Start and Run a Gift Basket Business (Start & Run a)

Start and Run a Gift Basket Business (Start & Run a)
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More Business, Less Gift Basket Oriented

A great foundation for your Gift Basket Business

Not Impressed

Not enough information on Gift Basket business.

The Best Book for the Gift Basket Business

Start and Run a Gift Basket Business (Start & Run a)
Mardi Foster-Walker
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With little more than some working space and a few start-up items, you can operate a profitable gift basket business out of your home or in a rented studio. Start & Run a Gift Basket Business provides practical instructions for setting up and operating a successful gift basket business, whether run on a seasonal or year-round basis. Combine your creativity with the valuable advice in this book and create a lucrative business designing gift baskets for any budget and occasion.

Whether your operation is a full-time endeavor or a sideline to earn extra income, the potential for finding clients for a gift basket business is unlimited!

Topics covered include:
Researching you market
Finding a suitable location
Gathering equipment and supplies
Determining start-up costs and budgets
Pricing your gift baskets
Managing daily operations
Advertising and promoting your service
Using the Internet to expand your client base
Meeting legal requirements

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More Business, Less Gift Basket Oriented.......2006-01-02

This book does contain some good information about starting your own business as a majority of the information in the book is generalized business information such as business planning, bookkeeping and general marketing. However, I bought this book looking for specific resource information about gift baskets: how to find wholesale suppliers and how to make and package gift baskets. While the author does use some general references about gift baskets, the information is sparse and I was disappointed in the book overall for anyone looking for specific information on gift baskets.

A great foundation for your Gift Basket Business.......2003-08-06

This book has been most helpful to me since I am gathering information to join a self employment program (in the gift basket industry).
The information given in the book it is very clear and easily understood, with many examples, ideas and lots of helpful and important information.
I definitely recommend this book to individuals that are considering having their own gift basket business

Not Impressed.......2003-06-14

If you are looking for business management...ok
If you are looking for ideas on baskets..forget it

Not enough information on Gift Basket business........2001-07-31

This book is written for Canadian market on how to start any business.Very few inrmation on gift basket business. The book is very small and it does not address to the the needs of USA market. There is no list of USA or Canadian suppliers. It will need a lot of imprevement in the next edition.

The Best Book for the Gift Basket Business.......2001-06-20

Two years ago, I was curious about making my hobby of designing gift baskets into a home-based business. I had the creativity but the business aspect was eluding me. After reading this book--I now understand how to set prices, hire good employees, promote and run my business smoothly. After two years, I am a success in my small town and I'm ready to expand my business on to the Internet. Thankfully, this book has a section on Internet marketing. It is an easy-to-read book, with helpful examples and up-to-date information. I recommend it to anybody considering the gift basket business.

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Increase management effectiveness through improved motivation skills. This proven instrument is based on the classic motivation theories of Maslow and Herzberg which identify motivating factors in terms of an individual's security, social, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs. Managers will learn to understand their own motivations as well as take into account employees' motivations as they relate to performance and change issues. MbM teaches managers how to capitalize on employees' natural motivators rather than focusing on external motivators that are less relevant to them.

This instrument is a stimulating new addition to existing supervisory and management development workshops on change, teams, and leadership. The 20-item questionnaire can be completed and self-scored in 15 minutes, and includes brief and insightful interpretive material. A companion Trainer's Guide includes training designs, a lecturette, norms, and references.

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Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
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Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: The Natural World of the United States-Mexico Borderlands. (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical Review
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Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: The Natural World of the United States-Mexico Borderlands. (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical Review
Daniel D. Arreola
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1535 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: The Natural World of the United States-Mexico Borderlands. (book reviews)
Author: Daniel D. Arreola
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1996
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v86 Issue: n3 Page: p473(3)

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Fills hard to find niche

Gave me the confidence to rock through AFF...

Not just for Skydivers

ESPECIALLY For Skydivers-and other athletes too

Mental training for skydiving and life

Mental Training for Skydiving and Life
John Derosalia
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This is a peak performance handbook--for individuals and teams--for skydivers and non-skydivers alike. It's a "how to" book that teaches practical methods and techniques for designing realistic plans to achieve goals. Best of all it's filled with creative and innovative mental training tools that are simple to use and can be applied immediately. John DeRosalia is a master at motivation and performance enhancement. He's been training the `best of the best' both in and out of skydiving for over a quarter of a century. The 2 chapters on teamwork alone are invaluable. The chapter Video Games—the Creative use of Visualization and Imagery, is ingenious, extremely effective, and lots of fun. The chapter on Performance Anxiety can make a difference immediately. This book is an exhilarating experience. It can change your life.

