Atlantic Publishing Company - Winner of FOUR Independent Publishers Awards

 

Here is the listing of Gold, Silver and Bronze medalists in each of the 65 National categories in this year’s Independent Publisher Book Awards. A total of 2,690 national entries came from all 50 U.S. states, 8 Canadian provinces, and 17 countries overseas. Congratulations to all participants for your excellent work!

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 Atlantic Publishing Company proudly recieved four awards:

365 Foolish Mistakes Smart Managers Commit Every Day How and Why to Avoid Them (Bronze Award)

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The eBay Success Chronicles Secrets and Techniques eBay Power Sellers Use Every Day to Make Millions  (Silver Award)

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How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website with Little or No Money (Bronze Award)

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Retire Rich with Your Self-Directed IRA: What Your Broker & Banker Don’t Want You to Know About Managing Your Own Retirement Investments (Bronze Award)

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301 Simple Things You Can Do To Sell Your Home NOW and For More Money Than You Thought: How to Inexpensively Reorganize, Stage, and Prepare Your Home for Sale

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This exciting new book from Atlantic Publishing lays out the basics and step-by-step instructions on how to stage a home for sale—no matter what the budget is!

Home Staging is the art of decorating a home to sell fast and for the highest amount. Home stage experts and consultants get thousands of dollars to do what you can easily do inexpensively. Numerous studies show that a house that looks roomy, uncluttered, well lighted, and in good repair will appeal to more buyers, sell faster, and most importantly for more money. You may not be able to improve the market value of your house, but you can improve its marketability. Remember: first impressions count the most.

In this groundbreaking new book you will learn how small color changes will increase your home’s value, how to make minor repairs and use de-cluttering tricks, how to rearrange your furniture and art work, how to apply decorating tips and ideas, how to look at your house from the buyer’s viewpoint, how to add minor accessories, how to decide which minor changes will bring you the greatest return, how to bring out a home’s best features, how to minimize problem areas, how to position your house for the marketplace, what scents to spray and what colors not to use, how to use design psychology techniques, lighting techniques, landscaping secrets, what to do with garages, basements, and attics, and much more.

This brand new exhaustively researched book is the ultimate resource for novices and pros alike; it will guide you through every step of the process with hundreds of innovative ideas that you can put to use right away. It gives you the proven strategies and innovative ideas used by the experts every day that you can accomplish yourself. The full-color insert includes “before” and “after” photos from actual home stagers!

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How to Become a Million Dollar Real Estate Agent in Your First Year: What Smart Agents Need to Know Explained Simply

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How to Become a Million Dollar Real Estate Agent in Your First Year: What Smart Agents Need to Know-Explained Simply
It is amazing how many people are starting careers in real estate today, yet how many are successful at it? There are many roadblocks to a thriving real estate career. If you are not listing and selling 15 to 30 properties per month each and every month then How to Become a Million Dollar Real Estate Agent in Your First Year is for you. This exciting new book presents the research of the steps and tactics super-successful real estate sales agents employ today.This step-by-step guide will show you how to find the properties, how to list them, how to sell them, and ultimately, how to get your commission. Learn the hard-earned secrets of breaking into the real estate field and become super successful in no time at all. You will learn to attract new prospects quickly, get the highest possible commissions, and get return business and referrals, while still having a life outside of work.

In this new book you will learn how to avoid the big mistakes most new agents make, how to make buyers and sellers happy, how to work with brokers, how to locate the best deals for your customers quickly and easily, how to set up record keeping and a computer system with software that makes running your business effortless, as well as how to use the Internet’s tools and ideas. You will develop your professional image using the real estate technology tips in this book as well as attaining search engine and Web site optimization, page rank, Internet leads, web positioning, Web building partnerships, and general real estate Internet information. You will get invaluable information on licensing and exam fees, expenses of doing business, vehicle and other insurance coverage, sales techniques, word of mouth advertising, dealing with FSBOs, and the commercial market.

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Design Your Own Effective Employee Handbook: How to Make the Most of Your Staff with Companion CD-ROM

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Atlantic Publishing Company spent over two years compiling this excellent new resource every business with employees needs to have. Design Your Own Effective Employee Handbook is a must-have for any business!
If you have employees, you need employment policies in writing distributed to every employee. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that businesses can protect themselves against damages and liability against employee lawsuits by providing clear, written policies covering the rights and responsibilities of their employees.Written policies provide the principles and basis for a business to manage its employees. The employee handbook helps employees and managers become aware of what is expected and can prevent misunderstandings. A handbook will also assist with employment law compliance. A written employee handbook gives everyone, including management, the same set of rules to follow.

The employee handbook template included on the CD-ROM is the ideal solution to produce your own handbook. The CD-ROM contains the template in MS word which you can easily edit for your own purposes. The book discusses various options you may have in developing the different policies. Developing your own handbook now could not be easier or less expensive.

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How to Creatively Finance Your Real Estate Investments and Build Your Personal Fortune: What Smart Investors Need to Know—Explained Simply

Brand New & Just Published! 

