{"id":79,"date":"2008-08-28T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watt-media.com\/b\/?p=79"},"modified":"2016-09-13T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T15:16:08","slug":"recommended-books-for-the-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/recommended-books-for-the-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Books for the Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently asked me to recommend some good books on sales and business. I thought it would be good to share that here. My list is far from perfect, and there may be many great books missing from the list \u2013 but these are the books that I helped me grow personally and professionally.<\/p>\n<p>The following should be read by any salesperson or professional:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Secrets of Closing the Sale<\/strong> by Zig Ziglar (a bit cheesy, but a great intro to sales)<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Master the Art of Selling<\/strong> by Tom Hopkins<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unlimited Power<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Awaken the Giant Within<\/strong> by Anthony Robbins<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Win Friends and Influence People<\/strong> by Dale Carnegie<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People<\/strong> by Stephen R. Covey<\/p>\n<p><strong>Success Principles<\/strong> by Jack Canfield<\/p>\n<p>Anything by Brian Tracy<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Small Business Owners \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>E-Myth<\/strong> by Michael E. Gerber \u2013 one of the most important books I have ever read<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raving Fans<\/strong> by Ken Blanchard<\/p>\n<p>Audio CDs by Anthony Robbins, Jack Canfield, and Brian Tracy are all recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently asked me to recommend some good books on sales and business. I thought it would be good to share that here. My list is far from perfect, and there may be many great books missing from the list \u2013 but these are the books that I helped me grow personally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}