The No B. S. Guide to the Acting Biz

The No B. S. Guide to the Acting Biz

Author: Matt Newton

Publisher:

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781710220742

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It's 2020, and the acting business has changed dramatically. There are over 538 scripted shows on television. Amazon, Hulu and Netflix have changed the game for television, giving actors more opportunities than ever before. There are over 60 shows currently casting or filming out of New York, many more in Los Angeles, as well as in other emerging markets. Casting directors are hiring actors from self-tapes more than ever before, and actors need to be ready to turn around an amazing audition on a dime. It's ultra-competitive, and actors need to stay on their toes and keep up to date on current trends and expectations in an ever-changing world. The No. B.S. Guide to the Acting Biz is an insider's look into the business of acting, with a humorous, refreshingly candid, shoot from the hip approach by one of our top industry experts. Matt Newton, a professional actor and acclaimed acting coach, gives clear-cut, unfailingly honest lessons from what he's learned through his decades in the business. With relevant, provocative and often hilarious stories he guides the reader to a greater awareness of how the modern industry works and what that means for an actor. With an inspiring foreword from the successful actor Michael Urie ("Ugly Betty," "Younger," "Partners"), The No. B.S. Guide to the Acting Biz presents current, first-hand experience and professional insight into the actual business of acting today.


No B.S. Guide to Succeeding in Business by Breaking All the Rules

No B.S. Guide to Succeeding in Business by Breaking All the Rules

Author: Dan S. Kennedy

Publisher: Entrepreneur Press

Published: 2024-03-05

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1613084757

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Crush Convention, Command Respect, and Conquer Your Rivals on Your Road to Success Rules-breakers and mavericks, rejoice! Your definitive guide to business success has arrived, ready to shatter the chains of mediocrity. Embark on an audacious journey that will challenge everything you thought you knew about business. Using Dan S. Kennedy’s no-nonsense methods, this revised edition of his best-selling book, “No B.S. Guide to Succeeding In Business by Breaking All the Rules” brings his tried-and-true techniques into the modern day, ensuring you’re equipped to conquer the challenges of today’s business landscape. But make no mistake, this book is not for the faint of heart. If you’re comfortable with the status quo, it’s time to turn back now—this journey is reserved for those daring enough to break free from convention. Welcome to your no B.S. guide– your personal blueprint to unconventional success. Bid farewell to cookie-cutter marketing campaigns, “positive-thinking” motivators, and all preconceived notions of a successful entrepreneur. With Dan S. Kennedy and the esteemed experts at Entrepreneur as your advisors, you’ll uncover the secrets to transforming your business into a trailblazing powerhouse. Profit from disruption and crush the competition with the “No B.S. Guide to Succeeding in Business by Breaking All the Rules.” Your path to greatness is counting on it.


Founded

Founded

Author: Melissa Kaufman

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1639090088

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Founded is the go-to reference for first-time entrepreneurs, providing lessons and inspiration to empower anyone starting a new project or business. Melissa Kaufman and Mike Raab, the directors of Northwestern’s renowned student entrepreneurship program, The Garage, show you how to tap into the superpower of thinking and acting like an entrepreneur based on their experience guiding hundreds of early-stage startups. Founded explains—through the authors’ own expertise and interviews with successful young founders—how to • make the best possible decisions when launching your business, • avoid the common mistakes of first-time entrepreneurs, • take immediate, concrete steps to get started on a new idea. In this essential book for first-time and student founders, you will learn why entrepreneurship is for everyone, “failure” is inevitable (and why that’s a good thing!), and how to make sure you’re building something people want. Founded will shatter your misconceptions about starting a business and help you get started turning your ideas into something real today!


Stop Saying You're Fine

Stop Saying You're Fine

Author: Mel Robbins

Publisher: Harmony

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307716732

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This hands-on guide from Mel Robbins, one of America’s top relationship experts and radio/tv personalities, addresses why over 100 million Americans secretly feel frustrated and bored with their lives and reveals what you can do about it. Mel Robbins has spent her career teaching people how to push past their self-imposed limits to get what they truly desire. She has an in-depth understanding of the psychological and social factors that repeatedly hold you back, and more important, a unique set of tools for getting you where you want to be. In Stop Saying You’re Fine, she draws on neuroscientific research, interviews with countless everyday people, and ideas she’s tested in her own life to show what works and what doesn’t. The key, she explains, is understanding how your own brain works against you. Because evolution has biased your mental gears against taking action, what you need are techniques to outsmart yourself. That may sound impossible, but Mel has created a remarkably effective method to help you do just that--and some of her discoveries will astonish you. By ignoring how you feel and seizing small moments of rich possibility--a process she calls “leaning in”--you can make tiny course directions add up to huge change. Among this book’s other topics: how everything can depend on not hitting the “snooze” button; the science of connecting with other people, what children can teach us about getting things done; and why five seconds is the maximum time you should wait before acting on a great idea. Blending warmth, humor and unflinching honesty with up-to-the-minute science and hard-earned wisdom, Stop Saying You’re Fine moves beyond the platitudes and easy fixes offered in many self-help books. Mel’s insights will actually help vault you to a better life, ensuring that the next time someone asks how you’re doing, you can truthfully answer, “Absolutely great.”


