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• Rule#1: Stop Talking (summary, more details)
• Expert Product Management (summary, more details)
• Awakening Social Responsibility (summary, more details)
• Foolosophy (summary, more details)
• I'm On LinkedIn -- Now What??? (summary, more details)
• Scrappy Project Management (summary, more details)
• 42 Rules of Marketing (summary, more details)
• Offshoring Secrets (summary, more details)
• Happy About Working to Stay Young (summary, more details)
• The Home Run Hitter's Guide to Fundraising (summary, more details)
• Tales From The Networking Community (summary, more details)
• Happy About Tax Relief (summary, more details)
• Climbing the Ladder of Business Intelligence (summary, more details)
• Moving From Vision to Reality (summary, more details)
• Confessions of a Resilient Entrepreneur (summary, more details)
• Happy About People-To-People Lending with Prosper.com (summary, more details)
• Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2007 (summary, more details)
• Happy About Apartment Management (summary, more details)
• Memoirs of the Money Lady (summary, more details)
• Happy About Online Networking (summary, more details)
• The Business Rule Revolution (summary, more details)
• Happy About Global Software Test Automation (summary, more details)
• Happy About Joint Venturing (summary, more details)
• Happy About LinkedIn for Recruiting (summary, more details)
• Happy About Website Payments with PayPal (summary, more details
• Happy About Outsourcing (summary, more details)
• Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2006 (free eBook, Out of Print, more details)
• Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2005 (free eBook, Out of Print, more details)

• Overcoming Inventoritis (more details)
• Collaboration 2.0 (more details)
• Happy About Being a Baby Boomer (more details)
• Marketing Campaign Development (more details)
• They Made It! (more details)
• Communicating The American Way (more details)
• Happy About Open Source (more details)

Book: Rule #1: Stop Talking! A Guide to Listening

This book teaches the fundamentals of listening, starting with an explanation of the importance of listening and then delving into listening "rules," which are accompanied by practical guidelines and explanations. Following chapters recognize and work with beliefs that interfere with—or "short circuit"—listening.

This book will help you to:

• Become a better listener—and encourage others to listen
• Open the mind while still being a savvy, critical listener
• Nurture healthy relationships and repair troubled ones
• Boost customer satisfaction and business success
• Listen to yourself to create the life you truly want
  

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Book: Expert Product Management

This book teaches both new and seasoned Product Managers and Product Marketers powerful and effective ways to ensure they give their products the best possible chance for success. Topics include:

• Creating product roadmaps
• Running effective beta programs
• Planning and running high-impact product launches
• Getting phenomenal product reviews through the use of well-thought-out review program
  

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Book: Awakening Social Responsibilty

The book addresses the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Each chapter provides an actionable step or perspective on how organizations can actively engage in eco initiatives, employee giving, volunteering, and savvy sustainable business practices. This is a must read 'call-to-action' guidebook to engage all employees in initiating CSR programs or making current programs more robust. This is a practical template with models, examples and resources encouraging anyone who is in a position of influence to use the tools necessary to "take action" within their organizations.

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Book: Foolosophy

The book is a compilation of stories and essays written and told through Darrell Ruocco's voice about the importance of keeping humor in mind at all times. 'Foolosophy' explains humor so that the reader can go out in the streets and develop their own sense of it based on what they see.

With this book and Darrell's efforts on radio and other mediums, his goal is to raise people's awareness of the importance of humor. With humor in mind, all negatives become positives. Hopefully, the book will be the beginning of a movement in the right direction...

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Book: I'm on LinkedIn -- Now What???

This book is designed to help you get the most out this popular business networking site. With over 12 million members there is a lot of potential to find and develop relationships to help in your business and personal life, but many professionals find themselves wondering what to do once they signup. This book explains the different benefits of the system and recommends best practices so that you can get the most out of LinkedIn.

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Book: Jesus Drank, Judas Repented and God Divorced His Bride

Using solid Biblical references, this book seeks to stir up heightened interest in what the Bible says by questioning even the most primary, and most popular biblical teachings.

