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1. Business Writing for Results: How to Create a Sense of Urgency and Increase Response to All of Your Business Communications Book, Paperback, 212 pages, $14.95 plus $4.95 shipping & handling. A Three-Step System for Dramatically Improving the Impact of — and Results from — Your Business Writing |
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The best business writing has its own distinct rules. It must be friendly without being chatty, professional without being stuffy, and results-oriented without being overbearing. Business Writing for Results explains what those rules are, and shows you how to work within them to write e-mails, letters, and reports that are clear, convincing, and direct — all in one-third less time! Combining an easy-to-follow, workplace-proven model with case studies and hands-on exercises, this no-nonsense book shows you how to target each reader personally, convey the proper image, and supply motivation to take specific actions. Turn to any page to discover the secrets to:
Each day, your career success depends on what you write and how you write it. Let Business Writing for Results provide you with the tips, rules, and guidelines you need to make each of your written business messages urgent, unambiguous, and designed to produce the outcome you want. Order directly from Amazon! |
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2. Putting First What Matters Most: Proven Strategies for Success in Work and in Life Book, Paperback, 304 pages, $12.00 plus $4.95 shipping & handling Discover your personality type — and communicate more effectively. Though assessments, exercises, and fun quizzes, you'll learn: Expert strategies for identifying, going after, and achieving your priorities.
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3. Putting First What Matters Most: Proven Strategies for Success in Work and in Life 4-volume audio CD set Over 4 hours of practical ideas, $9.95 each plus $4.95 shipping & handling. All 4 volumes for $35.80 plus $8.95 shipping & handling. Join Jane as she highlights key elements of her program. Listen to her discuss how you can put her winning strategies to work. Enjoy the inspirational stories! |
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4. How to Design Eye-Catching Brochures, Newsletters, Ads, Reports (and everything else you want people to read) 4-volume video set (3 hours, 19 minutes) includes the 61 page workbook (extra workbooks are available) $299.95 plus $8.95 shipping & handling (extra workbooks are $9.50 each, no additional shipping and handling for extra workbook orders up to ten units when ordering the video set) |
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5. How to Create High-Impact Design Book, 80-pages, bound so it will lie flat, the book is intended for you to use as an ongoing reference, $49.95 plus $4.95 shipping & handling Join Jane as she takes you through the design process. Good design doesn't just happen — it requires a keen understanding of readers' preferences and graphic design principles. In an easy to follow, step-by-step approach, you'll see the design approaches Jane discusses spring to life! From setting your objectives to coming up with a creative approach; from specing type (how many fonts should you use anyway?) to working with rules, drop caps, and dingbats; from integrating photographs to selecting grids, you'll be armed with knowledge you can use. Scores of examples highlight design principles in both the video and the book. Jane's clear and easy-to-read commentary makes theory spring alive. You be able to:
Your designs will win acclaim and accomplish your goals because they'll be methodically — not whimsically — created. |
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6. How to Create Well-Designed and Highly Informative Newsletters 4 volume video set (3 hours 30 minutes) includes the 48 page workbook (extra copies of the workbook are available) $199.95 plus $8.95 shipping & handling (extra workbooks are $9.50 each, no additional shipping and handling for extra workbook orders up to ten units when ordering the video set.) |
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7. How to Create High-Impact Newsletters Book, 94-pages, bound to lie flat as an on-going reference $49.95 plus $4.95 shipping & handling. From soup to nuts — everything you need to know to produce a newsletter that gets read is here. And nothing gets read more than a well-produced newsletter. From surveying your audience to writing it; from editing tricks of the trade to designing it to convey just the image you want; from distributing it to proving that it's working (and fixing it if it's not), this content-packed program will ensure your organization's publications are on the mark. Whether you're producing an Internet newsletter, a four-color publication, or whether you budget requires you to produce an inexpensive newsletter, you'll learn to write, edit, and design it quickly and well — and targeted to your specific readers. Follow along with Jane's viewer- (or reader-) oriented commentary as you:
Your newsletter will get read when you follow Jane's systematic approach. |
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8. Deadly Threads: A Josie Prescott Mystery Fashions fade, but death is eternal in Agatha finalist Jane K. Cleland’s irresistible new blend of vintage and vengeance Josie Prescott has begun hosting classes at her antiques and appraisals shop, nestled in the cozy little coastal town of Rocky Point, New Hampshire. The next class is on building a great vintage clothing collection. But when guest lecturer Riley Jordan is late, Josie begins class by reaching under a display table for a dazzling pair of Chanel heels. But instead of the heels, she finds Riley, dead. When it looks as if one of Josie’s employees may be involved in the murder, she teams up with the local police chief to investigate, one clue, and one fabulous vintage accessory, at a time.
