A lost boy. A fractured family. A continent that will test them all.Vilna, 1899, eight-year-old Izzy Lieberman leaves his snow-covered homeland with his father, escaping the pogroms and bound for a new life at the edge of the world – Cape Town, South Africa. But amid the chaos of the port, as tensions rise in the days before the Anglo-Boer War, Izzy's father vanishes. In the confusion, Izzy is left behind – forgotten, frightened, farfolen (lost) and convinced that ...

A revolution occurs when a critical mass of people challenge a common belief they have been told to accept as true. During the American Revolution, the new thinking was that our country should be free from the tyranny of the British Empire so its citizens could pursue their personal goals and dreams.Some things never change, especially when it comes to revolutions... For decades business owners, entrepreneurs and marketers followed the advice of traditional ad agencies. But mass ad...

The Boy in The BarrelA lost boy. A fractured family. A continent that will test them all.Vilna, 1899. Eight-year-old Izzy Lieberman leaves his mother and siblings in his snow-covered homeland, with his father, escaping the pogroms and bound for a new life at the edge of the world — Cape Town, South Africa. But amid the chaos of the port, as tensions rise in the days before the Anglo-Boer War, Izzy’s father vanishes and In the confusion, Izzy is l...

Desperate after being evicted from his home and having his last car repossessed, Floridian Vic Johnson stumbled across a simple online formula that's made him five-six figures every month for the past ten years (and it's RECESSION RESISTANT).Johnson says his formula is not complicated or original, as he copied ever step of it. And he believes the formula is so simple that anyone who's not afraid of a little work can copy what he's done.Once inside you'll learn...* H...

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool - analytics - is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results.In their previous book, Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris showed how pioneering firms were building their entire strategies around their analytical capabilities. Rather tha...

B2B companies arent often natural-born marketers. Marketing isnt a core competence or even a comfort zone for many of them. But with more global competition and new ways of doing business, B2B companies now have the opportunity and the necessity to get smart about marketing. They have the opportunity to capitalize on marketing to enhance awareness of their products and services, gain new customers and increase their profits. This book is a practical, one-stop resource for achieving B2B mar...

From award-winning entrepreneur, inventor, and business owner Stephen Key comes the highly anticipated follow-up to his bestseller One Simple IdeaStephen Key is back, and he’s delivering a proven, straightforward process for starting, growing, and running a business—without the need for an MBA or millions of dollars in funding.Key draws on his own experience as a billion-dollar inventor to offer how-tos and other takeaways you can use to get off th...

Whether you've already started a t-shirt brand or are just an aspiring t-shirt entrepreneur with a dream the clothing industry can be one of the toughest to break into. LAUNCH A KICK-ASS T-SHIRT BRAND is the perfect hand-book if you're looking to build a successful t-shirt brand. From valuable advice to specific examples and anecdotes from successful t-shirt entrepreneurs this 240 page guide is packed with priceless information that can help your dreams of running a profitable t-shirt bran...

If you are a professional salesperson, sales manager or director, VP of sales, CEO, any role in marketing, or anyone supporting selling efforts, this book is for you. It will teach you updated tools, language and tactics of selling in todays market. Michael Griego, a professional sales consultant and trainer to Fortune 500 firms and leading Silicon Valley technology firms, has reduced the keys to sales effectiveness to 42 rules. These rules have been road tested over 28 years of personal sale...

Master the basics of project management.You've been asked to manage a key project—or perhaps you've volunteered for an assignment that could advance your career. So how do you make sure the project succeeds? Managing Projects walks you quickly through the basics, including:Drawing up a realistic schedule and project planMonitoring key tasks and benchmarksCommunicating with stakeholdersBringing th...

Product management is one of the most dynamic and exciting careers around. Yet many product managers find themselves frustrated because of the unique challenges it presents. There are many books on the mechanics and core principles of product management, such as how to gather and write requirements, build roadmaps and perform other tasks. But there is no book that tells you the rest of the story -- the strategies, tactics and techniques that will turn you into a great product manager.'The ...

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