MOST religious books are "sugar coated" and non-controversial. But, the Bible isn't that way. Neither is Jesus Drank, Judas Repented and God Divorced His Bride. If you do an objective study of the contents of the Bible, you'll discover that God can be quite a difficult God. While much of Christ popularity came from the miracles he performed, those in power took notice because of his understanding of Hebrew law (Old Testament) and his outspoken intolerance for arrogance and self-righteousness among the "religious" crowd.

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Book: 42 Rules of Marketing: A Funny Practical Guide with the Quick and Easy Steps to Success

The 42 Rules of Marketing is a compilation of ideas, theories, and practical approaches to marketing challenges the author has been collecting over the past 17 years. The idea was to create a series of helpful reminders; things that marketers know we should do, but don’t always have the time or patience to do.

"These 42 Rules are gems of advice and gentle reminders that every marketer needs to hear from time to time, packaged in concise, fun-to-read nuggets. If 'marketing' is in your title, you need to have this book in your library."
Chris Shipley, Co-Founder, Guidewire Group Inc., and Executive Producer of the DEMO Conference

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Book: Scrappy Project Management™: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls that Every Project Faces

Projects are MESSY! From the minute the project begins, all manner of changes, surprises and disasters befall them. Unfortunately most of these are PREDICTABLE and AVOIDABLE.

Tact and diplomacy can only get you so far in the wild and wacky world of project work. A combination of outrageous creativity, sheer bravado and nerves of steel will serve you far better than any fancy-schmancy Microsoft Project Gantt chart!

'Scrappy Project Management' is about what REALLY happens in the project environment, how to survive it, and how to make sure that your team avoids the predictable and avoidable pitfalls that every project faces.

"If you want to build energy, velocity, and momentum toward an outrageous goal, Kimberly’s Scrappy Project Management is just what you’ve been waiting for to help you get those results with more pleasant surprises and fewer disappointing shocks along the way."
Christine Comaford-Lynch, CEO of Mighty Ventures, author of Rules for Renegades

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Book: Offshoring Secrets: Building and Running a Successful India Operation

In this book, years of experiences and interactions with various people in this industry are drawn upon to suggest ways to setup and run an India operation. You will get solutions to numerous day-to-day problems that managers in the parent offices face. You will also understand the issues faced by managers in India, and their frustrations in dealing with their counterparts in the parent company. This book can be used to:

• Resolve cultural clashes
  
• Overcome communication issues
  
• Understand the risk analysis
  
• Support successful hiring and retention
  
• Support people management
  
• Understand various HR and Government policies to adhere to
  
• Drive project execution
  

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Book: Happy About Working to Stay Young: Expanded Careers for Boomers and Seniors

This is the time to fulfill your career dreams, to make a truly lasting contribution to your company, industry, and profession. Many obstacles kept you from realizing your true potential earlier; now is your time to make your mark. The global economy needs your knowledge, skills, and, most of all, your wisdom. This book will provide you with dozens of reasons to have a job or a career later in life both for yourself and for others. Beyond that, it will show you how to achieve these goals in a youth-oriented society.

"In our work with older adults, we know that boomers are redefining retirement and designing their futures to remain vital and productive. For many, this will involve working long after the traditional retirement age of 65. Jacky makes a strong case for always working 'in retirement' and gives a roadmap for having it all while continuing to work."
Lisa Hendrickson, CEO, Avenidas Center, Serving Today’s Seniors

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Book: The Home Run Hitter's Guide to Fundraising: Happy About Raising Capital without Pitching

"The Home Run Hitter's Guide to Fundraising" synthesizes strategic planning with the power of human empathy to turn a potentially uncomfortable, unnatural presentation into an opportunity to develop and deepen an important business relationship. This is a step-by-step guide to help you have the conversation you need to secure the capital you want.

Be ready for change. If you follow your old habits and the current industry standard, you are doomed to look and sound just like every one else. Put the power of the concepts of this book to work to help yourself be one of the winners.

