FLIP: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit by Rick Villani, Clay Davis Amazon Price: $14.93
Customer Review: I actually borrowed this book from the library and decided to buy it because I wanted to highlight and circle different parts for easy reference. Definitely a good buy and comes w/ great spreadsheets and checklists when looking through possible flips.
Happy Flipping!
High-Impact Interview Questions: 701 Behavior-Based Questions to Find the Rig... by Victoria A. Hoevemeyer Amazon Price: $12.21
Customer Review: Great explanation of the rationale behind behavior based interviewing. Guides the interviewer through the process of developing questions and evaluation procedures. Interview process is focused, to obtain more accurate and relevant information from candidates.
The Ultimate Marketing Plan: Find Your Hook. Communicate Your Message. Make Y... by Dan S. Kennedy Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Review: This book is really useful. It is an excellent tool for literally any type of business. The only downside is he is constantly plugging his own website, but I guess you shouldn't expect anything less in a book about promotions.
Emerging Real Estate Markets: How to Find and Profit from Up-and-Coming Areas by David Lindahl Amazon Price: $15.61
Customer Review: My god...I read entirely too much!! Now, I'm not going to lie to you and say that Dave doesn't plug his bootcamps and stuff however, I can honestly say he is the real deal. The dude knows his stuff!! I think the title, "Understanding Real Estate Market Cycles and How To Profit From Them", would have been a little better though.(but what do I know)
Nonetheless, it's a great book and a good introduction to Dave and his methodology.
Can you read his book and then go out there and do it? It depends truthfully. Are you the type of person that needs someone to hold their hand and walk them around the block to show them the scary spots....or are you the type that can realisticlly pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and is willing to stumble a little?
Personally, I'm an active real estate investor in both SFR and multi-family units (duplex, tri, quads) and I still go to seminars and learn the ropes before venturing too far out.
Hey...in a nutshell...BUY THE BOOK READ IT DO IT!! Geez, it's only $20 bucks.
Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions By Knowing What ... by Michael J. Marquardt Amazon Price: $18.45
Customer Review: Leading With Questions is an "opener" sort of book. The value in a work of this nature is perhaps in getting a general discussion of question thinking vs. answer thinking off the ground. One might consider it as an introductory text for MBA, communications, or negotiation studies. Marquardt basically sets forth his thesis then ploddingly exapands on the obvious or near obvious while the reader searches for a nugget of insight here and there. Does that make it a superfluous book ? No, because we are culturally so deficient in this mode of thinking that the idea of shifting to question expertise versus the appearance of having all the answers does constitute an important perspective reversal. For some, this may come as a revelation. For others already versed in questioning skills, such as legal professionals or therapists, this will be a needless restatement of well understood techniques.
Marquardt often pads his work by using the same passages of quotation over again at multiple points in the discussion, and he offers no suprising real world scenes of questions in action.
The book generally sounds as if a pile of lecture notes and broadly valid observations taken at some distance from the furnace of real action were cobbled together into a kind of doughy handbook of not such bad ideas.
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville Amazon Price: $19.77
Customer Review: This is a great introduction to some of the more important concepts in search and its corollary - beingfound. Finding information, things, or people on the Internet is one of the most important issues for today's researchers and knowledge workers. Similarly, for businesses or others with a message to get across - being found is critical. Being found is the basis for all search engine optimization and search engine advertising.
I found the information in the book regarding large scale databases and what can be found in them and what often cannot, to be worth the price of the book alone. The book also discusses geolocation tagging which is a very important concept that is just now becoming pervasive. The author also discusses folksonomies (a correlated concept to tagging often by the masses - i.e., by ordinary people).
If you are interested in learning about search, about being found, about information architecture, as well as the Internet and some important concepts that need to be understood in order to use the Internet effectively, then I highly recommend this book.
In my opinion , Find it Online is the best. I learned so much more about online research from it then the previous 2 books. That not say, that I didnt learn anything for Information Trapping, it is great for information that need constant updating and Online Research, I learned to use advanced searching more effectively.
But Find it now , gave me a plan, even before you begin to search online, that will in the long run save you time. And it convinced me that for real important research, a combination of a fee based service with free online searches are the only way to go. I have and still do have an aversion to paying for anything that could be had for free but Alan Schlein makes a good argument to use it when there is a lot at stake.
Now, for my negatives, although the book indicated that it was revised 2006, a lot of the information is dated and has not be revised. The book still talks about ICQ, and he never talks about You Tube even though that has revolutionized the internet, not one word and this was revised last year? And how about myspace and facebook? Looking for someone in their 20 or so age, that is the first place to look. Not one word, revised last year?
But the great information makes up for this,and some typos. It is worth the price and I look forward to the next revision but before buying I will check to see if he included all of the lastest web advances. I hope Alan and his people do not get lazy and do minor changes , that will be a shame.
The Social Styles Handbook: Find Your Comfort Zone and Make People Feel Comfo... by Wilson Learning Library Amazon Price: $13.57
Customer Review: Social styles is one of many two-quadrant systems for explaining people's personalities and interactions. The unique perspective of this system is it is concerned with how other people perceive you. On one axis you are rated if you are concerned with people, or with tasks. On the other axis you are rated if you ask, or if you tell, when you want someone else to do something. No one social style is superior to another. The key to being effective is your ability to be flexible and work with the various social styles. Thus, style versatility is the second portion of the book.
I found this model very useful in all facets of my life. Where I work the dominant personality quadrant outnumbers the others 2:1 and determines the site's personality. We have a companion division with a different dominant personality - friction between the two sites on projects is just as the social styles predicts.
In my workplace this material is taught as Leadership Styles using materials Wilson Learning also prepared. The class to me presented the material much better than this book. The book is missing something - thus, minus a star.
Another book on the topic is "Personal Styles & Effective Performance" by
David W. Merrill and Roger H. Reid. According to my instructor, it is the original source which Wilson Learning and The Trane Co. created their respective training programs.
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