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Great Guide for writing a variety of things.......2001-02-28

This book has excellent examples and instructions for writing resumes, news releases, memos, bad and good news letters, and more. I picked it up as a text for my journalism class, but I will definitely be keeping it for future reference.

A Quick and Not Dirty Guide to Business Writing Twenty-Five Business and Public Relations Documents That Every Business Writer Should Know

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A Quick and Not Dirty Guide to Business Writing Twenty-Five Business and Public Relations Documents That Every Business Writer Should Know
Charles Marsh
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: B000OIX60O

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It's easier than you think to perform every retail math calculation quickly, accurately, and with confidence

Mathematics is an essential tool for determining every financial arrangement important to a retail business. Whether you're buying merchandise, figuring business expenses, pricing merchandise, or recording transactions, a solid working knowledge of practical calculating procedures is indispensable. But don't worry, we're not talking algebra, trigonometry, or calculus—just simple arithmetic you can perform using a calculator.

Practical Merchandising Math helps you teach yourself all the math you need to succeed in the retail industry. You'll learn to calculate markon, markup, and markdown; plan net sales, purchases, and stock turnover; and determine expenses and gross margin. You'll also learn the meanings of important terms and discover how the four retail areas where math is required—buying, selling, expenses, and record-keeping—are interrelated. This easy-to-use guide

Covers all financial considerations relevant to costing and pricing merchandise
Includes sample calculations with solutions
Features handy, quick-reference charts for standard markon percentages
Presents material in short sections followed by self-check practice exercises

Don't let math phobia become a roadblock on your way to retail success. Develop the skills you need, quickly and easily, with the help of Practical Merchandising Math.

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Good Book.......2000-02-18

Practical Merchandising Math is a very enlighting book. The Practice Questions are very helpful in learning the basics. From start to finish I found this book well done. I would only hope for deeper explanations. I devoured this book in about a week. Very well laid out. One chapter leads into another chapter very well. Again, my only hope (not a complaint) is to find a book just like this one with more advanced discussions based on real world scenarios. That's not to say that the examples used in this book were not real world scenarios ... they were simplified examples of real world scenarios. I recommend this book to anyone learning the art of inventory management, ordering systems analysis and planning for sales.

Practical Merchandising Math for Everyday Use

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Practical Merchandising Math for Everyday Use
Murray Krieger
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ASIN: 0686601963

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Taking the Mystery Out of Tqm: A Practical Guide to Total Quality Management
Peter Capezio , and Debra Morehouse
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The peculiar post great depression protectionism.(in Chile): An article from: Cuadernos de Economía: Latin American journal of economics

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The peculiar post great depression protectionism.(in Chile): An article from: Cuadernos de Economía: Latin American journal of economics
Rolf Lüders , and Gert Wagner
Manufacturer: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Economia
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This digital document is an article from Cuadernos de Economía: Latin American journal of economics, published by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Economia on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 4775 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.

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Title: The peculiar post great depression protectionism.(in Chile)
Author: Rolf Lüders
Publication: Cuadernos de Economía: Latin American journal of economics (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Economia
Volume: 40 Issue: 121 Page: 803(10)

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Restrictionism during great depression in Indian tea, jute, and sugar industries

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Restrictionism during great depression in Indian tea, jute, and sugar industries
Samar Ranjan Sen
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The tariff ... democracy and depression: Speech of Hon. Marriott Brosius, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, Monday, August 13, 1894

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The tariff ... democracy and depression: Speech of Hon. Marriott Brosius, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, Monday, August 13, 1894
Marriott Brosius
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The crisis: A solemn appeal to the President, the Senate and House of representatives, and the citizens of the United States, on the destructive tendency ... the general depression in the United States

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The crisis: A solemn appeal to the President, the Senate and House of representatives, and the citizens of the United States, on the destructive tendency ... the general depression in the United States
Mathew Carey
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Depression and Protectionism: Britain Between the Wars

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Depression and Protectionism: Britain Between the Wars
Forrest Capie
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A retrospect and comparison of the years 1885 and 1905 having reference to depression of trade in those years

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A retrospect and comparison of the years 1885 and 1905 having reference to depression of trade in those years
Frederick T Haggard
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The roots of Latin American protectionism: Looking before the Great Depression (NBER working paper series)

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The roots of Latin American protectionism: Looking before the Great Depression (NBER working paper series)
John H Coatsworth
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Trade depression: its causes and cure
Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin Dunraven
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Royalty Free - ReadySetPresent (Inspirational Quotes): Keep your audience focused and engaged by using our carefully selected collection of thoughtful, witty and humorous quotes. Use in a presentation with an LCD projector, make handouts, and create overheads. This topic includes 25 quotes, slide transitions, clipart and animation. It is a must-have supplement for anyone interested in presenting on these or related topics. Packaged on 3.5" floppy disk/s. PC compatible. You may use this product over and over again.

