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Book Description

When bad credit happens to good people.

Once someone's personal financial credit goes bad, it can be a difficult process to bring it back into good standing. This guide shows consumers how to repair their credit, increase their credit score, and avoid falling victim to the instant credit repair industry and its fraudulent claims and scams.

• Research by the Federal Reserve indicates that household debt and personal bankruptcy filings are at record high levels
• Only book on the shelves to include coverage of the The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act, which goes into effect 12/1/2004
• Author has been featured in Money, Family Circle, and Women's Day, and has appeared on CNBC and CNN

Customer Reviews:

Excellent introduction to credit repair but outdated.......2006-12-15

This is an excellent introduction to credit repair but the information is highly condensed. The website recommendation for secured credit cards is out of date, as the website cited does not list any such cards. A great book if you have little time to study the subject in depth. It covers most of the basics of credit and getting out of debt.

Common Cents: The Money in Your Pocket (My Money) (My Money)

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Common Cents: The Money in your Pocket {My Money} {My Money}

Common Cents: The Money in Your Pocket (My Money) (My Money)
Gerry Bailey , and Felicia Law
Manufacturer: Compass Point Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Personal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Ages 9-12 | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

Business & Money | Reference & Nonfiction | Children's Books | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0756516714

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Common Cents: The Money in your Pocket {My Money} {My Money}.......2007-05-06

I used this book for a teaching reference. I am a Edcuation major in College at the elementary level. It was very useful.

Keep Your Hands Out of My Pocket: Strategies to Get More for Your Money

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An instructional guide for budget conscious consumers
You want this Guy with you when you buy your next Car!

Keep Your Hands Out of My Pocket: Strategies to Get More for Your Money
Robert E. Tevis
Manufacturer: iUniverse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Negotiating | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Budgeting & Money Management | Personal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Personal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Purchasing & Buying | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Consumer Guides | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0595283004

Book Description

You can save hundreds, even thousands of dollars the next time you go shopping.

Whether you are shopping for a car or consumer electronics, you are going to run into professional salespeople. They are trained and ready to reach right into your pocket and take your money for the things you want.

Are you ready to meet them or are you still an amateur buyer?

You can learn the skills to stand up to the professionals and keep more of your money.

From his experience with salespeople in Fortune 500 companies and his own personal successes, Robert E. Tevis presents you with key negotiation concepts and techniques to turn you into a threat to the professionals. Even if you have never bargained before, you can use these simple and effective techniques to get more for your money.

It's your money. Don't you want to keep it?

Customer Reviews:

An instructional guide for budget conscious consumers.......2004-05-05

Expertly written by Robert E. Tevis (an experienced businessman who knows the techniques of salespeople in Fortune 500 companies), Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket: Strategies To Get More For Your Money is a straightforward and "user friendly" instructional guide for budget conscious consumers whether they are shopping for everyday bargains or making large purchases such an automobile. Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket clearly outlines the tips, tricks, and techniques that professional salespeople use to get the most possible money out of clients, customers and patrons. Tevis aptly teaches the reader a complete roster of basic skills for standing up to pressure, misdirection, and other sales tactics. Simply put, Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket is a superbly organized, deftly presented, and very highly recommended financial self defense guide.

You want this Guy with you when you buy your next Car!.......2004-03-11

A quick, enjoyable and incredibly utilitarian read. Trevis, a bonafide expert on sales from the other side of aisle, exposes some secrets that salesman use to coax unlikely buyers into spending more. He walks you through the process of being an expert negotiator even with the pushiest of salesman. Trevis preaches, be polite but firm and above all an educated buyer. Pretty much common sense. But Trevis masterfully puts it all together. Then he goes way beyond that to offer clever tactics for saying "no," advice on how to stoically manage your emotions during a bargaining session, and when to walk away. Loaded with amusing anecdotes of his own buying experiences with his uncle, father-in-law and other assorted family members. You want a guy like Trevis by your side when purchasing a car or some other big-ticket item. Probably not practical since he lives in New Jersey. Though no doubt purchasing his book would be the next best thing. -- Eric Dondero, Author, Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book & Vacation Spanish

