A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts—no MBA required!The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses.In today’s business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious reading that would put even a CEO to sleep.From hiring and firing to strategizing and calculating revenues, ...

Money management is more complicated than ever - you have to deal with yo-yo'ing stock markets, rising health care and home prices, taxes, and employment. Everywhere you look, there's more to worry about. Where do you start? The 250 Personal Finance Questions Everyone Should Ask gives you the simple, straightforward answers you need to protect your finances. Written in a quick, easy, accessible style, this comprehensive handbook book takes you through twenty-five key financial cat...

Let's face it: Today's economy sucks!There's a housing crisis, a credit crisis, and an unemployment crisis. And that's just for now. But families don't need to move into refrigerator boxes and start scrounging for spare change.This book offers readers concrete, specific strategies to:prevent foreclosurecreate and stick to a family budgetrepair bad credit ratingsstreamline spendingsave for the future...

Sure, you've heard of Apple and IBM. But what about Intron? Or Celestica? Or Autoliv?In today's fast-paced world, in which technology expands at the speed of thought, high-tech stocks like these have become an attractive target for investors. Tech stocks have vaulted to unprecedented heights on the strength of their companies' innovation. Now you can add these high-performance stocks to your portfolio and watch your profits soar.Sander and Bobo, authors of the top-selling

As green awareness spreads over middle America, more and more people want to have a fun, environmentally responsible holiday. Green Christmas shows how to enjoy the Christmas season while leaving a smaller carbon footprint.Readers will learn how to do the following:choose between a real tree and an artificial onefind alternatives to holiday cardsavoid the holiday catalog crunchfind or make gifts that are green or teach green...

Now that the Dow-Jones Average has climbed above 12,000, you probably feel a bit better about taking risks. But where should you put your money? Just how safe is aggressive investment, anyway?If you want to rebuild your portfolio after the losses of the past few years, here's your essential guide to investing in high-performance stocks. The authors list detailed information on potentially top-yielding stocks, along with suggestions on how to balance your portfolio to minimize expos...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are the most dynamic new investing opportunity around. ETFs offer you an efficient, cost-effective, and convenient way to access returns both from emerging markets and from a wide range of other investment opportunities.Experts Peter Sander and Scott Bobo, authors of the bestselling The 100 Best Stocks You Can Buy series, show you how to pick the best ETFs to strengthen your portfolio. With each recommendation, they provide a summary of the fun...

"Frank, a Certified Financial Planner in California, offers a concise, precise guide to “prudent thinking” about personal finances, along with simple tools to estimate how much is required for a comfortable retirement.""A sound guide designed to help people make sensible plans for a successful retirement."— Kirkus book review"First let me tell you Larry Frank knows his stuff. He has a procedure that many will find worth taking the time to imple...

MONEY-SAVING SECRETS TO LIVING THE FREE LIFEFrom AAA and AARP, to Wal-Mart and beyond, The Free Stuff for Everyone Book is your go-to guide for how to find the best deals, discounts, and free offers so you can keep more of your hard-earned cash in your pocket. Whether you’re a bargain hunter, retiree, proud cheapskate, student or anyone on a limited budget, consumer finance expert and best-selling author Peter Sander shows you how to find free products, services, g...

Economics, demystified!From the collapse of housing prices to the thousand-point drops in the stock market, the past has been full of economic crises. These changes not only affect the overall market—they can also drastically influence your personal finances and day-to-day life. In this easy-to-understand guide, Peter Sander explains how the financial system works, as well as the most important concepts, terms, and programs in economics. Using simple language, he d...

You've probably thought about where you will live in retirement and how you plan to spend your time. But do you know how much income you will need to pay for the type of retirement you want?With Social Security's uncertain future, as well as the increasing cost of healthcare, you need to formulate a retirement strategy with an income stream—available from annuities—that you can't outlive.In The Income Revolution, you will learn what questions to as...

Learn the necessary habits that will help you become a successful investor!Especially after the wild ride that began in the fall of 2008, individual stock investing has become far more challenging. Think of a golf swing—hit it right and it goes far and straight, hit it wrong and you'll end up far off in the weeds. But—like much else in life—golf swings become habits when done right. Investing should be no different. What works should become habit, and each and ever...