Business Selling

Where to begin in starting a small business for selling sandwiches without buying a place?
I am a young entrepreneur who wants to start a business selling high quality sandwiches. However to start my business, I don’t want to have a shop or store, I want to sell my sandwiches to corporations and businesses…for example, they would call in and order a certain amount of sandwiches and i would make them and deliver it…simple right? Where do i begin? what paperwork do i need? what legalities might i face? What kind of funds am i looking at? How do you think i should approach this idea? I have a burning desire and will succeed, i just need a kick start. Thanks and much aloha from hawaii.
I would begin by buying either “starting a resteraunt” for dummies or “Owning a small buisness” for dummies, one option
for your particular situation is to open a sandwhich stand somewhere popular to visit like downtown or near a Shopping Mall or even in a shopping mall, there are legal issues you have to settle and you have to get your name out there either by directory advertising (advertising in the yellow or white pages) or spreading pamphlets at coffeeshops and other nuteral locations, the hardest part though is going to be finding out who you buy your products from and who you are marketing to, you cannot market to people in a hurry because they require premade food and you plan on selling fresh, if you want corporations buying for small luncheons your going to require a specific amount of time they have to call a head of time so that You Can fill the order in time if its a big one. Good Luck
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1940s Country Song Introduction: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!, I Saw the Light, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!, I Saw the Light, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?, Anytime, Dark as a Dungeon, One Has My Name, I Love You So Much It Hurts, Smoke on the Water, Texarkana Baby, Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me, Mind Your Own Business, Rainbow at Midnight, Move It on Over, Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima, There’s a New Moon Over My Shoulder, Don’t Rob Another Man’s Castle, I’m Throwing Rice, Kentucky Waltz, Divorce Me C.o.d., So Long Pal, a Heart Full of Love, at Mail Call Today, Sioux City Sue, I’m Wastin’ My Tears on You, I Wanna Play House With You, I’m Losing My Mind Over You, Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight, It’s a Sin, I’ll Hold You in My Heart, Candy Kisses, Guitar Polka, You Will Have to Pay, Wine Women and Song, With Tears in My Eyes, Rosalita, New Jolie Blonde, White Cross on Okinawa, It’s Been So Long Darling, So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed, What Is Life Without Love, You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often, They Took the Stars Out of Heaven, Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry. Excerpt: ” A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses) ” is a 1948 single by Eddy Arnold . The song was Eddy Arnold’s eighth number one, where it spent one week at the top of the Best Seller lists. The b-side of “A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses”, a song entitled, “Then I Turned and Slowly Walked Away” hit number four on the Folk Best Seller lists . References (URLs online) Preceded by “One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) ” by Jimmy Wakely : Best Selling Retail Folk Records number one single by Eddy Arnold December 25, 1948: Succeeded by “One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) ” by Jimmy Wakely A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at “Anytime” is a popular song written by Herbert “Happy” Lawson. The song |
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2008 ESPN Sports Almanac: America’s Best-Selling Sports Almanac $0.99 For over 10 years, the ESPN Sports Almanac has been the definitive source for answers to most every sports question. From record-holders to champions, auto racing to the Iditarod, ballparks, business news, and Who’s Who to the dearly departed athletes of the year past, the ESPN Sports Almanac 2008 tracks them in hundreds of photos, thousands of tables, countless facts and figures, plus expert analysis from ESPN’s most popular personalities (Chris Berman, Dan Patrick, Stuart Scott, Mike Golic, Mike Greenberg,Dick Vitale, et al.). Add fan input from ESPN.com’s SportsNation polls, along with ESPN’s unique brand of humor, and this latest edition will keep the ESPN Sports Almanac the reigning champion and a New York Times best-seller. |
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2011 Close to Home Box Calendar $7 Close to Home is bizarre, strange, and sometimes a bit disturbing, not to mention one of the funniest cartoon panels in newspapers today. Who can resist John McPherson’s goofy-looking characters caught in crazy scenarios like an airline’s offer of free, unlimited coffee to passengers while charging $75 to use the restroom, or an entrepreneur’s creation of a recession proof business selling wholesale mortuary stones and toilet paper? Wit and a touch of absurdity–the Close to Home 2011 Day-to-Day Calendar blends them hilariously.Copyright (c) 2010 by John McPherson All rights reserved. |
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2011: Trendspotting for the Next Decade $25.95 They think he’s brilliant…“Laermer is a trendspotter who actually can show us how to separate the important trends in technology from the passing fads.”-The Today show on TrendSpotting“The author’s creativity and sheer enthusiasm shine through and bring the case studies to life.”-Journal of Communication Management on Full Frontal PR“Best marketing book I’ve ever read by far.”-Noggin Blog on Punk MarketingThey think he’s absurd…“The book is exactly what it sounds like and twice as disgusting…it rips punk’s heart out and beats it to death with a stick.”-Philadelphia Weekly on Punk Marketing“It’s clear that Laermer is hot to trot. When he moves on to sweeping generalities, it’s hard to keep from chucking [the book] against a wall.”—Los Angeles Times on Get On With ItBut he’s one important thing-relevant.“Oh please. They love me, they hate me. Go through the book! There has to be one thing, at the very least, that you appreciate (giggle, chortle, knee slap) and more important, can use. If not, well, call me.”-Richard Laermer on everyone’s a criticHungry for more? Log on to Laermer.com.Richard Laermer is the nonstop author of six nonfiction guides to business, including the prophetic TrendSpotting and perennial and award-winning Full Frontal PR. He is the CEO of veteran trendspotting public relations firm, RLM PR; a renowned commentator, host of the nationally syndicated Unspun Radio and cohost of TLC’s Taking Care of Business series. His Punk Marketing was one of the top-selling business books of 2007. |
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2011: Trendspotting for the Next Decade $25.95 They think he’s brilliant…“Laermer is a trendspotter who actually can show us how to separate the important trends in technology from the passing fads.”-The Today show on TrendSpotting“The author’s creativity and sheer enthusiasm shine through and bring the case studies to life.”-Journal of Communication Management on Full Frontal PR“Best marketing book I’ve ever read by far.”-Noggin Blog on Punk MarketingThey think he’s absurd…“The book is exactly what it sounds like and twice as disgusting…it rips punk’s heart out and beats it to death with a stick.”-Philadelphia Weekly on Punk Marketing“It’s clear that Laermer is hot to trot. When he moves on to sweeping generalities, it’s hard to keep from chucking [the book] against a wall.”—Los Angeles Times on Get On With ItBut he’s one important thing-relevant.“Oh please. They love me, they hate me. Go through the book! There has to be one thing, at the very least, that you appreciate (giggle, chortle, knee slap) and more important, can use. If not, well, call me.”-Richard Laermer on everyone’s a criticHungry for more? Log on to Laermer.com.Richard Laermer is the nonstop author of six nonfiction guides to business, including the prophetic TrendSpotting and perennial and award-winning Full Frontal PR. He is the CEO of veteran trendspotting public relations firm, RLM PR; a renowned commentator, host of the nationally syndicated Unspun Radio and cohost of TLC’s Taking Care of Business series. His Punk Marketing was one of the top-selling business books of 2007. |
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45 Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life $0.99 When you subtract the amount of hours you sleep, work, and commute, you probably don’t have more than one or two hours a day to do what you would like to do-and that’s if you have the money to do it.Don Failla has been teaching his simple network marketing method which allows anyone to learn how to own his or her life by building a home-based business. It doesn’t require selling, and the best part is, it won’t take much of your time.The 45-Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life is a virtual training manual on network marketing, designed to teach you a step-by-step plan for building a profitable, sustainable network marketing business. Network marketing is a system for distributing goods and services through networks of independent distributors. This guide not only unlocks the secrets of successful network marketing, but it provides the method to sponsor people in your organization using Failla’s “45-Second Presentation.”With nearly four decades’ worth of instructions and insights from Failla, The 45-Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life provides you with the essentials for building and maintaining your lucrative home business. |
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81 Financial and Tax Tips for the Canadian Real Estate Investor: Expert Money-Saving Advice on Accounting and Tax Planning $32.95 From Canada’s best-selling real esate author, Don R. Campbell, and his team.From rental properties to business offices, more and more Canadians buying real estate are unwittingly setting themselves up for problems. Real estate investments and their corresponding tax policies are complicated–without knowing the tax rules, investors will see how quickly seemingly viable investments can become financial disasters. 81 Financial and Tax Tips for the Canadian Real Estate Investor offers practical advice on successfully navigating the tax implications of property ownership, including tips on a) deductions from income; b) preparing for an audit; and c) leveraging professional help. Filled with insights and Canadian-specific tips, there’s no other book like it on the market. |
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895 Sure-Fire Money Making Tips For Your Online Business:Get Very Effective Business Ideas, Sales Tips, Advertising Tips And Marketing Tactics That’s Sure To Succeed In Getting More Leads, More Sales And More Money For Your Web Business $3.99 Business in the net is getting very tough day by day. Any businessperson starting out in the great wide market world of the web will definitely need all the help he can get to survive the early years, let alone get to the top. Start-up businesses that have made it are making tremendous effort to stay ahead of competition and they are doing so by constantly pumping up their game with new ideas. Business survival depends so much on the ability of any business to adjust positively to necessary changes in the selling environment. When a business fails to “keep up with the times,” it will be beaten by competition. It will slowly lose its appeal to the masses and lose its existing customer base which ultimately will lead to its collapse.How does the business owner sustain his bottom line? He will need to put in new products to expand his value. He will need to refine old methods and absorb new strategies. He will need to blend in new gimmicks and new tactics to keep the excitement going. This book contains over 800 business ideas, marketing tactics and sales strategies that have been proven to be effective to other successful online marketers. They are guaranteed to help your web business keep making money! |
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9 Lies That Are Holding Your Business Back…: And the Truth That Will Set It Free $1.99 As an exciting sequel to his smash business bestseller 100 Ways to Motivate Others, Steve Chandler has teamed with Sam Beckford to write an astonishing wake-up call to the more than 20 million people in the United States and Canada who now own small businesses but don’t know how to make them really pay off.By exposing the nine most common (and often fatal) myths in business, Chandler and Beckford offer simple and inspired solutions to the self-induced problems created by small business owners every day. The surprising truths countering each lie – lies such as “It Takes Money to Make Money,” “I Am A Victim of Circumstance,” and “I Can Do This On My Own”-have been battle-tested for years by Sam Beckford and his hundreds of successful small business coaching clients. Now, these same truths are delivered to millions of eager readers with the added kick of Chandler’s trademark lively and entertaining writing style and powerful self-motivational tools. This book tells you not only how to guarantee that your business will be profitable, but also how to motivate yourself each day to do it! Steve Chandler is one of America’s best-selling authors whose eight books-including the bestsellers 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Reinventing Yourself-have been translated into more than 11 languages. Chandler is also a world-famous public speaker who was described by four-time Emmy-award winning PBS screen writer Fred Knipe as “an insane combination of Anthony Robbins and Jerry Seinfeld.” Chandler was recently named to the faculty at the University of Santa Monica where he teaches in the graduate program of soul-centered leadership. About the Author:Sam Beckford is known throughout the United States and Canada as the “Small Business Millionaire.” A five-time business failure who became a millionaire on attempt number six, his story has been told in books, on radio and television, and used in seminars across North America to help other business owners |
