Align Your Business with the Real You: Connect with Yourself, Create What Matters Most, and Define Your Success by Jennifer Musser - Book Tour - Blurb Blitz - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

Align Your Business with the Real You:
Connect with Yourself, Create What Matters Most, and Define Your Success
by Jennifer Musser

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GENRE:  Nonfiction

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BOOK BLURB:

Is the exhilaration of entrepreneurship tainted with exhaustion? Discover more for your business and yourself.

Do you feel like your professional and personal lives are out of sync? Maxed out trying to juggle work and family? Are you unsure where you belong or how to create a roadmap to get there? Global business consultant and passionate creative Jennifer Musser has spent decades helping high-functioning corporations solve complex puzzles, reduce risk, and increase profit. And now she’s here to show you how to refresh your perspective and fuel the future you want.

Align Your Business with the Real You: Connect with Yourself, Create What Matters Most, and Define Your Success is a groundbreaking paradigm shift for anyone interested in running a company. Well aware of common concerns and struggles faced by every founder, Musser delves into finding your true goals with help from practical exercises, empathetic stories, and easy-to-apply insights. And as you use her ego-free blueprint, you’ll delight in a bounty of unique takeaways that let you stay grounded no matter the situation.

In Align Your Business with the Real You, you’ll discover:

- Strategies for staying honest with yourself that keep you on the right track

- Tips for writing your own definition of success, so your personal and professional life is fulfilling

- Ways to healthily engage with your emotions and feel good about your everyday

- How to remember that you're the boss and permit yourself to funnel time and money toward your ultimate objectives

- Tools that you can instantly put to use, ideas for renewing your commitment, and much, much more!

Align Your Business with the Real You is a fresh and candid guidebook for entrepreneurs. If you like relatable teachers, down-to-earth chats, and heartfelt advice, then you’ll adore Jennifer Musser’s straightforward approach.

Read Align Your Business with the Real You to start getting results right now!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

EXCERPT TWO:

Understanding your role and your learnings in your journey is so critical and powerful.

There isn’t a distinction between who you are as a business owner and who you are in all the other roles you play. As business professionals running around all day, it is challenging to view yourself in a big picture way when you are faced with a constantly growing list of to-dos. 

Have you felt like your work environment is growing stagnant and mundane? Have you felt like you’re drained by unhelpful personalities in your environment?

If so, that can turn into feeling like:

• I’m understaffed.

• I’m overutilized.

• I’m undervalued.

• I’m bogged down.

• I’m stressed out.

• I’m tired.

Some days you feel too exhausted to be kind. You’re not alone. This is a flashing red light that you are operating in your survival zone rather than your strength zone. Perform for another day. Quelch the work fires. Keep multiple balls in the air.

Meanwhile, you’re not a trained circus act.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AUTHOR BIO:

JENNIFER MUSSER shines a light on the financial operations of businesses where it is needed most to raise profit, solidify processes, save time, optimize talent, reduce risk, and help business leaders achieve meaningful growth with results they can see—and feel.

Jennifer knows how to lead businesses. She holds over twenty years of experience in global consulting, corporate finance, and entrepreneurship. Jennifer is the founder of JLM & Associates Consulting, LLC, where she applies her big company expertise to steer high-achieving business leaders with financial and operational tools and support for growth with less stress.

With a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Finance) from Villanova University, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification, and multiple certifications in business strategy, Jennifer is committed to helping small businesses succeed.

She loves life (and coffee) with her family and two dogs, Penny and Rockie, in New Jersey.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CONNECT WITH JENNIFER:

Website:

JLMAConsulting.com

Blog:

https://jlmaconsulting.com/enlightened-leadership-blog

Instagram:

@jlmaconsulting

LinkedIn:

Linkedin.com/in/JenniferLMusser

Email:

JenniferMusser@JLMAConsulting.com

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BOOK BUY LINKS:

Amazon US Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DV98R87X

Amazon US Paperback:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4M8G6KD

Amazon CA Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B0DV98R87X

Amazon CA Paperback:

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F4M8G6KD

Barnes and Noble NOOK eBook:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/align-your-business-with-the-real-you-jennifer-musser/1146760437?ean=2940181474475

Barnes and Noble Paperback:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/align-your-business-with-the-real-you-jennifer-musser/1146760437?ean=9798991544214

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GIVEAWAY:

Jennifer will be awarding a $25 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card (Winner's Choice!!!) to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Racial Justice at Work by Mary-Frances Winters and The Winters Group Team - Book Tour - Blurb Blitz - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

Hi, lovelies!!  It gives me great pleasure today to host Mary-Frances Winters and The Winters Group Team and their new book, “Racial Justice at Work,” here on FAB!!  For other stops on their Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.

Be sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to win a $25 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card!!  Also, come back daily to interact with Mary-Frances Winters and The Winters Group Team and to increase your chances of winning!!

Thanks for stopping by!!  Wishing you all lots of good luck in this fabulous giveaway!!

Creating justice-centered organizations is the next frontier in DEI. This book shows how to go beyond compliance to address harm, share power, and create equity.

Traditional DEI work has not succeeded at dismantling systems that perpetuate harm and exclude BIPOC groups. Proponents of DEI have put too much focus on HR solutions, such as increasing representation, and not enough emphasis on changing the deeper organizational systems that perpetuate inequities—in other words, on justice. DEIJ work diverges from traditional metrics-driven DEI work and requires a new approach to effectively dismantle power structures.

This thought-provoking, solutions-oriented book offers strategic advice on how to adopt a justice mindset, anticipate and address resistance, shift power dynamics, and create a psychologically safe organizational culture. Individual chapters provide pragmatic how-to guides to implementing justice-centered practices in recruitment and hiring, data collection and analysis, learning and development, marketing and advertising, procurement, philanthropy, and more.

DEIJ pioneer Mary-Frances Winters and her coauthors address some of the most significant aspects of adding a justice focus to diversity work, showing how to create a workplace culture where equity is not a checklist of performative actions but a lived reality.

EXCERPT TWO:

Over the past fifty years, reams of research have been published around the idea of psychological safety, an aspect of organizational culture that cultivates openness, engagement, and positive change. It is the feeling among employees that employers and managers will not punish them for speaking up. As David Altman from the Center for Creative Leadership puts it: “People need to feel comfortable speaking up, asking naïve questions, and disagreeing with the status quo to create ideas that make a real difference . . . . It doesn’t mean that everybody is nice all the time. It means you embrace the conflict and speak up, knowing that your team has your back and you have their backs.” While most of the literature in this area has focused on team dynamics and organizational hierarchy—including the business case for psychological safety—the current zeitgeist requires we refine it even further with an eye toward justice: A just organization ensures that Black and POC employees are psychologically safe.

The majority of organizations in the US are still hierarchical in their structures. Generally speaking, org charts are a nominal variation of “executives are positioned above upper management, which in turn stands above middle management, which then oversees the general staff population.” There may be more levels, different terminology, or perhaps even a nice-looking horizontal layout, but at its core, this structure has become the operating paradigm in staffing. There are plenty of benefits of utilizing such a structure, and it can be highly effective in producing an organization’s desired outcomes, whatever they may be. The adage too often remains true, though: “Bad news doesn’t travel up.”

More to the point: bad news doesn’t travel up if no one feels safe sharing bad news. Likewise, good ideas die a quick death along with the bad news if employees expect their ideas to be overlooked, criticized, or dismissed out of hand. Put another way—the traditional workplace hierarchy often suppresses growth and change by suppressing bad news and good ideas due to employees not feeling psychologically safe. “Often” is the operative word there, for it doesn’t have to be so.

It takes a concerted effort from the team and company leaders to create a psychologically safe working environment, especially for Black and POC employees. Leaders have to be willing to receive open, honest feedback and not feel threatened by ideas from those lower in the hierarchy—especially employees of color—and cultivate a culture where everyone feels safe sharing.

