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Tuning Up: Improving performance and reducing stress in advertising and marketing
No musicians worth their salt would ever begin performing without first making sure they’re in tune. But in marketing and advertising we often jump into working relationships without Tuning Up.
In marketing and advertising, Tuning Up means harmonising responsibility and control. But being out of tune is much more painful than the cacophony of ill-prepared musicians. Responsibility without control can cause extreme stress; control without responsibility can create arrogant ogres or benevolent dictators.
But when we have responsibility and corresponding control we can achieve flow; operating to the peak of our capabilities and with greatest satisfaction.
In Tuning Up, we explore how responsibility and control relate to one another, to colleagues, clients and agencies. Using the Meikle Matrix business model, case studies and bizarre and amusing anecdotes, Tuning Up guides us to improving our performance and reducing our stress – leading us to happier and more fulfilling lives in two of the world’s more demanding industries.
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High-Ticket For Affiliate Gyms: How To Make An Extra $100,000 This Year By Creating And Selling A Bolt-On Transformation Program
Do you want to make an additional $100,000 this year in your affiliate or box gym?Most gym owners haven’t done the math- selling group memberships at $150 – $250 per month, with a sprinkling of personal training or nutrition coaching, just doesn’t cut it.
When you account for membership churn (attrition), the low-priced volume model is not a mathematically winnable game for 99% of gym owners.
You’ll never have enough profit to adequately pay employees or other companies to do all the work for you- coaching, training, cleaning, marketing, paid ads, etc.
Eventually, you may not want to work in your gym 30-60 hours per week. You may decide that $50,000 – $80,000 profit isn’t enough for you to live the lifestyle you want, and you would rather make $200,000 for your optimal lifestyle.
Your current box gym model will not get you there. The numbers don’t add up.
But there is a way you can make that happen…
Most of your clients aren’t here to work out. Most of them are here because they are unhappy with themselves- and they want to make a change in their lives.
3 hours per week of workouts won’t change anyone’s life. The hardest part is the other 165 hours of the week that they aren’t in your gym. That’s where your client struggles, and that’s what your High-Ticket Transformation Program solves.
You can sell a 9-week High-Ticket Transformation Program, in your box gym, for $2,000 to $8,000. You may be thinking “people in my area can’t afford that”- but you’d be dead wrong.
This book shows you exactly how to do this in ANY market, from Gulfport, MS to Kansas City, MO to Ireland and Abu Dhabi.
Learn how to package, sell, and fulfill your clients’ unmet needs and skyrocket your revenue, profitability, and impact!
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Long Haul Pioneers, The: A Celebration of Astran: Leaders in Overland Transport to the Middle East for Over 40 Years
It all started in 1964 when two friends gave up promising medical careers to embark upon a journey which few hardened truckers would have considered. In so doing, they were solely responsible for creating the first long haul overland route, across Europe and deep into the Middle East to Kabul. The men had started the ‘Middle East Run’ was to become a phenomenon in the road haulage industry, an image which it still holds today. This book is about the company founded by one of those men, from its fledgling days as Asian Transport to the thriving Astran Cargo Services Ltd that it is today. In this book Ashley Coghill documents the complete history of the company to date with the focus predominantly on the early days when the men were fighting for something and revelling in the adventure. These early long haul drivers would think nothing of a 10,000 mile round trip to Iran or the Arabian Gulf and being stranded at 6,000 feet on a mountain pass with temperatures below -40 was just all in a day’s work. Ashley Coghill has an immense enthusiasm for his subject and has given his research total dedication. He has also tracked down past and present employees to gather first hand information which he has illustrated with over 300 carefully selected images. The end result is a detailed, comprehensive and fascinating account of an extraordinary company.Read more
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Lowe’s Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2022
The United Kingdom has experienced the biggest changes to its freight and transport regulations in a lifetime. Understand the complete rules and processes governing the UK’s road transport operators with this guide, including those that have changed with Brexit.
