The Complete Idiot's Guide to Growing Your Business with Google


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The search engine for success. Using the Internet to increase the visibility of a small business today is no easy task. It can take a lot of time, energy, and money—especially if you’re not a computer expert. Here, readers can get a valuable overview of how search engines, web sites, ad services, and web logs can all work together to build a business, as well as practical hands-on tips, tricks, and planning tools to help readers create and execute a plan that utilizes the Internet to its fullest. * Google‚ is widely recognized as the world’s largest search engine—an easy-to- use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second * Author holds an MBA and has started and run several small businesses in addition to being a well-known technology book author * Perfect for the entrepreneur and small business market







The Complete Idiot's Guide to LinkedIn


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Develop your business or career with the pre-eminent professional network Most people who are new to LinkedIn don't intuitively recognize the potential of the site when it comes to promoting a business, finding a job/project (or being found for one), or raising money for a business venture. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to LinkedIn goes beyond the usual "how to set up and account" and "create a profile" to help readers become LinkedIn super-users and get the most out of the website based on their individual goals. The book provides new users with clear and detailed guidance on: • Filling out the various parts of the LinkedIn profile, customizing it to meet specific professional goals • The right and wrongs ways of doing things on LinkedIn-especially helpful to those used to Facebook • Finding the right people, making the right introductions, and growing and managing networks • Finding and communicating with LinkedIn Groups to help achieve individual business goals • Specific suggestions for using LinkedIn to find a job, market a business, raise capital, and increase sales




HT START A HOMEBASED WEB DESIGN 4ED


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Everything you need to know to run a profitable Web design business from your home.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Discovering Your Perfect Career


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Explains how to trade in an unsatisfactory job for a fulfilling career by providing a series of self-assessment tests designed to answer key questions about one's talents, values, interests, personality, and goals, as well as helpful advice on how to make a smooth career transition and how to land the perfect job opportunity. Original.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Personal Financial Planner


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According to the U.S. Office of Statistics, financial planning is one of the fastest-growing careers in America today. Over 200,000 financial presently work in the marketplace, and the growth rate continues in the double digits. Of those financial planners, over 40 percent are self-employed or outside affiliates with financial institutions. Certified financial planners usually come from financial backgrounds, including accountants, bankers, MBAs, or brokers. But what do you need to become a CFPr and how can you make it a successful career path? The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Personal Financial Planner has it all.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Personal Financial Planner


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Building a successful career in a red-hot field. Financial planning is one of the fastest growing careers in America today. Written by a veteran certified financial planning expert, this invaluable book tells aspiring and new CFPs everything you need to know about the certification process, setting up private practice, self-marketing techniques, client management and expansion, and much more. —Includes a comprehensive resource section




Build Your Author Platform


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A great book is no longer enough. An author platform is the most powerful key to success in today's saturated market, and increasingly, publishers are demanding that new authors come to them with an existing audience of interested followers. Authors who are self-publishing have an even bigger need to build an engaged audience. Social media makes building the author platform easier than ever, but, unfortunately, most authors struggle to get it right. How can authors create their unique platform, connect with followers, write a manuscript, and grow their business? In Build Your Author Platform: The New Rules, top literary agent Carole Jelen and tech expert Michael McCallister apply their combined 35 years of expertise to outline 14 practical, hands-on steps to create a presence that will produce high book sales and expanded audience. From pre-publication through book launch and beyond, authors will learn how to: • Define goals and a unique brand • Employ successful website strategies, content, social presence, media authority, and training • Secure positive reviews • Attract viewers efficiently without cost Filled with detailed lessons, examples, success stories, and techniques used by marketing departments at major publishers, Build Your Author Platform is an indispensable guide for anyone looking for insight into publishing, promoting, and marketing books.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Best Practices for Small Business


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• Illustrates how to make money and keep it with time-honored strategies • Insightful real-life anecdotes to illustrate key concepts




Plug Your Book!


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