For years the traditional way to finance a real estate purchase was with a 5 to 20 percent down payment. Investing in real estate in this manner was a slow go, but things have changed with the release of How to Creatively Finance Your Real Estate Investments and Build Your Personal Fortune from Atlantic Publishing Company.

There are now hundreds of different methods for creatively financing your real estate investments. Smart investors know the secrets to using other people’s money to finance their investments and now for the first time you can learn how to buy houses, lots, land, and commercial properties for nothing down and in some cases even receive cash back at the closing. These truly effective techniques are closely guarded secrets that are revealed for the first time.

In this new book you will learn: how to negotiate with sellers, proven effective valuation techniques, how to use other people’s money, use other people’s credit, sell it before you buy it or pay for it, create positive cash flow, subject-to deals, over twenty nothing down scenarios, profiting from foreclosures, dealing with over-financed properties, working with judgments and liens, quit claim deeds, discounting mortgages and liens, lease options, wraparound financing and wrap notes, using trusts, self-directed IRA’s, 1031 exchanges, create assumable loans, VA loans, options and futures.

The book also includes numerous tables, reference charts, and financial tools that one can use in analyzing and financing your investments while building your personal fortune.

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The Real Estate Developer’s Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Real Estate Development—With Companion CD-ROM

 Are you the Next Donald Trump? Successful real estate developers can become enormously wealthy. However, the flip side is many developers run out of cash before cashing in. Poor cash flow is the primary cause of business failure for real estate developers. This new book details how to become a successful real estate developer and demonstrates step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful real estate development enterprise. The author has explored every avenue in explaining this potentially rewarding—yet risky—business.

The book covers the entire process of establishing a small real estate development firm and the ongoing management necessary in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid the many common mistakes that can doom a start-up.

The book focuses on small developments that you can start by yourself featuring both residential and commercial applications. Once the basic skills are learned, the book points out areas of expansion by leveraging your first investment. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding your first location that will bring success, learning how to draw up a winning business plan, installing basic cost control systems, assembling your team of experts, generating high profile public relations and publicity, learning low cost marketing ideas and low- and no-cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales, setting up accounting and bookkeeping procedures, and auditing. There are thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. You will learn the development process, governmental issues, environmental issues, demographics and trends, market research, site selection, feasibility analysis, due diligence, preliminary pro forma, property acquisition, project design/refined pro forma, entitlements, financing/final pro forma, construction, operation, feasibility studies, financing, market analysis, construction, and asset management. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms demonstrated in the book for easy use in a PDF format.

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eBay’s Secrets Revealed: The Insider’s Guide to Advertising, Marketing, and Promoting Your eBay Store—With Little or No Money

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In this newly released title from Atlantic Publishing, eBay store owners will uncover a wealth of information. This book is for those already operating on eBay who want to know how to make more money using online auctions. You will learn the secrets that have made a new breed of entrepreneurs very wealthy. Uncover closely guarded strategies for selling products like the pros on eBay.

You will learn dozens of methods to automate your business including inventory, preventing fraud, payments, accounting, taxes, and fulfillment. You will learn new ways to find products and get positive feedback. This book contains marketing tricks that will help you to create interest in your product, tips about taking photos, managing e-mail, and shipping. You will also learn pricing strategies, creative methods of writing powerful ad copy that really sells, how to obtain products below wholesale, and ways to make your business work smarter while decreasing your work load.

This is your resource guide for knowing just what products are in demand, how to attract lots of bids on every single auction, how to create stunning listings that grab attention, and how to bring back customers again and again. You can eliminate eBay headaches and drive bidders to your auction listings. Get started today and discover secrets for increasing your auction sales, customers, traffic, and much more!

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The Non-Commercial Food Service Manager’s Handbook: A Complete Guide for Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Military, Prisons, Schools, and Churches: With Companion CD-ROM

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Finally, the non-commercial food service director has a comprehensive manual to aid in day to day operations. This comprehensive and massive 600 page new book will show you step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation. The authors have left no stone unturned.

The book covers the entire process from start-up to ongoing management in an easy to understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid the many common mistakes that can be made. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms demonstrated in the book for easy use in a PDF format. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through basic cost control systems, menu planning, sample floor plans & diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout & planning, food safety & HACCP, dietary considerations, and special patient /client needs. Learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, how to hire & keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, accounting & bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting & profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines.

This book is ideal for professionals in the hospitality field as well as newcomers who may be looking for answers to cost containment and training issues. There are hundreds of innovative ways to streamline your operations demonstrated. Learn new ways to make the kitchen run smoother and increase performance, shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase performance. In addition, operators will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in their daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, Web sites, operating & cost cutting ideas, and mathematical formulas that can be easily applied to their operations.

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Atlantic Publishing Company is your #1 source for Books, Videos, Training Materials, Tools, and Software for the Foodservice, Restaurant, and Hospitality Industry Professional.  We have dramatically expanded our product publications to include Real Estate, Personal Finance, Business, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Internet, Marketing and Food Safety, HACCP and Servsafe.  We have over 100 titles coming out in 2007.  We’ll use this blog to publish information, press releases, news and items of interest.