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Learn the secret of what really drives sales - and how to give people what they need so they want to buy from you.

Running with Purpose is a highly engaging listen with insights, inspirational stories, and tangible takeaways for current and aspiring leaders, entrepreneurs, Berkshire Hathaway enthusiasts, and especially the 150+ million runners worldwide and those in the broader running community who continually invest in themselves and put positive energy into the world.

Authentic influence is about more than creating a strong initial connection - it's about sustaining professional relationships long after an agreement has been reached. Based on their commitment to listening, genuine engagement, and the pursuit of win-win outcomes, authors Mark Goulston and John Ullmen share a new method that business leaders can use to examine priorities, learn about the needs of key players, earn others' attention, motivate others to hear more, and add value with question and actions.

An introduction for everyone. Rather than a "how to" for hands-on techies, this book - now in its revised and updated edition - serves lay listeners and experts alike by covering new case studies and the latest state-of-the-art techniques. In this rich, fascinating, and surprisingly accessible introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics works and how it affects everyone every day.

In Branding Is Sex, brand dominatrix Deb Gabor explains how proper brand positioning gets your customers in the mood. In just seven short and sweet chapters, Deb covers these juicy topics and more: how the most successful brands in the world get their customers laid; how to never fail the Bullshit Test; and who your brand should hop in the sack with (and it’s not who you think).

Internet marketing pioneer Seth Godin says he wants to change the way almost everything is marketed today. Will you give him permission to show you the future? Listen to how you can turn strangers into friends and friends into customers with this groundbreaking new approach.

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”....

Start Your Own Small Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Research, Funding, and Launching Successfully Ready to turn your passion into profit? Start Your Own Small Business is the complete guide for launching and growing a successful small business, even with limited experience or funding. This ebook provides clear, actionable steps to research, fund, and scale your business with confidence. You’ll begin by identifying and validating profitable small business ideas, then move on to exploring funding options, from bootstrapping to crowdfunding. Learn how to create a simple, actionable ...

Sidestep the marketing books, courses, and even TED talks that offer hypothetical explanations that sound sensible and embrace the proven systematic approach of R.E.D. Marketing, which the recent CEO and current CMO of Yum! Brands applied to lead Taco Bell and KFC to double digit growth. This book, filled with simple frameworks and engaging stories, will help everyone in your company understand what really works for driving sustainable brand growth and business success.

Start learning what AI is and what it is not. Gain unique knowledge on why computers will never become conscious. Understand how technology and AI impact human activities by mimicking, replicating, and augmenting tasks. Learn about what can make AI beneficial for all and what can make it detrimental. Finally, learn how you can harness AI to improve your life. You have AI in your pocket. If you have a smartphone, you are interacting with AI applications. But you have little say in what type of AI will be built. Your only leverage is voting with your dollars about what AI-built technology you...

User Tested delivers an eye-opening and compelling treatment of putting customers back at the center of your business model. In this book, you'll discover why the company that offers the best customer experience always wins and that real, three-dimensional people can't be reduced to data points on a graph.

An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world.

In Follow the Feeling, strategy advisor Kai D. Wright answers a critical question plaguing entrepreneurs, brand strategists, marketers, and leaders: How do you grow your brand in a noisy world? Analyzing 1,500 fast-growing companies from Alibaba to Zara, the Columbia University lecturer and Ogilvy global consulting partner unpacks five branding secrets. Starting with behavioral economic principles and ending with a new systems-based approach to brand building, Wright offers listeners one metric that trumps the hundreds entangling brand value, feelings.

Four innovation experts from the startup world, large enterprises, nonprofits, and academia come together to reveal the secret of uncovering authentic demand to build successful innovations. Books on innovation mostly focus on how to nurture innovative cultures and brainstorm ideas. The Heart of Innovation is the first popular book to concretely delve into what innovations really are and how to create them.

Can't find enough time to rest, think, plan, or enjoy your life? Blame it on time inflation, distractions, tardiness, time abusers, time thieves, time-related crunches stress (TCRS), and procrastination, the mother of all time-related disorders. What you can't diagnose can't be treated even if treating one may help treat the others. In Dr. Caxton's Time Pyramid, you're going to get a handle on why time seems to slip by you so easily and what you can do to instantly regain control over your time through time frames, time windows and The Time Pyramid. All the time you need to start a business...

Designers and managers hope their products become essential for users-integrated into their lives like Instagram, Lyft, and others have become. Such deep integration isn't accidental: it's a process of careful design and iterative learning, especially for technology companies. This guide shows you how to apply behavioral science—research that supports many products—to help your users achieve their goals using your product.

Green Giants examines nine companies that are merging social responsibility with wild profitability - and reveals the six factors responsible for their success, including: iconoclastic leadership fueled by deep conviction and a rebellious streak; disruptive innovation that uses sustain ability to spur the development of radically better products and services; a higher purpose that ignites the company - when the mission leads, profits follow.

Bestselling author and futurist Mark Schaefer explains why community is a vastly overlooked marketing opportunity for most organizations. He explains how three major trends are colliding in a way that makes brand communities the future of marketing strategy.

"Start And Grow Rich: The Ultimate Guide To Small Business Success" provides a comprehensive guide for those looking to start and grow a small business. It covers various topics, including understanding your target market, conducting market research, writing a business plan, securing funding, choosing the right business structure, building your brand, marketing strategies, managing finances and accounting, operating and growing your business, legal considerations, navigating challenges and risks, staying competitive, strategies for success and expansion, and next steps for your business ...

Competition is tougher than ever these days and competing on price or product just doesn’t work as well anymore. So how can companies stand out in a crowded marketplace that is constantly evolving? The answer is customer experience, and the best part about customer experience is that it's delivered by human beings who are unique to a company. The Experience Maker helps managers and executives focus on customers who are already spending money with their company rather than spending more money on marketing new customers.