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Shhh Listen. Hear that? That's the sound of your business. The conversations taking place online and in the marketplace tell you nearly everything you need to know about your company and your customers - what people are saying about you, how they use your products, whether they'll buy or recommend your product, and how they respond to your marketing and advertising. Listening provides unrivaled insight. If you do it right, you'll have a decisive edge over your competition as you adapt faster to customer needs and market changes.

Successful entrepreneur and business coach Joey Faucette, D.Min, arms overwhelmed business executives, managers, and sales professionals with the five core practices to creating success: perceive, conceive, believe, achieve, and receive. Empowered by these strategies, discover how to redefine your reality and change your focus from failures to successes, losses to leverages, and the negative to the positive, allowing you to achieve greater results in business and life.

The 2-Second Commute is the perfect audiobook for anyone who wishes to work from home as a virtual assistant, providing everything from administrative support to high-end consulting via e-mail, phone and fax. Predicted to become a $100+ billion industry, virtual assistants don't commute, they set their own hours, and they get to spend time with their families.

Learn the 25 keys to improving your management and leadership skills, including effective communication, efficient implementation, and strong team building. This program is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series. The series also includes a valuable program on Sales and Marketing.

More than two decades ago, former Wall Street portfolio analyst Judith H. McQuown sat down to write the inaugural edition of Inc. Yourself. In it, she outlines the core information necessary to turn any enterprise into a separate legal entity replete with all the rights, privileges, and liabilities that such a move entails. But here she also updates her suggestions for today's small businesses whenever appropriate, and bolsters them with important details on newly available options.

Learn the 25 keys to building brand awareness, understanding the secrets of advertising and pricing strategies, and integrating the four P's of marketing. This program is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series.

Learn the 25 keys to a great business plan, including writing the company's mission, identifying marketing opportunities, calculating appropriate financial ratios, and projecting growth rates, that will help guide your company's expansion and attract necessary funding. Business Planning is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series.

Learn the 25 keys in managing the growth of a business, including identifying your company's competitive advantage, implementing a total quality strategy, hiring a professional management team and creating a visionary growth-oriented corporate culture. Part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series.

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Listen as Bo Peabody, author of "Lucky or Smart?" and entrepreneur extraordinaire, discusses the businesses he started, how he was able to make them successful, and the place that intelligence, hard work and a little bit of good fortune had in the process.