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Cohen, William Alan was born on June 25, 1937 in Baltimore. Son of Sidney Oliver and Theresa (Bachman) Cohen.
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Renowned strategy expert Cohen presents 10 timeless lessons that prove how superior strategy trumps other factors in almost every competitive arena. The 10 lessons in turn form a road map to decisive victory in business.
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Everything you need to write a complete, custom-designed business plan--and save yourself thousands of dollars Smart entrepreneurs know that a clear, well-written business plan is absolutely essential to any new venture: it guides your first steps, helps you develop marketing strategies, and allows you to quickly seize new opportunities. What's more, a business plan is what you bring to investors to obtain financing. It has to be good--your success may depend on it. Yet, writing a business plan is one of the first and most difficult challenges facing most entrepreneurs. In fact, many pay consultants tens of thousands of dollars to prepare one. With this remarkable book you'll get expert guidance in writing a complete business plan, tailored to your specific needs. Model Business Plans for Product Businesses offers: * Professional, step-by-step advice on how to structure and write an outstanding plan, including all the essential components * 9 complete sample business plans for a broad cross-section of product businesses--computer sales, children's books, newsletter publishing, opening a store, and more--that you can adapt to your business * Detailed instructions on defining the target market for the product, specific marketing plans for positioning and promoting the product, and financial projections, including estimated start-up costs, the "break-even point," required capital, projected revenue, and more * Easy-to-use forms that help you complete your business plan
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Finally - a "nuts-and-bolts" approach to Developing a Winning Marketing Plan This practical, step-by-step guide offers all the procedures, forms, strategies, and techniques you need to know to launch a successful marketing plan. From initial development to the presentation and implementation of a plan, you'll learn:How to establish goalsHow to do a situational analysisHow to develop a marketing strategyHow to develop marketing tacticsHow to raise moneyHow to forecastIf there's one book that will turn your next marketing plan into a winner, Developing a Winning Marketing Plan is it. What critics have to say about Bill Cohen's bestseller on the mail-order business Building a Mail Order Business: A Complete Manual for Success, 2nd Edition "Dr. Cohen's book thoroughly explores the many facets, and pitfalls, facing the mail order entrepreneur. " - Henry R. "Pete" Hoke, Publisher Direct Marketing "Fat as the Bible and very comprehensive. " - Booklist "One of the best books I've ever read on the subject. " - E. Joseph Cossman author of How I Made USD1 Million in Mail Order.
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The Navy SEALs. The Green Berets. Delta Force. These are just a few examples of what are known as ""special ops"" -- unique fighting forces trained to beat overwhelming odds on every mission. Using principles like speed, purpose, repetition, surprise, and simplicity, elite units such as these have throughout history accomplished extremely challenging tasks against vastly superior forces. When something seemingly impossible must be achieved, special ops forces are the ones called upon for a miracle. Just as special ops are needed for critical tasks in battle, ultra-high achievers are needed for special circumstances in business: situations where time is important, when resources are low or insufficient, where you are challenging conventional wisdom or established competitors, or where crisis is imminent. But can commando techniques really work in business? If you can inspire and lead your employees to work at peak performance, they will accomplish dramatic, almost fantastic feats for you -- just as fighting commandos do in battle situations. Secrets of Special Ops Leadership reveals the essential methods commando leaders employ, using dramatic real-life stories of commando leadership from biblical times all the way up through Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005, and showing how similar techniques are used by present-day business leaders such as Steve Jobs, Mary Kay Ash, Robert Townsend, and others. You'll learn the fourteen core practices of special ops leadership, including how to: * Create the Best If you think you can just call some of your regular employees together and give them a pep talk and an impossible task to do, you're wrong. Business commandos aren't born. They must be created. Your first task as a special ops business leader is to recruit, select, train, and motivate the right people. * Build a Commando Team Using models such as Carlson's Raiders, who fought for the U.S. Marines during World War II, the book explains how to work with different personalities, agendas, priorities, and motivations to create a team that works efficiently and effectively to get the job done. * Dare the Impossible Like the Sayeret Mat'kal, the Israeli Special Ops unit that staged the miraculous raid on Entebbe to free hostages on an Air France plane hijacked by terrorists in 1976, successful business ops must aggressively seek out opportunities and know when to transcend conventional thinking to stage an assault and take action. When they've got the right problems to work on, business commandos can do many times the work of normal employees, accomplish more with less, complete projects against looming deadlines, and create innovative new products and strategies. Secrets of Special Ops Leadership gives you the ammunition you need to get a business commando unit up and running and achieve the impossible for your organization.
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A guide to strategic planning based on methods Cohen has implemented at companies across the United States. His unique approach applies proven strategies used in warfare to business planning and shows how any manager can plan a winning strategy and position a product competitively by allocating human and financial resources effectively. To aid in implementation, the author includes step-by-step scenarios that illustrate the power of competition-based planning in marketing, budgeting, production, and personnel policy. Easy-to-use checklists help readers develop their strategic plan point by point.
