I Can Help You Find The Best Business Books
I’m a business geek. An addict who reads a lot of business books. I justify it to myself on the basis that a) I need to keep up to date and b) I want to give clients the best ideas around.
The vast number is partly a result of my health problems that have stopped me working full time and caused me to limit my client work to a couple of hours a day.
Reading a great book changes you because you can’t unlearn. It can change how you think and act. Often, it’s hard to remember where you found the source of inspiration. It just becomes part of you and the way you do things.
Business owners often find it hard to apply the ideas in their businesses. This is why coaching and mentoring is so successful.
How To Find The Business Books You Need To Help You
Here are the links to the pages of reviews that I’ve written on Amazon updated to 31 May 2018. I’ve tried to put them into categories to help you go directly to the most appropriate books you need. There is a complete list of the books further down the page.
- Profit & Cash Flow Improvement Books (23 books reviewed)
- Marketing, Sales & Strategy Books
- Finance & Performance Measurement Books (14 books)
- Starting A Business Books (13 books)
- Difficult Times (6 books)
- Clearer Thinking Books (22 books)
- The Wider Economic Environment & Investment Books (56 books)
- Specific Niche Books (21 books)
- Theory Of Constraints
I’ve bought and read many more books than I have yet reviewed.
People have asked me for a shorter set of recommendations so I’ve put together a list of The 12 Best Business Books To Give Great Education For Business Owners And Entrepreneurs.
My aim is to be a tough reviewer because the biggest investment in a book is not the money it costs you to buy but the time it takes you to read it. Only a few books deserve a five star rating (excellent) but many more are good (four stars) and three stars (worthwhile). There are some two and one star books that I’ve reviewed but I try not to waste my time on books that have been identified as poor by other people.
The Complete List Of Business Book Reviews
I am slowly building a complete list (to the date above) of the business books I’ve read and reviewed by author. I have put links to Amazon for the five stars books which are the best and also makes them easier to spot. The books graded at 4 stars are also good to very good while the 3 star rating indicates the book is worthwhile but not special.
- David Aaker Developing Business Strategies – 4 stars
- Jay Abraham Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You’ve Got – 5 stars my review
- Jay Abraham Money-Making Secrets of Marketing Genius Jay Abraham and Other Marketing Wizards – 5 stars my review
- Jay Abraham The Sticking Point Solution – 3 stars
- Tina Adams Preselling For Profits – 1 star
- Jimmy Akela 10 Tips for Scaling Up Your Business When Life Gets Crazy – 3 stars
- James Allen As A Man Thinketh 2 stars
- RJ Anderson Persuasion: Dark Psychology 4 Stars
- Andrew Angus 60 Seconds 3 Stars
- Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational 4 Stars
- Sarah Arrow Zero to Psychographics – 3 stars
- Yishai Ashlag TOC Thinking – 3 stars
- Stephen Ashley The Ultimate Book of Effective and Proven Sales Pitches – 2 stars
- Eddie Ashton No Website No Problem – 3 stars
- Debra Atkinson How To Write Headlines That Get Opened: Fitness Marketing Mastery – 2 stars
- Mac Attram Face It & Fix It – 4 stars
- Paul Avins Business SOS 4 stars
- Mitch Axelrod The New Game Of Selling – 4 stars
- Csaba Babak Beer Means Business 3 Stars
- A Gharakhani Baha System and Systems Thinking – 2 stars
- Dr Saman Bakhtiar Fitness Marketing – Email Marketing Guide – 2 stars
- Ronald Baker Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value – 4 stars
- Jerry Banfield and Michel Gerard Facebook Marketing and Advertising in 2016 – 4 stars
- Duncan Bannatyne Wake Up and Change Your Life – 4 stars
- Duncan Bannatyne 43 Mistakes Businesses Make…and How to Avoid Them – 4 stars
- Phil Barden Decoded – 3 stars
- Cadnam Barnes Marketing Secrets That Eat Your Competition Alive 3 Stars
- John Barnes Marketing Judo – 3 stars
- Cindy Barnes, Helen Blake and David Pinder Creating and Delivering Your Value Proposition – 4 stars
- P Barrow The Best Laid Business Plans – 4 stars
- Nicholas Bate How To Sell and Market Your Way Out Of This Recession – 3 stars
- Nicholas Bate Beat the Recession – 2 stars
- Steven Beaman Transform Your Business and Not Be Derailed 1 Star
- Dennis Becker 80/20 Power 2 Stars
- Harry Beckwith Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy – 2 stars
- Timothy F Bednarz Recovering Lost Business 3 stars
- Stuart Berkow Guerrilla Profits – 2 stars
- Dave Berkus Positioning for Success – 3 stars
- Drayton Bird Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing – 4 stars
