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Best Marketing

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides readers with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services. Donald Miller has helped more than 3,000 businesses clarify their marketing messages so their companies grow.
Reviews
"This was a great book for someone who is completely new to branding."
"Found the story brand processes for external and internal customer empowerment, band on and useful at every level of relationships."
"THE best book I have read in a while!"
"BOOK."
"Miller provides an easy-to-follow format for developing a story for your brand."
"Excellent book - very inspiring, and truly outlines the steps to take to tell your marketing story in a manner people can truly relate to."
"Great ideas for businesses small and large."
"I'm drinking the koolaid."
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Go Pro: 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional
Now he shares his wisdom in a guide that will ignite your passion for this profession and help you make the decision to Go Pro and create the life of your dreams. In this definitive guidebook, you will learn to:-Find prospects -Invite them to your product or opportunity -Present your product -Follow up with your prospects -Help them become customers or distributors -Help them get started right -Grow your team by promoting events -And much, much more. If you want to become a professional in network marketing, then his book is a must read. Get his book now!
Reviews
"I asked my college students to listen to the first chapter and answer the following questions: What does Mr. Worre think will happen to most traditional jobs in the near future? My students enjoyed listening to Chapter one and submitted thoughtful and mature responses to the questions."
"This is a must for anyone in the business industry."
"I thought the book was great. How is damn near every job out there???"
"Eric Worre is THE master of training in the network marketing industry."
"I think a book like "Go Pro - 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional" is long over due and Eric Worre has done a wonderful job conveying the message that. Network Marketing is a Profession just like any other and deserves the reputation that many other professions enjoy."
"I happen to be on you tube and in my search I came across an interview with Eric Worre talking to Nathan Ricks of Nuskin fame,I watched it and looked up both men and watched a few more of Eric's videos,I came across his book "Go Pro",I thought about buying it that night but I left it but the next day I came across the kindle version of it so I snapped it up right away."
"This should be the first book any new/existing person should read. To the Network Marketing Professional, read this as a manual for how you can tweak the little things in your business & get this in the hands of your leaders & your up & coming leaders, & every new person so that they can become a Network Marketing Professional."
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Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth
Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools and real-world guidance, Kim and Mauborgne deliver the definitive guide to shift yourself, your team, or your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation, and growth. " An exciting new book that synthesizes their experience in assisting with the implementation of Blue Ocean strategy.... BLUE OCEAN SHIFT provides us with a comprehensive guide to enable any organization with the right mindset to launch and implement a Blue Ocean initiative. In BLUE OCEAN SHIFT , you will find all of that and more as Kim and Mauborgne guide you on a journey that will open your eyes to the untapped growth opportunities in your business, whether you are a startup, small business, or Fortune 500 company." Starred Review : "While [ Blue Ocean Strategy ] helped to identify new avenues for strategic success, it fell short on providing the actual steps needed to jump from a crowded marketplace into the fabled blue ocean of the title. [ BLUE OCEAN SHIFT ], however, provides a clear process for business identifying opportunities and developing plans for change...This tide provides a course of action for readers of the authors' previous books and should find a large readership among all organizational levels.
Reviews
"Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean shift is a must for somebody that wants to exceed results and find new frontiers."
"Very good perspective on the future of competition."
"As a serious business reader I'm reluctant to spend reading time on a book positing a premise that salaried professors have a financial stake in. Considerable narrative revolves around 'grant' type projects ranging from the Iraq youth symphony creation to the Malaysian prison system expanding real estate on unused military acreage. The business enterprise Blue Ocean implementers discussed are, on further investigation, not world beaters by any stretch and represent miniscule demand/market disruption in the bigger scheme."
"I also like how they now provide a step-by-step guide, called the five-step process, to developing a blue ocean strategy, that makes it so much easier to implement blue ocean strategy in reality. This book will get you there."
"The sequel to Blue Ocean Strategy, Blue Ocean Shift outlines a methodology to identify blue ocean opportunities. 6) Apply the Four Action Framework, deciding which key factors of the as-is offering to eliminate, reduce, raise, and create. For each phase there is more in-depth analysis about how to use the various tools and many case studies, many from businesses that used Blue Ocean Strategy to create a new offering."
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Best Direct Marketing

Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords: How to Access 100 Million People in 10 Minutes (Ultimate Series)
Powerful bidding strategies using remarketing lists for search ads New ad extension features Automation capabilities using AdWords scripts Bonus Online Content that includes links to dozens of resources and tutorials covering: registering a domain name, setting up a website, selecting an email service, choosing a shopping cart service, finding products to sell, and starting up an Google AdWords account Readers are given the latest information paired with current screenshots, fresh examples, and new techniques. Perry Marshall is the number-one author and worlds most-quoted consultant on Google advertising.
Reviews
"I had recently hired an Adwords consultant for $500 a month to run the Adwords for my small bookkeeping business. To my horror, one month into the process I discovered that one of the ads they had written used the word "booking" instead of "bookkeeping". Nothing gave me the kind of practical, comprehensive, step-by-step breakdown of the platform that I needed to confidently manage the platform on my own."
"Amazing book by Perry Marshall."
"Reading this book helped me realize what I have been doing correctly so far, but also how much money I have been wasting on Google ads."
"Loving this book already."
"great book but needs hand on experience to undertand."
"I am a first-timer on Google Adwords, the book to me is easy to read and very practical without too much technical jargon."
"Excellent and comprehensive."
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Best Industrial Marketing

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, Blue Ocean Strategy , now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans. W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are Professors of Strategy at INSEAD and Codirectors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute.
Reviews
"This book defines a way of thinking about business strategy."
"Best business book I've ever read!"
"this is the very best business book i have ever read."
"Bought this for my girlfriend and she has gotten so much useful information from this book."
"Excellent book, perfect advisor to understand how to rebuild and transform your business into a more competitive entity."
"Love the approach and have applied them quite often."
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Best Multilevel Marketing

Go Pro: 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional
Now he shares his wisdom in a guide that will ignite your passion for this profession and help you make the decision to Go Pro and create the life of your dreams. In this definitive guidebook, you will learn to:-Find prospects -Invite them to your product or opportunity -Present your product -Follow up with your prospects -Help them become customers or distributors -Help them get started right -Grow your team by promoting events -And much, much more. If you want to become a professional in network marketing, then his book is a must read. Get his book now!
Reviews
"I asked my college students to listen to the first chapter and answer the following questions: What does Mr. Worre think will happen to most traditional jobs in the near future? My students enjoyed listening to Chapter one and submitted thoughtful and mature responses to the questions."
"This is a must for anyone in the business industry."
"I thought the book was great. How is damn near every job out there???"
"Eric Worre is THE master of training in the network marketing industry."
"I think a book like "Go Pro - 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional" is long over due and Eric Worre has done a wonderful job conveying the message that. Network Marketing is a Profession just like any other and deserves the reputation that many other professions enjoy."
"I happen to be on you tube and in my search I came across an interview with Eric Worre talking to Nathan Ricks of Nuskin fame,I watched it and looked up both men and watched a few more of Eric's videos,I came across his book "Go Pro",I thought about buying it that night but I left it but the next day I came across the kindle version of it so I snapped it up right away."
"This should be the first book any new/existing person should read. To the Network Marketing Professional, read this as a manual for how you can tweak the little things in your business & get this in the hands of your leaders & your up & coming leaders, & every new person so that they can become a Network Marketing Professional."
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Best Product Management

