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Cash in on Cash Flow : How to Make Full-Time Income With Part-Time Effort in America's Hottest New Business Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been a Note Broker/Cash Flow Specialist for 4 years now and I refer all of my trainees to this book. It's very detailed in defining the main debt instruments that dominate the industry and pointing you in the right direction of who to network with in order to generate business.
The one thing I disagree with is that the author claims you'll succeed part-time. Like any other profession, this one requires a lot of time and effort. And anyone who has experience brokering anything knows that good brokers make dozens, if not hundreds, of calls per day. If you like speaking over the phone and have the time, then this business will easily add a good $20-$40K to your annual income, possibly more.

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Time Traps: Proven Strategies for Swamped Salespeople Review

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(More customer reviews)One sentence summary: Build an effective and efficient team, don't waste time on nonproductive tasks and do what you enjoy doing.
NOTE: You may think that this book is not for you since it specifically states that it is for "Swamped Salespeople," but when you think about it, we are all salespeople in one way or another.
As a small business owner and entrepreneur, I am always looking for ways to make more time. Of course, everyone knows you can't make more time, but as Todd Duncan and his book Time Traps demonstrates there are ways that you can make better use of your time. The key is task management.
Here is a one sentence summary of each of the chapters:
1) Chasing the Wind - Don't try to manage your time.
2) The Identity Trap - Determine how to spend less time "working" while still being productive.
3) The Organization Trap - Stop wasting time (e.g. checking email every 5 minutes)
4) The Yes Trap - Stop saying yes all the time.
5) The Control Trap (get ready for a reality check) - Build a team!
NOTE: At one time or another we have fallen into the Control Trap. Remember, the first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem. :)
6) The Technology Trap - Use technology only if it makes you more efficient.
7) The Quota Trap - Quality over quantity.
8) The Failure Trap - Don't cry over spilled milk, learn from the spillage and pour better next time.
9) The Party Trap - "Success in never final." Winston Churchill
10) Freedom (the touchy, feely chapter I liked which you MUST read) - "If a deep voice inside is telling you there's something more, something better, something you're still longing for, something worth striving for and fighting for, then your heart is still beating and there is still time to do something about it." (Time Traps)
One other thing that I like about this book is that there are executive summaries for every chapter, so you can get a really good idea about Duncan's recommendations in an hour (or as long as it takes you to read through 9 executive summaries and the last chapter on Freedom).
This is another definite addition to the Corea Properties and Esenai libraries.
Gotta go continue building the team...

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Productivity. It has been a buzz word in the business world for years. But despite our best attempts and countless self-help books, we still fall behind, work late, juggle our schedules, and become swamped. Time Traps addresses the most common misconceptions we have about time and our use of that time in the marketplace. Duncan has proven remedies for universal time troubles, and he shows readers how to set a schedule that works-not just some days but every day. With the principles in Time Traps, salespeople will see a rise in their sales as they experience a drop in their working hours.

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No Time Marketing: Small Business-sized Steps in 30 Minutes or Less Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been a marketing manager for my own small businesses and the largest corporations. I found this book to be a concise guide to help small business owners understand the purpose of marketing (hint: fame is NOT the goal). The sections on profiling your prospect base and developing your marketing message targeted for those prospects was simple and straight-forward. For me this was the most valuable section. It's too easy to guess what your customer's needs are and make up marketing messages off the top of your head that are totally ineffective. The book concludes with a good roundup of communication channels, advertising, tradeshows, internet, events, etc., and when to use them to deliver your message most cost effectively.
If you're an old pro, the book brings you back to basic principals, and if you haven't taken Marketing 101 in college and need to get a handle on marketing for your business ASAP, this is a good guide.