David Kennedy, Associate Dean for Development, Stanford University Graduate School of Business says that "I can tell you from personal experience that the process outlined in 'The Home Run Hitter's Guide to Fundraising' will help any business person get results in any important business communication whether you are pitching venture capitalists or leading an important meeting. The ideas are powerful and the process works."

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Book: Tales From The Networking Community: Networking, Like Life, is a Process not an Event

When an individual is seeking to meet professional goals, one large question always looms: Is it who or what one knows that makes the difference? Dan Williams, author of 'Tales From the Networking Community' believes it is both. While having a powerful network of contacts is critical to succeeding professionally today, knowing how to leverage that network efficiently and effectively is equally critical. This book gives you tips, techniques and shares anecdotal stories that will help you succeed with your networking goals.

Kelly Perdew, Winner of Donald Trump's - Apprentice2 says "After reading 'Tales from The Networking Community' you also will appreciate why Dan Williams is the highest endorsed individual on Linkedin.com in North America amongst more than 5 million people!"

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Book: Happy About Tax Relief: The Offer in Compromise Solution

Settle your IRS debt for pennies on the dollar and save thousands in professional fees. With "Happy About Tax Relief" you can make an Offer in Compromise (OIC) with the same software tool used by the pros. Find out if you qualify before paying huge fees and signing away important rights to the IRS just by applying. Learn what the IRS wants and how to adjust your finances to fit the profile before you file. Most financial advisors miss this critical step that significantly increases both your potential benefit and the probability of acceptance.

* When you buy this book, you will also receive:

• Immediate availability to download the excel spreadsheet used in conjunction with the book.
• Whether you buy the eBook or the paperback, you will be able to download the eBook immediately upon your purchase.
  

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Book: Climbing the Ladder of Business Intelligence:
Happy About Creating Excellence through Enabled Intuition

Good decision-making is rare in the business world and most businesses are not operating anywhere near their capacity. The goal of "Climbing the Ladder of Business Intelligence" is to introduce an intelligence framework that builds a foundation for success. The Ladder is a framework that enables the skillful management of intelligence. The right intelligence is delivered to the right people at the right time. This creates an intelligent organization - one with excellence in all its operations and the ability to sustain success.

"In every corporation I have worked for, I have sought to strike an alignment between the business units and the IT organization. The Ladder allows people working in business processes to utilize technology to answer the key questions that they have to ask (people-process-technology). The Ladder framework pushes employees to focus on asking the right questions, getting the right information and making the right decisions (question-information-decision). These two powerful ideas, people-process-technology and question-information-decision, are framed in a step-by-step approach - the Circle of Success that allows any company to increase the payback out of their IT investments. The Ladder and the Circle of Success give every company the tools to attain excellence. The power of the Ladder as a framework lies in its simplicity. Striving for excellence will come naturally."
Maynard Webb, CEO, LiveOps

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Book: Moving From Vision to Reality:
Happy About Fulfilling Your True Purpose

This book combines Christian spirituality with leadership principles to allow you to fulfill your 'true' purpose in life. Many people have dreams but they do not do anything to fulfill them for the fear of failure as well as insecurity about how they will survive as they attempt to execute them. After reading this book, you will be:

• Able to start thinking about your calling and purpose in life
  
• Inspired to act on your vision
  
• Able to learn and apply the seven steps to bring you from vision to reality
  

“The book is by all means a researched expository which is a must read for anyone aspiring to be a visionary leader in any sector. It’s a book that I wholeheartedly endorse and recommend to anyone desiring to chart out an emulable destiny! Read this book and you will treasure the jewels of wisdom in it.”
Bishop Pius Muiru, Founder& President Maximum Miracle Center, Kenya

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Book: Confessions of a Resilient Entrepreneur: Persevering to Success

'Confessions of a Resilient Entrepreneur: Persevering to Success' demonstrates the balancing act that women - and men - have to perform in order to integrate a business life with a family life. This book speaks to the starry-eyed young entrepreneur who has big business ideas but no idea of what it takes to have it all, as well as the well-established business leader who has achieved success and now wants to somehow fit a life into those dreams. It describes and encourages the attitudes and belief systems that “grow” an entrepreneur – and illustrates what happens when those attitudes and belief systems come up against hard reality.

