42 Rules

What’s it about?

42 Rules of Social Media for Small Business is the modern survival guide to effective social media communications and the answer to the question, “what do I do with social media?” Written by communications professional Jennifer L. Jacobson, this book is designed to help entrepreneuring professionals use social media to propel their business and get the most out of their social presence. From networking communication to social branding, 42 Rules of Social Media for Small Business addresses specific rules of engagement, as well as the fundamental approach to online, as opposed to traditional, media.

As part of the 42 Rules series, this social media book is designed to quickly and effectively equip business professionals with the tools they need to grow an effective customer community through social media, that translates into customer loyalty, excitement for the brand, and return business that eventually generates a dedicated customer base and increased revenue. 42 Rules of Social Media for Small Business demystifies social media and teaches readers why social media is important to their business and how they can maximize their social media effectiveness.

Jennifer L. Jacobson is a communications professional who drives public relations and social media for Retrevo.com, one of the largest consumer electronics shopping and review sites in the world.

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42 Rules of Cold Calling Executives is an easy-to-read sales book that gives concise, easy to implement methods to get results with cold calls. Many sales professionals find that part of their job difficult and unpleasant, yet the 42 Rules give them ways to redesign their thinking, approach, practices, and tools to get the best possible results.

If you are part of sales management looking to give your team something to help them with cold calling challenges or are an account rep wanting better results, this book is for you. In it, you will learn and explore:

• Easy to implement methods to improve performance
• Real life examples of what works
• Techniques for immediately making cold calling easier
• Ways to deliver consistent results
• How to get out of a production slump

This book contains some of the fundamental principles author Mari Anne Vanella has developed over the course of her career. Her clients and her own company use this approach to execute the top performing programs in the industry for the past seven years.

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“Mari Anne’s book serves as a useful and clearly written guide for both sales teams and management. The process of calling executives, understanding their pain points, what their needs are, and capturing their attention to share your services and stories is a delicate one. Mari Anne shares insight and guidelines that only an experienced and confident professional can do well. What are IT executives concerned with everyday? What are the needs of enterprise technology companies? As a sales professional, how do you build your pipeline with new opportunities? Understanding these questions, the full buy cycle process, and most importantly – how human psychology plays a role in business and sales is vital. “42 Rules of Cold Calling Executives” should be a reference book on every sales/lead gen. professional’s desk.” Maria Ross, Founder Red Radish Marketing

“Mari Anne’s Rules are practical, well thought out and show her obvious breadth of experience. She is very good at pointing out how a salesperson with any level of telephone experience can apply strengths that they might have in everyday interactions to becoming a more effective cold caller.” Garth Moulton Co-Founder, VP of Community Jigsaw

“Our research shows that lead generation and early identification of buying cycles are top challenges for companies today. The Vanella Group has been successfully meeting these challenges for its high-tech clients for the past 7 years. Mari Anne Vanella now shares the rules she’s developed and her company follows to ensure success in this critical area of sales.” Barry Trailer Managing Partner CSO Insights

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Here’s a small sample of the actionable content in this book:

Rule 6 Gather Prospects from Prospects
Rule 16 See Every Project from The Prospect’s Perspective
Rule 30 How to Troubleshoot Your Calling?

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42 Rules of Product Management is a collection of product management wisdom from forty experts from around the world. With over five hundred years of combined hands-on product management and product marketing experience, the authors Brian Lawley and Greg Cohen each shares one rule that they think is critical to know to succeed in product management. Whether you are a seasoned and experienced product manager or are just starting out, ’42 Rules of Product Management’ will help you lead with greater effectiveness and influence.

Packed with pearls of product management wisdom, this management book has something for everyone. Best of all, it was written with the busy product manager in mind. Each rule is kept to two pages and designed to stand-on its own. They can be read in any order. In less than five minutes a day, you can learn from forty of the best product managers in the world.

