Your Complete Guide to Early Retirement: A Step-By-Step Plan for Making It Happen

Tired of commuting? Fed up with your boss? Bored with your job? There’s a solution: start living and doing what you want to do. Lie in a hammock or on a beach, swing your golf club, or hit the open road. Get control of your life, become financially independent, and RETIRE EARLY. If you want to retire early-before age 65-you’re not alone. In a survey of workers ages 30 to 50, more than half plan to retire at 60 or younger and only 6 percent plan to work past 65.

There are three things you need to do to retire early:
1) Manage your expenses and reduce or eliminate debt,
2) accumulate capital, and
3) save and invest wisely.

It’s easy, but requires patience and self-control, and with the guidance of this new book you will be on your way to achieving this goal. You will learn how to take control of your life, set realistic long-term goals, choose appropriate lifestyle trade-offs, and learn effective savings techniques and simple investing strategies. You will learn how to calculate how much you need to retire early, get the most from your investment portfolio, reduce your taxes, use retirement planning tools, increase your income while retired, reduce living expenses, deal with inflation and deflation, and calculate social security and pension payments. This book will be your road map to turn the dream of early retirement into reality.   ISBN-10: 0-910627-93-2• ISBN-13: 978-0-910627-93-1  • Item # HRE-01 $24.95 with Companion CD-ROM

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How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Web-Based Business (With Companion CD-ROM)

With e-commerce expected to reach $40 billion and online businesses anticipated to increase by 500 percent through the year 2010, you need to be a part of this exploding area of Internet sales. If you want to learn about starting a Web business, how to transform your brick and mortar business to a Web business, or even if you’re simply interested in making money online, this is the book for you.

You can operate your Web-based business from home and with very little start up money. The earning potential is limitless. This new book will teach you all you need to know about getting started in your own Web-based business in the minimum amount of time. This book is a comprehensive, detailed study of the business side of Internet retailing. Anyone investigating the opportunities of opening a Web-based business should study this superb manual.

While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author teaches you how to draw up a winning business plan ( The Companion CD-ROM has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word ™), basic cost control systems, pricing issues, legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, and pricing formulas. You will learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, meet IRS reporting requirements, plan sales, provide customer service, track competitors, do your own bookkeeping, monthly profit and loss statements, media planning, pricing, and copywriting. You will develop the skill to hire and fire employees without incurring lawsuits, motivate workers, apply general management skills, manage and train employees, and generate high profile public relations and publicity. You will have the advantage low cost internal marketing ideas and low and no cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales. Learn how to keep bringing customers back, accomplish accounting, do bookkeeping procedures and auditing, as well as successful budgeting and profit planning development.

This manual delivers literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to streamline your business. Learn new ways to make your operation run smoother and increase performance, shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. In addition, you will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in your daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, Web sites, and operating and cost-cutting ideas that can be easily applied to your operation. 978-1-60138-118-7 1-60138-118-2  Item #SWB-01 $39.95

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The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying: A Complete Guide for Teachers and Parents

In April 2007, 32 students were killed during the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University shooting. According to MSNBC news services, the student gunman was bullied and mocked by his classmates.

Forty percent of U.S. students voluntarily report being involved in bullying – as bullies or as victims – according to the results of the first national survey on this subject. Bullying is increasingly viewed as an important contributor to youth violence, including homicide and suicide. Case studies of the shooting at Columbine High School and other U.S. schools trace the multiple murders to bullying incidents.

In a survey of 558 students in a Midwestern middle school, 80 percent of the students had engaged in bullying behavior during the previous 30 days, verbally by Internet e-mail or instant messaging, such as teasing, name calling, spreading malicious rumors, ridiculing, and leaving students out of social activities deliberately and physically by damaging belongings, aggression, extortion, beating, and use of deadly force.

Given that most bullying goes unnoticed and unreported, Americans have been slow to react to behavior that is taking over our schools. Other countries deal with mean people, while in the United States, take-charge insolence, no matter how threatening, is rewarded in schools, in business, in sports, and in everyday life. Often those who stand up to a bully suffer retribution so that their only defense seems to be to turn to violence themselves.

School is a prime location for bullying, and its effects can last a lifetime. Bullying is one of the most underrated and enduring problems in schools today and is a reality in the lives of all children, whether they are bullies, victims, or witnesses.

Everyone knows who the bullies are. They pick on someone as a way to get power, or to get their way, or to feel self-important. They create an environment of fear among teachers, students, administrators, and support staff – the very people that victims look to for protection. Those people who allow bullying are the ones who need to work as a team to take action against it. Whether you are a parent, student, teacher, or school administrator, you will learn in this easy to read and comprehensive new book how to prevent and ultimately stop bullying going on around you. By doing so, you may even save lives.

First you will learn why bullying occurs and get at the root causes for it, why some children are victimized and why others are vicious, how to develop an anti-bullying policy, how students, parents, and teachers can work together to stop it before it goes too far. You will learn about cyber bullying, racist bullying, sexist bullying, phone or note bullying, gang bullying, teacher bullying, and sports bullying.

You will know how to evaluate the bullying problem in your school, develop anger management and conflict resolution skills, develop awareness of the problem, learn victim role playing and assertiveness training, develop an anonymous bullying reporting program, and how to provide better supervision of key areas of the school where bullying often occurs. You can develop anti-bullying projects, learn to stop someone from being bullied, know how to approach the parents of a bully, how to respond to the bully when you are a victim, how to make areas of the school safe, such as the hallways, the cafeteria, the stairs, and recess areas. You will learn how to LISTEN to victims, witnesses, and bullies, how to employ legal remedies and restraining orders, develop detailed procedures for investigating incidents, and punish the wrongdoer before the victim does.

All children deserve the right to go to school free of intimidation. Help make your school bully-free by the information contained in this ground breaking new book. If you are interested in learning essentially everything there is to know about stopping bullies and bullying, then this book is for you.  978-1-60138-021-0  1-60138-021-6  $24.95 CGB-02  

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