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Topics covered include: • Selling on Amazon.com & creative uses of eBay. • Finding and growing a loyal audience online. • The latest simple social media marketing strategies. • Automating your online efforts & building systems. • Effective email marketing. • Multiple real life success stories from the ever growing audience of creative and successful online entrepreneurs who have read this book. • And so much more! No fluff, no theory - get ready for hard hitting "do this not that" advice from a trusted leader who has been there.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Mainly applicable to the US, Canada, UK, Europe or wherever there is an Amazon presence Good ideas for those countries, I wish I could translate the ideas to doing business here in South Africa but we cannot register as an Amazon Seller at all."
"Jim is obviously an expert in this field who is wiling to provide quality content and deliver it with his trademark honesty and integrity."
"This is a fantastic book with practical information about on and offline business."
"I read this through and mostly skipped over the links as the material was straightforward and cut to the chase and I didn't want distractions."
"I'd give it a 5 star rating however i did not receive it and i assume it's because I don't have a kindle and pc must run an upgraded system which would cost me more than it's worth at this point."
"A lot of sound advice given in The Silent Sales Machine to point your mindset into the right direction for success!"
"Jim's book, Silent Sales Machine, is fantastic."
"Not only that, but it had actually boosted my interest to learn more from Silent Jim who has the uncanny ability to inspire to move any sceptic into action."
The Miracle Morning for Network Marketers is your key to making immediate and profound changes on the path to peak performance.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The MM for NWM book had many great nuggets, but one super significant nugget for me: don't answer every notification on your phone like a trained seal. One can specify certain apps to push notifications to the status bar, but be silent."
"I have read other self improvement books, but this book is far more easy to read and understand the process. The author points out the difference why other older generation self improvement books used the subconscious mind too but didn't work for many people, and in this book he gave words example to implement the subconscious mind to get better results for self improvement."
"I LOVE this book."
"I decided to purchase and read this book because the valuable principles and insights tucked inside this little gem, can help any person in any profession become more confident, successful, and productive."
"It has a ton of practical, effective techniques to help you reclaim your mornings and by extension, your days from the slow decay of entropy we like to euphemistically call "life" Even if like me you're not a network marketer, the principles apply to all entrepreneurs and even employees."
"The message conveyed by this book (and others in this series) is simple, yet powerful: Instead of going about your morning haphazardly and playing catch up all day, start each day purposefully and gain clarity on your goals and how to accomplish them."
"Have prided myself on my night owl tendencies for years and REALLY resisted this read for a LONG time. My whole team used it as a personal growth challenge."
As an educator turned network marketing rock star, Sarah Robbins has a passion for sharing the system she used to achieve seven-figure success. Sarah Robbins is a kindergarten teacher turned seven-figure annual residual income earner in network marketing, and is considered one of the world s leading network marketing consultants.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Thought this book would be more informative or have tips or suggestions not obvious to already known steps to follow."
"I've read through and am starting it again."
"A must for anyone wanting to expand their network marketing business."
"Thank you for this book!"
"Super helpful and encouraging for my R+F biz."
"I have my own team and personally give it to all my new direct business partners as a gift because I feel it is important for everyone to read!!"
"Sarah Robbins also does a good job of encouraging and pumping up the reader to be a better network marketer."
"I would not buy this book again."
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Step by Step Guide to Amazon FBA for beginners Updated for 2018 Marketplace.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It was very short and sweet---extremely informative for such a short book, however I must admit the grammar problems were quite annoying."
"No it’s not all good as far as grammar is concerned but what it lacks there it gives in useful information."
"The book presents you with an overview of the process."
"I had no idea on where to begin selling...right away I was given the specifics I needed to begin my search."
"From the begining you are asked to get started with the process of working with Amazon, vendor to purchase from and most importantly how to get good reviews."
"This is a book that I can read over and over."
"This book offers information on a lot of things someone who has an established business may never consider when using an online format to sell."
"I shop online and amazon alot."
