Download or read book Confessions of an Accidental Salesman written by Ronald Ziffer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald Ziffer has been in sales for almost forty years. The book is a concise but tell-all account of all the trials and tribulations and successes and failures of his unintended career in sales. It is a gut level account of all the experiences that formed and shaped his feelings. It is a "must read" for those who are considering a career in sales, as well as those who wish to re-invent their selling skills. Ziffer pulls no punches!

Download or read book Confessions of the Accidental Career Coach written by Cara Heilmann and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of the Accidental Career Coach helps those who want to start their own self-sustaining business and not worry about money – start now! Cara Heilmann, CEO of Ready Reset Go® and bestselling author of The Art of Finding the Job You Love, has trained many people to become profitable career coaches. Confessions of the Accidental Career Coach helps readers obtain the tools they need to start making a difference in others’ lives. Within Confessions of the Accidental Career Coach, readers learn: Why so many coaches fail in their first year—and what they can do to avoid it How getting clear on their ideal client makes everything easier How to help their client answer the question, “What do I want to do when I grow up?” How connecting with love during the sales process is the most effective – even if they hate sales How they can have the confidence to support their clients Begin the journey today of launching a thriving career coaching business and making a difference in this world with iConfessions of the Accidental Career Coach/I./P/P

Download or read book The Accidental Terrorist written by William Shunn and published by Sinister Regard Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This just may be my favorite true-life amazing-but-true tale—never has threatening an aircraft been funnier or more thought-provoking.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Homeland “I devoured the more than four hundred pages of this memoir in what was essentially one sitting . . . A welcome addition to the library of Mormon autobiography—educational and highly entertaining.” —Richard Packham, Dawning of a Brighter Day 1987. A faltering missionary named Bill Shunn lands himself in a Canadian jail, facing charges of hijacking and the prospect of life behind bars. 1844. A frontier prophet named Joseph Smith lands himself in an Illinois jail, facing charges of treason and the prospect of imminent lynching. What binds these two men together? This riveting memoir—by turns hilarious, provocative and thrilling—answers that question in style, weaving from their stories a spellbinding tapestry of deception, desperation and defiance. Answer its call and you’ll never look at a Mormon missionary the same way again. “You will read few other books as smart, funny, honest, and heartbreaking as The Accidental Terrorist, and I unreservedly recommend it to you as both a home-grown cautionary tale and a highly original coming-of-age saga.” —Michael Bishop, author of Ancient of Days and editor of A Cross of Centuries “The book grabs you on page one and never lets go. Fantastically written, beautifully paced, The Accidental Terrorist reads like a novel instead of a memoir. Only in novel form, no one would have ever believed these events could have happened. Believe it. William Shunn lived every word of this book. That he can share it so eloquently is a tribute not just to his writing skill, but his strengths as a human being.” —Kristine Kathryn Rusch, USA Today bestselling author Finalist for the 2015 Association for Mormon Letters Award

Download or read book Confessions of a Bookseller written by Shaun Bythell and published by Godine+ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny memoir of a year in the life of a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and a portly cat named Captain, Shaun Bythell manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland’s largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit. His account of one year behind the counter is something no book lover should miss. Shaun drives to distant houses to buy private libraries, meditates on the nature of independent bookstores (“There really does seem to be a serendipity about bookshops, not just with finding books you never knew existed, or that you’ve been searching for, but with people too.”), and, of course, finds books for himself because he’s a reader, too. The next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore (shop cat not included), Confessions of a Bookseller is a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books. It’s for any reader looking for the kind of friend you meet in a bookstore. Praise for Shaun Bythell and Confessions of a Bookseller “Something of Bythell’s curmudgeonly charm may be glimpsed in the slogan he scribbles on his shop’s blackboard: “Avoid social interaction: always carry a book.” —The Washington Post “Bythell’s wicked pen and keen eye for the absurd recall what comic Ricky Gervais might say if he ran a bookshop.” —The Wall Street Journal “Irascibly droll and sometimes elegiac, this is an engaging account of bookstore life from the vanishing front lines of the brick-and-mortar retail industry. Bighearted, sobering, and humane.” —Kirkus Reviews “Amusing and often cantankerous stories [that] bibliophiles will delight in, and occasionally wince at.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Untamed Billionaire Undressed Virgin written by Anna Cleary and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connor O'Brien is damaged, inside and out—proof of his dark and dangerous life. Sophy Woodruff has never known a man as devastatingly sexy as Connor. Intense, brooding and distant, he's everything she shouldn't desire…. Despite his vow of noncommitment, Connor can't resist bedding Sophy. But Sophy is a virgin, and once he's undressed her, this billionaire isn't sure he can walk away….

Download or read book Confessions of a Travelling Salesman Confessions Book 5 written by Timothy Lea and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ll never guess what he’s selling...

Download or read book Confessions of a Prairie Bitch written by Alison Arngrim and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is Alison Arngrim’s comic memoir of growing up as one of television’s most memorable characters—the devious Nellie Oleson on the hit television show Little House on the Prairie. With behind-the-scenes stories from the set, as well as tales from her bohemian upbringing in West Hollywood and her headline-making advocacy work on behalf of HIV awareness and abused children, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is a must for fans of everything Little House: the classic television series and its many stars like Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert; Gilbert’s bestselling memoir Prairie Tale... and, of course, the beloved series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder that started it all.

Download or read book The Diary of a Bookseller written by Shaun Bythell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE "Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny..." —The Daily Mail The Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotland—and of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there as he struggles to build his business . . . and be polite . . . In this wry and hilarious diary, he tells us the trials and tribulations of being a small businessman; of learning that customers can be, um, eccentric; and of wrangling with his own staff of oddballs. And perhaps none are quirkier than the charmingly cantankerous bookseller Bythell himself turns out to be. Slowly, with a mordant wit and keen eye, Bythell is seduced by the growing charm of small-town life, despite—or maybe because of—all the peculiar characters there.

Download or read book Beyond the Rhetoric written by Ronald Ziffer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Ronald Ziffer has been an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous since March of 1987. He has been deeply involved in all levels of the AA program, while doing a great deal of service in the AA community. The book is a true reflection of Ron's journey through countless meetings and fellowship acquaintancesduring his first twenty yearsin the program. It is an accurate representation ofthe thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of hisconsummate AA experience. While some may find him somewhat controversial, they certainly can not denounce the courage and fortitude it took to break his anonymity and write this book.

Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work is an important part of living, whether you wait on customers, build a business or cook for your family. As such, we all have important stories to tell about our work.

Download or read book Becoming Your Own Hero written by Jordan Paul and published by Paul & Freshman Partnership. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our most revered heroes, such as Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, distinguished themselves by their ability to remain true to themselves even when facing adversity. Whenever we exhibit this kind of integrity we feel like our own hero, writes Dr. Jordan Paul in his latest book, BECOMING YOUR OWN HERO. It is available to us all but, he adds, even our inspirational heroes usually have not shown us the way to apply this principle in our close interpersonal relationships. Now, Dr. Paul, co-author of the national best-seller, Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved by You?, fills this gap. By showing us how to respond to difficulties in ways that do not compromise our own integrity or that of others, he provides a guide to finding greater fulfillment in relationships with ourselves, significant others, children, friends, and co-workers.

Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.

Download or read book Accidentally Mine A Birch Crossing Novel written by Stephanie Rowe and published by Authenticity Playground, LLC. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kisses that set her on fire. A tender smile that melts her heart. Promises of forever. It's the fairytale that no woman can afford to believe in, especially not Astrid Munroe. Oh, she did once, long ago, but the scars etched on her heart remind her that the only one she can trust is herself. The flamboyant designer with the quick wit and spunky demeanor will never show the world how much she is struggling until she meets Jason Sarantos, a man whose tormented past enables him to see the secrets she is trying to hide. The connection between the two damaged souls is instant and electrifying, shredding the defenses Astrid had worked so carefully to erect, and tumbling her into a world of passion and vulnerability she can't control. Jason has moved to Maine to rebuild his life after the tragic death of his wife and youngest son, and Astrid's vibrant spirit ignites a searing fire in the single dad that he thought was long dead. Intense, soul-shattering passion explodes between the pair, threatening everything that they hold most dear. Is there a way to stop the fire before it consumes them, or are they fated to a future more beautiful and more heart-wrenching than either thought was possible?

Download or read book Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk written by Tony Dushane and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabe is a teenage Jehovah’s Witness convinced God will kill him at Armageddon for masturbating. But Gabe’s not alone: there’s Peter, who writes swear words in the margins of his papers; Jihyun, the Korean kid who subsists on Ho Hos and Doritos; and Camille, who follows Gabe around, trying to be his girlfriend. There’s also Gabe’s mom, who sleeps sixteen hours a day, and his dad, an elder who decides the fate of sinners (like the married couple who confesses to accidentally having anal sex). There’s Brother Miller, an elder with a Napoleon complex, who accompanies Gabe from door to door, encouraging him to knock with confidence, and Sister Feeney, who looks forward to the day she can move into a Spanish-style house after its owner dies at the end of the world. Luckily for Gabe, there is Uncle Jeff, who used to tour with Santana and now gives Gabe the only valuable girl advice he ever receives. It's hard when school days are spent dodging questions about your weird religion and weekends mean preaching house to house. Life looks dreary until Gabe falls for Camille’s beautiful older sister and begins to see her as the answer to his frustrations.

Download or read book Cutting Edge Sales written by Jon Berghoff and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to successful selling from the professionals at Cutco Cutlery: “Everybody needs the practical wisdom contained in Cutting Edge Sales” (Brian Tracy). Since 1949, a growing culture of Cutco Cutlery salespeople has been quietly grooming our nation's youth to be the next generation of CEOs, philanthropists, and entrepreneurial success stories. Here, twelve former and three current Cutco Cutlery sales professionals—with over $300 million combined in Cutco Cutlery sales—have gathered together to collaborate and share their influence, secrets and real world wisdom with sales professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs across the globe. As a true expression of their willingness to give back, each author involved in this project agreed to donate 100% of their royalties to the charity of their choosing. Your purchase of this book will help the authors in their quest to positively transform the world—and your execution of the Cutting Edge Sales lessons will positively transform you and your business.

Download or read book Confessions of a Video Vixen written by Karrine Steffans and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists, such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly and LL Cool J, sell millions of albums with her sensual dancing. In a word, Karrine was H-O-T. So hot that she made as much as $2500 a day in videos and was selected by well-known film director F. Gary Gray to co-star in his film, A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel. But the film and music video sets, swanky Hollywood and New York restaurants and trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of People and In Touch magazines only touches the surface of Karrine Steffans' life. Her journey is filled with physical abuse, rape, drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness and single motherhood—all by the age of 26. By sharing her story, Steffans hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticised industry and help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered. If they're already in danger, she hopes to inspire them to find a way to dig themselves out of what she knows first-hand to be a cycle of hopelessness and despair.

Download or read book Confessions of an Advertising Man written by David Ogilvy and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an Advertising Man is the distillation of all the successful Ogilvy concepts, tactics and techniques that made this book an international bestseller. Regarded as the father of modern advertising, David Ogilvy created some of the most memorable advertising campaigns that set the standard for others to follow. Anyone aspiring to be a good manager in any kind of business should read this.