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Presenting a clear, accessible guide to solving important leadership challenges through human resources-focused and other data analytics, this engaging audiobook tells you how to transform the HR function and overall organizational effectiveness by using data to make decisions grounded in facts vs opinions, identify root causes behind your company's thorniest problems, and move toward a winning, future-focused business strategy.

Following the success of his best-selling book, How to Launch a Brand, acclaimed brand strategist Fabian Geyrhalter is back with an enlightening new book that digs deep into today's new world of brand creation. Bigger Than This challenges companies - from startups to Fortune 100s - to (re)discover their spark and connect with today's consumers on a deeper level. In Bigger Than This, Geyrhalter analyzes brands that are based on commodity products - watches, socks, shoes, fish - yet they quickly turn into beloved brands. He emphasizes the importance of storytelling.

In order to be successful both today and in the future, you need to separate yourself from the competition by practicing the breakthrough principle of adaptive innovation. How? By delivering an experience that the competition either cannot or will not attempt to copy. This is literally impossible if you stick to what is already familiar to you because whatever is familiar to you and your customers is likely to be familiar to your competition. You must create a new experience that is unique to you and that fosters a powerful emotional attachment with your target customer.

Interest in applying analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to sales and marketing has grown dramatically, with no signs of slowing down. This book provides essential guidance to apply advanced analytics and data mining techniques to real-world business applications.

Narrating Audible Books at Home: A Step-by-Step Guide by Rachel Edwards is a practical guide for authors who want to narrate and produce their own audiobooks. It provides a framework for creating Audible books from the comfort of home through a do-it-yourself approach. The book covers the entire process of audiobook creation, from making the initial decision to narrate your work, setting up accounts, preparing your studio space and equipment, techniques for quality narration, editing audio files, uploading to ACX, troubleshooting issues, calculating costs, and marketing the finished product.

Women drive 80 percent of consumer spending. The most powerful determining factor for how we see the world is gender. In today's business market, women hold buying power of $4.4 trillion in the United States alone. Mastering the skills to tap into the world's largest buying segment will give you the competitive advantage you need. In this audiobook, Dawn Jones shares seven techniques for bridging the gap and capturing more business.

In Cool, the neuroscientist and philosopher Steven Quartz and the political scientist Anette Asp bring together the latest findings in brain science, economics, and evolutionary biology to form a provocative theory of consumerism, revealing how the brain's "social calculator" and an instinct to rebel are the crucial missing links in understanding the motivations behind our spending habits.

AI-Powered Customer Experience, The Future of Call Center Excellence. Future belongs to organizations that understand how to measure what matters: customer lifetime value, emotional satisfaction, effort reduction, and the seamless orchestration of human and artificial intelligence working together. Thirty years ago, when I first stepped into a call center, success was measured by how many calls an agent could handle per hour. The faster you moved customers along, the better your numbers looked.

Reclaim Your Author Career is the insightful guide you’ve been looking for to build a writing life that fits like a glove, brings you the satisfaction you’ve dreamed of, and empowers you to create a life worth celebrating. If you like individualized advice, fresh storytelling strategies, and deeper self-knowledge, then you’ll love Claire Taylor’s revolutionary approach to unlocking the creative life you deserve.

In this book, you’ll get the same information that most $10,000 Amazon FBA gurus teach their students. Except that you don’t have to pay as much! You’re literally getting lean and concise information about e-commerce product research through this guide. By mastering product research, you’ll be confident that you can always make money and continue to do so in the long-term. Look at each product as if it’s an asset that you get to build each day. The more profitable products you can find, the more passive income you’ll consistently make.

If your product or service just doesn’t seem to sell, then it might not be the product that’s the problem, it could be you. It’s no secret that the best salespeople have secrets that the rest don’t know, and Persuasion: Psychology of Selling - Secret Techniques Only the World’s Top Sales People Know to Close the Deal Every Time is the audiobook you need to start putting these secrets to work for you. The human brain is the most advanced computer ever created, able to process complex mental equations that would leave any man-made computer crying in a corner.

Do you want to learn how you can make money on Amazon by selling ghostwritten books, your self-written books, or any kind of low-content/activity book? With the help of this book, you will learn everything about producing, publishing, and marketing books on Amazon that can generate income for you every month for a long time to come. It includes the same strategies I use myself, and that has helped me to make over $100,000 in royalties from the books I've published on Amazon.

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.

Customers Know You Suck is the how-to manual for customer centric product marketing. Its highly actionable models, maps, and processes empower everyone to improve the customer experience (CX). Learn how to investigate, diagnose, and act on what's blocking teams. Gather the evidence and data that better inform decisions, leading to increased satisfaction, conversion, and loyalty.

Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception.

Be more effective on the job! Communicate like a native speaker of English! American English speakers use many phrases and expressions on the job. If you don’t know these expressions, you’re left out of the conversation. You’re out of it...and nothing makes you feel so much like a foreigner. Speak Business English Like an American will help you speak Business English like an American - quickly and confidently. You’ll hear the idioms & expressions used in everyday speech in American workplaces.

Grant Writing Basics and Beyond is the ultimate guide to developing successful grant proposals. Whether you're a nonprofit professional, a researcher, or a community organizer, this comprehensive resource will equip you with the tools and strategies you need to secure funding for your important projects. From identifying funding opportunities to crafting a compelling narrative that captures the attention of funders, this book covers all aspects of the grant writing process.

TOUTES les techniques requises pour vous définir comme rédacteur professionnel sont condensées dans ces pages et, bientôt, vous pourriez les serrer entre vos mains. Est-ce qu’il suffit de le lire une fois pour encaisser des chiffres fous? NON, mais il deviendra votre Bible pour surpasser la concurrence jour après jour, en appliquant chaque suggestion dans les travaux que vous allez développer. Apprenez l’art de l’écriture persuasive et devenez l’un des professionnels les plus recherchés sur le marché!

In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, Google's change in policy is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years: the rise of personalization.

Four innovation experts from the startup world, large enterprises, nonprofits, and academia come together to reveal the secret of uncovering authentic demand to build successful innovations. Books on innovation mostly focus on how to nurture innovative cultures and brainstorm ideas. The Heart of Innovation is the first popular book to concretely delve into what innovations really are and how to create them.