- Drayton Bird 51 Helpful Marketing Ideas – 4 stars
- Matias Birrell and Javier Arevalo Forget the Urgent! – 5 Stars my review
- Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson The New One Minute Manager – 5 stars my review
- Ken Blanchard et al The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey – 5 stars my review
- Blanchard et al Leadership and the One Minute Manager – 5 stars my review
- Kenneth Blanchard Raving Fans – 4 stars
- Ken Blanchard et al The One Minute Apology – 4 stars
- Kenneth Blanchard Gung Ho! – 3 stars
- Ken Blanchard et al The One Minute Entrepreneur – 3 stars
- Ken Blanchard Who Killed Change? – 2 stars
- Mark Blayney Turning a Business Around – 5 Stars my review
- Dee Blick The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Book 4 stars
- Sammy Blindell and Miles Fryer The 7 Reasons Why Customers Don’t Choose You! – 3 stars
- Kenyon Blunt Unstuck: How Businesses Get Stuck & How Your’s Can Get Unstuck 4 stars
- Robert W Bly The Copywriter’s Handbook – 4 stars
- Robert W Bly How to Create Irresistible Offers – 4 stars
- Robert W. Bly The Perfect Sales Piece 4 stars
- Bill Bodri How to Create a Million Dollar Unique Selling Proposition – 5 Stars my review and
- Gary Booth Niche Marketing Expert – 4 stars
- David Borgenicht & Mark Joyner The Worst-case Scenario Business Survival Guide 3 stars
- The Boston Consulting Group On Strategy – 3 stars
- Bruce Bowler The Bankruptcy Alternative 4 Stars
- Cliff Bowman & David Faulkner Competitive and Corporate Strategy – 5 Stars my review and
- Cliff Bowman Strategy in Practice – 4 stars
- Dan Bradbury Breeding Gazelles – 4 Stars
- Robert W Bradford et al Simplified Strategic Planning – 4 stars
- BrandBlast SEO Decoded: The 7 Day SEO Bootcamp – 2 stars
- Steven Briginshaw The Profits Principles 4 Stars
- Felicia Brown Free & Easy Ways To Promote Your Massage, Spa & Wellness Business: Volume 1 – 4 stars
- Mark Brown Successful Project Management in a Week – 4 stars
- Paul Brown Customers for Life 4 stars
- Harry Browne The Secret of Selling Anything – 5 Stars my review
- Jimmy Brown PhD Systems Thinking Strategy – 3 stars
- Martin Bruno Google AdWords Expanded Text Ads – 3 stars
- Grayson Bryan Call To Action: The Art Of Sales Copy Psychology 3 stars
- Brian Burns How and Why Large Companies Make Product Selections 3 Stars
- Rob Burns Marketing In Less Than 1000 Words – 3 stars
- John C The Right Keys – 3 stars
- Andrea Callahan Defining a Dynamic USP – 3 stars
- John Caples Tested Advertising Methods – 5 stars my review
- Jan Carlzon Moments of Truth – 4 stars
- A. Chakravarti and M. Thomas Why People (Don’t) Buy 4 Stars
- Chinese Goldratt Alliance – Think Smarter – 1 star
- Clarke Ching Six Lessons (Eli Goldratt) 3 Stars
- Sharad Churiwala and Govindaraju TV 24 Hour Business Turnaround 3 Stars
- Robert Cialdini Influence 4 Stars
- Robert Cialdini Pre-Suasion – 4 stars
- George Cloutier Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing – 5 stars my review
- Steven Cody What’s Keeping Your Customers Up at Night? – 2 stars
- Tim Coe Your Utterly Seductive Proposal – 3 stars
- Gary Cohen Just Ask Leadership – 4 stars
- Stuart Cook Business Strategy: Strategic Positioning with Strategimetric Profiles – 1 star
- Copyblogger Media How to Write Magnetic Headlines 4 Stars
- Jennifer S Cosculluela Find Your Own Unique Selling Proposition – 2 stars
- AJ Craft 6-Figure Copywriting for Coaches 2 Stars
- Andy Cunningham Get to Aha! 3 Stars
- Seth Czerepak The 24 Hour Marketing Miracle – 5 stars my review
- Seth Czerepak The Sexy Sales Letter Formula – 4 stars
- Richard A. D’Aveni Hypercompetition – 5 Stars my review
- Sean D’Souza The Brain Audit – 5 Stars my review
- Karl Dakin Introduction to Investing in Startups – 4 stars
- Jeffrey S. Davis and Mark Cohen A THINKAha Book: The 24-Hour Turnaround 1 Star
- Sam Deep Close the Deal – 4 stars
- Steve Deery How Customers Think – 4 stars
- Ryan Deiss Invisible Selling Machine – 5 Stars my review
- Robert DeGroot Competitor Analysis – 3 stars
- David DeSchoolmeester Systems Thinking – 2 stars
- William Dettmer The Logical Thinking Process 5 Stars my review
- Doberman Dan The Rookie Copywriter’s Survival Guide – 3 stars
- Kevin Donlin 21 Quick Ways to Get More Clients – 4 stars
- Roger Dooley The Persuasion Slide – 4 stars
- Richard Dotts What To Do When You Are Stuck 4 Stars
- Chris Douthit AdWords Secrets Revealed and PPC Marketing – 3 stars
- David P. Doyle Adding Value To Marketing – 2 stars
- Peter Doyle Marketing Management and Strategy 4 Stars
- Henry Dubroff Battling Big Box – 3 stars
- David Dugdale and T Jones Accounting For Throughput – 3 stars
- Henneke Duistermaat How to Write Seductive Web Copy – 4 stars
- Lee Duncan Double Your Business – 5 stars my review
- Elyse DuPre Psychology Based Marketing 1 Star
- Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenburg with Anthony Garcia Buyer Legends – 4 stars
