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Carol Denbow - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Carol Denbow is a successful retired business owner, mom of two awesome kids, and the author of three non-fiction books. Carol shares her writing and publishing experience with forthcoming authors through her monthly e-zine, A Book Inside. In addition, Carol is a regular contributor to numerous websites and e-zines.
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- Tips on How to Query a Book Publisher
[Writing-and-Speaking:Publishing] Your first step in querying a publisher should be to order the book Writer's Market. The book is available through Amazon.com for about $30.
- 7 Tips on How to Write a Book
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Write your book. Whether it's non-fiction or fiction, Fantasy, Autobiography, Crime or Mystery, just write what you feel.
- Virtual Book Tours - Why They're Better
[Writing-and-Speaking:Book-Marketing] As long as there have been published authors, there have been book tours. Face it, books don't often sell themselves. Strong promotion and marketing is the key to most merchandise sales and it's no different with books. Virtual book touring is HOT!
- How to Go on a Virtual Book Tour
[Writing-and-Speaking:Book-Marketing] A virtual book tour is very similar to the traditional physical book tour. The biggest difference being, there is no travel or travel related expense. Virtual book tours are accomplished 100 percent over the Internet.
- Can Stress Kill?
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Most of us suffer from stress at some level, but can stress really lead to death? The answer might surprise you.
- How to Manage Your Stress and Live a Stress Free Life by Changing Your Attitude
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Nearly all of us suffer from stress at some level. Unfortunately, most of us unknowingly create our own stress. We live a fast paced and competitive lifestyle, and from that, we suffer the stressful consequences.
- Professionally Edit For Better Odds of Manuscript Acceptance
[Writing-and-Speaking:Book-Marketing] Publishers of all kinds prefer to see a manuscript edited prior to submission. Whether you choose to self-publish, POD, or submit to a traditional publishing house, your manuscript will need to be professionally edited.
- Is Sex Stressful?
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Shhhh! We don't want to talk about it in our society. It is a private matter-it's sex. But sex can be a wonderful stress reliever-it can also create stress.
- Is There a Book Inside You?
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Nearly 81 percent of people say they have a book inside them. It's in their hearts, minds, and soul; but unfortunately, it never seems to develop in pen.
- 7 Ways to Eliminate Negative Thinking and Manage Stress
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] It's hard to have a positive attitude when you anticipate every outcome to every situation as being the worst it can be. Some people live by this negative thought. This way of thinking can create enormous unnecessary stress in your everyday life.
- How Our Environment Affects Our Stress Levels and How to Reduce the Tension
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] We can easily identify our bigger stress issues - work, buying a house, and divorce, for example - as the main causes of our stress. In reality, the most harmful stress may come from the smallest of our daily frustrations.
- How to Manage and Reduce Financial Stress
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Nearly half of all working Americans have financial problems. It's no wonder that one of the leading causes of stress is money. Financial stress is a major contributor to many health issues. We must learn and practice good stress management techniques to live a happier and more stress free life.
- Stress Relief For the Working Stiff - 6 Ways to Reduce Workplace Stress
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Reducing stress in the workplace is the key to happier employees. Happier employees equal productivity, which equals fewer industrial accidents.
- Use Your Sense to Reduce Stress
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Can using your senses really reduce stress? Use these suggestions to reduce everyday stress in your life.
- How to Avoid Failure by Starting Your Small Business From Home
[Business:Small-Business] Nearly 90 percent of people state that at some point in their lives they've dreamed of starting their own business, yet few make the initial effort. Often it's due to lack of funds or personal commitment, or just the fear of failing. And although it's true that only about ten percent of new businesses do succeed, the reasons why the other 90 prcent fail appears to be related to the lack of planning, primarily financial.
- How To Find The Best Location To Start A New Business
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] With some businesses, location won't matter much. But with most, it's location, location, and location!
- Why Business Partnerships Don't Work
[Business] Partnerships are typically formed due to a joint business idea or the need for financial aid with business start-up expense. Either way, only about 40 percent of partnerships work out and partnership dissolution is like a divorce--it's really ugly.
- Buying an Existing Business or Franchise
[Business:Solo-Professionals] Sometimes it is easier to buy an established business rather than start a new business from scratch. About 10 percent of new business owners have purchased an existing business.
- How Much Money Do I Need To Start A New Business?
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] It doesn't always require a massive amount of cash to start a new business. In fact, 25 percent of business owners need no dollar amount to start up.
- Are You Ready to Be Your Own Boss?
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Do you plan to give up your job and start a new business of your own? What would that take? What would be your new responsibilities? Probably more than you planned.
- How to Budget Your Business Start-up to Avoid Painful Failure
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] The myth that nine out of ten small businesses close in their first year may or may not be completely true. According to more recent Dun and Bradstreet data, 76 percent of new companies were still in business after two years. But since these statistics are based solely on the number of business license applications forfeited, they may not be entirely accurate.
- 10 Businesses You Can Start For $500 Or Less!
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Long time statistics have shown that 9 out of 10 new businesses fail in their first year. Lack of planning and financial ruin is one of the most common causes. Starting small is a way to insure minimal risk in new business.
- Advertising Placement in Published Books - More Bang for Your Buck?
[Writing-and-Speaking:Book-Marketing] Short-term paid advertising rarely produces good sales with any business. In fact, statistics show that business owners spend an average of $100 just to gain one new customer.
- 5 Best Ways to Start a New Business on a Shoestring Budget
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Just over 32 percent of new business owners needed less than $5,000 to start or acquire their business. Amazingly enough, 25 percent of business owners needed no dollar amount to start up.
- 8 Sure-Fire Business Start-up Tips to "Know"
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Know it all? See how much you really understand business start-up and what's necessary to succeed!
- Why Do Nearly 90% of New Small Businesses Fail?
[Business:Small-Business] Everyone has dreamed about starting a business and being their own boss. Most who pursue that dream find only frustration and failure.
- Your Hobby, Your Job? Starting The Right Business For Happiness and Success
[Home-Based-Business:Network-Marketing] If you're reading this article, it's because you've already decided that you would like to own your own business, right? This is most likely your first real attempt at self-employment. 65 percent of the business owners out there are first-time owners. Almost 70 percent of new businesses are started from scratch by someone like you.
- Starting a Business - Do You Have The Time?
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] According to a United States Census Bureau survey of business owners, 51 percent will work over 336 days per year. 34.5 percent will work over 40 hours per week and 13.6 percent of those will work more than 60 hours per week.
- Show Me The Money! - The Financial Truth of New Business
[Business:Venture-Capital] "I want to start my own business and be my own boss!" Sound familiar? It may, because nearly 95 percent of people have this pass through their thoughts at some point in their working lifetime.
- Am I Ready To Start A Business? 10 Personal Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Commit
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] No, we won't begin with "Do you have a master's degree?" Although education does matter, higher education is not a requirement for starting or succeeding in a new business.
- Is Your Family In It? - Starting A New Business Without Family Support
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] It seems as if there are a million things to consider when developing a new business venture. But does your family have the right to be considered in the process?
- Master's Not Required - Who Qualifies To Start Their Own Business?
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Nearly 90 percent of people state that at some point in their lives they've dreamed of starting their own business, yet few make the initial effort. What makes an entrepreneur? There are many scientific theories floating around out there; the genetic theory, how your parents raised you, or being the first born in your family.
- A Book - Inside Writing, Publishing And Selling Your Story
[Writing-and-Speaking:Book-Marketing] Is there a book inside you? 81 percent of Americans say yes. With so many people having the desire to see their story in print, why does only a small percentage pick up the pen and write?
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