Creative Careers

Deep in space, on Mars, a robot rover searches for traces of water, one of the key things needed to support life. Back on Earth, Dr. Vandi Verma guides the robot, Curiosity, in its search. People all around the world were enchanted by animations like Princess and the Frog and Bravest Warriors, but before they ever hit the screen, Sonya Carey imagined and designed them. These are just some of the colorful careers of these everyday superheroes making the world a greener, healthier, and cleaner place.

Are you caught in a cycle of confusion, uncertainty, and pain? Knocked Down, Set Straight will take you on a transformational journey of turning your life's pain into your ultimate gain! In this hilarious guide to mindfulness, spiritual teacher and thought leader Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell, Esq. serves up ways to balance your mind (IQ), heart (EQ), and soul (SQ) and merge them into what she eloquently explains as the aggregate intelligence quotient (AQ)™.

Get noticed, grow your brand and gain market share. It's hard to beat the impact of appearing on radio or TV, in newspapers and magazines-or on a popular podcast or blog. Discover how to skyrocket your credibility and visibility and boost your sales from publicity.Having schemed up media appearances for herself and clients for nearly 30 years, Marcia Yudkin offers creative, low-budget tips for earning and capitalizing on public attention.

Create and sell your first audio product, step by step. Wishing you could wake up with payments in your email inbox and the freedom to retire earlier or spend more on day-to-day luxuries because you have a second source of income? Learn how to make this happen by creating and selling audio products. There's no need to suffer through the typical mistakes that delay success with audio products. Discover how to do it right, so they begin bringing you income your first time out of the gate.

Turn words into money with juicy, flavorful copy. Get a delicious return on investment from your marketing pieces after you apply the tips in this concentrated guide to writing captivating bullet points. Most world-class copywriters have mastered the art of listing irresistible little tempters that arouse curiosity and desire. But rarely has that art been analyzed into useful guidelines and suggestions.

Multiply your information publishing profits by repurposing your content and adding creative offers. Earn more from your expertise and your content. Discover profitable new ways to present what you know or have sitting in your file cabinets. Shape-shift your material, deliver it in a creative fashion, rework it for a different audience, raise the perceived value (and the price!) and add meaningful, easy-to-produce items to your product line.

Unleash the power of words to sell.It's easier to attract potential customers and persuade them to buy when you understand your audience and respect the nuances of language. Discover how to select tone, details, imagery, numbers, facts, verb tenses, punctuation, pronouns and more to create rapport and inspire an opt-in, an inquiry or a sale.

If screaming headlines and over-the-top phrasing make you want to hide your head in a bushel, get this guide to writing attention-getting yet honest and helpful sales copy. Whether you're a coach, author, financial advisor, B-to-B product manager or simply a professional who values trust, dignity and respect for clients, you'll find a framework for setting down a solid first draft and tweaking it into an effective selling tool.

Foreword by Futurist Davide Houle. It delivers strategic insights on how brands can navigate this new consumer-controlled environment. Written by tenured PR professional and president of a Los Angeles/New York PR and marketing firm, Stefan Pollack, Disrupted focuses on the iGen generation, the generation born between 1994 and 2004 (often called Gen Z).

Knockout Sales Tactics They Won’t Teach You At Business School Written by a sales veteran with a track record spanning millions of pounds and dollars in sealed deals, this book blends the best psychological, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and classical persuasion techniques with a street-wise, gritty success system based on the author’s own hard experience in selling and training sales professionals at the highest level.

The 'must have' top tips guide to doing business in Japan. This “quick fix” guide will give you the inside information on how to do business and cope with business socialising in Japan. Despite what some would have you believe, there’s nothing particularly mysterious or complicated about doing business with the Japanese, but there are some important rules to follow in order to avoid causing offense and to ensure that things go smoothly.

Many companies automatically assume that they have to hire an accountant to be capable of getting their business to the idea that they need it nevertheless, you won't need to hire an accountant. You merely should try to learn the fundamentals of accounting and you'll be in a position to be the financial expert of your business.

It matters less what you say and more what people hear. Communication is the foundation of leadership, cultures, and relationships. It's at the core of being more fully yourself. Yet communication is one of the primary challenges of our time at work, at home, and online. Honestly Speaking will revolutionize the way you lead, love, and live your life by shifting the way you communicate.

In Don’t Write a Crappy Book! editor and entrepreneur James Ranson unpacks the most common - and toxic - mistakes that first-time nonfiction authors make. Peppered with wisdom from a panel of industry experts, this audiobook debunks the dangerous myths that can torpedo your text and offers clear, practical guidance for writing a book you’re proud of. This is the resource for the aspiring authorpreneur who wants to write and publish a book with minimum hassle and maximum results. 

In Obsess to Success, Cindy passes on all the ways she was able to build her success on a foundation of personal relationships. Whether it's giving gifts or making time to chat, remembering names or sharing meals, there are a thousand small ways you can take your business connections beyond the financial and into the personal. When you obsess about remembering the little things, big things will follow. Once they do, the possibilities are limitless.

Juli McNeely chronicles her experiences in two decades as a financial advisor and owner of McNeely Financial Services. McNeely is the only female past president of the prestigious, 126-year-old NAIFA (National Association of Insurance and Financial Investors) organization. Written in her candid, incisive, no-holds-barred style, No Necktie Needed: A Woman’s Guide to Success in Financial Services makes the industry accessible to women in search of a strong work-life balance and who seek to define and measure success by their own standards.

A fundamental aspect to being productive is desk organization and this audiobook will show you exactly how to organize your desk to maximize your productivity habits! Every single person wants to work more productively, and all of us are using different methods to gain that competitive edge. But what if there was something simple that we could change, something right before our very eyes that could revolutionize our productivity? There is - its your desk - and this audiobook will get you on the right track to having it maximized for productivity starting now! 

Do you believe negotiating is one of the most important skills for greater success in business and life and that you could be better at it? Do you let your ego, anger, fear, insecurity, or other emotions get in the way of achieving your negotiating objectives? If so, dig beneath the surface, stop looking for the quick tip or best tactic, do the required hard work, and follow the roadmap Corey Kupfer provides in Authentic Negotiating. This audiobook will lead you to authentic success in negotiating, in business, and in life.

Increase your understanding of psychological diversity and its impact in business. If you're in business and love hanging out with other people as much as you can, it's essential to recognize that not all customers think and feel as you do. Some 25% to 50% of the population are introverts, and overlooking this misunderstood category of people in marketing and sales can damage your income and your success.

Create and sell your first PDF report, step by step. Wishing you could wake up having orders in your email inbox and the freedom to take longer vacations because you had a second source of income? Learn step by step how to make this happen. Doing anything new for the first time is intimidating. So don't try to write your first downloadable report and put it up for sale through trial and error. Discover how to do it right, so it brings in income whether you're at your desk, playing with your kids or basking on the beach.