of a debacle. Irreverent, witty, and iconoclastic, she sees through it all brilliantly."As in all great Greek tragedies, you knew the plot before it played out," one perceptive insider told Munk on the subject of the AOL Time Warner deal; "you knew who'd be sacrificed at the altar." Here's what we discover in Fools Rush In: In their single-minded quest for power, Steve Case and Jerry Levin were at each other's throats even before the deal was announced. Bob Pittman was regarded as a "windup CEO" by Case, and viewed as a hustler by just about everyone at Time Warner. Ted Turner underestimated Jerry Levin's ruthlessness badly. And Levin himself, convinced he was creating a great legacy comparable to that of Time Inc.'s founder, Henry Luce, refused to acknowledge the obvious: that, with a remarkable sense of timing, Steve Case had used grossly inflated Internet paper to buy Time Warner.

The Life: Playin' Palin, My Love of Sports, and Living to the Fullest On My Own Terms


Lisa Ann - 2015
    The choice to leave the industry she loved wasn’t an easy one, but a different kind of fantasy was calling her name: Fantasy sports. Now Lisa Ann is ready to reveal herself in a new way. From her youthful days as a rebellious teen and a dancer in Philadelphia to her arrival in Los Angeles and into the world of porn; from her years as a business owner to her return to the adult industry as the face of the MILF revolution. Then of course, there was her role as Serra Paylin in Who’s Nailin’ Paylin, the film that took the world by storm during the 2008 Presidential election and made Lisa Ann a household name.The Life invites you into a world of sparkling fantasy and dark reality, recounting the awkward sex injuries and crazy antics that happen behind closed doors, and tells of the game-changing events and decisions that have shaped Lisa Ann’s life and career. Filled with never-before-seen photos and stories she hasn’t even told her best friends, The Life will show you a whole new side to the woman you thought you knew.

Social Media Marketing when you have NO CLUE!: Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook (Beginner Internet Marketing Series 4)


Gundi Gabrielle - 2017
    What is unique about each Social Media Platform? We'll cover what is unique about each social media platform and how best to use them, so you don't post the same everywhere. You'll be able to decide which social networks are best suited for your particular business and brand and how to use all the unique features available.Tips for creating great graphical posts and how to research viral topics are discussed as well as a number of great training resources (both free and paid) to take your social media marketing to the next level. Interactive with many Videos and Outside Resources Social Media Marketing has become one of the most effective strategies to build your brand online, spread your message and attract new clients and customers.This book will help you take your social media game to the next level. FREE Bonus Report: “Words that Sell” The Psychology behind the 10 most Influential Words in the English Language and how you can use them to GrowYour Following and turn Readers into Buyers Would You Like To Know More? Download now and start your Social Media Portfolio on a road to SuccessScroll to the top of the page and select the BUY button.

Sebastian


Christina Benjamin - 2019
     Sebastian Titus has no time for love. He’s married to his billion-dollar tech firm. Unfortunately, his little sister has a real marriage just days away and his hectic schedule may cause him to disappoint her if he shows up without the one thing he promised her—cupcakes! Holly Walsh bakes love into every ounce of her sugary confections. Too bad she can’t seem to do the same when it comes to men. But running New York’s most popular bakery doesn’t give her time to pine for Mr. Right. That is until he shows up at her pastry counter demanding cupcakes for his sister’s wedding. Sparks fly when these two are forced to work together. Billionaire baking lessons and a fake wedding date later, they soon realize that if they can put aside their stubborn workaholic ways, they may find something sweeter than dessert waiting for them. Start reading this sweet & clean romance today! The Billionaire Boyfriend Series: A Clean Billionaire Romance Book 1 – Sebastian: Love Well Baked Book 2 – Cooper: Love on a Leash Book 3 – Donovan: Love on the Rise Book 4 – Eric: Love on the Rocks Book 5 – Jacob: Love on the Field

Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution


Dean Takahashi - 2002
    It has already eclipsed motion pictures to become one of the largest and fastest growing markets in history and a lamplight illuminating where the future of entertainment is headed. In an effort to grab a chunk of that market, Microsoft—an absolute newcomer to the gaming industry—has put billions of dollars on the line in a gamble to build the fastest, most mature, most advanced video game console ever: the Xbox. Is this new Microsoft venture just another experiment that, like WebTV, was launched to much fanfare but will be quickly forgotten? Or will it become the next Windows, finding its way into the homes and lives of millions of people around the world?In Opening the Xbox, award-winning journalist and gaming-industry expert Dean Takahashi guides you deep into the amazing story of this much-anticipated game console. Through exclusive interviews with top executives at Microsoft, exhaustive research, and a penetrating investigation, he unveils the tumultuous story behind the development of the project and how it could change the entertainment industry forever. Inside, you'll discover that what started as Project Midway, spearheaded by Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley and three of his renegade cohorts, turned into Xbox—a multibillion-dollar enterprise that became Microsoft's largest internal startup ever and a personal pet project of Bill Gates. The colorful infighting, the cutthroat tactics used to lure partners, and the race to vanquish bitter rivals Sony and Nintendo are all laid bare in this unvarnished, high-tech drama. It's a story like no other, full of heroes and villains, plot twists and intrigue—all before the backdrop of Microsoft's grand ambition to move from the office into the living room.If you're like the millions of gamers, investors, and business spectators who anxiously anticipated the Xbox, then you don't want to miss the explosive, exclusive, behind-the-scenes story in Opening the Xbox.

