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New business book crowdsources advice from over 70 experts

An insightful new book has ’crowdsourced’ a compilation of never seen before tips and advice from over 70 business experts and entrepreneurs, providing a one stop shop for entrepreneurs looking for help and guidance in 2014.

With a refreshingly different approach to providing business advice and tips, The Crowdsourced Guide To Business helps provide answers to the questions you really want answered, from the frontline of business and by entrepreneurs who are living and breathing exactly their expertise through their own businesses.

Rather than taking the textbook approach to business, this book covers an array of topics with multiple experts providing their views in each section, giving a more rounded view of the most burning business subjects, rather than just relying on one person’s opinion and experience.

Covering topics such as new product development, marketing, design and PR, experts from across the globe provide their tips for getting the best out of each activity.

From what to look for when hiring someone to conduct work for you, to how to do it all yourself, it provides everything an entrepreneur needs, delivering straight to the point answers when they need them, and fast.

The book is the brainchild of entrepreneur Daniel Hall, who was frustrated with the lack of ‘real’ business advice available and felt that with most material out there was being written with a hidden agenda in mind. Rather than writing lines just to make a point, to populate a blog, or to generate business leads, he wanted to help provide a high quality, practical guide with its roots in real business experience.

Daniel comments:

“ All true entrepreneurs know that there are never enough hours in the day. We are impatient and want information now. Unfortunately most blog posts are written with a hidden agenda and therefore do not answer our questions. The Crowdsourced Guide To Business is different. This book quite simple addresses the questions that we as business owners want answers to, but from the perspectives of over 70 contributors, delivered in easy to read, bite-sized chunks. It is designed to be the perfect, handy guide for entrepreneurs“

Some key contributors to the book include:

· Rajeeb Dey - CEO of Enternships.com, winner of many entrepreneurship awards and was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012

· Duncan Cheatle - famous British entrepreneur and co-founder of Startup Britain

· Marcos Rodriguez - famous entrepreneur, movie producer, investor and speaker at the US Department of State

· Tim Berry - serial entrepreneur who has been nicknamed “The Father of Business Planning”,

· Mike Scanlin - famous ex venture capitalist and CEO of Born To Sell

· Raj Dhonota - investor, mentor and contestant on the first series of the UK Apprentice

· Dan Marom - world renowned expert in CrowdFunding

· Chris Herbert - the leading authority in B2B Marketing Conversion Rate Experts - the most famous conversion rate optimization company in the world,

· Joe Pulizzi - content marketing evangelist and founder of the Content Marketing Institute

· Michael Lykke Aagaard - regular speaker at international Content Marketing conferences

Topics included in the book:

• General business advice
• Business plans
• Funding
• New product development
• Website development
• Branding
• B2B marketing
• Public relations
• Media buying
• Web design
• Conversion rate optimisation
• Pay per click advertising (PPC)
• Search engine optimisation (SEO)
• Content marketing
• Social media

‘The Crowdsourced Guide to Business’ (£12.22) is available in paperback or Kindle from Amazon

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