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Survive and Enrich Yourself in the Credit Crunch

Survive and Enrich Yourself in the Credit Crunch

This book is for you if you are worried about: - skyrocketing fuel and heating costs - rising food bills - expensive mortgage payments -…

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The Naked Trader

The Naked Trader

It's back - and this time it's even more revealing. In this completely updated and expanded edition, top trader Robbie Burns gives you the lowdown…

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Writing Advertising Copy

Writing Advertising Copy

Copywriting is easy, isn't it? Just put a few words together and stick it in the newspaper, or send out a letter and wait for…

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Golden Rules Effective Listening

Golden Rules Effective Listening

You've got through to the prospective customer either or the phone or in person. It's taken preparation, effort, persistence and a slice of luck. But…

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Golden Rules Handling Objections

Golden Rules Handling Objections

You need new customers. You've got your list of prospects. You are prepared to make the phone calls and press the flesh. But one problem…

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The 7 Biggest Mistakes When Making Sales Calls

The 7 Biggest Mistakes When Making Sales Calls

You need customers but don't know how to get them. You do NOT want: gurus talking in lofty terms about having the right attitude, understanding…

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Fundraising for Your School

Fundraising for Your School

This book will help those schools who wish to generate extra money outside of statutory funding to fund innovative projects, capital build programmes, staffing costs…

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Avanturine

Avanturine

A classic collection of Christian meditations, thoughts and philosophies, translated from the original French collection.

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Shag Yourself Slim

Shag Yourself Slim

Losing weight isn't rocket science: eat less and move more, and it will happen. The link between sex and slimming is also simple: a good…

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Writing a Business Plan

Writing a Business Plan

Why should you use your valuable time creating a document that tries to look into the future while the world is changing around you? How…

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Motivating Your Staff for Better Performance

Motivating Your Staff for Better Performance

Business owners and managers are under increasing pressure to perform. Never has there been a better time to practice good people motivation and management techniques.…

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Marketing to Win More Business

Marketing to Win More Business

In order to grow and survive in business, boosting your customer base and increasing your sales from those customers is paramount. And even if you…

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Handling Confrontation at Work

Handling Confrontation at Work

This guide is primarily concerned with the safety of the person and the minimising of potential physical conflict and personal injury. This guide looks at…

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Writing Newsletters and Articles

Writing Newsletters and Articles

What makes a successful newsletter? How do you structure an article that people want to read? How do you secure a commission from a magazine?…

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Managing Change

Managing Change

A certainty in life is that things will change - sometimes bringing new experiences we enjoy and at other times those we would prefer to…

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Giving Confident Presentations

Giving Confident Presentations

Making a presentation strikes fear into many hearts. It ranks alongside going to the dentist or being put into a cage with a hungry lion…

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Recruiting the Right Staff

Recruiting the Right Staff

Employing the right people is critical to the success of any business. Appointing the wrong person can be expensive, not only in monetary terms but…

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Fewer, Shorter, Better Meetings

Fewer, Shorter, Better Meetings

This easy step-by-step guide will show you how to make meetings more effective; how to get meetings off to the right start; how to get…

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Succeed at Speed Dating

Succeed at Speed Dating

Speed dating has become the coolest way for young singles to meet and find love, and Clare McCann knows this better than most. In her…

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Stress and Time Management

Stress and Time Management

Time is a wasting asset, because once it has been spent, it can never be retrieved. There is no such thing as a refund, and…

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Better Budgeting for Your Business

Better Budgeting for Your Business

In an increasingly cost conscious world, control over your organisation's income and expenditure is vital. For most successful organisations, this control begins with a budgeting…

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Communicating With More Confidence

Communicating With More Confidence

Communicating effectively should be the simplest thing in the world, we talk and listen - or do we? And is that all there is to…

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Building a Positive Media Profile

Building a Positive Media Profile

Editorial coverage carries at least two and a half times the weight of advertising. It is a very cost effective way of raising an organisation's…

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The Maverick

The Maverick

For eight years between 1998 and 2006, Luke Johnson wrote a regular column as "The Maverick" in The Sunday Telegraph. His short, pithy essays tackled…

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Are Your Customers Being Served?

Are Your Customers Being Served?

Many organisations chase the Holy Grail of obtaining new customers, spending time, money, and energy on winning them only to provide them with a service…

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Being Positive and Staying Positive

Being Positive and Staying Positive

Changing work patterns, pressures of this fast-paced life, family problems, life-cycle changes, and poor health can leave even the most positive of us feeling negative.…

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Successful Selling

Successful Selling

We are all in the business of selling. Selling our products and our services, selling our company, and especially selling ourselves. So whether you are…

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