Customer Reviews

Free Money and Help for Women Entrepreneurs

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...This book was very misleading. After reading his book, it would lead me to believe that there is no such thing as free money or help. The book should have had more sources for free money (not loans). I know how to get a loan. His book referenced very few grant places (if any). It spoke on different places for assistance in various areas (e.g. someone who could help you start your own business such as SBA). Thats not the reason for my purchase. His commercial claimed that it could help you get free financial assistant for women entrepreneurship. It was a waste of my time and money. His book was misleading and a joke. Never will I purchase another one of his books.

After having read & re-read this book over the past 6 months, I find this book an incredible resource to navigating the complex web of government assistance programs. Of course, buyers of this book should be aware that the government is notorious for changing things around without telling anyone, so much of the book's information will either be incorrect or completely obsolete. That said, it still provides excellent starting points for getting the information you need for your business.

Keep in mind -- this book is an information resource; it does not get you approved for assistance and it does not do any of the work you need to do anyway in order to finance your business. I think critics of this book are ignoring the fact that the author is a professional information broker and as such has done about half the work that you would have to do on your own to even get to the application stage of requesting government money. Since most people have neither the time nor the patience to mine for gold within our bureaucracy, I'd say this book is a good deal if only for that.

Just don't expect it to fill out the forms for you.

I found this book to be totally useless. I had hoped to find resources for women starting a new business. No such luck. I also bought another book by Lesko at the same time -- it was also a waste of money in my opinion.

The main problem with this book is that the references it sites are no longer valid. The addresses, web sites, phone numbers, etc. are not current. They may never have been from what I can tell. The second problem with this book is that it spends way too much time on "motivational" nonsense like "you can do it!", etc. The hard information is very scarce, and as I said before, is out of date and almost useless.

I found this book completely useless except for a paperweight or doorstop! What I did find interesting is that Vickie Adkins-Marcum seems to review all of Matthew Lesko's books. Of course Vickie highly exalts him using such phrases as "KUDOS to Matthew Lesko! He's making this a better place!" For those of you who are a little slow, let me inform you that Vickie Adkins-Marcum is really Matthew Lesko, or someone Matthew gave this review to and paid Vickie to post it. It's strange that Vickie's reviews all start out with the same first paragraph and have many of the same phrases throughout. It is also strange that Vickie only reviews Matthew's books. Shame on you Matthew Lesko for writing your own review!

Matthew Lesko hits the bullseye again. This book contains valuable information for women wanting to start their own business. The information covers the financial and personal needs of women in all age groups, ethnicity and social standing. Any female wanting entrepreneurial assistance will find leads in this book. Not only does he talk about grants and loans to get the business started but he also gives information on training grants, free printed material on how to start and run a business, information on tax breaks/credits and more. This book includes resources that will help any female start a business and keep it running successfully. I found it very useful and have turned to it many times. Many avenues and doors have been opened as a result of this book.

This book is totally useless. I've contacted several places listed in the book to no avail. This will NOT help you make money and does not lead to any "free" money anywhere. Keep the money you have!

I have a hard time understanding how one of the other reviewers believes this book hits the "bullseye". As a former employee of one of the agencies listed within this book I had numerous clients come into my office looking for "free money". They grew very angry and upset once I explained that the "free money" detailed in the book was to fund our agency. The money was not available directly to individuals. I have written business plans and grant proposals and done research on various industries. Rarely is there "free money". The only exception I have seen is in agriculture and rural development.. and it's not just handed out. The grant process can be long and very time consuming... but well worth it depending on the project.

I was tempted to be stupid and buy an updated version of one of his books. The older bigger one I had ordered from a Home Shopping network about 6years ago. From the reviews I see it's the same story. The phone numbers are out of service or have new people answering them for different places. You know you always want to believe help is possible. Unfortunately it isn't though from him as he's only helping himself to your money.

Don't waste your money on this. Book is just an outline of possible available avenues for securing capital - but absolutely nothing applied to my situation. It's been sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust.