First Business

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 the need for both profit and a healthy, sustainable planet.

Coaching is a skill needed by almost every leader and manager today. Your workforce is looking for a developmental mindset that is focused on not just their productivity, but also on their growth and development. Coaching is something that you can do with those at work as well as with your family and those in your community. This audiobook will get you up and coaching others around you.

Living the American dream at the pinnacle of his life, R.W. Long had it all: a loving family, a promising career, and a multitude of blessings. All of this was cut short with the diagnosis of an incurable disease. In the prime of life, he lost nearly everything he had worked for and felt he was given a life sentence and incarcerated in his own body - a body that no longer obeyed his commands and that would fail him in new ways daily.

Ever wonder what life was like inside an advertising agency? In this motivational and informative book, you will have a front-row seat to the inner workings of an advertising agency. No other book chronicles the day-to-day work of an advertising account executive during their first year on the job. This book is equal parts of education, inspiration, entertainment, and exposé. When you add them all together, it's 100 percent truth. The struggle and triumph is chronicled in this kiss-and-tell book about agency life and following your dream.

Wayne zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie den Sprung aus der traditionellen Beschäftigung schaffen und genau das Unternehmen und Einkommen erreichen, um Ihre privaten Träume zu verfolgen. Das Buch bietet ohne Umschweife, genau die Werkzeuge, die ein neuer Unternehmer braucht. All das basiert auf den Erfahrungen mit seinem eigenen Start-Up. Inklusive vieler persönlicher Anekdoten aus seiner Startphase. Dieses praktische Buch wird Sie auf den richtigen Weg bringen.

Real-time business gives companies the ability to monitor and react to changes and address problems as they occur. But no matter how sophisticated their information-gathering and data mining systems are, they're still playing catch-up. In The Power to Predict, Ranadive forecasts the next step in achieving breakthrough business performance, a new approach he calls Predictive Business: the ability to anticipate business problems and opportunities and to act preemptively.

You’ve spent years training to be an expert in your field. Years hunched over books and articles, writing essays late into the night on the science and art of your chosen profession. Through hard work and determination, alongside lots of experience, you’ve now become pretty good at it. So good in fact, that you have been asked to stop doing it all the time. You’ve been asked to be a manager.

From humorous to unbelievable stories, the author takes the listener on a journey of mostly true stories into the sometimes-crazy life of a car guy. With lessons learned from either a sales, or management, point of view, each story concludes with a "moral of the story" to bring home lessons that can be applied in different areas of daily business life.

The Man in the Arena offers the essence of John C. Bogle's thinking and the meaning of his life's work, which transformed individual investing to benefit tens of millions of investors. Through Bogle's own words - as well as the voices of others whose hearts and minds he touched - the book touches on topics he cares about most deeply: Vanguard, indexing, corporate governance, and a fiduciary society.

Henry Ford, an American folk hero to many, was a man with several faces. He was a genius who revolutionized the automobile industry, irrevocably altered American culture and commerce, developed mass production, and helped the middle class emerge in America. He was also an anti-Semitic autocrat who hated Wall Street, bankers and financiers with unmitigated passion.

Shhh Listen. Hear that? That's the sound of your business. The conversations taking place online and in the marketplace tell you nearly everything you need to know about your company and your customers - what people are saying about you, how they use your products, whether they'll buy or recommend your product, and how they respond to your marketing and advertising. Listening provides unrivaled insight. If you do it right, you'll have a decisive edge over your competition as you adapt faster to customer needs and market changes.

He was a genius who gave the world access to technology that is still changing the world. To this day, his greatest accomplishment is the iPhone and still is. Taken away too soon, his legacy still lives on. Countless entrepreneurs look up to him and use his advice to succeed in the business world. If it wasn't for him, we would have never been introduced to portable computers and mobile phones with touch screens.

Do you have a published book you want to convert for sale on Kindle or ideas for a series of Kindle originals? Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, discover all the angles for success on Kindle and the other ebook marketplaces (Nook, iBookstore, Kobo, etc.). Enjoy an ever-growing stream of additional income, new readers around the world, a fresh credential as an author, and a second life for content you already have on hand. Learn from someone with a deep background in traditional publishing, marketing, and entrepreneurship.

Notivation is the seriously funny guide for women business owners who are just sick and tired of being told no. In this wildly transparent and honest guide to how she used the power of no (and her favorite F-word) to make her first (and second and third) million dollars, Kristin Kahle (aka Dr. K) serves up "Nine Notivational Nuggets" you can use to navigate your path to what’s next for your business. You’ll walk away from this audiobook knowing how and why it’s critical to: Grow a fenis, listen less, and be your own damn hero already (and make some real money).

Wayne mostra come compiere il salto dall'impiego tradizionale per creare un'azienda con i profitti necessari per realizzare i propri sogni anche al di fuori del lavoro. Il libro fornisce tutti gli strumenti necessari a un nuovo imprenditore, in parole semplice e senza fare confusione. Questa guida si basa sull'esperienza reale, fatta nell'avviare la propria impresa dal nulla. Sono incluse molte note personali, estratte dal diario tenuto durante la fase di start-up. Questo manuale molto pratico consente di avviarsi da soli.

Thinking about becoming a teacher? Our audiobook offers practical advice for the aspiring English teacher but is general enough for other subject areas, which will be forthcoming in the near future. We’re proud to say that it is not another audiobook. With a combined 80 years of experience in the classroom, our team provides valuable tips on everything from classroom management and dealing with parents to education law and dealing with stress, among other topics.

This audiobook is meant to be functional and based on years and years of experience operating small businesses and assisting entrepreneurs in the real world - the everyday, nitty-gritty stuff that keeps us compliant and able to see a growing bottom line through do-it-yourself means. Also, the fact that I have helped many other small business owners who were overwhelmed get caught up with their books, tax reporting and corporate paperwork and helped them have a streamlined workflow that is compliant for their industry makes me know that this will work for you.

Here's a biographical profile of Charles and J. Frank Duryea, two visionaries who were among the first to recognize the potential of the automobile. In 1892 they built America's first gasoline-powered car and had it running successfully the following year.

Have you ever heard someone say, ‘If only life came with a set of instructions’? Success coach Lisa Stephenson has - hundreds of times. Almost every client utters this at some point in some form. Read Me First is the book she now gives them. It is also the book she wishes someone had given her when she found herself suddenly single with three young children and needing a new plan. Read Me First will challenge your thinking then provide a structured way to reflect and take action.

Written by award-winning broadcaster Mishal Husain, The Skills will inspire, motivate, champion and encourage women to reach their potential by focusing on practical skills that make a difference. Gathering together advice for women of all ages, whether they are new graduates, working mothers or women seeking a career change, The Skills explains how to present yourself to maximum effect, in person and online, how to prepare for big moments and plan for long-term goals, how to gain confidence and authority and how to navigate the ups and downs of a long working life and build resilience.