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No Time Marketing gives entrepreneurs and small businesses essential information to make the critical marketing decisions that directly impact sales. If you are a smart business person and know your business needs marketing, but you don't have the time, money, or possibly the experience to do it, No Time Marketing is precisely for you.___________________________________________No Time Marketing is a quick, effective way to dramatically boost the effectiveness of you company's marketing efforts. If you want to create a well-thought-out marketing plan that will work this is the book for you.--Brian Lawley,Author,Expert Product Management Former President, Silicon Valley Product Mgt. AssociationIn supporting hundreds of very smart women business leaders, we hear so often that they urgently need marketing help. In this day and age when every expense must be justified, No Time Marketing explicitly identifies what works and what doesn't. Even experienced marketers can learn some great tips and important ideas from the book.--Aileen Gorman, Executive Director, The Commonwealth InstituteAs the founder of the nation's largest marketing agency, I can tell you that every small to medium size company should have this book on their shelf, and it should be dog-eared.--Jack Sims,Speaker on Attainable, Sustainable Business Growth, If you think you know business and brand growth ... you don't know Jack!Make Time for No Time Marketing! Alyssa Dver is a wealth of knowledge and this book is a MUST!--Ja-Naé Duane, President & Founder, Wild Women EntrepreneursNo Time Marketing is packed full of valuable marketing advice. Companies of all sizes will benefit from the myriad of smart, practical ideas to take their businesses to the next level.--Lynn Toomey,Chief Creativity Officer, Let's Gogh Marketing,Leader, Ladies Who LaunchNot sure whether your current marketing plan is getting the most bang for the buck? No Time Marketing is your company's new marketing plan.Spend just one day working through the book or break it up into a few 30-minute working sessions and you'll have an action-oriented, easily executable, profit-focused marketing plan within a few hours.--Diane K. Danielson, Founder & CEO, DowntownWomensClubFor many of us, marketing can be an elusive concept ...we know we need it, but not sure what to do first. This book debunks traditional thinking and sheds light on real applications that work to determine how best to connect with your customers to generate real sales leads and ultimately, real revenues.--Victoria Colligan, Founder and CEO, Ladies Who LaunchNo Time Marketing is an invaluable treasure chest of tips and tactics any company should open and use to increase marketing efficiency and "time to value." Of particular note are the integrated templates that enable you to not only learn and think about what you need to do, but to simultaneously build an action plan of "to dos" and next steps so you can execute. Highly, highly recommended.--Rick Chapman, Managing Editor & Publisher, Sofletter, Author, The Product Marketing Handbook for Software and In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters

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Superior Customer Service: How to Keep Customers Racing Back to Your Business--Time Tested Examples from Leading Companies Review

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(More customer reviews)Author Dan Blacharski has done it well. He's written a book about one facet of business that has not been dealt with much recently, despite its critical importance to business success. Blacharski discusses all aspects of customer service for both web-based and conventional businesses, and he defines guidelines for establishing a business whose employees have the "customer service mindset" that, undoubtedly, leads to increased sales and profitability.
This book is chock full of advice and specific steps and procedures to follow to create a customer service-oriented environment that will set a business apart from the competition. It is an excellent treatment of the subject and will be invaluable to business owners, customer service managers and personnel, and sales personnel.
When you pick up this book, jump right to "The Ten Commandments of Customer Service for Managers" and "The Ten Commandments of Customer Service for Employees" (pages 252-254), read them, and then start at the beginning.

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This new book details how to care for customers and how to make superior service happen, and keep customers coming back to your store or Web site. You will learn practical and innovative tips and tricks that are easy to implement. These concepts and skills can be applied immediately. This book is a ready- made, in-house training workshop and step-by-step manual for creating superior customer service in an ever-competitive business environment. Learn from successful companies what works and what doesn't to help keep customers racing back to your business.

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Nightly Business Report Presents Lasting Leadership: What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times Review

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(More customer reviews)What a wonderful book this turned out to be. Not only did it give me an insight into what these individuals key strengths were, but the book also had enough personal information about them that you came away from the book feeling you knew more about them as individuals. The book starts off by making the assurance that great leaders are not only capable individuals, but they also have a desire to lead and chose to do so above all else. They are not just great because of smarts or drive, but because they want to be and work at it continuously. Thus the authors provide a book that is not a road map to greatness, but a review of these 25 leaders and what they do that has made them successful. It is a broad group of people and it is interesting that the traits highlighted in the book are also wide spanning. I had incorrectly assumed that the book was going to give me a simple list of the things I needed to get good at, no such luck.
The goal of the book is to help current day leaders observe proven and successful leaders to help them in coming better. The purpose is not so much to imitate their qualities but really to discover which attributes resonate with yourself and the cultivate those traits to expand and improve your leadership skills. There are so many good examples in the book that it is almost too much to take in with one reading, this is one of those books that you will find yourself highlighting and marking pages for further review. It comes as close as possible to a how to guide for personal improvement. Overall I not only enjoyed the book, but I learned a great deal from it. This book as so many helpful bits of info that all managers and business owners can learn from it. The book is not only worth the money, but also worth the time to read.