Best Home-Based Business Sales & Selling
The Miracle Morning for Network Marketers is your key to making immediate and profound changes on the path to peak performance.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The MM for NWM book had many great nuggets, but one super significant nugget for me: don't answer every notification on your phone like a trained seal. One can specify certain apps to push notifications to the status bar, but be silent."
"I have read other self improvement books, but this book is far more easy to read and understand the process. The author points out the difference why other older generation self improvement books used the subconscious mind too but didn't work for many people, and in this book he gave words example to implement the subconscious mind to get better results for self improvement."
"I LOVE this book."
"I decided to purchase and read this book because the valuable principles and insights tucked inside this little gem, can help any person in any profession become more confident, successful, and productive."
"It has a ton of practical, effective techniques to help you reclaim your mornings and by extension, your days from the slow decay of entropy we like to euphemistically call "life" Even if like me you're not a network marketer, the principles apply to all entrepreneurs and even employees."
"The message conveyed by this book (and others in this series) is simple, yet powerful: Instead of going about your morning haphazardly and playing catch up all day, start each day purposefully and gain clarity on your goals and how to accomplish them."
"Have prided myself on my night owl tendencies for years and REALLY resisted this read for a LONG time. My whole team used it as a personal growth challenge."
Best Home Based Small Businesses
Nonfiction Authors Association GOLD AWARD Winner. Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist Romi Neustadt is passionate about helping others build lucrative direct sales and network marketing businesses that help create lives with more freedom and flexibility, greater purpose and a lot more fun. Romi Neustadt is a former corporate chick (first a lawyer, then a PR executive) who traded in the billable hour for more time and financial freedom through network marketing.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I read this book in two sittings completely raptured by what's inside. Thank you, Romi Neustadt, for pouring into the people you love and the people that will soon be in love with you for you changing their lives one "real and raw" chapter at a time in a book that should be in everyone's lap and the top of every team's reading list."
"I bought this for my daughter and she loves it!!"
"I chose the printed book simply because I wanted to use her book as a reference when specific prospects - I've got notes, highlights and post-its throughout the entire book!"
"I found it motivating for me in my direct selling business."
"I liked the honesty that Romi has inspired for us to get out of our own way!"
"This is a MUST READ for anyone interested in starting their own Network Marketing business."
"As a first time network marketing boss I found this book helpful in so many ways."
"Romi is very inspiring, but she is also quite frank and speaks plainly, even if it involves a curse word or two."
Best Business
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2011 : It is difficult to read the opening pages of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs without feeling melancholic. Now, just weeks after his death, you can open the book that bears his name and read about his youth, his promise, and his relentless press to succeed. Few in history have transformed their time like Steve Jobs, and one could argue that he stands with the Fords, Edisons, and Gutenbergs of the world. This is a timely and complete portrait that pulls no punches and gives insight into a man whose contradictions were in many ways his greatest strength. Isaacson: Andy Hertzfeld, who worked with Steve on the original Macintosh team, said that even if you were aware of his Reality Distortion Field, you still got caught up in it. Fortunately, as people read the whole book, they saw the theme of the narrative: He could be petulant and rough, but this was driven by his passion and pursuit of perfection. Isaacson: He was a genius at connecting art to technology, of making leaps based on intuition and imagination. “A frank, smart and wholly unsentimental biography…a remarkably sharp, hi-res portrait… Steve Jobs is more than a good book; it’s an urgently necessary one.” — Time. “If you haven’t read the bestselling, superb biography and inspiring business book, Steve Jobs , by Walter Isaacson, do so. “For the generation that's grown up in a world where computers are the norm, smartphones feel like fifth limbs and music comes from the Internet rather than record and CD stores, Steve Jobs is must-read history…The intimate chapters, where Jobs' personal side shines through, with all his faults and craziness, leave a deep impression. It is on the one hand a history of the most exciting time in the age of computers, when the machines first became personal and later, fashionable accessories. And it is a gadget lover’s dream, with fabulous, inside accounts of how the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad came into being. What makes the book come alive, though, is Isaacson’s ability to shape the story as a kind of archetypal fantasy: the flawed hero, the noble quest, the holy grail, the death of the king.”— Booklist. “A nuanced, balanced portrait that is sure to become mandatory reading for anyone with an interest in big business and popular culture…Isaacson is to be commended for explaining the genius of Jobs in fascinating fashion, launching a discussion that could reach infinity and beyond.”— Christian Science Monitor. “Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs comes as a breath of fresh air…a reliable and captivating guide to a man who reshaped the computing industry and more.” — CNET.com. “It's a testament to Isaacson's skill as a biographer that readers can at last obtain the picture of Steve Jobs as a human being rather than a legend…anyone who's ever wondered how so very much about the technology landscape has changed so fundamentally in just 35 years, owes it to themselves to read this book.”— TUAW.com. “Isaacson's biography lives up to the hype, showing readers the private turbulence that spurred Jobs to public greatness”— ShelfAwareness.com (- ).
