"Ricks gives us an 'Everyman' who takes the reader on an intriguing life's ride full of action and mystery. All the while in the military thanks to a 'join the military or go to jail' choice, on active duty in Vietnam, the States, or Reserve duty while a successful businessman, life-threatening danger follows just in the shadows."Ross A. Rainwater, Lieutenant Colonel, Aviation, US Army (Ret)"Mrs. Blanchard," he started patiently, "I am an officer in the US ...

A handbook for life insurance sales professionals who want to make or keep their business practices client-centered. An insurance consultant and trainer of over 25 years experience shares skills in marketing , prospecting, discovery, closing, handling client concerns and delivery. Includes Four Pillars of success.

How do you manage the customer who refuses to be satisfied? That's just one of the many customer relations dilemmas facing small business owners and managers every day. This collection contains dozens of tactics for keeping your customers happy so they not only stay with you, they bring their friends along, too!"Keeping Your Business Customer Friendly" points out numerous small things that can turn into big customer irritants if you're not careful."Three Sure Ways To Drive ...

The owner's manual your business didn't come with!A brief series of lessons learned from a small business owner with over a decade of experience in business. The Scrappy Startup encompasses the entire process of starting, running, and selling a business, including market opportunities, financing, hiring, advertising, cash flow and much more.

"This goes through you like a dose of salts and stings like iodine."So said Virginia Kirkus Reviews of Such Men Are Dangerous when it first appeared almost fifty years ago, and since then this edge-of-the-chair novel hasn't lost a step. It's the story of Paul Kavanagh, a burnt-out ex-Green Beret who copes with what we've since learned to call PTSD by retiring to a dime-sized islet in the Florida Keys. There he lives a determinedly simple life, his human contact li...

I had spent three years in the automotive sales business, first as a salesperson then aftermarket sales manager and finally as an assistant sales manager for both a domestic and foreign car dealer. The knowledge I gained from that experience is what I share with you here and what you can use to save hundreds sometimes thousands of dollars when buying your new car. I'll show you exactly how to buy your car for the best price possible.I don't know if...

For many people at Pierce Point and the rest of Washington State, the upcoming New Year is a time for hope, and belief that life is going to improve and the Collapse will end. For Grant Matson and the 17th Irregulars, the New Year means only one thing – war. The time has come, and they have received their orders from HQ. Grant must come clean with Lisa and tell her the truth about his work as he plans to abandon his family once again. While the Loyalists drunkenly and selfishly celebrate N...

The final collapse of trust between the ruled and the rulers has happened in an America where civil war rages again. From bestselling author Ian Slater."As impelling a storyteller as you're likely to encounter."—Clive CusslerThe Federals drew first blood as battalions of freedom fighters went tank-to-tank with the National Guard in the Northwest. Though the President declares the area secure, top officials know the truth: The Militia movement is spreading from the fringes lik...

You may read/download this on your Mobile devices and PC/Mac Computers.Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of Risks of uncertainty on goals/objectives followed by coordinated and cost-effective application of resources to lessen, and manage the risks, and likelihood and/or impact of failures (just in case) or to optimize the percentages for success.In other words, in this book you will learn to Comp...

World War with China explodes in Hunter Killer, David Poyer's dramatic new thriller. The United States stands nearly alone in its determination to fight, rather than give into the expansionist demands of the aggressive new “People’s Empire.” The naval and air forces of the Associated Powers – China, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea – have used advanced technology and tactical nuclear weapons to devastate America's fleet in the Pacific, while its massive army forced humiliating surr...

ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK. From two time Shamus Award winner Brendan DuBois comes a terrifying and original tale of a world populated mostly by teens, who are fighting to save their lives . . . and the future of planet Earth.A decade ago, the alien Creepers came to Earth, dropping asteroids to drown our coastal cities, detonating nuclear weapons overhead to destroy our communications, power and computer systems, and to set up their network of killer stealth satellites to kill an...

In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq.John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq.Crawford and his unit spent months upon months...