Awaken Your CAREERpreneur A HOLISTIC ROAD MAP TO CLIMB FROM YOUR CALLING TO YOUR CAREER Review

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(More customer reviews)There are a lot of career books that tell you WHAT you are supposed to do to find a job or take your career to the next level. What I really like about Awaken Your Careerpreneur is that Alexia Vernon helps you figure out WHO you want to be in your career and to customize all of her tips for your specific purpose. Her stories are funny and relevant and what she calls SUCCESSwork, interactive coaching exercises, really help you stay on track. It would have been great to have read this book 20 years ago so I highly recommend it for college students and recent grads. Although those who are switching careers, want to start a business, or simply want to goal set for bigger and better things will also find it really valuable.

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Reviews:"The hardest challenge associated with finding meaningful work is knowing where to start. Alexia Vernon expertly guides the reader through the dilemma that everyone seems to be facing: "what do I want to do with my life?" This book's clever positioning of the individual career as an entrepreneurial venture is sure to catch on, and it's supported by an approachable style and thoughtful exercises."Alexandra Levit, Author, New Job, New You: A Guide to Reinventing Yourself in a Bright New Career, Speaker, Workplace Expert "In Awaken Your CAREERpreneur, Alexia Vernon takes her reader on a journey from the inside out which is the most authentic way to create sustainable career success.Blending personal stories, expert advice, and fun, practical activities that take learning off the page, Alexia will show you how to develop the mindset, relationships, skills, and materials to make CAREERpreneurship a way of being."Christine Hassler, Author, 20 Something 20 Everything and 20 Something Manifesto, Speaker, Life Coach "I wish I'd had this book 20+ years ago! But no matter where you are on your career path, a Baby-Boomer segueing into a new lifestyle or a second career, or like Alexia, a Gen-Y business owner, there is much for you here. From her helpful coaching questions and quizzes to the real life examples she shares, Alexia Vernon has created both a wise information resource and an inspirational guide to navigating the next stage of your career. Adventure on!"Betty Mahalik, PCC, Author, Living a Five Star Life: The Secrets to Finding Greater Joy and Reaching Your Full Potential, Owner, Dynamic Solutions Business and Personal Coaching"Now you have the perfect guidebook to help you live your purpose and create more abundance (on the inside and out) each day of your life. Awaken Your CAREERpreneur will unleash your entrepreneurial spirit and jumpstart your life in a whole new direction."Gabrielle Bernstein, Author, Add More ~ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness, Founder, HerFuture.com Product DescriptionAuthor Alexia Vernon recognizes that you already possess the know-how to make the career of your dreams a reality. You just need a little chutzpah and an All-Star Team to unlock the answers and take action from them. In her book, Alexia fuses best practices of entrepreneurship with her straightforward approach to self-help to teach you how to develop the mindset, relationships, skills, and materials to make career success a way of being.Whether defining your WOW factor, crafting your Unique Benefits Statement (UBS), or devising your informational interview strategy, in each chapter Alexia dishes up practical advice, real-world examples, and action-oriented SUCCESSwork exercises to ensure that you are able to take what you read and translate it into the results you seek. Learn how to attract what you want and deserve, bulldoze through real and self-imposed career limitations, and smell the lavender each day of your professional journey.About the AuthorAlexia Vernon is the owner of Catalyst for Action, a coaching and training company that empowers leaders to build careers and companies that are successful, sustainable, and make a positive social impact. Alexia is in demand as a career and leadership speaker, ICF-certified coach, trainer, and Millennial/Gen-Y expert. Her holistic approach to success helps people transfer their insight into action. Her advice has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Diversity Executive, Backstage Weekly, MainStreet.com, CollegeRecruiter.com, TheGlassHammer.com, and Gradspot.com. Her blog, Musings from the Generation We Coach, is on Blogs.com's "Top 10 Blogs to Read If You've Just Been Laid Off."

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Inspired Photography: 189 Sources of Inspiration For Better Photos Review

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(More customer reviews)When practicing any profession or hobby especially those depending on creativity, it's easy to hit that brick wall after a while when trying to create something new. The ideas are flowing one day and the next, they're simply not. As a means to reach an end, The Editors of Photopreneur put together a book to jumpstart your creative side entitled "Inspired Photography: 189 Sources of Inspiration For Better Photos". A quick glimpse through the pages of the book reveals a few obvious choices such as unveiling the power of Photoshop or asking for advice from those that are or have been in your shoes before, but there also many things suggested that you may have never considered before. Ever wonder what would be captured through a child's eyes? How about
The presentation of each idea is straight forward offering the suggested source of inspiration without a lot of unnecessary flourish but then it goes a step further in showing a few ways in which that idea could actually be utilized...quite handy in my opinion. A great tool to add to any photographer's bag of tricks....from the beginner to the professional there is something for everyone in here.