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior. "With concrete advice and tales from the product-development trenches, this is a thoughtful discussion of how to create something that users never knew they couldn’t live without." “The most high bandwidth, high octane, and valuable presentation I have ever seen on this subject.”. —Rory Sutherland, Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather. "Nir's work is an essential crib sheet for any startup looking to understand user psychology.”. —Dave McClure, Founder 500 Startups.
Reviews
"This book lays down a model building engagement by having users constantly return to your app. The "variable" part is important - rewards should not always be predictable, encouraging users to repeat the cycle. This could be content (e.g. a book in your Kindle), user entered data (e.g. profile information or linked accounts), reputation (e.g. something to gain a 5 star seller review), or a learned skill (e.g. I wanted something that would get to the crux of the problem and set out a practical framework of how to apply it with examples, without being overly verbose on history and research."
"I don't currently do any product design but the concepts apply at some level to any kind of marketing and could be used (at least in part) for promoting a service business, a tangible product or even just ideas."
"While I enjoyed the book, I would also add that business owners and product managers (could be many other stakeholders) should also spend significant time focusing on their business model and determining who the paying customers are! A focus on a business model does not mean that you need paying customers on day one (the timing will depend on your business model), but you need to have a model that determines your revenue streams and how they will be achieved."
"I'm a product manager at a large tech company and this book breaks down the habit forming process in an excellent and easy to digest manner."
"Good book using real life examples and case studies to back up the lessons learned."
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Best Market Research Business

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a professor from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. It contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas, which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC), developed by Eli Goldratt. One of Eli Goldratt s convictions was that the goal of an individual or an organization should not be defined in absolute terms. "A survey of the reading habits of managers found that though they buy books by the likes of Tom Peters for display purposes, the one management book they have actually read from cover to cover is The Goal."
Reviews
"As many other reviewers observed, the story has literal value as a conduit for learning how to identify process problems and resolve them by illustrating successful examples of HOW to question status quo plus successful examples of HOW to implement change through creating a collaborative or collective-ownership working environment that questions status quo as a matter of course."
"If you are employed in a business area, or interested in learning more about how to streamline company processes, this book is a great read."
"I have worked in oil and gas and manufacturing as an engineer and now manager for 20 years and I am finding this book is providing me insights on problems I am facing today."
"Between the fall of 2005 and the summer of 2011, I pursued a Master of Business Administration and Master of Systems Engineering back to back while working during the day."
"Anyone who is in their own business or has a management position in any size company should read this timeless classic."
"I had a really hard time finishing 11 CDs, I can not imagine what the book is like. From there, its hard to say which Chapters are the most valuable because he (Alex) does go back and forth about "The Goal" and the story of the book."
"TOC is a very beneficial way of finding constraints in your organization and work on a path of constant improvement .After listening to the successful implementation of TOC''s implementations in verious fields like hospitals , Automobiles etc I am convinced it can be the best tool for a manager and will be happy to be a part of its implementation or be the implamenter one day."
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Best Telemarketing

Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling
Learn how to keep the pipeline full of qualified opportunities and avoid debilitating sales slumps by leveraging a balanced prospecting methodology across multiple prospecting channels. Why the 30-Day Rule is critical for keeping the pipeline full Why understanding the Law of Replacement is the key to avoiding sales slumps How to leverage the Law of Familiarity to reduce prospecting friction and avoid rejection The 5 C’s of Social Selling and how to use them to get prospects to call you How to use the simple 5 Step Telephone Framework to get more appointments fast How to double call backs with a powerful voice mail technique How to leverage the powerful 4 Step Email Prospecting Framework to create emails that compel prospects to respond How to get text working for you with the 7 Step Text Message Prospecting Framework And there is so much more! “In Fanatical Prospecting, you’ll learn exactly what you need to do right now to open more sales conversations, fill your pipeline, and put a lot more money in your pocket. If you want to understand exactly what it takes to be successful in sales this is the book for you .” John Spence, author of Awesomely Simple and one of the top 100 business thought leaders in the world. Blount explains core principles of prospecting in a story-telling style that begs you to write in the margins and put your own action plan into place.
Reviews
"Noticing the book was #1 on Amazon’s telemarketing best seller list, I ordered a copy and began reading with an open mind. The book, especially at the beginning and the very end, is about 50% standard sales motivation content covering well-trodden material like the amygdala/lizard brain, Amy Cuddy’s TED talk on body language, etc. Knowing that activity takes 90+ days to pay off, successful salespeople relentlessly fill their pipeline through a mixture of telephone, in-person, e-mail, social selling, text messaging, referrals, networking, inbound leads, trade shows, and cold calling. “Top performers organize their day into distinct time blocks dedicated to specific activities, concentrating their focus and eliminating distractions within those blocks… We schedule our prospecting blocks [on our calendars] into three “Power Hours” that are spread across the day—morning, midday, and afternoon.”. 4. For this reason, the social channel is better suited to building familiarity, lead nurturing, research, nuanced inbound prospecting, and trigger-event awareness.”. 7. “The feeling of rejection happens the moment you get a reflex response, brush-off, or objection (RBO)… Overcoming doesn't work. The key is a disruptive statement or question that turns them around so that they lean toward you rather than move away from away from you… When they say they're busy, instead of arguing them into how you will only take a little bit of their time, say, “I figured you would be.” Agreeing with them disrupts their thought pattern… When they say, “Just send me some information,” say, “Tell me specifically what you are looking for.” This calls their bluff and forces engagement… When they say, “I'm not interested,” say, “That makes sense."
"I bought this book hoping to find information on many forms of prospecting, and how to bring it all together into a structure. With 320 pages, I felt for sure there would be a chapter on bringing it all together, like 'A day in the life of a fanatical prospector', to give the reader a sample framework in which to form a basis to change how they prospect. That's what I needed, as I'm pretty good with scripting, but my overall time management and flow of the multiple prospecting mediums sucks. An additional note: I'm getting a little frustrated with the fact that there are more and more books loaded with compensated reviewers on Amazon."
"As a result, even if I've been in sales for quite a while, it humbles me to say that I've learned more about prospecting in the short span of time of reading this book than I ever did when in my entire selling career. The range of lessons the book offers is both broad and balanced, and I can confidently say that all of my questions, doubts, and even objections about prospecting have been satisfactorily handled."
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Best Web Marketing