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Fills hard to find niche.......2007-07-08

If you are a competitive skydiver, it's worth picking up. However, there are better books for non-skydivers, like "The Pursuit of Excellence"

Gave me the confidence to rock through AFF..........2006-03-19

Using this book and some other training I was able to gain the tools needed to finish my AFF and do it in style. After failing my level 4 I needed a boost. After reading this and realizing that a lot of what I was going through was normal, and getting my mind in check, I went out and nailed the rest. I've got 12 jumps now and gaining more confidence all the time. Thanks John!!

Bill K.

Not just for Skydivers.......2005-08-26

Excellent book. Applies to all parts of life, not just sports performance. Gives the best explanation of how your thoughts impact your performance that I have ever read.

ESPECIALLY For Skydivers-and other athletes too.......2003-04-19

If you are serious about your skydiving, you must get a hold of this book. I'm sure you heard, or read Jack Jeffries' review of this book, he's right. Skydiving, as are other sports, is a mental game. MORE so than other sports because we only have about a minute of "pratice" time, each time we go up. That is important to remember. The author explains simply the techniques and exercises he uses and teaches to fly with proficiency. You'll breeze through it with his plucky attitude, and personal stories that relate to the ideas he teaches you. You won't be disappointed! And like the title says, it will help you in life as well. Mental training is where it's at. Get into the zone and WIN competitions!

Mental training for skydiving and life.......2002-07-15

I have been a Parachute Instructor for 38 years and I recomend the book to all my students.

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No book can find your ideas for you, but this one provides a great service in helping you discover and develop a story, and to come up with the completed script. King helps you learn to think cinematically, in the language of the movies, and to keep asking the essential questions as they work: What's the story? Who is the story about? Do you care about the characters? Does anyone? King also tries to help you survive not just the structural pitfalls that can derail a script, but also the mental or emotional whirlpools that can prevent any artist from finishing a project.

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The ultimate survival guide, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days takes the aspiring screenwriter the shortest distance from blank page to complete script.

Viki King's Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step process designed to get the story in the writer's onto the page. This method guides the would-be screenwriter through the writing of a movie. It answers such questions as:

How to clarify the idea you don't quite have yet
How to tell if your idea is really a movie
How to move from what you want to say saying it
How to stop getting ready and start

Once you know what to write, the Inner Movie Method will show you how to write it. It also addresses such issues as:

How to pay the rent while paying your dues
What to say to your spouse when you can't come to bed
How to keep going when you think you can't

For accomplished screenwriters honing their craft, as well as those who never before brought their ideas to paper, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days is an indispensable guide. And Viki King's upbeat, friendly style is like having a first-rate writing partner every step of the way.

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Good Things In Small Packages.......2007-10-09

Don't let the size of this book fool you, there is a lot of valuable knowledge locked within its covers. This book leads you along the landmarks of a good film to create the structured path that Hollywood loves. This book helped me to write 2 screenplays that went on to make it into the final rounds of 6 screenwriting competitions. I didn't write them in 21 days, but I did finish them and receive a lot of praise.

The only screenwriting course you need.......2007-09-15

HOW TO WRITE A MOVIE IN 21 DAYS take the complete novice to a level of competency I never thought possible from a single book. It is clear, concise and very readable. It is must reading for anyone who wants to learn how screenplays get done. Master the contents of this book before reading any other book on screenwriting. After reading this book and applying its contents, I did not read the Screenwriting for Dummies book I bought because I already had all the skills and information I needed on the subject.

The perfect guide.......2007-06-28

This book is the perfect guide to not just screen writing, but also writing in general. In contains exercises of finding and getting to know your characters. The 21 days are well planned and will keep you busy. It's helped me create a realistic plot with realistic characters.

If you can't get past page 60..........2007-06-15

I am a working screenwriter, and this is the only screenwriting book I recommend. Why? Most of the screenwriting books out there are very useful - for rewriting. This book actually gets you to complete the first draft - a huge hurdle for beginning writers. You probably won't finish in 21 days, and the draft you write probably won't be very good. But that doesn't matter, because you will finish a draft, and then you can rewrite it and make it good.

I still use this book to clarify my thinking, or if I'm on a tight deadline.

Great advice.......2007-05-21

Although a person can't effectively write a movie in 2l days this book gives great advice in how to start your screenplay.

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Viki King
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How to Write a Movie in 21 Days (The Inner Movie Method)

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Viki King
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How to Write a Movie in 21 Days: The Inner Movie Method
Viki King
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Rich Girl in the Mirror

When does a dream bescome a nightmare? Find out in Mirror Image as a teenage girl is given a glittering meteorite, places it under her pillow, and awakens to discover that her greatest wish has come true...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the richest girl of all?