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9. Silent Auction: A Josie Prescott Mystery In Silent Auction, the autumn foliage is in full fiery glory on a beautiful day in the little coastal town of Rocky Point, New Hampshire. Josie Prescott arrives at the town's renovated lighthouse to conduct an antiques appraisal and is horrified to discover the bludgeoned body of her neighbor Zoë's beloved nephew, Frankie. The owners of the lighthouse are avid antiques collectors, and Josie soon begins to suspect that a scrimshaw tooth from their collection may be the key to solving the crime that has shaken Rocky Point, and broken her dear friend's heart.
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10. Killer Keepsakes: A Josie Prescott Mystery Josie's cheerful and helpful assistant, Gretchen, who turned up unexpectedly just as Josie was setting up shop in New Hampshire doesn't show up for work one day. Surprise turns to alarm when a dead body is found in Gretchen's home—and Gretchen is the prime suspect. Josie sets out to find the real killer, and using her knowledge of antiques, discovers long-buried secrets that help bring Gretchen safely home.
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11. Antiques to Die For: A Josie Prescott Mystery In Cleland’s engaging third Josie Prescott mystery to feature the New Hampshire antiques dealer (after 2007’s Deadly Appraisal), Josie is stunned to learn that her fun-loving friend, Rosalie Chaffee, has been found, drowned, on the Rocky Point shore. When it becomes clear Rosalie was a victim of foul play, suspicion falls on Rosalie’s boss at Heyer’s Modular Furniture, his scheming wife and Rosalie’s gorgeous volunteer fireman boyfriend. The warm, endearing Josie decides not only to investigate but also to take care of Rosalie’s 12-year-old sister, Paige. Aided by a large support group of well-drawn characters headed by her police chief boyfriend, Josie follows such clues as an old diary, an artist’s palette and a misplaced tote bag. Among other antique lore, readers will learn the difference between a highboy and a tallboy in this cleverly crafted cozy.
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12. Deadly Appraisal: A Josie Prescott Mystery
Antiques dealer Josie Prescott thought she left trouble behind in New York City, where she weathered a price-fixing scandal in 2006's Consigned to Death , but her efforts to start afresh in New Hampshire stall when she gets mixed up in murder in Cleland's adept second cozy. After the Portsmouth Women's Guild representative, Maisy Gaylor, drops dead from potassium cyanide poisoning at a benefit gala that Josie has sponsored, Detective Rowcliff insinuates that Josie might have been the possible target. Cleland keeps the reader guessing about the true target of the poison and the possible suspects. Did Britt Epps, the chairman of the fete, have it in for Maisy, or does the theft of a $20,000 Chinese porcelain tureen mean Josie should still be worried about her nemesis from her former New York auction house? With the help of her lawyer and the intermittent cooperation of a nosy reporter, Josie finds some surprising answers.
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13. Consigned to Death: A Josie Prescott Mystery Antiques Roadshow fans will love this debut mystery packed with antiques lore and suspense set on the rugged New Hampshire coast. Josie Prescott's friends thought she was nuts when she left her high-paying New York auction house job to live on the beautiful New Hampshire coast. Truth is, Josie wondered herself — never mind that her peripheral involvement in a well-publicized price-fixing scandal made the idea of a new start enticing. And things are looking up — that is, until she gets mixed up in murder, and the eligible but emotionally distant local police chief pegs her as a suspect. Josie suddenly has a lot to lose, and no desire to leave her new life — and the possibility of a little romance — behind. So she sets out to find the killer. Afterall, Josie is grateful for her second chance...even with a killer on the loose.
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