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Advancement in telecommunications has drastically changed the way that people communicate, particularly in a professional capacity. The onslaught of e-mail, text and even instant messaging has given people other means with which to communicate with one another, but in doing, the art of personal, verbal and face-to-face communication is being lost, resulting in miscommunication and broken personal and professional relationships.

Uncover The Ways to Make Success Mandatory. In this easy to follow guide Jeremy Scott helps you search inside yourself for your true passion, your true calling, your true gift so you can give it back to the world. This book is about making a better life not just for yourself, but also for everyone around you, because that's what real success is. This book is about not being afraid to fail and venturing far outside your comfort zone. It is about looking within, questioning yourself, finding out who you really are and what your life is truly about. Jeremy helps you go far beyond just making success mandatory, he helps you put and keep your life in perspective. This book is about living life on your own terms and writing your own success story. Leaving fear, anger, and regret in the past, all while finding absolute success and happiness along the way. You are all here for a greater purpose, you all matter, you all have unique, special, amazing gifts that only you can offer the world and Jeremy helps you uncover those gifts.

Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester's role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help. The book chronicles an agile software development iteration from the viewpoint of a tester and explains the seven key success factors of agile testing.

A New York Times bestseller with over 1.3 million copies sold! Only a few months ago, he was a successful executive. Now he’s a desperate man. Join David Ponder on an incredible journey to discover the Seven Decisions for success that can turn any life around, no matter how hopeless a situation seems. Forty-six-year-old David Ponder feels like a total failure. Once a high-flying executive in a Fortune 500 company, he now works a part-time, minimum wage job and struggles to support his family. Suddenly an even greater crisis hits: his daughter becomes ill, and he can’t even afford to get her the medical help she needs. When David’s car skids on an icy road, he wonders if he even cares to survive the crash. But an extraordinary experience awaits David Ponder. He suddenly finds himself traveling back in time, meeting leaders and heroes at crucial moments in their lives—from Abraham Lincoln to Anne Frank. As David speaks with each of these historical figures, they share their personal philosophies with him. By the time his journey is over, he has received seven secrets for success—and a second chance. Among these crucial decisions for success are: The buck stops here, and I am responsible for my past and my future I will seek wisdom and be a servant to others I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit, and I will forgive myself Today I will choose to be happy and be the possessor of a grateful spirit The message is simple: Life is about choices. While we have little control over the events that occur in our lives, success is determined by the choices we make daily. The Traveler’s Gift will challenge you, inspire you, and give you seven decisions that you can employ to determine your own personal success. Acclaim for The Traveler’s Gift: Good Morning America’s “Read This!” book selection for May 2003 Hit the New York Times bestseller list and remained there for 17 weeks Reached #5 on the New York Times Business Bestseller list Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller Translated into nearly 20 languages, including Braille

Drive your content marketing campaign toward success Blogs and social platforms are all the rage right now—especially for strategists looking to cultivate influence among target audience members through content marketing. Content Marketing Strategies For Dummies explains how you can use content marketing to gain an edge over your competition, even in the most crowded of marketplaces. This timely text introduces you to the Five C Cycle: Company Focus, Customer Experience, Content Creation, Channel Promotion, and Closed-Loop Analysis. The Five C Cycle drives the creation and documentation of a targeted content marketing strategy, and allows you to approach your content marketing campaign with confidence. By helping you determine your company's focus, uncover your customers' experience with data, develop channel promotions across social platforms, create actionable online content, and use closed-loop analysis to build on previous success, this will become your go-to content marketing guide. Content marketing entails creating and curating content online via blog posts, social media platforms, and more. The goal is to acquire and retain customers by creating content that brings value to their lives, and that encourages them to engage with your brand. This easy-to-understand guide will help you do just that. Analyze customer data to better understand your target audience's journey Leverage social platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, to develop channel promotions Create and curate intelligent, engaging content that leads to action Build upon your previous success with closed-loop analysis Whether you work for a large corporation, are part of a small business, are a solo thought leader, or are an educator, Content Marketing Strategies For Dummies tells you how to gain a critical, competitive advantage through targeted content marketing strategies.

Reflect, design, and create an empowered life! Everything you think, speak, and do impact your life. You therefore have the power to make your life what you want it to be. Reflective Empowerment provides a simple but powerful program to design the life you want. It is a one-year program that builds one brick of empowerment on another brick of empowerment until your full brilliance of empowerment is unleashed. Reflective Empowerment shows you the following: How to move from apathy to empowerment Secrets and benefits of reflection Importance and benefits of action The practice of examining your life Where to put emphasis in your strategic thinking The route to your empowerment is mapped out in Reflective Empowerment, and it gives the background to show the connectedness to seven critical steps of empowerment: Self-awareness Vision of your purpose Clarification and details of your goals Embracing persistence Upgrading your skills Taking others to new heights Reviewing your results and targeting your better performance By actively following the simple daily guidelines as outlined in Reflective Empowerment, you design your own success and take control and responsibility for your own empowerment. Moreover, your empowerment blossoms fully when you support others to be their best, as well as positively contribute to the environment.