The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics (Hardcover)

The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics (Hardcover)
By Michael Maslansky

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What to say, how to say it, and why it matters: communicating with authority and honesty in an age of mistrust.

Still struggling through the financial crisis that began in 2008, consumers aren't buying traditional sales approaches anymore. So how do salespeople, corporate communicators, managers, and marketers sell their ideas, products, and services to a generation of customers who are more skeptical and less influenced by conventional marketing than ever before? Based on groundbreaking consumer research conducted with thousands of individuals, this step-by-step guide will help readers understand their audience and how to communicate effectively with them.

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• The mechanics and mindset of communicating with trust and credibility

• Choosing the right words: being positive, using plain English, being plausible, and personalizing a message

• Structuring a message: putting benefits before features, context before specifics, engagement before discussion, and customers' interests before the company's

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Pushing the Envelope All the Way to the Top (Paperback)

Pushing the Envelope All the Way to the Top (Paperback)
By Harvey Mackay

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Harvey Mackay is the author of two New York Times #1 bestsellers, Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt. Both these books were recently listed by the New York Times among the top fifteen inspirational business books of all time. Harvey's most recent book, Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty was also a New York Times bestseller. His books have sold more than eight million copies worldwide, have been translated into thirty-five languages, and have sold in eighty countries.

In addition, Harvey is a nationally syndicated columnist and was named by the 170,000-member Toastmaster International as one of the top five speakers in the world. He is founder and CEO of the $85 million Mackay Envelope Corporation.Inspirational business speaker, popular newspaper columnist, and bestselling author Harvey Mackay has been "moonlighting" for 40 years as president of Mackay Envelope Corporation, an $85 million company that produces more than 17 million envelopes a day. With the help of imagery derived from this industry, he's now dispensing a new batch of lessons on life and business in Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top. Its five sections--cleverly titled "How to Be A #10," "Licking the Competition," "How I Pushed the Envelope," "The Flap on Management," and "Going First Class"--offer practical advice on such topics as hiring, motivating, training, producing, and negotiating. Each short and highly focused chapter deals with one specific idea and concludes with a pithy aphorism dubbed Mackay's Moral, such as "There's much more to winning than finishing first" and "In negotiations, as in poker, a superior hand can be beaten by superior knowledge of your opponents." Interweaving experiences from a diverse lot including Sylvester Stallone, Ulysses S. Grant, Will Rogers, and Star Wars' Yoda with anecdotes drawn from his own career, Mackay presents a litany of solid suggestions that will prove as useful as they are fun to read. --Howard Rothman Read more

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India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking (Hardcover)

India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking (Hardcover)
By Anand Giridharadas

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Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, "We're all trying to go that way," pointing to the rear. "You, you're going this way?"

Giridharadas was returning to the land of his ancestors, amid an unlikely economic boom. But he was interested less in its gold rush than in its cultural upheaval, as a new generation has sought to reconcile old traditions and customs with new ambitions and dreams.

In India Calling, Giridharadas brings to life the people and the dilemmas of India today, through the prism of his émigré family history and his childhood memories of India. He introduces us to entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists, and religious seekers, but, most of all, to Indian families. He shows how parents and children, husbands and wives, cousins and siblings are reinventing relationships, bending the meaning of Indianness, and enduring the pangs of the old birthing the new.

Through their stories, and his own, he paints an intimate portrait of a country becoming modern while striving to remain itself.

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Business Saints and Sinners Decoded: What Every Business-Person Should Know (Paperback)

Business Saints and Sinners Decoded: What Every Business-Person Should Know (Paperback)
By Martin L. Mankowski