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Inspired Photography is packed with creative ideas to enable any photographer - from enthusiast to professional - to push their work in new directions. Divided into actions, city scenes, the great outdoors, inspiring images and photographic subjects, the book describes 189 sources of inspiration that stimulate creativity and help photographers get more from their passion. Discover:
New subjects to shoot in the city, the countryside, the center, and the suburbs
Original ideas to build on and personalize
Long-term projects that will generate inspiration and new ideas for months
Quick ideas for instant photographic fun
Dozens of new concepts, styles, approaches and techniques with suggestions to get started and resources for further research
Filled with practical suggestions and exciting ideas, Inspired Photography helps to keep any photo enthusiast's artistic explorations in photography fresh, challenging and always creative.

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Hardcore Inventing: Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Inventions Review

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When I cruise through B&N and spot a book that might be helpful to my SCORE-dot-org clients I usually take the necessary steps to write a book review for it. These days I am being a little more particular as to what I will review since I am tiring of the activity. But I could not let this book slide by. In my humbe opinion it is a great companion book to Invent Yourself Rich: 16 Secrets for Creating Million-Dollar Inventions which I read and wrote a review for a few years back.
The instant book has five parts broken into twenty chapters and three appendices as follows:
I. Invent (1-8)
II. Protect (9-11)
III. Promote (12-14)
IV. Profit (15-20)
V. Appendices (A-C)
0. Introduction
1. Success story - The Rescue Streamer Technology
2. Identifying & solving the problem
3. How nature inspired my inventions
4. Scour your brain
5. Making your idea a reality: Inventor's logs, prototypes, & marketing evaluations
6. Build a show prototype
7. Name your invention
8. Checklist - Is your idea feasible, marketable & financially viable?
9. Safeguard your intellectual property - Paranoia can be good
10. Step-by-step guide from disclosure to patent - Etch it in stone
11. Alernatives to utility patents
12. Get your invention out there
13. Find investors: Targeted strikes & mobilizing the troops
14. Protect yourself from fraudulent promotion companies
15. Licening
16. Manufacturing
17. Marketing
18. The home entrepreneur - Bottom-feeding
19. Venture Capitalists & angel investors
20. Critical crossroads
A. Useful Web sites
B. Suggested reading
C. Sample agreements & letters
The book is not written by an attorney nor a business consultant. It's written by an inventor who wants to share his experiences in getting his invention (Rescue Streamer Technology) patented and profitable. He's also probably written it as a marketing tool for his invention. If I had not read the book, then I would never have heard of his invention.
This book is probably more detailed and a little bit more informative than the book I read a few years back. It gives another perspective - so I highly recommend anyone interested in the subject get both books and become very informed on the topic. 5 stars!

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Based on the author's experience in the world of inventing and promotion, HardcoreInventing offers the kind of advice you can only learn from experience: how to develop an idea into an invention, how to build a prototype for show, how to safeguard intellectual property, how to market both strategically and in "guerilla" mode, how to find investors, and much more. And all of that is based on his IP 3"Tactical Method" which breaks everything down to Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit.

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Distinctive Design: A Practical Guide to a Useful, Beautiful Web Review

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(More customer reviews)Having had my own website for a few years I am always looking for ways to improve it by making it more user friendly and beautiful to visit at the same time. I was hoping to gain some insight into "distinctive design" by reading this book. Unfortunately, I did not find anything useful for my needs.
Much of the book read as a textbook based on theory, rather than application. After reading the table of contents I couldn't wait to read each chapter...expecting to read the book and come away with all sorts of practical ways to improve my site. Instead I found that most theories discussed were common sense, or not explored to the depth I would have liked. I also found that the examples and even the graphics contained within the book were rudimentary.
I would only recommend this book for someone who is starting to design websites and has more technical experience rather than design experience. This will not teach you how to create good design, just what is considered to be good design in theory.
Distinctive Design was not at all what I was expecting and frankly I came away with absolutely nothing that I felt would improve my own site. It may be great for a classroom discussion, but not for real world application in my opinion.


