Have you ever wondered why no matter how much time you end up working, that your paycheck never seems to rise? That your income and finance seems to be stagnant? Or have you ever wondered, for those of you who have ventured into creating a second or third stream of income on the side, that you might actually spend lesser on those activities and earn a bigger income in proportion to the time you actually spent to run those side businesses? Life is a marathon, not a sprint. If we sprint thro...

The retail world is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Rapidly evolving technology, globalization, and a saturated marketplace offer consumers instant access to thousands of equally compelling products and services, creating unprecedented levels of expectation. The impact of these changes is so profound that 50 percent of today's retailers and consumer companies will not survive it. Traditional business models will become extinct, and the relationship between vendors and consumers wi...

In their previous book, The New Rules of Retail, Dart and Lewis predicted nearly every defining characteristic of today's marketplace. Here, they do the same for the next era, in which retailers will have to be ready for anything.For one hundred years, retail was designed for the car—buildings and malls to travel to. Now it is designed for the mobile smart device—for consumers to travel with. In a world with an overabundance of material go...

In The New Rules of Retail, industry gurus Robin Lewis and Michael Dart explained how unprecedented consumer power, enabled by technology and globalization, is revolutionizing retail. They warned that survival in these dynamic times called for a business model based on three distinct competencies: preemptive, perpetual distribution; a neurological customer connection; and total control of the value chain. In the years since that book published, many of their predictions have come ...

Characterized by the superb draughtmanship of its patterns and prickings, this book is the result of three years' study and research and brings together 101 of the best and most beautiful torchon lace patterns. After an explanation of the colour-diagram method, which eliminates lengthy technical descriptions, the projects are presented on facing double pages, each spread showing an overall pattern diagram, pattern detail and one or more close-up photographs for each piece. Included is a se...

"They could park their boots under my bed any time!" -Kindle CustomerRose's plans for a normal, perfect life ended up anything but. Years after her husband's passing, Rose takes a job at a dude ranch, purely because of the revolving door of wanna-be cowboys that she knows are looking for the full cowboy experience, including a warm, willing, no-strings-attached woman warming their bunk at night. Only Rose didn't expect that it would be the ranch's owners who would claim her attenti...

Is she the one that got away? Or their dirty little secret? When her loyalties were tested, Val refused to tear two brothers apart. Instead, she ran from both hot cowboys one fateful night, ripping her own heart out to save theirs. She returns years later, a child in tow and a dead husband in her wake, just to find her loyalties torn once again. With Curt asking questions about who really fathered her child, and Gabe out to make sure she doesn’t get away from him again, Val must decide if ...

Every time March McIntyre runs into Beau Harris, the sexiest and most eligible bachelor in all of Nashville, it’s like he’s an entirely different person. When March stumbles upon his secret, she realizes that not only could it expose the insanely sexy music icon for who he really is, it could also rock the entire world of country music to its core. Or… Maybe it could be her ticket to stardom instead. Gifted with a velvet voice that could make her the next queen of country ...

"Loved Cowboys in January! A fun fast paced and steamy MFM ménage. January, Chase and Matt had me laughing out loud from chapter 1."When January James inherits half of a run-down ranch in a small town deep in the heart of Texas, the New York native has no idea that the land comes complete with two sexy but stubborn cowboys who have their own plans for the land.And for her.

**Cowboys In January is another hot MFM stand-alone romance in the ...

Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze—often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our coworkers around the water cooler. By the time the workday wraps up, we’re so exhausted and defeated that any motivation to accomplish something in th...

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 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...

Traditional retail is becoming increasingly volatile and challenged as a business model. Brick-and-mortar has shifted to online, while online is shifting into pop-up storefronts. Virtual stores in subway platforms and airports are offering new levels of convenience for harried commuters. High Street and Main Street are becoming the stuff of nostalgia. The Big Box is losing ground to new models that attract consumers through their most-trusted assistant—the smartphone. What’s next? What’s t...