Favorite Books

Spending most of your time at work putting out fires? Frustrated with employees who don’t do the job properly? Tired of your phone blowing up with questions and crises whenever you try to get away? In The 7-Power Contractor, former contractor and contracting business expert Al Levi lays out seven simple business powers that hundreds of owners have applied successfully to run their businesses with less stress and more success. In these audiobook, you will learn about the seven power concepts – planning and leadership, operating, financial, staffing, selling, marketing, and sales coaching – you can use to run your business better. You will also hear from other contractors about how their application of these concepts faithfully and consistently over time empowered them to transform their businesses and their lives forever. If you are ready to create a business you can run with less stress and more success, this audiobook is for you.

They Ask, You Answer is a straightforward guide filled with practical tactics and insights for transforming your marketing strategy. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the evolution of content marketing and the increasing demands of today’s internet-savvy buyers. New chapters explore the impact of technology, conversational marketing, the essential elements every business website should possess, the rise of video, and new stories from companies that have achieved remarkable results with They Ask, You Answer.

How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota’s worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.

Ben Stark and Chris Hunter encourage you to begin a life-changing and transformational journey. Whether you are a first-time owner or a seasoned vet, the challenges of a home-service business can be overwhelming. Ben and Chris meet these challenges head on with the battle-tested advice and proven techniques that built their multi-million-dollar companies. With help from Dave Rothacker, Ben and Chris share powerful strategies and experiences that will motivate, strengthen and transform your business and life. The time is now. Don’t wait another minute.

Video can help you close the deal in a virtual world and this book from award winning marketer and author Marcus Sheridan will show you how. With practical advice and step by step instructions, this is the ultimate guide to selling over video – no matter how much you hate watching yourself on the screen. More than ever before, buyers and consumers are demanding for more video. Just “reading” about a product, service, or company will no longer do the trick. Today, they must “see” it. Notwithstanding this increased demand for video, most businesses and organizations have struggled to quickly adapt. In fact, many have no idea as to how or where to get started. For this purpose, The Visual Sale was written. Finally, businesses and organizations have a clear guide that will literally show them, in simple, clear, and actionable terms, exactly how they can build a culture of video and start “showing it” moving forward, ultimately leading to a dramatic improvement to their sales numbers, marketing strategy, and overall customer experience.

Imagine going to bed one night, then to awaken the next morning in a strange house with no idea of how you got there. Only this house doesn’t belong to just anyone – it belongs to you… a wildly successful future version of the person you might one day become, providing you are willing to start doing one simple thing.Before the weekend is over Eric will learn…

• What it takes to outperform 92% of the world’s salespeople.
• That failing and being a “failure” are two very different things.
• A whole new way to set goals that’s simple, fun, and gets results.
• Why it’s important to celebrate success and failure.
• The five failure levels and how to progress through them.
• How to get past failure and rejection quickly and then move on.
• And that the most empowering word in the world is not yes… it’s NO!

These lessons are destined to change the way he thinks, the way he sells, and the way he lives forever.