Turn Your Passion Into Profits: How To Start The Business of Your Dreams [Hardcover]

Janet Allon (Author), And the Editors of Victoria Magazine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2001

The how-to companion book to The Business of Bliss, this book explains the basics of starting your own small business, from writing a business plan to finding financial help, hiring staff, and more.

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About the Author

Janet Allon wrote The Business of Bliss: How to Profit from Doing What You Love, and co-wrote Deal With It: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a gURL. An award-winning journalist, she is a former New York Times reporter. She lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Hearst; 1st edition (December 31, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588160068
• ISBN-13: 978-1588160065
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #697,170 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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72 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Every Penny, August 20, 2001

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M.E. FELDMANN (Asheville, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turn Your Passion Into Profits: How To Start The Business of Your Dreams (Hardcover)

Someone once told me, "It's not what we do in life that we regret, it's what we don't do." This book will get you going on starting the business of your dreams. The author has clearly gone the extra mile; that she once wrote for the New York Times is very evident in this book. There isn't a piece of advice about starting or running your own business that is missing. I had attended community seminars, met with many local business people, run from small business workshop to the library and back again--and could have saved all that leg work and a lot of time if only this book had come out sooner! I found all the information I needed in this one extremely well-written book. I loved the use of quotes and the worthwhile and well-chosen anecdotes from women who have had real life experiences starting their own businesses. The book includes information and a great glossary of websites for obtaining free publicity (very important), as well as understandable information on financial management--which I admit I hate, I'm the creative type--but it is SO important. Also how to hire and fire staff, something few entrepreneurs know much about. Marketing, retailing, wholesale, tradeshow tips, mail order, great website information and e-business tips. It's truly all there in this book, which I put on my list of "worth every penny." True to Victoria Magazine, it is visually very pleasing to the eye as well--something women will appreciate.

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what the dream doctor ordered!, January 10, 2002

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Tobey Crockett (Los Osos, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turn Your Passion Into Profits: How To Start The Business of Your Dreams (Hardcover)

I have read many books on business plan writing, marketing, selling and the like and have had many years to experiment with how to take business ideas and make them flesh, never an easy thing to do. I wish I could tell you that I've made a million dollars already, but I am sure that plenty of other future millionaires will indeed get their first sound and sage advice from this well written, well thought out and thorough book. Accessible, flexible and never condescending, this book doesn't miss a trick, exception to the rule or forget that a pleasurable and meaningful life is probably the greatest success of all. A very well rounded resource. Great for the novice or experienced entrepreneur considering the next growth stages. If you want to build your own business, whether a man or a woman by the way, you should buy this book.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where is Victoria Magazine?, February 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Turn Your Passion Into Profits: How To Start The Business of Your Dreams (Hardcover)

Written by the editors of Victoria Magazine who collaborated with successful women such as author, shop owner, retired Air Force Officer and Veteran Debby DuBay this book is a must. I have tried getting in contact with Victoria Magazine to no avail, but a few of the women they highlighted are still available to mentor women like myself. I am a professional woman who wanted to turn a passion into a career and Ms DuBay has been my mentor. Thanks to this book I was able to contact her. Highly recommend this book.