Harmony Ink Press is delighted and honored to showcase the short fiction of some of the best up-and-coming authors working in the LGBT genre. The stories in this third volume of Harmonious Hearts represent the winners of our Young Author Challenge—a group of talented writers between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one.The stories in this anthology are as diverse as their creators and range from the speculative to snapshots of everyday life for people growing up in a society in flux...

The idea that sparked into a small business approximately twenty years ago has transitioned into a franchise-based compa- ny, Bio-One Inc, where we now help to serve individuals, families and businesses in over 36 states, and continue growing at an ex- ceptional rate, reflecting a 100% Success Rate for franchise own- ership. My goal, as a business owner and leader, has always been to help share success and to create an informative and education- al franchise that breeds success continually....

Do you have a problem you've never faced before? Are you looking for an idea that will be your next big breakthrough? You are not alone. Every day, thousands of entrepreneurs are creating innovative solutions to business problems. The best of the best are here, in one of the most useful business guides to date.The Best Secrets of Great Small Businesses is the ultimate entrepreneurial guidebook. It contains a wealth of phenomenal ideas that will inspire inn...

BUILD and manage a SALES FORCE that's worth sell-ebratingUnderstanding that a sales force is only as successful as its management is the first step to improving overall sales performance. The rest can be found inside this hands-on guide that shows, step-by-step, how to train and retain a team of top sales professionals.Sales Management Demystified addresses every step of the process--including hiring, training, compensation, organization, deploymen...

In todays changing and competitive economic environment, CEOs, corporate executives, and shareholders are no longer strictly concerned with how well a project was executed even if it was finished on time and on budget. Most projects are now being viewed as strategic investments with the primary concern being the value that a project contributed to the companys bottom line. Project benefit attainment usually occurs after the project team has disbanded and handed over the project deliverable...

Whether yours is a small one-person hop or a large mega-consulting powerhouse, the revised edition of The Consultant's Scorecard helps you move past the same old promises and provide cold, hard proof of success--which you must offer if you want to compete in today's fiercely competitive and fast-growing consulting industry.Jack and Patti Phillips have fully updated their authoritative work to put you in the best possible position to sell your services to clients who demand...

This guidebook is a vital resource for all sales professionals, brimming with field-proven techniques that work in any industry.Completely revised with fresh examples and all new chapters, the second edition of Red-Hot Cold Call Selling reveals the secrets, strategies, and tips you can use to elevate your prospecting skills and take their sales into the stratosphere. You will learn how you can:define and target your ideal market -- and stop s...

Blizz Richards and his band of wacky cryptids are back for another illustrated adventure!Everyone thinks the Loch Ness monster is one-of-a-kind. But that just means Nessie's lonely. And only yeti Blizz Richards and his team of cryptozoologists can help her find a friend just like her. With a little help from a time-traveling leprechaun, the gang travels back 65 million years to the age of dinosaurs to begin the search. But they aren't ready for the dangers that wait for them: monst...

HR professionals have made major strides toward becoming strategic partners. But they need to do more - by generating value through savvy decisions about talent. HR leaders typically assume that, to make such decisions, they must develop sophisticated analytical tools from scratch. Even then, the resulting tools often fail to engage their peers.In Retooling HR, John Boudreau shows how HR leaders can break this cycle - by adapting powerful analytical tools already used by o...

Understanding the Professional Buyer is a practical guide for sales people, giving them insight into the behaviour and strategies of buyers, so that they are able to deal with them more successfully and regain power in the buyer-seller relationship.In recent years the balance of power between buyer and seller has swung dramatically in favour of the buyer. Sellers are now faced with more professional, more knowledgeable and more powerful buyers - and the sales techn...

Well here we are.Senior Year.A year that by definition means I'll be one of about 300 other kids running my school.Greenville High.I know what you're all thinking. "Oh no, here comes the book about the virgin wallflower who the popular guy meets and instantly falls for."Wrong.I'm not an ugly duckling that the cool cats use to make themselves look like even bigger jerks, and I'm definitely not a wallflower, though that whole virginal thing, well tha...

In this helpful guide, you will discover ten tangible metrics C-level executives do look for, and teaches you to apply those metrics to build a case for your products and services that will unlock the door to greater sales.With budgets more stringent than ever, important purchasing decisions have moved up the ladder to the C-suite. When it comes to selling to those at the highest level, author Michael Nick has a revelation for you: ROI is no longer the key metric f...