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This book asks the question - what makes someone succeed in business while others might fail? In Business Saints and Sinners Decoded, author, design engineer, managing director, consultant, mentor and investor Martin Mankowski explores the ten commandments and seven deadly sins of business that can improve or destroy anyone's business standing. Designed to make the business world more interesting and boost confidence so that anyone can be a key player, Business Saints and Sinners Decoded offers a system that creates innovation and confidence. Rather than looking at how business operates from an ivory tower perspective, Mankowski uses a hands-on approach, relying on the three million miles and sixty countries he's worked in to give readers the personal anecdotes and techniques they need to do business in a fresh, innovative manner. Mankowski began to notice that business people fell into two classes, those who could generate lasting value like Bill Gates, and those who could destroy established wealth like Bernie Madoff, and he set out to code the associated sets of behaviors and activities. It became clear that traditional education methods did not guarantee success. Even high school dropouts were sometimes better prepared to become world class entrepreneurs than those who excelled in leading academic institutions. Warm and conversational, Business Saints and Sinners Decoded offers insights on every page. Be a saint and develop your brand, pursue the big picture, set plus achieve demanding targets, and live the right paradigm, Mankowski advises. Sinners live exclusively by someone else's rulebook, fraternize with losers, lose self-confidence, and admit defeat. When you know the code, you can make an informed choice to becoming a better business person, and a better human being, and this timely guide can help you shine with the saints. Read more

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MacFreelance [Download] (Software Download)

MacFreelance [Download] (Software Download)
By Macware

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The fully updated bestselling title is ready to work for you! MacFreelance is powerful project management, timetracking, billing and more for the creative professional who would rather spend their time creating than with bookkeeping. The new iPhone companion app keeps you up to date while on the move and you can easily sync with your mobile me account. Not only does MacFreelance generate professional looking invoices, but it also allows you to easily add new clients, monitor time spent on projects, track mileage and payments, perform tax calculations and generate detailed reports. The time and billing software also offers seamless Mac integration with applications such as Address Book, iCal, and Spotlight. New! iPhone companion app, New! Sync with mobile me.New! Even more professionally designed invoice templates. Read more

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Achieve Sales Excellence: The 7 Customer Rules for Becoming the New Sales Professional (Hardcover)

Achieve Sales Excellence: The 7 Customer Rules for Becoming the New Sales Professional (Hardcover)
By Howard Stevens

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Every organization wants to go from good to great. Yet, despite knowing where they want to go, many companies can't find their way there. They struggle to find the one thing that matters in today's competitive marketplace. Price? . . . Quality? . . . Innovative product features? While all of these certainly influence a customer's buying decision, none of them is the most influential factor. What is? It's the salesperson.
Achieve Sales Excellence examines the new paradigm of business-to-business sales. Based on the results of an innovative, fourteen-year study, this book offers unmatched insight on sales performance issues and the practices sales professionals and organizations must embrace to be a world-class sales force. Read more

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Business Communication: Process and Product (with meguffey.com Printed Access Card) (Hardcover)

Business Communication: Process and Product (with meguffey.com Printed Access Card) (Hardcover)
By Mary Ellen Guffey

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BUSINESS COMMUNICATION: PROCESS AND PRODUCT, 7 is designed to prepare students for success in today?s digital workplace as well as tips on job searching skills. The textbook and accompanying Web site explains the basics of communicating in the workplace, working in teams, how to being a good listener and understanding business etiquette. Students study and practice the skills and activities involved in the writing process including the appropriate use of social media, preparing formal reports and proposals as well as informal business reports. The appendixes guide students through grammar and writing mechanics as well as information on formatting and writing documents. Authors Mary Ellen Guffey and Dana Loewy offer a wealth of ideas for writing resumes and cover letters, participating in interviews, and completing follow-up activities. Read more

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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal (Kindle Edition)

Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal (Kindle Edition)
By Oren Klaff

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When it comes to the art of the pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his one-of-a-kind method to raise more than $400 million—and now, for the first time, he describes his formula to help you deliver a winning pitch in any business situation. Whether you’re selling ideas to investors, pitching a client to for new business, or even negotiating for a higher salary, Pitch Anything will transform the way you position your ideas. According to Klaff, creating and presenting a great pitch isn't an art--it's a simple science. Applying the latest findings in the field of neureconomics, while sharing eye-opening stories of his method in action, Klaff describes how the brain makes decisions and responds to pitches. With this information, you'll remain in complete control of every stage of the pitch process. Pitch Anything introduces the exclusive STRONG method of pitching, which can be put to use immediately:

Setting the Frame

Telling the Story

Revealing the Intrigue

Offering the Prize

Nailing the Hookpoint

Getting a Decision

One truly great pitch can improve your career, make you a lot of money--and even change your life. Success is dependent on the method you use, not how hard you try. “Better method, more money,” Klaff says. “Much better method, much more money.” Klaff is the best in the business because his method is much better than anyone else’s. And now it’s yours. Apply the tactics and strategies outlined in Pitch Anything to engage and persuade your audience--and you'll have more funding and support than you ever thought possible. Read more

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The Five Minute Traffic Trick (Kindle Edition)

The Five Minute Traffic Trick (Kindle Edition)
By Peter Michelsen

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Discover The 5-Minute Trick That Drives An Avalanche Of FREE Targeted Visitors To Any Website At Your Command This report is about a simple trick that you can implement on your Squidoo Lenses and Hubpages that has the potential of generating lots of traffic to your lens in minutes... Read more

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One Month To Your Own Online Business (Kindle Edition)

One Month To Your Own Online Business (Kindle Edition)
By Peter Michelsen

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Tired of Slaving Away From 9-5? Laid off? Need Extra Cash? Medical Bills? Is the Recession Raining On Your Parade? Why not start your own website? Start Your Very own Online Internet Marketing Business In Less Than One Month!

These strategies for setting up an internet marketing business quickly will have you up and running your own virtual money making machine faster than any bank could ever foreclose on your house. In fact, you might find it embarrassing that you have so much extra cash while your friends and colleagues still struggle to make ends meet!

You will learn -

* How to understand the different types of internet business and quickly decide which one is for you.
* How to immediately begin an internet marketing business that is recession proof and thrives.
* How to start a business immediately without having to put any money down for advertizing.
* How to find a product or service that people want or need, so that your business transcends dire economic predictions about bankruptcy
* How to build a website to promote your business, without spending way too much money

You will also benefit from following the user friendly step by step guidelines in this book that are based on one simple business model. If you follow this business model that was developed by me you will start earning money very quickly!
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Learn All About Diamonds (Kindle Edition)

Learn All About Diamonds (Kindle Edition)
By Peter Michelsen

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If you are interested in Learning about Diamonds or you are wanting to buy

diamonds online or from a shop then this is the ebook for you.

I will go through step by step on how to make you more knowledgeable when it comes to Diamonds

Here is what is included with this ebook

About Diamond Weights

All about the Clarity of Diamonds

Are Diamonds Really Rare?

Bonded Diamonds

Buying Diamonds Online

Choosing the Cut of a Diamond

Diamond Brands and What They Mean

Diamond Certificates

Diamond Grading Reports

Diamond Scams

Famous Diamonds

How Diamonds Are Cut

How Diamonds Are Mined

How Diamond Prices Are Determined

How to Buy Diamond Engagement Rings

How to Care for Your Diamond

How to Clean your Diamonds

How to Sell a Diamond

How to Spot a Fake Diamond

Insuring Your Diamonds

Selecting Diamonds

Synthetic Diamonds

What Are Dirty Diamonds?

Do you know how many people get cheated when buying Diamonds?

Scams occur simply because most people who buy diamonds – for whatever reasons – don’t know that much about diamonds. Therefore, they are easily fooled.

Just because someone tells them that they are real diamonds

it doesn't mean that they are

Don't be one of these of people

With this ebook you can KNOW what you are buying.
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The Danger Zone Lost in the Growth Transition (Hardcover)

The Danger Zone Lost in the Growth Transition (Hardcover)
By Jerry L. Mills

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The Danger Zone Lost in the Growth Transition, 2007 2nd. edition. A book for the entrepreneur who owns a growing business. Read more

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Buy Anything Wholesale Guide (Kindle Edition)

Buy Anything Wholesale Guide (Kindle Edition)
By Peter Michelsen

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The #1 guide to REAL wholesale suppliers, manufacturers, liquidators and drop shippers.

"Find A Wholesale Supplier For Any Product You Want In Just A Few Minutes…And Pay Up To 80% Below Wholesale Prices!"

What ever it is that you are looking for, whether it be brand name consumer electronics, clothing, auto parts, pet supplies, bicycles etc....you are about to find out exactly where and how to get it.

*These are ACTUAL prices from just some of the suppliers I was able to find through the "sources" I'm about to share with you. These prices were found on May. 7 2005 and are subject to change at any time.