- T. Harv Eker Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind 4 stars
- Yolanda A Facio Purpose 3 Stars
- Everte Farnell The Incredible Profit Pulling Power of Client Reactivation 3 stars
- Shane Farrell Pay Per Click Marketing – 3 stars
- John Fenton How to Double Your Profits within the Year 4 stars
- Tim Ferriss Tools of Titans – 3 stars
- Bob Fifer Double Your Profits in Six Months or Less – 4 stars
- Glenn Fisher Buy This Now: A Beginner’s Guide to Direct Response Copywriting – 3 stars
- Michael Fleischner PPC Made Simple – 3 stars
- Julian Flynn How to Keep Your Clients If You’re a Personal Trainer – 3 stars
- Maurice ‘Big Mo’ Flynn How to Prepare for GDPR 4 Stars
- Pat Flynn Will It Fly? – 5 Stars my review
- Bafs Folarni The Golden Rule For Start Ups – 1 star
- Patrick Forsyth Tough Tactics for Tough Times – 3 stars
- Alessandro Forte Dare to be Different – 1 star
- Forte Consultancy Group The Single Easiest Way to Grow – Winning Back Lost Customers 3 stars
- Sandra Fox Growing Customer Lifetime Value 3 Stars
- Stephen Fox How I Find $10k in Any Business in 45 Minutes 4 Stars
- Amy Foxwell Marketing: Unique Selling Points and Creating a Tagline – 2 stars
- Susan Friedmann 7 Secret Motivators That Drive Your Customers to The BUY Button – 4 stars
- Jeanna Gabellini 10 Minute Money Makers – 3 stars
- Bradley T. Gale Managing Customer Value – 4 stars
- Craig Garber 7 Biggest Marketing Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make, And How To Avoid Making Them – 4 stars
- David Gargaro How to Run Your Company… Into the Ground 3 Stars
- Antonio Garrido Asking Questions The Sandler Way 3 Stars
- Jim Gehrke More Clients… More Often… More Money – 4 stars
- Stephen J. Genco, Andrew P. Poholmann and Peter Steidl Neuromarketing For Dummies -3 stars
- Michael E Gerber The E-Myth Revisited – 5 stars my review
- Michael E. Gerber E-Myth Mastery – 4 stars
- Michael E. Gerber Beyond The E-Myth – 3 stars
- Michael Gerber The E-Myth Contractor 3 Stars
- Michael E. Gerber Awakening the Entrepreneur Within – 2 stars
- Mike Gershon 50 Quick and Easy Ways to Outstanding Critical Thinking at Work – 2 stars
- Charlie Gilkey The Small Business Life Cycle 3 stars
- Yann Ginon Continuous Improvement to Company Financial Performance The Human Factor – 1 star
- John F. Gittus A Health Check for Your Business 3 stars
- Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point – 3 stars
- Bill Glazer Outrageous Advertising That’s Outrageously Successful – 4 stars
- Seth Godin Permission Marketing – 3 stars
- Seth Godin Purple Cow 3 stars
- Seth Godin Meatball Sundae – 2 stars
- Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox The Goal – 5 stars my review
- Eliyahu Goldratt and Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag The Choice Revised Edition 5 Stars my review
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt Critical Chain – 4 stars
- Eliyahu Goldratt Isn’t It Obvious? 4 Stars
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt It’s Not Luck – 3 stars
- Eliyahu Goldratt Late Night Discussions on the Theory of Constraints 3 Stars
- Arnold Goldstein The Business Doctor 4 Stars
- David Gomez Stop Competing on Price 4 Stars
- Elizabeth Gordon The Chic Entrepreneur 5 stars my review
- Nigel Greenwood The Six Things That All Customers Want – 4 stars
- Kristal Guerra Critical Thinking – 3 stars
- Alain Guillemain Customer Delight – 3 stars
- Rita Gunther McGrath End of Competitive Advantage – 2 stars
- Dr Donald Gusfa, Kenneth Gusfra and Daniel Stanley The Balanced Scorecard – 2 stars
- Stephen Haines The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management – 3 stars
- Bond Halbert The Halbert Copywriting Method Part III – 4 stars
- Richard Halbread Copywriting: For Beginners! – 2 stars
- Doug Hall Jump Start Your Business Brain Five Stars my review
- Doug Hall Jump Start Your Marketing Brain 5 Stars my review
- KE Hall Kick This Recession In The Butt – 1 star
- Scott Hallman The 7 Success Drivers to HyperGrowth 5 Stars my review
- Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad Competing for the Future – 4 stars
- Mack Hanan and Peter Kemp Competing on Value – 5 Stars my review
- James Harkin Niche – 2 stars
- Verne Harnish Scaling Up 4 Stars
- Rupert M Hart Resisting Pricing Pressure in Recession & Recovery – 3 stars
- Harvard Business Review On Managing Through a Downturn – 3 stars
- Henry Havel Where Is The Constraint? – 4 stars
- Fraser J Hay Why Your Marketing Isn’t Working in 2015 3 stars
- Fraser Hay The 90 Minute Marketing Plan – 3 stars
- John Haylock Absolute Certainty – 4 stars
- Anthony Hernandez Guerrilla Marketing Success Secrets – 3 stars
- Cameron Herold Double Double – 4 stars
- Gabor Holch Breaking the Circle 4 stars
- Chet Holmes The Ultimate Sales Machine – 5 Stars my review