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“If you asked me to place decades of product management experience in a box, this book is what you will find under the lid. The 42 Rules of Product Management is truly a unique compendium of practical product management advice from proven professionals in their field. If you are seeking commercial success for a product or service, the 42 Rules of Product Management will navigate you around numerous pitfalls encountered along the way, including the barriers that are often self-induced.” Michael J. Salerno, Co-founder, Boston Product Management Association

“42 Rules of Product Management is a very straight-forward, easy and fun read. There is nothing more elegant and simple than asking fellow product managers to share their ideas and capture it all for future reference. It’s a book that everyone is going to want to have within reach.” Therese Padilla, President Association of International Product Marketing & Management

“Brian and Greg have shown tremendous leadership by bringing together talented Product Management professionals to share their thoughts, opinions and passion for Product Management. This book shows that the global Product Management community is alive and actively growing.” Lisa Simons, Senior Product Development Consultant, brainmates

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Here’s a small sample of the actionable content in this book:

Rule 2 Work on Products You Are Passionate About
Rule 4 Think Like an Entrepreneur
Rule 5 Learn to Say “No” to Customers

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Doing business in China is tougher than you think. Not only is the culture vastly different, but China’s experience in manufacturing is still developing. It will be a few years before the majority of manufacturers are up to world standards. In the meantime, quality, contract laws, schedules and logistics must be closely monitored. As a result, the things Westerners must do to be successful are far different from dealing with American or European manufacturers. The best way to quickly come up to speed on these differences and how to handle them is to learn from the experience of others. Through over 20 extraordinary executive interviews, Rosemary Coates captured the essence of sourcing and manufacturing in China. 42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China is a management book with a pragmatic approach that every businessperson headed to China must read.

For business people who are experienced in doing business in China, or for first-time visitors, this book will provide valuable insights from real executives and experts. These executives offer their personal experiences and recommendations about sourcing and manufacturing in China. Going beyond simple cultural do’s and don’ts, you will discover:

• How business is really done
• How you can make things happen in China
• The mistakes westerners often make, and how to avoid them
• What made these executives successful

Based on her 25 years of supply chain experience, much of it spent living and working across Asia, author Rosemary Coates has become an expert on doing business in China. Her own personal experiences in China are interwoven into this book.

What they’re saying

“Today I read “42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China” by Rosemary Coates, a businesswoman with over 20 years experience in international trade in Asia. Why would I be interested in reading such a book? Two reasons:

1) Economic growth in China is exploding. It represents an abundant resource of cheap labor / materials and there is tremendous opportunity there.

2) I am currently working on manufacturing glow-in-the-dark key caps (marketed to women, so they can find their keys in their purse). After presenting RFQs to factories both in the US and abroad, it became clear that Chinese factories offer way cheaper prices, at least for injection molding-related stuff. But I also realized that there was a lot of stuff I didn’t know: and like I say, it’s worst to get screwed by not knowing what you don’t know. This book helped me realize a lot of what I don’t know.

Coates highlights the importance of understanding cultural differences between the Chinese and Americans. The Chinese culture is somewhat paradoxical, its heritage a mix of Communist and Confucianism.” Read the entire review at Zachary Burt’s Blog

What’s in the book.

Rule 7 Expect the Unexpected—Betty’s Story
Rule 14 Find Multiple Suppliers
Rule 41 Do’s and Don’ts Are Helpful to Know

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For 200,000 years, human beings have moved back and forth between I-Centric and We-Centric societies. Time and again, we’ve seen the “I to WE” pendulum swing. Yet, history has shown us that societies that prospered, withstood adversity, and created real and lasting advancements understood the power of Creating WE.

Currently, most organizations today operate in an “I” paradigm. In this arena, we keep score – “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine.” We are taught to control our needs and emotions because they are destructive—logic prevails. We are punished for making mistakes and we hide our thoughts for fear of losing our power or status. In a WE paradigm, things are different.

In this leadership book, 42 Rules for Creating WE offers new insights from thought leaders in neuroscience, organizational development, and brand strategy, introducing groundbreaking practices for bringing the spirit of WE to any organization, team or cause. In the book, readers learn how to:

• Shatter Old Paradigms
• Understand What Moves People
• Foster Integrity, Candor and Caring
• Create Worlds with Words

Each of these concepts contains a set of timeless guidelines, practices and tools for becoming a WE-Centric leader and fostering dramatic improvements in productivity, engagement, and focus. Leaders who have the courage to explore these new concepts will begin to see more productive norms emerge in their organizations. They will see people working together toward common goals, energetically and enthusiastically. And that’s when the real magic happens.