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I am trying to understand how this film did so poorly in theaters."
"Then, in October 2011, he died, and the diversity of reactions people had to living in a world touched but no longer inhabited by him inspired me to read this book so that I could attempt to understand those reactions. I learned of his strengths, became privy to his weaknesses, and watched him evolve from a geek in Paul Jobs' garage to an occasionally ruthless man dedicated to perfection in everything he wanted to do and in everything others did, to experimenting and innovating until what he wanted to do was impossible, and then doing it anyway."
"Always knew that Jobs was an ego-maniac, but never realized the extent to which he disrespected certain industry peers, company employees and large numbers of people he crossed paths with."
"I would have to say in preface I feel the reader needs to have had some history with the Apple products as the book, while describing the personality of Steve Jobs, also goes into a chronological explanation of the development of both the hardware and software."
"Steve Jobs has given to the tech industry what no other individual could ever, or has ever, give it."
"I read the book on my Kindle and wished it was on my iPad. I now appreciate Jobs for that."
"if you saw the truly awful movie that purports to be based on this book, you must read the book."
"He had poor leadership qualities and he was smart enough to have learned how to improve himself without sacrificing his work."
Best Gardening & Horticulture Lawns
A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner. will inspire you to turn your front yard from lawn into luscious.”. -Amy Stewart, author of Wicked Plants and Flower Confidential “This thoughtful, inviting, and thoroughly useful book should be required for every new homeowner at closing. It has the power to transform residential landscapes from coast to coast and change the world we all share.”. -Lauren Springer Ogden, garden designer, author of The Undaunted Garden , coauthor of Plant-Driven Design and Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens “The great American lawn is ubiquitous, but it’s not right for everyone. Thanks to this book, lawn mowers may become early-21st-century artifacts our grandkids puzzle over.”. -Debra Lee Baldwin, author of Designing with Succulents “With Lawn Gone!
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is filled with great ideas and pictures for getting rid of grass and replacing it with attractive, low-water, low-maintenance alternatives."
"A little basic but a lot of encouragement for removing your thirsty grass lawn."
"Good book, learned a lot, got some good ideas."
"This is a very pertinent reference for our condo in Corpus Christi, TX, an arid region."
"The book does give you great ideas."
"I love this book, but I so wish there was more pictures of real world lawns "before" and "after" pictures."
"There is a good section on how to remove lawns and some good plant selection info."
