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Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples
Francis Chan, Mark Beuving

David C. Cook, 2012

Jesus gave his followers a command: “Follow me.” And a promise: “And I will equip you to find others to follow me.” We were made to make disciples. Designed for use in discipleship relationships and other focused settings, Multiply will equip you to carry out Jesus’s ministry. Each of the twenty-four sessions in the book corresponds with an online video at www.multiplymovement.com, where New York Times bestselling author David ...

How To Create A Website - A Step By Step Guide

http://www.SimpleWebsiteTutorials.com, 2012

Would you like to learn how to make your own website? Great, you have found the right book. In this book you will learn how to create a fully functioning, attractive & professional website in less time than you ever thought possible. Even if you have absolutely no experience building or running a website, this book will take you step by step through the process and makes it so easy that anyone can follow it. Introduction To Building Your ...

5 Costliest Mistakes Broke Web Designers Make and How You Can Stop Making Them, 2013

Gene Hammett’s ebook, The 5 Costliest Mistakes that Broke Web Designers Make (and how to stop making them), gives his proven and successful strategies for undoing the most common mistakes that professionals in the web design industry make—that keep them broke and struggling. In this easy-to-read and highly motivational 20-page book, Hammett, an engineer turned online business entrepreneur, gives his simple and powerful strategies to turn ...

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

Wiley, 2013

You have been predicted — by companies, governments, law-enforcement, hospitals and universities. Their computers say, "I knew you were going to do that!" These institutions are seizing upon the power to predict whether you're going to click, buy, lie, or die. Why? For good reason: Predicting human behavior combats financial risk, fortifies healthcare, reduces spam, toughens crime-fighting and boosts sales. How? Prediction is powered by the ...

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

K & S Ranch, 2012

Power your startup to success with The Startup Owner's Manual. This near-encyclopedic guide unlocks the secrets to startup success - walking you, step-by-step, through the tested and proven Customer Development process created by startup expert Steve Blank. Whether you're launching a physical channel startup or one that will sell through web/mobile channels, on these pages, you'll learn how to: Use the Customer Development ...

How To Make Money With Twitter: A Complete Guide To Twitter Marketing And Monetization (Get More Twitter ...

Social Media Marketing Group, 2012

How To Get 3000 Targeted Leads A Month From Twitter Learn The 15 Minute Rule For Instant Twitter Marketing Results and Sales Everything you've been taught about Twitter will waste your time! Learn how to: Get Instant Sales Using Twitter By Connecting With The Right People Every day, thousands of people log on to Twitter and tell the world they have a problem. Not just any problem - it's the EXACT problem that your product or service ...

OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual
David Pogue

O'Reilly Media, 2012

What do you get when you cross a Mac with an iPad? OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Its 200 new features include iPaddish goodies like dictation, Notification Center, and Reminders—but not a single page of instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the expertise and humor that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for over 10 years straight. Big-ticket changes. Twitter and Facebook intgration. Air-Play TV mirroring. Power Nap. Game ...

HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites
Jon Duckett

Wiley, 2011

A full-color introduction to the basics of HTML and CSS from the publishers of Wrox! Every day, more and more people want to learn some HTML and CSS. Joining the professional web designers and programmers are new audiences who need to know a little bit of code at work (update a content management system or e-commerce store) and those who want to make their personal blogs more attractive. Many books teaching HTML and CSS are dry and only ...

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne

Harvard Business Review Press, 2005

Written by the business world's new gurus, Blue Ocean Strategy continues to challenge everything you thought you knew about competing in today's crowded market place. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, authors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne argue that lasting success comes from creating 'blue oceans': untapped new market spaces ripe from growth. And the business world has caught ...

Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing ...
Dave Kerpen

McGraw-Hill, 2011

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! The secret to successful word-of-mouth marketing on the social web is easy: BE LIKEABLE. A friend’s recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of Facebook, Twitter, and beyond, that recommendation can travel farther—and faster—than ever before. LIkeable Social Media helps you harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing to transform your business. Listen ...

The Web Designer's Idea Book, Volume 3: Inspiration from Today's Best Web Design Trends, Themes and Styles
Patrick McNeil

HOW Books, 2013

Quick Inspiration for Web Designers Featuring more than 650 examples, this third volume of The Web Designer's Idea Book is packed with visual inspiration for creating top-notch web design. Web design expert Patrick McNeil, author of the popular Web Designer's Idea Book series, is back with the latest examples of the best design on the web today. Arranged thematically, this guide puts important topics like technology, design styles, ...

Blogging the Right Way: Learn How to Launch a Blog and Start Making Money, 2013

Blogging is no longer just a hobby. It has become a powerful marketing tool and a great way to make money online. Learn what blogging can do for you, how to create a blog and write content, and get some resources and tips to help you get started blogging. This book covers how to increase search engine traffic to your website, make money online, become an affiliate marketer, be seen as an expert in your field, and open doors to career ...

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Tony Wagner

Scribner, 2012

IN THIS GROUNDBREAKING BOOK, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers ...

My Samsung Galaxy S III
Steve Schwartz

Que Publishing, 2012

Friendly, quick, and 100% practical, My Samsung Galaxy S III is the must-have companion for every Samsung Galaxy S III user. Authored by Dr. Steven Schwartz, a leading expert in demystifying complex technologies, this book walks new users through every task they'll want to perform, including: * Setting up the Samsung Galaxy S III and mastering its TouchWiz touch interface * Placing and receiving calls * Browsing the web with the ...

Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can ...
Michael Port

Wiley, 2010

The new edition of the bestselling business development guide Book Yourself Solid, Second Edition reveals why self-promotion is a critical factor to success, giving you a unique perspective that makes this guide much more than an ordinary "how to" manual for getting more clients and raising a business profile. Book Yourself Solid, Second Edition enables you to adopt the right promotional perspective and provides the strategies, techniques, ...

Big Questions from Little People: and Simple Answers from Great Minds
Gemma Elwin Harris

Ecco, 2012

In the spirit of Schott’s Miscellany , The Magic of Reality , and The Dangerous Book for Boys comes Big Questions from Little People —a smart, illuminating, essential, and utterly delightful handbook for perplexed parents and their curious children. Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions from precocious grade school children—queries that have long dumbfounded even intelligent adults—and she’s gathered ...

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Steve Krug

New Riders, 2005

Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. Don't be surprised ...

iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (3rd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)
Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass

Big Nerd Ranch Guides, 2012

Winner of a 2012 Jolt Productivity Award! Updated and expanded to cover iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3, iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications. After completing this book, you will have the understanding, the know-how, and the confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own. Based on Big Nerd Ranch’s popular iOS Bootcamp course and its ...

How To Make Money Blogging: How I Replaced My Day-Job With My Blog, 2010

**** Thanks to all the readers who helped make this book the #1 Bestseller on Amazon in the Blogging category **** In 2 years Bob went from not knowing what a blog was to making more money blogging than from his corporate day-job. Bob Lotich founded ChristianPF.com back in 2007 and after getting laid off in 2008 he took the leap into full-time blogging. Less than a year later he was earning more from his blog ...

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr

W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s ...