The Game Changer Network

Crack the Funding Code demystifies the world of angel investing, venture capital, and corporate funding and lays out a strategic pathway for any entrepreneur to secure funding fast.

Lack of funding is one of the biggest reasons small businesses fail. In 2016 in the United States alone, more than 31 percent of small business owners reported that they could not access adequate capital, and the lack of capital prevented them from growing the business/expanding operations, increasing inventory, or financing increased sales.

Most business owners believe that their only feasible funding options are (1) savings or personal credit, (2) friends and family or (3) bank loans. They may have heard about venture capitalists or angel investors, but they don’t have enough information about what these investors do, what they can provide for a business, and on what terms. What’s worse, entrepreneurs often don’t know how to access the people who are looking to put their money into young companies with potential.

Finally, business owners don’t have enough expertise to navigate the treacherous waters of outside funding. Many small companies don’t believe they are the type of company that gets funded. Even when business owners are brave enough to look for the right outside investors, they don’t know how to create the compelling pitches or how to structure the deals that will get them the funding to expand and grow.

Crack the Funding Code will show readers how to find the money, create pitches that attract investors, and then structure fair, ethical deals that will bring them new sources of outside capital and invaluable professional advice. It will give readers the broader perspective—how funding works, how investors think, and what they need to hear to put their money where your mouth is. Every entrepreneur who reads this book will get easy-to-follow deal checklists, a roadmap of where and how to locate the best funding resources and top business mentors for their particular industry and/or geographical location, and a step-by-step process to create pitches that make their idea or business irresistible.

DISRUPT YOURSELF: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work by Whitney Johnson

Consider this simple yet powerful idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different—they see a need, an empty space waiting to be filled, and they dare to create something for which a market may not yet exist.

As president and co-founder of Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson utilized the theory of disruptive innovation to invest in publicly traded stocks and private early stage companies. In this book, she will help you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to you.

We are living in an era of accelerating disruption—managing the S-curve waves of learning and mastering is a requisite skill. If you want to be successful in unexpected ways, follow your own disruptive path. Dare to innovate. Do something astonishing. Disrupt yourself™.

Whitney Johnson is the leading thinker on driving innovation through personal disruption. Johnson is the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, along with Clayton Christensen where they led the seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at $5+ billion. Having served as president from 2007-2012, Johnson was involved in fund formation, capital raising, and the development of the fund’s strategy. During her tenure, the CAGR of the Fund was 11.98% v. 1.22% for the S&P 500.

Her website is http://whitneyjohnson.com/

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Featuring Libby Gill and Dondi Scumaci

In a world full of quick fixes and hyper-aggressive focus on systematized sales, S.M.I.L.E. takes readers on a different path: better sales and better living through relationship-building. Written for both rookie and veteran real estate agents and salespeople everywhere, this book is the antidote to the frenzied, formulaic, and pressure-driven sales tactics so common in the real estate world and other industries. S.M.I.L.E. is a business parable about:

Living life with integrity, authenticity, and passion

Helping others become the best version of themselves

Transformation and personal growth in sales

Not just another gimmicky sales and business methodology, S.M.I.L.E. shows readers how to build relationships that will yield a bountiful harvest of sales not just today but for the long term, using effective, people-centered sales strategies everyone feels good about. Agents and salespeople will learn how to not only apply a relationship-based approach to successful selling but also carve out a meaningful legacy in their work and lives.

In S.M.I.L.E., Steve Rigby, author of Circle Selling — A Revolutionary Approach to Sales Success and CEO of New Wings, a firm that helps salespeople, sales teams, and companies get in the ''people'' business, redefines success and focuses readers on making a difference, not just a dollar. This is a book about loving what you do, doing it in a way that impacts lives, and reaching new heights of personal and professional success.

Second part of an interview on the book War Moments

Part 2 of interview with Judy Robinett

From the CEO of Seamless.ai comes a book that will change the way you think about selling – featuring 50+ top sales leaders.

Most salespeople do not achieve extraordinary results. Those that do all have one thing in common:

A collection of secret strategies, philosophies and frameworks they use every day to find and close more sales.

Every top salesperson has their “Secret Sauce.” They just haven’t revealed it….until now.

Strategies and Playbooks

You’ll get helpful advice on how to implement each tip, what tools to use, and where you can go if you need more help.

Actionable Tips

You’ll get access to an exclusive collection of 100 effective growth strategies and techniques that we’ve used to help businesses grow.

Examples of Use

You’ll get to read about examples of real companies and people that have or are currently using these growth strategies to get ahead in their industries.

How to Get Started

You’ll get helpful advice on how to implement each tip, what tools to use, and where you can go if you need more help.

Somewhere along the way, we got distracted. As much as we multitask, love our devices and feel like we’re in control, deep down we know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt and decreased creativity are just some of the effects coming to light in an age of digital distraction.