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A Bank Of Last Resort $1.04 As a new President takes office in Washington, the country is reeling from an economy that is approaching depths not seen since the Great Depression. The financial industry is in trouble and the new administration is insisting that the largest banks all participate in the Federal Bailout program. Jace Orren, CEO of one of those banks, doesn’t believe his bank needs the bailout and refuses to take it. Under the direction of McMillan, a very powerful behind-the-scenes advisor to the President, the government tries through direct and indirect means to force Jace to go along with the President’s plans. In the struggle between this Machiavellian advisor and Jace Orren, the banking, automobile and airline industries all become involved in a battle setting the powers of anintrusive and controlling government against the ideals of free market capitalism.Bill has been an attorney who has lead billion dollar financial transactions, a Partner in IBM’s Business Consulting Services Group where he was a leader of its global travel and transportationpractice, a professor who taught MBA classes, and the CEO of two travel technology companies, one of which was then the world’s third largest provider of computer reservation systems for thetravel industry. In 2005, as CEO, he started up the ultra low cost Skybus Airlines. He also is the author of The Samurai Leader: Winning Business Battles with the Wisdom, Honor and Courage ofthe Samurai Code. That book is selling worldwide and has been translated into eight other languages. His goal is to become the wise old man sitting under a palm tree at a beach offering advice on the meaning of life to anyone who’ll pay him a dollar. |
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A Basic Guide for Buying and Selling a Company $4.93 Expert advice for a successful transactionToday, businesses are being bought and sold at a rapid rate. As a management consultant who has brokered over 300 small businesses, Wilbur Yegge knows the intricacies involved in the transaction process—and how to overcome them. In this comprehensive guide, he takes you through the ins and outs of the purchasing and vending process, covering everything essential to conclude a successful transaction. Packed with numerous examples, helpful tips, and even a special section on “Yegge’s rules,” this invaluable resource has complete information on: Contractual obligations in purchase and sale agreements. Working with business brokers. Confidentiality issues, such as tax returns, impropriety, and the discovery process. Effective negotiation strategies. What to include—and what not to—in your selling prospectus. Sellers’ pricing methods. Payment alternatives open to buyers |
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A Butler Brothers Catalog, Volume 1: Original Catalog Reprints from the Glass and Pottery Sections of Our Drummer Wholesale Catalogs $29.95 In the latter part of the 1800s, three brothers, Edward, George and Charles Butler, would start a business venture that would eventually become one of the greatest business success stories in American history. In the early 1870s, Edward was selling merchandise as a traveling salesman in the New England area. However, after five years of being on the road, Edward felt that there had to be a better way to sell his merchandise. So together, the three brothers came up with the idea to sell wholesale merchandise to retail stores through the mail and let the catalogs do the traveling. Butler Brothers, as they would name their company, opened their first warehouse in Boston in 1877 with the simple premise of selling bundled sets of merchandise for either five or ten cents and instructing the retail merchants on how to sell the merchandise at a profit. This system would eventually turn into the 5 & 10 stores or the five and dime stores.The demand for their business was so immediate and overwhelming that they were forced to move their business to larger quarters four times within two years. Finally, in June of 1879, the brothers determined they needed to move their business to a new central location which would be more suitable to serving the needs of an ever growing and changing nation; Chicago. Again, the business grew so rapidly that they decided to open another warehouse in New York in 1880. Soon to follow were warehouses in St. Louis (1898), Minneapolis (1907), Dallas (1911), Baltimore (1930), and San Francisco (1932). They also had over a dozen sample houses located in cities throughout the United States. By 1932, the Butler Brothers Company owned over 5,000,000 sq. ft. of warehousespace around the country and serviced thousands of retail merchants. Simply put, they were the kings of the wholesale market.The incredible success of their business was brought about by two primary factors. These included the ability to market their products through their fantastic |
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A Climbing Stock $14.95 Many years ago, Jacque, was tricked into selling his last cow to M. Au Paulet for an amount that wasn’t worth beans. The greedy monopolist guarded all his cattle closely, thus depriving the world of the milk of human kindness. The world soured as the last milk curdled. John, the owner of a small failing business, is tricked by a strange little man to sell his company for three thousand shares of an unknown stock called BEAN (Biomicroscopy Endoscopic Arterial Neurosurgery). To his surprise, the BEAN stock grows rapidly. So rapidly in fact, that he finds himself questioned by the FBI, FTC, and practically other organization with an F in their name. In order to preserve his name, John breaks into BEAN headquarters and is soon recruited by Mr. Tucker to try to bring kindness back to the world. Whisked away, John must fight bureaucrats, dragons, labor unions, and a very powerful corporate giant. But despite all the obstacles, John won’t quit, not ’til the cows come home. |
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A Nation Under Siege $8.01 “WE’LL BE PRAYING FOR YOU” HAS BECOME A SLOGAN. JUST A NICE THING TO SAY WHEN WE SEE SOMEONE STRUGGING OR IN TRUBLE. BUT DO WE REALLY UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE AND POWER OF PRAYER?The whole picture here is that of a strong fortified city where the enemy makes his last stand; entrenching himself about the walls; raising towers and preparing engines of defense and offense upon the walls to ensure victory. The Lord God Almighty said call for my watchmen and the wailing women that they may come and takes the fortifications, walls, towers, and castles and the whole opposition to destroyed their plans, intents design and taken captive.Prayer is perhaps the universal expression of our faith. It is a practice in which all Christians participate more or less regularly.Through her unique perspective on this often-misunderstood subject, best-selling author Dr. Beatrice N. Ofosuah takes mystery out of prayer, providing practical answers for difficult questions about communicating with God.Dr. Beatrice N. Ofosuah is an international motivational speaker, best-selling author, lecturer, educator, and business consultant. Traveling extensively throughout the world, Dr. Beatrice is an anointed Vessel of God, ordained and licensed. A renowned certified/licensed professional counselor addresses emotional disorders and critical issues affecting the full range of human, social and spiritual development. The central theme of her message is Feeling and Healing of your Emotions and transformation of followers into leaders and the maximization of individual potential. She is founder and president of Hope -4- Women Ministries USA, Europe, and Africa also an Apostolic Generalto the International Entrepreneur Women Ministries and Business Leader. Pastor Beatrice has earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Counseling & Theology from Thereupon University, St. Thomas, US Virgin Island and an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Divinity for outstanding leadership |
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A Real Estate Agent’s Guide To Offering Free Home Staging Consultations $29.95 Agents who offer home staging advice to sellers gain significant advantage over agents who do not. Home staging has proven to be an extremely effective strategy for getting a house sold for a premium price in record time. This guide will assist any agent to give priceless advice so sellers can stage their own homes, while relying on professional stagers to manage homes that require more specialized and involved staging services. Any agent looking to learn the basics of staging concepts so they can pass on tips to their clients will find this manual an invaluable guide. Agents interested in doing home staging as a business will also discover more valuable resources for indepth training from the best selling author in the home staging industry. |
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A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking $1.99 In his new book, Samuel Fuller, independent director-producer extraordinaire, tells the story of his life, a life that spanned most of the twentieth century. His twenty-nine tough, gritty pictures made from 1949 to 1989 set out to capture the truth of war, racism, and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own experiences. He writes of his years in the newspaper business—selling papers as a boy on the streets of New York, working for Hearst’s New York Journal American, first as a copyboy, then as personal runner for the famous Hearst editor in chief Arthur Brisbane. His film Park Row was inspired by his years as a reporter for the New York Evening Graphic, where his beat included murders, suicides, state executions, and race riots—he scooped every other New York paper with his coverage of the death by drug overdose of the legendary Jeanne Eagels.Fuller writes about hitchhiking across the country, seeing America firsthand at the height of the Great Depression. He writes of his years in the army . . . fighting with the first infantry division in World War II, called the Big Red One . . . on the front lines during the invasion of North Africa and Sicily, and landing on Omaha Beach on D Day, June 6, 1944. These experiences he later captured in his hugely successful pictures The Big Red One, The Steel Helmet, and Merrill’s Marauders, which was based on the true story of a three-thousand-man infantry that fought behind enemy lines in Burma in 1944. Fuller talks about directing his first picture (he also wrote the script), I Shot Jesse James . . . and how, as a result, he was sought after byevery major studio, choosing to work for Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century Fox. We see him becoming one of the most prolific, independent-minded writer-directors, turning out seven pictures in six years, among them Pickup on South Street, House of Bamboo, and China |
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A Wind on the Heath $14.95 Best-selling author Kenneth McDonald has given us a personal glimpse into his life. He takes us through his youth in Bristol and London, on to the life-changing experiences as a WWII RAF bomber pilot and commander of the RAF’s main base in the Far East. World travel as an executive of Canadair Ltd. ends when he decides to leave ‘the air’ and fulfill an ambition to turn writing from hobby to career.This journey takes place over eight decades, during one of the most interesting periods in our history. Through the author’s candour and refreshing writing style, experience his joy, humour and philosophical outlook, in a way that history books cannot convey. Take courage from the indomitable spirit of those who fought for the freedoms we enjoy today and discover how, with the love of his life, his beloved Ruth, by his side, the author, like so many of his contemporaries, has chosen to live each day to the fullest. For years, a regular contributor to Report on Business as well as to other Canadian dailies and Executive magazine, he is the author of six books on Canada’s political economy. |
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A Woman’s Guide to Working for Herself: Inspiration, Information and Advice from Women Who Run Their Own Business, for Women Who Aspire to Do So $12.11 The rise of the female entrepreneur over the past 30 years is a cause for celebration in the UK. Whether driven by unfair treatment at work, conflict between office and family life, or the inspiration of a great business idea, hundreds of thousands of women are motivated to work for themselves. There are many benefits to being self employed but many, too, are the challenges. Women need confidence, support, and often some start-up finance to make a go of it. This book will provide inspiration, information and loads of advice from a range of women who run their own business. It starts by recognising that women start all kinds of ventures in many different circumstances: – Developing an idea from home – Freelancing – Joining the ‘mumpreneurs’ – Launching a business with capital investment – Buying a franchise or creating a franchise – Becoming an direct selling agent – Creating a social enterprise – Starting up after redundancy or unemployment – Breaking new ground – young, retired, disabled, disadvantaged |
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ABC’s of Selling with Etiquette $7.99 Schools do not offer classes in persuasiveness. Most people never receive formal sales training. No wonder they struggle with selling their ideas, much less products or services. Millions of people are trying to succeed in business. They all could benefit from learning how to effectively engage and be persuasive with others. Everyone needs to know how to sell.ABC s of Selling with Etiquette distills the complex behavior of selling into 26 easy-to-understand concepts. The concepts build upon each other until, by the end, the reader has a complete understanding of how selling works, why customers buy, and how to be more persuasive. As a bonus, the book presents business etiquette. Knowing how to behave in typical business situations builds confidence. Knowing proper business etiquette allows the reader to feel more comfortable in public and focus their attention on being more persuasive. |
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ABC’s of Writing for Children: 114 Children’s Authors and Illustrators Talk about the Art, Business, the Craft, and the Life of Writing Children’s Literature $16.95 Have you ever dreamed of writing a best-selling children’s book? Ever fantasize about what it’s like to live the life of a published children’s author? Although writing and illustrating books for children is not as easy as it looks, new authors and illustrators are being discovered–and published–all the time. Even if you’re not planning a career in this field, learning how authors and illustrators work can lend new insights and appreciation to their art. The same ideas and inspirations that help authors and illustrators of children’s books may encourage students, teachers, librarians and other creative artists in their literary efforts. In The ABCs of Writing for Children, you’ll learn many ‘do’s and don’ts’ for creating children’s books. You’ll see that what works for one author may not work for the next. No matter what your aspirations are, whether you want to enrich your reading, teach others to read and write more deeply, or nurture your own creative process, learning what works for others may work for you. Including Chris Crutcher, Karen Cushman, Sid Fleischman, Richard Peck, R. L. Stine, Rosemary Wells, and Jane Yolen. |