Lowe’s Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2022 offers a complete overview of the operational rules and guidelines governing the UK’s road transport operator. This book contains all the relevant legal and technical information required to run a compliant, safe and efficient transport operation. It includes all the latest changes to the rules and processes, including those governing the transportation of goods between Great Britain and the EU following Brexit.
This fully updated 52nd edition remains an essential resource for transport managers, fleet operators, owner-driver hauliers and those working in the sector. It covers all aspects relating to goods vehicles and their operators from vehicle registration, maintenance and load management (including abnormal and dangerous loads) to professional competence, operator training and driver testing. Road traffic law is explained alongside how to ensure safety on the road and at work. Meeting operating standards, keeping up to date with the latest industry changes and complying with the law, all while running sustainable transport operations, has never been simpler with the help of this guide.
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£75.10£175.80Lowe’s Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2022
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Lowe’s Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2023 (Lowe’s Transport Manager’s & Operator’s Handbooks)
Lowe’s Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2023 provides a complete overview of the operational guidance governing the UK’s road transport operators.
With the uncertainty of technological advancement, post-Brexit trade arrangements and various industry crises, it is essential for the UK’s road transport operators to have a firm grasp of the processes, rules and regulations that govern their industry. This fully updated 53rd edition covers all aspects of transport legislation relating to goods vehicles and their operators from vehicle registration, maintenance and load management to professional competence, operator training and driver testing. Road traffic law is explained alongside how to ensure safety on the road and at work.
Meeting operating standards, keeping up to date with the latest industry changes and complying with the law, all while running sustainable transport operations, has never been simpler with the help of Lowe’s Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2023. It is an essential resource for transport managers, fleet operators, owner driver haulers and those working in the industry looking to ensure operational stability and legislative compliance in a turbulent environment.
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WJEC Level 1/2 Vocational Award Hospitality and Catering (Technical Award) Study & Revision Guide – Revised Edition
This practical Study and Revision Guide has been completely revised and updated to match the new Hospitality and Catering Level 1/2 (Technical Award) specification, for first teaching from September 2022. Written by renowned author Anita Tull, it provides the essential information needed for the exam and will help students develop and apply the skills needed for the Controlled Assessment.
The ideal companion to the Student Book! This guide is designed to be used as a textbook for lower-ability students and a study aid and revision guide for higher-ability students.
What’s new in the 2nd Edition?
– Structure and content fully updated to match the new specification precisely.
– Completely new assessment sections in line with the new specification.
– A new section on How to prepare and make dishes with examples of how different techniques are combined in recipes, together with new activities to help students identify skills and techniques in a range of dishes, helping prepare them for assessment.
– Content re-organised under new specification Unit and Topic headings and numbering making it easy for students to follow.
– New Specification stems signposting to clearly show students which sections of information they need to ‘know’; ‘know and understand’; ‘be aware of’ and ‘be able to’.
What have we retained from the previous edition?
– Condensed version of the required theory presented in a clear and colourful study guide.
– Interesting Activities throughout to allow students to consolidate and apply their learning.
– Key terms to remind students of the essential terminology needed for assessment.
– Accessible design with colourful diagrams, images, tables and charts to support understanding and knowledge recall, making it perfect for lower ability students.
– In Unit 1, end of section ‘Knowledge check’ and Practice exam questions enable students to test themselves and provide plenty of practice for the assessment.
– Unit 2 helps support students in applying the knowledge learned from Unit 1 and prepare for the Controlled Assessment, providing guidance for presenting evidence together with example answers and assessor commentary.