Best Small Business
This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. "The Lean Startup has a kind of inexorable logic, and Ries’ recommendations come as a bracing slap in the face to would-be tech moguls: Test your ideas before you bet the bank on them. —Mitchell Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corp. "At Asana, we've been lucky to benefit from Eric's advice firsthand; this book will enable him to help many more entrepreneurs answer the tough questions about their business." —Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and Asana “Ries' splendid book is the essential template to understand the crucial leadership challenge of our time: initiating and managing growth!” —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of the recently published, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership. ". — Tim O'Reilly, CEO O'Reilly Media “Eric Ries unravels the mysteries of entrepreneurship and reveals that magic and genius are not the necessary ingredients for success but instead proposes a scientific process that can be learnt and replicated. Ries's ‘read and react’ approach to this sport, his relentless focus on validated learning, the never-ending anxiety of hovering between ‘persevere’ and ‘pivot’, all bear witness to his appreciation for the dynamics of entrepreneurship." —Randy Komisar, founding director of TiVo and author of the bestselling The Monk and the Riddle “How do you apply the 50 year old ideas of Lean to the fast-paced, high uncertainty world of Startups? It provides actionable ways to avoid product-learning mistakes, rigorously evaluate early signals from the market through validated learning, and decide whether to persevere or to pivot, all challenges that heighten the chance of entrepreneurial failure.” —Professor Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School “One of the best and most insightful new books on entrepreneurship and management I’ve ever read. Seriously stop and read this book now.” —Scott Case, CEO Startup America Partnership “In business, a ‘lean’ enterprise is sustainable efficiency in action. Eric Ries’ revolutionary Lean Startup method will help bring your new business idea to an end result that is successful and sustainable. These tools will help organizations large and small to sustain innovation by effectively leveraging the time, passion, and skill of their talent pools.” — Andrea Goldsmith, professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and cofounder of several startups “Business is too important to be left to luck. This book is the guided tour of the key innovative practices used inside Google, Toyota, and Facebook, that work in any business.” — Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit. —Mitchell Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corp. "At Asana, we've been lucky to benefit from Eric's advice firsthand; this book will enable him to help many more entrepreneurs answer the tough questions about their business." —Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and Asana “Ries' splendid book is the essential template to understand the crucial leadership challenge of our time: initiating and managing growth!” —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of the recently published, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership. ". — Tim O'Reilly, CEO O'Reilly Media “Eric Ries unravels the mysteries of entrepreneurship and reveals that magic and genius are not the necessary ingredients for success but instead proposes a scientific process that can be learnt and replicated. Ries's ‘read and react’ approach to this sport, his relentless focus on validated learning, the never-ending anxiety of hovering between ‘persevere’ and ‘pivot’, all bear witness to his appreciation for the dynamics of entrepreneurship." —Randy Komisar, founding director of TiVo and author of the bestselling The Monk and the Riddle “How do you apply the 50 year old ideas of Lean to the fast-paced, high uncertainty world of Startups? It provides actionable ways to avoid product-learning mistakes, rigorously evaluate early signals from the market through validated learning, and decide whether to persevere or to pivot, all challenges that heighten the chance of entrepreneurial failure.” —Professor Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School “One of the best and most insightful new books on entrepreneurship and management I’ve ever read. Seriously stop and read this book now.” —Scott Case, CEO Startup America Partnership “In business, a ‘lean’ enterprise is sustainable efficiency in action. These tools will help organizations large and small to sustain innovation by effectively leveraging the time, passion, and skill of their talent pools.” — Andrea Goldsmith, professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and cofounder of several startups “Business is too important to be left to luck. This book is the guided tour of the key innovative practices used inside Google, Toyota, and Facebook, that work in any business.” — Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is fabulous."
"Second time reading this book and it is a great book to read a second time, to remember his insights and to help formalize the thoughts I have many days at work."
"This is my first enterprise book I have ever read and learning about the Lean Startup that is now becoming a big thing was very helpful with this book."
"Not the be all and end all on the subject and the serious reader will want to dive into some of the other books on the subject."
"An eye-opener about how to succeed or fail in hi tech."
"If you are looking to create a startup business yourself, bring innovation to your workplace or consult on either behalf, this is a fantastic read."
"Vicente Njoku. Author: Success Plan and Positioning Strategy 7.0. Success Plan and Positioning Strategy 7.0: Closing The Gap Between Your Primary Goal and A Successful Outcome."
"In fact, hardware is hard and my research hasn't found anything remotely useful in applying lean start-up principles to hardware. Diarrhea of the word processor resulted in a 365 page definition of a lean start-up, where it could have been boiled down to less than 100 pages (minus 1-star for waste...Distill it down to an A3 using Lean Thinking). (Minus 1-star: As a hardware guy and having extensive experience in lean it's blatantly obvious Ries is just starting his lean journey and his last section (Accelerate) is superficial, survey, regurgitation of some of the lean tools and ideas). Reference More Actionable Books: Running Lean - Ash Maurya. Art of the Start (Ch.1) - Guy Kawasaki. Reference Free Material: Steve Blank's Website & Blog. Simon Sinek - Start with Why."