Dear Friend,

If you are interested in getting your hands on the products you want at the lowest possible prices AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, this letter is for you. Why?

Because I'm about to teach you exactly where and how to find real wholesale suppliers, manufacturers, and drop-shippers for any product you want in just a few minutes and pay up to 80% below wholesale.

No searching through hundreds of irrelevant and outdated links.
No fake suppliers whose prices are too high.
No more wasted valuable time.
No B.S.


Who am I to make these bold statements? What makes me an "expert" on finding wholesale suppliers?

Let me tell you straight away, I'm no "guru" or "expert". I'm just a regular person, like you. But, what makes me different from you, is the fact that for the past 3 months I've been extensively researching ways to find wholesale suppliers.

This is what I did for the past 3 months:

I have interviewed over 50 eBay power sellers from all over the world (U.S.A, Australia, Japan,Canada etc.) and got them to reveal exactly where and how they get their hands on the hot and profitable products they sell to make tens of thousands of dollars per month.

I have bought exactly 26 “wholesale lists” (expensive!) from my competitors. 80% of the information was useless. I took the remaining 20% of useful information and threw it into MY guide.

I have contacted and dealt with over 500 suppliers and can now say I am a pro at negotiating with even the most stubborn suppliers.

As you can imagine, I’ve learned A LOT from all this research. I’ve done all the “leg work”. Then, I stuffed everything into a nice and simple, easy to read, straight to the point, no fluff, no B.S. wholesale guide.

Here is just some things I learned during my research:

If it is sold in stores it can be bought from a wholesale supplier. This means that what ever it is that you are looking for, you can find a wholesale supplier for it...you just have to know where to look.

Successful online sellers (eBay powersellers, Yahoo sellers, website owners etc.) can find a wholesale supplier for any product in just a few minutes. They don't need to spend weeks searching through the Internet just to find a supplier, because they know exactly where to look (soon, you will too).

There is more to making a deal with a supplier than knowing their website address. You need to know how to deal with the suppliers you find in order do get what you want (best prices, order quanteties, drop shipping arrangements etc.)

50% off a pair of jeans is not wholesale prices! You can get those kinds of deals in department store sales (real wholesale prices are a lot lower than that)

Most real suppliers will provide drop-shipping at no extra charge, while most fake online "drop-shippers" will charge you an extra fee for the service on top of their already high prices.

There is a ton of people claiming to be real wholesalers but they're really middle men. These people buy their products at wholesale prices, then, they mark up the prices by 20%-40%. The marked up prices are still below retail, BUT well above the actual wholesale price. Hint: don't deal with these people.

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404 Self Improvement Tips (Kindle Edition)

404 Self Improvement Tips (Kindle Edition)
By Peter Michelsen

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"Just One of These 404 Tips Will Help YOU To Save More Money, Make A Better Relationship, Have A Healthier Body and Create Huge Success In Life and Business!"

There is no question in my mind that this eBook will help you become a much better man or woman than you are now -- regardless of your age, sex or social background -- if you just read them and begin to practice them.

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Macroeconomics (6th Edition) (Hardcover)

Macroeconomics (6th Edition) (Hardcover)
By Ben Bernanke

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  Abel, Bernanke, and Croushore present macroeconomic theory in a way that prepares readers to analyze real macroeconomic data used by policy makers and researchers. This text uses a unified approach based on a single economics model that provides readers with a clear understanding of macroeconomics and its classical and Keynesian assumptions.

Introduction: Introduction to Macroeconomics; The Measurement and Structure of the National Economy. Long-Run Economic Performance: Productivity, Output, and Employment; Consumption, Saving, and Investment; Saving and Investment in the Open Economy; Long-Run Economic Growth; The Asset Market, Money, and Prices. Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Policy: Business Cycles; The IS-LM/AD-AS Model: A General Framework for Macroeconomic Analysis; Classical Business Cycle Analysis: Market-Clearing Macroeconomics; Keynesianism: The Macroeconomics of Wage and Price Rigidity. Macroeconomic Policy: Its Environment and Institutions: Unemployment and Inflation; Exchange Rates, Business Cycles, and Macroeconomic Policy in the Open Economy; Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System; Government Spending and Its Financing.