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
New York Times bestselling author and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk shares hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition. Even companies committed to jabbing—patiently engaging with customers to build the relationships crucial to successful social media campaigns—want to land the punch that will take down their opponent or their customer’s resistance in one blow. Even companies committed to "jabbing"—creating content for consumers and engaging with customers to build relationships—still desperately want to land the powerful, bruising swing that will knock out their opponents or their customers' resistance in one tooth-shattering, killer blow. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is a blueprint to social media marketing strategies that really work.
Reviews
"JJJRH is the next and final installment with lessons learned in between, real-world examples, and a basic patterned blueprint for success to give brands and businesses, big and small, a fighting chance in this social frenzy."
"I was STOKED when I found out that Gary chose my SM campaign, garnering me the "win" as his JJRHBook/Skillshare class challenge contest winner - winning me a 1-on1 Skype with Gary. I'm a firm believer in "speaking those things that are not, as if they were"."
"One of the features I especially loved about this book was the numerous examples of content marketing posts made in a variety of industries, by businesses of many different sizes."
"The phenomenal popularity of social media coupled with the market penetration of smartphones and mobile devices, has very recently and quite remarkably changed human behavior."
"One of the most important ideas to emerge during the rise of social media marketing over the past several years is that storytelling doesn’t just matter, it is absolutely essential to a brand’s success."
"It's packed with great ideas, tips, thoughts and some facts and numbers regarding social media that I haven't heard before. If you care at all about this stuff stop reading these reviews and just get the book ..... you'll earn your money back (and then some) quickly!"
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Best Advertising

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. He was a reporter for the Washington Post from 1987 to 1996, working first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief.
Reviews
"Not stuff I usually read."
"If you are one of those people you know its the equivalent of moving a mountain to succeed but it helps open your eyes a bit at what factors come into play during a tipping point."
"An entertaining page turner that presents countless opportunities to serve as a useful reference tool."
"I am a fan of Gladwell's books."
"From hush puppies to teen smoking and everything in-between, the topics are all connected by the tipping point and the little things that can make the focus on them change in a big way."
"I liked Outliers better, but this is a good book."
"Nice book."
"Great book."
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Best Marketing & Sales