- Claude Hopkins Scientific Advertising – 4 stars
- Jane Horan The One Page Business Plan – 4 stars
- Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh Patterns of Strategy 3 Stars
- Darran Hughes Breakthrough Business Growth Barriers – 4 stars
- Robert Mark Hurn Go Forth & Multiply: 7 Day Profit Boosting Plan – 3 stars
- Charlie Hutton The Business Owners Guide To Making Out Like A Bandit – 5 stars my review
- Charlie Hutton & Emma Hutchinson The Orgasm Effect – 4 stars (yes it is about marketing)
- Tara Jacobsen and Rebekah Welch USP: How To Craft Your Unique Selling Proposition – 3 stars
- Jalanda James Unique Selling Proposition Formulas For Positioning Your Small Business – 3 stars
- John Jantsch Duct Tape Marketing – 5 Stars my review
- Claire Jarrett How to Get Selling on AdWords Fast! – 4 stars
- Jonathan Jay The Marketing Secrets of a Multimillionaire Entrepreneur – 4 stars
- Manual Jobs Small Business Ideas: Tips For Saving a Struggling Small Business 2 stars
- Julie Johnson Home Care Business Marketing – 2 stars
- Richard Johnson Twenty-Five Ways to Improve Sales and Profits without Spending an Extra Dime on Advertising – 4 stars
- Spencer Johnson One Minute Salesperson – 4 stars
- Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese – 4 stars
- Giles Johnston Designing KPIs to Drive Process Improvement – 4 stars
- V.F. Joseph Marketing for Your Small Business – 2 stars
- Mark Joyner The Irresistible Offer – 4 stars
- Mark Joyner Mindcontrolmarketing.Com – 4 stars
- Mark Joyner The Great Formula – 3 stars
- Mark Joyner Simpleology – 3 stars
- Michael Kallet Think Smarter – 5 stars my review
- Warren Kannuck 9 Key Website Optimization & SEO Strategies to Guarantee Website Conversion Success 3 stars
- Robert Kaplan and David Norton The Balanced Scorecard – 3 stars
- Brian Kaskavalciyan How to Double Your Profits in Six Months or Less 4 stars
- Simon Kelly at al Value-ology 2 stars
- Robert Kelsey What’s Stopping You? 3 stars
- Dan Kennedy The Ultimate Sales Letter – 5 stars my review
- Dan S. Kennedy The Ultimate Marketing Plan (4th edition)– 5 stars my review
- Dan S. Kennedy The Ultimate Marketing Plan (3rd edition) – 4 stars
- Dan S Kennedy No B.S. Marketing to the Affluent – 4 stars
- Dan S Kennedy No B.S. Direct Marketing – 3 stars
- Grant Kennedy Facebook: Master Facebook Marketing – 3 stars
- Larry Kesslin et al Breakpoints 3 stars
- Bedros Keuilian Boot Camp Marketing Tactics: How to Start & Grow a 6-Figure Fitness Boot Camp Business – 2 stars
- Clive Keyte Developing Meaningful Key Performance Indicators – 3 stars
- W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy – 5 Stars my review (buy the updated version)
- W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Expanded Edition – 5 Stars my review
- W Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne Blue Ocean Shift 5 Stars my review
- Philip Kim Chase One Rabbit 4 Stars
- Michael Kinlow The Laws of Profit – 4 stars
- Oren Klaff Pitch Anything – 4 stars
- Richard Klapholz and Alex Klarman The Cash Machine – 4 stars
- Normann Klein Pay-Per-Click Mastery – 2 stars
- Richard Koch The Star Principle – 4 stars
- Cynthia Kocialski Perfect Pricing in One Simple Lesson – 4 stars
- Nick Kolenda Methods of Persuasion – 4 stars
- Rhondalynn Korolak Financial Foreplay – 5 stars my review
- Jeremy Kourdi Surviving a Downturn – 3 stars
- Brian Koz & Shawn Casey 10 Ways For Any Business To Easily Make More Money! – 3 stars
- Marc Kramer Streetwise Small Business Turnaround 2 stars
- Sachin Kumar Conversion Rate Optimization Secret TIPS 1 star
- AG Lafley and Roger L Martin Playing to Win – 4 stars
- Andre Larabie How To Double Your Profits In 6 Months Or Less 4 stars
- Anthony Lambardi Understand Google Adwords Today – 2 stars
- Ken Langdon Putting Customers First – 4 stars
- David Lavinsky Start at the End – 4 stars
- Paul Ledington Soft Systems Methodology – 2 stars
- Richard Legg Hidden Profits 4 Stars
- Jonah Lehrer The Decisive Moment – 4 stars
- Andrew Leong The Rich Recruiter 4 stars
- Ryan Levesque Ask – 4 stars
- Jay Conrad Levinson Guerrilla Marketing – 5 Stars my review
- Jay Conrad Levinson Startup Guide to Guerrilla Marketing – 4 stars
- Jay Conrad Levinson Guerrilla Retailing -4 stars
- Jay Conrad Levinson The Guerrilla Marketing Revolution – 4 stars
- Jay Conrad Levinson Guerrilla Marketing During Tough Times – 4 stars
- Jay Conrad Levinson Guerrilla Marketing Attack 4 stars
- Jay Conrad Levinson Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days – 3 stars
- Jay Conrad Levinson The Guerilla Marketing Handbook – 3 stars
- Jay Conrad Levinson Guerilla Marketing on the Internet – 3 stars
- Tim Levey Profit Improvement In A Week – 3 stars
- Carl Lewis Adwords Cheat Sheets – 3 stars
- Christ Lewis Critical Thinking – 4 stars
- Dennis Lewis Combat Zone – 3 stars
- Richard G. Lewis Customer Avatar – 3 stars
