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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Top Ten Reasons Why Coaches Need Book Summaries

1. You don't have time to read 4 books a month
You sell your services. You coach your customers. You even have your own blogs. And you have time to read books?

No need to do critical reading of an entire book. We take out the effort of weeding through the 300 or so pages getting the key concepts by doing it for you. We then email to you the book summary in an easy-to-read format.

You save more than 1,200 hours of reading per year. With only 30 minutes of reading per book summary, you spend the time applying new ideas rather than spending time reading them. People will envy your knowledge while wondering where you find the time to read all the books you can discuss.

2. Focus only on winning ideas
In the U.S. alone, more than 2,000 new business books are released every year. There might be just one winning idea or two among the thousands - your key to getting your customers (or YOU!) ahead of the competition, to make more profit, or generate more sales. How do you look for that gold nugget of wisdom?

3. Reinforce your image as a subject matter expert
Like it or not, your readers and customers set high expectations on you. You are their coach, right?

How can you help them make more profits? Increase their revenues? You need to be constantly exposed to new business ideas, concepts and strategies. You have to be up to date with the latest in business thinking -- and be aware of and anticipate changes in the competitive business environment.

Business in today's world is constantly evolving. A buzzword, new trend or idea emerges as soon as another one fades. You don't want to be left behind. With globalization, and the Internet, our world is getting smaller. Events are moving faster.

4. You need fresh content for your blogs
You need to constantly research on the net for fresh ideas. You are on the lookout for interesting articles for your readers. You subscribe to a lot of industry news sites and ezines just to be up to date. The search to keep your reader's attention focused on your blog never ends.

And this is one of the best reasons for subscribing to us: book summaries provide one of the best sources of fresh content and one of the best triggers for reader feedback.

5. Focus on learning - in minutes
Knowledge is power and you need the essential knowledge from BusinessSummaries to make a big difference in your professional and yes, even your personal life.

Take advantage of change. Anticipate and prepare for it. Take on new opportunities.

Studies have shown that by reading your book summary you remember better. Why? We place the key points and concepts in an easy-to-remember format. Your comprehension and retention of the key ideas and concepts will increase. No need to read those irrelevant fillers.

The fast pace of change in business today -- and tomorrow -- demands that you systematically acquire new knowledge and skills. Executives and Entrepreneurs who recognize the need for "lifelong learning" will grow, advance, and achieve success -- despite downsizing and economic turmoil. Those who don't keep up will fail! It's as simple as that.

6. Sharpen your skills
Business gurus and their books provide us with timely advice and guidelines. They help your business move in the right direction.
Since the ideas are presented to you in summary format, it is easier to implement ASAP! Spend more time putting them into action rather than sitting down reading on them.

7. You get a second set of book summaries
As part of your normal subscription of BusinessSummaries Pro, you also receive for free a second series of book summaries called "Inside The Guru Mind".

The summaries you receive form BusinessSummaries Pro are normally from books that discuss business, economics, leadership, human resource and many other topics written by a lot of business gurus like Tom Peters and Peter Drucker.

However, "Inside The Guru Mind" focus on these authors or business masterminds, themselves. It's the author's mind's turn to be analyzed and summarized by us. The business gurus we are presenting, mostly authors themselves, are some of most influential thinkers or players of our time.

Are these biographies? Certainly not. We summarize what's on their minds not their life stories.

8. Book summaries are one of the best business resources
We surveyed over 5,000 individual users of book summaries (either as individual subscribers or as users of corporate licenses). The survey results showed that:
  • 87% say book summaries work for them
  • 8% say book summaries does not work for them
  • 5% say they don't know
  • 82% of the training directors and content librarians say book summaries enhance their programs. The results showed that:
  • 82% say book summaries work for their training program or intranet resource
  • 12% say book summaries does not work for them
  • 6% say they don't know
9. We have an iron-clad 170% money-back full year guarantee!
If at any time you are not completely satisfied, you may cancel and receive a FULL refund. And you get to keep the “Inside The Guru Mind” bonus subscription. Since the bonus is worth $49.95, that’s like getting a 225% refund. You can’t lose!

10. And finally, don't even take our word for it
You don’t even have to rely on our word that our service is great. For a lot of people, they rely on their peer’s recommendations. So I am listing below just some of the testimonials that we have been getting from some coaches:

"As a total book addict and perpetual student (years of studying at night for an MBA, a CFP designation, and hundreds of hours of coaching classes), there is never enough time for all that I want to read. Book summaries enables me to gain exposure to books that have relevant information for both my coaching clients and my business in an efficient way."
Helene Mazur
Business Coach and Team Facilitator
Princeton Performance Dynamics
http://www.ppdbusinesscoaching.com

"Inside the Guru Mind is reason enough to subscribe. The 15-page summary of Heller's Peter Drucker reads like an action plan for coaching executives. I can see a coaching program in the making!"
Hal Macomber
Reforming Project Management
http://weblog.halmacomber.com

"My company provides executive coaching, leadership development, and performance consulting to senior level executives and management teams who are committed to building organizational environments that promote a holistic, systemic approach to personal and professional development. I pride myself on being an ongoing resource for my clients. BusinessSummaries support my efforts at staying on top of my own game as a knowledge-based professional and enables me to keep my clients up to date on industry trends, leadership development and business management best practices. Business Summaries are a vital part of my client library."
Katherine Handin
Principal
Global Coaching Alliance, LLC
www.GlobalCoachingAlliance.com

For more information, please visit BusinessSummaries.com.

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