Donald Miller

Explains how businesses can better connect with their customers through the use of a simplified brand message, one that fosters ease of understanding on websites, in brochures, and on social media.

Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Building a Storybrand

Details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie, challenging readers to reconsider what they strive for in life and revealing how to get a second chance at life the first time around.

What I Learned While Editing My Life

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

Building A Story Brand

Miller reveals how the inability to find redemption leads to chaotic relationships, self-hatred, the accumulation of meaningless material possessions, and a lack of inner peace.

Searching for God Knows What

After decades of failed relationships and painful drama, Donald Miller decided he’d had enough. Impressing people wasn’t helping him connect with anyone. He’d built a life of public isolation, yet he dreamed of meaningful relationships. So at forty years old he made a scary decision: to be himself no matter what it cost. From the author of Blue Like Jazz comes a book about the risk involved in choosing to impress fewer people and connect with more, about the freedom that comes when we stop acting and start loving. It is a story about knocking down old walls to create a healthy mind, a strong family, and a satisfying career. And it all feels like a conversation with the best kind of friend: smart, funny, true, important. Scary Close is Donald Miller at his best.

Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy

Scary Close

Fueled by the belief that something better exists than the mundane life they've been living, free spirits Don and Paul set off on an adventure-filled road trip in search of deeper meaning, beauty, and an explanation for life. Many young men dream of such a trip, but few are brave enough to actually attempt it. Fewer still have the writing skills of Donald Miller, who records the trip with wide-eyed honesty in achingly beautiful prose. In this completely revised edition, he discusses everything from the nature of friendship, the reason for pain, and the origins of beauty. As they travel from Texas to Oregon in Paul's cantankerous Volkswagen van, the two friends encounter a variety of fascinating people, witness the fullness of nature's splendor, and learn unexpected lessons about themselves, each other, and even God. "A record of a classic road trip. Miller's tale is full of serendipitous adventures and thoughtful Christian reflection . . . offering the sort of deep-thought wanderings into meaning and significance that are the meat of college-age existence . . . a reminder that life was meant to be lived, not just gotten through." (Publishers Weekly)

Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

Through Painted Deserts

Dr. J.J. Peterson

Based on Building a StoryBrand by New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller, this checklist is a strategic and actionable guide to applying the StoryBrand framework to any brand and an essential part of any marketing professional’s tool kit. Every day, brands lose millions of dollars simply because they do not have a clear message that tells consumers who they are and what value they will add to their customers’ lives. To solve this dilemma, Donald Miller wrote Building a StoryBrand, which has become the quintessential guide for anyone looking to craft or strengthen their brand’s message. Now, Don is taking it a step further with this five-part checklist that helps marketing professionals and business owners apply the StoryBrand messaging framework across key customer touchpoints to effectively develop, strengthen, and communicate their brand’s story to the marketplace. Praise for Marketing Made Simple "I created collateral for a client and they recently told me not to release the next round we created because they can’t handle the influx of customers from the first round. They had more listings this year than in 30 years of business." - Amy Burgess, Marketing Consultant "My last email campaign I delivered raised $20k. Thank you Donald Miller for giving me a system that I know works." - Ian Stewart, Owner/Creative Director of Root Source Digital "A client went from $15MM last year to $27MM so far this year. All from updating their messaging and implementing new lead generators and email campaigns.- Wes Gay, CEO Wayfinder "Just heard from one of my clients that she’s getting 18 ideal client leads a day from her website. Before we redid her wireframe, she averaged around 1-3 leads a week. And that’s just with updating her website." - Amy Schutte, Owner of Hudson and Co LLC

A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business

Marketing Made Simple

Is this blue book more valuable than a business degree? Most people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they’re doing. It’s hard to be successful without a clear understanding of how business works. These 60 daily readings are crucial for any professional or business owner who wants to take their career to the next level. New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Donald Miller knows that business is more than just a good idea made profitable – it’s a system of unspoken rules, rarely taught by MBA schools. If you are attempting to profitably grow your business or career, you need elite business knowledge—knowledge that creates tangible value. Even if you had the time, access, or money to attend a Top 20 business school, you would still be missing the practical knowledge that propels the best and brightest forward. However, there is another way to achieve this insider skill development, which can both drastically improve your career earnings and the satisfaction of achieving your goals. Donald Miller learned how to rise to the top using the principles he shares in this book. He wrote Business Made Simple to teach others what it takes to grow your career and create a company that is healthy and profitable. These short, daily entries and accompanying videos will add enormous value to your business and the organization you work for. In this sixty-day guide, readers will be introduced to the nine areas where truly successful leaders and their businesses excel: Character: What kind of person succeeds in business? Leadership: How do you unite a team around a mission? Personal Productivity: How can you get more done in less time? Messaging: Why aren’t customers paying more attention? Marketing: How do I build a sales funnel? Business Strategy: How does a business really work? Execution: How can we get things done? Sales: How do I close more sales? Management: What does a good manager do? Business Made Simple is the must-have guide for anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed by the modern business climate, even if they attended business school. Learn what the most successful business leaders have known for years through the simple but effective secrets shared in these pages. Take things further: If you want to be worth more as a business professional, read each daily entry and follow along with the free videos that will be sent to you after you buy the book.

