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Leading the Customer-Led Revolution is for brave business leaders who are charged with driving customer-led change in their organisation. It offers a framework for thinking and a plan of action to help your business become a truly customer-led organisation.

Over his 30-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines. With relish and astonishing candour, he offers the inside scoop on Tina Brown and Anna Wintour, David Bowie and Philip Green, Kate Moss and Beyonce and a surreal weekend away with Bob Geldof and William Hague.

Plastic surgery has become the answer for many Americans, and in American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we now spend over $12 billion annually on procedures like liposuction, face-lifts, tummy tucks, and boob jobs.

This audiobook provides an in-depth analysis of the evolution of tech journalism. Tech companies were used to 'cheerleading' coverage of product launches. This long tech-press honeymoon ended, and was replaced by a new era of mounting criticism, focused on tech's negative impact on society. When - and why - did tech coverage shift? How did tech companies respond to the rise of tech criticism? Through analyses of both the tech media and corporates' crisis responses, this audiobook examines the roots and characteristics of the 'Techlash'.

Making money blogging about things you love, enjoy, or are passionate about is fun, right? There has never been a better time in history to start a blog; we have unbelievable technologies at our finger tips right now, and most are free... like WordPress. The cost of entry has never been lower, the variety of ways to attract an audience has never been greater, and there are multitudes of ways to monetize your blog.

Hören Sie sich das IntensivHörTraining so oft an, bis das Wissen ein Teil Ihrer selbst ist. Sie werden sich im Alltag und in Prüfungssituationen...

This book doesn’t just tell you what to do but shows you exactly how to do it. From the very first chapter, you’ll discover an innovative approach combining emotional psychology, storytelling, and advanced persuasion strategies. You don’t need prior experience or endless hours of practice. Automatically, each chapter guides you step by step to master emotional copywriting and take it to the next level.

Business leaders are in charge. They are in charge of people, of budgets, of production lines. Most leaders also believe that they are in charge of their greatest resource - their own brain. But how true is that? The more we understand about how the brain works, the clearer it becomes that our brain often kicks in before we do.

When you start to write a book, you’re doing more than just typing words on a keyboard. You’re entering the book business—and like every other business, the book business has many different elements. The author wants you to be 100 percent successful in dealing with all those elements so he has written this book to share with you his insider’s story. Mark covers marketing, finances, and all elements of the business while encouraging would-be authors to achieve what Freud said were the three reasons people set out to write books: “Fame, Love, and Money.”

Leaders, business owners or people who want to get things done effectively need strong writing communications skills. This book offers useful insights into how to make your writing more persuasive and memorable. These are the tips, advice points, and examples of an expert communicator. Whether it’s persuading through newspaper “op-eds,” speeches, or even during crisis communications, “A Wordsmith’s Work” will improve the success of your message and enhance the reputation of your chosen messenger.

This audiobook is my ultimate guide to what you need, what you can try, and what is likely to be a waste of your money and time. I talk about the unvarnished experience of self-publishing and selling books while keeping control of my catalogue and not funding anyone's private jet in advertising costs.

The Guiding Purpose Strategy is a stimulating deep dive into the transformational power of purpose. Looking through the lens of contemporary brand management, The Guiding Purpose Strategy provokes fresh thinking, illustrates through case studies, and offers a hands-on framework to start your very own path toward finding your inner why.

Der Bestseller vom Business Storyteller Thomas Pyczak! Wir lieben Geschichten. Sie unterhalten, berühren, begeistern – und bleiben im Gedächtnis haften. Wer gut erzählen kann, der wirkt souverän, überzeugend und versteht es, Menschen mitzunehmen. Auch im Business geht es nicht ohne Storytelling – oft spielt es sogar eine entscheidende Rolle. Gute Geschichten helfen, Kunden zu gewinnen, Investoren zu überzeugen oder eine Beförderung zu bekommen. Thomas Pyczak glaubt, dass Storytelling eine Schlüsselfähigkeit für jeden ist, der erfolgreich sein möchte.

If the financial crisis has taught us anything, it is that Americans save too little, spend too much, and borrow excessively. What can we learn from East Asian and European countries that have fostered enduring cultures of thrift over the past two centuries? Beyond Our Means tells for the first time how other nations aggressively encouraged their citizens to save by means of special savings institutions and savings campaigns.

Every Step Counts helps authors map out the entire journey for marketing a book, including building a platform, starting a website, planning a book launch, drafting a marketing plan, scaling a platform, and much more!

Viele Menschen träumen davon, ein Buch zu schreiben und zu veröffentlichen, doch nur wenige realisieren es. Die Gründe hierfür sind vielfältig. Doch damit dir das nicht passiert, begleitet dich Daniela Landgraf in diesem Hörbuch dabei, innerhalb von 84 Tagen dein eigenes Buch zu schreiben.

Do we really need more consumer "stuff"? While most everyone will answer "No", we still see thousands of new products and services launched every day. These compete for our attention with already inundated markets filled with existing products–in the midst of the most intense information flows in history. Traditional adverts are not a cost-effective solution and like much more. So how can you successfully catch consumers’ interest? This book provides the answer.

Deja de sufrir por las presentaciones. Esta guía te proporcionará la seguridad y las herramientas necesarias para poder persuadir a tu público, vender tus ideas y sorprender a los demás. Entre otros aspectos, esta guía te ayudará a mejorar tu capacidad para enseñar a la gente la importancia de tus ideas, ganarte a públicos difíciles, estructurar un discurso coherente, crear mensajes brillantes, elaborar un buen material visual, mantener la atención de tu público y encontrar el tono adecuado a cada situación.

YouthNation is an indispensable brand road map to the youth-driven economy. Exploring the idea that youth is no longer an age - it's a commodity that's available to everyone - this book shows what it takes to stay connected, agile, authentic, and relevant in today's marketplace. Listeners will learn the ins and outs of the new consumer and the tools, methods, and techniques that ensure brand survival in the age of perpetual youth.

The Wallet Allocation Rule is a revolutionary, definitive guide for winning the battle for share of customers' hearts, minds, and wallets. Backed by rock-solid science published in the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, this landmark book introduces a new and rigorously tested approach - the wallet allocation rule - that is proven to link to the most important measure of customer loyalty: share of wallet.