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This updated edition covers every topic an entrepreneur or small-business owner must know. Revised to meet the needs of the '90s, the Second Edition provides ready-to-use procedures and ideas for any small business and includes scores of forms, tables, and checklists.
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The "management classic" (Library Journal) that packs a huge amount of practical wisdom is now in paper. This clearly written guide details proven strategies for becoming a leader in any organization or group. Selected in hardcover as one of the Best Business Books of 1989 by Library Journal.
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Focuses exclusively on the marketing concerns of small businesses. Helps the small business owner be successful in marketing. Each chapter stands alone and covers a specific class of marketing problems. By putting all essential information about marketing at the reader's fingertips, it comprises his best first investment.
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From ancient battlefields to the modern business landscape, competitors have tried innumerable approaches to conquering adversaries. Success for the victors has taken many forms and traveled many paths, but at its heart, winning strategy can be boiled down to ten universal principles. When learned and implemented, these principals become powerful drivers of business excellence. Renowned strategy expert William A. Cohen, whose considerable experience in the military, corporate, and academic sectors forms the basis for The Art of the Strategist, presents the timeless lessons of: * commitment to a definite objective * seizing and maintaining the initiative * economization to mass (concentration of resources) * positioning * surprise * multiple simultaneous alternatives * the indirect approach * simplicity * timing * exploiting success With examples including the conquests of Hannibal and Alexander the Great, the political triumphs of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the business successes of internet giant VeriSign and other high-profile companies, The Art of the Strategist proves how superior strategy trumps other factors in almost every competitive arena. The ten lessons in turn form a roadmap to decisive victory in business.
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Organizations can become psychologically ill, just like humans can, explain the authors of this book. And, just as paranoia, depression, manic behavior and obsession can be cured in individuals, so they can be cured in companies - with proper diagnosis and treatment. This book examines nine different types of organisational illnesses. For each, it provides: a clear explanation of symptoms and common causes; examples of how the illnesses can manifest themselves; options for treatment of the problems. Whether a company is chaotic, catatonic or traumatised, this book supplies effective medicine for whatever its ailment. William Cohen is the author of "How to Make it Big as a Consultant" and "The Art of the Leader". Nurit Cohen and William Cohen are co-authors of "Top Executive Performance".
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From Alexander the Great to Colin Powell, outstanding military leaders have inspired troops to victory not by action alone, but by words of courage and conviction. William A. Cohen, author of the newly revised management classic, The New Art of the Leader, brings together 150 resounding pronouncements and reflections from the world's most celebrated military leaders, from ancient times to recent history. Cohen then illustrates the practical lessons learned from these leaders which can be applied to everyday life. Arranged chronologically, Wisdom of the Generals reflects insights from leaders in wars fought around the globe, from the French Revolution to America's War of Independence, from the Civil War to the great World Wars, from the Korean War to Desert Storm. Each quotation is placed within the context of the events that inspired it and accompanied by a capsule profile of the general or admiral who stated it. Caesar, Sun Tsu, Peter the Great, Washington, Lafayette, Sherman, Joan of Arc, Pershing, Togo, MacArthur, Vandenberg, Schwartzkopf -- these are just a few of the leaders with words of impact on subjects vital to accomplishment: honor, commitment, integrity, teamwork, discipline, perseverance, optimism, and much more.
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With more than 60,000 copies sold, this amazing manual has become a classic in its field--and rightfully so. Nowhere else will you find--in one book--so much valuable information on achieving success in the mail order business. Dr. Bill Cohen has drawn on his decades of experience testing, researching, and constantly refining the mail order techniques described in this invaluable guide. Building a Mail Order Business offers a virtual treasury of techniques and methods guaranteed to work in the real world of selling through the mail. You'll get practical advice and learn tricks of the trade that will get you started quickly, with the fewest missteps and greatest chances for success. Thorough and completely up-to-date, this authoritative guide covers every aspect of the mail order business, from the basics of getting started to the details of product selection, preparing a marketing plan, copywriting, designing graphics, printing, protecting yourself from competition, telemarketing, and advertising through magazines, radio, and television. In addition, a handy appendix lists hundreds of valuable contacts with complete addresses. In this new Fourth Edition, you'll learn the latest trends in mail order--what works and what doesn't, the most effective look in ads and mailing pieces, how to put together the most attractive offers, and much more. For entrepreneurs, direct marketers, business owners, and others eager to get into the mail order business, Building a Mail Order Business has proven itself to be an indispensable resource for the ideas, techniques, and expert advice that will lead to success. All the success secrets of one of America's best-known and most respected experts on mail order and direct marketing--Now in a new edition! BUILDING A MAIL ORDER BUSINESS Fourth Edition Complete, authoritative, and now in a new edition, this best-selling guide to mail order success covers everything from getting your business started to handling legal issues, preparing copy and graphics, selecting mailing lists, telemarketing, and advertising in all types of media--an unbeatable source of direct marketing ideas that really work. Here's what the pros have said about previous editions of Bill Cohen's Building a Mail Order Business: "Dr. Bill Cohen's book thoroughly explores the many facets, and pitfalls, facing the budding mail order entrepreneur."