Motherless Marilee Ellis lives with her father in a rented rundown trailer hidden on the Estes family's estate. She's fifteen, and she knows exactly what she wants. To be rich. Fabulously rich. Rich enough that Adam, her hunky best friend, will really love her. Rich enough to get even with the princesses who treat her like trash. Then her grandmother gives her a heart-shaped meteorite and overnight her life turns inside out.

It starts with an unwanted gift -- a lottery ticket -- and ends when Marilee becomes the richest girl in town. Suddenly she can buy everything she ever wanted. Suddenly everyone wants to be her friend. Suddenly Adam is no longer her friend. She thought it was all about money. But she's about to learn the hardest lesson of her life....

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I wish I may, I wish I might...................2002-09-26

This book is about Marilee, the poor girl. Marilee Ellis has always wanted to be rich. She wants to be so rich that her best friend will love her and those mean girls at school will be nicer and jealous of her. Then she gets the LoveRock from her Grammy as a gift and she makes a wish. Soon Marilee has won the lottery and has more money than she ever dreamed of. But she quickly learns that money can't buy everything especially not love.

An excellent addition to the Mirror Image series!

What A Great Story!.......2000-03-27

This was a great book! I really enjoyed it and it was soo interesting that I couldn't put it down. If you loved the first Mirrow Image book, then you'll definitely love this book too. The book showed that money can't buy everything, a good heart does. Marilee discovers this after her wish of becoming rich came true after wishing on the loverock. Before receiving the loverock from her Grammy, Marilee was very poor. She'd always wish she was as rich as the girls who tease her at school were. Then when she wished upon the loverock, her wish finally comes true but she learns the lesson that money can't buy everything. To find out more about her dilema, read Mirror Image: Rich Girl In The Mirror. You won't be dissappointed.

Customer Service 101: Basic Lessons to Be Your Best
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Customer Service 101 clearly hits the target.

Customer Service 101: Basic Lessons to Be Your Best
Renee Evenson
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Customer Service 101 clearly hits the target........1998-11-24

Customer Service 101: Basic Lessons to Be Your Best by Renee Evenson is a must-have for all areas of customer service.

Evenson gives clear and basic rules for outstanding customer service. It starts with the realization that no business could exist without its customers. Then, subject by subject, she gives easy pointers on how every person in contact with a customer, both in person and on the phone, can give outstanding and sincere service.

This book is a must for anyone in the field--both new at the game as well as those in it for many years. The small investment should produce great rewards.

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Globalism: The New Market Ideology rejects the notion that we find ourselves at the end of ideology and that democracy has won. Instead, Steger argues that the opening decade of the 21st century will constitute a teeming battlefield of clashing ideologies. The chief protagonist is the dominant neoliberal market ideology Steger calls globalism. After identifying and evaluating the five central claims of globalism--including assertions that globalization is inevitable, nobody is in charge of globalization, and globalization benefits everyone--Steger offers an overview of the counterclaims made by anti-globalist forces. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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China and Globalization is a compact, highly readable introductory text on contemporary China and the massive changes it is presently undergoing. It focuses primarily on how economic structural change is driving the processes, but discusses many other issues as well--politics, social change, reform, international economics, and cultural change. In its quarter-century long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed from a desperately poor nation into a country possessing one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie covers the social, economic, and political factors responsible for the revolutionary changes, and interweaves this broader structural analysis with a consideration of social changes at the micro and macro levels. The book also considers the potential for further change. Will China become more democratic? Will the government become more serious about protecting human rights and creating a transparent legal system? How will China's explosive growth impact both East Asia and the larger global economy? In sum, this will be a sophisticated, definitive yet compact overview of the effects of massive social, economic, and political reforms on the most populous nation in the world.
Books in this series look at how nations and regions across the world are navigating the tumultuous currents of globalization. Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed, they serve as ideal introductions to the peoples and places of our increasingly globalized world.

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Like a Textbook-- published by PRC.......2006-11-10

The author presented quite a rosy picture on China. On privatization, this book praised the successful gradual approach of the government. On institutional reform and liberalization, the market forces and foreign investors seem to be transforming China into a "rational" and democratic system.

Although the author distances himself from the neoliberals on the issue about privatization, his logic on institutional transition and modernization nevertheless make him more of a neoliberal than otherwise. This book described the policy reforms and changes of social control mechanism nicely, but not the social problems and challenges resulted from the reform.