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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business (Kindle Edition)

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business (Kindle Edition)
By Josh Kaufman

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A world-class business education in a single volume.

Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by skipping B-school altogether.

Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume. The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.

The Personal MBA explains concepts such as:
*The Iron Law of the Market: Why every business is limited by the size and quality of the market it attempts to serve-and how to find large, hungry markets.

*The 12 Forms of Value: Products and services are only two of the twelve ways you can create value for your customers.

*The Pricing Uncertainty Principle: All prices are malleable. Raising your prices is the best way to dramatically increase profitability-if you know how to support the price you're asking.

*4 Methods to Increase Revenue: There are only four ways a business can bring in more money. Do you know what they are?

True leaders aren't made by business schools-they make themselves, seeking out the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to succeed. Read this book and you will learn the principles it takes most business professionals a lifetime of trial and error to master. Read more

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Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top (Kindle Edition)

Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top (Kindle Edition)
By Nina Disesa

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Fact #1: Forty years after the feminist revolution, fewer than 2 percent of Fortune 1000 CEOs are women.
Fact #2: The playing field is not level.
Fact #3: You need to get over this.

From the woman who became chairman of the flagship office of the largest advertising agency network in the world comes a wry reality check on how to get ahead and thrive in the testosterone-driven business arena.

Nina DiSesa is a master communicator, a ceiling crasher, and one of the most successful women in the corporate world. She is also a big-time realist who has figured out that S&M–seduction and manipulation–is the secret to winning over (and surpassing) the big guys. In Seducing the Boys Club, DiSesa shows that you can, in fact, leave your male colleagues in the dust–but not by following the rules you learned in business school.

By playing the roles of den mother, fraternity brother, little sister, and hard-nosed boss, DiSesa navigated the choppy, macho-minded waters of the workplace. All the “bad boys” in her life–and there are many–have provided a wealth of devilishly amusing stories and cautionary tales that DiSesa is only too happy to pass on. Ah, revenge can be sweet, but the truth is that she came to love those boys as much as they love her–which is the whole point.

DiSesa asserts that women need to meld their feminine characteristics (nurturing, compassion, listening) with the traits of their male counterparts (competitiveness, decisiveness, combativeness) to expand their professional horizons. In Seducing the Boys Club, DiSesa shares her practical, outrageous, and even controversial maxims for making it, including:

• Learn to appreciate men. Men like women who like them.
• Remember that women are biologically wired to succeed.
• If you want to make a name for yourself, find a mess and fix it. A secure and comfortable job only holds you back.
• Don’t assume that men never listen. They listen like a dog does.
• Don’t be a quiet achiever.
• Act brave and you will look brave.
• Screw the rules. Make up your own.

Whether dead-on funny or deadly serious, DiSesa is always on her game, always on message, and absolutely on target as she arms women with the can-do confidence and no-compromises attitude they need to climb as high as their ambition can carry them–while keeping their standards impeccable and their integrity intact. Not for women only, this book should be read by men, too . . . though it won’t give them any defense against a woman who can truly seduce a boys club!


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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business (Audio CD)

Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business (Audio CD)
By Jeff Howe

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“The amount of knowledge and talent dispersed among the human race has always outstripped our capacity to harness it. Crowdsourcing ­corrects that—but in doing so, it also unleashes the forces of creative destruction.”
—From Crowdsourcing

First identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired article, “crowdsourcing” describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few. Howe reveals that the crowd is more than wise—it’s talented, creative, and stunningly productive. Crowdsourcing activates the transformative power of today’s technology, liberating the latent potential within us all. It’s a perfect meritocracy, where age, gender, race, education, and job history no longer matter; the quality of work is all that counts; and every field is open to people of every imaginable background. If you can perform the service, design the product, or solve the problem, you’ve got the job.

But crowdsourcing has also triggered a dramatic shift in the way work is organized, talent is employed, research is conducted, and products are made and marketed. As the crowd comes to supplant traditional forms of labor, pain and disruption are inevitable.