- Trevi Lim 11 Keys To Successful Business Turnarounds 2 stars
- Richard Linford How To Begin Turning Around Your Business in 30 Minutes 3 Stars
- Glenn Livingston How to Become Unstoppable 4 stars
- Dan Lok Influence!: 47 Forbidden Psychological Tactics You Can Use To Motivate, Influence and Persuade Your Prospect – 4 stars
- Kat Loterzo Stop Fu*king Around, And Figure Out What You Want From Life! 2 Stars
- Joan Magretta Understanding Michael Porter – 4 stars
- W Adam Mandelbaum The Power Of Negative Thinking 3 Stars
- Howard Mann Your Business Brickyard 5 Stars my review
- Kate Marsden 13 Ways to Increase Your Profits – 3 stars
- Perry Marshall 80/20 Sales and Marketing – 3 stars
- Colin Martin Stealth Persuasion 2 Stars
- Curly Martin The Business Coaching Handbook – 3 stars
- Michael Maslansky et al The Language of Trust – 4 stars
- Michael Masterson and MaryEllen Tribby Changing the Channel – 4 stars
- Shiv S Mathur and Alfred Kenyon Creating Value – 5 Stars my review
- David Mattson The Sandler Rules – 3 stars
- Ace McCloud Marketing: The Top 100 Best Things That You Can Do In Order To Make Money & Be Successful With Marketing 3 stars
- Ace McCloud Sales: Sales Strategies – 3 stars
- Pat McCord Postcard Marketing Update – 3 stars
- Jason McDonald Social Media Marketing Workbook: 2017 Edition – 4 stars
- Marty McDonald Great Beer Is Not Enough 3 Stars
- Scott McKain All Business is Show Business – 4 stars
- Scott McKain Digging Wells and Building Fences 4 stars
- Hannah McNamara Niche Marketing for Coaches – 3 stars
- Mitch Meyerson Success Secrets of the Online Marketing Superstars – 2 stars
- Mike Michalowicz Profit First – 4 stars
- Mike Michalowicz The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur – 4 stars
- R. Michaels Copywriting Headlines 2015 – Cosmopolitan Sex Headlines – 3 stars
- Robert Middleton The Unstuck Process 4 stars
- Andrew R Miller Hope Won’t Pay the Wages 5 stars my review
- Colin Mills Scale Up – 3 stars
- Henry Mintzberg et al Strategy Safari – 3 stars
- Anthony Mitchell The Quality Pocketbook – 4 stars
- Barry Moltz How to Get Unstuck 4 stars
- Richie Montes Selling the Pain vs Selling the Gain – 1 star
- Seong Am Moon, Dong Jin Kim and Aaron Rae Stephens Pinocchio Becoming Human with the Theory of Constraints – 1 star
- Harry Moore Business Turnaround – How To Do It 4 stars
- Warren Mori Pay Per Click Advertising – 2 stars
- Shaun Moseley Get More Clients: The Guide To Marketing For Personal Trainers And Other Fitness Professionals – 3 stars
- Joan Mullally and Evelyn Trimborn Postcard Marketing Success – 4 stars
- Thomas Nagle & Reed Holden The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing – 5 Stars my review
- Greg Nanigian Why People Buy 4 Stars
- Peter Navarro The Well Timed Strategy – 4 stars
- Mary Naylor Customer Chemistry 4 stars
- Daniel Ndukwu Crafting Irresistible Marketing Messages – 3 stars
- Michael Neill Supercoach 4 Stars
- James Newell Clear Sales Message 4 Stars
- Paul Nixon Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step – 4 stars
- Ray Noble with Clara Noble Stunted Growth 3 Stars
- Carol O’Connor Business Health Check – 3 stars
- John O’Shaughnessy Why People Buy – 4 stars
- Alyson Ogilvie-Lee 10 Things You Need to Know to Turnaround Your Business Problems 2 Stars
- David Ogilvy Ogilvy on Advertising – 4 stars
- Clarence Oliver The 5-Minute Communicator 4 Stars
- Dan Olsen The Lean Product Playbook – 3 stars
- Bob Oros More Gross Profit – 3 stars
- Bob Oros Attention: Make Irresistible Compelling Offers – 2 stars
- Alejandro Mijares Ortiz The Price is Great – 2 stars
- Alexander Osterwalder et al Business Model Generation – 4 stars
- Alexander Osterwalder et al Value Proposition Design – 3 stars
- Rick Ott Creating Demand – 4 stars
- Hendrik S. Palm Turnaround Guidelines for Businesses in Decline or Distress – 4 stars
- Jose Palomino Value Prop – 3 stars
- Mohit Pandey Fantastic Finance: Cost Volume Profit Analysis – 1 star
- David J. Pannell How to Influence Buying Criteria – 3 stars
- David Parrish Chase One Rabbit 4 Stars
- David Peers Selling to the British – 1 star
- Ray L. Perry and Phil Singleton Google AdWords – 4 stars
- Tom Peters Surviving the (Never-Ending) Downturn 2 stars
- Mary Kay Plantes Beyond Price – 4 stars
- Anthony Policci “The Wise Guys” Copywriting Handbook 3 Stars
- Andrey Polston USP Breakthrough – 3 stars
- Michael Port Book Yourself Solid – Five Stars my review
- Michael Port The Contrarian Effect – 4 stars
- Michael E. Porter Competitive Strategy – 5 Stars my review
- Michael E. Porter Competitive Advantage – 5 Stars my review
- Veena Prashanth Upsells Unleashed – 4 stars
- Allen Pratt 5 Steps to Continuous Improvement – 2 stars
- Steve Prescott Pricing Strategies for Winners – 4 stars
- Dr Treat Preston Psychological Triggers – 2 stars