60 Days to Master Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Execution and More

Business Made Simple

Webb Wilder

There are four roles we play in life—Victim, Villain, Hero, and Guide. New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller teaches us how to recognize when we are playing the Victim or the Villain and how to shift to become the Hero or the Guide. In his mid-20s, Donald Miller was lost. He was overweight and poor as a broken piggy bank. Lamenting the cards he was dealt, Donald was allowing himself to be a victim of circumstance. He knew something had to change. Standing in front of the mirror, he took responsibility for the choices he was making, beginning the transition from playing the victim to playing the hero in his life and finding the fulfillment he was searching for. In this book, Donald shares the correlation between owning your life and finding more enjoyment in everything you do. He lays out the transformational, yet practical plan that took him from slowly losing sight of all his goals to rapidly gaining a new perspective of his own life’s beauty and meaning, igniting his motivation, passion, and productivity. The lessons in this book will teach you: How to get on track and stay on track, How to create a simple life plan that will bring clarity and meaning to your goals ahead How to take control of your life by choosing to be the hero in your story. The significance of the four roles we all play in life—Victim, Villain, Hero, and Guide—and what it means to play each of them. How to take action, make life changes, and achieve the goals you set for your life and career. Donald Miller will help you see all the options you have of being the hero in your own life, and then help you develop your own unique plan to get there.

The Path to a Meaningful Life

Hero on a Mission

John MacMurray

Good dads are almost as rare as fire-breathing dragons--or at least so it seems. New from the author of the critically acclaimed Blue Like Jazz--and the man who taught him the things his dad never did--comes a gut-wrenching, honest look at growing up without a father.

Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father

To Own a Dragon

Running a small business is no easy feat. As a small business owner, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of hats you have to wear to be successful. You started the business so you could share the product you love with the world, but logistics are getting in the way. Donald Miller knows this frustration all too well. He faced the same challenge when starting his company. While he knew his time was best spent creating content for small-business owners, he was constantly being torn away to focus on things he didn’t understand. After several years of figuring it out, Donald has decided it’s time to share what he learned. In this book, you will learn: An easy-to-understand framework that can be applied to any business. How to navigate the ins and outs of finding and hiring the best candidates available to you. The best way to organize your company structure to maximize your skills and allow you to identify areas best handled by someone else. How to identify your and reach your key customers. Areas where you can increase capacity to better serve your customer. And much more. Growing a successful business is not easy, but it’s not impossible. With the right guidance, anyone can expand their company and reach new customers.

A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off

How to Grow Your Small Business

Religious systems might be well organized, but human beings are not. Don's stories are about real people in need of true experiences with something greater than themselves. His writing breaks through the barrage of lies and self-condemnation and reveals the reality of beauty in each of us.

Blue Like Jazz Aba Limited Ed

Through Printed Deserts - Searching for God Knows What - Blue Like Jazz

Donald Miller Greatest Hits

A popular minister recounts his zealous early life pursuit of the Christian life and his experiences of emptiness and spiritual detachment, tracing his quest to connect with a God he perceived as distant.

Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Blue Like Jazz

Marka Yaratmak - Ödüllü Ajans StoryBrandin Ilham Veren Hikayesi

If you have expertise in business, you can leverage that expertise and create a profitable coaching career. But how? If you want to either pivot your career to become a small-business coach or if you’re already a small-business coach and are looking to grow your existing coaching business, the steps in coach builder will help you make your dream a reality. This is not a book about the philosophy of coaching, instead, Coach Builder contains provides instructions and templates to build a menu of coaching products, curate a list of clients, create a marketing plan that works and deliver coaching that gets results. If you are looking for practical, step-by-step solutions to increase your client base and charge more for your coaching, Coach Builder will show you how. Most business coaches know a great deal about business but struggle to charge money for that expertise. This book solves that problem. In Coach Builder you will learn to will learn to: Create a menu of products you can sell to clients. Create and manage a list of potential clients. Get your website (sales pitch) right. Follow up with leads using an automated email system. Map out your client journey by creating a marketing and product ladder. Set realistic goals and accomplish those goals. Build or join a coaching community that will help you grow yourself and your business. Master the soft skills of coaching. Coach Builder also contains sample emails you can use to pique ayour potential clients’ curiosity, warm them up to your coaching services, and sell them your coaching products. You're likely an expert at something but do you have a playbook to build your own coaching or consulting business? Coach Builder is your playbook.

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