"No one is better equipped to coach and nurture female entrepreneurs than Frumi, herself a successful entrepreneur, mother, friend and community leader. If 'The Little Engine That Could' were re-written just for women entrepreneurs, 'Confessions of a Resilient Entrepreneur' would be it. Frumi understands an entrepreneur's excitement, temptations and fears intimately because she's 'been there, done that.' Reading her story is like swallowing a big dose of courage. You feel as though you could overcome anything because she has faced life's hardest challenges with aplomb and transformed herself into a stronger, happier and better woman each time.”
Cara Good, President, WunderMarx Inc.

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Book: Happy About People-To-People Lending With Prosper.com: How to Lend Money to Friends You've Never Met

This book provides a roadmap for lenders who want to help out other people by lending them money through the Prosper marketplace. By using the conservative investment approach outlined in this book, lenders can better manage the risks associated with lending money to friends they have never met.

"Everything one needs to know to be a competent Prosper lender is in this book. There are other ways to get this information – like the school of hard knocks - but I recommend the book. The author provides a well balanced, third-party review of Prosper, along with plenty of how-to tips to get the new Prosper lender up to speed fast. Before turning your hard-earned cash over to strangers, you will want to read this book."
Greg Bequette (Pensioner), Auditor and #1 Lender on Prosper

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Each chapter gives you clear, concise, instructions on how to put PayPal to work for you now

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Book: Happy About Apartment Management: 30 Years of Expert Tips and Advice on Multifamily Property Management

This book gives a series of tips and techniques on successfully managing apartment rentals. Learn the technology you should be using. Read about maintaning high-level occupancy levels, managing your property profitably, avoiding law suits and increasing your ROI. If you have questions in this area, this book has answers.

"'Happy About Apartment Management' is an informative and easy-to-read guide to property management. It is concise and yet comprehensive, touching on every aspect of the business. It will make the task of apartment management all the easier."
Dr. Dolf de Roos, Real Estate Investor and author of the New York Times bestseller "Real Estate Riches"

"I have had the opportunity to read 'Happy About Apartment Management' and found that is well written and easy to understand. It takes the reader from technology and how it can change aspects of the way in which property managers do their business to the basic 'nuts and bolts' in creating a community with the residence. It sets out a template for screening, collections, and the necessary forms required to manage an apartment complex. A great reference guide. "
William Perry, Vice President - Regional Director
First American Title Insurance Company

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Book: Memoirs of the Money Lady: Is This a Great Business or What!

My initiation into the financial field began after receiving a family inheritance and meeting a persuasive broker. Snowing me with his sales skills and treating me as his “special” client, Mr. Enthusiasm and Charm…

• Sold me a potpourri of financial programs I didn’t understand or need
  
• Pushed his “couldn’t lose” tax shelter schemes
  
• Flattered me into unpaid temping for his new firm
  
• Continued losing my money, then
  
• Cajoled me into earning a securities license to make up my personal investment losses

Reading this book will bring you:

• Enjoyment: Balance between fun and profit—threading the serious business of money through a humorous memoir for a positive message.
  
• Motivation/education: For women, especially, to come away empowered to handle their own finances and have enough general information to get started. I hope readers will learn that dealing with money does not have to be a difficult, time consuming or unhappy task.
  
• Permission: Not to have to know everything whether about finances, job or career. Everyone makes mistakes—often big and costly ones. By sharing my experience in a completely new and difficult field, and candidly telling my story, women in the business world can absorb the message that if I can make it… any of them can, too.

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Book: Happy About Online Networking: The virtual-ly simple way to build professional relationships

This book outlines the tools, methods, and protocols of creating and cultivating an online network for global reach, business and personal support, and professional success. From how to introduce yourself to how to disengage from an unproductive networking relationship, Happy About Online Networking covers all the bases.

The Author wants to:

1. Get people who are not already comfortable with online networking to become proficient at it
2. Teach readers less-well-known secrets of online networking etiquette, relationship-building, and areas to avoid
   
3. Save readers time and energy in their online networking

After you read this book, you will:

1. Lose your fear of online networking or of 'looking foolish' online
2. Make connections and sustain them over time
   
3. Improve their business and professional success through online networking

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Book: 30day Bootcamp: Your Ultimate Life Makeover

Live the life you were meant to live!

The 30day Bootcamp: Your Ultimate Life Makeover is a step-by-step program that will teach you all of the tips, tricks, and techniques you need to get back in the driver’s seat of your life.

With practical, easy, and results-oriented exercises, you will learn how to design a successful life strategy that puts you in charge of your life.

• Build a strong personal core to help you realize your true potential.
  
• Blast through your limitations and stop doubting your ability.
  
• Understand who you really are and what is important to you.
  
• Get clear about what you want and how to get it.
  
• Eliminate the blocks between what you have and what you want.
  
• Develop a compelling and motivating vision for your future.

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Learn from an anthology of contributing authors and experts who share, step-by-step, how to justify and manage the ROI for the BR Approach. The book covers the business's perspective and the technology perspective.

Authors represent the healthcare industry, financial services experience, state and federal government experience, and senior practitioners spanning many industries.

Overall Goals for the Book:

• Expose the practicality of the BR approach through successes in major corporations
  
• Bring business and IT together with one book
  
• Widen the BR market to include more corporations, more business audiences
  
• Present the possibilities that BR Approach can achieve for both business and IT

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Testing problems are difficult, expensive, and hard to understand. Most software companies have bugs escape the testing cycles and reach customers.

How can some of the inherent problems with software testing be eliminated? This book addresses this fundamental issue and helps the reader understand the high-level elements necessary to better execute software test automation and outsourcing initiatives.

Although your team may know about test automation, have they ever executed efficiently to meet the goals of faster delivery, better quality, and saving money? If not, this book is a must read. After reading the 160 pages (125 for the eBook), you will be able to:

1. Describe the need for software testing and the shortcomings of the current paradigms.
2. Articulate the hidden costs and problems of offshoring the testing function.
   
3. Identify the models that work and understand if they are worth incorporating into your company.
4. Understand what you need to do to have it done "right"

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Get a clear understanding of all you need to know before starting your winning joint-ventures. 148 pages (112 for the eBook) on...

• What is a joint venture?
• How to choose the right partner?
• Where to find the right partner and whom should you run away from?
• Planning your joint-venture business
• Aligning your goals
• Marketing your business and more...

plus quotes from leading joint-venturers and business people, plus:

• Clear "Your Homework" to take you o success in no time
• Easy to remember "Take Aways" at the end of each chapter
  

Also comes with templates that you can review and pick up today!

• View the table of contents and pick up the templates that will help you get on your way to a successful joint venture.

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Over 40 recruitment industry leaders, authors, consultants, Big Billers, Human Resource and Staffing professionals and expert LinkedIn users generously share their secrets of LinkedIn success. The book will show recruiters, sourcers and others in the recruitment industry how they can make more effective use of the various tools and resources within LinkedIn.

112 pages (96 for the eBook) on...

• Challenges and Opportunities
  
• The LinkedIn Solution to Professional Recruiting
  
• LinkedIn for Marketing and Finding New Clients
  
• LinkedIn for Candidate Sourcing
  
• LinkedIn for Collaboration and Third Party Splits
• LinkedIn as a Superior Networking Tool
  

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* When you buy this book, you will also receive:

• Free $95 job posting on LinkedIn
• Free $200 software program, Content Manager from Broadlook Technologies
• Free one month membership at Hireability.com – a $150 value
• A 20% discount on any eGrabber.com product – potential $100 value
• Password controlled access to the mp3 interviews of those interviewed for the book and others, please additional valuable information including:
  • White papers from trainers, coaches and others on networking, using LinkedIn, etc.
  • Tutorials and how to guides on finding candidates, splits and marketing

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