- Ray Proctor Finance for the Perplexed Executive – 4 stars
- Abagail Pumphrey and Emylee Williams 16 Formulas that Convince & 101 Headlines that Convert Readers to Leads – 3 stars
- John Quinn Business Turnaround in 7 Easy Steps – 3 stars
- Regis Quinn Redesign to Turnaround Underperforming Small and Medium-Sized Businesses 1 star
- Corey Rabazinski Google AdWords for Beginners – 4 stars
- Venkat Ramaswamy & Kerimcan Ozcan The Co-Creation Paradigm – 2 stars
- Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes and Janmejaya Sinha Your Strategy Needs a Strategy – 5 Stars my review
- Rosser Reeves Reality In Advertising – 5 Stars my review
- Eugene Rembor Turnaround and Crisis Management 3 Stars
- Patrick Renvoise and Christophe Morin Neuromarketing: Understanding the Buy Buttons in Your Customer’s Brain – 4 stars
- Don Reynolds Crackerjack Positioning – 5 Stars my review
- Fritz Richard Chiropractor’s guide to direct response marketing – 1 star
- Sandy Richardson Business Results Revolution – 4 stars
- John Arthur Ricketts Reaching The Goal – 3 stars
- Mandy Riddington Grow Your Personal Training Business – 4 stars
- Al Ries & Laura Ries The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding – 4 stars
- Laura Ries Visual Hammer – 4 stars
- Pat Rigsby Fitness Marketing – 4 stars
- Pat Rigsby and Ryan Ketchum 21 Days to a Better Fitness Business – 4 stars
- Pat Rigsby Personal Training Sales – 3 stars
- Martin Robertson Your 60 minute business transformation 3 Stars
- Gina Robison-Billups and Elaine Starling Why 5% Succeed – 4 stars
- Alberto Rocha The Ideal Customer Experience Journey – 3 stars
- Krisz Rokk Positioning – 4 stars
- Phil Rosenzweig The Halo Effect 4 Stars
- Richard Rumelt Good Strategy/Bad Strategy – 4 stars
- David H Sandler You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar – 5 Stars my review
- Melanie Saladino Why People Buy 3 Stars
- Lisa Sasevich Boost Your Sales: How to Use Irresistible Offers… Without Being Salesy – 3 stars
- Max Saunders Ignite Execution – 3 stars
- Lori Schafer Managing Cash When You Haven’t Got Any – 4 stars
- Peter A Schaible The Secret Weapon of a Master Direct Response Online Copywriter 4 Stars
- Lisa J. Scheinkopf Thinking for a Change – 5 stars my review
- Stephan Schiffman Upselling Techniques: That Really Work! – 3 stars
- Thomas F Schopflocher The Turnaround Experience – 4 stars
- Victor Schwab How To Write A Good Advertisement 5 Stars my review Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk
- Mark C. Scott Value Drivers – 4 stars
- Steve Scott How to Start a Successful Blog in One Hour – 3 stars
- Larry Selden et al Angel Customers & Demon Customers – 2 stars
- Michael Senoff USP: How to Construct a Winning Unique Selling Proposition – 2 stars
- Michael Senoff Hidden Marketing Assets 2 Stars
- Ben Settle Crackerjack Positioning – 4 stars
- Donald L. Sexton Value Above Cost – 3 stars
- Mo Shapiro Neuro-Linguistic Programming in a Week – 3 stars
- Tom Shapiro Rethink Your Marketing 5 Stars my review
- Amen Sharma The Google Checklist: Website Edition: Boost Your Online Conversions 3 stars
- Lisa Shaughnessy The New Rules of Fitness Marketing – 3 stars
- David Silverstein Three Steps Ahead – 4 stars
- Jack Skinner Turnaround Strategies for Customer Centric Operations 3 stars
- Mish Slade May I Have Your Attention, Please? Your Guide to Business Writing That Charms, Captivates and Converts – 4 stars
- Rod Sloane 121 Marketing Ideas 3 stars
- Adrian J. Slywotzky The Profit Zone – 4 stars
- Adrian J. Slywotzky The Art of Profitability – 4 stars
- Adrian Slywotzky Profit Patterns – 4 star
- Jaynie Smith Creating Competitive Advantage – 3 stars
- Mike Southan and Christopher West The Beermat Entrepreneur – 4 stars
- Mike Southon Sales On A Beermat – 4 stars
- Mike Southon et al Finance on a Beermat – 4 stars
- John Spencer Ellis Fitness Marketing – 3 stars
- Lindsay Spencer-Matthews Reading Customers Minds – 4 stars
- Charlene Spoede Budd Traditional Measures in Finance and Accounting, Problems, Literature Review, and TOC Measures – 3 stars
- James Squire Get Them Buying 4 Stars
- Ryan Stable Getting the Most Out of Pay-Per-Click Ads for Small Business Owners in 2016 and Beyond – 3 stars
- Cara Stein Getting Unstuck 4 stars
- Maurice Stein Turn Around Your Business by 5 PM 4 stars
- Lawrence Steinmetz and William Brooks How to Sell at Margins Higher Than Your Competitors – 5 Stars my review
- Darren Stephens & Spike Humer The 10 Day Turnaround – 3 stars
- James Stephenson The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide – 4 stars
- Nick Stevens Make Money with PPC – 2 stars
- Chris Stiehl Pain Killer Marketing – 3 stars
- Russell Streeter From Startup To Scale Up – 3 stars
- Joseph Sugarman Triggers – 5 Stars my review
- Joseph Sugarman The Adweek Copywriting Handbook – 5 stars my review
- Bradley J Sugars Instant Cashflow – 4 stars
