Jarvis Hooten has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is Long Road to Abilene.
Mobile Vending: How to Run a Traveling Food or Merchandise Concession
Summary
Mobile vending is one of the easiest, least risky, and least expensive home based businesses to start up. And it’s fun! It is quite different, however, from other conventional businesses. Festival vendors and food truck operators need specialized techniques to succeed. There are hurtles you may not have anticipated that can kill your new enterprise before you finish one season. With over a decade in the business, Jarvis met and learned from hundreds of traveling concessionaires. Many of them said they wished they’d had a guide when they started their home-based businesses. That's why this book was written - to help others avoid costly goofs many new vendors make. The techniques in this audiobook will smoothly propel you to a successful food truck or merchandise vending operation. Whether you're just in the thinking-about-it stage or already have a booth up and running, you'll find loads of info to make your small business thrive. It's all covered: designing a stand, dealing with government agencies, finding events, choosing products to sell, how to draw customers, and how to keep records. Both merchandise and food vending are covered in detail. What this audiobook does not cover is finance. There are already hundreds of books about SBA loans, writing business plans, and setting up business structures, such as LLCs. This audiobook is specific to the fair and festival vending industry, and it's packed with useful tips. Mix your entrepreneurial spirit with the strategies in this audiobook, and you're on your way to a nice income through a vending venture. And you'll discover the satisfaction of running your own enterprise.
©2020 Jarvis Hooten (P)2020 Jarvis Hooten
How to Make Money wwith 3D Printing
Summary
As 3D printing is becoming an in-thing, many people are striking fortune and making it big in the industry. Such achievement may not be a cakewalk, but then seeking ways to get a breakthrough is by far the only way to get there and realize what others have conceptualized into moneymaking means. If you have always had interest in 3D printing and you are into making money with this technology, it is about time you worked smart to beat the challenges ahead. Three-dimensional printable models may be created with a computer-aided design (CAD) package, via a 3D scanner, or by a plain digital camera and photogrammetry software. 3D printed models created with CAD result in reduced errors and can be corrected before printing, allowing verification in the design of the object before it is printed. Several projects and companies are making efforts to develop affordable 3D printers for home desktop use. Much of this work has been driven by and targeted at DIY/Maker/enthusiast/early adopter communities, with additional ties to the academic and hacker communities. "Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands and thus undermines economies of scale. It may have as profound an impact on the world as the coming of the factory did....Just as nobody could have predicted the impact of the steam engine in 1750 - or the printing press in 1450, or the transistor in 1950 - it is impossible to foresee the long-term impact of 3D printing. But the technology is coming, and it is likely to disrupt every field it touches." (The Economist, in a February 10, 2011 leader)
©2016 Adidas Wilson (P)2017 Adidas Wilson
Deadly Secret of the Lusitania
Summary
In 1915, a German U-boat sank the British passenger liner Lusitania. Many Americans, including women and children, were among the 1200 dead, so the crime caused a storm of protest in America and helped plunge the US into World War I. In this gripping novel, an insurance investigator and his fiancée help a murdered longshoreman's widow who's been unjustly denied her husband's life insurance. Finding themselves in possession of documents detailing the Lusitania's secret cargo, the couple are targeted by German and British spies, Irish republicans, a rogue socialist, and the newly-formed FBI, all wanting to use the suppressed material for their own purposes.
©2015 Ivan Light (P)2017 Ivan Light
Living with Less Neurons
Summary
Jarvis was a typical, middle-aged man in the early summer of 2019. He didn't know what a transient ischemic attack (TIA) was until he had six of them in one evening. The next day, Jarvis walked into an emergency room on his own power to get checked out. The TIAs had been scary, but he figured they were just a warning that he needed to take better care of himself. Six days later, he went home from the hospital in an ambulance. He'd lost the use of his left arm and leg. Jarvis had suffered a stroke - after going to the hospital. Brain damage is like a plane crash; it’s a terrifying event that we hope never happens to us. If we survive, it's a miracle and a chance to reevaluate our future. Living with Less Neurons tells one person’s story of embracing life again after a catastrophic setback. Note to grammarians: Yes, the author realizes a more grammatically correct title would be Living with Fewer Neurons, but that doesn't roll off the tongue or fit on a book cover as well.
©2020 Jarvis Hooten (P)2020 Jarvis Hooten
Long Road to Abilene
Summary
Long Road to Abilene is a classic hero's journey, a western adventure that exemplifies the struggles, the defeats, and the victories that personify the American West. After surviving the bloody battle of Franklin and the hell of a Yankee prison camp, Cade McCall comes home to the woman he loves only to find that she, believing him dead, has married his brother. With nothing left to keep him in Tennessee, Cade journeys to New Orleans where an encounter with a beautiful woman leads to being shanghaied for an unexpected adventure at sea. Returning to Texas, he signs on to drive a herd of cattle to Abilene, where he is drawn into a classic showdown of good versus evil, and a surprising reunion with an old enemy.
©2016 Robert Vaughan (P)2016 Robert Vaughan