Audiobook for Random House

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: To hear more samples of Bob's work, go to http://www.voices.com/demos/BobBarnes. Recent non-fiction audiobook credits include: "Start With No" by Jim Camp for Random House. "The Virtual Bird Dog Blueprint--Outsourced Lead Generation for Real Estate Entrepeneurs" by Andy Proper for Teamwork Ventures. and "Winningstate Softball" and "Winningstate Baseball" by Nick Bahr. Fiction audiobook credits include "The Traveling Vampire Show" by Richard Laymon, "Weird of the White Wolf" and "The Vanishing Tower" by legendary British sci-fi novelist Michael Moorcock. "Identity Crisis" by Kevin J. Anderson. "The Second Rat" by David Barr Kirtley, and "Primary Colors" by Richard Raleigh. "Down Around the River--The poems of James Whitcomb Riley," is featured regularly on National Public Radio. Also recent are sci-fi stories "The Voice of El-Lil by Robert Mongtgomery and "The Rattle of Bones by Robt L Howard. Bob is a full time voice actor with his own state-of-the-art studio and he's usually available 24/7. Quick turn projects are a specialty. Excerpt attached was chosen at random. Add'l samples or a custom audition from a few paragraphs of your book are available on request at Bob Barnes, (Email hidden)

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English

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Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
Here's another case in point. A few years ago, a client was dealing with a large Japanese corporation that had found itself in a tight situation that was shaping up to be very profitable for my client. A team of five negotiators was sitting in the room and Tokyo with a like number of counterparts. For the Japanese company, the silence was deafening, as they say, and the damnedest thing happened. The burden for the adversary to make a decision became too much for one member of my own team. And he blurted out then and there with no consultation with his teammates, much less with his bosses back home. But the Japanese could have a 2% discount. I don't know where and this was a $1,000,000,000 negotiation. 2% here, 2% there. And pretty soon you're talking about real money down the drain, all for the sake of making the adversary feel comfortable and saving them from taking responsibility for their decisions. The Japanese gladly accepted this offer. The meeting adjourned. All **** broke loose in the American camp and the team had to return to the table the following day and take back that 2% discount, which they did

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