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Fill Your Funnel
- By: Dan Portik, Tom Hopkins
- Narrated by: Dan Lewis
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 275
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Story4 out of 5 stars 221
In sales, filling a sales pipeline with qualified leads is the magic behind predictable income and massive commission checks. In Fill Your Funnel, get step-by-step instructions on using social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter to generate qualified leads and fill your sales funnel. Learn what experts Tom Hopkins and Dan Portik know about social media strategies to generate leads. This audiobook contains social media posts and email templates from successful campaigns to show you how to set up an effective social media campaign that drives conversions.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Basic
- By Ruben on 11-02-20
- Fill Your Funnel
- By: Dan Portik, Tom Hopkins
- Narrated by: Dan Lewis
Terrible
Reviewed: 12-18-23
This is a hodgepodge of very tactical sales advice. It’s a stew of bits that don’t really go well together. There’s very little strategy in here — for example, the book suggests being on every social platform, with no regard for the resources necessary to be effective with a tactic of being everywhere. This is a method for spreading resources very thin.
The writing is thin, as well. For example, the book has many examples of regurgitated info found via shallow web search, “according to Statista, here’s who is on Facebook in 2017” — it then burns up half a page spitting out demographic stats. Text us allocated to useless information such as “Facebook lets you upload a header photo. But take care that your image isn’t too large to upload.”
The pages on LinkedIn involve slowly listing the many LinkedIn features that a salesperson should use, but none if the features are described in any real detail, and the features that matter most aren’t described at all.
Written six or seven years ago, it’s all out of date now anyway. And the stuff that’s not out of date is terrible, for example: “use please and thank you in all of your communications,” “don’t use all caps in emails,” and “use subject lines of interest to your prospect.”
In short, pretty terrible use of time in 2024. Avoid.
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Holler Rat
- A Memoir
- By: Anya Liftig
- Narrated by: Anya Liftig
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent school years in affluent Connecticut and summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore the contradictions and unanswered questions of her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shining light on life and it’s expectation.
- By Kevin Czinger on 03-19-25
- Holler Rat
- A Memoir
- By: Anya Liftig
- Narrated by: Anya Liftig
Brave and artful
Reviewed: 09-05-23
I have a high bar for autobiography because it feels really difficult. The great authors somehow manage to anesthetize their own egos so that they can fully splay their insides open for the public, but they don’t anesthetize so much that their facility for writing beautiful sentences, threading a coherent narrative, or palpating the malignant masses they find within their vivisected lives with curiosity that feels both macabre and scientific. Some books I’ve loved in this genre include Westover’s Educated, McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died, and — until he turned out to be a total asshole — Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Liftig’s book is up there with the best of them because it demonstrates (over and over) the bravery that autobiography requires in order to be great.
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The Power
- By: Rhonda Byrne
- Narrated by: Rhonda Byrne
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,780
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,760
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,731
The Secret revealed the law of attraction. Now Rhonda Byrne reveals the greatest power in the universe: The Power to have anything you want. In this book you will come to understand that all it takes is just one thing to change your relationships, money, health, happiness, career, and your entire life. Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love IS powerful
- By Margaret on 09-18-10
- The Power
- By: Rhonda Byrne
- Narrated by: Rhonda Byrne
What did I just read?
Reviewed: 11-22-17
This is some next-level voodoo snake oil. I have never experienced a book like this. It twists the words of world thought leaders to make preposterous claims.
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Brand Against the Machine
- How to Build Your Brand, Cut Through the Marketing Noise, and Stand Out from the Competition
- By: John Morgan
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
Brand Against the Machine offers proven and actionable steps for companies and entrepreneurs to increase their brand visibility and credibility, and to create an indispensable brand that consumers can relate to, thus becoming life-long customers. Discover the aspirational currency that makes your brand one that people want to be or want to be friends with. Learn how to be real with your audience and make strategic associations to establish credibility.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Branding that Makes Sense (and cents)!!!
- By John on 12-11-12
- Brand Against the Machine
- How to Build Your Brand, Cut Through the Marketing Noise, and Stand Out from the Competition
- By: John Morgan
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
Retro
Reviewed: 11-11-17
Makes a fat joke about Oprah. Brags about hanging out with Trump associates. Some good advice, but more hits than misses.
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Chocolate Fortunes
- The Battle for the Hearts, Minds, and Wallets of China's Consumers
- By: Lawrence L. Allen
- Narrated by: Eddie Eagle
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
As China comes into its own as a world economic power, a new, huge consumer class is emerging, hungry for all things Western. In this land where 25 years ago most of the population had never tasted chocolate, five icons of Western business are now slugging it out in a battle royal to see which will become the Emperor of Chocolate in China.
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3 out of 5 stars
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horrible narration
- By Book Reviewer on 06-20-16
- Chocolate Fortunes
- The Battle for the Hearts, Minds, and Wallets of China's Consumers
- By: Lawrence L. Allen
- Narrated by: Eddie Eagle
horrible narration
Reviewed: 06-20-16
The poorly cast narrator mangled all Chinese words. Kind of a problem for a book about China. Book is excellent otherwise.
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The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 175,842
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 161,647
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Story5 out of 5 stars 161,467
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plainold "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Macgyver on Mars
- By Michael G Kurilla on 06-21-13
- The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Remember when you said, "when am I ever going to use this in real life?"
Reviewed: 06-14-15
Simple plot. Man stuck on Mars tries to escape. But the joy of this book is in the glorious scientific detail that seems meticulous, detailed, and creative. It's like a really smart and entertaining MacGuyver got stuck on Mars.
Voice acting was quite good.
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Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5)
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Minnie Goode
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,481
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4,024
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,025
This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.
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3 out of 5 stars
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"0" Star Performance
- By Nina on 09-02-12
- Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5)
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Minnie Goode
Annoying narrator
Reviewed: 07-09-13
Would you consider the audio edition of Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5) to be better than the print version?
No -- I wouldn't consider this to be better than the print edition.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Minnie Goode?
Someone technical should have read this. Minnie at one point had to read an email that a protagonist received. The email used a common abbreviation for the word pixel: pxl. Minnie chose to read the word as "PEE EX EL." Very annoying. She should have known better.
Also, Minnie has an annoying "laugh" that is often inappropriate to the scene.
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