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What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town. A platform, by definition, creates value by facilitating an exchange between two or more interdependent groups. So, rather than making things, they simply connect people. The advent of mobile computing and its ubiquitous connectivity have forever altered how we interact with each other. Yet, few people truly grasp the radical structural shifts of the last 10 years.

As a solopreneur, you can take control of your life, use your unique talents, and choose the work you love. But avoiding the pitfalls of being your own boss can be a challenge. Money-Smart Solopreneur gives you the essential knowledge, tools, and inspiration you need to live a successful solopreneur life as a full- or part-time freelancer, independent contractor, or side-hustler in the on-demand economy.

Stop marketing at people! Turn your ideas into epidemics - ideaviruses - by helping your customers do the marketing for you. So says Info Age marketing guru Seth Godin.

Para lograr que se cumplan tus sueños y deseos, tienes que tener éxito con el dinero. Este libro te muestra cómo acumular riquezas personales al compartir los secretos de los antiguos babilonios, quienes fueron los primeros en descubrir las leyes universales de la prosperidad. Reconocida como la mejor obra inspiradora existente sobre el tema del ahorro, la planeación financiera, y las riquezas personales, El Hombre Más rico de Babilonia es un libro clásico atemporal que contiene la llave a todo lo que deseas y todo lo que anhelas lograr.

Drawing on his own mental, financial, and emotional transformation - over just a few years - from a man who had $0.01 to his name to a man who travels the world in style, Jerremy Alexander Newsome becomes your much needed cerebral pyromaniac to light up your brain! He combines funny tangents and unique metaphors with bite-size, aha concepts that unlock your potential to achieve actual results along with massive mental breakthroughs!

If you’re afraid to open your bills, if you’ve never added up how much you owe, if you can’t even imagine being debt-free, it’s time to join the thousands of people Gail Vaz-Oxlade has helped. Her straightforward approach to money management is based on self-control, hard work, and prioritizing what’s really important. In Debt-Free Forever, Gail gives you a clear strategy and the steps needed to implement it. So if you’re finished with excuses, overdue notices, and maxed-out credit cards, buy this audiobook, follow Gail’s plan, and start becoming debt-free forever.

Cambia tu enfoque sobre el dinero y supera las creencias que te han inculcado y que, no nos engañemos, al sistema le van de lujo para que sigas nadando (o ahogándote) en deudas. Abre tu mente: Celia Rubio te da el conocimiento y las herramientas para que empieces a tener tú el control sobre el dinero, incluso para que consigas que trabaje para ti. Sal de la espiral en la que cobras-gastas-cobras-gastas en un ciclo infinito del que no puedes escapar.

Transform your life with this essential guide and empathetic companion. It makes your parenting journey easy and enjoyable while enabling your tween to thrive in middle school and life.

From the challenges, learning opportunities, and benefits of becoming an Airbnb host to confidently owning multiple listings with pride, Money Hosts: How To Start a Profitable Airbnb Business in 4 Weeks is the ultimate step-by-step guide to creating passive income through the vacation rental industry.

A powerful manifesto for CEOs and employees alike: Influential and award-winning business leader Margaret Heffernan reveals how organizations can build ideal workplace cultures and create seismic shifts by making deceptively small changes.

At some point in everyone's life, everyone will be placed in the position of dealing with the death of a loved one. Arranging all the necessary details at such a difficult time can prove overwhelming. However, help is now at hand in this guide that covers all the essential aspects. Drawing from the counsel of funeral directors, clergy, attorneys, estate planners, and psychologists and with references to Web sites and other sources of further information, this book provides straightforward and reassuring advice that is both practical and comforting at this difficult time.

Discover the path to a more fulfilling life with Dr. John F. Demartini's insightful audiobook, "The Riches Within." This transformative guide reveals the seven secret treasures inherent in everyone, encompassing spirit, intellect, career, finances, relationships, physical health, and personal greatness. Through Dr. Demartini's expert narration, you'll be reacquainted with the innate power you possess and learn how to harness it for maximum potential.

Have you ever considered creating your very own podcast? Podcast Launch will take you through the entire process, from step one to step done. These tutorials will make your podcast experience enjoyable and stress-free. Podcast Launch begins with identifying your podcast, followed by the equipment needed, recording and editing, intros and outros, tagging your MP3, uploading to a media host, embedding your MP3 onto your website, submitting your podcast to iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and Blackberry, launching your podcast the right way, and monetizing.

The Landlord Entrepreneur shifts the focus from dealing exclusively with residential real estate to building a dynamic property management business. By following the step-by-step instructions in this new guide, anyone can create a fully functioning, professional property management company in only 10 days. With Chavis's modern take on real estate, you will learn the five phases of property management and the skills needed to successfully move through them - as well as the hacks and tricks to build your profitable business from the ground up.

In Million Dollar Women, Pimsleur introduces you to seven women who, instead of leaning in, simply left corporate America and marched into the world of entrepreneurship. They have raised capital, developed powerful networks, and generated multimillion-dollar companies from scratch. When Pimsleur herself started Little Pim, a company that produces a program for young children to learn foreign languages, she wanted to create an exceptional experience.

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.

Build a better financial future for yourself and the world. Former monk turned financial advisor Doug Lynam shares the rules of money management that will change your approach to earning, saving, and investing. With humor and humility, Lynam uses stories told through the lens of his own money mistakes and those of counseling clients to understand how our attitudes about money hold us back. He also provides clear, step-by-step guidance on how to grow a little bit wealthy.

What Tom Chiarella discovers is that great real estate agents devote themselves to the job with a sense of craftsmanship. Showcasing the individual tools used to develop a successful real estate career, Becoming a Real Estate Agent profiles individuals who live a life of thrilling improvisation, action, and instinct - a life in which excellence is sometimes gauged by the ability to walk away from a commission when circumstance demands it.

All of us start out with the desire and the potential to live remarkable lives. But along the way something happens.... We start to accept mediocrity. But there is a way to live life on your own terms. And entrepreneur Peter Voogd wants to show you how....

The number one New York Times best-selling author of Women Food and God maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges - how we deal with money. When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence, uncertainty, and abrupt reversals in their expectations. The resulting shock was the catalyst for her to explore how women's habits and behaviors around money-as with food-can lead to exactly the situations they most want to avoid.