Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman started the multimillion-dollar franchise College Hunks Hauling Junk when they were just twenty two, and they’ve been having the time of their lives ever since. What’s their secret? That's just it--there isn't one. There's no fancy software or complicated business schemes. No outside investors or quirky market niche. They just followed 10 common-sense commandments to building a straightforward, fun, and successful business that does a simple job well. Anyone can understand it, and anyone can do it.

Effortless Entrepreneur: Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions

Business & Money

Schwartz, Daylle Deanna

Friedman, Nick

Soliman, Omar

Management & Leadership

Crown Currency

Control Anxiety Before it Begins 
Trouble sleeping, panic attacks, knots in your stomach, excessive worry, doubts, phobiasanxiety comes in many shapes and sizes, and affects millions of people. But you don't have to suffer anymore. In Retrain Your Anxious Brain, renowned therapist and anxiety expert John Tsilimparis, MFT, shares the groundbreaking program he's created to help hundreds of people (himself included) free themselves from crippling anxiety and live healthier, happier lives. 
Rather than just treating or masking symptoms, Tsilimparis's innovative approach helps you identify and short-circuit anxiety triggers, so that you can stop anxiety before it starts. This customizable plan teaches you how to: 
• Alter the fixed thoughts that can cause anxiety 
• Adjust your existing personal belief systems 
• Challenge the idea of consensus reality 
• Balance your dualistic mind 
• Consciously create your own reality

Retrain Your Anxious Brain: Practical and Effective Tools to Conquer Anxiety

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Tsilimparis, John

Mental Health

HARLEQUIN)

Gay Men Can Be a Girl's Best Friend! "You deserve to be treated like a queen--or at least be complimented by one. Keep a gay man on hand for self-esteem emergencies." --Randy, one of the 33 gay guys featured in Straight Talk with Gay Guys You're about to get the inside scoop on men! And who better to tell you everything you need and want to know about the opposite sex than gay guys? Straight Talk with Gay Guys, written by a relationship expert and author of the megahit All Men Are Jerks Until Proven Otherwise, gives you the real deal on how and why men think and act as they do. Featuring constructive advice from experts on masculine behavior--33 smart, hilarious, observant, and caring gay men who are corporate executives, journalists, musicians, hairstylists, and a variety of other professions--this empowering guide offers the most insightful relationship advice you've ever had. <ul>
<li> Learn to set boundaries for inappropriate behavior and stop jerks in their tracks </li> <li>Hone skills for avoiding sexual mishaps and being manipulated into bed </li> <li>Learn how to translate "manspeak" </li> <li>Discover what women do that drives men away </li> <li>Quit searching for Mr. Right and start having more fun dating</li> <li>Identify and avoid the "now you see him–now you don't" guy</li> <li>Close the book on Prince Charming and the Cinderella fairy-tale ending</li> </ul>
Straight Talk with Gay Guys is a fun and eye-opening discussion that will help you improve your self-esteem, heat up the bedroom, and take control of your own behavior with men to get more of what you want.

Straight Talk With Gay Guys: What Girlfriends Can't Tell You and Straight Men Won't

Plug your music career into the lucrative new income streams of the digital marketplace Record deals are so twentieth century. Today, music licensing is the fastest route to widespread exposure and a steady income. Creators of films, television shows, commercials, video games, ringtones, podcasts and other digital-age media hunger for music perfectly suited to their projects—providing endless, lucrative opportunities for savvy musicians. Whether you’re an unknown composer, an up-and-coming songwriter, an independent-label performer, or a big label star, there’s a place for you in this fast-growing field—as long as you learn to master the game. How does music licensing work? Where are the most abundant and rewarding opportunities? Find the answers in this authoritative, up-to-the-moment overview of one of the most effective ways to market your talent. It’s all here: <ul>
<li>The key players in the music licensing business and the best ways to make contacts and bring your music to their attention</li>
<li>Types of licensing agreements and how to understand them</li>
<li>An inside look at the licensing selection process and how to get a jump on music requests</li>
<li>Negotiating payment and protecting your music in the open marketplace, including international venues</li>
<li>Getting music licensed for television shows, films, commercials, digital media, and less obvious markets like colleges and universities, theater companies, corporate training videos, and restaurants</li>
<li>Firsthand advice from top music executives, marketers, music supervisors, lawyers, talent managers, and filmmakers</li>
</ul>

The Musician's Guide to Licensing Music: How to Get Your Music into Film, TV, Advertising, Digital Media & Beyond

Wilsey, Darren

Reference

Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed

Indispensable insider information on launching a recording career is packed into this essential music industry primer. Any artist in popular music looking to land a record deal will want to get the complete score from this vital industry resource.

The Real Deal: How to Get Signed to a Record Label from A to Z

Arts & Photography

Music

Billboard Books

Thousands of people want to be recording stars, but lack a deal with a record label. While today's musicians have all the tools they need to build a recording career on their own-pro-tools for inexpensive recording and home recording, marketing on the Internet, and opportunities to license their music for use in films, television, advertising, and video games-they don't always have the skills to use them. I Don't Need a Record Deal! is a completely comprehensive step-by-step guide to the new world of independent recording. Drawing on interviews from over 150 musicians and industry pros, Schwartz shows readers how to put out a CD and market it through the media, radio, clubs, and retail. But more importantly, she shows musicians how to create a business around music and to develop opportunities for earning a living. Truly a survival guide for novice and professional musicians alike, I Don't Need a Record Deal! brings information on developing one's own independent music career together, adding new resources and taking the reader into the future of music.

