8 Steps To Create The Life You Want: The Anatomy Of A Successful Life Normal Price: $13.49 Offer Price: $10.38 Don't wait until tomorrow for the life you want today. Dr. Creflo A. Dollar illuminates eight steps to the magnificent life you crave! Confidence, peace, and abundant life'we all long for these things. But in this life-changing book, author and renowned pastor Dr. Creflo A. Dollar challenges readers to stop wishing for a satisfying life. Instead, Dr. Dollar proclaims, we should be claiming the success that God promises today. We do not have to be defined by past failures or mediocrity; we must move forward into the richness available to us right now. God has designed a glorious destiny for each of us, and all we have to do is take hold of it. In order to seize our destiny, each of us must be willing to radically transform our lives. 'If you don't like the way you feel,' says Dollar, 'you've got to change the way you think.' By taking manageable steps along the way, each of us can achieve life to the fullest; until it overflows. Normal in-store, physical product price: $19.98 » More Info

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]]> http://www.nowinaudio.com/downloadable-audio-book-specials-april/feed/ 2 http://www.nowinaudio.com/business-audio-books-that-motivate-and-inspire/ http://www.nowinaudio.com/business-audio-books-that-motivate-and-inspire/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:16:56 +0000 Vic http://www.nowinaudio.com/?p=187 Continue reading →]]> The average business person today spends much of his/her time commuting. Some 97 million Americans commute an hour or more to and from work alone in their cars each day…and that figure doesn’t include the people who commute by car pool, bus or train. That equates to nearly 2 months of your life each year spent in transit or sitting in traffic. Why not put this downtime to use in your favor.

Just imagine being able to use this time to improve your business or advance your career. This is where spoken audio recordings can play an important part in your professional life. With the use of today's technology the busy professional can actually benefit by using this time to listen to business books, business seminars, sales and marketing lectures and podcasts from successful business people.

Business audio books are an ideal mentoring tool and can motivate and inspire today's business professional. A great example of this is the audiobook version of Michael E. Gerber’s business classic “The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work And What To Do About It” read by the author himself. This is of course just one example of the many audio resources available today and here are 5 others that should be in your audio library:

1. “How To Win Friends And Influence People” – by Dale Carnegie

One of the most important aspects of any business is the fact that PEOPLE are a crucial part of its success. This is true in almost every aspect of human activity, and especially in business. We need people to keep our businesses going and growing. Not just the people that bring us new sales and new customers, but also the people that make the sales possible, the people who deliver our products, handle complaints, run the administrative aspects of the business, and so on. To be able to succeed in business and other areas of life, we all need to know “how to win friends and influence people”. That’s why this incredible book by Dale Carnegie is a “must have” for any person in business. With the power of the information contained in this classic book, you can learn not just how to influence people so that they bring in more sales for your business, but most importantly how to win staff, suppliers, customers and prospects over as friends to help you make future sales possible. This book is available in audio book format, so you can enjoy listening to it in the comfort of your car while driving or commuting.

2. “E-Myth Mastery” – By Michael E. Gerber

Michael E. Gerber is the world’s leading small business guru and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful “The E-Myth Revisited”. In this audiobook version of his follow up book, “E-Myth Mastery”, Michael Gerber presents the next big step in entrepreneurial management and leadership. This audiobook presents a practical, real-world program that can be implemented in real-time in your business. The E-Myth credo — Don’t work IN your business, work ON it — is spelled out here in the seven essential disciplines followed by every leader of a world-class enterprise. Each discipline provides the leadership keys for unlocking success in the critical areas of business development: Leadership, Marketing, Finance, Money, Management, Client Fulfillment, Lead Conversion and Lead Generation. E-Myth Mastery is the ultimate business development program that will help you recover your passion and turn your company into a world-class operation — a turn-key machine for the money and satisfaction that only a successful entrepreneur can enjoy.

3. “Zig Ziglar’s Secrets Of Closing The Sale” – By Zig Ziglar

All of us are involved in selling every day. Whenever we present a product or a principle, inform a client, or instruct a child, we are engaging in the art of effective persuasion. Zig Ziglar is America’s master of the art of selling and in this audiobook, he explains proven, practical sales techniques all of us can use every day. He also provides vital strategies for specific closes, hundred of sales questions, and dozens of persuasion procedures to help everyone sell their ideas, or themselves. No matter what your age, gender, occupation, or lifestyle, these proven techniques from America’s selling sensation can work for you.