Jeff Howe delves into both the positive and negative consequences of this intriguing phenomenon. Through extensive reporting from the front lines of this revolution, he employs a brilliant array of stories to look at the economic, cultural, business, and political implications of crowdsourcing. How were a bunch of part-time dabblers in finance able to help an investment company consistently beat the market? Why does Procter & Gamble repeatedly call on enthusiastic amateurs to solve scientific and technical challenges? How can companies as diverse as iStockphoto and Threadless employ just a handful of people, yet generate millions of dollars in revenue every year? The answers lie within these pages.

The blueprint for crowdsourcing originated from a handful of computer programmers who showed that a community of like-minded peers could create better products than a corporate behemoth like Microsoft. Jeff Howe tracks the amazing migration of this new model of production, showing the potential of the Internet to create human networks that can divvy up and make quick work of otherwise overwhelming tasks. One of the most intriguing ideas of Crowdsourcing is that the knowledge to solve intractable problems—a cure for cancer, for instance—may already exist within the warp and weave of this infinite and, as yet, largely untapped resource. But first, Howe proposes, we need to banish preconceived notions of how such problems are solved.

The very concept of crowdsourcing stands at odds with centuries of practice. Yet, for the digital natives soon to enter the workforce, the technologies and principles behind crowdsourcing are perfectly intuitive. This generation collaborates, shares, remixes, and creates with a fluency and ease the rest of us can hardly understand. Crowdsourcing, just now starting to emerge, will in a short time simply be the way things are done.


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The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People (Paperback)

The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People (Paperback)
By Donald Van de Mark

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The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative and Joyous People is a non-fiction book due from Columbia Island Press in April 2011.

The Good Among the Great offers an in-depth look at the qualities that make a few high achievers also good people, focusing on 19 personality traits originally identified by psychologist Abraham Maslow. Author Donald Van de Mark illustrates these traits with lively stories drawn from his more than 25 years interviewing prominent leaders for CNN, CNBC, and other television news programs.

Van de Mark shows how the traits are exhibited by people in all walks of life, spanning the famous (Meryl Streep, Charles Schwab, and Andrew Weil) to the great but not well known (Poosie Orr, mother and housewife; Rachel Walton, pediatric hospice nurse; and Andrew Ferguson, teacher).

Practical, common-sense guidelines and Takeaways after every chapter show readers how they can identify and nurture the 19 Traits in themselves and others, creating the shortest route possible to personal and professional achievement and fulfillment. Read more

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The Redleaf Calendar-Keeper 2011: A Record-Keeping System for Family Child Care Professionals (Redleaf Business Series) (Calendar)

The Redleaf Calendar-Keeper 2011: A Record-Keeping System for Family Child Care Professionals (Redleaf Business Series) (Calendar)
By Tom Copeland

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The Redleaf Calendar-Keeper™ 2011 is the ultimate way for family child care professionals to keep their thriving business ordered throughout the year and save money on taxes. Included are monthly income and expense charts, attendance logs, mileage records, and detailed income tax worksheets. Updated annually, it provides current information on tax laws and allowable deductions. Read more

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Net Ready (Hardcover)

Net Ready (Hardcover)
By Amir Hartman

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TheWall Street Journal Business Bestseller!

CISCO's secrets revealed!

CISCO is the global standard not just for internetworking but for Web sales strategies that work. CISCO has made itself the pre-eminent player in the new global economy. Net Ready shows how this vibrant company has done it and how anyone else can apply its unique strategies to succeed on the Web. It's not a blueprint but a set of flexible strategies for Web success­­a unique toolkit for every company ready to seize the Internet's limitless business potential. Net Ready explores the 12 tactics that have catapulted CISCO to the forefront, including its trademark concept of "informatization," which involves giving away the product and profiting from the information about the transaction.Is your business ready for the Net? Amir Hartman and John Sifonis say it better be, and they aren't just talking about a snazzy corporate Web site when they ask that question in Net Ready. Instead, the two managing directors at Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group are referring to "seamless interactivity" organization-wide, the recognition that manipulating customers is no longer easy--nor, for that matter, desirable--and other realities and requirements in the still-evolving commercial climate they've dubbed the "E-conomy." Their book's opening section offers real-world trends and scenarios as a "framework to which emerging network-based businesses can map themselves," along with a "Net Readiness Scorecard" to measure preparedness in the core areas of leadership, governance, competencies, and technology. The second explores "using the Net to exploit new opportunities" by transforming products and markets, business processes, and entire industries. (They show, for example, how AOL reconceived itself from ISP to media company, how Ford connected with suppliers online, and how Schwab countered competitors by redefining the cyberbrokerage.) The third examines how everything comes together at Cisco Systems, and summarizes lessons learned--in 11 guiding principles. This is a serious book for those serious about doing business in the 21st century. --Howard Rothman Read more