Tie-dye Your T-shirt (Pocket-money Projects)

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Tie-dye Your T-shirt (Pocket-money Projects)
Moira Butterfield
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Fashion | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0747529442

10 tax strategies to put money into your pocket.: An article from: Arkansas Business

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10 tax strategies to put money into your pocket.: An article from: Arkansas Business

Manufacturer: Journal Publishing, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on December 8, 2003. The length of the article is 1034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: 10 tax strategies to put money into your pocket.
Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 8, 2003
Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 20 Issue: 49 Page: 15(2)

Distributed by Thomson Gale

100 Ways to Save Energy & Money in the Home (tips on how you can stretch canada's energy resources and put money in your pocket)

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100 Ways to Save Energy & Money in the Home (tips on how you can stretch canada's energy resources and put money in your pocket)

Manufacturer: Universal Printers Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0662016378

The Dawn Of Brighter Days: Slashes Debt-puts Money In Your Pocket

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The Dawn Of Brighter Days: Slashes Debt-puts Money In Your Pocket
Richard Russell Lawrence
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Personal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1418419699

Essential Tax Facts 2006 Edition: Simple ways to put more money in your pocket...at tax time, and all year long.

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Essential Tax Facts 2006 Edition: Simple ways to put more money in your pocket...at tax time, and all year long.
Evelyn Jacks
Manufacturer: Knowledge Bureau Newsbooks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Book Description

Evelyn Jacks, Canada's most trusted personal tax author has published her 36th book, the 2nd edition of Essential Tax Facts, just in time to help Canadian taxpayers with their 2005 tax returns. In her trademark, easy to read and learn style, Evelyn shows you how to get more benefits from the tax system and pay less tax in six key profiles: individuals and their families, employees, new investors, wealth preservers, the self employed and seniors. Evelyn Jacks' Essential Tax Facts, Simple Ways to Put More Money in Your pocket at Tax Time and All Year Long is a vital primer for anyone attempting to complete their own return this year. Make sure it is by your side this year to do your tax return with confidence. Learn hundreds of tax tips missed by average taxpayers in tax preparation and in planning for tax savings throughout the year. Bonus: stay up to date with Evelyn's Essential Tax Fact Sheets, available to book buyers who want to stay continuously updated via free internet access. A great way to learn to pay only the correct amount of tax—not one cent more—and channel new found tax savings into new investments and a better quality of life.

Europe in your pocket;: A step-by-step guide for easy, money saving, independent travel of Europe's most popular cities,

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Europe in your pocket;: A step-by-step guide for easy, money saving, independent travel of Europe's most popular cities,
Charles E Dawson
Manufacturer: Pocket Europe Publisher
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Europe | Travel | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006CKJG2

Book Description

Organizations are struggling to improve customer-focused quality in today's highly competitive domestic and global markets. Better design, implementation, and daily management of quality improvement strategies is essential for survival. Quality improvement principles, when thoughtfully applied and appropriately modified to meet all types of customer demands, are a sound means to respond to changing markets. However, when various quality and productivity theories and methods are applied without changing the organizational culture, it is very difficult to consistently deliver quality results.This important new book focuses on quality improvement methods for high performance in public and private services not covered in other books: applications focus on construction, education, government, insurance, public utilities, health care, and nonprofit services.Rather than detailing the technical processes to achieve inspection, planning, quality auditing, statistics, or risk assessment, this book presents step-by-step guidelines, recommendations, and action plans for changing service organizations to implement quality improvements. Sound theory and careful strategic planning are presented to assist readers in developing an understanding of how to select the essential elements of systems that best fit their customers' needs.