I Don't Need a Record Deal!: Your Survival Guide for the Indie Music Revolution

Revised and completely updated edition of the industry classic! The Real Deal is the only music business reference source that offers specific advice to musicians on getting that all-important record deal. Included in this thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition are all the business necessities, creative aspects, and marketing strategies needed for musicians to survive and thrive in the music industry. Readers learn, step by step, how to prepare a presentation package and reach the right person at the record labels, and discover dozens of no-fail procedures and time-tested techniques for making it in this incredibly competitive business. This exciting expanded edition features expert advice from dozens of successful managers, record producers, recording artists, and publicists, as well as three brand new chapters: “Taking Care of Business,” “Making Money Promoting Your Talent,” and “Using Your Songwriting Talents.” Also included is thorough, up-to-the-minute information on using the Internet and getting signed overseas, as well as two completely revised and updated appendices providing information on books, conferences, and other resources. For any musician playing popular music, The Real Deal is the definitive guide to winning a recording contract!

The Real Deal: How to get Signed to a Record Label

Job Hunting & Careers

For everyone interested in starting a record label–to market new talent or to release and promote their own music–there has never been a better time to do it! Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and music-business consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz (who started and ran her own label) has rewritten and expanded her classic, Start &amp; Run Your Own Record Label, to reflect industry changes and new opportunities for marketing music in today’s climate. Start &amp; Run Your Own Record Label is a comprehensive guidebook to building a record label, packed with how-to information about market trends and revenue streams for music releases. In addition to updated information on physical distribution, generating publicity, marketing, and promotion, it also has new information about key issues including: •Balancing on and offline promotion and marketing •Making the most of online resources (social-networking sites, blogs, ringtones, videos, radio, and more) •Using digital distribution profitably •Licensing your recordings for use in the media •Marketing music overseas Ms. Schwartz has compiled new interviews with top industry professionals and independent labels–including recording artist CJ Baran (Push Play), Jed Carlson (founder, ReverbNation), Daniel Glass (founder, Glassnote Entertainment), blogger Perez Hilton, Scott Lapatine (founder, Stereogum), recording artist Ingrid Michaelson, Jeff Price (founder, Tunecore), MP3 bloggers, music-magazine editors, publicists, and others–for the most up-to-date, authoritative, and practical compendium available.

Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition: Winning Marketing Strategies for Today's Music Industry (Start & Run Your Own Record Label)

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Conquer Stress and Anxiety Now Feeling overwhelmed? Worried about your day-to-day life? Trapped inside negative thought patterns? Trouble sleeping, panic attacks, knots in your stomach, excessive worry, doubts, phobias--anxiety comes in many shapes and sizes and affects millions of people. But you don't have to suffer anymore. Rather than just treating or masking symptoms, John Tsilimparis, MFT, provides an innovative approach that helps you identify and short-circuit anxiety triggers so that you can stop anxiety before it starts. This customizable plan teaches you how to: * Alter the fixed thoughts that can cause anxiety * Adjust your existing personal belief systems * Challenge the idea of consensus reality * Balance your dualistic mind * Consciously create your own reality In&nbsp;Retrain Your Anxious Brain, renowned therapist and anxiety expert John Tsilimparis shares the groundbreaking program he's created to help hundreds of people (himself included) free themselves from debilitating anxiety and live healthier, happier lives.

Hanover Square Press

Men Really Can Be Jerks* *But Only If You Let Them. Like millions of women, Daylle Deanna Schwartz had a habit of falling for jerks--until she had enough. This cycle wasn't going to change until she made a change herself. And now in this anniversary edition of her groundbreaking relationship book, she shows you how to do the same. This book tells it like it is. The only person who can make you happy is you, and the only person who can change a guy is himself. It's time to take control and make him prove he's not a jerk, or move on. As a relationship expert and self-empowerment counselor, Daylle's guidance will motivate you to develop a satisfying, healthy relationship, without playing games. With fresh insight and new stories throughout, this updated edition of All Men Are Jerks - Until Proven Otherwise makes your happiness your first priority. Men can act like real jerks, but complaining about them won't get you anywhere. It's time to take control of how men treat you--and get the love you deserve!

All Men Are Jerks - Until Proven Otherwise, 15th Anniversary Edition: Take Charge of How Men Treat You!

Parenting & Relationships

Adams Media

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Books by Schwartz, Daylle Deanna

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Effortless Entrepreneur: Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions

Retrain Your Anxious Brain: Practical and Effective Tools to Conquer Anxiety

Straight Talk With Gay Guys: What Girlfriends Can't Tell You and Straight Men Won't

The Musician's Guide to Licensing Music: How to Get Your Music into Film, TV, Advertising, Digital Media & Beyond

The Real Deal: How to Get Signed to a Record Label from A to Z

I Don't Need a Record Deal!: Your Survival Guide for the Indie Music Revolution

The Real Deal: How to get Signed to a Record Label

Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition: Winning Marketing Strategies for Today's Music Industry (Start & Run Your Own Record Label)

Retrain Your Anxious Brain: Practical and Effective Tools to Conquer Anxiety

All Men Are Jerks - Until Proven Otherwise, 15th Anniversary Edition: Take Charge of How Men Treat You!