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Account-Based Marketing $36.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Account-based marketing (ABM), also known as key account marketing, is a strategic approach to business marketing in which an organisation considers and communicates with individual prospect or customer accounts as markets of one. The popularity of this approach is growing, with companies such as BearingPoint, HP, Progress Software and Xerox reported to be leading the way. Account-based marketing has grown since the mid-1990s as a demonstration of the trend away from mass marketing towards more targeted approaches. It parallels the movement in business-to-consumer marketing away from mass marketing where organisations try to sell individual products to as many new prospects as possible to 1:1 marketing where they concentrate on selling as many products as possible to one customer at a time. While business marketing is typically organised by industry, product/solution or channel (direct/social/PR), account-based marketing brings all of these together to focus on individual accounts. |
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Advanced BlackBerry 6 Development $39.99 BlackBerry devices and applications are selling by the millions. As a BlackBerry developer, you need an advanced skill set to successfully exploit the most compelling features of the platform. This book will help you develop that skill set and teach you how to create the most sophisticated BlackBerry programs possible. With Advanced BlackBerry 6 Development, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the new features included with SDK 6, including the web and widgets SDK, the web browser, and more. You’ll also learn how to take advantage of BlackBerry media capabilities such as the camera and video playback. The book also shows you how to send and receive text and multimedia messages, use powerful cryptography libraries, and connect with the user’s personal and business contacts and calendar. Not only will you be learning how to use these APIs, but you’ll also be building a program that takes full advantage of them: a wireless media-sharing app. Each chapter’s lessons will be applied by enhancing the app from a prototype to a fully polished program. Along the way, you’ll learn how to differentiate your product from other downloads by fully integrating with the new BlackBerry 6 operating system. Your app will run in the browser and within device menus, just like software that comes with the phone. You will even learn BlackBerry’s new Web browser features, Web standards-basedsoftware development kit, and more.Once you are comfortable with writing apps, this book will show you how to take them to the next level. You’ll learn how to move from running on one phone to running on all phones, and from one country to all countries. You’ll additionally learn how to support your users with updates. No other resource compares for mastering the techniques needed for expert development on this mobile platform. What you’ll learn How to write sophisticated BlackBerry applications All about |
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Advanced BlackBerry Development $0.99 BlackBerry devices and applications are selling by the millions. As a BlackBerry developer, you need an advanced skill set to successfully exploit the most compelling features of the platform. This book will help you develop that skill set and teach you how to create the most sophisticated BlackBerry programs possible.With Advanced BlackBerry Development, you’ll learn you how to take advantage of BlackBerry media capabilities, including the camera and video playback. The book also shows you how to send and receive text and multimedia messages, use powerful cryptography libraries, and connect with the user’s personal and business contacts and calendar.Not only will you be learning how to use these application programming interfaces, but you’ll also be building a program that takes full advantage of them: a wireless media-sharing app. Each chapter’s lessons will be applied by enhancing the app from a prototype to a fully polished program. Along the way, yo’ll learn how to differentiate your product from other downloads by fully integrating with the operating system. Your app will run in the browser and within device menus, just like software that comes with the phone.Once you are comfortable with writing apps, this book will show you how to take them to the next level. You’ll learn how to move from running on one phone to running on all phones, and from one country to all countries. You’ll additionally learn how to support your users with updates. No other resource compares for mastering the techniques needed for expert development on this mobile platform. What you’ll learn How to write sophisticated BlackBerry applications All about integrating with the device so your program behaves like a native app When to leverage advanced Java specification requests (JSRs) for cryptography, media capture, messaging, and more How to tie into the device contact list, |
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Advanced Public Speaking: Dynamics and Techniques $29.88 The text provides instruction on how to give different types of presentations and how to improve upon other communication skills including listening. Topics throughout the book include harnessing the fear of public speaking, motivating others, applying immediacy, listening actively, lecturing effectively, speaking off the cuff, and selling yourself and your business. |
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Adventures in Global Selling $12.88 A salesman’s life in his own words…Whether handling gangsters with an eye on a cut of his business, bribing Russian cops with honey pot favors, lobbying Mexico’s president or trading gunfire with the Russian mob, it was all in a day’s work for Gayle Hickok, master salesman.His adventures selling everything from cars to resorts worldwide was varied and demanding but never dull.Why read a great salesman’s memoir if you don’t plan on being a salesman? Because life is sales. Housewives sell kids on taking out the trash, doctors sell patients on treatment, teachers sell students on learning, wooers sell wooed on love—everywhere and in everything—sales has its part. Why not learn from a pro? |
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Advertising and Promotion with Powerweb $181.75 Advertising and Promotion: An Integrated Marketing Communications Perspective, 7/e, by Belch and Belch, is the number one text in the Advertising market. As the field of advertising and promotion continues to dramatically change since the dominant days of high-powered Madison Avenue agencies, marketers must look beyond traditional media in order to achieve success. In order to best communicate with consumers, advertisers must utilize a myriad of tools (advertising, public relations, direct marketing, interactive/Internet marketing, sales promotion, and personal selling); Belch/Belch is the first book to reflect the shift from the conventional methods of advertising to the more widely recognized approach of implementing an integrated marketing communications strategy. The text underscores the importance of recognizing that a firm must use all promotional tools available to convey a unified message to the consumer. The integrated marketing communications perspective, (the theme of the text), catapults the reader into the business practices of the 21st century. |
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Airliners 1980-1989: Brazilian Airliners 1980-1989, British Airliners 1980-1989, Canadian Airliners 1980-1989 $36.46 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Brazilian Airliners 1980-1989, British Airliners 1980-1989, Canadian Airliners 1980-1989, Czechoslovakian Airliners 1980-1989, Dutch Airliners 1980-1989, German Airliners 1980-1989, International Airliners 1980-1989, People’s Republic of China Airliners 1980-1989, Soviet Airliners 1980-1989, Swedish Airliners 1980-1989, United States Airliners 1980-1989, Boeing 767, Boeing 757, Airbus A320 Family, Airbus A340, Airbus A310, Bombardier Dash 8, Boeing 747-400, Beechcraft 1900, Bae 146, Mcdonnell Douglas Md-80, Boeing 737 Classic, Atr 72, Ilyushin Il-96, Saab 340, Atr 42, Fokker 100, Tupolev Tu-204, Embraer Emb 110 Bandeirante, Fokker 50, Dornier Do 228, Casa Cn-235, Short 360, Embraer Emb 120 Brasilia, Bae Atp, Shanghai Y-10, Let L-610, Dornier 228 Ng. Excerpt: The Airbus A320 family is a family of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger jet airliners manufactured by Airbus. The family includes the A318, A319, A320, and A321, as well as the ACJ business jet. The first member of the A320 family, the A320, was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was first delivered in 1988. The family was soon extended to include the A321 (first delivered 1994), the A319 (1996), and the A318 (2003). The A320 family pioneered the use of digital fly-by-wire flight control systems in a commercial aircraft. Although there were a continuously improvement process since introduction, currently the A320 Enhanced program includes greater improvements. The Airbus A320 family has over 4,200 built and an additional 2,300 on order as of March 2010. According to Airbus, it ranked as the world’s fastest-selling jet airliner family according to records from 2005 to 2007, and the best-selling single generation aircraft programme. A narrow… More: |
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Akiba Hebrew Academy Alumni: Mitch Albom $9.53 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mitchel David “Mitch” Albom (born May 23, 1958) is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have sold over 26 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for his sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known now for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays and films. He is also well-known for his philanthropic work in Detroit, Michigan where he founded three charities. Albom was born in Passaic, New Jersey and briefly lived in Buffalo, New York before moving back to New Jersey as a child, where he attended a synagogue led by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis, the subject of his book, Have a Little Faith. After attending high schools in New Jersey and Philadelphia, including Akiba Hebrew Academy in Lower Merion, Albom went on to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts to earn a bachelors degree in sociology. Pursuing his dream to become a musician, he worked after graduation for several years in nightclubs in the US and Europe. He discovered an aptitude for writing and eventually returned to graduate school, earning a Masters degree from Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism, followed by an MBA from Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Business. In 1995, he married Janine Sabino. They live in suburban Detroit, Michigan. They currently have no children. Alboms original dream was to become a musician, and he played in numerous bands in high school and college. He studied jazz piano with several teachers, including a brief stretch with the well-respected Charlie Banacos at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1979, having graduated from college, Albom t… More: |
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All Dogs Go to Heaven: List of All Dogs Go to Heaven Episodes, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, All Dogs Go to Heaven: the Series $10 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 animated film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists. Set in 1939, the film tells the story of two dogs, Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds)and his loyal best friend Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise). Charlie, who is murdered by his gangster business partner Carface Crothers, forsakes his place in Heaven to return and take revenge. On his return he frees a young orphan girl, Anne-Marie, who Carface was holding captive because of her ability to talk to and understand animals (giving Carface insider information about whom to bet on in races). At first Charlie and Itchy intend on exploiting Anne-Marie’s gift too, but they soon become attached to her and act as her protectors. Charlie learns that he will have to change his ways in order to get back into Heaven. The film was produced at Sullivan Bluth Studios in Dublin, Ireland, funded by UK-based investors Goldcrest Films. On its cinema release it competed directly with an animated feature released at the same time, The Little Mermaid produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. While it did not repeat the box-office success of Sullivan Bluth’s previous feature films (An American Tail and The Land Before Time) it was very successful on home video, becoming one of the biggest-selling VHS releases ever. The film inspired a theatrical sequel, a television series and a holiday direct-to-video film. It has since then become a cult film and classic. In 1939, New Orleans, Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds), a rumble-tumble mongrel with a con man’s charm, is working at a casino with his gangster business partner Carface Crothers (voiced by Vic Tayback). Carface, unwilling to share the earnings, has Charlie locked away at the … More: |
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All People Who Work for Me Are Selling $11.19 This book asks 10 questions about selling your product or service that all business owners should be asking themselves and their staff. |
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All the Tea in China: How to Buy, Sell, and Make Money on the Mainland $0.99 A pioneer shares the secrets to creating jobs and reaping profits doing business with China Is China a threat to America’s economic future? Just the opposite, says international businessman Jeremy Haft. China is a boon for business: the opportunity of a lifetime to create jobs, build value, and make money. All the Tea in China demonstrates America’s overwhelming competitive advantage over China in the global economy. And it highlights the many market opportunities for companies of all sizes, in all sectors. China is far and away the fastest growing market for U.S. goods and services in the world. Despite the good news, China remains one of the most challenging operating environments, and it’s easy to make costly mistakes. Haft demonstrates how to avoid the pitfalls, providing an industry-by-industry guide to buying from, selling to, and competing with the Chinese. The book is also filled with funny stories of Haft’s hard-won lessons as a China business pioneer. It’s the most engaging, useful book yet on this important subject. |