AUTHOR BIOS:

Mary-Frances Winters is the founder and CEO of the Winters Group Inc. She was named a top ten diversity trailblazer by Forbes and a diversity pioneer by Profiles in Diversity Journal, and she is the recipient of the prestigious ATHENA Award as well as the Winds of Change Award conferred by the Forum on Workplace Inclusion. Winters is also the author of We Can’t Talk about That at Work, Inclusive Conversations, and Black Fatigue.

The Winters Group Team contributors are Kevin A. Carter, Megan Ellinghausen, Scott Ferry, Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez, Dr. Terrence Harewood, Tami Jackson, Dr. Megan Larson, Leigh Morrison, Katelyn Peterson, Mareisha N. Reese, Thamara Subramanian, and Rochelle Younan-Montgomery.

CONNECT WITH THE AUTHORS:

Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn
Website

AMAZON BOOK BUY LINKS:

Amazon US Kindle eBook

Amazon US Paperback

Amazon US Audiobook

Amazon CA Kindle eBook

Amazon CA Paperback

Amazon CA Audiobook

GIVEAWAY – ENTER DAILY:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase is made, I may receive a small commission to help support this blog.  This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those fabulous community outreach projects and awesome giveaways on here**

This contest is sponsored by a third party. Fabulous and Brunette is a registered host of Goddess Fish Promotions.  Prizes are given away by the sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.

Avoiding Swindlers by Al Rosen - Book Tour - Book Blast - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

Hello, lovelies!!  It gives me great pleasure today to host Al Rosen and his new book, “Avoiding Swindlers,” here on FAB!!  For other stops on his Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.

Be sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to win a $10 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card!!  Also, come back daily to interact with Al Rosen and to increase your chances of winning!!

Thanks for stopping by!!  Wishing you all lots of good luck in this fabulous giveaway!!

Avoiding Swindlers

by Al Rosen

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GENRE: Non-Fiction (Business/Investing)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BOOK BLURB:

The book deals with actual situations that resulted in investors losing multi-millions of dollars to financial tricksters. Emphasis is placed upon learning how to detect early warning signs. Financial exposure can be minimized prior to situations deteriorating into bankruptcies. However, individual investors have to take specific actions after doing some homework. Otherwise, the alternative is to lose money by listening to "hot tips," often involving publicly traded securities.

Some types of commonly seen but inappropriate financial reporting are permitted in certain countries (including parts of North America), even though they deeply aid the financial tricksters. Governments are seriously neglecting investors by not prohibiting certain reporting trickery. Overall, in some regions, investor protection is simply archaic (including allowing false advertising). Currently, investors face serious risks.

The book attempts to minimize technical language. Stress is placed upon encouraging investors to look for specific warning signs before opening their purses and wallets to the growing group of tricksters.

"Avoiding Swindlers" will change the way you look at Canadian investments.

This book was featured on Publisher Newswire's 2022, "10 Books to Bookmark" list.

https://californianewswire.com/publishers-newswire-releases-its-2022-books-to-bookmark-list-with-10-great-books-youve-likely-never-seen

The book also received a glowing review from ReaderViews.

https://readerviewsarchives.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/avoiding-swindlers-rosen

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

EXCERPT THREE:

IFRS’ Prime Deficiencies Strangely, IFRS was somehow brought to Canada by a surprise group, being our external financial statement auditors. IFRS was portrayed at the outset by many auditors as merely being a “continuation” of, or very similar to, its predecessor, Canadian “generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP.” Such a comment is disturbingly false, in crucial ways. Canadian GAAP and IFRS are almost Al Rosen 22 opposites. For instance, the concepts of what constitutes, or qualifies as being called “net income” often are totally different, and are material dollars apart. Considerable attention has to be paid to the major differences between the two. Most investors seem to be unaware of the huge dollar differences between the two and their consequences for their loss of savings. Supporters of IFRS claim that IFRS is “principles” based, and not “rules-based.” Unfortunately, aside from adopting some U.S. GAAP-based “concepts,” the IFRS “principles” are difficult to ascertain. Why? IFRS gives extensive freedom to individual managers to choose their own methods of accounting and reporting. Unknown “principles” are well beyond scary. Clearly such management freedom of choice prevents, or destroys, comparability among companies in the same industry. Accordingly, IFRS-supporters themes about IFRS being a universal, across-the-world, basis of reporting is much more than a huge fiction. This fiction point merits considerable emphasis, Chapter after Chapter in this book. Yet, IFRS supporters seem to cling to the absurd idea that Canada is a member of a new universal group of countries (that are “building one worldwide basis of reporting,” for investor comparability purposes). Not so; nowhere close. IFRS allows extensive management Avoiding Swindlers 23 choice of alleged “principles.” Comparability is automatically destroyed. Somehow, in our world, the fact that more than one language, one culture, and various religions, as well as multiple heights and weights of people exist, and have not been standardized, after all of these years, seems to have gone unnoticed by IFRS accountants.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AUTHOR BIO:

L.S. (Al) Rosen has combined being a university professor (holding a PhD) with several qualifications in the fields of investigative accounting and reporting (such as acting as a fraud examiner) for over 35 years. He has authored many reports for court cases, and has testified in courts in various countries in many large-dollar cases. Often the allegations are that investors have been deceived by materially misleading financial reports. He has co-authored two previous books, and articles, with his son Mark. They address how and why multi-million dollars of investor money essentially, and often quickly, vanished. Real situations are the subject of these writings. Money was stolen and hardships resulted.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CONNECT WITH AL ROSEN:

Goodreads Author Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1545841.Al_Rosen

Goodreads Book Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61825725-avoiding-swindlers

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BOOK BUY LINKS:

Amazon US Kindle eBook:

https://amzn.to/3Y9xr53

Amazon US Paperback:

https://amzn.to/3x5nFox

Amazon US Hardcover:

https://amzn.to/3x19yAE

Amazon CA Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.ca/Avoiding-Swindlers-Al-Rosen-ebook/dp/B0B76RZM25

Amazon CA Paperback:

https://www.amazon.ca/Avoiding-Swindlers-Al-Rosen/dp/022888117X

Amazon CA Hardcover:

https://www.amazon.ca/Avoiding-Swindlers-Al-Rosen/dp/0228881188

Barnes and Noble NOOK eBook:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/avoiding-swindlers-al-rosen/1141888418?ean=2940165897290

Barnes and Noble Paperback:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/avoiding-swindlers-al-rosen/1141888418?ean=9780228881179

Barnes and Noble Hardcover:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/avoiding-swindlers-al-rosen/1141888418?ean=9780228881186

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GIVEAWAY INFO:

Al Rosen will be awarding a $10 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card (Winner’s Choice!!!) to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase is made, I may receive a small commission to help support this blog.  This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those fabulous community outreach projects and awesome giveaways on here**

This contest is sponsored by a third party. Fabulous and Brunette is a registered host of Goddess Fish Promotions.  Prizes are given away by the sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.

Strategy Quest by Paul A Sacco - Book Tour - Exclusive Excerpt - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

************

Have you heard of BookFunnel?!

This eBook and many others are available for FREE every week!!!  Grab your copy of “Strategy Quest,” by Paul A Sacco and other fabulous eBooks below:

https://dl.bookfunnel.com/q6gn21s5w5

************

Hello, lovelies!!  It gives me great pleasure today to host Paul A Sacco and his new book, “Strategy Quest,” here on FAB!!  For other stops on his Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.

Be sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to win a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!!  Also, come back daily to interact with Paul and to increase your chances of winning!!

This eBook is available for FREE on BookFunnel during the book tour!!!  See below for more details.

Thanks for stopping by!!  Wishing you all lots of good luck in this fabulous giveaway!!

Strategy Quest

by Paul A Sacco

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GENRE: Self-Help (Business)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BLURB:

In Strategy Quest: The Executive Guide for Finding Business Opportunities, you will learn how to achieve the strategic mindset necessary to create and decide on the business opportunities that will put you ahead of your competition.