– When used in conjunction with our bestselling Student Book, students will have an unrivalled suite of resources to help them excel with their study of Hospitality and Catering.Read more
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Beauty Basics: The Official Guide to Level 1 (Revised Edition)
Lorraine Nordmann�s leading textbook, Beauty Basics: The Official Guide to Level 1 has been fully revised to provide everything today�s beginner Beauty Therapist requires to pass their Level 1 qualification. Written in Nordmann�s trademark engaging and down-to-earth style, this well-trusted book will appeal to a whole new generation of beauty students by equipping learners with everything they need to gain their qualification and provide a handy reference throughout their career. Endorsed by VTCT, this is a must for any Beauty Therapy student. This book is suitable for all beginners studying Beauty Therapy at Level 1 with all awarding association, including VTCT, City & Guilds, ITEC and other providers. This new edition is also available with CourseMate online teaching and learning resource, which offers engaging and interactive resources such as an integrated eBook, videos, step-by-step, images, activities and games, all aligned to the content of the textbook for a fully integrated learning experience.Read more
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Business Analysis Techniques: 123 essential tools for success
Business analysis is about identifying business needs and formulating workable solutions to business problems. It requires the widest possible array of tools and the professional ability to use each one when and where it is needed. This new edition provides a comprehensive single source of 123 business analysis techniques, offering practical guidance on how and when to apply them within a clear BA service framework. This book complements Business Analysis, also published by BCS.Read more
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The World’s Biggest Cash Machine: Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football’s Soul
‘A gripping tale, full of insight. Blackhurst is an enormously talented writer.’ – City A.M.
From Chris Blackhurst, the former Editor of the Independent, comes The World’s Biggest Cash Machine, a gripping and tightly reported account of how the Glazers, owners of Manchester United, became the most maligned figures in the Premier League, and how they changed the beautiful game forever.
Manchester United’s supporters span the globe and cross generations. But, with few exceptions, they are united in their anger with the American family who bought their club in 2005, plunging it into record levels of debt. The Glazers’ reign has become synonymous with the financialization of football, and has coincided with fan protests and a decline of Manchester United’s fortunes on the pitch . . . if not on the balance sheet.
But what defines this secretive family, and do these astute businessmen deserve the opprobrium they receive? In this captivating account, informed by interviews with key figures behind the scenes, journalist and commentator Chris Blackhurst charts the gripping story of the world’s biggest football club – as well as exploring the wider transformation of the Premier League into a playground for billionaire owners.
‘Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you . . . if it doesn’t make you angry, you need to check your pulse’ – Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland, on Too Big to Jail
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Tech-Powered Sales: Achieve Superhuman Sales Skills
Why Tech-Powered Sales?
In tough markets and with more and more people working remotely, creating quality sales pipeline in traditional ways is more challenging than ever. As sales technologies continue to evolve and advance, developing technical quotient (TQ) is an essential element of sales success.
In Tech-Powered Sales, two record-setting experts on sales, and a best-selling author on sales leadership, combine to provide practical guidance on how professional sellers can maximize results with an effective sales tech-stack to power-up sales effectiveness for outstanding results.
In these pages, sales superstars Justin Michael and Tony Hughes:
- Reveal the strategies and techniques that enable you to break through with difficult to reach buyers
- Teach you how to lift your TQ with insight into how sales technologies can be employed for maximum benefit
- Enable you to make the jump from being a laggard to the superuser within your sales team delivering leading results
- Show you how to thrive in the fourth industrial revolution to leverage technology rather than be at risk of being replaced by AI and automation.
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Beauty Therapist To Entrepreneur: The essential guide to accelerating your career success in the beauty industry
A step-by-step guide for Beauty Therapists who want to be more successful, make more money and stand out in the Beauty Industry. Whether you are looking to become a manager, progress to aesthetics, or set up your own business this book will help you with each step of the way. When you read Beauty Therapist To Entrepreneur you will: Gain a clear overview of opportunities available in the industry and which roles would suit you best Learn how to get a job with no experience and prepare for interviews that will set you apart from the competition Discover what every entrepreneur should know about growing a successful beauty business Harness proven strategies to accelerate your career or business successRead more
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The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource
The Sales Bible softbound – NEW EDITION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA ANSWERSGlobal sales authority Jeffrey Gitomer’s bestselling classic, The Sales Bible, has been updated and appended in this new edition, offering you the ultimate sales methods and strategies that really work ― every day, in real-world selling situations.
With over 200,000 copies of the previous editions sold, The Sales Bible was listed as one of “The Ten Books Every Salesperson Should Own and Read” by the Dale Carnegie Sales Advantage Program.
Jeffrey Gitomer’s column, “Sales Moves,” and blog, “SalesBlog.com” are read by more than four million people every week. His customers include Coca-Cola, BMW, Kimpton Hotels, Hilton, Wells Fargo Bank, IBM, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Hewlett Packard, and hundreds of others.
The Sales Bible is your personal, trusted, authoritative resource to reach your sales potential and shine like a star. Accept no substitutes. Here are a few highlights:
- The 10.5 Commandments of Selling
- Generate leads and close sales in any market environment
- Find 25 proven ways to set hard-to-get appointments
- Use top-down selling to fill your sales pipeline with prospects who are ready to buy now
- Ask the right questions to make more sales in half the time
- How to use the top social media platforms to create inbound leads and prove value
The Sales Bible has helped tens of thousands of salespeople all over the world reach their potential and close the deal ― and it can help you. So what are you waiting for?
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The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) (Vintage Feminism Short Editions)
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma – how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. In this shortened edition you will find the essence of Wolf’s groundbreaking book. It is a radical, gripping and frank exposé of the tyranny of the beauty myth, its oppressive function and the destructive obsession it engenders.
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Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller 2022
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Head back down to Clarkson Farm with the bestseller from our favourite welly-wearing wannabe farmer, Jeremy Clarkson
___________Enthusiastic trainee farmer Jeremy Clarkson made just £144 in his first year at Diddly Squat Farm. This year he’s determined to do better. Not because he now knows what he’s doing. But because he’s fed up of getting stick from Kaleb.
Yet farming continues to be a challenge.
For instance . . .
· Loading a grain trailer was more demanding than flying an Apache gunship?
· Cows were more dangerous than motor-racing?
· It’s easier to get planning permission to build a nuclear plant than to turn a barn into a restaurant?Jeremy’s always got a plan. Loads of them. Often cunning.
Not always greeted with wild enthusiasm by Kaleb and Cheerful Charlie, however . . .
___________PRAISE FOR DIDDLY SQUAT
‘Clarkson has done more for farmers in one series than Countryfile achieved in 30 years’ James Rebanks, author of A Shepherd’s Life
‘Clarkson has showcased the passion, humour and personalities of the people who work throughout the year to grow the nation’s food . . . and brought an understanding of many of the issues faced by farmers to the British public’ National Farmers Union
‘A deserving Farming Champion of the Year’ Farmers Weekly
‘I don’t know anything about farming. It’s like David Attenborough doing jet-skiing, or Nicholas Witchell saying, “I’m going to be a cage fighter'” Jeremy Clarkson
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Travel Fast or Smart? A Manifesto for an Intelligent Transport Policy (Perspectives)
Britain does not have a coherent transport policy, and conventional transport economics has reached a dead end. A transport policy should incorporate systematic thinking about the travel needs of society, but in Britain public investment in the transport system has been extraordinarily volatile. We closed underused railways and then experienced a doubling of passenger numbers, prompting huge new investment. We gave up making substantial investments in motorways, but we have now chosen to revive the road construction effort in a big way. We vacillate on road pricing, introducing congestion charging successfully in London but backing off elsewhere because of local opposition. We have delayed the decision about whether and where to build additional airport capacity for decades. This mess has come about because policy has focused on big construction projects and time savings when it should have been focusing on the part that people and places play in economic development. This book sets out the principles that could underpin a strategic policy for transport. Instead of focusing piecemeal on getting from place to place ever faster, we need to think about how and where we want the economy to develop, and about how new digital technologies can help us achieve what is needed.Read more
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Moleskine – Wedding Journal, Theme Notebook – Hardcover Notebook for Planning and Organising your Wedding Calendar – Large Size 13 x 21 cm – 400 Pages
- The Wedding Journal is the ideal notebook for planning your wedding thanks to the 12-month pre-nuptial calendar. Write down notes and memories from the yes to the they lived happily ever after
- Inspirations and Ideas, Budget, Guests, Ceremony and Reception are the five sections which will guide you in organising every detail of the most important day of your lives. Five additional sections will help you to remember Flowers and Decorations, Photos, Videos and Music, Honeymoons, Annotations and Addresses
