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Specific Businesses you can start at home.
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Writers Market (Writer's Market)
by Kathryn S. Brogan
Paperback: 1178 pages ISBN: 1582972710
Publisher: Writers Digest Books (August 10, 2004) |
| For the past eighty-three years,
aspiring and established writers have trusted Writer's Market to provide them with the
no-nonsense advice and authoritative guidance they need to find markets and to get
published. Also contains over 4000 market listings for consumer magazines, book
publishers, trade journals, and contests and awards, along with 50 listings for literary
agents. |
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How
to Start a Home-Based Writing Business
4th Edition (Home-Based Business Series)
by Lucy Parker
Paperback: 384 pages ISBN: 0762728345
Publisher: Globe Pequot; 4.00 edition (Nov 2003) |
| Earn a living writing advertising
copy, producing flyers and brochures, or ghostwriting, without leaving home. This
comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you will need to
successfully launch and grow your own business. How to develop a business plan, estimate
your start-up costs, price your services, and stay profitable once you're in business.
From painless record keeping to savvy marketing techniques, the step-by-step methods are
realistic, innovative, and easy to understand. |
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The
Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less
by Peter Bowerman
Library Binding - 282 pages (September 2000)
Fanove Publishing; ISBN: 0967059844
Dimensions (in inches): 0.81 x 9.00 x 6.06 |
| Bowerman answers almost every
conceivable question you could have about freelance writing. He tells you how to do what
it takes to go out on your own as well as the personal characteristics you must display to
be a success as a freelancer. |
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Damn!
Why Didn't I Write That? How Ordinary People are Raking in $100,000.00...or
more Writing Nonfiction Books & How You Can Too! by Marc McCutcheon
Paperback: 256 pages ISBN: 1884956173
Publisher: Quill Driver Books (October, 2001) |
| The author describes the process
from idea, research, query letters, and proposals to agents, contract negotiations, and
promotion. Suggestions are provided for developing habits that will lead to successful
full-time writing, with tips like reading trade journals on a regular basis and clipping
articles from magazines and newspapers to jumpstart research. Included is a list of
helpful magazines, web sites, and organizations and a descriptive sample of standard
formats for manuscript submission. |
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The
Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 14th
Edition
by Dan Poynter
Paperback: 432 pages ISBN: 1568600887
Publisher: Para Publishing; 14th edition (August 10, 2003) |
| This manual is your complete
reference for writing, printing, publishing, promoting, marketing and distributing books.
Whether you are promoting a published book or plan to write and publish one soon, you will
refer to this manual again and again. |
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Start
Your Own Self-Publishing Business
(Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up)
by Entrepreneur Press
Paperback: 200 pages ISBN: 1891984829
Entrepreneur Press; 1 edition (December 1, 2003) |
| The editors of Entrepreneur
magazine have interviewed leaders from the front lines of the industry to learn the
nitty-gritty, hands-on tasks, tips, and tricks of successful self-publishing. Their
stories and hard-won experience can smooth the road for you in the $24 billion-a-year
industry. |
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