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Achieve your dream of homeownership 'you could win $10,000: even if you don't win the cash, you'll come out on top. But don't take our word for it--three ... pays off.: An article from: Black Enterprise
Tory Parrish
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Release Date: 2006-09-29

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This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2557 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.

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Title: Achieve your dream of homeownership 'you could win $10,000: even if you don't win the cash, you'll come out on top. But don't take our word for it--three entrants from our first contest tell how homeownership pays off.
Author: Tory Parrish
Publication: Black Enterprise (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 36 Issue: 13 Page: 110(5)

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Good content. Poor recording.

Don't Take Our Word for It!
Godfrey Harris
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0935047263

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A comprehensive discussion of word of mouth advertising as a separate and equal marketing tool to traditional media advertising, public relations, and product presentations. Includes an analysis of word of mouth concepts that work and those that dont, detailed descriptions of word of mouth programs that can be implemented immediately, and an explanation of particular techniques that can be employed in the development of new word of mouth programs. Contains some original word of mouth material not found in the printed book.

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Good content. Poor recording........1999-10-06

This book addresses (rightfully) perhaps the most effective means of marketing possible - word of mouth. While certainly not exhaustive there are ideas here that can be applied in every business though it does have a slight bent toward political advertising. If you are a reader, get the book NOT the tape. Besides being abridged, the tape is the worst recording of any tape I have. (and I own over 900 audiocassettes) Perhaps my recording was a fluke but I would have rated this higher were it not for the poor recording quality that made it so difficult to listen to.

Don't Take Our Word for It!: Everything You Need to Know About Making Word of Mouth Advertising Work for You

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Godfrey Harris
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"Don't take our word for it," Softline AccountMate says--experts rank Visual AccountMate #1 open-source software in the mid-market. (Advertorial).(Brief Article): An article from: Strategic Finance

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"Don't take our word for it," Softline AccountMate says--experts rank Visual AccountMate #1 open-source software in the mid-market. (Advertorial).(Brief Article): An article from: Strategic Finance

Manufacturer: Institute of Management Accountants
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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 737 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.

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Title: "Don't take our word for it," Softline AccountMate says--experts rank Visual AccountMate #1 open-source software in the mid-market. (Advertorial).(Brief Article)
Publication: Strategic Finance (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Institute of Management Accountants
Volume: 84 Issue: 3 Page: 8(1)

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A Little Underwhelming and Hard to Follow

Starts off promising... ends poorly

The one book your boss doesn't want you to read

This is a book that should be followed in spirit

Don't waste your money

Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices
Christopher Locke
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ASIN: 0738207691
Release Date: 2002-10-15

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The coauthor of the no-more-business-as-usual blockbuster The Cluetrain Manifesto--which basically told Net-age marketers to stop talking at their markets and start conversing with them--follows up with a book that's more a highly entertaining, nimbly erudite screed against our current mass-market, mass-media culture than it is a recipe book for e-commerce marketing success in the post-cyberboom era. Writing in a paler imitation of the profanely irreverent, freely associative "gonzo" journalism style pioneered by his obvious idol Hunter S. Thompson, Locke starts with the by-now-familiar idea that old-style mass-marketing "broadcast" advertising just won't work on the Web. Indeed, he says, conventional print-ad tactics as embodied online by banners and pop-ups might actually generate more ill will than sales, and that's why companies must use the Web to somehow enjoin their products and services to the quirky niche interests of the gazillion individual cybercommunities (or "micromarkets") whose greatest advantage for marketers is how freely and speedily their members talk among themselves, touting a brand when and if it's truly deserved.