- Bradley J Sugars Instant Referrals – 3 stars
- Bradley J Sugars The Business Coach – 2 stars
- Bradley J Sugars Instant Team Building – 2 stars
- Bradley J Sugars Successful Franchising – 1 star
- David Swaddling and Charles Miller Customer Power – 4 stars
- Mike Swedenberg Copywriting and the Unique Selling Proposition – 3 stars
- Jamie Sylvian Newspaper & Magazine Advertising That Works – 4 stars
- Ron Taylor The 80/20 Rule 4 Stars
- Uwe Techt Goldratt and the Theory of Constraints – 5 Stars my review Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk
- Ruth Tembe Epie Purpose First Then Profit 2 Stars
- Lanze Thompson The Consumer Value Model – 1 star
- Jim Timus How To Get Awesome Website Conversion Rates 3 stars
- Brian Tracy Be a Sales Superstar – 4 stars
- Richard Tunnah Cut Costs and Increase Profits Using Customer Reactivation Campaigns – 3 stars
- Ian Turner How to Save a Small Business 3 stars
- Vincent Turner The Secret to Increasing Your Profits – An Introduction to Breakeven Analysis – 4 stars
- Davy Tyburski The Profit Book – 3 stars
- Robert R Updegraff Obvious Adams – 4 stars
- Marc Van Eck and Ellen Leenhouts The One Page Business Strategy 4 stars
- William Van Hoy Stop Banging Your Head 3 Stars
- Timothy S Van Milligan Emotional Copywriting Revealed – 4 stars
- Various Theory of Constraints Handbook – 5 Stars my review Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk
- Various Unstuck 2 Stars
- Maria Veloso Web Copy That Sells 3 Stars
- Joe Vitale Meet and Grow Rich – 4 stars
- Joe Vitale Hypnotic Writing – 2 stars
- Elliot Wagonheim Fire, Aim…Ready – 3 stars
- Carol Wain & Jay Conrad Levinson Guerrilla Tourism Marketing – 5 stars my review Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk
- Carol Wain 5 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Grow Your Profit 3 stars
- Denise Wakeman et al How to Create Effective Calls to Action 2 stars
- Jeff Walker Launch – 4 stars
- Mark Wallace Embarrassing Product Riches – 3 stars
- Richard J. Wallace The Start Your Own Business Bible – 4 Stars
- Rob Warlow Loan Sharp – 5 stars my review
- Brian Charles John Warnes The Genghis Khan Guide to Business: Dynamic Bench-Marking – 5 Stars my review Handbook – 3 stars
- Blair Warren The One Sentence Persuasion Course 4 Stars
- Kim Warren The Trouble with Strategy – 5 Stars my review
- Kim Warren Strategy Dynamics Essentials – 4 stars
- Jayne Warrilow The 10 Day Coaches MBA 3 Stars
- Harry Washburn Why People Don’t Buy Things – 4 stars
- Matt Watkinson The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences – 3 stars
- Susan Weinschenk How to Get People to Do Stuff 5 Stars my review
- Colleen Wells and Susan Drake The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guerrilla Marketing – 4 stars
- Tim Wesley 45 Minute Business Breakthroughs 4 Stars
- Mande White-Pearl 7 Mistakes That Keep Women Entrepreneurs Struggling to Get Clients, Overwhelmed and Underpaid 4 Stars
- Drew Eric Whitman BrainScripts for Sales Success – 4 stars
- Helen Wilkie The Hidden Profit Center – 3 stars
- Dr. Andy Williams SEO 2017 & Beyond – 4 stars
- Bard Williams The Justification Point – 3 stars
- Hugh Williams 101 Ways to Grow your Business 3 Stars
- James Wilson Success 4 Stars
- Ling Wong Copywriting Alchemy: Secrets To Turning a Powerful Personal Brand Into Content That Sells – 2 stars
- Andrew Wood Cunningly Clever Marketing – 4 stars
- Kevin Wright Google AdWords – 2 stars
- C S Wurzberger and Pam Foster Wildly Profitable Marketing for Zoos, Aquariums and Other Animal/Nature Organizations – 4 stars
- Keith Yamashita Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team and Your World 4 stars
- Steve Young Emotional Intelligence for Marketing – 1 star
- Ehsan Zarei Fitness Marketing Ideas – 1 star
- Summary: The E-Myth Revisited: Review and Analysis of Gerber’s Book – 5 Stars my review
- Summary: Money-Making Secrets of Marketing Genius Jay Abraham and Other Marketing Wizards – 4 Stars
- Summary: Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham – 4 stars
- Summary: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – 4 stars
- Summary: The Ultimate Sales Machine Chet Holmes – 4 stars
- Summary: Review and Analysis of Masterson’s Book: Ready, Fire, Aim – 4 stars
- Summary: The E-Myth Enterprise Michael Gerber – 3 stars
- Summary: Awakening the Entrepreneur Within Michael Gerber – 3 stars
- Summary: The Fifth Discipline…In 15 Minutes – 3 stars
- Summary: The 80/20 Principle: Review and Analysis of Koch’s Book 3 Stars
This list also includes books titled Summary. Somebody had the brilliant idea to go through the popular business books and take out the waffle and distractions so that you can focus on the important messages. It always saves time and sometimes it’s an improvement or just as good but for the great books, the extra details are often missed.