Best Mail Order Small Businesses
Giant Product Source + Right Product + Large Daily Sales = $5 - $10,000 Plus/Month! Chatter abounded for years on the internet how this Chinese source (Alibaba) and others like it, could not be trusted: stories of resellers getting stuck with cheap and inferior products, not receiving products, not getting what they ordered, not being able to return bad products and the list goes on, were everywhere. Safely source products from Alibaba and AliExpress What products to buy and what not to buy How to identify trustworthy suppliers How to brand yourself so you get higher search rankings How to go inside eBay and Amazon to determine the most searched and best selling products so you can zero in on what works The only way to safely pay for products What products to sell and not to sell and why How to find good products How to evaluate products How to buy samples What price range to stay in and why How to prevent excessive freight charges How to find trending and new products and why these are key to your success.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I’m glad that I picked this book."
"This book offered me a great opportunity to find and source products from alibaba with more confidence."
"Thank you for this super item and quick service!"
"great book a ton of interesting details explained thank you author of this book."
"This was a fast and easy ready; however, the author dropped some helpful tips and tricks!!"
"Learn something new. After reading this ebook I will try alibaba again. Thanks for the info."
"Plenty of helpful tips for beginner users of Alibaba."
"Simple and easy to understand book with photos on how to make $ on alibaba by buying wholesale and reselling items in eBay or Amazon."
Best Marketing for Small Businesses
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. 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. In the same passionate, streetwise style his readers have come to expect, Vaynerchuk is on a mission to strengthen marketers' right hooks by changing the way they fight to make their consumers happy, and ultimately to compete. Gary is also a prolific angel investor and venture capitalist, investing in companies including Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, and Venmo, and cofounding the Vayner/RSE fund, among many other enterprises.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"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!"
Best Small Business Bookkeeping
This is a straightforward budget planning method that will completely transform your finances, and eliminate your money worries once and for all. Grady Harp. (Hall of Fame, Amazon Top 100 Reviewer, Vine Voice). " This is the rarest of all rarities - a really good ebook on personal finance. ". "Avery Breyer's self-help guide to consumer finances... is filled with great ideasfor getting out of a financial rut . I found her reasons for setting up a budget to be compelling and was impressed by the Money Tracker program she includes with the book... Avery Breyer is the best-selling author of the Smart Money Blueprint Series.Avery has been quoted on/in Woman's World magazine, Time.com, Fool.com (Motley Fool), MSN Money, GoBanking Rates, and featured as a guest on WOR 710 "The Voice of New York," on The Financial Quarterback , hosted by Josh Jalinski.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"How you manage your money (however much or little it may be) affects every aspect of your life - your physical and emotional well-being, your relationships, what hobbies you can pursue and where you can live. Don't make the mistake of thinking that you can avoid taking control of your spending by simply getting a job that pays more. It's a wonderfully readable combination of advice, fascinating examples, and moral support. It's like sitting down with that favorite aunt or uncle (or grandparent) who understands that people make mistakes and who believes in your ability to turn things around."
"I bought this for myself."
"But if you don't know what the basics is, then read this book."
"I thoroughly enjoyed this book."
"I liked the plan a b c approach as we all know that even with the best intentions getting to our financial goals don't always go to plan."
"Avery Breyer uses a step by step systematic approach to the discipline of MONEY..."
"Really found this helpful and if you want simple tips to work with a budget - this is for you!"