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Learn to produce a web site that stands out from the crowd
One of the web designer's greatest challenges is to create a site distinctive enough to get noticed among the millions of sites already on the web. This book examines the bond between code, content and visuals to guide you through the factors that increase your design's visibility, usability and beauty. Using this practical advice, even web designers who lack strong artistic skills can develop super sites that strengthen the message and stand out from the crowd.
Most books focus primarily on graphic design principles; this one shows you how to maximize and prioritize every design decision to help your site achieve its primary purpose: showcasing your content and services
Explores the bond between code, content and visuals to guide you through the factors that increase your design's visibility, usability and beauty
Enables even artistically challenged web designers to create elegant, functional layouts that attract visitors and are user-friendly

Every web designer can benefit from this practical advice on creating an informative, attractive, easy-to-use site that gets noticed.

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Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates Review

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(More customer reviews)In the classroom, when I teach web design, unless the courseware comes with templates the students spend the time creating pages from scratch. While this is worthwhile for novices, there are times when you need templates for some web projects.

In this book the authors has given you over 200 HTML templates, which are on the cd-rom, to work with. By following along with the book you'll end up creating over 50 pages. You find yourself working with frames, forms, tables, graphics and CSS.

The book should have had the design outputs in color to allow you to be able to see what the outcome would like. I did like the 3 case studies included, which take you from a basic web page to a very advanced design layout.

The cd-rom included trial version of Photoshop, FireWorks, Flash and HomeSite all of which have newer versions out and should be updated for the next edition. I found the JavaScript Cook to be a very handy and useful tool for creating scripts without an in depth knowledge of the coding techniques.

The other handy utility included in the HTML/CSS Developer's resource guide, which makes the creation of CSS easier. With all the helpful tool and tricks the book is certainly a welcome addition to my HTML/Web Design library. Overall a very good value for the money.

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This is the must-have book for designers who want to expand their skills and improve the quality of their designs. Learning CSS technology and continually improving one's design and developer skills is essential for every Web designer in today's marketplace. The goal of Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates is to educate beginning-to-intermediate Web designers on the various issues involved with Web design through general discussion, case studies, and specific tips and techniques. Using easy-to-understand language and concepts, the book teaches designers and developers how to create professional-quality CSS-based designs. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is explored, giving the reader a strong, basic understanding of how to get sites to rank better in search engines. Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) also is explained, helping the designer create a more efficient site for the users who are already visiting. You'll get the benefit of the author's experience. With more than 15 years of experience as a Web designer for Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and small businesses alike, Eccher has learned numerous tips and techniques of the trade and discloses them here, saving you time and aggravation by alerting you to potential pitfalls.

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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals) (English and English Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the most complete all-in-one manual on website development I have ever read. I was amazed on the amount of information covered in this book, it is almost overwhelming. But, if you stick it out, the end result will be a thorough foundation on website development, community building and, if you wanted to, use your new found knowledge and skills to make money on the web. This book is written, like the title states, in a manual-like style, mixed with step-by-step solutions, simple examples and detailed explanations. And If that wasn't enough already, in the appendix there is a HTML5 reference, and a bunch of website links, grouped by chapters to further extend your knowledge in each subject. I found this book easy to read and understand which is one of the main reasons why I liked it so much. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to start a career in web design or development as it will give them a rock-solid foundation on how things work and fit all together. I would also recommend this book to small business owners, or marketing managers as it will give them a complete understanding of the whole development process so they can intelligently discuss their next web project with prospective designers without their eyes glazing over from lack of knowledge. Finally, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone else, who, maybe just wants to start a blog, or make a webpage, or learn how to use stylesheets or javascript in an already existing website -- this is the book for you because you will accomplish that in just a chapter or two and come out ahead with a great reference manual to boot.

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Think you need an army of skilled programmers to build a website? Think again. With nothing more than an ordinary PC, some raw ambition, and this book, you'll learn how to create and maintain a professional-looking, visitor-friendly site. This Missing Manual gives you all the tools, techniques, and expert advice you need.

Plan your site. Create web pages by learning the basics of HTML and HTML5.
Control page design with CSS. Format text, images, links, tables, and other elements.
Attract visitors. Ensure that people can find your site through popular search engines.
Build a community. Add forums, fresh content, and a feedback form to encourage repeat visits.
Get smart. Use free tools to identify your site's strengths and weaknesses.
Create your own blog. Post your musings with a free blog-hosting service.
Bring in cash. Host Google ads, sell Amazon's wares, or push your own products.
Add pizzazz. Include audio, video, interactive menus, and more.

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Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week (Clickstarts) Review

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(More customer reviews)There's is simply no way anyone who "learns" to build a web design business site in one week can know anything about web design. Such an individual won't even have a clue as to how much he is screwing over his clients by providing web sites that need to be scrapped and replaced by again paying designers who know what they're doing to do things the way they should have been done the first time. Yeah, that never gets old...

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