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All the Tea in China: How to Buy, Sell, and Make Money on the Mainland $18.99 A pioneer shares the secrets to creating jobs and reaping profits doing business with China Is China a threat to America’s economic future? Just the opposite, says international businessman Jeremy Haft. China is a boon for business: the opportunity of a lifetime to create jobs, build value, and make money. All the Tea in China demonstrates America’s overwhelming competitive advantage over China in the global economy. And it highlights the many market opportunities for companies of all sizes, in all sectors. China is far and away the fastest growing market for U.S. goods and services in the world. Despite the good news, China remains one of the most challenging operating environments, and it’s easy to make costly mistakes. Haft demonstrates how to avoid the pitfalls, providing an industry-by-industry guide to buying from, selling to, and competing with the Chinese. The book is also filled with funny stories of Haft’s hard-won lessons as a China business pioneer. It’s the most engaging, useful book yet on this important subject. |
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Amazon.Com $19.99 Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America’s largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995 as Cadabra.com. It started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products. A 2009 survey found that Amazon was the UK’s favorite music and video retailer, and third overall retailer. Amazon was founded in 1994, spurred by what Bezos called “regret minimization framework”, his effort to fend off regret for not staking a claim in the Internet gold rush. Company lore says Bezos wrote the business plan while he and his wife drove from New York to Seattle,, although that account appears to be apocryphal. The company began as an online bookstore; while the largest brick-and-mortar bookstores and mail-order catalogs for books might offer 200,000 titles, an online bookstore could offer more. Bezos named the company “Amazon” after the world’s largest river. Since 2000, Amazon’s logotype is an arrow leading from A to Z, representing customer satisfaction (as it forms a smile); a goal was to have every product in the alphabet. Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington. In July 1995, the company began service and sold its first book on amazon.com – Douglas Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.. In 1996, it was reincorporated in Delaware. Amazon issued its |
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Amazon.com $48 With more than 600 million website visitors a year, Amazon.com is often the first choice for people wanting to buy various products on-line. Selling several hundred thousand items per day, Amazon.com is developing with determination – the business deals it has concluded combined with new product lines give a clear signal that the company is still exploring the limits (and whether there are any at all) of the field of on-line shopping and electronic commerce. This book provides an introduction to the highly successful and influential brand, its development and key-people. |
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American Bar Association Legal Guide for Small Business, Second Edition: Everything You Need to Know About Small Business, from Start-Up to Employment La ws to Financing and Selling $16.99 American Bar Asociation Staff,Paperback, Edition: 2, English-language edition,Pub by Diversified Publishing on 06-15-2010 |
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An Insider’s Guide to Selling Books Online: Learn How to Create a Work from Home Business $7.99 David Wilson,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by CreateSpace |
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Anderson’s Business Law and the Legal Environment, Comprehensive Edition $137.48 Not only helping you to ace your business law course, ANDERSON’S BUSINESS LAW AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT, COMPREHENSIVE VOLUME, 20th Edition, also provides the information and resources to assist you in studying for the CPA exam. The #1 business law text with summarized cases on the market today, this top-selling book helps you grasp key legal concepts and principles, reinforcing your understanding with applications and examples of real-world dilemmas, issues, and problems. Current, comprehensive, easy-to-understand and fascinating to read, ANDERSON’S BUSINESS LAW will help you prepare you for every class lecture and give you all the resources you need to do your best on exams. |
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Animated Features Released by United Artists: The Lord of the Rings, All Dogs Go to Heaven, the Secret of Nimh, the Plague Dogs $10.46 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Lord of the Rings, All Dogs Go to Heaven, the Secret of Nimh, the Plague Dogs. Excerpt: For the television series, see All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series All Dogs Go to Heaven All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 animated film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists . Set in 1939, the film tells the story of two dogs, Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds ) and his loyal best friend Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise ). Charlie, who is murdered by his gangster business partner Carface Carruthers, forsakes his place in Heaven to return and take revenge. On his return he frees a young orphan girl, Anne-Marie, who Carface was holding captive because of her ability to talk to and understand animals (giving Carface insider information about whom to bet on in races). At first Charlie and Itchy intend on exploiting Anne-Marie’s gift too, but they soon become attached to her and act as her protectors. Charlie learns that he will have to change his ways in order to get back into Heaven. The film was produced at Sullivan Bluth Studios in Dublin , Ireland , funded by UK-based investors Goldcrest Films . On its cinema release it competed directly with an animated feature released at the same time, The Little Mermaid produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation . While it did not repeat the box-office success of Sullivan Bluth’s previous feature films ( An American Tail and The Land Before Time ) it was very successful on home video , becoming one of the biggest-selling VHS releases ever. The film inspired a theatrical sequel , a television series and a holiday direct-to-video film . It has since then become a cult film and classic. Plot In 1939, New Orleans , Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds ), a rough-and-tumble mutt with a con man’s |
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Applehouse Supreme: A Saga of International Horse Racing and Breeding $21 This is a saga of international horse racing and breeding and the families who commit themselves to its trials and achievements. The journeys of Chauncie D’Arcy Emmet, an Irish vet, specialising in race horses, and consultant to many of the leading establishments, travels round the world to advise her clients. Ireland, England, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, France and the USA are all part of the story. Families meet in the colourful field of racing silks and in the race to the winning post. There is more than one winning post; buying and selling of great stallions and the search for brood-mares, the establishment of famous lines, big business deals to secure the future against international events, the risk of uprooting and relocating valuable stock on the other side of the world, and the rescue-in passing- of Vietnamese boat people-are all part of the excitement. The internal strife common to families, their interaction with others in the racing world. Not only the people, but the horses—the Reds—and the extent to which Allan Bayford-Smythe will go to secure his dream, the reestablishment of an all but extinct famous Australian racing line, and his encounter with the White Stallions of the Camargue in the rescue of his famous “Big Red,” are just some of the ingredients of a racing novel with a difference. |
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Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences $1.99 This best-selling text is written for those who use, rather than develop statistical methods. Dr. Stevens focuses on a conceptual understanding of the material rather than on proving results. Helpful narrative and numerous examples enhance understanding and a chapter on matrix algebra serves as a review. Annotated printouts from SPSS and SAS indicate what the numbers mean and encourage interpretation of the results. In addition to demonstrating how to use these packages, the author stresses the importance of checking the data, assessing the assumptions, and ensuring adequate sample size by providing guidelines so that the results can be generalized. The book is noted for its extensive applied coverage of MANOVA, its emphasis on statistical power, and numerous exercises including answers to half.The new edition features:New chapters on Hierarchical Linear Modeling (Ch. 15) and Structural Equation Modeling (Ch. 16)New exercises that feature recent journal articles to demonstrate the actual use of multiple regression (Ch. 3), MANOVA (Ch. 5), and repeated measures (Ch. 13) A new appendix on the analysis of correlated observations (Ch. 6)Expanded discussions on obtaining non-orthogonal contrasts in repeated measures designs with SPSS and how to make the identification of cell ID easier in log linear analysis in 4 or 5 way designsUpdated versions of SPSS (15.0) and SAS (8.0) are used throughout the text and introduced in chapter 1A book website with data sets and more.Ideal for courses on multivariate statistics found in psychology, education, sociology, and business departments, the book also appeals to practicing researchers with little or no training in multivariate methods. Prerequisites include a course on factorial ANOVA and covariance. Working knowledge of matrix algebra is not assumed. |
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Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences $85 This best-selling text is written for those who use, rather than develop statistical methods. Dr. Stevens focuses on a conceptual understanding of the material rather than on proving results. Helpful narrative and numerous examples enhance understanding and a chapter on matrix algebra serves as a review. Annotated printouts from SPSS and SAS indicate what the numbers mean and encourage interpretation of the results. In addition to demonstrating how to use these packages, the author stresses the importance of checking the data, assessing the assumptions, and ensuring adequate sample size by providing guidelines so that the results can be generalized. The book is noted for its extensive applied coverage of MANOVA, its emphasis on statistical power, and numerous exercises including answers to half.The new edition features:New chapters on Hierarchical Linear Modeling (Ch. 15) and Structural Equation Modeling (Ch. 16)New exercises that feature recent journal articles to demonstrate the actual use of multiple regression (Ch. 3), MANOVA (Ch. 5), and repeated measures (Ch. 13) A new appendix on the analysis of correlated observations (Ch. 6)Expanded discussions on obtaining non-orthogonal contrasts in repeated measures designs with SPSS and how to make the identification of cell ID easier in log linear analysis in 4 or 5 way designsUpdated versions of SPSS (15.0) and SAS (8.0) are used throughout the text and introduced in chapter 1A book website with data sets and more.Ideal for courses on multivariate statistics found in psychology, education, sociology, and business departments, the book also appeals to practicing researchers with little or no training in multivariate methods. Prerequisites include a course on factorial ANOVA and covariance. Working knowledge of matrix algebra is not assumed. |
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Art Galleries in New York: Art Galleries in New York City, Associated American Artists, Chambers Fine Art, Yvon Lambert Gallery $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Art Galleries in New York City, Associated American Artists, Chambers Fine Art, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Big Orbit Gallery, Elaine Benson Gallery. Excerpt: Associated American Artists is an art gallery and business established in 1934 in New York City. The gallery marketed art to the middle classes, first in the form of affordable prints and later in home furnishings and accessories, and played a significant role in the growth of art as an industry. Associated American Artists was begun by Reeves Lewenthal. Lewenthal’s first job was as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune but he quickly expanded into artists’ agent, working as a publicist for British artist Douglas Chandor. By the 1930s Lewenthal had a clientele of 35 groups including the National Academy of Design and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. Realizing the limited possibilities in selling high-priced art to high-class dealers, and the correspondingly huge potential in marketing affordable art to the much-larger middle classes, he left his public relations work to try his hand at this new business model. Prints being relatively cheap to produce, Lewenthal decided to focus on that medium. Before the 1930s, fine-art prints were usually limited editions which sold for $10-$50. During the Great Depression the Federal Art Project had resulted in hundreds of thousands of prints, but these were distributed free (mostly to schools) thus the artists made nothing. Lewenthal’s idea was to combine quality, affordability, and profit. In 1934 he met with several well-known American artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, and proposed hiring them to produce etchings which he would then sell to middle-class buyers for $5 apiece plus $2 per frame, … More: |
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Art Works: Money $29.95 A unique exhibition in a book, presenting challenging art that deals with the place and function of autobiography in the contemporary world.Art Works: An exciting new series celebrating the vitality and diversity of art in the twenty-first century.Not only is money central to our daily existence, it also controls the very way societies organize themselves. It’s small wonder then that artists engage with this most powerful of social forces and address the many ways it impacts on our lives.Arranged into themed “rooms,” the book reflects a wide variety of artistic attitudes and practices. Some artists depict or use real money directly in their work, while others explore its more abstract aspects, such as the way it circulates around the globe. Some make highly expensive objects from valuable materials or produce sculptural copies of luxury goods; others go in the opposite direction, toward the amateurish and the handmade, to question the idea of monetary value. Some present art as a usable consumer product like any other, making work that is almost indistinguishable from furniture or architecture, while others produce art about the business of buying and selling commodities, including the commodity of art itself.All of the artists in this book use art to figure out the complicated ways in which money functions in the world of getting and spending. All of them help us understand the world in which we live. 200 illustrations, 180 in color.Author Biography: Katy Siegel is Professor of Art History at Hunter College. A curator and a frequent writer on contemporary art, she is also a contributing editor to Artforum. Paul Mattick is Professor of Philosophy atAdelphi University and a prominent art critic who writes regularly on contemporary art, aesthetics, and the relationship of art and commerce. |
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Art and Science of Selling $45.95 Volume 2 of 2. This volume contains Volumes V through VIII of the original works. The purpose of this course on salesmanship and personal efficiency is to give ambitious men and women an opportunity to improve themselves and become successful, scientific business producers through spare time or whole time study. Volume V, Language and Persuasion, includes lessons on the use of words in expression, punctuation and paragraphing, elements of correct English, discourse and the sales talk, use of logical argument and suggestion, sensations the basis of judgment, reasoning a form of persuasion, and use of suggestion in selling. Volume VI, Handling the Customer, presents lessons in useful points in judging customers, customers to guard against in selling, customers all salesmen like to sell, customers who: try your self-control, believe in salesmen, depend on themselves, reason things out, and accept suggestions. Volume VII, Making the Sale, discusses the investigation, approach for interested-attention, explanation for understanding, demonstration for belief and desire, answering objections for decision, closing, satisfied customer, and self-checking your salesmanship. The final Volume VIII, Personal Efficiency in Selling, presents efficiency is salesmanship, positive mind, memory training, imagination as a business force, autosuggestion, conquering will, self-improvement through habit, and making the most of yourself. |
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Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue $29.98 What’s the one common factor among entrepreneurs who create and grow successful online businesses today? Attention. They know what kind they need. They know how to get it. They know how to maintain it. And they know how to make it pay over the long term. Want your business to get the high quality customer engagement it needs to thrive? Attention! This Book Will Make You Money is the only guide you need.Whether you’re starting a business, expanding or revamping an existing one, or just hunting for the latest marketing techniques, Attention! This Book Will Make You Money provides you with a complete online toolbox for bringing in the customer traffic you want—the kind that boosts your brand while driving revenue and profits.In easy, bite-size sections, Attention! This Book Will Make You Money gives you winning techniques and strategies including:Creating a compelling hookMaintaining a good brand name onlineGoing from idea to success in 8 hours26 ways to generate killer ideas3 truths for coming up with great ideasMaking money from online videosMaking money with social mediaGetting and keeping subscribersThe universal truths of selling on the WebFilled with case studies, references, and proven examples of what works online, Attention! This Book Will Make You Money is your one-stop road map for success in today’s social Web marketplace. |
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Attraction Of The Compass $23.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III. LANDING IN DAWSON CITY, YUKON TERRITORY. Yes, we landed in Dawson, cold, wet, and hungry, after floating down the Yukon River from Atlin. It was in the fall of the year, and our scow was one of the last down the river, and we daily expected it to be frozen in, before we could reach Dawson. My complete outfit consisted of a sled and two hundred pounds of provisions, my blankets and three dogs; for while stranded for several days on the sand bar of an island in the Yukon River, we had adopted a poor, starved dog, which had been abandoned the winter before, or had strayed from some camp. Upon landing in Dawson I had but two dollars and a big responsibility. In those days two dollars would not go far, for I have known of fresh potatoes selling for one dollar apiece, and other things in proportion. Just about dark, I met a man whom I had known slightly in Skagway, Alaska, and he showed me an empty log cabin, in which he said we might bunk, until a more suitable place was found. At that time I did not explain that the girl with me was not my wife, and it would have made but little difference anyway, as very few couples in that country were married. They would simply pick up a companion and go on seeking a fortune, trying to stick strictly to their own business. So, through the slush and snow, we, pulling our outfits, followed our new-found friend. When we reached the cabin and opened the door, to our surprise, there were other occupants; a young Jew from New York, and a tall Englishman, commonly known as the “remittance man,” usually an undesirable citizen in that country. His allowance from England had been suddenly cut off. His relatives had sent him to Dawson to try and make a fortune, or a living, or to get rid of him, it made but little difference whi… |
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Australian Newspaper Publishers (People): Kerry Packer $9.62 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, AC (17 December 1937 26 December 2005), son of Sir Frank Packer, was an Australian media tycoon whose family company owned controlling interests in both the Nine television network and leading Australian publishing company Australian Consolidated Press (which were later merged to form Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL)). Packer was famous for his abrasive personality, his wealth, his lavish gambling habits, his expansive business empire and his highly publicised clashes with the Australian Taxation Office and the Costigan Royal Commission. At the time of his death, Packer was the richest and one of the most influential men in Australia. In 2004 Business Review Weekly magazine estimated Packer’s net worth at AUD 6.5 billion. Packer, through his family company Consolidated Press Holdings, was the major shareholder, with a 37% holding, in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL), which until Packer’s death owned the Nine television network and Australian Consolidated Press, which produces many of Australia’s top-selling magazines. He was involved in a number of other gambling and tourism ventures, notably Crown Casino in Melbourne. The Nine Network and Australian Consolidated Press businesses have since been divested to PBL Media. Packer was widely respected in business circles, courted by politicians on both sides, and he was widely regarded as one of the most astute businessmen of his time, despite the fact that he had been a poor student. Although Packer’s reputation as an astute businesman legendary and he did make some good investments, he was by no means a self-made manhis grandfather and his father Sir Frank Packer had built up the media empire and its related holdings over many decades. As pointed o… More: |
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BVR’s Guide to Business Valuation Sourcebook – 2010 Edition $99 This best selling book has been fully updated. As the essential, go-to reference for the appraisal profession. This Sourcebook compiles first generation content, including IRS code, regulations, and standards, as well as summaries and commentary on landmark BV cases—including Jelke and McCord. Save time and spare yourself the frustration of mining the Internet or thumbing through print sources for these key materials. The BV Sourcebook puts everything you need in one place! (Replaces ISBN 978-1935081-23-4) |
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Bachman-Turner Overdrive $48.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums in that decade alone. The band has sold an estimated 20 million albums worldwide, and has fans affectionately known as “gearheads” (derived from the band’s gear-shaped logo). Many of their songs, including “Let It Ride”, “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”, and “Takin’ Care of Business”, receive frequent play on many FM classic rock stations. The Bachman and the band uses this pronunciation when referring to themselves. However, especially on American radio, that the band no longer makes the correction, and both pronunciations have become acceptable. After the band went into a hiatus in 2004, Randy Bachman and Fred Turner have reunited for a tour and collaboration on new songs for 2010. |
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Baiyoke Suite Hotel $0 Hotel Address: 130 Rajprarop Road, Rajthevee Bangkok. The Best Western Baiyoke Suite hotel, in Bangkok is a superior class hotel designed to provide the utmost comfort and convenience for the discerning leisure or business traveller. The hotel is centrally located in Bangkok, surrounded by 3 large department stores and wholesale shops selling various kinds of goods. It is within walking distance to World Trade Centre, Patip Plaza Computer Complex, Siam Square and 30 minutes from Bangkok airport. Bangkok is a fascinating city; a mixture of east and west, filled with ancient treasures, arts, architectures, palaces, and temples and yet embraced the inexhaustible march of modern day progress. The 255 rooms are all suites designed to provide the maximum comfort and convenience for the discerning traveller, all air conditioned suites have a living area and are all fully equipped with modern facilities. The executive suite offers 55 sqm of living space and has 2 flat-screen TVs. Each suite has enviable panoramic views of the city. To ensure the hotel caters for all guests, Muslim guests can be allocated separate rooms on a special floor, where Halal food is served and a prayer room is available for their use. The Sky Lounge is the perfect solution after a long day shopping, sightseeing or on business. Sit back in a comfortable chair before a fine meal or drink. Once you\’ve tired it, you\’ll want others to experience the same grand feeling. The hotel’s impeccable first class service and luxurious accommodation are ready to welcome in a new era in hospitality. Guests can enjoy the use of the swimming pool, the massage parlour, beauty salon and sauna. Services to ensure all guests’ needs are met include parking on the premises, Internet services, a laundry facility, currency exchange and 24 hour reception services where the staff are willing to deal with any enquires as quickly and as hassle free as possible…. |
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Balancing Act $23 Jonathan Plummer made headlines when New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan — whose novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back is based on their romance — filed for divorce, claiming that Plummer hid his homosexuality in order to marry her for her money and gain U.S. citizenship. Now Plummer delivers a sexy and satisfying novel as deliciously racy as the life he lived. Justin Blakeman is living an ordinary life in Jamaica when vacationing Tasha Reynolds spots him selling sugar cane on the street. He, of course, has no idea that her modeling agency is fast becoming the hottest in the business. He plans to live the island life set out for him, stepping up to head the family sugar cane enterprise in time. In the ruthless modeling world, Tasha is a great white shark with an uncanny knack for finding blazing new talent in unusual places. She always gets what she wants and she wants Justin — whose hazel-green eyes, offset by dark chocolate skin, make her palms sweat, a sign that she is on to something. His perfect body and defiant attitude will make him a megastar. But soon, a relationship that began as strictly business crosses the line into a complex game of sexual desire and control. Their crazy, volatile bond — littered with dark influences from their pasts, complicated by ambition, and fueled by insatiable passion — is as combustible as relationships can get. And when Justin discovers a hidden hunger for a male model, the stakes are higher than ever. |
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Barnes V. Glen Theatre, Inc. $47 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560 (1991), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on freedom of speech and the ability of the government to outlaw certain forms of expressive conduct. It ruled that the state has the constitutional authority to regulate this form of expression, as it furthers a substantial government interest in protecting the morality and order of society. This case is perhaps best summarized by a sentence in Justice Souter’s concurring opinion, which is often paraphrased as “Nudity itself is not inherently expressive conduct.” Two businesses – the Kitty Kat Lounge, Inc. and Glen Theatre, Inc. – operated adult entertainment establishments in South Bend, Indiana. The Kitty Kat was a club that sold alcoholic beverages in addition to employing live female exotic dancers to entertain its patrons. Glen Theatre was primarily in the business of selling adult entertainment materials, such as magazines and videos, and had an enclosed “bookstore” area where customers could insert coins into a machine which would allow them to view live female exotic dancers. |
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Basic Statistics for Business and Economics with Student CD $164.75 Lind/Marchal/Wathen: Basic Statistics for Business and Economics, Sixth edition is a derivative of the best-selling Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics, offering the essential topics of statistical tools and methods delivered in a student friendly, step-by-step format. The text is non-threatening and presents concepts clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing style. All statistical concepts are illustrated with solved applied examples immediately upon introduction. Modern computing tools and applications are introduced, but the text maintains a focus on presenting statistics content as opposed to technology or programming methods, and the sixth edition continues as a “students” text with increased emphasis on interpretation of data and results. |