4. “Winning” – by Jack Welch

Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition.

5. “10 Steps to Prepare & Deliver a Powerful Presentation” – by David Julian Price

Ideal for:

* Presentations to colleagues at work;
* Technical presentations;
* Presentations to meetings at clubs, associations or local government;
* Sales presentations;
* Speeches at weddings, birthdays or special events.

Please visit the following link for more information on these and many other downloadable business audio books that can give you the competitive edge.

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Mystery and Suspense

• The Dogs of Riga By: Henning Mankell
• The Overlook By: Michael Connelly
• Play Dead By: David Rosenfelt
• The Suspect By: John Lescroart
• The Tin Roof Blowdown By: James Lee Burke

Well there you have it, and remember if you'd like to see AudioFile's complete list of 45 must-read audiobooks you can use this link.

This steamy romantic mystery takes place in Beaumont, South Carolina and is centered around Annie Fortenberry, who just inherited her grandmother's B&B and a handsome Harley-riding visitor.

Just as things are really heating up a body is discovered in Annie's garden that turns out to be her philandering husband and all the evidence points to Annie as the killer.

Now it's up to Annie to find the real killer, and get back to where she was in the arms of her loving biker.

It's a fun book to listen to and you may be surprised by the ending.

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Two of Evanovich’s favorite readers are Lorelei King, and C.J. Critt both differentiate the characters, so you know when it’s Joe Morelli (a handsome Jersey cop and Plum’s love interest) talking and when it’s Stephanie. But the voice still has a certain—for lack of a better word—generic quality that allows listeners to put some of themselves into it.”

Janet Evanovich has a huge fan base. Not long ago her Web site (www.evanovich.com) offered a contest to name her next book, and over 20,000 fans responded with suggestions. When asked how she  accounts for her popularity she responded “I think I do dialogue well, and I create good characters. As a storyteller, my single most important job is to write for my audience.

“What we need today is good positive entertainment. There’s so much tragedy in the world. We need heroes. And I do wonderful heroes. I do heroes that are heroic in small ways; I do the kind of heroes that you and I would be. When it really comes down to it and they’re in a crunch, they find it within themselves to do the heroic thing. This is what I bring to my audience as a storyteller.”

More about this author. . .

In the coming days we'll be featuring  many of Janet Evanovich's books that are available as downloadable audio books.

With most of the Internet commerce being conducted in English, and with the number of immigrants settling in the United States, the need for programs that teach English as a second language (ESL) is also more in demand than ever before. More and more people want and/or need to communicate with friends, colleagues, and customers from around the world.

Over the past 40 years many innovative concepts in language learning have been developed but the one that stands above all others is the Pimsleur method.  This method developed by a linguistics professor Dr. Paul Pimsleur is widely recognized as the leading method for aquiring a second language. Dr. Pimsleurs programs are made up of 30 minute lessons and are almost entirely audio, with no written material until the most advanced levels, this is because Dr.Pimsleur was a firm believer that we learn language by hearing, not by seeing.

One of the tools used in the Pimsleur method is Graduated Interval Recall, a series of repetitions that transfer new vocabulary and patterns from short-term memory into long-term memory. When a new phrase is introduced, it is repeated at 5-second intervals. The narrator will then move on to something else but, after 25 seconds, will ask the listener to recall the previously learned phrase. After the 25-second interval, the intervals increase to 2 minutes and then 10 minutes. Finally, the listener will be asked to recall that phrase two or three lessons later. By this time, it is set in the listener’s repertoire.

Pimsleur programs also use a challenge with response technique, in which the narrator asks the listener to respond to specific situations. He might say(in English): “You are asked if you’d like something to eat. How would you say that you’d rather have something to drink?” or “How would you ask me if I’d like something to eat?” After a pause, during which the listener answers, a native speaker provides the correct response. By forcing the listener to respond in the target language, the Pimsleur program helps the listener better internalize the organic way language is used.

Ten years ago, Simon & Schuster acquired Pimsleur, which now offers 57 different language courses (including various ESL programs), and most of these are available in three or more different “packages,” depending on the length and desired level of competence.

You can read more about each of these foreign language courses here.