- Two additional books to plan your look are added to the blank pages and themed stickers, to personalise your Wedding Journal
- Make the Wedding Journal your personal wedding album. Add notes, inspirational ideas, sketches and memories and keep them together with photographs of the wedding and honeymoon, to not forget or lose even a moment
- It is packaged in an elegant protective box, for a fantastic gift idea for anyone who is about to get married and wants to preserve every memory of their marriage
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Marketing the Professional Services Firm: Applying the Principles and the Science of Marketing to the Professions
Professional services are estimated to be worth up to $700 billion worldwide, but as the market matures there is an urgent need for new marketing thinking for global players or small businesses alike. This book applies the core principles of strategic marketing to professional services for the first time, in an approach that is at once accessible and compelling. With case studies from a range of companies including J. Walter Thompson, market research companies, the ?big four? accounting firms, Headhunters, Interbrand and large US legal firms, it is intended to become the definitive book for effective strategic marketing in professional services.Read more
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London by Design: The Iconic Transport Designs that Shaped our City
Curated and designed by the experts at The London Transport Museum, this collection showcases London’s 100 greatest transport design icons from the past 150 years.
From TfL’s exclusive Johnston font; Westminster Station’s ground breaking architecture; Paolozzi’s Tottenham Court Road Station mosaics; the classic S-Stock Underground train; Henry Beck’s original tube map, and even Oxford Circus’ ‘Scramble Crossing’, to the Black Cab, and the Routemaster – old and new – London by Design delivers behind-the-scenes analysis of these iconic designs from industry experts, accompanied throughout by beautiful images, drawings, artwork and photography, from the London Transport Museum’s archive.
This beautiful book is a ideal for any art, architecture or design lover, as well as any passionate Londoner or tourist to our world-famous capital.
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Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything
An award-winning investigation into the strange and secretive world of international shipping
‘Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and compelling… Plenty of books promise to reveal the secrets of little-known worlds but few actually deliver. This is one that does’ Melanie McGrath, Sunday Telegraph
There are 100,000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear and work with. In this unique and fascinating investigation, Rose George joins the crew of a container ship travelling the long journey from Felixstowe to Singapore and charts the murky waters of international shipping. This is an eye-opening tale of powerful naval fleets, pirate gangs, and illegal floating factories, which reveals the vast hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends.
‘This is a remarkable work of embedded reportage – hair-raising, witty, compassionate – that deserves to be read’ Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and winner of a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and a Mountbatten Maritime Award
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Fashion and Advertising (World’s Top Photographers Workshops)
The World s Top Photographers Workshops is a new series that pairs in-depth, practical advice with stunning images and personal tips from the world s acknowledged masters. Each title brings together the work of prominent professional photographers and pools their accumulated knowledge, focusing specifically on the fundamental technical aspects of photography lighting, composition, colour, tone and imaging. Fashion and Advertising offers hardworking, incisive and comprehensive advice on all aspects of the genre. Image portfolios combined with the photographers comments on what has influenced their signature styles introduce readers to the aesthetics of fashion and advertising photography. Tips and hints pass on hard-won knowledge in a simple form.Read more
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Bollywood: A History
Hollywood may define our idea of movies, but it is the city of Bombay on the west coast of India that is now the centre of world cinema. Every year, the Indian film industry produces more than 1,000 feature films; every day, 14 million Indians go to a movie in the country; a billion more people a year buy tickets for Indian movies than for Hollywood ones. The rise of Bombay as the film capital of the world has been both remarkable and amazing. Bollywood movies themselves are a self-contained world with their multiple song and dance routines, intense melodrama, and plots that contain everything from farce to tragedy, but always produce a happy ending. The men and women who created these movies are even more remarkable; and it is this fantastic, rich, diverse story, a veritable Indian fairyland, that Mihir Bose, a native of Bombay, tells with vivid brilliance in the first comprehensive history of this major social and cultural phenomenon.Read more
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.
