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Authentic and genuine people
- By Karin Bertelsen on 06-30-20
By: Scott Stratten, and others
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Alibaba's World
- How a Remarkable Chinese Company Is Changing the Face of Global Business
- By: Porter Erisman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 496
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 433
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 434
In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Americans had never heard of held the largest IPO in history - bigger than Google, Facebook, and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest ecommerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over 10 years, while building a customer base larger than Amazon's and handling the bulk of ecommerce transactions in China. How did it happen? And what was it like to be along for such a revolutionary ride?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not bad
- By Daniel on 09-12-15
By: Porter Erisman
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Boss Life
- Surviving My Own Small Business
- By: Paul Downs
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 214
In 1986, fresh out of college, Paul Downs opened his first and last business: a small company that built custom furniture. With no idea how to run a business or how to build custom furniture, Downs spent a year teaching himself the business, and in 1987 he hired his first employee. That was when things got complicated.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just a story
- By Marsha on 12-31-15
By: Paul Downs
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The Pumpkin Plan
- A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field
- By: Mike Michalowicz
- Narrated by: Mike Michalowicz
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 847
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 713
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Story5 out of 5 stars 706
Each year, Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of "sell it—do it, sell it—do it" that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try. Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconventional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By Harry Wilson on 06-04-21
By: Mike Michalowicz
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The Accidental Salesperson
- How to Take Control of Your Sales Career and Earn the Respect and Income You Deserve
- By: Chris Lytle
- Narrated by: Gregory Linington
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 266
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 217
Not all salespeople plan on a career in sales. Often, sales chooses them and suddenly they find themselves in a profession they aren't fully prepared for. The Accidental Salesperson is the answer, providing the advice and inspiration they need to master the essentials and hit the ground running. Fully updated to reflect the changes in the marketplace, the second edition provides a much-needed roadmap anyone can use to excel in sales.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First Day Confidence
- By Leela Vox on 01-12-19
By: Chris Lytle
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High-Hanging Fruit
- Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else WIll
- By: Mark Rampolla
- Narrated by: Mark Rampolla
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story5 out of 5 stars 77
When Mark Rampolla filled a notebook with potential start-up ideas, his wife asked him some tough questions. What about this idea is exciting, beyond the possibility of a profit? How will it fit into a life that makes you and your family happy? How will it change the world? Eventually Mark found his great idea: coconut water. He had seen the developing world use coconut water, but this valuable resource was being discarded in the US. While taking on the beverage industry was a big goal - high-hanging fruit - it was worth the risk.
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1 out of 5 stars
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10 Chapter Infomercial
- By KIM WILLIAMSON on 02-16-20
By: Mark Rampolla
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Great on the Job
- What to Say, How to Say It. The Secrets of Getting Ahead.
- By: Jodi Glickman
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
Do you always get the assignments you want? Do you know how to ask for help without sounding dumb? How to answer a question you don’t know the answer to? All the while sounding smart, capable, and competent? If the answer is no, you’re not alone. Jodi Glickman founded the communication consulting firm Great on the Job to help rising stars of the business world with the same issues. Now, for the first time, the training program that Jodi uses with her top-tier clients is available in book form. Great on the Job teaches people how to talk to one another at work, every day, in every situation....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Never thought about learning this…
- By Amazon Customer on 10-21-23
By: Jodi Glickman
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Good in a Room
- How to Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience
- By: Stephanie Palmer
- Narrated by: Judith Brackley
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4 out of 5 stars 72
Business consultant and former MGM director of creative affairs Stephanie Palmer reveals the techniques used by Hollywood's top writers, producers, and directors to get financing for their projects and explains how you can apply these techniques to be more successful in your own high-stakes meetings.
As Palmer has found, the strategies used to sell yourself and your ideas in Hollywood not only work in other businesses, they often work better.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Much Too General to Be Useful
- By Coldmountain on 05-22-15
By: Stephanie Palmer
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O Great One!