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Your Client's Story (Paperback)

Your Client's Story (Paperback)
By Scott West

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Revolutionize your financial advisory business by quickly forging an unbreakable bond with your clients or prospects to become an advisor who is trusted with 100 percent of their assets. Most clients invest only about 30 percent of their assets with a financial advisor, but some financial advisors invest 100 percent of their clients’ assets.   Your Client’s Story describes the secret of their astounding success. For more than three years, authors Scott West and Mitch Anthony studied the winning approaches used by financial advisors who managed 100 percent of their clients’ assets. Notably, the most successful had mastered a genuine ability to engage in a discovery dialogue where clients openly expressed their financial objectives and motivations. The best financial advisors knew how to listen, ask the right questions, and create an atmosphere of empathy. Your Client’s Story includes specific scripts for reenacting winning discovery dialogues geared to the life situations, transitions, and goals that drive financial planning.   Included are tips and key questions geared to specific clients and situations, such as:

Small business owners;
Clients or prospects who are entering or planning for retirement;
Those seeking balance in their lives;
Individuals who are fearful about outliving their money;
Mature investors

Financial planners and advisors share their stories, explaining how they’ve changed the way they do business, and how these changes have generated more successful books of business. Clients also tell their side of the story, explaining how the discovery dialogue has enhanced the entire financial planning process. Read more

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29 Ways To Make Money For Those Interested In Cooking And Baking (Kindle Edition)

29 Ways To Make Money For Those Interested In Cooking And Baking (Kindle Edition)
By Home Business Reports

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A list of 29 Ways To Make Money For Those Interested In Cooking And Baking.
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The Philosophy of Health and Peace: Solutions in Science and Business (Paperback)

The Philosophy of Health and Peace: Solutions in Science and Business (Paperback)
By Ronnie Lee

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Modern science has given us many valuable insights into disease. But it has also failed to solve even more chronic illnesses that have plagued man since the beginning of time. The Philosophy of Health and Peace advocates a radically different outlook to shed new light on what ails us-from autism to Alzheimer's.

The ninth book from acclaimed scholar and poet Ronnie Lee, this unique work blends philosophy, biology, mathematics, physics and other disciplines in a totally new way. In it, Lee details breakthrough equations to show how complex systems can be simplified through algorithmic models and computer simulations. This, along with added awareness of quantum theory and nanotechnology, allows us to devise new, practical solutions, resulting in better health and more peaceful living.

Lee's remarkable style-blending poetry, prose, and cutting-edge science-is the hallmark of his writings, and that tradition continues in The Philosophy of Health and Peace. Topics include some of the most challenging human health issues-including malaria, leukemia, Parkinson's, Down syndrome and much more-but Lee's innovative contributions and style promise to revolutionize science, medicine, and human thought. And Lee also includes more insight into business and finance, showing how profit is commensurate with morality.

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The Book That Transforms Nations: The Power of the Bible to Change Any Country (Paperback)

The Book That Transforms Nations: The Power of the Bible to Change Any Country (Paperback)
By Loren Cunningham

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No country is too hard, too poor, too filled with crime, too divided by war, or too spiritually dark to be changed. God has given us basic principles that are keys to every problem we face in the twenty-first century. The answers lie between the covers of one book the Bible.

In The Book That Transforms Nations, missionary statesman Loren Cunningham demonstrates how, together, we can use the Bible, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, to change the whole world. In more than fifty years of continual travel, Loren's ministry has taken him to some of the world's poorest and neediest as well as to kings, presidents, and prime ministers. Here he offers those who've never had a biblical heritage, and those who've lost what they had, a solid reason to hope and work for a better future. Read more

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The World is Flat (Updated and Expanded) (Perfect Paperback)

The World is Flat (Updated and Expanded) (Perfect Paperback)
By Thomas L. Friedman

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