The Practical Pocket Guide to Account Planning provides a straightforward, no nonsense approach to understanding what Account Planners do on a daily basis and how they do it. Filled with real world examples, amusing anecdotes, and useful techniques for getting to better insights, The Practical Pocket Guide provides a clear path for how Account Planners can collaborate with Creatives to produce great work that is insightful, engaging, and culturally infectious. In this engaging 2-hour read,...

Insights are like unicorns: mysterious and elusive, powerful yet elegant. They are the quintessential a-ha moment that all businesses are after, and yet very few people can agree on what an insight is or how they got one. "Any Insights Yet?" demystifies the insight-building process in a way that can help any business leader or marketing practitioner get to higher ground. Packed with real-world examples from leading brands and award-winning campaigns, "Any Insights Yet?" provides a dynamic ...

The first resume book from the What Color Is Your Parachute? career guru Richard Bolles.Resumes get an average of eight seconds of attention before going in the trash—or getting on the shortlist. That’s just one of the findings reported here, as legendary career expert Richard N. Bolles presents new research about resumes in a guide that summarizes everything job-hunters and career-changers need to know about this essential tool.This timely resourc...

Through the use of timely case studies and fascinating stories, Six Pixels of Separation offers a complete set of the latest tactics, insights, and tools that will empower you to reach a global audience and consumer base—which, best yet, you can do pretty much for free.Is it important to be connected? Well, consider this: If Facebook were a country, it would have the sixth largest population in the world.The truth is, we no longer live in a world o...

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond.It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the best-kept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pinterest was a niche web site frequented only by bakers and crafters, LinkedIn was an exclusive network for C-suite executives and top-level recruiters, Facebook was MySpace’s sorry step-brother, and Uber was a ...

This is a short e-booklet of about 25 pages.You and your colleague have been at the same company for three years, in the same role, and you both have impressive college degrees and work really hard. You're both ready for the next step up. Yet your colleague gets contacted for really sexy jobs by executive recruiters a couple times a month, while you....well, almost never. What's going on?My guess is that your colleague has a Linkedin profile that looks inviting to recruiter...

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Master the art of effective delegation.You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do. Delegating Work quickly walks you through the fundamentals of:Establishing a productive environmentAssigning the right work to the right peopleConducting an effective hand-off meetingMonitoring without micromanagi...

42 Rules of Cold Calling Executives (2nd Edition)' is an easy to read book that gives concise, easy to implement methods to get results with cold calls. Many sales professionals find that part of their job difficult and unpleasant yet the 42 Rules gives them ways to redesign their thinking, approach, practices, and tools, to get the best possible results. This book contains some of the fundamental principles Mari Anne Vanella has developed over the course of her career. Her clients and her...

Get Hired Today With LinkedIn Profiles That Work!If you're not getting 2 or 3 unsolicited calls a week, your LinkedIn profile sucks – The LinkedIn InsiderAre you craving a career change? Do you want to know how to land your dream job? Are you simply looking for work? If so, you need to be on LinkedIn with a profile that stands out from the crowd and gets you noticed. In short, you need a LinkedIn profile that doesn't suck.In a few short years LinkedIn has changed the...

Celebrated entrepreneur and network marketing visionary, Wes Melcher, has written an MLM page-turner: NetEASY Marketing. This is an expository guide on how to be successful in the direct sales industry in the 21st century. Complete with building a brand, getting the most out of events, using social media and technology to build a mobile, international business, and much more, NetEASY Marketing teaches industry newcomers and veterans alike how to leverage their network, develop a team and buil...

A top sales pro's strategic approach in this easy to read no nonsense hand guide to greater sales.