Business audiobooks

Persuading People to Buy

By: Marcia Yudkin

Narrated by: Marcia Yudkin

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Attract interest, then nail the sale. With attention spans mercilessly short, you can't afford to approach customers with anything but the very strongest, most on-target pitch. Learn how to capture the interest of perfect prospects for your product, service or cause, then convince them to complete an order. This pithy, provocative book from a... Read more

The Best of Leadership

By: Leadership Journal

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Where there is no vision, the people perish." -Proverbs 29:18. “Vision” is the buzzword in corporate America today. A true leader embraces their own vision, not someone else’s. It is that personal passion that drives a leader to lead and succeed. For years, Leadership Journal has delivered relevant features covering every aspect of leadership.... Read more

The Marketing Attitude

By: Marcia Yudkin

Narrated by: Marcia Yudkin

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Happily create customers for keeps. If marketing is the art of creating a customer, smart marketing creates customers who want to stick around and who match the values and approach of the business owner or organization. Discover the assumptions and actions underpinning the ability to build a solid base of customers you enjoy doing business with.... Read more

The High-Beta Rich

By: Robert Frank

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the American income charts—models of financial propriety—suddenly set off on a wild ride of economic... Read more

Free Marketing

By: Jim Cockrum

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

You used to need a big ad budget to get your message across. Not anymore! Thanks primarily to the Internet, a world of free and inexpensive tactics exists for spreading the word about your business.

Free Marketing delivers more than one hundred marketing ideas to help small business owners and marketers generate new revenue—with little or no... Read more

The Ultimate Question 2.0

By: Fred Reichheld & Rob Markey

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

In the first edition of this landmark book, business loyalty guru Fred Reichheld revealed the question most critical to your company’s future: “Would you recommend us to a friend?” By asking customers this question, you identify detractors, who sully your firm’s reputation and readily switch to competitors, and promoters, who generate good... Read more

Uncertainty

By: Jonathan Fields

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Fields knows the risks-and potential power-of uncertainty. He gave up a six-figure income as a lawyer to make $12 an hour as a personal trainer. Then, married with a 3-month old baby, he signed a lease to launch a yoga center in the heart of New York City. . . the day before 9/11. But he survived, and along the way he developed a fresh... Read more

Truth and Consequences

By: Laurie Sandell

Narrated by: Maggie Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 2008, the world watched as master financier Bernard L. Madoff was taken away from his posh Manhattan apartment in handcuffs, accused of swindling thousands of innocent victims-including friends and family-out of billions of dollars in the world's largest Ponzi scheme. Madoff went to jail; he will spend the rest of his life there. But... Read more

One Click

By: Richard L. Brandt

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An insightful look at how Amazon really works and how its founder and CEO makes it happenAmazon’s business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won’t think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: Buy now with one click. Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has... Read more

Becoming More Effective on the Job - Abridged

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Jeff Davidson

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why are some employees admired, favored, and even coveted by bosses, coworkers, and team members, while others, who might be equally talented never seem to enjoy such approval? Professional speaker Jeff Davidson has written such books as Marketing YourCareer and Yourself, The Complete Guide to Public Speaking, and The 60 Second Innovator. In... Read more

Free Ride

By: Robert Levine

Narrated by: Byron Wagner

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track.

On the Internet, “information wants to be free.” This memorable phrase shaped the online business... Read more

A System for Managing Work Related Stress

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Jeff Davidson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

While the challenges and level of stress you face at work may be mounting, a variety of techniques at your disposal can help diminish the effects of stress.In this session, mega-author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses thirty-six techniques, including twelve physical, twelve mental, and twelve mental and physical, to help diminish... Read more

REAL Leadership - Abridged

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Maxwell’s bestselling 101 collection includes:Relationships 101Relationships 101 captures the value and importance ofbuilding positive relationships. Teaching how to connect with other people,encourage those around you, and become a better listener, Relationships 101 isthe perfect tool for people who desire to improve their relationships... Read more

The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player - Abridged

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: John C. Maxwell

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John C. Maxwell breaks down the personal characteristics necessary for becoming an effective team player.Leadership expert John C. Maxwell follows his bestselling The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork with this powerfully succinct companion book. Stating that great team players are developed from the inside out, Maxwell identifies the seventeen... Read more

The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork - Abridged

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: John C. Maxwell

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Learn how to build and maintain champion level teams, then lead your team to the peak level of success regardless of the field you're in.Individual all-stars can only take you so far. Ultimately, success--whether in business, family, church, athletic teams, or any other organization--is entirely dependent on teamwork. But how does one build that... Read more

Change by Design

By: Tim Brown

Narrated by: Tim Roberts

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business.

The myth of... Read more

Stealth of Nations

By: Robert Neuwirth

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.



Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil.



Scores of laid-off San Franciscans, working without any... Read more

Steve Jobs

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 25 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and... Read more

Greatness

By: Don Yaeger

Narrated by: Author

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

GREATNESS is a motivational audio book whose target audience is found in business and self-help. It is a life audio book, aimed at inspiring others to achieve their personal and professional best. Opening with an in-depth discussion of the nature of Greatness-what it is, what it is not, and why it is worth pursing-each subsequent chapter of the... Read more

Duct Tape Marketing Revised and Updated

By: John Jantsch

Narrated by: John Jantsch

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to make your small business marketing as simple, effective, and affordable as duct tape.

In Duct Tape Marketing, renowned small business marketing guru John Jantsch shows you how to develop and execute a marketing plan that will give your business the life and longevity you want.
In this audio book you will learn the Duct Tape Marketing... Read more

Developing the Leaders Around You - Abridged

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: John C. Maxwell

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It’s not enough for a leader to have vision, energy, drive, and conviction. If you want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the leaders around you.Why do some people achieve great personal success, yet never succeed in building a business or making an impact in their organization? Leadership expert and bestselling... Read more

Steve Jobs - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and... Read more

Ziglar on Selling - Abridged

By: Zig Ziglar

Narrated by: Zig Ziglar

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Want to be on top in your sales career?How do you succeed in the profession of selling?while also maintaining your sanity, avoiding ulcers and heart attacks, continuing in a good relationship with your spouse and children, meeting your financial obligations, and preparing for those "golden years,"?and still have a moment you can call your... Read more

Red Alert

By: Stephen Leeb

Narrated by: Brian Bascle

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"I would caution readers to dismiss Stephen Leeb's warnings only at their peril." -- Thomas Kaplan, chairman, Tigris Financial Group

The American Dream is close to being replaced by a living nightmare:
Key commodities that are essential to our daily lives and that are widely believed to be abundant are running critically short. Even worse, the... Read more