The first list of books looks at all aspects of making more money in your business. This second list looks at how you can invest your money to diversify your wealth against risks and also looks at the wider strategic environment in terms of economics, politics, energy and green issues.
- Aberdeen Asset Management Cautionary tales for the modern investor – 4 stars
- Andrew Abraham Trend Following Mentor – 3 stars
- Rafael Aguayo The Depression of 2016 4 Stars
- Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark The Burning Question – 4 stars
- David Boyle Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes? – 2 stars
- Gordon Brown Where There’s Greed: Margaret Thatcher and the Betrayal of Britain’s Future – 3 stars
- Steve and Holly Burns Moving Averages 101 – 4 stars
- Ross Cameron Stock Market Price Moving Averages 3 Stars
- Edward Cheung Demographics and the Stock Market Crash of 2015 – 2016 – 3 stars
- Andrew Craig How to Own the World – 4 stars
- Satyajit Das A Banquet of Consequences – 4 stars
- Lindsay David Print: The Central Bankers Bubble – 3 stars
- Harry S. Dent Jr The Demographic Cliff – 3 stars
- Richard Duncan The New Depression – 4 stars
- Mohamed A El-Erian The Only Game in Town – 3 stars
- Mebane Faber Global Value: How to Spot Bubbles, Avoid Market Crashes, and Earn Big Returns in the Stock Market – 3 stars
- Mebane Faber The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets – 3 stars
- Peter Foster Why We Bite the Invisible Hand – 4 stars
- Lee Freeman-Shor The Art of Execution – 5 stars
- James K Galbraith The Predator State – 3 stars
- Richard Grainger How To Survive A World Headed For Collapse – 4 stars
- Wesley Gray, Jack Vogel & David Foulke DIY Financial Advisor – 4 stars
- Tim Hale Smarter Investing – 3 stars
- Alan Harvey Demand Side Economics – 4 stars
- Richard Heinberg The End of Growth – 5 stars
- Richard Heinberg Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future – 4 stars
- Richard Heinberg Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels – 3 stars
- John Hulton DIY Simple Investing – 4 stars
- Tim Jackson Prosperity without Growth – 4 stars
- Mervyn King The End of Alchemy – 4 stars
- Robert T Kiyosaki Rich Dad Poor Dad – 4 stars
- Jeremy K. Leggett The Energy of Nations – 4 stars
- Michael E. Lewitt The Committee to Destroy the World – 3 stars
- Dale C. Maley Is Portfolio Rebalancing Worth It? – 3 stars
- Thierry Malleret Disequilibrium – 5 stars
- Thierry Malleret Six Global Mega-Trends and How To Make Them Work For You – 4 stars
- Frank Marshall The Best Trading Lessons of Jesse Livermore 3 stars
- JB Marwood Trend Following 101 – 4 stars
- Michael Mattie The Global Addiction to QE – 3 stars
- John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper Code Red – 4 stars
- Robert D McHugh The Coming Economic Ice Age – 3 stars
- Roger McKinney Financial Bull Riding – 4 stars
- John McQuilkin Index Funds – 3 stars
- Tim Morgan Life After Growth – 4 stars
- Christo Nel Get Ready, Be Prepared: A global crash in the financial markets is coming – 2 stars
- Dmitry Orlov Five Stages of Collapse – 2 stars
- John Palatine Trading Trends to Maximize Returns – 3 stars
- Ann Pettifor Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance – 2 stars
- Tim Price Investing Through the Looking Glass – 4 stars
- James Rickards The Death of Money – 4 stars
- Paul Craig Roberts The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West – 4 stars
- Craig Rowland The Permanent Portfolio – 5 stars
- Jason Schenker Recession-Proof 4 stars
- David Skarica Bear Market Rising – 3 stars
- Christopher Snowdon The Spirit Level Delusion – 4 stars
- Michael Snyder The Beginning Of The End – 3 stars
- Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth Yes, You Can Time the Market! – 4 stars
- Lynn A Stout The Shareholder Value Myth – 2 stars
- Alton Swanson Market Timing – 3 stars
- Alton Swanson Relative Strength Index – 3 stars
- Michael Swanson The Stock Market Bubble Bust Of 2015 And Beyond – 4 stars
- Adair Turner Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance – 4 star
- George R Tyler What Went Wrong: The Big Picture: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class – 3 stars
- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett The Spirit Level – 1 star
- Glenn Wilson RSI Trading – 3 stars
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