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Perfect for people in all walks of life, the principles of Influence will move you toward profound personal change and act as a driving force for your success. (Journal of Retailing).
Reviews
"The Harvard Business Review article "Harnessing the Science of Persuasion" by Cialdini, from their October 2001 issue....is a good example. You can even get the Six Principles from the books Table Of Contents...save yourself some time. For salespeople to benefit from a sales book, the ideas have to be explained, understood, proven, accepted, and made real."
"The book outlines strategies to get compliance and most are short term salesman driven ideas."
"This book should be required reading in ever public school - once as a Sophomore/Junior and again as a Senior to set the lesson in stone."
"Easy read."
"Interesting - lots of real-world examples to illustrate his points."
"Great read for anyone that want's to better understand the way people think."
"tl;dr: read it, and then read it again and implement all the ideas in your business and life."
"Excellent book that illuminated many of the techniques sales people, propagandists and others have used on me without me even realizing it."
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Best Global Marketing

The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd
In The 1-Page Marketing Plan, serial entrepreneur and rebellious marketer Allan Dib reveals a marketing implementation breakthrough that makes creating a marketing plan simple and fast. With it you'll be able to map out your own sophisticated marketing plan and go from zero to marketing hero. Whether you're just starting out or are an experienced entrepreneur, The 1-Page Marketing Plan is the easiest and fastest way to create a marketing plan that will propel your business growth. It gives the small and medium sized business the ability to dominate their market. It went from startup to four years later being named by Business Review Weekly (BRW) as one of Australia's fastest growing companies - earning a spot in the coveted BRW Fast 100 list. Allan is passionate about helping businesses find new and innovative ways to leverage technology and marketing to facilitate rapid business growth.
Reviews
"I have read a lot of marketing books and remained hopeful when I purchased this one that perhaps I would find a book worth reading. My MBA marketing courses didn't teach me as clearly as this book did."
"The author did take time to articulate the technical jargon into plain english (which is really not so simple as it sounds) which helps in relating to the topic at hand."
"This book confirmed many things about marketing that I've read and thought about in the past."
"This book is on point and full of great advice."
"I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is struggling to put a marketing plan in place for their brick and mortar or online business."
"I am a huge fan of great books, and this one is definitely a great one!"
"This book delivers what it promises in a grat way."
"It's short and sweet and hits all the critical steps required for any business to jumpstart their marketing efforts."
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Best Retailing Industry

#GIRLBOSS
In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called “ Lean In for misfits,” Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world. It’s this kind of honest advice, plus the humorous ups and downs of her rise in online retail, that make the book so appealing.” — Los Angeles Times. “Amoruso teaches the innovative and entrepreneurial among us to play to our strengths, learn from our mistakes, and know when to break a few of the traditional rules.” — Vanity Fair “#GIRLBOSS is more than a book . Sophia Amoruso is the Founder of Nasty Gal and the Founder and CEO of Girlboss.
Reviews
"It is inspiring to see with will power and nobody telling you no, you truly achieve something... and with spam."
"This was a very easy read and I have a lot of underlines in mine since there are many golden nuggets throughout for anyone who is considering starting their own business."
"What can I say about this book other than it's incredibly inspirational and gives me the feeling that I can go-get-'em."
"This is the only fully truthful business book I have read."
"This girl is funny, shares her start-up knowledge in a witty, humorous way."
"For anyone looking to start a business or just struggling to keep one afloat, this book is a great read."
"+ It truly is inspiring to read about a type of success not born of traditional privilege or ambition - I hope this book gets a lot of other young women out there to kick-start their dreams. Sophia seems to think her company is God's gift to Earth - I found her completely presumptuous both in her evaluation of her own brand equity, and hyperbolic in her descriptions of Nasty Gal as a "huge, explosive success" (I live and work in Silicon Valley, where nonprofits get $20M in funding annually easy and companies grow from 1 to 350 employees in two years - let's have a sense of scale here.). She had some nice words about some coworkers, but she never acknowledges the support her family gave her even as she was essentially a parenting failure, never thanks her customers for driving awareness of her brand, never admits that some of her colleagues are at least part of the reason behind her company's success. + She plays the victim so much but never acknowledges any real failures (and now, hiring someone you thought was right for the role and then having to fire them isn't a failure - it's a rhetorical device used to assert your authority in this book.)."
"Due to the hype, I was expecting better writing and more depth."
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