Using the psychology of personality type, you will understand how to make the shift to this growth mindset. In Strategy Quest, you will learn that the strategic mindset is composed of Strategic Intuition and Strategic Thinking. Strategic Intuition creates strategic visions and concepts, while strategic thinking decides if these are genuinely strategic and the right choice for your business.

Strategy Quest uses business examples to show what the strategic mindset is and isn’t. The book also equips you with the tools that you will need for your Strategy Quest and shows you how to overcome the obstacle that you might encounter.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT:

It is unfortunate that people interchangeably use the words manager and leader.  We see these words as titles; however, they also distinguish functional roles.  I apply the term executive to those with roles as both manager and leader.  The roles demand different mindsets and participation in different sets of activities.  Leaders proactively find opportunities to change the status quo, while managers reactively rely on the status quo.

Harvard Professor John Kotter has long tried to edify business people on the differences between management and leadership.  Kotter explained that one of the functional differences is that while leaders set direction, managers plan [and execute][1]. Kotter explains that “Planning is a management process, deductive in nature and designed to produce orderly results, not change.  Setting a direction is more inductive.  Leaders gather a broad range of data and look for patterns, relationships and linkages that help explain things. What’s more, the direction-setting aspect of leadership does not produce plans; it creates visions and strategies” (3).  Kotter’s paper remains widely used in business schools, yet these institutions do not teach their students how to create visions and strategies.

Strategic leadership is about changing the status quo by finding unconventional concepts to achieve a qualitative strategic goal intended to improve the competitive position of a business.

The two different hats that executives must wear require different views on the use of creative intuition.  To create visions and concepts, leaders must use strategic intuition. However, to ensure that they meet their objectives, managers must use reliable tactics, and so they avoid proactively imagining ways to change.  Since change is risky, the oft-heard mantra of managers is, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Managers reactively modify a tactic when it either fails to solve a tangible problem or is found to be measurably inefficient or unreliable according to some standard.  Often, they benchmark competitors to find the best tactics.

Unfortunately, many executives attempt to find strategic opportunities using this same management approach.  Rather than proactively create their own truly strategic opportunities, they wait until a problem with their strategy becomes tangible.  They then benchmark the strategies of others or adopt the latest business trends.  On the other hand, strategic leaders proactively create new strategic concepts using their strategic intuition.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AUTHOR BIO:

As President of Propheta Lucro Management Consultants, Paul specializes in helping leaders find strategic opportunities. One of the world's top experts in strategic thinking, Paul has over 35 years of experience managing and leading businesses. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto holding both a B.A. Sc. in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management. Paul is available to speak about business strategy or to teach, coach or facilitate the Strategy Quest method. For more information visit our web-site at: www.prophetalucro.com. Or contact Paul at: Email: Paul@prophetalucro.com.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CONNECT WITH PAUL:

Website:

https://paul-sacco.com

Website:

http://www.prophetalucro.com

Email:

Paul@prophetalucro.com

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/PLIdeas

Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/PLMC_Strategy

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsacco

Goodreads Author Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20438419.Paul_A_Sacco

Goodreads Book Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54305887-strategy-quest

Amazon Author Page:

http://amzn.to/3BNNM3J

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BOOK BUY LINKS & FREE BOOK INFO:

**The Strategy Quest eBook is on available for FREE on BookFunnel during the book tour!!!  See link info below!!!**

BookFunnel eBook:

(Available for FREE!!!)

https://books.bookfunnel.com/businesspromo/q6gn21s5w5

Amazon US Kindle eBook:

http://amzn.to/3hbpFUN

Amazon Paperback:

http://amzn.to/38NaYCU

Amazon US Hardcover:

http://amzn.to/3DVSRck

Amazon CA Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.ca/Strategy-Quest-Executive-Business-Opportunities-ebook/dp/B08B85CWM2

Amazon CA Paperback:

https://www.amazon.ca/Strategy-Quest-Executive-Business-Opportunities/dp/022880843X

Amazon CA Hardcover:

https://www.amazon.ca/Strategy-Quest-Executive-Business-Opportunities/dp/0228808464

