Social Entrepreneurship

Negotiation is a skill people need to use every day. In this audio exclusive, learn the negotiation skills required to navigate difficult situations that arise in everyday life. From buying a car to purchasing a home, one needs to know how to effectively negotiate, especially when the other party is a seasoned professional. Harvard professor Joshua N. Weiss, PhD, gives us to tools to negotiate when we have a major stake in the game or when we're perceived as the "weak consumer."

Presenting a down-to-earth explanation of the basic principles of emotional intelligence, how to develop its basic skills, and their role in the lives of self-made multi-billionaires, this book will help you discover what it takes to succeed so that you can make way for a real change in your entrepreneurial career.

We all want to have our message heard. In Bang! Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval tell us how. They and their talented colleagues are the brains behind a host of memorable and highly successful ads, from the enormously successful AFLAC duck to the irresistibly sentimental "Kodak moment" to Herbal Essences' outrageous "Totally Organic Experience." Kaplan Thaler and Koval offer savvy advice and proven strategies for getting out a loud, clear, attention-grabbing message about any product or service.

Winfluence, by award-winning digital strategist Jason Falls, is the authoritative book about influencer marketing from the perspective of businesses and brands. An invaluable guidebook for marketing managers, small business owners, marketing consultants and agencies alike, the book explains how influencers came to be, how they came to be so powerful, why so many brands are counting on influencer marketing for business success, and how anyone who is not, now can.

The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick - hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 best seller The World Is Curved - argues that the experts are wrong.

This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across the globe. The growth in sales for fair trade products has been dramatic in recent years, but most of the benefit has accrued to the already wealthy merchandisers at the top of the value chain rather than to the poor producers at the bottom.

Emanuel Rosen pinpoints the products and services that benefit the most from buzz—a universe that embraces everything from high-tech equipment to books, various consumer and entertainment products to legal and other support services—and offers specific strategies for creating and sustaining effective word-of-mouth campaigns. Drawing from interviews with more than 150 executives, marketing leaders, and researchers who have successfully built buzz for major brands, Rosen describes the ins and outs of attracting the attention of influential first users and "big-mouth" movers and shakers.

Would you like to learn proven tactics to make a blog profitable using the best practices in affiliate marketing and leveraging your content on social media? How blogging, affiliate marketing, and social media can work together to provide an income is the topic of this audiobook. Blogging a 6 Figure Business Strategy in 2020 offers clear and simple methods for creating, designing, and optimizing your blog for the greatest profit.

The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty. Drawing on two decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world’s poorest people to make progress.

It’s true that the very nature of business has changed drastically over the last few decades. Going into business with the same model as you those used as recently as the year 2010 is a completely different ball game when compared to 2022. So, how can you set up your business to make you the most money possible, whilst also losing the least money possible on inventory and brick-and-mortar warehouse spaces?

From the president of EMILY's List, a playbook for women changing the world in politics, business, or any arena, with a foreword from Vice Presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris. Run to Win is for all women who are looking to lead. Organized around the steps that EMILY's List coaches its candidates through (from deciding to run through celebrating victory), this book is full of essential lessons for any woman trying to succeed in a male-dominated field. Their arena is politics but their message is universal.

Have you been struggling with setting boundaries? Do you know how to be assertive in business? You may be lacking confidence, and this guide is for you. This audiobook offers strategies that will help you become a better version of yourself. It is time to shine and show your worth. The root of confidence and support starts with you, and this audiobook will show you how to access it. From this collection, you will learn how to be assertive, and make your point across, become a better speaker, and much more.

Pitman walks you through the how and why of social media. He gives you tips and an outline for starting a social media strategy and shows how to get your website up and running on a shoe-string budget. Then he shows you how email, blogging, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other social media tools fit into your strategy. He even shows you how to learn all these new tools and still stay sane.

This collection Includes the best books to help you learn, grow, and master your online marketing skills. You will change the way you market your business with what you will learn in the Social Media Marketing books. You will learn how to add additional revenue to your business with affiliate marketing secrets and dropshipping mastery, and you will discover tons of additional ways to create passive income for yourself in passive income ideas.

The surest way to retiring poor is working for money instead of getting money to work for you. Whether you have a 9-5 job or are self-employed, if you cannot put money to work for you in some way, your odds of working the rest of your life and perhaps retiring poor are very high. Moreover, if you work for money, you cannot really do everything you want to do whenever you want to do it since your income is directly connected to your efforts- if you stop working, it is only a matter of time before the income dries up.

It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope - revealing just such a burgeoning new economy where players from across the spectrum of business, government, philanthropy, and social enterprise converge to solve big problems and create public value.

This guide from author Mike Rayford is an amazing tool for any marketing professional or small business owner who wants to grow their digital marketing agency business. This audiobook will teach you how to create and master the social media marketing business strategies and scale it to a six-figure business. It is important to keep track of where your customers come from and how they find out about your company's services or products. Based on proven and tested principles, this SMMA guide is the ultimate resource for marketing professionals and business owners alike.

It’s a new era of business and consumerism - and you play a role in defining it.

Today’s biggest trends - the mobile web, social media, real time - have produced a new consumer landscape. The End of Business As Usual explores this complex information revolution, how it has changed the future of business, media, and culture, and what you can do about it. This is the end of business as usual and the beginning of a new era of relevance.

Like a lot of people, Chris Wilson didn’t have an easy start in life. But, unlike many, he has managed to overcome severe setbacks to achieve a life defined by material success and personal meaning. How did he do it? When he committed a fatal crime at the age of 17 and received a devastating prison sentence, incarceration became the unexpected trigger that set Wilson off on a journey of self-improvement - reading, working out, learning languages, and starting a business. Creating a Master Plan for the life he wanted, he worked though it step-by-step to transform his reality.

Traditionally, an entrepreneur develops a detailed plan, finds money to fund it, and then pursues it to its conclusion. But conditions can change drastically at any point - you can end up locked into a process based on now-obsolete assumptions. The lean startup is all about agility and flexibility. Its mantra is "build, measure, learn": create small, experimental initiatives, get real-world feedback on them quickly, and use that data to identify what works and discard what doesn't. And then test some more.