By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America’s new favorite pastime, and one of the nation’s largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood’s glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies—including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.
In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him—including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly-minted legends and starlets already past their prime—a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate.
A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers—and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.
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Running a Restaurant For Dummies, 2nd Edition
The easy way to successfully run a profitable restaurant
Millions of Americans dream of owning and running their own restaurant � because they want to be their own boss, because their cooking always draws raves, or just because they love food. Running a Restaurant For Dummies covers every aspect of getting started for aspiring restaurateurs. From setting up a business plan and finding financing, to designing a menu and dining room, you’ll find all the advice you need to start and run a successful restaurant.
Even if you don’t know anything about cooking or running a business, you might still have a great idea for a restaurant � and this handy guide will show you how to make your dream a reality. If you already own a restaurant, but want to see it get more successful, Running a Restaurant For Dummies offers unbeatable tips and advice for bringing in hungry customers. From start to finish, you’ll learn everything you need to know to succeed.
- New information on designing, re-designing, and equipping a restaurant with all the essentials�from the back of the house to the front of the house
- Determining whether to rent or buy restaurant property
- Updated information on setting up a bar and managing the wine list
- Profitable pointers on improving the bottom line
- The latest and greatest marketing and publicity options in a social-media world
- Managing and retaining key staff
- New and updated information on menu creation and the implementation of Federal labeling (when applicable), as well as infusing local, healthy, alternative cuisine to menu planning
Running a Restaurant For Dummies gives you the scoop on the latest trends that chefs and restaurant operators can implement in their new or existing restaurants.
P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you�re probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Running a Restaurant For Dummies (9781118027929). The book you see here shouldn�t be considered a new or updated product. But if you�re in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We�re always writing about new topics!
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The Fantastic Book of Hospitality Jokes: For Chefs, Bartenders, Baristas, Butchers, Wait Staff and More! (The Fantastic Joke Books)
If you have ever had the delight of working in hospitality or have ever been a customer (highly likely), this book is for you. Unlike the chef who made culinary puns, which didn’t pan out too well, this book is a secret recipe, serving up snickers and laughs. Devour a feast of jokes that are so hot you will have to move away from the grill, and, just like a deep-dish pizza topped with beef jokey it is also filled with cheesy one liners to make you giggle on shift.
Now, a word of caution must be had, some jokes are innocent, and some are rude & lewd, but none are meant to offend. It’s well known that the darker your sense of humour, the more intelligent you may be. Some jokes are so dark they are definitely well-done. With that being said, sit back, let us turn up the heat, and get ready for a spicy, delicate buffet of fun.“There has long been a happy symbiotic relationship between kitchen and bar. Simply put, the kitchen wants booze, and the bartender wants food.”
– Anthony Bourdain.Read more
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Road Passenger Transport Management: Planning and Coordinating Passenger Transport Operations
Road passenger transport management is an important role, involving the planning and coordinating of passenger transport operations, including routes and schedules.
Managers ensure that passengers reach their destinations safely, on time and in the most cost-effective way.Road Passenger Transport Management covers all the essential tasks a transport manager is expected to master.
Road Passenger Transport Managementprovides tips and tools for working with customers, planning routes and scheduling delivery times, as well as managing a team of supervisors, administration staff and drivers. The authors include guidelines for coordinating staff training and arranging vehicle maintenance, MOTs and tax payments, as well as organizing vehicle replacements and managing contracts and developing new business. This is a contributed book, with expertise shared from well-known academics and practitioners who have spent many years in the passenger transport field. The tools and case studies in this vital new guide will enable readers to learn new skills or build on existing expertise. Online supporting resources include sample performance reports and target assessment forms.
