Sentences with phrase «dollar book business»

In this episode, Shawn shows you the entire setup to turn your book into a million dollar book business.

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Accenture is an example of what naming guru Alex Frankel describes in his book Wordcraft: The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business as «the synthetic, just - add - water (and a lot of advertising dollars), umbrella name.»

Barbara Corcoran emphasizes how important it is to be ready for anything in her book, «Shark Takes: How I turned $ 1000 into a billion dollar business.»

During that earlier period, American business earned an average of 11 percent or so on equity capital employed and stocks, in aggregate, sold at valuations far above that equity capital (book value), averaging over 150 cents on the dollar.

Eyal just sent round a note saying that last week brought in a million dollars in direct advertising bookings, positioning us well for a further rebound once the future direction of the business is clear.

Bryant Simon, a professor at Temple University, whose book Boardwalk of Dreams chronicles the history of Atlantic City, including Trump's business dealings there, says business owners who worked on the Taj Mahal were often paid just 10 cents to 20 cents on the dollar in the bankruptcy.

The book bashes the contractor for operating a revolving door for powerful government officials, hiring them for millions of dollars a year, then allegedly exploiting the connections to win business when they return to the highest echelons of government.

Get the book that launched a million - dollar business.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

The evangelical circles have turned their books and DVD's in to a multi-billion dollar business.

She is also the author of Mom 3.0: Marketing With Today's Mothers by Leveraging New Media & Technology, Trillion Dollar Moms: Marketing to a New Generation of Mothers and The Women's Home - Based Business Book of Answers.

Tomika is the founder of Motivated Mamas, a mastermind and coaching business dedicated to the success of the single moms families.Single moms: they practically wrote the book on making «a dollar out of fifteen cents.»

And then, of course, there's the film's eventual premiere, when Wiseau first endures the feeling of having audiences laugh at his work, for which he had bared his soul and burned several million dollars of a fortune whose origins are anybody's guess (although «such nosy person» Sestero's best guess in the book, involving a shady business called Street Fashions USA, isn't even mentioned in the film).

As we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platform.

eBooks have grown to be a billion dollar business and now accounts for 27 % of all book sales in the US.

There are people in the non-fiction writing business who write «how - to» books, earning thousands of dollars a month, and some even more than $ 100,000 a year!

So consider those mailings as part of the cost of doing business, and don't dwell on the obvious fact that some people are using your book to make a couple of undeserved dollars.

If you need your message released soon and care more about a higher quality product that will deliver better results, want to keep your distribution and repurposing rights, want to see your book inside bookstores, want to speak on a high - dollar stage, or if you want to raise your rates for your related business.

According to an article today by BigPondNews.com, as more and more bookstores struggle to stay in business and compete for consumer's dollars, a tax like this one will have a strong negative impact on luxury items such as book purchases.

Indeed, considering the hundreds of millions of dollars that Mr. Riggio has personally realized from the aforementioned sale of his college books business as well as other businesses, he clearly has the financial resources to take the Company private.

It is beyond the scope of this initial letter to discuss in great detail these issues, such as the sale of Mr. Riggio's own college book business to BKS for more than $ 500 million and the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Company's failing and poorly - conceived Nook business may have cost shareholders, along with the Company's inexplicably high SG&A expense structure and parade of CEOs who have come and gone in the last few years.

The bottom line is that paying someone hundreds or thousand of dollars to publish your book for you isn't just a waste of money, it's a dangerous business move.

Having blindely published two books through them I see they are sit up in a way as to lead a writer beleive that he / she is entering into a business that is honest only to be let down in the end; after having spent thousands of dollars to be let down with reports of no sales and innocent acts.

For example Tony Robins has only 2 - 3 books but has a multi millionaire dollar empire running his coaching business.

So far in 2011, the tremendous growth of Kindle book sales, combined with the continued growth in Amazon's print book sales, have resulted in the fastest year - over-year growth rate for Amazon's U.S. books business, in both units and dollars, in over 10 years.

