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You have a dream...become a full-time author. But how do you turn your writing into a business so you can say, “I quit my job!”? Most beginning authors, and far too many experienced wordsmiths, don’t have any idea what it takes to manage the business side of their career. There’s more to it than just writing books and uploading them on the distribution sites. You have many decisions to make for your business. How do you keep track of the money coming in and going out? No matter where you are in your writing career, it’s never too late to treat your writing like a business.

Knowing your audience will help you to organize your material so that it has the best chance of being read and understood. Put yourself in your reader’s shoes - listen, and you will be better received. This book will show you how to write business messages clearly, concisely and simply. It will encourage you to write conversationally, the way you talk, and to write with humanity; that is, from one person to another.

Your Life Is a Book by memoirist Brenda Peterson and literary agent Sarah Jane Freymann is a practical and inspiring guide. We offer storytelling insights and writing prompts on finding your voice, self-discovery, and the publishing process. Oprah.com chose Your Life Is a Book as “self-help advice that works,” and “the process of writing about your past can lead to a boost in self-acceptance, self-awareness, and fulfillment.” Memoir is like a love story, with all the ecstasies, disappointments, and turning points of any relationship. It is a pilgrimage to come home to your life story.

In a marketplace crowded with options and driven by rapid innovation, one competitive edge remains timeless: the power of human emotion. The Emotional Experience: The Feeling Economy, and Why Brands That Emotionally Connect Win, explores how leading organizations harness the science of emotion to shape unforgettable experiences, build deeper relationships, and earn lasting loyalty. Drawing on insights from psychology, neuroscience, and real-world business strategy, this book reveals why emotional intelligence (EQ) is no longer optional—it's essential.

Introducing How to Start a Vending Machine Business—your comprehensive guide to entering the lucrative world of vending machines. Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced entrepreneur looking to diversify your portfolio, this book offers invaluable insights and practical strategies to help you build a successful vending machine business.

Since founding Fixup, a pop-up repair shop, Sandra Goldmark has become a leader in the movement to demand better "stuff". She doesn't just want to help us clear clutter - she aims to move us away from throwaway culture, to teach us to reuse and repurpose more thoughtfully, and to urge companies to produce better stuff. Although her goal is ambitious, the solution to getting there is surprisingly simple and involves all of us: have good stuff, not too much, mostly reclaimed, care for it, and pass it on.

The top 2.5 percent of high performing authors earn 64 percent of the book profits. How do they do it? We are in the golden age for authors. The gatekeepers are gone. The books and novels that have been buried on your “bucket list” can be brought to life. Nobody can tell you, “No!” It’s not even that hard. Getting the readers, well, that’s where we all need help.

We evolved for a particular environment, but our rapid social advances and mushrooming populations have created a bewildering new world. On the timescale of this dizzying change, evolution has effectively stopped, and we must rely on what has gotten us this far. By retracing the path that our distant ancestors took to get here, we can understand the stunning abilities and glaring weaknesses which we have inherited.

Why do we do the things we do? The classical view of economics is that we are rational individuals, making decisions with the intention of maximizing our preferences. Behaviorists, on the other hand, see us as relying on mental shortcuts and conforming to preexisting biases. Richard Robb argues that neither explanation accounts for those things that we do for their own sake, and without understanding these sorts of actions, our picture of decision‑making is at best incomplete.

From the number one new-release author Dr. Melissa Caudle comes the secrets of launching and publishing a book as an independent author. Why waste hundreds of hours trying to find this information or spend hundreds of dollars on webinars? Have you been there and done that?

Faulty grammar can slow you down and diminish your credibility as a business writer. Essential Grammar has just one objective: to help you use correct English in the documents you write for work. Correct writing is an excellent way to boost your professional credibility. Here are some of the skills the book helps you master: writing grammatically correct sentences, using the right forms of pronouns and verbs, distinguishing between commonly confused words, and knowing when and where to use punctuation marks.

Anyone can go online and buy a pair of pants - but the likelihood that we would do so depends to a significant degree on where we live. The presence of stores nearby, trendy and friendly neighbors, and local sales taxes play a large role in the decision-making process when it comes to buying online. Location Is (Still) Everything is for anyone who wants to understand the patterns underlying how and why we use the Internet to shop, sell, and search, including entrepreneurs, students, and investors.

Money Anxiety is a behavioral economics book exploring how financial anxiety impacts consumer behavior. The book explains why we make instinctive financial decisions, why we are more risk averse when stressed, and why we hate to lose more than we love to win.

Whether you have been published by a New York publisher, an independent press, an ePublisher, self-published or considering all of your options, this book contains all the information you need to make an informed decision about your career as an author in today's fast moving digital world. We start out with content and theory, giving you a feel for where the industry has been and where it is going. We cover the various types of publishing, goal setting and help you find where you fit in the 3 P's, and more.

While everyone is talking about "big data", the truth is that understanding the "little data" - the stats that underlie newspaper headlines, stock reports, weather forecasts, and so on - is what helps you make smarter decisions at work, at home, and in every aspect of your life. The average person consumes approximately 30 gigabytes of data every single day but has no idea how to interpret it correctly. Everydata explains, through the eyes of an expert economist and statistician, how to decipher the small bytes of data we consume in a day.

In today's fast-paced, competitive business environment, everyone needs to communicate clearly and use time productively. E-Mail: A Write It Well Guide is a user-friendly audiobook that is filled with guidelines, tips, and tools. Discover how to write professional email that gets results, makes better use of email time, and avoids problems that can be costly. The updated version includes a section on using instant messaging and handheld devices. Used by individuals, corporations, and trainers, this is a must-have for anyone who writes emails at work.

The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource, or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research, and knowledge to change the world.

In this hysterical, astute book, HR industry expert Jim Dunn explores how humor can improve our professional environments and personal development by exploring questions like: How is humor a superpower for fostering collaborative environments? Are funny employees more effective? How can laughter turn crisis into connection and opportunity? How can instituting a culture of levity shape team dynamics and improve job satisfaction?

Sind Sie Autor oder möchten einer werden und suchen nach einem soliden, monatlichen Passiv-Einkommen? Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie Ihr Werk über Amazon veröffentlichen und erfolgreich vermarkten. Seit 2014 bin ich als Kindle-Autor tätig und habe mein Wissen und meine Erfahrungen in diesem Ratgeber zusammengefasst. Hier finden Sie Antworten auf alle Fragen rund um die Vorbereitung, das Verfassen, die Veröffentlichung und die Vermarktung Ihres Buches.

Este audiolibro tiene como objetivo comprender todos los factores que nos inducen a desprendernos de nuestro dinero: estímulos sensoriales, sesgos cognitivos, emociones y también los “trucos” psicológicos del marketing (que no son de magia, sino basados en la ciencia) que vienen aplicándose con éxito durante años. Descubre los secretos de la psicología del consumidor, desde las compras impulsivas hasta el poder del marketing emocional.