by Mark Davenport ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 24, 2019
A thorough and honest look at the shortcomings of network marketing and the possibilities for success.
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An experienced salesman advises readers about the pitfalls of network marketing companies.
In this debut business book, Davenport draws on decades of experience with multilevel marketing (representatives sell and also profit from sales made by their recruits) and network marketing (representatives go from using a product to selling it to family, friends, and other contacts) companies. He explains the exaggerations and falsehoods these businesses often use to sell their products and draw new representatives into their sales networks. Although the author presents a cleareyed view of network marketing’s shortcomings—the “Lies” of the volume’s subtitle—he does not take an entirely negative view of the industry. Much of the work is designed to help readers get a more nuanced glimpse of their chances of success and to provide a template for being an honest and ethical participant in the sector. Each chapter examines a different falsehood (“Network marketing is like getting paid to recommend a movie”; “It’s so simple, anyone can do it”) in detail. It explains how to evaluate the accuracy of a recruiter or salesperson’s statement, where to find enough information to make an informed decision, and strategies for successfully selling a product or service without repeating those lies to customers—for instance, “verify your own pitch to avoid making false claims.” Anecdotes from Davenport’s own career and the broader industry appear throughout, adding color and illustrating the argument that network marketing can be useful if the bad actors are removed. (Many of the anecdotes end with companies fined and unscrupulous executives facing indictments.) The author’s tone is straightforward, often bordering on brusque (“Any promise of ‘passive income’ in this industry is a lie from start to finish”), which makes the book a quick and easy read. The volume is aware of its audience throughout, and is clearly written for those who belong to or are considering joining the network marketing industry. While the work is not for general audiences, it does an excellent job of serving its target market.
A thorough and honest look at the shortcomings of network marketing and the possibilities for success.Pub Date: Sept. 24, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5445-0394-3
Page Count: 188
Publisher: Manipulated Books
Review Posted Online: Oct. 10, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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