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Media Artists Secrets Podcast
By: Franklin McMahon

(Podcast)

 


The Podcast for the Creative Professional, Media Artist Secrets is a fast paced, info packed, semi daily and fun show that provides creative inspiration, tells how to market your talents, fine-tune your vision, advance your skills and share your creations with the world.



The Guerrilla Entrepreneur: Achieving Success and Balance Now and in the Future
By: Jay Conrad Levinson

(Paperback)

 

A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS WITHOUT STRESS, NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. The face of entrepreneurial business has changed drastically in recent years, and the 21st century promises to bring the most dramatic alterations to the business paradigm to date, calling for an overall revision of the structures and attitudes with which guerrillas set up shop. By following The Way of the Guerrilla, new and seasoned entrepreneurs alike will discover that achieving and maintaining a professionally and personally balanced life is the way to achieve emotional and financial success, now and in the century to come. In this invaluable guide to your future business success, best-selling author and guru of the guerrilla lifestyle Jay Conrad Levinson will help you: Prepare a focused mission statement. Hire responsible employees. Delegate effectively. Respond to technological advances. Maintain business flexibility. Find more time for yourself. Improve your community. Sustain passion for your work.



Guerrilla Marketing for the Home-Based Business
By: Jay Conrad Levinson

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Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
By: Seth Godin

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The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the information age" explains "Permission Marketing" - the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it. Does every single marketing effort you create encourage a learning relationship with your customers? Does it invite customers to "raise their hands" and start communicating? Do you have a permission database? Do you track the number of people who have given you permission to communicate with them? If consumers gave you permission to talk to them would you have anything to say? Have you developed a marketing curriculum to teach people about your products? Instead of annoying potential customers by interrupting their most coveted commodity - time - Permission Marketing offers consumers incentives to accept advertising voluntarily. Godin demonstrates how marketers are already profiting from this key new approach in all forms of media.



All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
By: Seth Godin

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Marketers succeed when they tell us a story that fits our worldview, a story that we intuitively embrace and then share with our friends. Think of the Dyson vacuum cleaner or the iPod.

But beware: If your stories are inauthentic, you cross the line from fib to fraud. Marketers fail when they are selfish and scurrilous, when they abuse the tools of their trade and make the world worse. That's a lesson learned the hard way by telemarketers and Marlboro.

This is a powerful book for anyone who wants to create things people truly want as opposed to commodities that people merely need.



Values-Driven Business: How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun (Social Venture Network)
By: Ben Cohen and Mal Warwick

(Paperback)

 

Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen and Social Venture Network chair Mal Warwick team up to provide you with a way to run your business for profit and personal satisfaction. This practical, down-to-earth book details every step in the process of creating and managing a business that will reflect your personal values, not force you to hide them.



Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable 
By: Seth Godin

(Paperback)

 

You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice.

Cows, after you've seen one, or two, or ten, are boring. A Purple Cow, though...now that would be something. Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable. Every day, consumers come face to face with a lot of boring stuff-a lot of brown cows-but you can bet they won't forget a Purple Cow. And it's not a marketing function that you can slap on to your product or service. Purple Cow is inherent. It's built right in, or it's not there. Period.

In Purple Cow, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for marketers who want to help create products that are worth marketing in the first place.



Authentic Business: How to Create and Run Your Perfect Business 
By: Neil Crofts

(Paperback)

 

Authentic Business shows that it is possible to start a successful business without selling out your values. It taps into a huge, hungry market for good quality business start-up books and takes you step by step, through the 'why?' and 'how?' of starting and running your own business.

Neil Crofts uses inspiring examples of those who have achieved their dreams on authentic lines and shows that business does not have to be exploitative, greedy, and devoid of meaning.



Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways For Creating Work That You Love
By: Barbara J. Winter

(Paperback)

 

This inspiring book is for all those who have ever dreamed of being their own boss or starting their own busines, as well as for those millions of Americans who are out of work, soon to be out of work or wishing they were out of work. Based on the techniques and ideas of her popular seminars and herown twenty years of business experienceand that of other successful entrepreneurs like herself, Barbara J. Winter offers step-by-step guidance on making a living - and having a life - by working when, where, and how you want. No matter what shape your unique dream may take. Winter shows you how to break through the mental barriers to being your own boss and choose a career that integrates the things you like to do with the things you're good at doing.



What is the Emperor Wearing?, First Edition: Truth-Telling in Business Relationships 
By: Laurie Weiss

(Paperback)

Laurie Weiss tells the stories of ordinary individuals in the workplace striving to steer a course between deception and damaging confrontation. As you relate to their struggles and successes, you learn the techniques and strategies you need to tell the truth with grace and skill in treacherous, rapidly changing business environments. This book is must reading for anyone who knows that telling the truth isn't as simple as it sounds.



Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller--Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century 
By: Napoleon Hill

(Paperback) (Audiobook)

 

The bestselling success book of all time is updated and revised with contemporary ideas and examples.

Think and Grow Rich has been called the "Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature." It was the first book to boldly ask, "What makes a winner?" The man who asked and listened for the answer, Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks of the world's winners himself.

The most famous of all teachers of success spent "a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort" to produce the "Law of Success" philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized in this one.

In the original Think and Grow Rich, published in 1937, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. In the updated version, Arthur R. Pell, Ph.D., a nationally known author, lecturer, and consultant in human resources management and an expert in applying Hill's thought, deftly interweaves anecdotes of how contemporary millionaires and billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Mary Kay Ash, Dave Thomas, and Sir John Templeton, achieved their wealth. Outmoded or arcane terminology and examples are faithfully refreshed to preclude any stumbling blocks to a new generation of readers.



Keys to Success:
By: Napoleon Hill

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 
By: Stephen R. Covey1

(Paperback) (Audiobook)

 


In the inspirational tradition of The Road Less Traveled, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is a holsitic, integrated approach to solving personal and professional problems by becoming principle-centered. This is a revolutionary guidebook to achieving peace of mind within and building trust without by seeking the roots of human behavior in character and learning principles rather than merely practices.



Living the 7 Habits: The Courage to Change
By: Stephen R. Covey1

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Life Matters
By: A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill

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From confronting life's tough questions to offering practical ways to implement your answers, the Merrills guide you through the crucial steps toward effective living. From their decades of professional and personal experience, the authors identify the essential "Gotta Do's" that serve as the framework for creating positive change.



The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
By: Eckhart Tolle

(Paperback) (Audiobook)

 

To make the journey into The Power of Now you need to leave your analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. Access to the Now is everywhere - in the body, the silence, and the space all around you. These are the keys to enter a state of inner peace. They can be used to bring you into the Now, the present moment, where problems do not exist. It is here you find your joy and are able to embrace your true self. It is here you discover that you are already complete and perfect.

Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language in a question and answer format. The words themselves are the signposts to guide you on your journey. There are new discoveries to be made along the way: you are not your mind, you can find your way out of psychological pain, authentic human power is found by surrendering to the Now. When you become fully present and accepting of what is, you open yourself to the transforming experience of The Power of Now.


Practicing The Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now
By: Eckhart Tolle

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