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Narrated by Donald Miller.

New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses.

Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides readers with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching readers the seven universal story points all humans respond to; the real reason customers make purchases; how to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and how to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion-dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.

Building A Story Brand

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Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller | Chapter One

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Narrated by the author, John Maxwell.

In this thoroughly revised and updated 25th-anniversary edition of his now-classic work, John C. Maxwell reveals how to develop the vision, value, influence, and motivation required of successful leaders.

Twenty-five years ago, John Maxwell published the book that forever transformed how we think about leadership. Developing the Leader Within You revolutionized the way leaders are made and in the process sold more than one million copies. Now John Maxwell returns to his classic text to include the leadership insights and practices he's learned in the decades since the book first appeared. Thoroughly revised and with two completely new chapters, this new edition updates the foundational principles for transformative leadership that Maxwell has used as a leader for more than 40 years. No matter what arena you are called to - family, church, business, nonprofit - the principles Maxwell shares will positively impact your own life and the lives of those around you. New listeners as well as longtime fans of Maxwell and the original book won't want to miss out on this one.

DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU 2.0 by John C. Maxwell

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Narrated by Van Tracy.

The founder and CEO of leading sales strategy consulting firm Sales Architects teaches business owners, executives, and salespeople how to win more deals at the prices they want by creating differentiation in the sales process.

"If we don't drop our price, we will lose the deal." That's the desperate cry sales management executives are accustomed to hearing from their salespeople. While the easy answer is to drop the price, the company sacrifices margin - oftentimes, unnecessarily.

To win deals at the prices you want, the needed strategy is differentiation. Most executives think marketing is the sole source of differentiation, but sales differentiation presents an untapped opportunity to create meaningful value and stand out from the competition.

Sales Differentiation presents 19 easy-to-implement concepts to help salespeople win deals while protecting margin. These concepts are applicable to any salesperson in any industry and are based on the foundation that how you sell, not just what you sell, differentiates you.

The audiobook's what you sell section helps salespeople and executives identify what their true differentiators are, determine the right circumstances to share them, and develop a strategy to position them in a compelling way with buyers.

In every stage of the seller-buyer interaction, opportunities exist for differentiation in how you sell, such as how to creatively get in the door with buyers who say they are happy, shape buyer decision criteria aligned with your differentiators, turn a buyer's request for references into a way to stand out from the competition, and much more!

Mediocre salespeople say what they sell is the "best". Top salespeople position "different" and lead their clients to say "best" without them ever uttering the word.

SALES DIFFERENTIATION by Lee B. Salz

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Narrated by Stu Gray.

Learn how your start-up business can benefit through early-stage investment, sales revenue, or partnership by identifying and aligning with corporate innovation initiatives within larger companies.

Corporations are becoming desperate to change their culture (and perception) as giant, bureaucratic dinosaurs that are too slow to react in a rapidly changing business landscape. They are all trying to be more innovative and agile, more "start-up like". One of the easy ways to do this is through acquiring or partnering with a start-up. While it was once rare to find a large corporation listed among shareholders on a start-up cap table, corporate venture capital (CVC) now makes up 25 percent (about $18 billion) of all venture capital dollars in North America. To tap into this growing source of capital, start-ups need to understand how corporations operate and what they are looking to gain in these relationships.

The Startup Gold Mine reveals how the world's largest and most prestigious brands make innovation decisions, including new product launches, vendor/start-up partnerships, and even billion-dollar acquisitions - and how start-ups can take advantage of corporate's strengths and weaknesses to their benefit. Author Neil Soni draws on his experience as an entrepreneur and in external innovation with premier brands like Estée Lauder, MAC, and Smashbox to share the hidden inner workings of large companies as well as how start-up founders and employees can use this knowledge to close the biggest deals of their lives. 

If you've ever wanted to learn how some start-up founders manage to partner with a brand like UnderArmour, get acquired by a behemoth like General Motors, or sell their services to Bacardi, The Startup Gold Mine shares all that and much more, including: 

* How to understand who your large company counterpart is, what they are incentivized to do, and how to get them to take actions that benefit your start-up
* Why the "Innovator's Dilemma" is leading large companies to seek out insurance policies that come in the form of partnerships with start-ups
* A complete start-to-finish playbook for getting a deal done with a large company, from first connection to getting paid
* A troubleshooting guide for common land mines start-ups run into when trying to work with large companies
* How to navigate the convoluted corporate innovation landscape without blowing a fortune on conferences and consultants

The Startup Gold Mine

THE STARTUP GOLD MINE by Neil Soni

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Narrated by Van Tracy.

