Authors:Peter Conti, David Finkel,
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Keywords: cash, credit, foreclosures, investing, money, making
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-08-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0793173655
ISBN-13: 9780793173655

Life can be tough for real estate professionals these days. Even with interest rates at historically low levels, the uncertain economy makes homeowners hesitant to relocate or trade up. There just aren’t that many clients out there, and the few who exist generate fierce competition. In fact, it seems the single ""hot area"" is foreclosures. But that’s not necessarily bad news. Conti and Finkel’s book is a good ""crash course"" for real estate brokers and agents wanting to understand this area and explains the intricacies involved in funding investment deals, using various bu

Authors:Peter Conti, David Finkel,
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Keywords: banks, rehab, projects, tenants, estate, money, investing, real, making
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0793154154
ISBN-13: 9780793154159

People who have followed the authors model have bought and sold more than $100 million in real estate over the past ten years. Making great deals in real estate is one of the surest paths to financial and investment success. But with real estate, it s all too easy to get bogged down with concerns about rehabbing, tenants, or bank financing. While the standard methods of investing-flipping, rehabbing, and landlording-can be effective, alternative strategies can create a much quicker positive cash flow. In Making Big Money Investing in Real Estate without Tenants, Banks, or Rehab Project

Author: Dave Stein
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Keywords: win, sale, second, competition, outsell, proven, strategies, winners
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0793185696
ISBN-13: 9780793185696

It has become a buyers world. Salespeople are faced with a proliferation of competitors, commoditization of their products and services, reduced customer budgets, and more complex and longer customer buying cycles. In addition, the endless flow of information available to their prospects over the Internet make them far less dependent on the salesperson for solutions, even further limiting access to decision makers. How do salespeople transform themselves into savvy professionals who can be counted on to continue to win business even under these tough, seemingly insurmountable conditions? A

Author: Eric Yaverbaum
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Keywords: management, reveal, strategies, made, companies, executives, top, secrets, world, successful, ceos, leadership
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0793180619
ISBN-13: 9780793180615

Who knows what it really takes to be an effective leader in today’s business world? The most successful CEOs do. They are the men and women who run the #1 or #2 corporation in their industry or market niche. Leadership is such a vital skill that four out of ten U.S. corporations now have some sort of formal leadership training program in place, says public relations executive Eric Yaverbaum. His new book, Leadership Secrets of the World’s Most Successful CEOs, consists of exclusive interviews with top executives discussing the proven strategies, philosophies, and tactics they us

Author: George Thompson
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Keywords: stock, traveling, direction, unless, play, street, don
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0793179262
ISBN-13: 9780793179268

Although the investment landscape has been fairly bleak recently, there are ways to stay involved in the financial scene without losing your shirt. Don’t Play in the Street describes one way-a stock selection system, WizeTRADE™, developed by financial wizard George Thompson. Thompson outlines the WizeTRADE™ method, along with his views on Wall Street, his stock selection strategy, and his tested trend analysis approach. Wary investors who feel clueless will soon learn how to understand stock positions, so they can make shrewd investment choices and prudently timed transaction

Author: Michael F. Corbett
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Keywords: right, sense, makes, revolution, outsourcing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0793192145
ISBN-13: 9780793192144

Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a $6 trillion global industry involving thousands of companies and millions of employees. Business process outsourcing (BPO) is one of the very few business tools available to managers with the power to fundamentally transform their organizations. Done on a global scale, BPO enables companies to simultaneously reengineer their existing operations, create a more flexible and adaptable organizational structure, and tap the best minds in the world to create an innovation explosion. For the first time ever, BPO’s best-known expert and p

Authors:Maria Bailey, Bonnie Ulman,
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Keywords: generation, mothers, new, marketing, dollars, moms, trillion
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1419504576
ISBN-13: 9781419504570

Mothers are the most powerful consumers in the United States today. But to obtain a portion of the $17 trillion+ spent by moms, authors Maria Bailey and Bonnie Ulman say marketers must recognize the power of mothers, appreciate the time they put into selecting a product, and understand what it means to be a mom today. It’s a far cry from years past. Recent Census results indicate that the mom market has dramatically changed. In Trillion-Dollar Moms, Bailey and Ulman provide background information and analysis of today’s multigenerational moms, revealing original research findings