Optimism is fine, but downplaying the uncertainties and social ills associated with globalization is not. The excessive optimism of the book make it like an English version of a Chinese official textbook.

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Accelerating China's Rural Transformation

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Accelerating China's Rural Transformation
Albert Nyberg , and Scott Rozelle
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Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformation on the Chinese Frontiers

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The Transformation of Rural China (Asia and the Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.).)

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The best book written on modern China's rural development

The Transformation of Rural China (Asia and the Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.).)
Jonathan Unger
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The best book written on modern China's rural development.......2002-10-19

Jonathan Unger, a highly regarded China scholar from Australia, has been studying rural China for 3 decades. In the 1970s, when most scholars were prevented from doing true fieldwork in the PRC, Unger and colleagues interviewed recent Hong Kong migrants from a particular village in Guangdong province, and produced the excellent village study "Chen Village" (later updated to include the Deng era). In the 1980s and 1990s, he started making regular extensive trips around the Chinese countryside talking to farmers, rural workers, officials, etc. "The Transformation of Rural China" is a collection of Unger's essays covering this entire span, all updated and with extensive references to other scholars' work.

The first 90 pages of this 250 page book are about the Mao era. There are essays on the state's power at the village level, the rural class structure, ideology and work incentives, and the Cultural Revolution. One point that hasn't been made by many others is that the peasants were not opposed to collective farming per se, what they resented was the lack of economic freedom given the collectives. The state's sometimes irrational restrictions on what the village collectives could do (what to plant, how to plant it, how to divide income among villagers, how to market the output), and the unfairly low prices paid for the village's output all contributed to rising disillusionment with the Maoist rural development model.

The rest of the book is about the reform era. First is an article on the early 1980s decollectivization. Unger's interviews undermine the "voting with feet" explanation offered by the regime and accepted uncritically by most western observers. Decollectivization was mostly a top-down, non-spontaneous, involuntary affair. This is not to say it wasn't welcomed, just that farmers had little to do with it. Most villages seem to have preferred the new decentralized family managed co-op system, yet a minority of villages that preferred to keep the collective farms crumbled under fierce state pressure.

A couple of essays are about the emerging private sector in rural China, including migrant labor, and he assesses the entrepreneurial activities of local governments.

A particularly important essay is the one on poverty in the hinterlands, regions that have gotten much less attention than the dynamic SE coast. Unger shows that a lot of the alleged poverty reduction from the late 1980s into the 1990s was the result of invalid statistics. The government's anti-poverty efforts for these regions in the 1990s have been sincere, but not terribly effective. The crisis in health care and schooling access in these areas is particularly acute, something that wasn't nearly so big a problem in the pre-reform and early reform eras.

One of the observations many western observers might find surprising is that the government--following the advice of western and Chinese economists--has been trying for several years at least, to force the peasants to privatize land. During the 1980s and most of the 1990s, villages periodically redistributed land to maintain equal per capita land distribution in the face of changing household sizes. This arrangement is quite popular, the evidence shows, for it ensures farmers can never lose their land and can have enough food when their household gains members. Yet the government is persistent in applying pressure to forward its forced privatization policy. This will no doubt be cheered by western politicians, the same ones who claim to support "democracy" in China.

Institutional transformation and marketisation: the changing patterns of housing investment in urban China [An article from: Habitat International]
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Institutional transformation and marketisation: the changing patterns of housing investment in urban China [An article from: Habitat International]
Z.X. Quan
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Habitat International, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Much of the discussion on state and market in the literature is conducted in binary forms. State and market are contrasted with each other. However, far from impeding marketisation, the state plays the role of accelerating the marketisation process in China. State acts as the builder of market. The Chinese experience has created unprecedented possibilities for institutional innovation. The institutional choices and structural changes represent the changing roles of different actors in the housing system, which shift the patterns of housing investment. This paper examines the changing roles of the different actors (state, work units and households) in shaping the patterns of housing investment.

2G-10 Instant China: Notes on Urban Transformation (2G, 10)

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This issue not only sets out to present the most noteworthy projects currently being realised in China skyscrapers, public buildings and new cities, but also to take a close look at how particular political and economic factors influence the country's surprising and often contradictory architectural point. Gustavo Gili 1999

Entrepreneurship, economic growth, and social change: The transformation of southern China (Australia-Asia papers)

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Rural transformation and decentralized urban growth in China (East-West Center reprints)

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Yok-Shiu F Lee
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Organization of the Islamic Conference. (OIC) is an international organization uniting 57 States

Organization of Islamic Conference Handbook (World Business Library)

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USA International Business Publications
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