Apple Books eBook:

https://books.apple.com/us/book/strategy-quest-executive-guide-to-finding-business/id1518883691

Barnes and Noble NOOK eBook:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strategy-quest-paul-a-sacco/1137187052?ean=2940164114633

Barnes and Noble Paperback:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strategy-quest-paul-a-sacco/1137187052?ean=9780228808435

Barnes and Noble Hardcover:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strategy-quest-paul-a-sacco/1137187052?ean=9780228808466

The Book Depository Paperback:

https://www.bookdepository.com/Strategy-Quest-Paul-Sacco/9780228808435

The Book Depository Hardcover:

https://www.bookdepository.com/Strategy-Quest-Paul-Sacco/9780228808466

BAM! Books-A-Million Paperback:

https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Strategy-Quest/Paul-A-Sacco/9780228808435

BAM! Books-A-Million Hardcover:

https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Strategy-Quest/Paul-A-Sacco/9780228808466

The Bookshop Paperback:

https://bookshop.org/books/strategy-quest-the-executive-guide-to-finding-business-opportunities-9780228808466/9780228808435

The Bookshop Hardcover:

https://bookshop.org/books/strategy-quest-the-executive-guide-to-finding-business-opportunities-9780228808466/9780228808466

Indigo CA eBook:

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/strategy-quest-the-executive-guide/9780228808459-item.html

Indigo CA Paperback:

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/strategy-quest-the-executive-guide/9780228808435-item.html

Kobo US eBook:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/strategy-quest

Kobo CA eBook:

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/strategy-quest

Smashwords eBook:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1028030

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GIVEAWAY INFO:

Paul will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase is made, I may receive a small commission to help support this blog.  This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those awesome giveaways on here**

This contest is sponsored by a third party. Fabulous and Brunette is a registered host of Goddess Fish Promotions.  Prizes are given away by the sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.

Rock Your Business by Boni Wagner-Stafford - Book Tour - Guest Post - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Boni Wagner-Stafford and her new book, “Rock Your Business”!  For other stops on her Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.

Be sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to win a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!!  Also, come back daily to interact with Boni and to increase your chances of winning!

Thanks for stopping by!  Wishing you lots of luck in this fabulous giveaway!

Rock Your Business

by Boni Wagner-Stafford

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GENRE: Business

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BLURB:

Rock Your Business is a book for those just starting out with a small business... or those considering starting a business. Told from those that have been there.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

EXCERPT ONE:

The Geology of Business

Geology: a science that deals with the earth’s physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it.

The way we all work is changing – because of technology, a globalized economy, and business evolution. Our fathers – Mr. Wagner and Mr. Stafford – each worked for one employer for the bulk of their careers. Our mothers bridged that gap between doing the ‘right’ thing, which for a time was staying home with the kids, and doing what fulfilled them. That was, at various times and for each of them, owning and operating a store and working in the management ranks of a major Canadian telecommunications company.

In our parents’ day, it was expected and common to have a single employer, if not a single career. Today, not so much.

About 15 years ago, a person could expect to have five careers in his or her lifetime. Today?

In Canada, more people were self-employed in 2016 (nearly 2.8 million) than at any time in the previous 30 years. The OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development) reports self-employment rates from 2015 as a percentage of total employment as follows:

The United States 6.5% Canada 8.6%

Australia 10.3% Germany 10.8%

Japan 11.1%

United Kingdom 14.9%

European Union (28 countries) 16.1% Italy 24.7%

Entrepreneurs ask questions, challenge the status quo, compete successfully against “traditional” companies and come up with new processes and products that drive innovation.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GUEST POST:

Five Reasons You Should Read My Book

1.   You hate being told what to do.

Uh-huh. Us too. That’s why we’re in business for ourselves and we live on a sailboat. So we can do whatever the *#4& we want. Which is how we learned a ton of great stuff about starting a business.

Now we’re passing that great stuff on to you.