Improving Service Quality in the Global Economy: Achieving High Performance in Public and Private Sectors, Second Edition

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Improving Service Quality in the Global Economy: Achieving High Performance in Public and Private Sectors, Second Edition
Michael Milakovich
Manufacturer: AUERBACH
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Human Resources & Personnel Management | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Quality Control | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Public Affairs & Administration | Government | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

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ASIN: 0849338190

Book Description

Within American service sector organizations there exists a gap between understanding customer service quality improvement (QI) theories and applying them. Improving Service Quality in the Global Economy: Achieving High Performance in Public and Private Sectors, Second Edition fills that gap by presenting theory, application models, and cases of successful customer service QI efforts in both the public and private sectors. The book emphasizes the selection and development of strategies for quality improvement in regulated public non-market-driven services such as education, government, and healthcare. This revised edition promotes managerial thinking that integrates QI and Knowledge Management (KM) concepts with leadership principles that enable effective responses to the changing demands of the global economy. The text provides step-by-step guidelines, recommendations, and action plans for implementing quality improvements in service sector industries, which now generate two-thirds of America's GDP. Throughout this volume, cases of successful QI efforts in service industries complement major points in each chapter, offering profiles of global service quality leaders that serve as examples to organizations in the public sector. Current and future managers will gain insight into how the global service quality revolution effects their daily work environments, inspiring improvement in products, services, and support that American companies provide to markets worldwide.

Book Description

Following the successful Strategic Partnering Handbook, this is a concise introduction to the culture, strategy, processes, and people needed to make sustainable business relationships. The Strategic Partnering Pocketbook is the practitioner's guide to developing these long-term, strategic, interdependent, and transparent relationships. It looks at the culture, strategies, structure, processes, and people required to make these complex relationships successful, and is a concise primer for all levels of management.

The Strategic Partnering Pocketbook: Building Strategic Partnerships And Alliances

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The Strategic Partnering Pocketbook: Building Strategic Partnerships And Alliances
Tony / Macneish, Jock (ILT) Lendrum
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Book Company Australia
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGH9P4

Book Description

From its early struggles to unify in the 1880s to its organizing and political triumphs of the 1990s, the IUPAT has sought to bring a better life for its members and a better world for all working men and women. This history tells the tales of those triumphs and struggles and in looking back traces the promise of the future for today's IUPAT members and generations of members to follow. One Union: The History of the IUPAT should be required reading for all IUPAT members and for anyone who wants to understand how the American labor movement has survived to arrive and thrive in the 21st century.

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Clearly explained and very practical

Mastering Mentoring and Coaching with Emotional Intelligence: Increase Your Job EQ
Patrick E. Merlevede , and Denis Bridoux
Manufacturer: Crown House Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Human Resources & Personnel Management | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Training | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
General | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
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The Handbook of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Inspiring Others to Achieve Results

ASIN: 1904424082

Book Description

The material included in this book has emerged over several years of mentoring, coaching and training by the authors, who practice what they preach and receive feedback from clients and seminar participants.

They identified the key components of both mentoring and coaching and the need to clarify the similarities and differences between these closely related disciplines.

This book updates the areas of mentoring and coaching and integrates emotional intelligence and includes:
• Coaching and mentoring questionnaires to access skill levels
• Powerful techniques for short term and long term interventions
• Practical tips and exercises
• Strategies suitable for both mentor and coach

Customer Reviews:

Clearly explained and very practical.......2004-10-19

The authors draw from different concepts, approaches, and techniques, as well as their own, which gives a wider view, and wider choices for a mentor or coach. What distinguishes this book, from others on the subject, is that you can apply it right away, knowing exactly what you are doing and why, and knowing that it works.

This is the most balanced and practical book I have read on the subject. I've been an international coach and mentor since 1983. If you are a mentor or a coach, get this book - you will learn something. If you want to get into the mentoring or coaching profession, this will be your shortcut to excellence. If you are simply curious about the subject with no special career plan, this will tell you all you need to know about mentoring and coaching. If you are looking for a mentor or coach, it will spell out what you should be looking for - how to recognize quality.