- A Little Story About the Awesome Power of Recognition
- By: David Novak, Christa Bourg - contributor
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 190
Based on real experiences that David Novak had as the Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands, this parable will empower listeners to recognize the contributions of those around them in order to drive bigger and better results. It's not hard, it's not expensive, and you don't need an MBA or even a position of authority to do it. It's a deceptively simple principle that can have a huge impact on both your life and your business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome story with great principles
- By Anonymous User on 10-16-18
By: David Novak, and others
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The 25 Sales Skills
- They Don't Teach at Business School
- By: Stephan Schiffman
- Narrated by: Stephan Schiffman
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
Master the skills you can’t learn in a classroom. You can break into today’s cutting-edge sales force - and become a leader. All it takes is learning Stephan Schiffman’s essential skills. Honed to perfection over decades of experience, his techniques will make you a top sales performer. From the man who’s trained more than a half-million salespeople, these are the secrets you won’t learn in any classroom. Now they’re yours for the taking and will put you on the fast track to career advancement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Sales book!!!
- By NN on 02-27-17
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Do It! Marketing
- 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits, and Crush Your Competition
- By: David Newman
- Narrated by: David Newman
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Small business marketing doesn't have to be a mystery. It's just a series of simple decisions (and the action steps to implement those decisions) that will help you regain the clarity, confidence, and control you need to succeed. Do It! Marketing is an encouraging kick in the pants that will reignite your marketing mojo. The underlying premise is that "only action creates results."
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3 out of 5 stars
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GOOD Book. However...
- By ala on 08-03-14
By: David Newman
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Inbound Selling
- How to Change the Way You Sell to Match How People Buy
- By: Brian Signorelli
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Over the past decade, Inbound Marketing has changed the way companies earn buyers’ trust and build their brands - through meaningful, helpful content. But with that change comes unprecedented access to information in a few quick keystrokes. Enter the age of the empowered buyer, one who no longer has to rely on a sales rep to research their challenges or learn more about how a company’s offering might fit their needs. Now, with more than 60 percent of purchasing decisions made in the absence of a sales rep, the role of the rep itself has been called into question.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Should be titled sales and sales management 101
- By James on 12-11-23
By: Brian Signorelli
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The Barefoot Executive
- The Ultimate Guide to Being Your Own Boss and Achieving Financial Freedom
- By: Carrie Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Carrie Wilkerson
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 191
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 163
Don't think you have what it takes to run a business? It's time to reconsider. Carrie Wilkerson offers the opportunity to live life on your terms. Want to start your workday with e-mail and coffee on the back patio? Want the flexibility of joining your fourth grader on an all-day field trip? Are you ready to take that vacation you’ve been planning for years? Then you have a choice to make, and The Barefoot Executive will help jump-start your transition. You’ll learn: Your “why.” The most important question.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Where is the substance?
- By David on 06-21-12
By: Carrie Wilkerson
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The Intelligent Entrepreneur
- By: Bill Murphy Jr.
- Narrated by: Fred Berman, L. J. Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,098
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 762
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Story4 out of 5 stars 761
In 1998, three Harvard Business School graduates - two men and one woman - turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves, and launched their own new companies. By their 10-year reunion, their audacity had paid huge dividends. They'd made many millions of dollars, created hundreds of jobs and left their mark on the world. The Intelligent Entrepreneur tells the compelling and instructive story of how these three young founders did it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible waste $ and a lot of time
- By David on 01-23-11
By: Bill Murphy Jr.
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Joy, Inc.
- How We Built a Workplace People Love
- By: Richard Sheridan
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 265
Joy, Inc. offers an inside look at how Sheridan and Menlo created a joyful culture, and shows how any organization can follow their methods for a more passionate team and sustainable, profitable results. Sheridan also shows how to run smarter meetings and build cultural training into your hiring process. Joy, Inc. offers an inspirational blueprint for listeners in any field who want a committed, energizing atmosphere at work - leading to sustainable business results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hey Menlo.
- By Stacey Colón on 03-25-16
By: Richard Sheridan
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Bait and Switch
- The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4 out of 5 stars 59
The best-selling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the world of the white-collar unemployed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A terrible book - princess Barbara goes undercover
- By Peter on 11-07-05
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The Customer Service Revolution
- Overthrow Conventional Business, Inspire Employees, and Change the World
- By: John R. DiJulius III
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27
In The Customer Service Revolution, DiJulius points out how numerous companies have made customer service their biggest competitive advantage, are dominating their industries, and have made price irrelevant. As a result of this customer service revolution, people are being treated differently, better, and in a way like never before. This is a result of how companies and management are treating their employees and how employees are treating each other and the customer - which ultimately permeates into people’s personal lives at home and in their communities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read!
- By Jennifer Ringenberg on 06-05-23