In Selling the Intangible Company, Thomas Metz helps entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to better understand the process of selling a company whose value is strategic. He addresses all the key issues surrounding the sale of a company in which the value is in its technology, its software, and its know-how–but has not yet shown up on its balance sheet. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this book provides essential information for business professionals and technology CEOs who need to understand the nuances of selling a company with intangible value.

Does any of this sound familiar to you? You've put your heart and soul into creating a product only to have it completely bomb. Or maybe you've seen that happen to your friends or peers in the online space, and you're dead scared that's going to be you because you have no clue what you're doing. You're grateful to be able to serve clients one-on-one, but you're exhausted! The idea of creating a digital product to add passive income to your revenue streams sounds oh-so-good! Maybe you have an idea for a digital product but getting it out there seems like this enormously daunting task with a gazillion steps, and you don't want to shell out thousands for anther course or coach. Or perhaps you're void of ideas, but you're just itching to try digital products. Nodding yes? Digital products are an overwhelming, exhausting affair especially when you don't know what to focus on. No matter what type of digital product you're creating (and yes there are a few!), there are some core components you need to focus on if you want to create successful digital products and have them as a staple in your business model. This isn't just about knowing what tools to use or what platform to sell your product on (you should never start there!) You need a coherent, holistic strategy to be successful at it in the long run. Selling the Intangible will introduce you to these core components in the form of bite-sized strategies and pro tips so that you have a plan for success before you even start. Think of it as your digital product road map. Here's what's packed into this how-to guide: How to create perpetual customer journeys so that your audience keep coming back to buy more How to know which digital products to create and when so you're NEVER backtracking The truth about winning offers and the secret hack to ensure your product sells Answers to the following questions: - How soon is too soon to add a product? - Should you sell on an external marketplace like Amazon, Udemy, or Coursera vs. on your own site? - Do you need webinars for all your funnels? AND MORE. Imagine knowing the exact steps you need to take to get your product created, launched, and selling successfully... Imagine cultivating an audience who are clamoring to get their hands on "your next thing"... Imagine never having to chase the next sale... If you're thinking about creating a digital product or you've felt burned-out and overwhelmed from creating digital products before, this book will be right up your alley. Intrigued yet? Then scroll to the top and click or tap "Buy Now."

SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish. Filled with wonderful insights and written in a roll-up-your-sleeves, jargon-free, accessible style, such as: Greatness May Get You Nowhere Focus Groups Don'ts The More You Say, the Less People Hear & Seeing the Forest Around the Falling Trees.

Focusing on Business to Customer (B2C) internet business, and on firms that offer intangible products and/or services that can be directly consumed via the world wide web, Strategic Management and Online Selling also covers immaterial products and online news information or home banking. Considering how firms with similar specific characteristics are able to realize competitive advantages, this topical book discusses an area of particular contemporary importance and increasing academic study.

Now updated with new measurement methods and new examples, How to Measure Anything shows managers how to inform themselves in order to make less risky, more profitable business decisions This insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure those things in your own business, government agency or other organization that, until now, you may have considered "immeasurable," including customer satisfaction, organizational flexibility, technology risk, and technology ROI. Adds new measurement methods, showing how they can be applied to a variety of areas such as risk management and customer satisfaction Simplifies overall content while still making the more technical applications available to those readers who want to dig deeper Continues to boldly assert that any perception of "immeasurability" is based on certain popular misconceptions about measurement and measurement methods Shows the common reasoning for calling something immeasurable, and sets out to correct those ideas Offers practical methods for measuring a variety of "intangibles" Provides an online database (www.howtomeasureanything.com) of downloadable, practical examples worked out in detailed spreadsheets Written by recognized expert Douglas Hubbard—creator of Applied Information Economics—How to Measure Anything, Third Edition illustrates how the author has used his approach across various industries and how any problem, no matter how difficult, ill defined, or uncertain can lend itself to measurement using proven methods.

Attorney and author Andrew J. Sherman approaches business using a simple, attractive metaphor: Businesspeople are farmers - or, at least, they should be. Entrepreneurs and executives should take a long-range, comprehensive approach to their endeavors, and recognize that time and acquired knowledge play large roles in profitability. Sherman overworks his symbolism, threatening to exhaust its soil, but his images of planting, toiling and reaping succeed as reminders of the approach he wants readers to take. getAbstract recommends his counsel to innovators and those managing innovation, and to leaders seeking a unified organizational vision.

With the use of practical in-depth case studies and interviews with leading experts in the field, this book analyses the key elements in value creation in the new age. It provides practical guidance to organisations that will allow them to migrate successfully into an economy that demands new business models.