Twenty years ago, Mike Lawrence published a series of short booklets entitled Topics on Bridge, offering tips on various aspects of cardplay and bidding for intermediate players. Now this material is being republished as a three-book series - revised, updated, and with new topics added. Included in this volume: Avoiding Common Errors, How Long is Partner's Suit? The Three-card Raise, Reverses, The Splinter Bid, Bidding after an Opponent's Takeout Double, Weak Two-bids, Preempts, Drury, Passed Hand Bidding, The Fine Art of Hanging Partner Book jacket.
"The Contractor Fight" is what HGTV host and best-selling author Tom Reber calls the battle between your ears. We all have stories and experiences that have formed us into who we are. We are what we think, and the battleground is our mind. The Fight is not with the people you think are "cheap customers." It's not with the unlicensed competitors or the "illegals," as many contractors think. The Fight is with yourself. Sadly, most of the struggles contractors have are self-imposed. It's friendly fire. The negative ways we think about ourselves and our worth... friendly fire. The growing debt, working too much, small bank account... friendly fire. Winning the Fight is a choice. You're noble and full of integrity. You bend over backward to serve your family and clients. You have taken it on the chin more times than you can count. Now, it's time to get yours. Earn what you're worth. Create a business that serves you and energizes you, instead of one that beats you down. Choose to own your crap and get better today.
Provides over five hundred bidding tips for intermediate bridge players to improve their game, explaining how to count tricks and be aggressive, and covering the first response, overcalls, takeout doublers, preempting, negative doubles, and related topics.
In order to succeed in World of Warcraft Classic, you will need a lot of gold. In addition to the thousands of gold you will spend on your spells, mounts, gear, enchantments, and respecs, you will also need to consistently purchase large quantities of consumables and utility items to stay competitive in serious raiding/PvP. Without enough gold, you will always be outclassed by players who do have enough.However, accumulating gold is very difficult in World of Warcraft. By the time The Burning Crusade was about to launch, World of Warcraft (WoW) had 8 million active subscribers with likely millions more accounts that were created but stopped subscribing at some point. Out of the millions of players who played the game, there was not a single recorded instance of someone hitting the gold cap (~215,000 gold) on one character. This means it is more common for someone to be a billionaire in America (about 1 out of 600,000) than it is for someone to have 215,000 gold. This is why I have compiled the most comprehensive, optimal, and practical guide on gold making in World of Warcraft Classic. I played the original WoW through Wrath of the Lich King with a Hunter main and Druid alt and have played on 3 different vanilla WoW private servers where I have over 25 level 60 characters and amassed hundreds of thousands of gold among them. My love of the game evolved past raiding and PvPing and I became consumed by the economic PvP (competing against other goblins to earn more gold). With WoW Classic's release, I am happy to finally share everything I have learned about making gold.This book will cover the most optimal and practical strategies for gold making while discarding the less optimal ones that are often repeated in popular guides. This book will also include resources such a full list of level appropriate mobs to grind while leveling, a full list of the most lucrative twink items in the level 19 and 29 brackets, a full list of the most lucrative BoE limited supply vendors to camp, a step by step action plan for the launch of Classic WoW and much much more.
Acquire the necessary skills to win business through proposals, bids, tenders, and presentations—this hands-on guide is your partner for success You have in your hands the collected knowledge and skills of the professional proposal writer. Proposal writing is a profession — a growing and increasingly important one and an essential part of a broader group of business development professionals who plan and execute strategies for businesses who want to obtain new customers. Proposal writers have a professional organization — the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) — and their best practices are the foundation for this book. Proposal writing is a skill you can learn, practice, and master; you can even go through a professional certification process to prove your mastery. Writing Business Bids & Proposals For Dummies is your no-nonsense guide to finding out what professional proposal writers know and for applying it to your own business. If you're a small- to medium-size business owner, a first-time proposal writer in a medium-size company, or a sales representative, you know that a written proposal (printed or electronic) is still a common, personal, and effective way to win business. Written in plain English, Writing Business Bids & Proposals For Dummies will help you to: Know the difference between reactive proposals (the RFP or request for proposal) and proactive proposals Focus on the customer by going beyond their requirements to address their true needs Know your competition through research and analysis Write persuasively to develop a winning business proposal Plan and use a repeatable proposal process Incorporate a lessons learned aspect to your proposal process Use tools and templates to accelerate your proposals Motivate and lead your proposal team to ensure they're on the same page Use graphics to enhance your proposals Learn ways to automate your proposal development process And a whole lot more Additionally, you'll gain access to ten templates for building a proposal, find out ten common misconceptions about bids and proposals, and add a compiled list of online resources to your toolset. Grab a copy of Writing Business Bids & Proposals For Dummies to start sharpening your proposal writing skillset.
Twenty years ago, Mike Lawrence published a series of short booklets entitled Topics on Bridge, offering tips on various aspects of cardplay and bidding for intermediate players. Now this material is being republished as a three-book series-revised, updated, and with new topics added, Topics covered in this volume: Overcalls, Overcalling in a Four-card Suit at the One-level, Responding to an Overcall, Responsive Doubles, The Takeout Double, Responding to a Takeout Double, Bidding Against an Opening INT, Bidding over Preempts, Balancing, Penalty Doubles Book jacket.
This book discussed the theory of bridge bidding for advanced players, with emphasis on the principles that need to underpin an effective bidding system. These include the concepts of Useful Space, Relays, Transfers, Dialogue Bidding, as well as the conflicting needs for a system that is robust, antagonistic, and also accurate. The ideas are illustrated with dozens of example hands from championship play, showing how these principles work in practice. The book will appeal to serious tournament players.
Bid writing is becoming an increasingly specialised descipline with hordes of consultants writing what often turn out to be 'formula bids' for organisations who are then ill-equipped to deliver them. This book exposes the myths surrounding bid writing.
"This guide identifies the types of sales, companies that conduct them, what horses cost, and how to seek and obtain reliable advice. How sales work, from applying for credit to obtaining fall-of-the-hammer insurance, also is explained. In addition, the guide provides legends of the layout of sales grounds" -- publisher website (April 2007).
