June 28, 2011

Audible Audiobooks to Learn From

At LearnOutLoud.com we’ve always tried to feature all of the audio & video learning resources out there whether they are free or for sale. And if they are for sale and we can’t or don’t yet sell them for whatever reason, then we’re more than happy to send you to a trusted retailer that is selling the audio books.

If you’re not familiar with Audible.com, they are by far the largest retailer of downloadable audio book and spoken word content on the Internet boasting over 85,000 titles currently on their website. If you’d like to learn a little more about them you can read about them on our website here:

Audible.com Overview on LearnOutLoud.com

We recently went through their entire catalog and found about 1000 titles from various audio learning publishers that we didn’t yet have up on our site. We’ve now added these 1000+ titles in order to showcase some great audio learning titles that you may have not yet discovered in their vast ocean of over 85,000 titles. So here we’ll highlight some of those publishers and their titles which you can browse on our site. All of the titles feature audio samples for you to listen to. If you find a title you like feel free to click the link over to Audible.com and purchase it a la carte. Or you may be interested in one of their membership programs. Here those are if you’re not familiar with them:

AudibleListener Gold Membership Consumer Offer:
Get 50% off your first 3 months of the AudibleListener Gold membership plan and receive your free audiobook credit each month. Pay only $7.49/month for 3 months, $14.95/month thereafter.

Audible Free Trial Consumer Offer:
Get your first 14 days of the AudibleListener Gold membership plan free, which includes one audiobook credit. After your 14 day trial, your membership will renew each month for just $14.95 per month so you can continue to receive one audiobook credit per month plus members-only discounts on all audio purchases.

Also note that Audible.com supplies all the audio books available on iTunes so if you’re more familiar with iTunes you can search these titles on iTunes as well and download them there if you find something you like.

Here are the 1000+ new titles we’ve added by audio learning publishers on Audible.com:

Better Life Media – Over 30 Titles featuring live talks by self help and business authors on some their most popular books.

Byron Katie International – Over 20 live workshops with author and speaker Byron Katie as she does her method of self-inquiry called “The Work” with real people.

Caravan Publishers – Featuring 40 audio books on Audible.com covering a wide span of topics from politics to history to religion to the social sciences.

Colourstory Limited – 20 Law of Attraction-based audio programs by author Christine Sherborne.

Lowdown Guides from Creative Content Ltd – Get the lowdown on various lifestyles from how to pick up girls or guys to business etiquette in other countries to improving your English.

Dharma Communications – Over 40 Talks on Zen Buddhism by John Daido Loori Roshi and other teachers in the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism.

Dharma Publishing – Over 20 Audio Programs by Tarthang Tulku including relaxations, meditations, and other talks.

Diviniti Publishing – 40 popular hypnotherapy programs from Glenn Harrold and others focusing on particular areas of one’s life.

Earworms – Rapid language learning programs in a number of languages.

Eckhart Teachings – A handful of original audio programs from Power of Now author Eckhart Tolle.

Entrepreneur Media – How-to audio guides on how to start a bunch of different businesses from the folks who put out Entrepreneur Magazine.

Fetch UK – 30+ Self Help Guides out of the UK on many health topics.

FirstWayForward – Hypnotherapy for kids and adults by Lynda Hudson on ways to overcome fears and more.

Go Mad Thinking – Professional development for optimal performance in the workplace along with a series on brain magic.

Health Communications Chicken Soup for the Soul Series – Chicken Soup for just about every type of Soul out there with this popular series of over 30 titles by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen now on audio download.

HealthiNation – Health info series on a dozen health topics.

Himalayan Institute Press – Over dozen audio programs which cover the topics of meditation, spirituality, holistic health, yoga, and other self development areas.

Hypnotherapists Direct – Over 30 titles on hypnotherapy to overcome specific fears such as claustrophobia and fear of flying.

James Ray International – Original audio programs from self development author James Arthur Ray who was featured in the movie The Secret.

KAMMS Consulting – Over 20 Spanish and Ingles language learning downloads for a variety of occupations.

