Recycle Now & Save Money Today! (Recycle Survival Kit) [Kindle Edition]

Deaver Brown (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The benefits of recycling for your community and the world in general do not need repeating here. We are focused on how you can help out by pitching in. You can personally save at least a thousand dollars per year plus your local community money for their landfill and related trash expenses. Warren Buffett underscores the principle eloquently, “Small things lead to big results.“ Recycling success is about doing lots of little things to save you money, your community money, and invigorate the environment.

Work with others to pass this good news story along. Do what you can; don't burden yourself with guilt by trying to do too much. As with all Survival Kit ebooks in this series, the key is to pack light, be timely, and don't complain. Then you can get started in the process of recycling which is a journey not a single event. Think of it like a food plan, not a diet. You have to change your habits to keep your weight off--you can't just pop on a diet and then go back to bad old ways. You can do some of the bad old ways, but in moderation.

The same is true for recycling and saving money. Start with a few things and build on your successes. Just kicking disposable water or soda bottles and using carafes or jugs of water in your house and car--will be a big start. As is composting, drying off your razor, and many other tips.

Have fun with this. Share with family, friends, neighbors, schools, and your organizations. It is a win for everyone each time one of us recycles something--celebrate that--don't focus on what's not being done.

This ebook can save you over $1000 per year or more! All the little things add up.

Also see www.discountaudiobooks.com or amazon's audible.com division for the reinforcing audiobook. It is great for children and young adults hooked on portable devices (which I am too at a much older age).

The core chapters

1. Recycling & Saving: Family & Office.
2. Foods, Liquids, Meals & Food Shopping.
3. Composting.
4. Furniture, Objects & Other Shopping.
5. Reading & Other Communication.
6. Bills, Banking & Mail.
7. Cars, Driving & Travel.
8. Home Office & at Work.
9. Children.
10. Your Community.
11. Take Notice of Your Results & Celebrate!

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 52 KB
• Publisher: Simply Magazine; 2.0 edition (March 1, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003AOAZTY
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #479,275 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Deaver graduated with a Magna in History from Harvard College, with his senior thesis being, "Civilizing the Machine: Civil War to 1900." He went on to Harvard Business School (HBS) and concentrated on marketing and operations. "Marketing is how you catch the bear; operations is how you skin him and determine whether you profit or not," says Deaver. One of his favorite quotes is Thorstein Veblen, "The more useless the activity the more it is highly regarded."

Deaver is a serial entrepreneur who has been up, down, and sideways. "This is what makes me a good teacher, writer, and talker. I am a minor league entrepreneur who had some successes, but failures and so/so's too. The great coaches are like that, such as Bill Belichick and Phil Jackson. They can relate to the more average among us because we are too."

His ups included the Umbroller Stroller company sold to Graco and on to Rubbermaid/Newell; refocusing American Power Conversion (APCC) from solar inverters to UPS's for the growing PC business in the 80s and 90s; helping sell Peterson to Cosco, Cosco to an LBO, and Cosco to Doral; and Pride Retail Systems to Compaq and on to HP. He did not succeed with the PumpQuick no pressure fire extinguisher, CD Titles, or Simply Media. He did so/so with Apollo, General Sound, and Westboro, selling them to larger companies.

He wrote his first book, The Entrepreneur's Guide, published by Macmillan and Ballantine in mass market paperback, after selling his interests in the Umbroller Stroller company. Deaver said, "The biggest issue is one's temperament. The more you hire people the more you realize that temperament determines so much. Technical and can do skills are relatively easy to assess. It is the will do skills that are so hard. Temperament is key to 'will do.' He lists 8 core traits to assess in yourself in the book." Deaver, "My favorite letters and emails say, 'I wasted my money; I wasn't fit to be an entrepreneur.' I always write back, 'That is my intention--to save you from it if it doesn't suit. The thank you letters are wonderful.'"

Next he emphasizes the core 4 skills. Deaver, "Most books emphasize markets, financing, and such things. I emphasize the key 4: Sales, Making, Delivering; and getting Paid. Do those 4 right, and everything else is straightforward."

Lessons learned could fill a book--and do! One of his favorite projects was an HBS Case, now widely distributed along with an accompanying video, "Deaver Brown & Cross River." He co wrote this with Professor Amar Bhide at HBS, now at Columbia, on having 10 minutes to sell Kmart, the Walmart of its day, and Macy's. Deaver, "Most students say it is the best case of the year. They learn you either sell something or you don't. As I tell them, most of you won't be selling product or services, but be in the financial area. But think, 'Can this person go into the pit, as in this case, and close the deal. More importantly, can they be tossed out, and come back?'" Only former IBM salespeople closed Deaver when he was in the class acting as a buyer. They were cool, calm, collected, focused, and listened. They also gave the buyer what the buyer needed, not what the salesperson wanted.

Deaver Commented, "Amar asks for volunteers and often has a tough time getting them. When my cofounder at Umbroller, and old friend Alex Levitch came to class to observe, he said it best, 'If you don't want to volunteer, leave the class. If you don't want to pitch, you'll never make it. If you worry what others think, you'll never make it.' Perfect advice."

Deaver said he recommended students in their careers as investors recalling who could pitch or couldn't, and thinking about how a prospective candidate would do in that situation--based on his experience with his Harvard tutor, Neil Harris, later Chairman of the History Department at University of Chicago. "Neil would read my work out loud and lift an eyebrow at the appropriate moments. I always think about that eyebrow when reading my own work."

"Also, Neil was the poster boy for learning. He invited me to one of his lectures when he used my material to bolster his analysis. He winked at me when doing so. Neil was always learning, as we all should."

"Commencement is the beginning not the end of learning. I read 80 books per year which the Kindle makes so much easier and less expensive, not to speak of Amazon's audible.com that does so for audiobooks at iTunes and Amazon. We also have them at www.discountaudiobooks.com."

"Each work has other suggestions. No one has the final answer, except the not very smart. There is always more," says Deaver.

Picture: "I am the shorter guy standing up. An impromptu gathering of friends at the 40th Reunion at HBS, for lunch at Anthony's Pier 4. Read; have fun; share with friends. The picture says it all for me and I hope for you too."