And, thanks to these figures, the company now boasts the fastest ever year - in - year growth rate for its books business, in both units and dollars.

Book distribution in the United States is a business done beteween mammoth corporations with properties that can cost millions of dollars, and in which blockbuster media events are necessary to carry the financial load of the operation.

Sadly, like many other commodities, I think we may end up with a tiered market, where the higher end businesses sell better product at higher prices, but fewer products, and then we'll have the dollar store version of books, where you get what you pay for, which for the most part is junk, but you know, people buy it anyway.

There are things that are good investments (i.e. some paid ads will literally pay for themselves in book sales), and there are very few businesses you can get off the ground without at least outlaying a few thousand dollars.

They are just committed authors who love what they do, who have written their socks off and have built this multi million dollar business from their books.»

Now, anyone can be a publisher without having to spend the years and invest the dollars formerly required to build book printing, ebook creation, book and ebook distribution, and book selling businesses.

Kindle sales have helped create Amazon's fastest year - over-year growth for Amazon's U.S. book business, in units and dollars, in more than a decade.

But like it or not, creating and publishing books is a business (a multi-billion dollar business actually), so it is beneficial to think like a businesswoman in your endeavors.

When I read The Business of Media the other night I realized three dollars got me a condensed version of what I'd normally pay at least $ 9.99 for (as a Kindle book) and more like $ 20 + (as a print book).

The shift in the book business has been driven by readers moving away from trad publishers» ebooks toward indie - published and Amazon - imprint - published ebooks which now account for almost 60 % of all Kindle ebooks bought in the US, and 40 % of all consumer dollars spent on ebooks.

Businesses with the Business Green Rewards Card from American Express OPEN will earn 2 Membership Rewards points per dollar spent on eligible travel bookings made through the American Express Travel website and 1 point per dollar spent on all other purchases.

AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO DOLLAR - COST averaging, consider value averaging, a strategy developed by a former Harvard Business School professor, Michael Edleson, and described in his 1993 book Value Averaging.

While it will cost about $ 200 per person to hire an award booking service, this could be money well spent when you are able to use the lowest possible number of miles to book business or first - class award reservations that can be worth thousands of dollars.

For example, the Bank of America Business Advantage Travel Rewards MasterCard credit card lets you earn three points for every dollar when booking travel through the Bank of America Travel Center, and you'll earn 1.5 points for every dollar spent on all purchases.

THE TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN by Charles R. Morris ($ 24.95, PublicAffairs Books): Readers of the business pages know about the U.S. real estate collapse and the huge losses suffered by international banks, but most Canadians have yet to feel the impact.

And depending on how you like to use your miles and points, you can get terrific deals booking Business and First Class award seats worth thousands of dollars.

The Business Platinum Card ® from American Express OPEN earns 5X points per dollar when booking flights through American Express Travel.

One man Zito featured in her book remodeled his bathroom by buying Lowe's gift cards with his Chase Ink Business card (Chase has replaced this card with the Chase Ink Business Preferred card) at an office supply store to get 5 points per dollar.

While it will cost about $ 200 per person to hire an award booking service, this could be money well spent when you are able to use the lowest possible number of miles to book business or first - class award reservations that can be worth thousands of dollars.

5X Membership Rewards Points on flights and prepaid hotels booked at Amextravel.com You will get one point for each dollar charged for an eligible purchase on your Business Platinum Card ® from American Express.

Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card and Business Credit Card holders can earn 4 points per dollar spent on United Airlines airfare when booking directly with the airline.

The Business Platinum Card ® from American Express OPEN earns 5X points per dollar when booking flights through American Express Travel.

If you purchase Airbnb gift cards at Staples with the Chase Ink Business Cash Card, you will earn 5X Ultimate Rewards points and 1X SkyMile per every dollar on your bookings.

You could then use the 100,000 miles, plus taxes and fees, to book a round - trip business class award trip to Europe, which might retail for a few thousand dollars.

American Express Platinum and Business Platinum cardholders can now earn five Membership Rewards points per dollar spent with airlines booked either directly or through the travel portal on the Amex website.