-- Henry R. "Pete" Hoke, Jr., Publisher, Direct Marketing "It took a mail order businessman who is also an educator to put direct mail and mail order guidelines all in one place--and in language we can all understand."--Freeman F. Gosden, Jr., President, Smith-Hemmings-Gosden, one of the nation's largest direct marketing advertising agencies "An outstanding primer for our industry. It gives you the nuts and bolts necessary to carry you through almost every aspect of mail order from the very rudimentary basics to the same techniques used by the pros."-- Joe Sugarman, JS&A "One of the best books I've ever read on the subject. I enthusiastically recommend Building a Mail Order Business to any man or woman who is serious about getting involved in this fascinating activity."-- E. Joseph Cossman, President, Cossman International, Inc., author of How I Made a Million Dollars in Mail Order "An excellent, informative, comprehensive, illustrative workbook that will help anyone get started making money in the fascinating field of mail order. I highly recommend this professional book."-- Melvin Powers, mail order entrepreneur "...must reading for the entrepreneur whose mind is on mail order."-- Paul Muchnick, Chairman, National Mail Order Association "Its good sense and nuts-and-bolts, bottom-line approach make it a delightful guide through the mail order world."-- DM News
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Everything you need to write a complete, custom-designed business plan - and save yourself thousands of dollars Smart entrepreneurs know that a clear, well-written business plan is absolutely essential to any new venture: it guides your first steps, helps you develop marketing strategies, and allows you to quickly seize new opportunities. What's more, a business plan is what you bring to investors to obtain financing. It has to be good - your success may depend on it. Yet, writing a business plan is one of the first and most difficult challenges facing most entrepreneurs. In fact, many pay consultants tens of thousands of dollars to prepare one. With this remarkable book you'll get expert guidance in writing a complete business plan, tailored to your specific needs. Model Business Plans for Service Businesses offers: * Professional, step-by-step advice on how to structure and write an outstanding plan, including all the essential components 9 complete sample business plans for a broad cross-section of service businesses - a recycling service, an export company, a tutoring service, a travel agency, and more - that you can adapt to your business project* Detailed instructions on defining the target market for the service, specific marketing plans for positioning and promoting the service, and financial projections, including estimated start-up costs, required capital, the "break-even" point, projected revenue, and more* Easy-to-use forms that help you complete your business plan
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Cohen, William Alan was born on June 25, 1937 in Baltimore. Son of Sidney Oliver and Theresa (Bachman) Cohen.
Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, 1959. Master of Business Administration, University Chicago, 1967. Master of Arts, Claremont Graduate School, 1978.
Doctor of Philosophy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1989.
Project manager Israel Aircraft Industries, 1970-1973. Manager research and development Sierra Engineering Company, Sierra Madre, California, 1973-1976. President Global Associates, 1973—2003.
Manager advanced technical marketing McDonnell-Douglas Company, Huntington Beach, California, 1976-1978. Professor marketing California State University, Los Angeles, 1979—2002, director bureau business and economic research, 1979-1983, chairman marketing department, 1986—1989. President California American University, 2002—2003, Institute of Leader Arts, Los Angeles, since 2003.
Professor business administration Touro University International, 2003—2006. President United States Graduate University, since 2006. Board director Institute Business Development.
Consultant Fortune 500 companies.
(Everything you need to write a complete, custom-designed ...)
(Everything you need to write a complete, custom-designed ...)
(Everything you need to write a complete, custom-designed ...)
(Finally - a "nuts-and-bolts" approach to Developing a Win...)
(A new, revised edition of the classic guide for entrepren...)
(From Alexander the Great to Colin Powell, outstanding mil...)
(All the tools to make your small business a success, from...)
(Renowned strategy expert Cohen presents 10 timeless lesso...)
(From ancient battlefields to the modern business landscap...)
(The book takes lessons from the battlefields of war and a...)
(With more than 60,000 copies sold, this amazing manual ha...)
(A guide to strategic planning based on methods Cohen has ...)
(The "management classic" (Library Journal) that packs a h...)
(An eye-opening look at how leadership skills in combat ca...)
(Organizations can become psychologically ill, just like h...)
(This updated edition covers every topic an entrepreneur o...)
(Focuses exclusively on the marketing concerns of small bu...)
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Major United States Air Force, 1959-1970, major-general United States Air Force Reserve, retired. Fellow Academy Marketing Science. Member Direct Marketing Association (fellow 1980, 83), World Marketing Congress (delegate Nova Scotia 1983), Direct Marketing Club Southern California (board directors, grantee 1981), American Marketing Association (award 1982), West Point Society (president, board directors 1981-1982), Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Sigma Phi.
Married Janice Dawn Stults, January 3, 1963 (divorced January 1966). 1 child, William Alan II. Married Nurit Kovnator, May 28, 1967.
Children– Barak, Nimrod.