Best Starting a Business
This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. "The Lean Startup has a kind of inexorable logic, and Ries’ recommendations come as a bracing slap in the face to would-be tech moguls: Test your ideas before you bet the bank on them. —Mitchell Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corp. "At Asana, we've been lucky to benefit from Eric's advice firsthand; this book will enable him to help many more entrepreneurs answer the tough questions about their business." —Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and Asana “Ries' splendid book is the essential template to understand the crucial leadership challenge of our time: initiating and managing growth!” —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of the recently published, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership. ". — Tim O'Reilly, CEO O'Reilly Media “Eric Ries unravels the mysteries of entrepreneurship and reveals that magic and genius are not the necessary ingredients for success but instead proposes a scientific process that can be learnt and replicated. Ries's ‘read and react’ approach to this sport, his relentless focus on validated learning, the never-ending anxiety of hovering between ‘persevere’ and ‘pivot’, all bear witness to his appreciation for the dynamics of entrepreneurship." —Randy Komisar, founding director of TiVo and author of the bestselling The Monk and the Riddle “How do you apply the 50 year old ideas of Lean to the fast-paced, high uncertainty world of Startups? It provides actionable ways to avoid product-learning mistakes, rigorously evaluate early signals from the market through validated learning, and decide whether to persevere or to pivot, all challenges that heighten the chance of entrepreneurial failure.” —Professor Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School “One of the best and most insightful new books on entrepreneurship and management I’ve ever read. Seriously stop and read this book now.” —Scott Case, CEO Startup America Partnership “In business, a ‘lean’ enterprise is sustainable efficiency in action. Eric Ries’ revolutionary Lean Startup method will help bring your new business idea to an end result that is successful and sustainable. These tools will help organizations large and small to sustain innovation by effectively leveraging the time, passion, and skill of their talent pools.” — Andrea Goldsmith, professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and cofounder of several startups “Business is too important to be left to luck. This book is the guided tour of the key innovative practices used inside Google, Toyota, and Facebook, that work in any business.” — Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit. —Mitchell Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corp. "At Asana, we've been lucky to benefit from Eric's advice firsthand; this book will enable him to help many more entrepreneurs answer the tough questions about their business." —Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and Asana “Ries' splendid book is the essential template to understand the crucial leadership challenge of our time: initiating and managing growth!” —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of the recently published, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership. ". — Tim O'Reilly, CEO O'Reilly Media “Eric Ries unravels the mysteries of entrepreneurship and reveals that magic and genius are not the necessary ingredients for success but instead proposes a scientific process that can be learnt and replicated. Ries's ‘read and react’ approach to this sport, his relentless focus on validated learning, the never-ending anxiety of hovering between ‘persevere’ and ‘pivot’, all bear witness to his appreciation for the dynamics of entrepreneurship." —Randy Komisar, founding director of TiVo and author of the bestselling The Monk and the Riddle “How do you apply the 50 year old ideas of Lean to the fast-paced, high uncertainty world of Startups? It provides actionable ways to avoid product-learning mistakes, rigorously evaluate early signals from the market through validated learning, and decide whether to persevere or to pivot, all challenges that heighten the chance of entrepreneurial failure.” —Professor Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School “One of the best and most insightful new books on entrepreneurship and management I’ve ever read. Seriously stop and read this book now.” —Scott Case, CEO Startup America Partnership “In business, a ‘lean’ enterprise is sustainable efficiency in action. These tools will help organizations large and small to sustain innovation by effectively leveraging the time, passion, and skill of their talent pools.” — Andrea Goldsmith, professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and cofounder of several startups “Business is too important to be left to luck. This book is the guided tour of the key innovative practices used inside Google, Toyota, and Facebook, that work in any business.” — Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Some tired advice and some same-ish stories of business ideas and execution that appear in a lot of these business books."
"This is an amazing book on innovation and getting your ideas into an MVP quickly."
"That said, if you want more of the HOW TOs of Lean Startup, I'm currently reading both Steve Blank's The Startup Owners Manual and Ash Maurya's Running Lean, and while I'm not finished with either of them yet, I can definitely tell you they take Eric's teachings to the next level -- and then some."
"If I can ding the book for one thing it might be the author's insistence on a majority of anecdotes that are about Silicon Valley startups that deal primarily in non-inventory businesses. It's wonderful as a concept to imagine cohort testing in a brick-and-mortar situation, but the book does not do a great job explaining how one might go about that, for something like that an actual class on market entry or entrepreneurship in general would help."