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Now in paperback. . . . What outstanding leaders do, and how they do it. Building corporate culture that can withstand anything. Reinventing your business: when it's time, how to do it. Key attributes of lasting leadership. The greatest business leaders of our generation. How they achieved the impossible. What you can learn from them. How to use those lessons to supercharge your career. Two of the world's leaders in business knowledge and insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. The team: Nightly Business Report, the United States' #1 daily TV business news program, and Knowledge@Wharton, The Wharton School's online journal of research and business analysis. The book's incisive profiles show exactly how each business leader became so influential. They teach lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style -- and gain powerful influence in your own career. You'll gain new insights into familiar faces (Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner, Bill Gates). But you'll also gain greater appreciation for less heralded individuals -- from Mary Kay's Mary Kay Ash to Mohammed Yunus, whose 'microlending' revolution is helping millions of poor people around the world transform themselves into entrepreneurs. No other book offers this much actionable insight into this many extraordinary business leaders.A Conversation with Jack Welch xiiiIntroduction xxiiiChapter 1 Best of the Best: Inside Andy Grove's Leadership at Intel 1Chapter 2 Leadership and Corporate Culture 21Chapter 3 Truth Tellers 47Chapter 4 Identifying an Underserved Market 73Chapter 5 Seeing the Invisible 103Chapter 6 Using Price to Gain Competitive Advantage 131Chapter 7 Managing the Brand 159Chapter 8 Fast Learners 183Chapter 9 Managing Risk 209Chapter 10 Conclusion 237 References 243Index 261

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What Lucy Taught Us: A Management Fable about Improving Your Business One Process at a Time Review

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(More customer reviews)With internet, technology, social media and how they revolutionize the way we manage business dominating business headlines in the recent decade, we often forgot that the fundamental of a well run business is sound business process. What Lucy Taught Us is a timely, well written and easy to read book on the importance of focusing on business process improvement in order to reduce cost, improve customer and employee satisfaction, and ultimately business bottom line.
This is a book should be on the desk of every CEO and COO of any size company.

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Funky Business Forever: How to Enjoy Capitalism (Financial Times) Review

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(More customer reviews)Move it.
Move it fast.
Move it faster.
Move it now.
These are the words, which summarize all the 245 pages of the book and energize them. Although casual in style and easy-to-understand in language, Funky Business is yet a profound and philosophical survey of the recent shift of basic values in social and business structures of the global society. Those, who understand the spirit and emotions of Mission Impossible II or Swordfish - Password Accepted, will definitely appreciate both the style and the message. For the `businessmen', who love ACID Jazz the message of the book is also easy to catch. The other guys may miss it out.
True, none of the business concepts, exposed in the book is new to the business community. But the authors created the brand new vision of the modern business through hy-phe-nation (as they describe the phenomenon themselves) of the latest ideas. Only such a weird combination of ideas helped them to produce the most beautiful (and harmonious?) description of a competitive advantage I ever learnt: "Competitive advantages weigh no more than the dreams of a butterfly". I understood the vitality of this phrase when I heard one of businessman in Russia (not oil, timber or caviar tycoon) telling, that he is "dedicated to the quality of idea in his business, because the highest quality of idea is the only thing impossible to be replicated immediately". And this gives him a competitive advantage. Once again: it was asserted not from the sends of California, but from the woods of Russia. What else should be said or done to prove the unambiguous victory of Forces of Funk throughout the world?
But above all, this is not the book to read, to learn and to forget. This is the ACTION book. It wakes up those who haven't yet understood that Future Just Happened. And it puts more pressure on those who are already awoken in order to move faster. My judgement is that Funky Business is a must-read for everyone in business: from an intern to the CEO. We already did it in our office. Every newcomer MUST read Funky Business in a bid to speak with his peers and bosses (very few, really) in the same language.

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