Wow your customers . . . with "less." Cut costs - it's a common corporate refrain. But if you constantly slash expenditures, what happens to innovation? How can you stay competitive and satisfy customers? Costovation solves the dilemma of how to spend less and innovate more. 

The audiobook's revolutionary approach broadens the definition of innovation beyond products to the business model itself. With costovation, you let go of assumptions, take a fresh look at the market, and relentlessly focus on what customers really want. Consider Planet Fitness - it grew to 7.3 million members by concentrating on casual exercisers. Those folks don't care about frills. They want easy, low-cost access to good equipment. Although it's inexpensive to run, Planet Fitness ranks highest in gym satisfaction. Gourmet grocer, Picard, sells only frozen food. With less perishable inventory, they compress costs while delighting a discerning but busy clientele. 

Packed with examples and interactive exercises, the book explores cost innovation strategies that work for big and small companies alike. From open innovation and cost-sharing to simplifying products and turning waste into new offerings - listeners learn how rivals are carving out niches, protecting positions, and dominating industries. Innovation and cost-cutting are not opposites. Combined, they expose untapped opportunities to outsmart and underspend competitors.

COSTOVATION by Stephen Wunker

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How bad do you want it? (Success) That is the question posed by Eric Thomas in what is probably one of the most inspirational speeches recited. "How Bad Do You Want It?" Is the speech that put Eric Thomas, "The Hip-Hop Preacher," on the map.

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In the second part of this special edition Nihal Arthanayake chooses some more clips from a selection of his favourite episodes. This includes why Nigella Lawson has to travel with tea bags, how Jonathan Coe became a warm-up act on a cruise ship, and why Andrew Hunter Murray was inspired by a dog at Slough Railway Station.#PenguinPodcast

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Listen to an excerpt from THE SIRTFOOD DIET by Aidan Goggins and Glen Matten and read by Sean Patrick Hopkins

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Includes an audiobook-exclusive bonus track: "The 10 Unbreakable Rules of Networking"

Finally - a networking book for introverts!

The sequel to Pollard’s international best seller The Introvert’s Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone, selected by Book Authority as the number two “Best Introvert Book of All Time” and listed by HubSpot as one of the “Most Highly-Rated Sales Books of All Time”.

Introverts across the world have been sold a lie: One of the biggest myths that plagues the business world today is that our ability to network depends on having the “gift of gab”. This is nonsense. You don’t have to be outgoing to be successful at networking. You don’t have to become a relentless self-promoter. In fact, you don’t have to act like an extrovert at all. The truth is, introverts make the best networkers...when armed with a plan that lets them be their authentic selves.

Matthew Pollard, an introvert himself, draws on more than a decade of research and real-world examples to provide an actionable blueprint for introverted networking. In this paradigm-shifting book, you’ll discover how to:

* Overcome your fear and discomfort when networking
* Turn networking into a repeatable system
* Leverage your innate introverted strengths
* Have people hanging on your every word
* Target and connect with top influencers
* Leverage the power of virtual and social networking 

Whether you’re a small-business owner struggling to make a living or a professional who’s hit a career plateau, The Introvert’s Edge to Networking is your path to a higher income and a rolodex of powerful connections.

The Introvert's Edge to Networking

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THE INTROVERT'S EDGE TO NETWORKING by Matthew Pollard

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Aymius Todd is trapped in a police interrogation. They want to know about his links to the Garrulous Liberation, and his encounter with a man called the Doctor. But, Aymius is running out of words, and if he can’t afford to finish his story, then he’ll never be able to speak again.

Winner of the The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity 2020

Written by Eugenie Pusenjak
Narrated by Jacob Dudman
Cover Art by Mark Plastow
Director Nicholas Briggs
Executive Producer Jason Haigh-Ellery & Nicholas Briggs
Music Richard Fox @ FoxYason Studios
Producer Alfie Shaw
Script Editor Alfie Shaw
Sound Design Richard Fox @ FoxYason Studios

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Read by Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, & Robin Miles

“In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only exceeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history.” –President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Honor ceremony

"Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by His hand. And here in my ninth decade, I am a woman who, at long last, has something meaningful to say.” –Cicely Tyson

JUST AS I AM by Cicely Tyson

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THE INTROVERT'S EDGE TO NETWORKING by Matthew Pollard

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