Dozens of books cover how to choose stocks to buy. But do you know how and when to sell? How to turn a paper profit into a real one at the right time? How to prevent a minor loss from turning into a major disaster? This revised update of an old classic answers these and many other questions about the timing of sales.
In the midst of the hippy culture resurgence of the late 80s, Eric made a living selling tie-dyed t-shirts on Shakedown Street at Grateful Dead concerts. In 1991, his son James was born and Eric had to stop making tie-dyes, which led him to the baseball card boom. Cards led to comics led to Beanies, Magic, Power Rangers, Furbies, Yo-Yos, Pogs, and everything in between. The nation was caught up in a decade of consumer crazes. But many don't know the craziness that happened behind the scenes and sellers like Eric scrambled to keep up with the trends and get the latest hot product into your hands. Throughout this book you will learn insider secrets, meet unsavory characters, and see how the seemingly short-lived trends of 90s shaped the new millennium.
With the cost of personal sales visit to an industrial customer at well over $200, almost all salespeople now make at least some use of the telephone to save time and money. The main purpose of Successful Telephone Selling in the '90s, however, is not to talk about reducing expenses but to show how to increase your sales production dramatically by using the telephone. A gold mine of practical guidance and information, this book divulges the methods that work for the top telephone salespeople in the country -- methods that can guarantee your own success.
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of But What if We’re Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn’t know who it was. By the end, exposing someone’s address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn’t know who it was. The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we’re still groping to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. Beyond epiphenomena like "Cop Killer" and Titanic and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. Pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything, generating an odd comfort in never being certain about anything. On a 90’s Thursday night, more people watched any random episode of Seinfeld than the finale of Game of Thrones. But nobody thought that was important; if you missed it, you simply missed it. It was the last era that held to the idea of a true, hegemonic mainstream before it all began to fracture, whether you found a home in it or defined yourself against it. In The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. In perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like, “The video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany” make complete sense. Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian.
Speeded-up information became the norm in the 90's and Mamis offers up-to-date clues on the direction of stock price movements. A meaningful analysis, a few rules to follow, how to choose good charts, and numerous case histories. Guidelines to follow which help you to be self-reliant. Mamis was Senior Vice President and Chief Market Technician in New York and now publishes his own institutional market letters.
Here is the new revised edition of the all-time bestselling real estate bok. Readers will discover safe and solid surefire strategies for profitable real estate investing in the '90s, including techniques on how to take advantage of opportunities in depressed and stagnant markets, motivational tools, and more.
Find your nirvana in this list of best-selling albums of the 1990s. The music scene got a bit grungier in the 1990s, but these Top 100 albums wrapped up the 20th century with a big finish. From the Dixie Chicks and Spice Girls to Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette, women stepped up during this decade to make sure their voices were heard. Nirvana, Matchbox 20, Green Day, and the Backstreet Boys all had vastly different sounds, but were united in their popularity. Each listing features the full-color original sleeve artwork, and is packed with information about the musician lineup, track listings, and number one-singles that resulted.
As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how this happened and how to make sense of the uncertain times to come. Into the breach comes one of Wall Street's legendary investors, Leon Levy, to explain why the market so often confounds us, and why those who ought to understand it tend to get chewed up and spat out. Levy, who pioneered many of the innovations and investment instruments that we now take for granted, has prospered in every market for the past fifty years, particularly in today's bear market. In The Mind of Wall Street he recounts stories of his successes and failures to illustrate how investor psychology and willful self-deception so often play critical roles in the process. Like his peers George Soros and Warren Buffett, Levy takes a long and broad view of the rhythms of the markets and the economy. He also offers a provocative analysis of the spectacular Internet bubble, showing that the market has not yet completely recovered from its bout of "irrational exuberance." The Mind of Wall Street is essential reading for all of us, whether we are active traders or simply modest contributors to our 401(k) plans, as volatile and unnerving markets come to define so much of our net worth.