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2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Marketing/Sales
By Porchlight
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 17th, we'll announce the category winners, and, on Wednesday, December 19th, we'll celebrate the overall winner of the 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards! Stay tuned.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Innovation/Creativity
By Porchlight
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 17th, we'll announce the category winners, and, on Wednesday, December 19th, we'll celebrate the overall winner of the 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards! Stay tuned.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Management
By Porchlight
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 17th, we'll announce the category winners, and, on Wednesday, December 19th, we'll celebrate the overall winner of the 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards! Stay tuned.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Leadership
By Porchlight
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 17th, we'll announce the category winners, and, on Wednesday, December 19th, we'll celebrate the overall winner of the 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards! Stay tuned.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: General Business
By Porchlight
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Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Author Pow Wow and The Art of Project Management (For Authors)
By Porchlight
The 800-CEO-READ Author Pow Wow is just around the corner, and we still have a few spots open. For those still on the fence, know this: We have last year's keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author Tim Sanders—Love is the Killer App, The Likeability Factor, and Today We Are Rich—giving a special half hour session on publishing entitled The Art of Project Management (For Authors). His talk on publishing last year melted minds, and left people changed for the better in opinion and approach.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
Seth Godin discount packs
By Porchlight
Bestselling author Seth Godin is launching not one, but three new books this month. In celebration, we're offering a couple of pre-order options with substantial discounts. These offers will only run through December 21, so pre-order soon!
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Tis the Season: Our (Non-Business Book) Gift Picks
By Sally Haldorson
While we specialize in business books as book sellers, we are all lovers of books in other genres. Here are some of our picks for the best books we've read this year. Not all are new, and some are obscure, but all will delight.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Startup Communities
Book Review by Porchlight
In the foreward to Brad Feld's most recent book, Startup Communities, Steve Case begins: During the past three decades, startups in the United States have created 40 million American jobs, all the net job creation in the country over that period. As we recover from a deep recession, our ability to innovate, build iconic companies, put people back to work, and inspire the world will once again be determined by whether entrepreneurs continue taking chances on a dream to start a business. This point demonstrates the importance of Startup Communities.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
Zig Ziglar: 1926-2012
By Sally Haldorson
"The prospect is persuaded more by the depth of your conviction than he is by the height of your logic. " "You don't sell what the product is --you sell what the product does. " "Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
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