The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Non Fiction

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Michael Phillips & Salli Rasberry

Make your business stand out without the cost of advertising!The best marketing you can do for your business is to concentrate on creating a high-quality operation that customers, employees and other businesspeople will trust, respect and recommend.Marketing Without Advertising teaches small business owners practical strategies to:encourage customers to spread the good word about your businessattract new customers and gain their trustturn dissatisfied customers into loyal supporterslist your products or services widely and inexpensivelyplan marketing events that will keep customers involvedencourage the media to comment positively on your businessThe 6th edition is completely rewritten with and updated with real world examples and resources. It also discusses the latest marketing trends, such as international Internet marketing and blogs.

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Chris Malta and Lisa Suttora

If you want to build a profitable--and consistent--eBay business, you need to start with strategic product sourcing. What to Sell on eBay and Where to Get It reveals the same techniques used by the most successful e-commerce entrepreneurs and by major retail chains to determine what products will sell well and which suppliers will deliver those products for the best price.Learn to generate product ideas, research your markets, diversify your product line, and build a direct supply of inventory. Using the proven strategies in this book, you'll be able to find the products that will fuel your business for the long term and skyrocket your sales!

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Nicholas Ind and Rune Bjerke

Branding Governance challenges traditional thinking on brands. Bestselling author Nicholas Ind and cross-cultural communications expert Rune Bjerke expose the flaws in a marketing-led approach to brand-building, and offer in its place a highly-participative, organization-wide process that delivers fulfillment to employees and value to customers. Drawing on a wide range of sources, they show that the key to a participatory approach is that customers and other external audiences must join managers and employees as active participants in defining and developing the brand. This requires the relationship between organization and customer to be one of trust, respect and authenticity.

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Attorney Denis Clifford

Presents a guide on estate planning that covers property ownership laws, beneficiaries, probate avoidance, living trusts, joint tenancy, health care directives, life insurance, estate taxes, wills, business ownership, and pensions.