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Those of you who are active on Twitter might have come across the username @zappos which is account for Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh. Besides the fact that his tweets are quite funny, and that he shares lots of insights, there is also the fact that dude is loaded!
Just a brief introduction from his new book Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose.
In 1996, I co-founded LinkExchange, which was sold to Microsoft in 1998 for $265 million. In 1999, I got involved with Zappos as an advisor and investor, and eventually became CEO. We grew the company from almost no sales in 1999 to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales, annually.
In 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing.
Anyway, a couple of months ago, there was a tweet about how Tony had written a book and they were giving out advance reading copies (for free). All you needed to do was fill in a form, submit some details and voila! If you’re lucky, you’d be one of those selected (I’m not sure if they selected everyone!) and a copy of the book would be sent to you to be reviewed on your blog.
A few weeks ago, I received my copy (it was a soft-cover, when the book is released for sale in June, it will be hard-cover – you can pre-order it here). Along with that copy came a note.
Congratulations! You’ve been approved by the Delivering Happiness book team to receive an advance copy of the book. As a bonus, we’ve included an extra copy of the book for you to give away to your readers as either a prize for a contest of as part of a random giveaway.
Well, I have not just one extra but three books to giveaway. For some reason, I received two packages at different times from the Delivering Happiness team, so I have extra copies. So I’m giving away all three (I really only need one for myself).
I can’t tell you if the book’s any good yet because I’m only a few pages in but if you’d like a copy, you just need to leave a comment on this blog, finishing this sentence:
“Happiness is … “
I’ll give you guys till Friday to do this and will announce the winner next week when I write my review.
9.05am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
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nice blog n n3..visit mine if free k.;D
Happiness is … you giving me that book about happiness. Without which, there wouldn’t be much happiness in between us. tqvm
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Hi Niki,
I’d love to have a copy of the book for my personal reading and I hope that i can apply what i read if I can add value to my social marketing knowledge.
Happiness is being true to yourself above all else and find that when you make someone happy, you will find the energy to be happier and build on it a reserve that catapults your resolve to find more of where it comes from.
Happiness is something that everyone look forward to. What is life without happiness in it? Happiness is like colors, it comes in many forms. Be it in relationship, career, materials or life in general. Happiness is the most essential things we strive for actually.
Happiness = live simply, love generously, care deeply and smile kindly =)
Happiness is managing to still wake up smiling in the morning, no matter what (or who) is happening all around you
Happiness is no matter how bad a thing went wrong, you still can find a way/solution to encounter it with a positive way and that’s the feeling after you’ve successful conquer it!
Happiness is a state of mind that really depends how we see the situations in our lives each day. you can have all the riches in the world but still see it as a lonely place.-~:
Happiness is living each day as enjoyable and optimistic as you can, as if it is the last day you’ll be living it. Live happy, no regrets.
Happiness is the best gift you can give yourself or anybody else.
happiness is when you realise you know what makes you happy, now quickly give me this book tomorrow!
Happiness is doing whatever you do, that puts a smile on your face.
Happiness is when your heart & soul find something and they kinda go ‘oh haiz there:)’
Happiness is when you are stuck in the traffic jam for hours, hungry, lethargic and yet you manage to put a smile on your face despite all these, because at this particular moment you just can’t find a reason to hate your life at all.
Happiness is in the little things: like perfect weather and no work, and all the time in the world to enjoy yourself; like sharing tea and ice-cream and thoughts and laughter over lunch; like waking up in the time to see the sunrise; like knowing that today will be good, and tomorrow, even better.
Happiness is when you walk, you skip every 2 steps.
Happiness is whenever you see a face, you smile from your heart.
Happiness is waking up every morning looking forward to the day’s adventures.
Happiness is going to bed and be grateful that the day ends in happiness.
Happiness to me is living life to its fullest potential and learning to love yourself – that means embracing your strengths and also your flaws. Other people who are positive about life and what they do will naturally be drawn to you, because I sincerely believe happiness attracts happiness
Cheers,
Kat
Hi Niki
Would love to have this book, ….. pretty please?
“HAPPINESS is knowing that the Universe is conspiring to put a spring in your step, a smile on your face, joy in your heart, and inspiration in your soul”.
Happiness is within yourself. It takes ones courage to unearth it.
Found out about this Tony guy a few years ago and was really amazed by his philosophy of running his online business. Would love to put my hands on this book
Happiness is one of my birthday wishes each and every year.
Happiness is a beautiful life to be lived, new and deeper experiences to be embraced, secret dreams and desires to be reached.
happiness is like peeing in your pants, everyone can see it but only you can feel the warmth inside.
am i too late?!
Thanks everyone for your entries! The three copies has already been given out!
Check out my review of the book here:
http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-deliver-happiness-like-zappos-tony-hsieh.html
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