The No BS Business Guide

The No BS Business Guide

Author: Thomas M. F. Timberman

Publisher: Loi Incorporated

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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THE NO BS BUSINESS GUIDE TO VIETNAM is the only handbook written by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Exhaustively researched in Vietnam & the U.S., it gives straight answers to tough questions that American executives must have to seize opportunities on Asia's last economic frontier. Included in its 200 pages is information on industry potential, competition, networking in the U.S. & Vietnam, penetrating bureaucracies, itineraries, contacts, negotiating successfully within Vietnamese culture, maps, where to stay-eat-drink, how to get around etc. It's all in this definitive direction finder to profits in Vietnam. To order: LOI, Inc., 1728 Lamont St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20010 or call 1-800-262-2576.


No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations

No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations

Author: Dan S. Kennedy

Publisher: Entrepreneur Press

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1613083645

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Can One Great Presentation Make You Rich? The answer is YES. Packed with battle-tested strategies and formulas to craft audience-retaining powerful presentations, this No B.S. guide is designed to turn any ordinary business into an extraordinary sell. Millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy and public speaking expert Dustin Mathews teach you their blueprint for creating life-changing presentations and prove that your success is not just determined by what you're presenting—but also why you're presenting, how you're presenting it, and who you're presenting to. Kennedy and Mathews cover: The 12-Step Speaker's Formula A Blueprint for Creating Irresistible Offers The 4 Secrets of Mass Persuasion The 7-Minute Rule of Audience Engagement How to Automate Your Webinars and Your Profits How to Double Your Sales with a Multimedia Follow-up System Discover the battle-tested, carefully-crafted, revenue-generating tools to creating, delivering, and marketing presentations that can change everything.


An Agent Tells All

An Agent Tells All

Author: Tony Martinez

Publisher: Quality Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0976143305

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A working Hollywood talent agent gives honest and humorous advice to aspiring actors.


No B.S. Guide to Maximum Referrals and Customer Retention

No B.S. Guide to Maximum Referrals and Customer Retention

Author: Dan S. Kennedy

Publisher: Entrepreneur Press

Published: 2016-02-22

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1613083343

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FACT: NOTHING IS COSTLIER OR MORE DIFFICULT THAN GETTING A NEW CUSTOMER. Business owners agree. The referred customer is far superior to the one brought in by cold advertising. Yet most business owners will invest more money to find new customers than getting referrals from current, happy customers. Millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy and customer retention expert Shaun Buck dare you to stop chasing new customers and keep an iron cage around the ones you already have. Kennedy and Buck present a systematic approach to help you keep, cultivate, and multiply customers so that your entire business grows more valuable and sustainable, and you replace income uncertainty with reliable income through retention and referrals. Learn how to: Apply the #1 best retention strategy (hint: it’s exclusive) Catch customers before they leave you Grow each customer’s value (and have more power in the marketplace) Implement the three-step customer retention formula Use other people’s events to get more referrals Create your own Customer Multiplier System Calculate the math and cost behind customer retention Discover the referral-getting, sales-increasing, battle-tested tactics designed to help you build a thriving business for the long-term.


The Authentic Actor

The Authentic Actor

Author: Michael Laskin

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 9781615932221

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Every year, thousands of actors struggle to navigate today's film and TV business while also wanting to grow as performers, as artists. These actors tend to be risk-takers, mold-breakers, and are interested in defining who they are. They are looking for advice and guidance about art and about commerce. The Authentic Actor is for them. The actor's path today begins with two questions: Who are you? What do you know? Beginning with personal authenticity, The Authentic Actor reveals a holistic approach that fuses discovery of the “actor's fingerprint” with skills for managing performance, career, and life — as artist, businessperson, and citizen. It addresses the toughest subjects, from mastering auditions and ?dealing with representation to bouncing back from rejection and finding your “tribe” — all with the humor, and the no-b.s. voice of an experienced mentor. The goal? To help actors forge a professional career and meaningful life while never forgetting their artistic core.


No B.S. Guide to Selling Your Company for Top Dollar

No B.S. Guide to Selling Your Company for Top Dollar

Author: Dan S. Kennedy

Publisher: Entrepreneur Press

Published: 2025-01-07

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1613084838

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Join Dan Kennedy and David Melrose for a no-nonsense dive into building businesses that SELL BIG. In this brand new addition to the No B.S. series, you'll learn how to build a business that you can sell for maximum wealth. Every business owner dreams of pursuing a successful, top-dollar exit that'll get them a 7- to 8- figure payday, but few ever achieve it. Those who do manage to sell their business are often bogged down by ruthless investment firms, BS valuation formulas, or their own poor business practices and systems. These stop business owners from getting the maximum amount of wealth that they can from their businesses. DON'T BE ONE OF THEM! Luckily, business experts and sellers themselves, Dan Kennedy and David Melrose have the antidote. You'll discover: Who the potential buyers are for your business and how to tap into a whole new market primed to buy How to set up a business that is BUILT TO SELL, with your future exit strategy always in mind How to sell "Blue Sky" and ditch the traditional valuation formula to achieve the biggest payday possible Ways to negotiate with potential buyers and survive the "Deal-Killers" How to live life and set yourself up for success after the sale Plus, real interviews with company owners who successfully sold their companies to achieve top-dollar exits If you own or are even thinking about starting a business and want to achieve real wealth, then you can't afford not to read this book!