Useful examples of such enjoinment don't appear until a slim, penultimate chapter, and they are mostly theoretical in nature, e.g., what if Ford, after giving its employees worldwide free home computers and Net access (which it did), got all of them who were into organic gardening to infiltrate organic-gardening Web communities to push (via the subtle art of persuasion, one supposes) the niftiness of Ford pickups for organic gardeners? Truth be told, Locke seems more like a social critic or humanist at heart than a marketing consultant, and his essential disdain for corporations (which are anti-human, he declares, despite all their philanthropic tootle) leaves the reader wondering whether he really wants e-commerce to effectively pervade the Web's truly democratic, populist microcommunities for its own purposes. As his wonderfully cranky cult Web zine, Entropy Gradient Reversals, and his alter ego therein, RageBoy, have proven, the man's a smart, witty, broadly read cyberpundit. In Gonzo Marketing, he tweaks everyone from Disney, Time Warner AOL, and IBM to fellow biz-book writers like Seth Godin (Permission Marketing), and if you read it first for its own eclectic, acerbic delights and second for a postboom e-marketing primer, you'll be rightly pleased. --Timothy Murphy

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Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Perseus Books Group (October, 2002) Language: English ISBN: 0738207691 Product Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches The coauthor of the no-more-business-as-usual blockbuster The Cluetrain Manifesto--which basically told Net-age marketers to stop talking at their markets and start conversing with them--follows up with a book that's more a highly entertaining, nimbly erudite screed against our current mass-market, mass-media culture than it is a recipe book for e-commerce marketing success in the post-cyberboom era. Writing in a paler imitation of the profanely irreverent, freely associative "gonzo" journalism style pioneered by his obvious idol Hunter S. Thompson, Locke starts with the by-now-familiar idea that old-style mass-marketing "broadcast" advertising just won't work on the Web. Indeed, he says, conventional print-ad tactics as embodied online by banners and pop-ups might actually generate more ill will than sales, and that's! why companies must use the Web to somehow enjoin their products and services to the quirky niche interests of the gazillion individual cybercommunities (or "micromarkets") whose greatest advantage for marketers is how freely and speedily their members talk among themselves, touting a brand when and if it's truly deserved. Useful examples of such enjoinment don't appear until a slim, penultimate chapter, and they are mostly theoretical in nature, e.g., what if Ford, after giving its employees worldwide free home computers and Net access (which it did), got all of them who were into organic gardening to infiltrate organic-gardening Web communities to push (via the subtle art of persuasion, one supposes) the niftiness of Ford pickups for organic gardeners? Truth be told, Locke seems more like a social critic or humanist at heart than a marketing consultant, and his essential disdain for corporations (which are anti-human, he declares, despite all their philanthropic tootle) leaves the reader wondering whether he really wants e-commerce to effectively pervade the Web's truly democratic, populist microcommunities for its own purposes. As his wonderfully cranky cult Web zine, Entropy Gradient Reversals, and his alter ego therein, RageBoy, have proven, the man's a smart, witty, broadly read cyberpundit. In Gonzo Marketing, he tweaks everyone from Disney, Time Warner AOL, and IBM to fellow biz-book writers like Seth Godin (Permission Marketing), and if you read it first for its own eclectic, acerbic delights and second for a postboom e-marketing primer, you'll be rightly pleased.

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A Little Underwhelming and Hard to Follow.......2006-06-13

I read this books just a couple of weeks after reading The Cluetrain Manifesto, which I really enjoyed. This book seems to be a practical response to Cluetrain for marketers. Some of the ideas are very interesting, and I actually learned a few things about marketing (I am a non-marketer), but I had a very difficult time finishing the book. Locke seems to write in the long, seemingly drug-induced style of Jack Kerouac. This is fun for a while, but as previous reviewers have stated, as soon as the reader expects some "meat" to his arguments (fuzzy as they may be), he continues on in a kind of mystical muse. I got stuck here for a while, finally finished it, and didn't feel like I got any more out of it.

Taken in spirit, the ideas presented here are pretty good, if not somewhat utopian (euphoric?). But I have one problem with the whole "don't act like you are a marketer, even if you are" thing: you are still a marketer trying to sell something! Wouldn't intellectual honesty just be to say, "Hey, I sell trucks for GM, but I like organic gardening, too", instead of working in a kind of covert fashion. Perhaps marketers should include some disclaimer like "This is an attempt to sell a product. All communications will be used for that purpose." Mr. Locke would probably disagree with my interpretation, but this seems to be the practical outcome of his ideas.

In summary: The Cluetrain Manifesto is good, the spin-off (this book) is alright.

Starts off promising... ends poorly.......2006-01-19

Wow! This book was like a breath of fresh air and very vindicating -- saying everything that I'd been yelling at my bosses for ages.

And then, midway through the second disc, the author seemed to go into fits of hysterics, talking about duality, spirituality, and eCommerce. Where did this come from? Until this awful turn, it was a great listen.

