Butts In Seats

Author: Dirk Manning
Publisher: Source Point Press
ISBN: 9781954412323
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
From teenage wrestling fan to becoming “The Voice of Your Childhood,” famed professional wrestling commentator Tony Schiavone has spent five decades working in the pro wrestling industry... and he’s now sharing his story with the world! From teenage wrestling fan to becoming “The Voice of Your Childhood,” famed professional wrestling commentator Tony Schiavone has spent five decades working in the pro wrestling industry... and he’s now sharing his story with the world! This fourteen-chapter graphic novel details observations, anecdotes, and experiences about Tony’s life in professional wrestling as told by Tony himself and illustrated by over two dozen amazing artists from across the world! From his earliest days with Crockett Promotions to the rise and fall of WCW, and now his triumphant return with All Elite Wrestling, you can now experience Tony’s life in professional wrestling in a way that’s never been told–or seen–before!

The How of Audience Development for the Arts

Author: Shoshana Danoff Fanizza
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483434095
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Do you want to learn how to build a better audience? This book will teach you the basics about audience development so you can create your very own plan. The definition of audience development, description of the 4 C's, and examples for planning are all included. Grab your cup of coffee and settle in with Shoshana Fanizza, who lives and breathes audience development, to discover the magic of audience development for audience building. A happy and loyal audience is just around the bend.

The Six-Figure Server

Author: Justin Gosnell
Publisher: Justin Gosnell
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
Smart, funny, and straight to the point, The Six-Figure Server is a primer on how to get out of the weeds, tap into a six-figure headspace, skyrocket your service skills, and make YOU the server everyone asks for by name. A $25K server treats their work like a gig; a $100K server treats it like a great job. After hustling for years at a packed turn-and-burn beachside restaurant in a popular tourist town, I took a good, hard look at my serving skills and faced the truth: I wasn’t great at my job. Worse, by always angling to be the first cut and skipping tables to extend my breaks, I had left thousands of dollars on the table every year. That realization led to a six-figure transformation to my serving career. And now I’m sharing the strategies, tools, and mindset you can use to embark on your own six-figure path—all while keeping your body, mind, and soul intact (and paying your taxes on time). Drawing from my decades in the business, I offer a fun, fresh, and occasionally unconventional collection of tricks, tips, and techniques for tapping into your six-figure potential and making way more money than you are now. I’ll show you how to: ● Work out exactly what you need to do to earn $100K this year. ● Work out exactly what you need to do to earn $100K this year. ● Make sure your guests walk away feeling impressed (and happy to leave a 30% tip). ● Become valuable as f*ck to your boss, your coworkers, and everyone else on the team. ● Get the shifts you want by taking the shifts you think you don’t want. ● Upsell your tables without feeling like you’re selling your soul. ● Take advantage of seasonal shifts, gamedays, and holidays—including giving up everyone’s favorite date night to earn an extra $900. If you’re ready to level up, become the MVP of your staff, and add a zero or two to your income, The Six-Figure Server will show you the way.

Advice from the Principal's Desk

Author: David Franklin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1394170882
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
An insightful and original take on educational leadership Advice from the Principal’s Desk: 5 Pillars of School Leadership is a fresh, new take on school leadership from award-winning former school administrator and professor of education Dr. David Franklin. In the book, you’ll find the tools and strategies that veteran school administrators need to succeed in their roles. You’ll learn how to increase attendance and parental involvement in student affairs, minimize suspension, navigate budget cuts, and more. The author explores five key areas that school leaders cannot neglect and examines how busy school leaders should spend their extremely limited time. You’ll also discover: Strategies you can deploy to best support your students and other stakeholders How to navigate the often-conflicting demands of parents, teacher unions, and governing bodies How to best use and implement technology to support your work and create a positive and productive school environment An ideal resource for current and aspiring K-12 principals and school administrators, Advice from the Principal’s Desk is packed with the research, real-world examples, and practical techniques that education professionals need to improve the results of their leadership.

The AI Conundrum

Author: Caleb Briggs
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262378973
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
A timely, practical guide to AI—its strengths, weaknesses, and real-world applications—for business professionals and policymakers. Artificial intelligence, or AI, can recognize a pattern from any set of data it is given, which is what makes it such an extraordinarily powerful tool. But because not all patterns are authentic or reliable, AI’s pattern-finding superpower can lead to spurious patterns—and to disastrous results for business and government entities that rely on them. Hence the conundrum at the heart of AI: its greatest strength can also be its greatest weakness. Targeting the businessperson who needs to know how to use AI profitably and responsibly, Caleb Briggs and Rex Briggs offer in this book a foundational understanding of AI that is easy to grasp yet thorough enough to be used effectively. The AI Conundrum: • Draws on the authors’ diverse expertise—in pure math, computer science, marketing, data science, and business—to make AI concepts and applications approachable for readers of all tech levels. • Provides a framework for comparing AI to the next best alternative, and for gauging where AI is likely be successful—or to pose greater risk than benefits. • Includes dozens of real-world case studies highlighting the successes and failures of AI applications across various industries. • Offers actionable insights for responsible implementation and risk mitigation. • Provides a worksheet for identifying potential problem areas, a cost-benefit analysis, and a companion website. The AI Conundrum is an invaluable resource for professionals and students seeking a full understanding of AI—its applications, limitations, and ethical considerations—as we enter a brave new era.