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Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions $97.48 Learn statistical reasoning and problem solving from a best-selling author who uses a wealth of examples from the social and behavioral sciences,, education,, nursing/allied health, and business fields—as well as examples from everyday life-to help you learn and understand. Praised for his clear explanations, Spatz shows you how to start with a data set, identify the questions it poses, determine and carry out statistical procedures, and using plain English, tell the story the data reveal. |
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Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions $104.48 Learn statistical reasoning and problem solving from a best-selling author who uses a wealth of examples from the social and behavioral sciences,, education,, nursing/allied health, and business fields—as well as examples from everyday life-to help you learn and understand. Praised for his clear explanations, Spatz shows you how to start with a data set, identify the questions it poses, determine and carry out statistical procedures, and using plain English, tell the story the data reveal. |
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Bath Rugby: Virginia State Route 42 $10.66 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bath Rugby, Recreation Ground, Brian Ashton, Andrew Brownsword, John Connolly, Jack Rowell, Michael Foley, John Hall. Excerpt: Andrew Brownsword (born 1947), is an English entrepreneur , developing his fortune through the greeting cards and gifts of Forever Friends . He has regularly featured on the Sunday Times Rich List , with an estimated fortune of £190 million. Biography Born Andrew Douglas Brownsword he was educated at The Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone , then trained as a chef .Career He started the Andrew Brownsword Collection, a publishing business founded in Bath in 1971. Brownsword started by selling greeting cards to retailers like WH Smith from boxes and the back of his car.In 1987, he agreed to market artist Deborah Jones Teddy Bear design, developing the Forever Friends genre in a flat above a Chinese takeaway in Reading, Berkshire in the early 1980s: “I wanted to develop a teddy bear that appealed to adults as well as children. I based Forever Friends specifically on the teddy bear that Sebastian Flyte carried around in Brideshead Revisited . It became the bear found in the attic.”The success created a financial income to develop the Andrew Brownsword Group, based on greetings cards and associated gifts that was regarded as an industry pace-setter in design and innovation, with a peak turnover of £65 million. The Andrew Brownsword Collection, Andrew Brownsword Gifts and the Gordon Fraser Gallery (the latter acquired in 1989), were acquired by Hallmark Cards in 1994 for an estimated £195 million. Brownsword became Chief Executive of Hallmark in Europe, a position which he held for four and a half years before leaving to develop other business interests.Brownsword has used these monies since to develop both his business and |
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Be The Next Online Millionaire! A Start-Up Guide For New Online Marketers With Valuable Internet Marketing Tips On The Most Important Internet Marketing Strategies To Help You Get Customers & Sales So You Can Net Huge Profits $3.99 You can definitely put up your own business in the internet and have it make lots of money for you. Many others have. If you do things right, just like they have, then you can too!Successful internet marketing highly depends on building a solid foundation for your business to grow. This of course holds true for an offline business as well, but it is more crucial to internet marketing because there are many tools and techniques to put together to carry out an effective strategy. Add to that, digital technology changes rapidly and the online marketer has to be adept at keeping with the advancements in order to stay competitive. Internet marketing can be complex. It involves many interrelated parts. Without the most essential features in place, you will most likely fail. This book will help you put together the very important elements of internet marketing. It will give you the prerequisites so that your online business starts on a solid footing. It will give you new business ideas you can try out. You will also find the basic principles for online marketing so that potential customers can find you. Best of all, you will learn proven online selling techniques to help you bring in huge sales profits. With these internet marketing business essentials you can definitely be the next online millionaire! |
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Be a Party Plan Superstar: Build a $100,000-a-Year Direct Selling Business from Home $17.95 Mary CHRISTENSEN,NOOKbook (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by AMACOM on 10-20-2010 |
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Be a Party Plan Superstar: Build a $100,000-a-Year Direct Selling Business from Home $17.95 Mary Christensen,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by AMACOM |
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Becoming A Successful Techpreneur $9.99 Aspiring high-tech entrepreneurs around the world dream about starting their own business. Their ideas for a new product or service may be innovative, attractive to the market and financially very promising. However, most of these ideas will not be transformed into commercial products due to the inventors’ lack of courage to start his or her own business, insufficient financing, inadequate management, fierce competition, poor market timing or ineffective product launch.Also, modern business environment has become more challenging for new entrepreneurs, due to: increased global competition and pressure to minimize the operating costs, increased technological complexities and demands for multidisciplinary, virtual teams, limited financing opportunities, and growing pressure to protect the intellectual property. Focusing on unique challenges of starting, growing and selling a high-tech business, this book addresses the following issues: – Making a decision to start a business; – Ownership and control; – Organizational, legal and administrative issues; – Creating new high-tech products and markets; – Effective financing and strategic alternatives as the business grows; – Understanding intellectual property and other business laws; – Dealing with the global competition; – Leveraging on information technology; – Hiring and managing traditional, virtual and global employees; – Exit strategies. This book is for: – aspiring, first-time entrepreneurs interested to learn how to start, develop and sell an independent, small business or consulting firm in the high-tech industry. These readers may be recent collegegraduates, experienced or retired professionals and military, whose background includes electrical engineering, computer science, telecommunications, project management and any other relevant disciplines. Their areas of expertise include: embedded systems, digital signal processing, |
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Becoming A Successful Techpreneur $17 Aspiring high-tech entrepreneurs around the world dream about starting their own business. Their ideas for a new product or service may be innovative, attractive to the market and financially very promising. However, most of these ideas will not be transformed into commercial products due to the inventors’ lack of courage to start his or her own business, insufficient financing, inadequate management, fierce competition, poor market timing or ineffective product launch.Also, modern business environment has become more challenging for new entrepreneurs, due to: increased global competition and pressure to minimize the operating costs, increased technological complexities and demands for multidisciplinary, virtual teams, limited financing opportunities, and growing pressure to protect the intellectual property. Focusing on unique challenges of starting, growing and selling a high-tech business, this book addresses the following issues: – Making a decision to start a business; – Ownership and control; – Organizational, legal and administrative issues; – Creating new high-tech products and markets; – Effective financing and strategic alternatives as the business grows; – Understanding intellectual property and other business laws; – Dealing with the global competition; – Leveraging on information technology; – Hiring and managing traditional, virtual and global employees; – Exit strategies. This book is for: – aspiring, first-time entrepreneurs interested to learn how to start, develop and sell an independent, small business or consulting firm in the high-tech industry. These readers may be recent collegegraduates, experienced or retired professionals and military, whose background includes electrical engineering, computer science, telecommunications, project management and any other relevant disciplines. Their areas of expertise include: embedded systems, digital signal processing, |
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Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison $0.99 Becoming a Category of One, Second EditionJoe Calloway’s Becoming a Category of One redefined competition with its lessons on how to truly differentiate yourself in a marketplace of sameness. In this revised and updated Second Edition, Calloway rethinks, repositions, and reenergizes that message. A new chapter on “tiebreakers” provides lessons on differentiation from companies like Zappos, Apple Computer, Netflix, Café du Monde, Hyundai, and In-N-Out Burger.Calloway also includes cutting-edge ideas on the Category of One company of the future from an extraordinary list of guest contributors, including bestselling authors Larry Winget (It’s Called Work for a Reason!) and Mark Sanborn (The Fred Factor), Gen-Y expert Jake Greene, Pinnacle Financial Partners CEO Terry Turner, business strategists Randy Pennington and John Spence, branding expert Jack Sims, corporate consultant Chuck Feltz, customer service gurus Scott McKain and John DiJulius, sales and marketing expert Sue Remes, and motivational legend Jim Cathcart.Praise for Becoming a Category of One”Shows what it takes to build a brand on something more than just product. This book inspires us to go for greatness and to win by using our hearts as well as our minds.”—Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager”Becoming a Category of One will delineate how you can differentiate yourself from others who do what you do, how to become positioned in your marketplace, and how to make your customers love you and need you.”—Jeffrey Gitomer, author, The Little Red Book of Selling |
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Becoming a Successful Techpreneur $34.8 Aspiring high-tech entrepreneurs around the world dream about starting their own business. Their ideas for a new product or service may be innovative, attractive to the market and financially very promising. However, most of these ideas will not be transformed into commercial products due to the inventors’ lack of courage to start his or her own business, insufficient financing, inadequate management, fierce competition, poor market timing or ineffective product launch.Also, modern business environment has become more challenging for new entrepreneurs, due to: increased global competition and pressure to minimize the operating costs, increased technological complexities and demands for multidisciplinary, virtual teams, limited financing opportunities, and growing pressure to protect the intellectual property. Focusing on unique challenges of starting, growing and selling a high-tech business, this book addresses the following issues: – Making a decision to start a business; – Ownership and control; – Organizational, legal and administrative issues; – Creating new high-tech products and markets; – Effective financing and strategic alternatives as the business grows; – Understanding intellectual property and other business laws; – Dealing with the global competition; – Leveraging on information technology; – Hiring and managing traditional, virtual and global employees; – Exit strategies. This book is for: – aspiring, first-time entrepreneurs interested to learn how to start, develop and sell an independent, small business or consulting firm in the high-tech industry. These readers may be recent collegegraduates, experienced or retired professionals and military, whose background includes electrical engineering, computer science, telecommunications, project management and any other relevant disciplines. Their areas of expertise include: embedded systems, digital signal processing, |
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Benjamin Mako Hill $45 Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker, intellectual property researcher, activist and author. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the author of two best-selling technical books on the subject, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and The Official Ubuntu Book. He currently serves as a member of the Free Software Foundation board of directors. Hill has a Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab and is currently a Senior Researcher at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he studies free software communities and business models. He is also a Fellow at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media where he coordinates the development of software for civic organizing, and works as an advisor and contractor for the One Laptop per Child project. He is a speaker for the GNU Project,and serves on the board of Software Freedom International. Since 2006 he is married to Mika Matsuzaki, having used mathematically constrained wedding vows at the marriage ceremony. |
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Between The Danube And Black Sea $16.83 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:en. i. Turkish Powder-magazine. French post-office; past the great powder-magazine, where there is stored 30,000 barrels of gunpowder, and where a Turkish Topjie (artilleryman) is on guard. He sits on a low stool in the open doorway, dressed in a fez cap, a ragged shirt with its sleeves turned up to his elbows, a red sash round his waist, and then, the only sign of his being a soldier, his blue trowsers with a red stripe. The knees are of the baggiest, and the length of the shortest, for they only reach half way down the calf of his leg. I have since seen thousands of the like soldiers, but have never once seen the trowsers lower than the ankle bone, so I suppose they are made short on purpose. The Topjie smokes his pipe as he sits on guard, and when finished knocks out the ashes on the stones, and we can’t help wondering what would be the result if one of those sparks should be carried in by the wind through the open door and ignite the contents of one of those barrels. The Guard would go off duty suddenly, and for the first time in his life the handsome old Turk selling barley-sugar opposite would be hurried; but it is useless going on— all business would be suspended! On we go, past the Fish Market, such as it is, into the Grand Eue, where most of the foreign merchants live. I said before that few were left of the many who came to these parts for the great war, but half way down this street we met one of those few, and certainly he was a splendid specimen. Sergeant C was here, with his chief, Mr. Eideout, inspecting the telegraphs in Bulgaria. They were both in the Eoyal Artillery, and had fought 6 Sergeant C and his Chief. en. i. through the war in the Crimea from the first landing, and, when all was over, they had volunteered to help the Turks as long as the |