The one book your boss doesn't want you to read.......2005-03-27

If you ever thought you needed permission to have and express your own thoughts, this book is it.
Razor sharp, it cuts through centuries of accepted wisdom bringing the modern marketplace up to speed with today's reality and it's not flattering to those who thought they had the marketplace nailed.
In almost every respect, Chris Locke's observations are an accurate look not so much at the broad spectrum of what mainstream media considers the marketplace, but the actual marketplace as it really is - you and me and every individual on the planet. It's all about what makes us tick and the things we like and dislike and what moves us and doesn't.
It's a wake-up call in the corridors of power and the residents thereof had better pay attention because this book is not merely addressing their audience, it's addressing their subordinates.
This is the book that puts the voice back in the little person.
A word of caution:
Do NOT lend this book because you won't get it back.

This is a book that should be followed in spirit.......2005-03-10

First off, this book presents several examples of best practices ("case studies"), including United Colors of Beneton, Motley Fool, and Ford.

Second of all, Locke doesn't hold any marketer's hand, and yes, he can be pretty brutal at times. He assumes, quite rightly, that you didn't get into this job to help humanity, you got into to get a paycheck. That's not cynicism, that's intellectual honesty, and if you can't handle it, you'll never be anything but mediocre.

Essentially, Locke's main thesis is: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEDIOCRE MARKETING AND GREAT MARKETING IS INTELLECTUAL HONESTY. And if it takes him 200 pages to make this point, then the fault lies in how much we have grown accustomed to believing our own B.S., just because its easier that way. How my corporations have lied themselves into bankruptcy? How many bad projects have you seen go forward because everyone was too scared to get in the way?

This book is a bricolage of good points and great ideas. As a consistant system, it fails.In the real world, Locke's ideas are completely unworkable, IF YOU FOLLOW THEM VERBATIM. Like any idealistic manifesto, it's got its fair share of hyperbole.

However, in terms of a Marketing Philosophy, it's brilliant. Whenever I get discouraged, I read this book. It reminds me of a comment David Ogilvy once made, "The consumer isn't a moron, she's your wife", meaning that advertisers and marketers should treat their audiences with respect and dignity (or else).

Don't waste your money.......2004-03-31

I got to page 26 and gave up. Lockes writings lack focus and are void of humour. I read as much as I could with patience until it became clear this book was simply someone rambling on about nothing. Save your money for something worth reading.

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Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices
Christopher Locke
Manufacturer: Hardie Grant Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1740640357

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Managing a software development project is a complex process. There are lots of deliverables to produce, standards and procedures to observe, plans and budgets to meet, and different people to manage. Project management doesn't just start and end with designing and building the system. Once you've specified, designed and built (or bought) the system it still needs to be properly tested, documented and settled into the live environment. This can seem like a maze to the inexperienced project manager, or even to the experienced project manager unused to a particular environment.

A Hacker's Guide to Project Management acts as a guide through this maze. It's aimed specifically at those managing a project or leading a team for the first time, but it will also help more experienced managers who are either new to software development, or dealing with a new part of the software life-cycle.

This book:

describes the process of software development, how projects can fail and how to avoid those failures

outlines the key skills of a good project manager, and provides practical advice on how to gain and deploy those skills

takes the reader step-by-step through the main stages of the project, explaining what must be done, and what must be avoided at each stage

suggests what to do if things start to go wrong!

The book will also be useful to designers and architects, describing important design techniques, and discussing the important discipline of Software Architecture.

This new edition:

has been fully revised and updated to reflect current best practices in software development

includes a range of different life-cycle models and new design techniques

now uses the Unified Modelling Language throughout

Fully revised and updated to reflect developments in the field

Modified structure to represent the iterative and incremental development methods which are now more common than the past 'waterfall' approaches

New content added that describes and advises on the major advances in software engineering in the last 8 years

Customer Reviews:

Too general...........2004-01-30

Can't really get any useful information out of this book. For example, has chapters on design, and systems integration. Being a hacker (the target group), I know more about this than the book does. The book however does not really tell how to manage these issues, which is what the book was supposed to be doing in the first place....(book about pm, not about design).

A superb book that gives the ABCs of mgmt of s/w projects........1998-08-24

An excellent book on how to manage complex computer software projects. The book gives the complex steps in easy to follow manner and not only tells you what to do but why and how to do it. An essential tool for any budding Project Leader and/or Project Manager. Even ISO9000 certified companies will find such a book a mandatory weapon in their armoury for tackling issues related to project management.

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