Favorite Books

Imagine going to bed one night, then to awaken the next morning in a strange house with no idea of how you got there. Only this house doesn’t belong to just anyone – it belongs to you… a wildly successful future version of the person you might one day become, providing you are willing to start doing one simple thing.Before the weekend is over Eric will learn…

• What it takes to outperform 92% of the world’s salespeople.
• That failing and being a “failure” are two very different things.
• A whole new way to set goals that’s simple, fun, and gets results.
• Why it’s important to celebrate success and failure.
• The five failure levels and how to progress through them.
• How to get past failure and rejection quickly and then move on.
• And that the most empowering word in the world is not yes… it’s NO!

These lessons are destined to change the way he thinks, the way he sells, and the way he lives forever.

Ben Stark and Chris Hunter encourage you to begin a life-changing and transformational journey. Whether you are a first-time owner or a seasoned vet, the challenges of a home-service business can be overwhelming. Ben and Chris meet these challenges head on with the battle-tested advice and proven techniques that built their multi-million-dollar companies. With help from Dave Rothacker, Ben and Chris share powerful strategies and experiences that will motivate, strengthen and transform your business and life. The time is now. Don’t wait another minute.

I’m partial to this one, because

I wrote it!If you’re like most home service business owners, you are probably just scraping by. You can’t grow your business because there aren’t any more hours in a day. This book will change all that by showing you what highly successful home service entrepreneurs do to make more money and work less!

A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations – whether in the boardroom or at home. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss’ head, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: in saving lives. In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principles – counterintuitive tactics and strategies – you, too, can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal lives.

A step-by-step guide to enjoying the roller-coaster ride of growth — while getting the most out of life as an entrepreneur. A growth-focused approach: The book is divided into three sections, which cover planning for fast growth, building a company for fast growth, and leading for fast growth. Each topic the author covers – from creating a vision for the company’s future to learning how to generate free PR for a developing company – is squarely focused on the end goal: doubling the size of the entrepreneur’s company in three years or less.

The lifeblood of your business is repeat customers. But customers can be fickle, markets shift, and competitors are ruthless. So how do you ensure a steady flow of repeat business? The secret–no matter what industry you’re in–is finding and keeping automatic customers. These days virtually anything you need can be purchased through a subscription, with more convenience than ever before. Far beyond Spotify, Netflix, and New York Times subscriptions, you can sign up for weekly or monthly supplies of everything from groceries (AmazonFresh) to cosmetics (Birchbox) to razor blades (Dollar Shave Club). According to John Warrillow, this emerging subscription economy offers huge opportunities to companies that know how to turn customers into subscribers. Automatic customers are the key to increasing cash flow, igniting growth, and boosting the value of your company. Whether you want to transform your entire business into a recurring revenue engine or just pick up an extra 5 percent of sales growth, The Automatic Customer will be your secret weapon.