Book Description

eBusiness Fundamentals gives a broad overview of key eBusiness issues from both managerial and technical perspectives by introducing issues of marketing, human resource management, ethics, operations management, law, the eBusiness environment, web site design and computing basics. Each chapter has been written by a specialist.
Throughout the text there are activities, 'think-points' and questions with indicative feedback to test understanding and provide an inclusive learning experience. The accompanying online resources will update the text with additional case studies and links to web based material.
This text will be invaluable to students on eBusiness courses but also to students taking modules in eBusiness as part of traditional degrees in Business, Marketing, Computing and Information Systems.

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EBusiness Fundamentals
Peter Ecklersley
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K7NLY0

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Does the Information Age predate computers? Does it, in fact, predate the Industrial Age? Though this thesis isn't explicitly examined in A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present, the reader can't help but think about it throughout. Editors Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and James W. Cortada assembled a healthy mix of historians and management consultants to write the history of information services in America, and the very mild pro-business bias is more than balanced by the deeper insight into the companies and corporations that did much to spur technological change.

Fascinating nuggets of post-McLuhan media history lie within this sober analysis; it's startling to read of the antebellum U.S. Post Office refusing to deliver abolitionist materials to slave states, for example. These help to contextualize the information architecture we take for granted, as well as the innovations made possible by this architecture--imagine 50-story buildings without telephones. Though the editors profess no gift of prophecy for themselves or their authors, A Nation Transformed by Information will still give canny readers something to think about as they make their way through the Information Age. --Rob Lightner

Book Description

This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since. By the time of the founding of the United States, there was a postal system and roads for the distribution of mail copyright laws to protect intellectual property, and newspapers, books, and broadsides to bring information to a populace that was building a nation on the basis of an informed electorate. In the 19th century, Americans developed the telegraph, telephone, and motion pictures, inventions that further expanded the reach of information. In the 20th century they added television, computers, and the Internet, ultimately connecting themselves to a whole world of information. From the beginning North Americans were willing to invest in the infrastructure to make such connectivity possible. This book explores what the deployment of these technologies says about American society. The editors assembled a group of contributors who are experts in their particular fields and worked with them to create a book that is fully integrated and cross-referenced.

Customer Reviews:

Very Interesting.......2007-01-19

I very much enjoyed this book, but like two other reviewers, noticed many technical writing errors. I still found the content fascinating and a good read, but the errors are distracting and that is the only reason why I gave it 3 stars instead of 5. The fact that I would bump it down to 3 stars instead of 4 based on that one criteria should give you an idea of just how bad the editting was. However, even with that said, I would still highly recommend the book if the topic is of interest.

Good subject, but poor editing.......2001-06-09

I bought this book because my work is in information reporting and I thought it would provide an interesting perspective. It did succeed at that. Because I come from a technical background, I had a little trouble getting started with the book, until I released it was written from a sociology background. Once I got past that I enjoyed the book except for the ...

extremely poor editing. There were numerous grammatical and sentence structure errors, contradicting statements misspellings and general redundancy that really detracted from the information being presented.

Poor editing.......2000-10-29

This book was interesting, but the editing was so poor that I started to mistrust what I was reading. For instance the famous first telegraph message "What hath God wrought" was printed as "What God hath wrought." The book is full of typos.

An exciting history of information media........2000-09-21

This book is a collection of essays on the movement of information, and how it has transformed the United States from its colonial beginnings to today. At the very beginning, the founders of the country subsidized the transportation of newspapers through the postal system; this allowed the free flow of information between cities and states, across the entire continent. As technology increased, it inevitably speeded and expanded the amount of information flowing throughout the country--from the railroad, through the telegraph, telephone, radio, motion pictures, television, and on into computers.

This book is an exciting history of information media. Though written by no less than seven contributors, it pulls together into seamless whole, almost as if written by one author. The depth of information is breathtaking, and the conclusions reached are fascinating. Indeed, I think that they admirably proved their contention that there was continuity in the development of information media, and I myself repeatedly saw history repeat itself through their narrative, right up to today.

This is a fascinating book, and one that I recommend without reservation.

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A NATION TRANSFORMED BY INFORMATION: How Information has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present
Alfred D. jr. Chandler
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKDKP8

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