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Sell Your Way to Success on Shopify provides a detailed step-by-step guide on how to get started on Shopify, drawing on the author's experience in setting up a Shopify store for Changemakers Publishing, which features about 200 books by the author. She also helps sellers set up Shopify stores. For a new seller, the audiobook discusses how to decide on brand identity, product line, and store name.

How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published is about how to successfully write, pitch a book, write a query letter, promote a book, and build a platform. Many of these chapters started off as answers to questions from clients or prospective clients of Publishers Agents and Films (www.publishersagentsandfilms.com), a service that connects writers to publishers and agents. Then, I began thinking about all the steps involved, from writing a book to getting published.

10 Ways to Analyze Your Own Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats describes how you can do your own SWOT analysis, a tool used by organizations and corporations to make decisions on improving the organization and its products and services to increase sales and profits. You can also use a SWOT analysis to improve yourself, your performance, and your work. It features 10 tips on how to do this to become a better you. The goal is to build on your strengths, overcome key weaknesses, take advantage of opportunities, and confront or avoid any threats.

Trumpty Dumpty features a series of columns I wrote on Huffington Post about the dangers of a Trump Presidency not only to the US but to the world. It begins with an article on why Trump was not attacking the cartoonists and writers who were writing critical articles about him, although he has attacked members of the media as the lowest form of humanity and journalists as horrible, disgusting, and dishonest human beings.

Conducting a Monthly Social Media Campaign on Four Major Platforms illustrates how you can create a successful social media campaign to build awareness, get more clients or customers, and increase your sales through posts on four popular platforms. You can use this approach both to appeal to prospects in your own area or nationally, and even internationally, depending on the target market for your business.

Feelings of anger are pervasive, since it is often comes from fear or confronting an obstacle to a goal. While it often has negative consequences, such as problems in a relationship or at work and escalating conflicts, at other times, it can fuel creative and positive change in oneself, in one's relationship, and in society as a whole. So a good strategy is to control and manage that anger by acting from choice and wisdom. For anger can contribute to one's survival and success when used effectively.

How to Set Up Speaking Gigs and Get Paid provides a step-by-step guide to developing, organizing, and promoting your first speaking gigs and getting paid for them. It includes examples from my experiences in setting up a paid gig on writing and publishing books for myself and clients, marketing and promoting the event, and working with a videographer to create a series of videos I could use to promote future gigs.

The Researcher's Bible provides a short introduction to the major concepts and approaches used in the social sciences, especially in sociology, anthropology, leisure, recreation, and tourism. It is an ideal supplement to a more detailed text on research methods and a guide to choose which research methods to use in a study. It also provides an explanation of different options for company owners and managers of organizations, who might want to do research or hire a research company to conduct a study for them.

This is the third in the series on creating print books and e-books. The audiobook covers: creating the final file format for print books and e-books; deciding on the format; publishing on CreateSpace or IngramSpark; getting an ISBN - deciding on size; pricing and color printing; and suggested order for publishing books.

How to Get Published and Deal with Copyrights, Clients, Co-Writing, and Contracts covers a range of topics for both full-time and part-time writers - from finding publishers and agents and getting published to being successful as a freelancer. It is a continuation of the previously published book: How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published.

10 Keys for Doing Your Own Film Distribution describes the many advantages of doing your own distribution when you haven’t found a distributor, or to help you find a distributor. It also provides an overview of the many different platforms for distributing your film, from contacting retail channels, to setting up your own showings and selling off your website.

How to Pitch a TV or Film Series with a Show Bible describes what to put in a show bible to successfully pitch a TV or film series. It includes a list of the major sections to include, along with a sample episode. It explains how to find other films in your genre. The audiobook is formatted like a journal, so listeners can write down their ideas for what to do after listening to each tip.

10 Keys to Making a Low-Cost Documentary Feature describes a low-cost approach for producing a feature-length documentary with a budget under $50,000. It features an approach I have used that combines interviews with interviewees and experts along with B-roll shots of activities to use with voice-overs from the interviews. It also suggests ways to find interviewees, obtain funding for the film, and more.The book is formatted like a journal, so readers can write down their ideas for what to do after reading each tip.

The three tales in this audiobook are adapted from stories told by the peasants in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They are drawn from some books I found in shops when I visited the former USSR in 1988 as part of a citizen diplomacy group. I was intrigued by these folktales, since my paternal grandmother lived for some time in Odessa in the Ukraine. Also, I found these stories share a common theme - the poor peasant is able to succeed despite obstacles against an unfair ruler.

The following three tales are adapted from stories told by the American Indians. These are three of my favorite coyote stories. They are: "The Story of Coyote, Buffalo, and the Rock", told by the Sioux, a tribe from the Northwest, where they once formed the Great Sioux Nation, in the area that later became the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, and Wyoming.

10 Legal Basics for Getting a Distribution Deal describes the different provisions that are commonly included in a contract for distributing a film. It details the rights you are licensing and the obligations you have in return for what the distributor will do in releasing your film. It lists the many documents you need to supply and suggestions on what you can’t or can negotiate, such as the cost of marketing fees, the term of the agreement, and the requirement for insurance on your film.

Making Ethical Choices, Resolving Ethical Dilemmas reflects a new approach to understanding ethics - one's own and others - based on what people actually do and say they do, rather than what they have been taught are the right and ethical things to do. The audiobook has been developed by speaking to people from various backgrounds and discovering the wide range of ethical approaches people use in making everyday choices, and deciding how to handle the ethical conflicts they encounter in their lives.

Increase Your Impact and Influence features different ways to share your message in multiple formats in order to reach your intended audience in the ways they prefer to get that message. This message is whatever content or communication you want to convey, and you can repackage and repurpose your message in various ways to break through the huge clutter of chatter in today’s supercharged information age. And doing so can help others hear and respond to your message.

WOMEN IN PRISON: GETTING LOCKED UP, BEING A MOTHER OR IN A MINORITY GROUP, AND GETTING OUT is the first in a series of books about women in prison; their relationships with partners, children, and parents; everyday life in prison; the experience of women from minority groups; and the reentry process. It also provides recommendations on how to improve prison conditions and what prisons can do to better prepare women to adjust to life after prison and have a better life. It includes some information about women in jails, too. The chapters in this first book in the series includes the ...

Self-Publishing Your Book in Multiple Formats is designed to help writers take advantage of the many formats for publishing and selling books. This audiobook features an introduction to the different platforms and shows how to prepare and publish your manuscript in each format. By doing so, you can take advantage of the multiple approaches for selling your work to customers who like to consume books in different ways.