Business Development Marketing

On average, people leave about 20 percent of potential mutual gains untapped in any negotiation. This is akin to taking 20 percent of the value in any deal and dumping it into a garbage canister. Finding that hidden 20 percent, the “sweet spot”, is a skill that takes practice but is also one that anybody can learn. In Negotiating the Sweet Spot, Leigh Thompson offers surefire best practices and tools to use in daily negotiations and conflict situations.

Do you long for a lucrative career free from the constraints of the nine-to-five work world while affording you and your family the lifestyle you dream of? In this fun, irreverent, and highly practical playbook, mascara millionaire and network marketing maven Shari Owen Brown gives you the insight and know-how you need to start and grow a successful career in direct sales. Through personal stories from Brown’s stellar career journey and examples of the remarkable women she has coached, she shows you how to establish a rock-solid foundation for your business.

With over two million active sellers on Amazon, more and more people are discovering the lucrative opportunities available to them as online distributors. Now, you can create an online business that allows you to decide where and when you want to invest your time and energy - without breaking the bank. But recognizing those opportunities doesn't necessarily mean you know how to take advantage of them, and that's where The Amazon Code comes in.

David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for cheating the system at the expense of everyone else. Whether he's exposing unjust loopholes in the tax code that help the rich get richer or pointing out how powerful corporations pocket government subsidies at excessive taxpayer expense, Johnston is an eloquent town crier for justice and equality.

A pioneer of content marketing, Joe Pulizzi has cracked the code when it comes to the power of content in a world where marketers still hold fast to traditional models that no longer work. In Content Inc., he breaks down the business-startup process into six steps, making it simple for you to visualize, launch, and monetize your own business.

In an impatient world of infobesity, people don't want more information - they want to be intrigued and they want to be intrigued fast. After all, goldfish have longer attention spans than humans - nine seconds to our eight. So, right now, people want to know, "How is this relevant and useful to me? Why are you worth my valuable time, mind, and dime?" Bestselling author and ace communication strategist Sam Horn reveals her "secret sauce" for truly connecting with people - whether it's one or one million.

In their best-selling business classic Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones introduced the world to the principles of lean production, principles for eliminating waste during production. Now, in Lean Solutions, the authors establish the groundbreaking principles of lean consumption, showing companies how to eliminate inefficiency during consumption.

In this entrepreneurial age, it's very tempting to leave your job to start your own business. Before you do, learn all you can from the best. World renowned best-selling author and business consultant Brian Tracy tells you about one of today's most needed skill sets, entrepreneurship, covering these important topics: myths of entrepreneurship, the best business choice for you, financing the business, shifting from employee mindset to entrepreneurial mindset, creating a realistic business plan, hiring the best and managing for success, and fueling your business growth.

Discover how to create exceptional customer service and a superior customer experience, learning from the greatest companies of our time.

Your style is perfect for you. Public speaking coach to the C-suite Bill Hoogterp reveals proven tips, techniques, and exercises to amplify your effectiveness as a speaker and communicator. He explains how the brain processes information, what people respond to, and how to hold the audience in the palm of your hand. Great public speaking can be learned. Hoogterp's unique method turns fear into fun and tells you how to be your natural, authentic, unique self - and deliver your perfect presentation for any audience each and every time.

Many businesses create an ideal consumer profile - aiming all their sales and marketing efforts toward this single type of person - and end up missing out on endless opportunities to sell their services or products. Award-winning business coach, speaker, and author Pamela Slim has helped thousands of entrepreneurs around the world start, sustain, and scale their businesses. She explains how to build strong diverse relationships, identify and connect with new partners, expand markets, generate leads, and find new customers in places you may never have considered.

What if you were able to create a profitable business in just six months? You will discover in this book 100 side hustle ideas that are proven to get you results, how to create a sustainable extra income source, what it takes to create a profitable side hustle, and the author’s strategy plan to set up your business. This book was created for aspiring entrepreneurs and beginners who want to dip their toes into starting a business and being their own boss. If this sounds like you, then dive into the story and strategy plan of entrepreneur Austen Porter.

Todos los emprendedores y empresarios quieren ser los mejores del mercado, pero lo cierto es que para los consumidores conseguir el mejor producto no es suficiente. En cambio, quienes se distinguen de los demás competidores siempre ganan. Esta guía de marketing, como ya es costumbre en los libros de Mike Michalowicz, ofrece un método simple de tres pasos con los que podrás posicionar tu negocio, atraer prospectos y convertir las oportunidades en ventas.

This audiobook provides comprehensive practical techniques and strategies to move you gracefully through the rough terrain of producing an independent film that resonates and reaches your intended audience.

The hardest part of launching a product is getting started. When you have just an idea and a handful of customers, growth can feel impossible. This is the cold start problem. Andrew Chen has a solution. As a partner at the pre-eminent VC firm Andreesen Horowitz, he has invested in some of the world's fastest-growing companies. Along the way, he's become one of the most renowned bloggers in tech - hailed by Wired as a 'true Silicon Valley insider'.

An astonishing 94.6 percent of businesses fail to sell. They close at an enormous cost to the owner, their family, their staff and the economy. Most business owners realise too late that there are only two destinations for any business: a sale or closure. You’ve got to build to $ell. Sweat, Scale, Sell shares real business-building stories about how ordinary business owners took charge of their fate using the Asset of Value™ method.

If you flick through the pages of typical sales books and sales training materials, you will find a constant flow of sales messages like, "focus on closing the sale", "overcome objections", and "chase the sale". Crossing social boundaries and adding pressure to the sales process makes it a gut-wrenching and painful process. Stop selling, start creating trust.

Use this guide to storytelling as a sturdy foundation to change how you use stories. You can build solid stories to support your goals in business and life. The provided examples are from some of the world's greatest speakers, storytellers, with advice from leading experts. From best-selling authors to generation-changing motivational speakers, this audiobook covers all the fundamentals of outstanding storytelling. It will help you deliver stories to audiences that will leave them personally affected and motivated.

Are you thinking about selling your business? This audiobook is filled with practical, step-by-step advice that will help you get the most cash for the blood, sweat, and tears you've invested. Gerry T. Pandaleon, CPA, CMA, FCPA, brings three decades of experience as a CPA, controller, and CFO to this user-friendly guide to selling your business. Her lively, arm-around-your-shoulder style teaches you how to build equity into your business while preparing it for sale.

This sleep learning program was designed to assist the listener in gaining beliefs and behaviors related to sales success such as confidence, charisma, creating repeat customers through positive relationship building, and closing the deal with win-win outcomes.