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“I’m sorry to say that I don’t feel we could represent this for you successfully because of the fluctuations in the publishing marketplace. The publishing business has been erratic since the latter part of 1995, when most publishers took a big fall in sales. Sales since 1999 have been mixed, and specifically 2001 showed a tremendous drop in the sale of fiction. Since then, book chain business has been soft, with yearly increases of two to four percent, but more from non-fiction than fiction–a

Are You My Customer? Culling Your Customers from the Wanderers By Cameron Marschall Book publishers straddle the line between the artistic creatives and the business minded. Unless you come from a marketing or sales background, the idea of manning a booth for hours or days in a roomful of strangers may not top your list of fun things to do. When you factor in the cost in money and energy, and the opportunities of reaching new customers, the need to plan how your trade show booth operates beco

By Franta Shinsky Electronic Commerce has proved to be a boon for all those who make money using the Internet. Every now and then I come across people who are more than happy earning a decent income using the Internet. At the same time, I also meet people who have lost hundreds of dollars as a result of online scams. With all of the scams that pop up on the Internet that refer to money making, is it a reality that money can be made online without it being a scam? Of course, there are many leg

Hey EducateDeviate readers - especially from Malaysia - I need your help. I’m planning to apply to the Sauve Scholars program, a one-year fellowship based in McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where you are given full support and resources to research, study, and work on a project of your choice. I would like to use the year to come up with a project plan for resources that help young people find support for their passions and interests - mainly from a Malaysian perspective, as there’s nothi

Business Opportunities: Find The Information You Need To Succeed Posted by Frank Sinsky on October 1st, 2008 Leave comment Posted in: Online Business Tags: Online Business by Franta Shinsky It’s easy enough to find a business opportunity. Just count the products you’ve seen lately that made you think ‘I could have thought of that’. Think of all the times you saw a product and knew you’d have no trouble getting all your friends and family to buy it. The problem with any business id

by Myles Krueger In any business it is necessary to have a vision statement which is a systematic assessment of all the factors critical to your business purpose and goals. If you do not know how, why and where are going somewhere, how will you get there? A vision statement is the formula for this. For any business to succeed it must have a business plan and if it is not presented don’t go with them. The primary value of any business plan would be to create a written outline that evaluates all

The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Part 5 Persevere When a man is in the right path, he must persevere. I speak of this because there are some persons who are “born tired;” naturally lazy and possessing no self-reliance and no perseverance. But they can cultivate these qualities, as Davy Crockett said: “This thing remember, when I am dead, Be sure you are right, then go ahead.” It is this go-aheaditiveness, this d