Some people pay thousands of dollars to attend business school. Nothing wrong with that, but it isn’t for everyone. Our book is for people who have recently started – or are planning to start – a business. It’s also for those who work independently, which could include freelancing or not necessarily for a single employer. In our experience, that means you’re at least a little bit similar to us in wanting to sort things out for yourself. No boss!

2.   You’re a just-want-to-get-started kind of person.

OMG yes. Who has time to sit around and wait until they’ve “learned” everything? We like to figure it out along the way. And in every chapter, we give you what you need to get-started-now and Rock Your Business!

It’s not all fun and games. But it is all real. Real life, that is.

We share stories of what we’ve done. Even if it ain’t pretty. Some lessons are just messy, right? We also interviewed nearly two dozen other business startup rock stars and we share their wisdom with you too.

3.   You like to enjoy what you read, even when it’s a how-to book.

I brought my journalism skills, of course, both to interviewing more than two dozen other small business rock stars and in turning the information into usable, practical information every startup entrepreneur, small business owner, freelancer or independent professional can use. John has been running his own businesses all his life and his experiences are well represented here too.

4.   You secretly learn from others who have ‘been there, done that’.

My co-author (and husband)and I have started and built business both together and separately, and we’ve also worked directly with other business owners helping them build. So we’ve been there, done that. And we’ve written the book to help you achieve this vaulted status too :-0

We’re Canadians, but we live and work aboard our 40’ sailboat, Ingenium, currently off the Pacific coast of Mexico in the Sea of Cortez. We’re members of that revolutionary geographically independent group of free spirited professionals who leverage technology and work wherever we happen to be in the world. I started doing research on the statistics, and looking for other books out there that spoke to this audience, and other than Timothy Ferriss’s 4-Hour Work Week, there wasn’t much to speak of.

So, we wrote Rock Your Business!

5.   You’re looking for real substance about the things you need to manage when starting, running, and growing your business.

Yes! Here’s a little snapshot of what you’ll find out about:

•       Curious about defining your purpose? Check.

•       Want to explore options for your business structure? Check.

•       Wonder why people are always telling you to consult a lawyer for that? Check.

•       Think intellectual property is the sprawling estate of Bill Gates? We’ll set you straight.

•       Want to know how soon you can start hiring other people to do the stuff you hate? Check.

•       What exactly is all the fuss about cash flow? Check chapter 11.

•       Oh, and what about ditching the customers that drive you crazy? You go right ahead. We’ll walk you through it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AUTHOR BIO:

Boni Wagner-Stafford is a full-time writer, ghostwriter, editor, and author. Boni's writing has helped other authors, business leaders and coaches thrive.

For more than 10 years Boni was with the Ontario government. She held a number of senior communications and management roles. She worked on 5 consecutive Ontario budget documents. Most noteworthy is the 2008 Ontario Budget for which Boni was managing editor. She also played key editorial management roles in government reports such as Ontario’s Action Plan for Seniors. While in senior management Boni led teams that managed strategic communications for files such as securities regulation, auto insurance, tax reform, credit union and real estate legislative reform and tourism industry modernization.

Boni also worked for 15 years as a television reporter. She was also a news anchor and a producer. As a journalist, she worked under the names Boni Fox and Boni Fox Gray (Globe and Mail story about the names here). Boni’s stories spanned politics, government, crime, health, environmental and social issues. Her work won several awards.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CONNECT WITH BONI:

Website:

http://bclearwriting.com

Facebook:

http://facebook.com/BoniWagnerStaffordAuthor

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/bclearwriting

Goodreads Author Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16416184.Boni_Wagner_Stafford

Goodreads Book Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35842523-rock-your-business

Amazon Author Page:

http://amzn.to/2yMRqyW

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AMAZON BOOK BUY LINKS:

Amazon Kindle:

http://amzn.to/2yMbPUD

Amazon Paperback:

http://amzn.to/2yosNED

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GIVEAWAY INFO:

Boni will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase made I may receive a small commission to help support this blog.  This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those awesome giveaways on here.**

This contest is sponsored by a third party. Fabulous and Brunette is a registered host of Goddess Fish Promotions.  Prizes are given away by the sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.