42 Rules for Creating WE is written by The Creating WE Institute, an international group of critical thinkers with multi-disciplinary expertise, who have come together to harvest new forms of engagement and innovation in the workplace. The Creating WE Institute’s mission is bring a spirit of WE to organizations currently operating as a group of I’s.

What they’re saying.

“It took Napoleon Hill nearly 25 years to write ‘Think and Grow Rich,’ his legendary guidebook for individual success. Judith E. Glaser and her Creating WE Institute colleagues took a lot less time to write today’s greatest guide for team success, and it will soon be read by 6,200 Burberry employees worldwide.” Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry

“One of the most pleasing and captivating aspects of music is the ability to identify and bring together sounds that when heard individually would appear lacking and discordant into a beautiful and complete harmony. In 42 Rules for Creating WE, leaders will learn how to listen for these different sounds and how they can use them to bring about the harmonization of their organization into a beautiful and complete WE.” Nile Rodgers, CEO We are Family Foundation; Composer; Music Producer

“42 Rules’ is a handy collection of relationship gems—whenever you feel stuck in a relationship and wonder how to get unstuck, pick up this treasure trove and find the gem of insight that provides a roadmap for getting unstuck.” Dr. Pierce J. Howard, Author, The Owner’s Manual for the Brain

What’s in the book.

Here’s a small sample of the actionable content in this book:

Rule 3 Be Selfish to Become Selfless
Rule 15 Be Consciously Contagious
Rule 30 Support Others in Recognizing Needs

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Do you know how to use LinkedIn to achieve your business goals? There are millions of registered users on LinkedIn. Relatively few of them seem to have any real understanding of how to effectively use LinkedIn. With registered users on LinkedIn projected to grow to 70 million by the end of 2009, business professionals are searching for ways to leverage this new communication medium. Although Social Networking is exploding, there are very few resources that teach what users are craving – solutions to increase their desired business success.

42 Rules to 24-Hour Success on LinkedIn is a user-friendly guidebook designed to help you leverage the power of LinkedIn to build visibility, make connections and support your brand. There is a theory that everyone in the world is connected by no more than 6 people. You know who you are, but who else in this socially-networked world knows you?  This career book can help you answer those questions and more.

Author Chris Muccio is an award-winning entrepreneur who draws upon insightful experiences from his successful career in Corporate America to guide business leaders on the most effective strategies to uncover profit and growth opportunities resulting in rapid and sustainable improvements within their business.

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“’42 Rules to 24 Hour Success on LinkedIn’ provides straightforward, common sense advice on how to get the most out of LinkedIn – the most popular social networking site for busy professionals. In this compact book, Chris, David and Peggy show you what to do to leverage the power of social networking on LinkedIn. And they do it in an easy to use, enjoyable read. If you want to build a network of likeminded professionals, you need to be on LinkedIn. If you’re on LinkedIn you need to read 42 Rules to 24 Hour Success on LinkedIn.” Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy, Bestselling author of ‘Straight Talk for Success’

“These 42 Rules provide entrepreneurs, corporations and job seekers with gems of advice and are the perfect resource to make sense of how you can generate success with LinkedIn. For new users, it is provides a terrific overview and for experienced users, it is a great reminder of the things you may know intuitively but may have forgotten in the rush of our hectic schedules.” Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid & The Contrarian Effect

“The book is a very practical, yet easy and fun read. It is impressive in its clarity presenting the various aspects for generating 24-hour success on LinkedIn without the typical hype. You will come away understanding the core business principles driving your LinkedIn success.” Mitch Meyerson, Founder of Guerrilla Marketing Coaching and author of Mastering Online Marketing

What’s in the book.

Here’s a small sample of the actionable content in this book:

Rule 3 Get LinkedIn or Get Left Out?
Rule 8 Communicate Constantly Without Being Annoying
Rule 39 Separate Professional from Personal

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