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If you are like most entrepreneurs, the idea of finally writing your book is what scares you the most. But imagine what it will feel like to tell your family and friends that you are a published author.... Everything is laid out in step-by-step directions, so you can easily follow the process and have your own book written in seven days or less!

Unlock the potential of your handyman skills to launch a rewarding business with 'How to Start a Handyman Business.' This essential guide walks you through the key steps to creating, managing, and expanding your handyman services. Whether you're handy with tools and looking to start on your own or you've already begun and want to scale up, this book offers practical strategies on business planning, marketing, customer service, and more.

Leading for Organisational Change is an intelligent and practical guide to the human side of merger integration and other organizational change. Building a clear sense of common purpose and then reinforcing it through storytelling can underpin the success of an integration or significant change program. Pulling together the best thinking from neuroscience, psychology, business, and her rich personal experience in 20 years of leading change projects in professional services organizations and other people-centered businesses, author Jennifer Emery presents a framework for change.

Igniting Customer Connections explores how organizations of all sizes can build powerful and profitable customer relationships in a today's increasingly complex, fast-paced, and fragmented marketplace. Written by the president of one of the world's largest marketing firms, the audiobook provides expert insights about connecting with customers effectively across all channels and over time. The central premise is a refreshingly different, evidence-based approach called Return On Experience and Engagement, or ROE2.

Lifelong learning has become a multibillion-dollar business, with more than 60 million adults currently engaged in webinars, webcasts, in-house training, continuing education classes, and more. But it is also an industry in flux, as newcomers topple old-guard organizations that can’t keep pace with the need for instant access to materials and flexible delivery methods, as well as demands for community and connection.

From the mid-90s to the present, ING Direct grew from a mere concept to an ocean-spanning global enterprise, now managing over $75 billion in assets and with over 7 million customers, earning unprecedented levels of consumer trust and affinity. The Orange Code is a story about conventional wisdom, and how to win by ignoring it completely.

We all say things we shouldn't. What is important is how we deal with the gaffe. If a slip-of-the-tongue at a family gathering, office meeting, or social setting causes you to inadvertently embarrass or offend someone, the strategy presented here, will help you to smooth things over as quickly as possible. But what about when you really mess up?

Harry Beckwith, author of the marketing classics Selling the Invisible and The Invisible Touch, applies his unparalleled clarity, insight, humor and expertise to a new age of mass communication and mass confusion. What Clients Love will help you stand out from the crowd - and sell anything to anyone.

Customer service is the single most pressing problem for business managers and people in any service or sales operation, especially at the retail level. In fact, many experts believe that you build a business from the customer up.

A social media expert with global experience with many of the world's biggest brands - including Nike, Toyota, and Motorola - Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty, and profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious contributions from customer purchases. These innovative private sector partnerships answer perhaps the most pressing issue facing business and thought leaders today: how to practice capitalism in a way that satisfies all needs.

We bring products to life and connect them to living, breathing customers. Without us, our companies would crash and burn. And yet, it often seems we don’t get the prospectors the budgets we deserve. Where is the love? The reason our companies don’t love us is that they see us as cost centers rather than revenue centers. So, how do we change that perception (and that reality)? How do we become provable, dependable sources of revenue? By changing our relationship with our customers; by turning them into raving advocates and long-term clients.

Who is living your life, you or someone else? Many of us have a tendency to lead guarded lives, only showing our true selves to a select few. Many of us live in constant fear or doubt that if we don't conform to the way society sees us, we will be shunned or ousted, forced to fend for ourselves. Why do we do this? Why do we feel that we need to please others instead of ourselves? We will talk about what makes up our authentic selves as well as what we can do in order to become the people we want to be.

When it comes to messaging, what worked in the past won't work today. Our noisy, digital world has undermined our ability to focus. For a message to grab attention and persuade, it now has to pass the SAUCE test and be: Simple, Appealing, Unexpected, Credible, and Emotional. Secret Sauce shows you how to transform unconvincing messages into compelling copy.

In Rules to Break and Laws to Follow, marketing gurus Don Peppers and Martha Rogers challenge you to break the rules and propose a whole new way of thinking about how to create real shareholder value in today's competitive environment, operating with today's technologies.

It is commonly believed that the work of a waiter consists of taking orders and carrying dishes properly. However, this book aims to give new meaning to the profession and show that the true value of a waiter lies in their ability to help us have a nice time while we recharge our energies.

Modern multigenerational nursing cohorts come with their own unique challenges, but they can also be leveraged to retain staff and increase organizational effectiveness. The key, according to organizational psychology practitioner Dr. April L. Jones, PhD, is to identify and work with each generation's unique values and work ethic.

Wes Berry built a remarkable $60-million-dollar international business from his family’s small florist shop, which began in Detroit. Now, in his extraordinary new audiobook, he shares what he has learned over the years about leadership and business growth. In many businesses that fail, the small things are overlooked; they are the things that are often the easiest to implement, but at the same, time they are easy to forget. It’s these small things that have the greatest impact in the long term.

In this interconnected world dominated by social media, consumers’ voices are broadcast louder and wider than ever before. Companies are faced with the choice to either listen to their customers and thrive…or eventually die. No matter what industry you’re in, you need to deliver an exceptional experience to customers that will make them want to shout your name from the rooftops! In Listen Or Die, customer experience expert Sean McDade presents 40 quick, easy-to-use best practices for creating an exemplary Voice of Customer (VoC) program.

In The Human Principle: Service, Connection, and Success in Business, you will discover how to build a successful business by focusing on what truly matters—people. In a world often consumed by transactions and numbers, this book brings the focus back to the core of business: genuine human relationships. You will explore three key principles: a respectful and principled attitude, a service-first mindset, and the art of forming real connections.

Whether you are a business owner or an employee deeply invested in delivering on your organization’s brand promise, the most powerful way to fulfill that promise begins with becoming aligned with who you really are. The Power of Promise teaches you how to understand, declare, map, train, and deliver exactly what you’ve promised your customers, which enhance your bottom line, meet and exceed the expectations of your customers, and improve the work experience for you and your staff.