"In fact, hardware is hard and my research hasn't found anything remotely useful in applying lean start-up principles to hardware. Diarrhea of the word processor resulted in a 365 page definition of a lean start-up, where it could have been boiled down to less than 100 pages (minus 1-star for waste...Distill it down to an A3 using Lean Thinking). (Minus 1-star: As a hardware guy and having extensive experience in lean it's blatantly obvious Ries is just starting his lean journey and his last section (Accelerate) is superficial, survey, regurgitation of some of the lean tools and ideas). Reference More Actionable Books: Running Lean - Ash Maurya. Art of the Start (Ch.1) - Guy Kawasaki. Reference Free Material: Steve Blank's Website & Blog. Simon Sinek - Start with Why."
"No need to waste your time on 350 pages while the author has one point repeated over and over: test your assumptions with a minimum viable product as early as possible instead of waiting to develop the "perfect" product that you have in your mind."
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“I have been in the human potential / personal development movement since 1973, when I did my first EST training and saw a whole new world of possibilities. Since then, I have studied religions, prayer, meditation, yoga, affirmation, visualization, and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). “What Hal has done with his acronym SAVERS is taken the “best practices”—developed over centuries of human consciousness development—and condensed the “best of the best” into a daily morning ritual. “As my rich dad often said, “I can always make another dollar, but I cannot make another day.” If you want to maximize every day of your life, read Miracle Morning.”. ========================================. What if you could miraculously wake up tomorrow and any—or every area of your life was transformed? What if I told you that there is a "not-so-obvious" secret that is guaranteed to transform any—or literally every area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible? What’s now being practiced by thousands of people around the world could perhaps be the simplest approach to creating the life you’ve always wanted. "Every once in a while, you read a book that changes the way you look at life. If you really want your life to improve, read this book immediately." Reading his first book, Taking Life Head On! After 6 days of fighting for his life, Hal proved that we all have the ability to overcome any obstacle and create the life of our dreams. Not only did he walk, he became an ultra-marathon runner, hall of fame business achiever, international Keynote Speaker, Success Coach, husband, father, hip-hop recording artist, and multiple time #1 bestselling author of "The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed To Transform Your Life... (Before 8AM)" and "Taking Life Head On: How To Love the Life You Have While You Create the Life of Your Dreams"—two of the highest rated and most acclaimed books on Amazon.com. Hal has appeared on dozens of radio and TV shows, and he’s been featured in numerous books, including The Education of Millionaires, Cutting Edge Sales, Living College Life in the Front Row, The Author’s Guide To Building An Online Platform, The 800-Pound Gorilla of Sales and the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I almost didn't get the book because I read the 1 star reviews and they said it was a simplistic redo of the same messages many others had done. I heard Hal Elrod on a webinar and was excited to read the book based upon his presentation, there were a lot of 5 star reviews and I decided to get it. To exercise has been on my goals list for five years and I just couldn't get back to it until I read Miracle Morning."
"A few weeks ago I was exhausted in tears thinking I didn't have "me time". What time alone I had at the end of the day I just wasted watching tv."
""Whether you want to make significant improvements in just a few key areas, or you are ready for a major overhaul that will radically transform your entire life--so your current circumstances will soon become only a memory of what was--you've picked up the right book. You are about to begin a miraculous journey, using a simple, but revolutionary process that is guaranteed to transform any area of your life... all before 8:00 am." After 6 minutes of that (near-)death experience, he spent several days in a coma and awoke to discover he had suffered brain damage and was told that he may never walk again. He defied the odds and proved we're all capable of overcoming obstacles while creating the life of our dreams. If you've been looking to jump start your life--or just take it to the next level--there's no better place to start than by dialing in your morning routine and Hal is the perfect guide to help us discover the "not-so-obvious secrets" to rockin' it before 8:00 am! good job of helping us architect our miracle mornings--whether that's a 6-minute plan to start or 60."
"First off, there are a lot of good ideas outlined in the book that I'm looking forward to implementing to improve my mornings and be as productive as I can possibly be. "Thousands of people have reached their potential after utilizing The Miracle Morning." There was so much fluff and shameless self-promotion that had the book not been downloaded on my iPad I would've thrown the physical copy away after ripping out the pages that were actually useful."
"Once on the website, you need to register and get sucked into more commercial advertising and never get the information that was said to be there."