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Birmingham Transport (Images of England)
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Transport Matters: Why transport matters and how we can make it better
This book shows that transport matters. Comprising a series of highly accessible chapters written by respected experts, it reviews key transport issues and explains how and why effective and efficient transport is fundamental to successfully addressing all manner of public policy goals. Contributors explore how we ‘do’ transport, as a result of the technologies available to us and the cultures surrounding how we use them, and examine how this has significant social, economic and environmental consequences. They also provide key recommendations for how we could do things differently to bring about a happier, healthier and more economically secure future for all of us.Read more
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Driving Change: Travel in the Twenty-First Century
Drawing on comparative detail from Europe, North America, and the rest of the world, Driving Change provides a nuanced overview of the UK’s modern transport system and the role of business models and policy choices in its evolution. The common features of mobility and travel in developed economies are highlighted in order to provide a balanced appraisal of possible future developments. The book offers a detailed consideration of the potential of new technologies – electric propulsion, digital platforms and autonomous vehicles – to offer solutions to the intractable challenges that accompany high levels of car ownership, as well as their likely impact on business and transport policy. Driving Change is a rich analysis of the modern state of transportation and will be welcomed by students of transport studies and policy professionals tasked with developing infrastructure and the growth of the transportation industry.Read more
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The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management (Routledge Companions in Business and Management)
The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management provides a comprehensive, up-to-date review of air transport management research and literature. This exciting new handbook provides a unique repository of current knowledge and critical debate with an international focus, considering both developed and emerging markets, and covering key sectors of the air transport industry.
The companion consists of 25 chapters that are written by 39 leading researchers, scholars and industry experts based at universities, research institutes, and air transport companies and organisations in 12 different countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America to provide a definitive, trustworthy resource. The international team of contributors have proven experience of research and publication in their specialist areas, and contribute to this companion by drawing upon research published mainly in academic, industry and government sources.
This seminal companion is a vital resource for researchers, scholars and students of air transport management. It is organised into three parts: current state of the air transport sectors (Part I); application of management disciplines to airlines and airports (Part II); and key selected themes (Part III).
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WJEC Level 1/2 Vocational Award Hospitality and Catering (Technical Award) – Student Book – Revised Edition
This best-selling Student Book has been completely revised and updated to match the new Hospitality and Catering Level 1/2 (Technical Award) specification, for first teaching from September 2022. Written by renowned author Anita Tull and reviewed by experienced teacher and examiner Alison Palmer, this engaging student book will support students through their Level 1/2 course.
What’s new in the 2nd Edition?
– Structure and content fully updated to match the new specification precisely.
– Completely new assessment sections in line with the new specification.
– New content throughout, including extensive new material covering the additional skills and techniques now required for 2.3 Food preparation and cooking techniques.
– Content re-organised under new specification Unit and Topic headings and numbering making it easy for students to follow.
– New Specification stems signposting to clearly show students which sections of information they need to ‘know’; ‘know and understand’; ‘be aware of’ and ‘be able to’.
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– Short and extended answer style questions throughout to help prepare students for assessment.
– Stretch and challenge activities encourage students to work towards achieving a higher grade, making them particularly useful for higher ability students.
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Style and Substance: Why What We Wear Matters
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Lowe’s Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2024
Lowe’s Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2024 offers crucial guidance on changes within the transport and haulage industry, providing a clear and concise approach to complex rules, processes and regulations affecting practitioners within the sector.
This fully updated 54th edition outlines important legal and technical information so that transport managers, fleet operators, hauliers and practitioners can ensure they remain compliant while navigating a continuously evolving sector. Covering the latest changes to UK guidelines, this indispensable guide includes an essential overview of new operational rulings, up-to-date regulatory decisions and key aspects of transport legislation.
Lowe’s Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2024 is a vital source for those wanting to ensure professional competence and operational stability. From driver testing and training, road traffic law and vehicle maintenance to Brexit-led changes and technological advancements, this highly regarded guide remains an essential resource for ensuring the safe and efficient operation of today’s transport industry.
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