The Economics of Local Service Businesses: Why They Are Receptive to Website Outreach

Analyzes the financial structure of local service businesses and why they are receptive to website outreach. Covers overhead costs, customer acquisition economics, and why website investment makes sense for these businesses.

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📚 Little Bosses Everywhere by: Bridget Read

Companies like Amway, Mary Kay, and Herbalife advertise the world’s greatest opportunity: the chance to be your own boss via an enigmatic business model called multilevel marketing, or MLM. They offer a world of pink Cadillacs, white-columned mansions, tropical vacations, and most precious of all fin...

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📚 Against the Grain by: Terry O'Reilly

In Terry’s bestselling book, My Best Mistake, he uncovers the surprising power of screwing up. Now, he turns his incredible eye to the mavericks who go “against the grain” in their work to see what makes them tick and to explore what lessons we can learn from them. People wh...

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📖 Chip War by Chris Miller (⭐️⭐️⭐️) #Economics #Tech #Politics #BusinessEconomics

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict. You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic,...

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📚 1929 by: Andrew Ross Sorkin

In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, e...

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📖 Enshittification by Cory Doctorow (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) #Economics #Tech #SocialMedia #SocialScience #BusinessEconomics #Enshittification

Explaining the process of the “enshittification” of digital platforms over time and what to do about it. Cory Doctorow's Enshittification takes a witty yet incisive look at the tech landscape, where platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Google start off great—before...

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📚 Enshittification by: Cory Doctorow

Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.

We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustra...

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📖 Apple in China by Patrick McGee (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) #Economics #Tech #Apple #BusinessEconomics

For readers of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands. Apple isn’t just a brand; it’s...

https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781398534384/apple-in-china

Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie (MAB - Journal of Accountancy and Business Economics) publishes research articles on #BusinessEconomics and related knowledge areas, as relevant to #Accountancy.

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