Business Builders in Real Estate


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Profiles seven real estate developers: John Nicholson, John Jacob Astor, William Levitt, Del Webb, Walt Disney, Paul Reichmann, and the Ghermezian brothers.




Business Builders In Sweets and Treats


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The business of candy making is not always, well, sweet, but often highly secretive and competitive. Read the fascinating stories of Milton Hershey, Forrest Mars, and Ellen Gordon (Tootsie Rolls) and their candy companies. Other business leaders who treated customers are also featured, including William Wrigley (chewing gum), Wally Amos (Famous Amos cookies), and Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of ice cream fame.




The Business Builders Secrets


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A Successful Business in Today's World Consists of Both Online and Offline Operations! Improve Your Business Operations and Increase Profitability by Effectively Managing and Consolidating Online and Offline Strategy! Approximately one-third of holiday shoppers do over 50% of their shopping online, but with those statistics, it shows that brick-and-mortar operations are still where most of the spending is still taking place. The reality of the matter is that customers in today's world exhibit purchasing patterns that are multi-dimensional. Sometimes they prefer to shop online, while others times they want to get out of the house, browsing and shopping with real visuals of what they're buying coupled with needful social interaction. This is why you want to cater to both when possible. Let your online customers know you have a real offline store or service, while informing any offline clients of your online presence. Knowledge of either will increase customer confidence in your professionalism and reliability. The key to success for any business today is to be multi-platform with a brick-and-mortar operation and an online presence. However, this requires the knowledge on how to do it correctly, maintaining the right balance between the two platforms while minimizing costs and consolidating operations to improve customer retention and maximize sales volume. The Business Builder's Secrets is much more than just a book of simple business basics like you might find elsewhere. It contains valuable information about both online and offline operations, and gives you secret insight from the business pros on how to launch and consolidate your multi-platform business in effective ways to facilitate an improvements in all factors of your enterprise. We want to help you increase your bottom line! The Business Builder's Secrets will provide you with the following information to help you improve and consolidate your business for today's world: The basics of an online business Benefits of running an online business Necessary skills for managing a business online Useful tools for online business management The basics of an offline business Benefits of running an offline business Necessary skills for managing a business offline Useful tools for offline business management How to consolidate online and offline operations




Fast Food


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Explores the dangerous physical and mental effects on a person when indulging too often in fast foods.




American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries


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This A to Z biographical dictionary contains 260 entries on important Americans from colonial times to the present. Each entry begins with a short description of the person's importance, then the entry provides the person's birth date and information, and proceeds chronologically though his/her life. Suggestions for further reading follow each entry. There is a topical introduction to the book, a bibliography at the end of the book, two subject indexes, and a general index.




You Are the Teacher


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Ray Kroc


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Examines the early life of Ray Kroc, shares the story of how he started the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants, and discusses his contributions to charity, and his purchase of the San Diego Padres.




All about the Burger


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From conception to perfection, a complete history of the hamburger, for fans of Mark Kurlansky, Tom Standage, Jared Diamond, and Bee Wilson. Discover the food history you've been missing in this entertaining book. Do you know what the first burger chain was? That Taco Bell was originally known as Bell Burger—and was founded in the same city as McDonald's? Have you heard of the 1980s Burger Wars? All About the Burger covers all these topics and more… All About the Burger will take you on the burger journey of a lifetime, an informational magic carpet ride. You’ll learn about restaurants, cooking styles, and different eras that have made the burger the juggernaut that it is. From White Castle to Shake Shack, from simple sandwich to specialty burger, you won’t miss a bite. This is the definitive Bible of Burgers. After reading this book, you will learn: · The contributions burgers have made to food culture · The evolution of the burger from carnival treat to an American staple · Where to go to find your next favorite burger · And much more! Praise for All about the Burger “Sef’s pursuit of the real story, along with the way he writes about the histories of these storied American restaurants and companies, truly conveys the respect and love he has for the subject.”―Bob Gatewood and Brian Easley, president & vice president at Druther’s “A book so meticulously researched and passionately written, it is the crowning achievement of one of our greatest food authorities. You will devour it instantly.”―Lee Schrager, Food Network’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival, founder




Moveable Feasts


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Today the average meal has traveled thousands of miles before reaching the dinner table. How on earth did this happen? In fact, long-distance food is nothing new and, since the earliest times, the things we eat and drink have crossed countries and continents. Through delightful anecdotes and astonishing facts, Moveable Feasts tells their stories.




The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues


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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues explores the topic of food across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas including business, consumerism, marketing, and environmentalism. In contrast to the existing reference works on the topic of food that tend to fall into the categories of cultural perspectives, this carefully balanced academic encyclopedia focuses on social and policy aspects of food production, safety, regulation, labeling, marketing, distribution, and consumption. A sampling of general topic areas covered includes Agriculture, Labor, Food Processing, Marketing and Advertising, Trade and Distribution, Retail and Shopping, Consumption, Food Ideologies, Food in Popular Media, Food Safety, Environment, Health, Government Policy, and Hunger and Poverty. This encyclopedia introduces students to the fascinating, and at times contentious, and ever-so-vital field involving food issues.