M-y Books – 40 Spiritual & Emotional Growth titles including many downloads by spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Mark Forstater Productions – Titles Covering the Spiritual Teachings of a number of different philosophers and philosophies by by Mark Forstater.

Michael Shermer Audio – Audio Books by American science writer and founder of The Skeptics Society Michael Shermer on science and religion in the modern age.

Michel Thomas Audio – Language Learning Courses from the popular language teacher Michel Thomas and his colleagues.

Musically Speaking – Over 20 hour-long guides to some of the most popular works of classical music of all time by American conductor and music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra Gerard Schwarz.

Oval Books – Be an instant expert with the Bluffer’s Guides to a lot of different topics from Philosophy to the Quantum Universe.

VangoNotes from Pearson Education – VangoNotes review chapters from over 150 of the most popular college text books. Learn from text books on business, medicine, and much, much more.

PETA Foundation – Audio programs from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Polity Audio – Political audio books on contemporary issues.

PrepLogic – Exam Prep Audio Programs covering major exams like the GMAT, LSAT, SAT, and more.

SDH Productions – Self-Hypnosis and Subliminal Guided Meditations for creating different outcomes in your life.

SelfDevelopment.biz – 10 Guidebooks for creating a healthier, happier life.

SES Research – Over a dozen Hypnosis titles by Australian Patrick Wanis.

SmartPass – Audio Education Study Guides to great literature including many Shakespeare plays.

The Power Within – Teachers from the movie The Secret Recorded Live.

Wisdom Scientific – Self-therapy audio programs by Abe Kass in the domain of personal and relationship success.

So there’s a lot there to choose from. Find a great audio learning titles to download on Audible.com!

June 27, 2011

New Author Audio & Video Pages

We’ve just added 50 new author pages to our website bringing the total number of LearnOutLoud.com Author Pages up to almost 100. We’ve selected 50 of the most popular authors on our site that have a lot of audio & video learning resources and created a nice bio and introduction to their work on audio. On the pages you’ll find all the audio books including free audio books, podcasts, and free videos of many authors. If you’d like to check out all our author pages, here they all are from Aristotle to Zig Ziglar:

Browse All LearnOutLoud.com Author Pages

And to check out every single author with 5 or more titles on our site you can browse 100s of our authors alphabetically here:

Authors on LearnOutLoud.com with over 5 Titles

We’ll break the new author pages up by category of author for your browsing convenience. We’ll start of with the self development authors we’ve added. You can view our full list of self development author pages right here:

Browse All Our Self Development Author Pages

Here are the latest Self Development Author Pages we’ve added:

Jack Canfield

Pema Chodron

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

John Gray

Brian Johnson, CEO of PhilosophersNotes.com

Abraham Maslow

Thomas Moore

Caroline Myss

Iyanla Vanzant

Ken Wilber

Paramahansa Yogananda

Along with self development authors we’ve also added pages for a lot of prominent business authors. You can check out full list of business author pages right here:

Browse All Our Business Author Pages

And here are the Business Author pages we’ve added:

Tony Alessandra

Ken Blanchard

John C. Maxwell

Bob Proctor

Joe Vitale

And we’ve also added many new pages for popular Christian authors:

Gary Chapman

Joyce Meyer

Joel Osteen

Eugene H. Peterson

John Piper

Ravi Zacharias

And we’ve added some new pages for some of the greatest writers of literature of all time. You can check out all of our pages for classic & contemporary literature authors here:

All Our Classic Fiction Author Pages

And here are some new great literary figures that we’ve added pages for along with some great philosophers thrown in as well:

Aristotle

Jane Austen

Joseph Conrad

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway

Homer

Henry James

Jack London

Arthur Miller

Plato

Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Louis Stevenson

Henry David Thoreau

Edith Wharton

Oscar Wilde

And we’ve made a few author pages for some major political figures that we feature many speeches and audio books from:

Winston Churchill

John F. Kennedy

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Barack Obama

Ronald Reagan

And here are some other contemporary authors and speakers that we feature a lot of titles from and decided to make author pages for:

Karen Armstrong

Malcolm Gladwell

Christopher Hitchens

David Sedaris

Enjoy these popular authors on LearnOutLoud.com!