It’s time to reclaim our lives. It’s time to take control.

Lifescale is a journey of self-discovery and growth. It’s about getting back into balance and remastering our destinies. Author Brian Solis knows first-hand. He struggled with distraction and all of its ill-effects. To get his life back, he developed a set of techniques, exercises, and thought experiments designed to tame the chaos, and positively and productively navigate our day-to-day lives. Instead of falling victim to the never-ending cycle of newsfeeds, Likes, addictive apps, and boredom scrolling (aka the endless scroll), we can learn to manage our time and inspire our own lives in a way that will bring meaning back—without sacrificing the benefits that our devices bring us.

In Lifescale, Brian has done the legwork to pull together scientific findings and practical tools into one book. Readers—especially those who are distracted—will connect with the humor, pathos, and inspiration inside. Using this book’s simple but powerful lessons, we can:

Identify sources of distraction and turn attention toward creativity and productivity

Understand and resist the manipulative techniques that turn us into digital addicts

Find meaning and purpose to guide our time in more meaningful ways

Visualize future success to successfully dive into deep work and stop procrastinating

Break bad habits, establish rituals, and establish routines that help you achieve goals

Nurture imagination and learn to express ourselves more artistically

Maximize productivity with simple but effective strategies

Focus for extended periods and make breaks more restorative

Foster a strong sense of purpose in life and identify the steps needed to bring it to life every day

Smile more and build self-esteem

With the renewed perspective Lifescale offers, we can finally learn to prioritize what matters, and live our digital and physical lives with intention and true happiness.

The only language you need to know to change your results.

Inside each of us is a vision of how things could be. Yet most people remain frustrated by a lack of impact, unable to connect and inspire the people they care about the most. Why?

There’s a language we understand, but rarely use. A language that’s sincere. Powerful. Compelling. A language of words—and actions—that can’t be denied.

Leadership Language will help you to peel back the ineffective “business speak”, so you can change the conversation. And change your results. Imagine what could happen when you replace frustration with an irresistible vision—for yourself, your team and your organization.

Today’s leaders face so many challenges—employee retention, operational efficiency, culture, collaboration, leading across generations, and more—but communication is at the heart of every one of those issues. A clear message with a powerful delivery gets you halfway home. Honing in on your next conversation can drive more impact, better relationships, and greater overall effectiveness. For yourself. Your career. Your company.

They say there’s nothing that can stop an idea whose time has come. So, take the lead. It’s time for you to create what’s missing. And Leadership Language will show you how.

Get clear on your vision, get aligned with your story, and get others engaged with your message

Connect with the people that matter most, in a way that invites innovation and new outcomes

Find the courage to move forward, conquer change, and create powerful impact—while you help others do the same

From student leaders to the C-suite, there is only one way for a leader to make an impact: communication. Leadership Language is your personal guide to mastering critical skills and unveiling your authentic potential.

Julia Campbell - Storytelling in the Digital Age

Storytelling is the most effective way to grow support and to keep donors engaged. It's all about crafting authentic, real, emotional stories about the work that you do every day.

Sharing gripping stories using social media is a powerful way to showcase the results of your work. Social media, combined with great websites, blogs, and email tactics, is being used successfully to raise awareness and substantially increase fundraising success.

But with all the digital tools available, how can you, as a busy nonprofit professional, choose where to place your focus? How do you identify, collect, and craft these wonderful stories that will compel people to take action? How can you mold these stories for each digital and social media platform? What are the steps you can take to develop a plan for your storytelling campaign, to ensure that you won’t just be spinning your wheels?

That’s where Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits comes in. Author Julia Campbell guides you every step of the way in a conversational, fast-reading style designed for busy nonprofit practitioners such as you. It will:

Show you where to find and how to collect the best stories about your nonprofit’s work and impact.

Describe the ways to tell an effective story, developing a narrative arc and hook, and how to focus on people versus programs in your stories.

Address the unique and very real challenges that nonprofits face when sharing stories about their work online, including confidentiality obstacles and reluctance on the behalf of staff and volunteers.

Give you tips on creating a culture of storytelling at your nonprofit, even if you have never told stories or used social media before.

Walk you through the steps required to identify, recruit, cultivate, and motivate your very own army of storytellers to spread the word about your cause.

Give you storytelling strategies that will turn your supporters from passive readers into passionate advocates.

Provide you with the nuts and bolts of creating a plan for a digital storytelling campaign.

Show you how to integrate storytelling into your nonprofit website.

Give you the basics of blogging for your nonprofit, as well as a brief description of the major blogging platforms.

Cover the best practices in nonprofit email marketing, how to build a powerful email list, and how to integrate email marketing efforts with your website and social media channels.

Explain the basic principles of using social media to tell your nonprofit story and how to best incorporate visuals in your social media storytelling.

Provide tips on using video to tell your stories, including leveraging the popularity and unique perspective of live streaming platforms.