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Portfolio's Year in Review
By Porchlight
Portfolio publisher Adrian Zackheim posted a year in review from that house's perspective on Monday that stands out as a beacon of hope amidst all the publishing gloom of late. (As you all probably know, Portfolio is the publisher of The 100 Best. ) Adrian sums up 2008 as follows: Despite reduced store traffic through the year, Portfolio reported topline sales growth of 22% and gross margin growth of more than 50%.
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Lynda Resnick on Charlie Rose
By Porchlight
When Lynda Resnick sent us advanced reading copies of her new book, Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business, she didn't just put them put them in one of the many bubble mailers or publisher boxes we're flooded with every day. She placed them amongst pomegranate goodies, Fiji Water and other products she's marketed over the years in one of the nicest care packages we've ever received, all nicely presented in a wicker basket. She is, to be sure, a masterful marketer, and she sat down with Charlie Rose recently to share some of her secrets.
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ChangeThis: The Economy Survey
By Porchlight
In November of last year, we sent out a survey to gauge the mood of ChangeThis readers and see if they could help provide some solutions and encouragement for ourselves and eachother. After many months of immense change, both in the country as a whole and within our small company, we have finally finished sifting through those responses. We made the following three inquiries: "In one word, sum up how you feel right now;" "How is this affecting you?
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February's International Best Sellers
By Porchlight
In our effort to keep everyone all over the world a mouse click away from each other. . .
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inBubbleWrap - The Wisdom of Crowds
By Porchlight
Our prodigious effort to provide you a top-notch business library on inBubbleWrap continues this week with one of the most influential books of the past decade--The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowieki. I assume that because you follow this blog, you're immersed enough in the business book subculture to know about The Wisdom of Crowds. (If not, Todd will tell you all about it in the video below.
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On the Virtual Road...
By Porchlight
Last year Paul Williams of Idea Sandbox came to me with an idea - he wanted to steal my idea. I said OK because it wasn't my idea in the first place. Paul wanted to restart a blog book tour for business books.
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The 100 Best Update
By Porchlight
It has been three weeks since The 100 Best Business Books of All Time launched and I just wanted to write you a note and thank you for all of your support. Twitter has been a-flitter with tweets: http://tinyurl. com/cm9pvp There are 31,000 hits in Google now with most of them written by all of you: http://tinyurl.
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Fortune - 10 Tips From the Best in Business
By Porchlight
Fortune has published 10 tips from Jack and Todd on their Postcards blog. They introduce themselves: As authors of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, published in February by Portfolio, we found ourselves stumbling across the most important business insights of the last 30 years. We learned plenty about leading, managing, innovating and saving your company and yourself when disaster lurks around the corner.
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Listen Live to My Interview on BlogTalkRadio
By Porchlight
Here is the widget to listen live to my interview at 9:30AM Central today on BlogTalkRadio with Zane Safrit: If this doesn't work, follow this link: http://www. blogtalkradio.
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Slam-dunking New Boxes In a New Century
By Porchlight
In 1994, Dave Dorsey wrote a great book call The Force about the Xerox salesforce that he followed around for a year. The book is so good we included it in The 100 Best. He has written a short piece for us about what the parallels exists between what he wrote about in The Force and what he see going on today: The current financial crisis brings back memories for me.
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