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Big Bucks Selling Your Photography: A Complete Photo Business Package for All Photographers $34.95 Cliff Hollenbeck,Paperback, Edition: 4, English-language edition,Pub by Amherst Media, Incorporated |
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Big Bucks Selling Your Photography: A Complete Photo Business Package for All Photographers $23.95 Cliff Hollenbeck,NOOKbook (eBook), Edition: 4, English-language edition,Pub by Amherst Media, Incorporated |
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Big Ideas For Small Retailers $16.41 Big Ideas for Small Retailers is a bible for those thinking about establishing their own retail business or in their early years of trading. Too many people set out to run a retail business without fully appreciating the ‘foundation stones’ that initially need to be firmly established. This excellent book will help guide the inexperienced retailer through the myriad challenges that he or she will face prior to running a profitable business.The book will be a source of inspiration to retailers – particularly those in small to medium sized outfits – as it offers a number of quick-fix ideas combined with some genuine money-saving tips. There are no back-to-school pages of flowcharts and complex equations, no legal jargon or unnecessary padding, and no patronizing advice.Major topics covered include the company image, finance, buying stock, EPOS systems, trade associations, winning customers, market intelligence, competitors, background music, store security, returns policy, sales staff, the psychology of selling, using the internet, e-commerce sites, empty stores and much more.The book contains a great deal of information that is not readily or usually available to retailers in this fashion, being based on the author’s extensive experiences and knowledge derived from working in both retailing and banking. |
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Biomedical Tissue Services $42 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd. (BTS) was a Fort Lee, New Jersey-based human tissue recovery firm that was shut down by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on October 8, 2005 after its president, Dr. Michael Mastromarino, and two other employees were convicted of illegally harvesting human bones, organs, tissue and other cadaver parts from individuals awaiting cremation, for forging numerous consent forms, and for selling the illegally obtained body parts to medical companies without consent of their families. In late 2005, the New York City Police Department investigated Dr. Michael Mastromarino and his company BTS for allegedly selling stolen human body parts. The probe was first reported by the New York Daily News in October 2005, and led to a number of exhumations, including one of a Queens, New York woman who had had many of her bones removed and replaced with PVC piping. According to government witnesses, BTS sought business relationships with a number of funeral homes in New York and Pennsylvania solely to obtain access to recently deceased people, often paying the funeral homes $1,000 or more per corpse. |
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Blog, Podcast, Google, Sell: The Complete Guide to Making Online Profit $19.95 Blog, Podcast, Google, Sell is a guide to making money online. From setting up an eBay account to selling a business for millions, it teaches readers about the online tools one needs along the way.Cresta Norris is former head of new media content at UKTV, a joint venture between Virgin and the BBC.  She has created online content for the marketing arms of the BBC and has also worked for them as a radio producer.  She is also the author of You.com and A Quick Start Guide to Online Selling. |
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Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation $15.62 “Blog” is short for “Web log”-an online site with time-dated postings, maintained by one or more posters, that features links and commentary. But that is like saying a car is a means of transportation featuring four wheels. Millions are changing their habits when it comes to information acquisition, and the blogosphere has appeared so suddenly as to surprise even the most sophisticated of analysts. In Blog, best-selling author Hugh Hewitt helps you catch up with and get ahead of this phenomenon.Up until now no influential blogger has written a definitive book about this phenomenon. Since Hugh Hewitt’s blog site-HughHewitt-was launched in early 2002, more than 18 million people have visited this site. Why does this visitor traffic matter? People’s attentions are up for grabs. If you depend upon the steady trust of others, suddenly you have an audience waiting to hear from you. The race is underway, though, to gain mindspace and to be part of the blogosphere readers’ habits and to position yourself as well as your business or organization at the forefront of this information movement. |
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Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation that’s Changing Your World $0.99 “Blog” is short for “Web log”-an online site with time-dated postings, maintained by one or more posters, that features links and commentary. But that is like saying a car is a means of transportation featuring four wheels. Millions are changing their habits when it comes to information acquisition, and the blogosphere has appeared so suddenly as to surprise even the most sophisticated of analysts. In Blog, best-selling author Hugh Hewitt helps you catch up with and get ahead of this phenomenon.Up until now no influential blogger has written a definitive book about this phenomenon. Since Hugh Hewitt’s blog site-HughHewitt-was launched in early 2002, more than 10 million people have visited this site. Why does this visitor traffic matter? People’s attentions are up for grabs. If you depend upon the steady trust of others, suddenly you have an audience waiting to hear from you. The race is underway, though, to gain mindspace and to be part of the blogosphere readers’ habits and to position yourself as well as your business or organization at the forefront of this information movement. |
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Body Brokers: Inside America’s Underground Trade in Human Remains $0.99 “You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” —Epictetus “Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow.” —Matthew 24:28 Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative exposé of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains. While the government has controls on organs and tissue meant for transplantation, these “body brokers” capitalize on the myriad other uses for dead bodies that receive no federal oversight whatsoever: commercial seminars to introduce new medical gadgetry; medical research studies and training courses; and U.S. Army land-mine explosion tests. A single corpse used for these purposes can generate up to $10,000. As journalist Annie Cheney found while reporting on this subject over the course of three years, when there’s that much money to be made with no federal regulation, there are all sorts of shady (and fascinating) characters who are willing to employ questionable practices—from deception and outright theft—to acquire, market and distribute human bodies and parts. In Michigan and New York she discovers funeral directors who buy corpses from medical schools and supply the parts to surgical equipment companies and associations of surgeons. In California, she meets a crematorium owner who sold the body parts of people he was supposed to cremate, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits. In Florida, she attends a medical conference in a luxury hotel, where fresh torsos are delivered in Igloo coolers and displayed on gurneys in a room normally used for banquets. “That torso that you’re living in right now is just flesh and bones to me. To me, |
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Book Marketing Basics – the New Model for Promoting Your Book $15.88 ~~~~~The New Model for Promoting Your Book~~~~~Book marketing has changed forever. The new model for promoting your book uses the timeless fundamentals of book marketing and combines them with the almost limitless networking technologies of the internet. The goal of this book is to give new authors the insight and tools to compete in the same playing field as seasoned professionals. There has never been a better time for new authors to achieve marketing success. The new model makes it simple, quicker and affordable.~~~~~Learn How to Network Using:~~~~~~YOUR EMAIL SIGNATURE~EMAIL CAMPAIGN S~ONLINE REVIEWS~WEBSITES~PUBLIC RELATIONS~BOOK SIGNINGS~COMMUNITY NEWS LISTINGS~PRINTED MATTER~TALK RADIO~PRESS RELEASES~~~~~This Book Features Sample:~~~~~~Press Releases~Cover Letters for Book Reviews~Endorsement Sheets for Book Reviewers~Marketing Sheets~Directories for the Top National Book Review Editors~Directories for Key Newspapers that Review Books~~~~~Rodney Charles is an innovative,self-motivated entrepreneur and business leader who conceived the 1stWorld Publishing business while acting as President and Managing Editor of his own self-built book publishing company,Sunstar Publishing Ltd.(1992). His diverse experiences,ranging from media management,business-to-business aggregation and hands-on daily interaction with authors and publishers, have resulted in the assembly of many of the resources required to implement 1st World. He has authored six books: The Land of Love,Art & Genius; Lighter Than Air; The Name Book; (editor)Publish It Now and the best-selling Every Day aMiracle Happens. |
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Book Marketing Basics; the New Model for Promoting Your Book $20.98 ~~~~~The New Model for Promoting Your Book~~~~~ Book marketing has changed forever. The new model for promoting your book uses the timeless fundamentals of book marketing and combines them with the almost limitless networking technologies of the internet. The goal of this book is to give new authors the insight and tools to compete in the same playing field as seasoned professionals. There has never been a better time for new authors to achieve marketing success. The new model makes it simple, quicker and affordable.~~~~~Learn How to Network Using:~~~~~~YOUR EMAIL SIGNATURE~EMAIL CAMPAIGN S~ONLINE REVIEWS~WEBSITES~PUBLIC RELATIONS~BOOK SIGNINGS~COMMUNITY NEWS LISTINGS~PRINTED MATTER~TALK RADIO~PRESS RELEASES~~~~~This Book Features Sample:~~~~~~Press Releases~Cover Letters for Book Reviews~Endorsement Sheets for Book Reviewers~Marketing Sheets~Directories for the Top National Book Review Editors~Directories for Key Newspapers that Review Books~~~~~Rodney Charles is an innovative, self-motivated entrepreneur and business leader who conceived the 1stWorld Publishing business while acting as President and Managing Editor of his own self-built book publishing company, Sunstar Publishing Ltd. (1992). His diverse experiences, ranging from media management, business-to-business aggregation and hands-on daily interaction with authors and publishers, have resulted in the assembly of many of the resources required to implement 1st World. He has authored six books: The Land of Love, Art & Genius; Lighter Than Air; The Name Book; (editor) Publish It Now and the best-selling Every Day a Miracle Happens. |
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Bookshops of Australia (Study Guide): Daily-Update Publishers, Angus $10.18 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Daily-Update Publishers (or DU Publishers) is an Australian publishing company, now specialising in English and ESL e-books. Daily-Update Publishers was founded in 2000 as an Internet aggregator (a gatherer of news and articles) by the current directors, Cameron Russell and Fay Russell. The following year, the Daily-Update Language Institute was established in Hsinchu, Taiwan. A second Daily-Update school was established a few months later. Daily-Update ESL Publishers was established in 2001 as a Taiwanese company, initially to publish materials for the two schools. A team of forty writers (see below) was commissioned to write the materials. Another forty computer programmers, web developers, illustrators and layout artists (see below) put the material into book form or created computer games. In February 2005, Daily-Update launched 33 books at the Taiwan International Book Exhibition, and reprint rights were sold in Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Soon after that, the publishing company was moved to Australia, trading under the company name of Daily-Update Pty Ltd and using the business name of Daily-Update Publishers. The books have since been exhibited in many countries. In 2007, the company started selling all books as e-books. In 2008, the company established DU English College. In April of 2009, Daily-Update launched an Australian Registered Training Organisation, trading as Green Skills Australia, which provides offices, government departments, universities, colleges and schools with online and classroom-based training in green skills, sustainability, leadership, report writing, workplace relations, construction, etc. Refer to RTO Courses. Authors include: Andrew Bennett, Merle Bowden, RB Carmelette, Carmen de Leon, Judy G… More: |
