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You have a dream...become a full-time author. But how do you turn your writing into a business so you can say, “I quit my job!”? Most beginning authors, and far too many experienced wordsmiths, don’t have any idea what it takes to manage the business side of their career. There’s more to it than just writing books and uploading them on the distribution sites. You have many decisions to make for your business. How do you keep track of the money coming in and going out? No matter where you are in your writing career, it’s never too late to treat your writing like a business.

Assemblage guides you through the art and science of creating transformative brands by combining personal, social, and cultural components.

The general market for luxury goods has become stagnant. Given the new economic reality of the early 21st century—not to mention the all-important new demographics of the new century—it's bad business to continue to rely on luxury's traditional customer base to support sales or on tired marketing strategies and tactics. Burnett and Hoffman show listeners how to follow in the footsteps laid down by brands such as Gucci, HSBC, Sony Electronics, and Aston Martin, amongst others, to become successful in a segment corporations can't afford to overlook if growth is the objective.

Innovation requires solving big problems from a new perspective, but many struggle to successfully innovate in their work or personal life when faced with a problem that requires innovative thinking. Author and researcher April Bell has zeroed in on the power of empathy and the ability to embrace risk when solving big problems in the unknown. In her book, The Fire Starter: Igniting Innovation with Empathy, Bell combines engaging personal stories with research to provide listeners with a simple framework helping them connect to greater human truths to solve big problems.

Allzu oft scheint es so, dass alles, was der einzelne Mensch tun kann, um die Welt, Eisbären, Wale und den Regenwald zu retten, der Kauf von nachhaltigen und fairen Produkten ist. Aber reicht es wirklich, wenn die Pizza Bio ist? Ganz gleich, wie viel grünes Wachstum, grüne Technologie oder Mobilität wir entwickeln – ein "weiter so" wird es nicht geben können. Bleibt die Frage: Wie geht’s weiter?

Honey Trap Marketing has the unconventional formula to rapidly magnetize your ideal audience of buyers. Honey Trap Marketing is for experts, coaches, speakers, and authors who want to build trust and rapport with their audiences through hyper-relevant content.

Abduct is the second book in the Tom Walker Series; 18 is the first. The story features Patricia Highsmith intrigue with a plot line worthy of Agatha Christie and P. D. James.

One of the largest consumer markets of the world, India is made up of lots and lots of small consumers―each earning and spending just a little bit that adds up to a lot. It is served by millions of small suppliers oozing innovation and customer intimacy, and is powered by digital infrastructure that does billions of unique and small transactions every day. In her new book, Rama Bijapurkar dismisses the easy and simplistic view of the Indian demographic and embraces all the complexities and opportunities that new India has to offer.

With reasoned insight, new data, real-world cases, and practical guidance, Code Halos shows seasoned executives, entrepreneurs, students, line-of-business owners, and technology leaders how to master the new rules of the Code Halo economy.

How to Write Sales Copy is the guide you need! We will teach you how to write sales copy in seven easy steps. This guide is designed to provide you with all the tools you need in a concise, easy-to-understand format that will answer all your burning questions and get you on your way to successful copywriting. To be a successful copywriter, you must define your audience, what moves them to act, and how to make them feel important and valued. You must know how to structure your copy in a way that will keep readers on task, interested, and feeling satisfied.

Vous traitez au quotidien avec des clients? Vous savez que leurs attentes sont élevées et que leur patience est limitée.Pour offrir le service hors pair qui les séduira, découvrez notamment, les 11 éléments qui font dire "wow!" aux clients, les 12 irritants qui les font fuir, comment dire non ou annoncer une mauvaise nouvelle sans attiser la frustration, comment accueillir un client furieux et désamorcer sa colère, comment rendre plus satisfaisantes les communications téléphoniques pour vos interlocuteurs.

Most working professionals will have already heard of the LinkedIn social network. What most people are unaware of, however, is the power of the platform itself. If used correctly, you can be working for your dream company in no time at all.

This short book condenses the habits and techniques - your tools - that work most of the time for most of the people who write at work and want to be happier in all parts of their lives: nothing more, nothing less. It's also an accurate reflection of my 40 years of writing for business and of teaching writing at two prestigious universities and many professional societies and companies.

This audiobook will help you, the UX designer, develop a communication style that your business stakeholders or clients will understand, and elevate your career toward better UX strategy and leadership. This is not your typical UX book - it doesn’t focus on the things they teach you in a UX crash course, or preach about how to do UX design properly. It helps you find ways to apply your craft more effectively, inside your business, by understanding better ways of communicating, and building alignment within your organization or your client’s organization.

Business owners, consumers, and employees have long relied on the news to make financial decisions—what to buy, who to hire, and what products to sell. In the 21st century, that news has shifted. Only the big businesses and executives can afford expensive subscriptions, while most consumers and small-business owners are left scrambling to find the news they need to succeed and thrive. The Future of Business Journalism explores how the field evolved into this divide and offers solutions on how business journalism can once again provide the stories and content that a broad society needs.

The Guiding Purpose Strategy is a stimulating deep dive into the transformational power of purpose. Looking through the lens of contemporary brand management, The Guiding Purpose Strategy provokes fresh thinking, illustrates through case studies, and offers a hands-on framework to start your very own path toward finding your inner why.

In today's fast-paced, competitive business environment, everyone needs to communicate clearly and use time productively. E-Mail: A Write It Well Guide is a user-friendly audiobook that is filled with guidelines, tips, and tools. Discover how to write professional email that gets results, makes better use of email time, and avoids problems that can be costly. The updated version includes a section on using instant messaging and handheld devices. Used by individuals, corporations, and trainers, this is a must-have for anyone who writes emails at work.

Bestselling author and trend watcher Marc Ostrofsky is here to help. In this groundbreaking new audiobook, Ostrofsky reveals the ways that new technologies implant themselves in our daily lives and how we can easily take advantage of them to live, learn, buy, sell, work, play, communicate, and socialize better. Covering diverse topics from how the Internet affects our health to how we can become bargain-hunting pros, Ostrofsky's audiobook could come at no better time.

In Demand, Adrian Slywotzky provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applications - not just for people in business but also for social activists, government leaders, non-profit managers, and other would-be innovators. To succeed in their various missions, all these groups need to master such ground-breaking concepts as the hassle map (and the secrets of fixing it); the curse of the incomplete product (and how to avoid it); why “very good” does not equal “magnetic”....

If you are a professional expert - a consultant, adviser, coach, accountant, lawyer, medical practitioner, or in any other field where your income relies on your advice, your experience, and your expertise - you are about to learn how you could be approaching potential new clients as a published author and expert in your field in as little as 45 days.