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Salesforce for dummies / Kao, Liz
Salesforce
Salesforce gives your business an edge in tracking relationships and managing sales, marketing, customer service, and support operations. Salesforce For Dummies help you take advantage of key platform functionality and focus on making the most of its many features. Learn best practices to determine the right configuration to suit your business needs, and how to use apps, build widgets, and configure features to personalize your system for your business. Explore prospecting for leads, managing accounts, maintaining contacts, tracking products, calculating forecasts, and monitoring each customer's service and support interactions with your business. Collaborate with colleagues by sharing information across a 360-degree view of all customer interactions, enhance your online marketing, gain real-time visibility into sales, and close deals faster.

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Selling the dream : the billion-dollar industry bankrupting Americans / Marie, Jane (Journalist)
"Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet. When factories close, stalwart industries shutter, and blue-collar opportunities evaporate, MLMs are there, ready to pounce on the crumbling American Dream. MLMs thrive in rural areas and on military bases, targeting women with promises of being their own boss and millions of dollars in easy income-even at the risk of their entire life savings. But the vast majority-99.7%-of those who join an MLM make no money or lose money, and wind up stuck with inventory they can't sell to recoup their losses. Featuring in-depth reporting and intimate research, Selling the Dream reveals how these companies-often owned by political and corporate elites, such as the Devos and the Van Andels families-have made a windfall in profit off of the desperation of the American working class"--

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Stock investing for Canadians / by Andrew Dagys. / Dagys, Andrew
Stock investing for Canadians for dummies
The updated guide to investing in any kind of market environment Stock Investing For Canadians For Dummies keeps you current as the Canadian stock market, industry, and tax laws go through a series of critical changes. Inside, you'll find expert tips and advice on how to navigate flat, thriving, or declining markets. Plus, this friendly, just-for-Canadians guide will help you minimize risk and maximize your investment returns. This latest edition also covers independent online brokers and robo-advisor services, so you can weigh all your options. With up-to-date references and resources, this book is the most reliable guide for the new stock market investor. Stock Investing For Dummies is perfect for readers new to investing in the stock market who are looking for a comprehensive guide to making sure their investments grow.

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The 32 unbreakable laws of money and success : transform your life and unlock your unlimited potential / Tracy, Brian
"Author of Eat that Frog! shows how to develop the best mindset for success and offers practical tools to reach financial potential"--

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The blocksize war / Bier, Jonathan
Blocksize war :
"This book covers Bitcoin's blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017. On the surface the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each Bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls Bitcoin's protocol rules. It is not possible to cover every twist and turn in the labyrinthine conflict or all the arguments, but I have provided a chronology of the most significant events. This book explores some of the major characters in the conflict and includes coverage, from both the front lines and behind the scenes, during some of the most acute phases of the struggle. The account in this book includes discussions with the key players from both sides during the war, exploring their motivations, strategy and thought processes as the exhausting campaign progressed and developed"--

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The diary of a CEO : the 33 laws of business and life / Bartlett, Steven
"At the very heart of all the success and failure I've been exposed to - both my own entrepreneurial journey and through the thousands of interviews I've conducted on my chart-topping podcast - are a set of principles that ensure excellence. These fundamental laws underpinned my meteoric rise, and they will fuel yours too, whether you want to build something great or become someone great. The laws are rooted in psychology and behavioral science, in my own experiences, and those of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, entertainers, artists, writers, and athletes, who I've interviewed on my podcast. These laws will stand the test of time and will help anyone master their life and unleash their potential, no matter the field." --

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The family bank : the key to generational wealth : how to combat privilege and promote accountability with your family and others / Nebeker, John H.
Key to generational wealth :
For most people, qualifying for a loan isn't a very pleasant experience: banks and financial institutions demand your highly sensitive information but may not know you or your values. Your family members and loved ones, on the other hand, care deeply about you and have a personal interest in your success. What if they were able to provide you with the financing you needed, and at a fraction of the interest other financial institutions would charge? And what if there were proper boundaries to prevent money from hurting your relationships and instead actually strengthen them? Learn how some of the wealthiest families in history have prepared and ensured the financial success of their descendants for hundreds of years through The Family Bank. Its principles and practices are scalable to any amount of wealth and any family, and you can leave the same legacy.

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The four pillars of investing : lessons for building a winning portfolio / Bernstein, William J.
This new edition of the bestselling guide brings sophisticated investors-including institutional and individual investors, investment bankers, and those who want to follow in the footsteps of legends like John Bogle -- up to date on ETFs, risk management, neuropsychological investing concepts, and more.

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The price of tomorrow : why deflation is the key to an abundant future / Booth, Jeff.
We live in an extraordinary time. Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them, and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we cannot afford to stand still. These advances bring efficiency and abundance -- and they are profoundly deflationary. Our economic systems were built for a pre-technology era when labour and capital were inextricably linked, an era that counted on growth and inflation, an era where we made money from inefficiency. That era is over, but we keep on pretending that those economic systems still work. The only thing driving growth in the world today is easy credit, which is being created at a pace that is hard to comprehend-and with it, debt that we will never be able to pay back. As we try to artificially drive an economic system built for the past, we are creating more than just economic trouble. On our current path, our world will become profoundly more polarized and unsafe. We need to build a new framework for our local and global economies, and soon; we need to accept deflation and embrace the abundance it can bring. Otherwise, the same technology that has the power to bring abundance to us and our world will instead destroy it. In this extraordinary contrarian book, Jeff Booth, a leading mind and CEO in e-commerce and technology for 20 years, details the technological and economic realities shaping our present and our future, and the choices we face as we go forward-a potentially alarming, but deeply hopeful situation.

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Your next five moves : master the art of business strategy / Bet-David, Patrick.
Master the art of business strategy
"Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David "helps entrepreneurs understand exactly what they need to do next" (Brian Tracy, author of Eat That Frog!) by translating this skill into a valuable methodology. Whether you feel like you've hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers." --Publisher's website.

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