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Buffalo Braves Owners $8.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: John Young Brown, Jr. (born December 28, 1933) is a politician, entrepreneur, and businessman from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as the 59th governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983, although he may be best-known for building Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) into a multi-million dollar restaurant chain. Currently single, he has been married three times, the second time to former Miss America Phyllis George. Among his children are news anchor Pamela Ashley Brown and former Kentucky Secretary of State John Y. Brown, III. The son of a U.S. congressman, Brown’s talent for business became evident in college, where he made a substantial amount of money selling Encyclopedia Britannica sets. After briefly practicing law with his father, he purchased Kentucky Fried Chicken from founder Harland Sanders in 1964. Brown turned the company into a world-wide success, and sold his interest in the company for a huge profit in 1971. He then invested in several other restaurant ventures, but none matched the success of KFC. During the 1970s, he also owned, at various times, three professional basketball teams the American Basketball Association’s Kentucky Colonels, and the National Basketball Association’s Buffalo Braves and Boston Celtics. Despite showing little inclination toward politics, Brown surprised political observers by declaring his candidacy for governor in 1979. A strong media campaign funded by his personal fortune allowed him to win the Democratic primary and go on to defeat former Republican governor Louie B. Nunn in the general election. Brown delivered on his campaign promise to run the state government like a business, which enabled him to guide the state through difficult economic times without raising taxes. Because he o… More: |
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Building Real Estate Wealth in a Changing Market: Reap Large Profits from Bargain Purchases in Any Economy $21.95 Markets change-smart investors adapt. No matter what the state of the real estate market, there is wealth to be made, and the basics of smart investing still apply. In Building Real Estate Wealth in a Changing Market, John Schaub shows you how you can invest and thrive in any market. Change creates chaos, but it also creates opportunity for those who can recognize it and react. Schaub helps you find hidden deals and shows you how to cash-in on the great bargains available in a slowing market. If you want to invest safely and profitably, you’ll find a wealth of expert guidance on: Predicting change in your local market Profiting from change in individual neighborhoods Protecting your investments from market fluctuation Selling profitably in a buyer’s market Finding foreclosures, pre-foreclosures and other distressed properties Buying from banks and other lenders Buying properties from other investors Plus, you’ll discover Schaub’s step-by-step, ten-year plan for creating wealth. When you combine these wise investing tips and tactics with a proven long-term plan, you’ll build wealth to last a lifetime. “Gurus I respect…are people who have been in the business and love it and want to help people be successful investors…like John Schaub.”-John T. Reed, Money Magazine “On my scale of one to 10, this outstanding book rates an off-the-chart 12.”- Bob Bruss |
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Building Your Online Business On Today’s Internet $1.99 Everything you wanted to know about… Building Your Online Business On Today’s Internet!Master The New Rules Of Online Marketing Success!Dear Friend,Are you looking for an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a billion dollar operation? Of course you are, we all are. And you have probably been approached with this same line over and over again. This time, however, is unique. Because this time I have the formula for a tried and true opportunity that really works. If you follow this formula, you can count on making money. I guarantee it! And the best part about this opportunity is that it is so darn easy!Sure you have heard about e-books and web marketing and viral opportunities and probably wondered “what the heck are they talking about?” That is how most of us react when we hear of these things. But once you learn about these ideas, you will see how easy it is to make money on the internet. If you think that you have to have to put out a lot of money for a product to sell on the internet, think again. There are ways to get your business started that won’t cost you a dime! That’s right – you can actually begin the business opportunity that I am talking about without investing any money at all! Nor do you have to hustle other people for money, either! What do you think of that? Sound too good to be true? It’s Not!If you are like me, you’re a little leery about things that sound a bit too good to be true. They usually fill you up with a bunch of false promises and an empty wallet. But this opportunity is tried and true. You can dominate the market on the internet and make money selling a product that it will not cost you any money to produce. And I guarantee that it works. If you want to sell the product I suggest or any other product on the internet, you need to know basic marketing principals. Not only will |
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Bullseye!: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Your Goals $13.04 I have always believed in the power of setting goals. Blake’s book Bullseye! is a brilliant system to help people achieve authentic success—Joe Vitale, best-selling author and seen in the hit movie The SecretHow many times have you set a goal for yourself – be it to make your first million, lose weight or find your soul mate – only to find that a month down the track you’ve abandoned all hope of achieving it because ‘life got in the way’? Or perhaps you have achieved your goals, but you still feel unfulfilled?If you’re over reading about clichéd and worn-out strategies for achieving success, then get ready to go on a life-changing journey that will revolutionise the way you approach goal achievement forever. Blake Beattie’s simple, fun and interactive goal-achievement solution empowers you to use your individual values to define success – and then gives you effective strategies to reach your goals more quickly than you ever thought possible. Inside, you will discover how to:formulate inspiring, realistic goals using Blake’s POWERTIP achievement systemmaintain momentum during difficult timesblast through obstacles and break free from habits that limit your ability to reach your goalscreate and maintain a ‘magic mindset’ for long-term success. Packed full of simple but powerful techniques, Bullseye! will give you the strategies you need to take you anywhere in business and in life.Blake Beattie is an expert at transforming individual and organisational performance through world-class speaking, training and coaching. He is a director of three organisations, and is the founder of international Pay it Forward Day. |
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Business $196.95 This best-selling introductory survey text provides comprehensive coverage ofall functional areas within the field including management, marketing, accounting, economics, finance, law, and computer information systems. The Seventh Edition integrates an appealing design, innovative features, and extensive revisions to remain both accessible and relevant. Topical issues such as entrepreneurship, gender and diversity, change, social responsibility, and the growth of technology are included throughout to prepare students for today’s business environment.The pedagogical framework continually reinforces the material, and places abstract concepts into a practical context. The combination of chapter-opening cases involving well-known companies, end-of-chapter discussions which reference these cases, Spotlights that provide a visual snapshot of factual data, and actual advertisements allows students to understand the material’s real-world application. To maintain the length of past editions, sections addressing Risk Management and Insurance have been moved to the appendix, while the appendices on law and government have been merged together. The inexpensive, flexible looseleaf format allows students to organize the material according to their individual needs and class schedule.New! E-business issues appear in various discussions, features, and examples throughout including Chapter 4, Navigating the World of E-Business.New! Each chapter contains a Using the Internet box, highlighting web sites that address pertinent concepts, companies, or topics.New! End-of-part cases feature a video segment, encouraging students to applylearned knowledge in reality-based activities.New! A US News and World Report Career Guide accompanies each text, and compiles career-related information and appropriate articles from the magazine including Charting Your Own Course and Flip-of-the-coin Jobs. |
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Business $0.99 This best-selling introductory survey text provides comprehensive coverage ofall functional areas within the field including management, marketing, accounting, economics, finance, law, and computer information systems. The Seventh Edition integrates an appealing design, innovative features, and extensive revisions to remain both accessible and relevant. Topical issues such as entrepreneurship, gender and diversity, change, social responsibility, and the growth of technology are included throughout to prepare students for today’s business environment.The pedagogical framework continually reinforces the material, and places abstract concepts into a practical context. The combination of chapter-opening cases involving well-known companies, end-of-chapter discussions which reference these cases, Spotlights that provide a visual snapshot of factual data, and actual advertisements allows students to understand the material’s real-world application. To maintain the length of past editions, sections addressing Risk Management and Insurance have been moved to the appendix, while the appendices on law and government have been merged together. The inexpensive, flexible looseleaf format allows students to organize the material according to their individual needs and class schedule.New! E-business issues appear in various discussions, features, and examples throughout including Chapter 4, Navigating the World of E-Business.New! Each chapter contains a Using the Internet box, highlighting web sites that address pertinent concepts, companies, or topics.New! End-of-part cases feature a video segment, encouraging students to applylearned knowledge in reality-based activities.New! A US News and World Report Career Guide accompanies each text, and compiles career-related information and appropriate articles from the magazine including Charting Your Own Course and Flip-of-the-coin Jobs. |
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Business $78.98 This best-selling introductory survey text provides comprehensive coverage ofall functional areas within the field including management, marketing, accounting, economics, finance, law, and computer information systems. The Seventh Edition integrates an appealing design, innovative features, and extensive revisions to remain both accessible and relevant. Topical issues such as entrepreneurship, gender and diversity, change, social responsibility, and the growth of technology are included throughout to prepare students for today’s business environment.The pedagogical framework continually reinforces the material, and places abstract concepts into a practical context. The combination of chapter-opening cases involving well-known companies, end-of-chapter discussions which reference these cases, Spotlights that provide a visual snapshot of factual data, and actual advertisements allows students to understand the material’s real-world application. To maintain the length of past editions, sections addressing Risk Management and Insurance have been moved to the appendix, while the appendices on law and government have been merged together. The inexpensive, flexible looseleaf format allows students to organize the material according to their individual needs and class schedule.New! E-business issues appear in various discussions, features, and examples throughout including Chapter 4, Navigating the World of E-Business.New! Each chapter contains a Using the Internet box, highlighting web sites that address pertinent concepts, companies, or topics.New! End-of-part cases feature a video segment, encouraging students to applylearned knowledge in reality-based activities.New! A US News and World Report Career Guide accompanies each text, and compiles career-related information and appropriate articles from the magazine including Charting Your Own Course and Flip-of-the-coin Jobs. |
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Business 2000: Selling $36.95 Cynthia L. Greene,Paperback – New Edition, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Cengage Learning |
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Business Administration (Volume 6) $23.3 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 6; Original Publisher: La Salle extension university; Publication date: 1910; Subjects: Economics; Business; Advertising; Selling; Commerce; Railroads; Banks and banking; Insurance; Investments; Accounting; Auditing; Commercial law; Sales personnel; Business |
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Business Communication Today $130 Business Communication Today has become the number-one selling text in the field because it emphasizes real-life business situations and employs a lively,conversational style to capture the dynamics of business communication. It teaches business communication skills,and carefully examines communication techniques. Its Chapter operners feature real companies,and its real-world examples,real-company cases,and involving writing styles,all bring the subject of life. In the fourth edition the technology and intercultural chapters have been heavily revised and brought forward to the start of the book,two-thirds of the chapter opening vignettes are new,and greater emphasis is placed on the writing process and audience-centered messages. Half of the memo- and letter-writing cases are new and each is now categorized by academic discipline (e. g.,finance,management,accounting,etc. ) and by the focus of the exercise to emphasize writing across the curriculum. |
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Business Law, Alternate Edition $268.95 A summarized case version of the best-selling title for this course, BUSINESS LAW, ALTERNATE EDITION offers a comprehensive, authoritative, and student friendly delivery of classic black letter law blended with cutting-edge coverage of contemporary issues and cases. A successful combination of undergraduate-oriented pedagogy with traditional law school-like content makes the law accessible, interesting, and relevant for readers. The cases, content, and features of the exciting new eleventh edition have been meticulously and thoroughly updated, representing the latest developments. Ethical, global, and e-commerce themes are integrated throughout, and numerous critical-thinking exercises challenge students to apply what they’ve learned to real-world issues. The text also offers an unmatched range of support materials—including innovative online teaching and learning resources. |