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Book Review: Hand to Mouth - Living in Bootstrap America

Small Business Labs

In 2013 Linda Tirado saw the following question on an online forum she followed: Why do poor people do things that are so self-destructive? It was picked up by the Huffington Post and other publications and after a few million page views, Tirado got a book deal. So if you don't have the time, read the essay and skip the book.

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How to Name Your Business

Success

You have a very limited amount of time to get a potential customer’s attention and answer key questions about what your business does,” says Mark Joyner, author of a book on business naming called The Irresistible Offer: How to Sell Your Product or Service in 3 Seconds or Less. This article was published in May 2013 and has been updated.

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The On-Demand Economy and the "Plight of the Sometimes Poor"

Small Business Labs

Conducted in 2012 and 2013, the study tracked the finanical lives 235 low- and middle-income households. They are very expensive and very hard to do.    The research team recently released a book based on the study: The Financial Diaries - How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty. This was no easy feat.

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Mastery of the Message: Using the 3 M’s of Speaking Success

Stephanie LH Calahan

  I'm happy to say he agreed to write this guest post as as well as give you  the opportunity to get a Kindle version of his book for no cost (available for the next three days.)  Make sure you’ve fully researched your material so you have some depth and are not a ‘book-report’ speaker.  DON’T DO IT!

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Do You Know Your Lifestyle Ratios?

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Revenue, net income, total expenses, and payroll costs are just a few of the items that you may be monitoring on your profit and loss statement.  Book sales. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Delaware Virtual Assistants Association as their Treasurer for her second term 2009-2013.

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Tim Leberecht of The House of Beautiful Business | Making Business More Human

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From 2006 to 2013, he was the chief marketing officer of product design and innovation consultancy Frog Design. Tim is the author of the book The Business Romantic (HarperCollins, 2015), which has been translated into nine languages to date. His book is called The Business Romantic. million times to date. million times to date.

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Discover the Formula for Happy Employees

Success

psychologist and author of over a dozen books, including Make More Money by Making Your Employees Happy. Certainly, the concept was not on the list of critical concerns in 1939 when he began writing his first book. He wrote 39 books that eventually led to him being known as the “father of modern management.”