June 14, 2011

Professional Growth and Development Audio Programs

Made For Success features motivational audio programs of top speakers and best selling authors in the categories of personal & professional growth. LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to now be offering over 300 of their top titles on MP3 audio download. Whether you’re looking to increase wealth, improve public speaking skills, get motivated to achieve your goals, become a better leader, close more sales, improve time management, or find instruction in many other areas of personal & professional growth, you’ll find an applicable audio download from Made For Success:

300 Made For Success Audio Downloads

One great thing about Made for Success is that most of their audio programs are available for under $10.

Here are some of the great sounding titles we’ve added in various categories. We’ll start in this section with the business titles:

Investing, Finance, & Wealth Downloads:

Six Audio Downloads from Rich Dad, Poor Dad Co-Author Sharon L. Lechter

Make a Million by Brian Tracy

Boost Your Income: Three Spiritual Steps to Success by Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Consciously Designing and Achieving Your Financial Freedom and Abundant Life by Loral Langemeier

Leadership & Management Downloads:

9 Leadership Downloads from Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel

14 Management & Professional Strategy Downloads from Dr. Larry Iverson

Leading for Success in the 21st Century: Leveraging the Latest Communications Technology by Tom Ziglar (Zig’s son)

The 12 Characteristics of Leadership by Chris Widener

Thank God It’s Monday: How to Build a Motivating Workplace by Roxanne Emmerich

Sales, Marketing, & Negotiating:

8 Online Marketing & eCommerce Advice Downloads from Liv Montgomery

The Fundamentals of a Sales Pro by Tom Hopkins

Be a Star with Your Customers and Keep Them Forever and Creating the Loyalty Mindset by Shep Hyken

Getting to “Yes” In 10 Seconds or Less by Vanna Novak

The Customer Bill of Rights: The Top 10 Things That Customers Want by Laura Stack

Public Speaking & Networking:

How to Cultivate a Network of Endless Referrals by Bob Burg (Author of The Go-Giver)

From Good to Great: 10 Little Techniques to Transform Your Speech by Patricia Fripp

How to Give an Elevator Speech by Brian Walter

How to Influence People with Powerful Communication by Brad Worthley

Words Matter: What to Say by Pamela Jett

The Power of Networking by Gene Hildabrand

Relationship Economics by David Nour

In addition to these titles we also still offer many Made For Success from these great speakers that we’ve featured in the past:

Brian Tracy Downloads
Denis Waitley Downloads
Bob Proctor Downloads
Zig Ziglar Downloads
Jim Rohn Downloads
Tony Alessandra Downloads
John C. Maxwell Downloads

Enjoy these audio programs along your path to success!

Along with the professional development titles, Made for Success also puts out a ton of excellent personal growth programs from great contemporary speakers in the field. We’ve added plenty of these on audio download from Made for Success. Here are some top personal growth programs we’ve added by category:

Goals & Motivation:

The Goals Program by Zig Ziglar

Motivating Yourself to Peak Performance by Brian Tracy

Seven Minutes to Success by Chris Widener

Goal Setting and Achieving by Krish Dhanam

Mental & Emotional Development:

8 Downloads from Crystal Dwyer covering Anxiety, Weight Loss, & More

Ridiculous Bliss Series by Matthew Ferry

Developing & Maintaining the Right Attitude by Zig Ziglar

Optimize Your Thinking by Jennifer Whitt

Relationships & Parenting:

Building Winning Relationships by Zig Ziglar

Just Walk Across the Room by Bill Hybels

Dealing with Difficult People by Dianna Booher

Parenting on the Winning Edge by Tom Flick

Exploring Your Child’s Personality by Jennifer Sedlock

Time Management & Productivity:

19 Downloads from The Productivity Pro Laura Stack

How to Get More Done with Less Stress by Sarita Maybin

The 9 Secrets to Time Mastery by Dr. Larry Iverson

Excuses Don’t Count – Results Rule by Anne Bachrach

And there’s a lot more here to explore. Check them all out:

300 Made For Success Audio Downloads