The Mobile Mind Shift: Engineer Your Business To Win in the Mobile Moment


Ted Schadler - 2014
    What’s tomorrow’s weather? Is the flight on time? Where’s the nearest store, and is this product cheaper there? Whatever the question, the answer is on the phone. This Pavlovian response is the mobile mind shift — the expectation that I can get what I want, anytime, in my immediate context. Your new battleground for customers is this mobile moment — the instant in which your customer is seeking an answer. If you’re there for them, they’ll love you; if you’re not, you’ll lose their business. Both entrepreneurial companies like Dropbox and huge corporations like Nestlé are winning in that mobile moment. Are you?Based on 200 interviews with entrepreneurs and major companies across the globe, The Mobile Mind Shift is the first book to explain how you can exploit mobile moments. You’ll learn how to:•    Find your customer’s most powerful mobile moments with a mobile moment audit.•    Master the IDEA Cycle, the business discipline for exploiting mobile. Align your business and technology teams in four steps: Identify, Design, Engineer, Analyze.•    Manufacture mobile moments as Krispy Kreme does — it sends a push notification when hot doughnuts are ready near you. Result: 500,000 app downloads, followed by a double-digit increase in same-store sales.•    Turn one-time product sales into ongoing services and engagement, as the Nest thermostat does. And master new business models, as Philips and Uber do. Find ways to charge more and create indelible customer loyalty.•    Transform your technology into systems of engagement. Engineer your business and technology systems to meet the ever-expanding demands of mobile. It’s how Dish Network not only increased the efficiency of its installers but also created new on-the-spot upsell opportunities.Mobile is rapidly shifting your customers into a new way of thinking. You’ll need your own mobile mind shift to respond.

Dragon Ball Z 'It's Over 9,000!' When Worldviews Collide


Derek Padula - 2012
    The legendary rivalry of the last two full blooded Saiya-jins, Goku and Vegeta, is the iconic example of a lifelong conflict that inspires fans to burst through their own personal limits.With a foreword by Ryo Horikawa, the Japanese voice of Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z “It’s Over 9,000!” When Worldviews Collide is the first e-book to explain where “It’s Over 9,000!” came from, how the original video spread to receive over 7 million views, and why it continues to be such a popular catchphrase. Featuring a thoroughly researched analysis of Goku and Vegeta’s colliding worldviews, this e-book helps the reader better understand why conflict is necessary for profound personal growth and character development.Referencing East Asian belief systems and high tech futuristic paradigms, Derek Padula, the author of The Dao of Dragon Ball book and blog, provides a deeper understanding of this epic story and the inherent values within it. It will forever change the way we look at Dragon Ball Z.

Re: Monster Light Novel Vol. 1


Kogitsune Kanekiru - 2012
    

Entangled


Mia Ford - 2018
    Tanner was my dad's best friend and I can't get him out of my head and... I know I should stay away from him. And age difference isn't the only thing that is concerning. He parted ways with my dad,And I can't seem to get enough of his seductive smile. Oh...those baby blue eyes and HARD abs...Trust me, they are a treat to watch, and touch, and feel...It's fun for now, but I want to enjoy it forever. I mean...I know it's wrong, but it feels so right. Only if Daddy stops coming in between us.  Author's Note: If you love taboo / extremely forbidden romance, Bad Boys, Billionaires, Virgin, First Times and a super steamy yet contemporary romance, then this one's for you honey! You'll LOVE the HEA!!! Also included is BONUS content inside.

Dot.Bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath


J. David Kuo - 2001
    David Kuo saw it all: the sky's-the-limit optimism, the hundreds of millions spent in a giddy grab for market share, the investors slavering to be inside, the belief that there really were new rules. He also saw what happened when wretched excess and ego-driven blunders forced gravity to reassert itself and when, ultimately, Wall Street demanded results. His book, alive with hilarious incidents and colorful characters, is destined to become a touchstone of the dot-com era.

Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap


Kevin Roberts - 2010
    Video gaming and Internet surfing are the top sources of entertainment for tens of millions of North Americans today. As these technologies continue to grow and flourish, so does the number of people becoming obsessively absorbed in the imagination and fantasy that they present. More and more people are isolating themselves, turning their backs on reality, ignoring family and friends, and losing their sleep and even their jobs due to excessive use of video games and the Internet--and they continue to do so despite harmful consequences to their mental, physical, and spiritual health, a telltale sign of addiction. In this groundbreaking book, recovering video game addict Kevin Roberts uses extensive scientific and social research, complemented by his and others' personal stories, to give compulsive gamers and surfers--and their family and friends--a step-by-step guide for recovery. He outlines the ways that "cyber junkies" exhibit the classic signs of addiction and reveals how they can successfully recover by following a program similar to those used for other addictions. Readers learn to identify whether they have an addiction, find the right resources to get individualized help, and regain a rewarding life away from the screen by learning new thoughts and behaviors that free them from the cravings that rule their lives. Included is a guide for parents for working with their addicted children.

The Science of Growth: Facebook vs. Friendster, or Why Some Startups Skyrocket - and Others Don’t


Sean Ammirati - 2016