Make 'Em Beg to Buy from You

Author: Travis Sago
Publisher: Travis Sago
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
How Can Make ‘Em Beg to Buy Help Me? If you’re trying to go broke, try to change people’s beliefs and sell them stuff. BUT... If you’re trying to get rich, PRE-SELL your stuff, shine insight where they haven’t looked and change people’s focus. Where the light of insight goes, focus follows. When focus changes, thoughts change (on their own). When thought changes, behavior changes. Then they credit you - forever! And all you did was give them a new place to look. I got rich by PRE-SELLING stuff. Where do I get them to look? I get people to focus on five focal points (The 5 P’s) before a “sales pitch.” When I invite them to look, the pitch is rarely needed, and people ask to buy before I even make them an offer. This book is the only how-to manual on the planet on how I’ve pre-sold everything from ladders to big-ticket coaching with prices up to $60,000 – with no sales calls! Preselling works for affiliate marketers, coaches, consultants, experts, physical product sellers or anyone who needs to market and sell something to keep the lights on! Rooting for Ya, Travis

The Honest Guide to Church Planting

Author: Tom Bennardo
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 031010100X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Church planting has become a cottage industry. National conferences, hip planting organizations, and all-in-one resource kits celebrate the thrill of pioneering a church and inspire visions of glorious victories. Yet few who respond to the call are warned what they'll actually encounter: the relentless opposition they'll endure; the eventual scattering of their entire core group; the failure of their tried-and-true, field-tested system. Here's the dirty little secret of church planting: the roadside is strewn with casualties. Many have closed their churches. Some left ministry permanently. Others abandoned the faith altogether. Church planting is at once the greatest and most grueling ministry work on earth. This book is for those toiling in the trenches, those about to bail out, and those considering jumping in. It's for the church planters laboring and struggling, seeing little movement, and wondering what they're doing wrong or why God is failing them. It's also for mother churches, planting organizations, and denominations, as a challenge to rethink and re-calibrate the way they approach and measure planting endeavors. The Honest Guide to Church Planting is a fresh and candid conversation about the challenges and joys of planting new churches. Tom Bennardo speaks the truth so that those involved in church planting can embrace a more accurate and realistic picture of what planting a church is really like; one that not only enables them to survive, but to thrive in this wondrous work.

Knowing with New Media

Author: Lena Redman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 981131361X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This cutting edge book considers how advances in technologies and new media have transformed our perception of education, and focuses on the impact of the privatisation of digital tools as a mean of knowledge production. Arguing that education needs to adapt to the modern learner, the book’s unique approach is based on a disassociation with the deeply ingrained attitude with which people have traditionally viewed education – learning the existing symbolic systems of certain disciplines and then expressing themselves strictly within the operational modes of these systems. The ways of knowledge production – exploring, recording, representing, making meaning of and sharing human experiences – have been fundamentally transformed through the infusion of digital technologies into all aspects of human activity, allowing learners to engage with their immediate natural, social and cultural environments by capitalising on their individual abilities and interests. This book proposes a new approach to teaching and learning termed ‘cinematic bricolage’, which involves generating knowledge from heterogeneous resources in a ‘do-it-yourself’ manner while making meaning through multimodal representations. It shows how cinematic bricolage reconnects ways of knowing with ways of being, empowering the individual with a sense of personal identity and responsibility, helping to shape more aware social citizens.

The Nomadic Developer

Author: Aaron Erickson
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0321606418
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Learn the Real Secrets of Succeeding as a Software or IT Consultant in Any Economic Climate! Despite economic cycles, the idea of using technology to make a company more efficient and competitive—or perhaps even reach a new market— is appealing to all but the most desperate and cash-starved companies. More and more often, those companies look to technology consultants to fulfill their needs. There are real advantages to being a consultant. You make contacts with a lot of different people; you get exposure to many industries; and most important, unlike a software developer in the IT department for a brick-and-mortar company, as a technology consultant, you are the profit center...so long as you are billing. Consulting can be hugely rewarding—but it’s easy to fail if you are unprepared. To succeed, you need a mentor who knows the lay of the land. Aaron Erickson is your mentor, and this is your guidebook. Erickson has done it all—from Practice Leadership to the lowest level project work. In The Nomadic Developer, he brings together his hardwon insights on becoming successful and achieving success through tough times and relentless change. You’ll find 100% practical advice and real experiences—his own and annotations from those in the trenches. In addition, renowned consultants—such as David Chappell, Bruce Eckel, Deborah Kurata, and Ted Neward—share some of their hard-earned lessons. With this useful guidebook, you can Objectively assess whether the consultant’s life makes sense for you Break into the business and build a career path that works Avoid the Seven Deadly Firms by identifying unscrupulous technology consultancies and avoiding their traps and pitfalls Understand the business models and mechanics that virtually all consulting firms use Master secret consulting success tips that are typically left unstated or overlooked Gain a competitive advantage by adding more value than your competitors Continue your professional development so you stay billable even during bad times Profit from both fixed-bid and time-and-materials projects Build a personal brand that improves your resiliency no matter what happens

Get Your Money Where Your Mouth is

Author: David R. Portney
Publisher: Kallisti Publishing
ISBN: 0976111179
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
Get Your Money Where Your Mouth Is is about one thing and one thing only: how to bring in a flood of new customers or interest into your business, profession, or passion so you can put a ton of money into your bank account and cash into your pocket. If money and attention are not your things, then you might want to stop reading right now because David Portney is going to show you exactly how to get both in the fastest, easiest, and most fun way possible--by delivering seminars and speaking in public.