Essential reading if you are fed up with the paltry interest paid on bank savings accounts or the lackluster performance of your investment advisors. It assumes no prior knowledge of investing It shows how publicly traded shares are created; how the financial markets operate and how they are regulated. It covers equities, bonds, exchange traded funds, hedge funds and mutual funds. How to set up a trading account. It covers fundamental and technical analysis and the importance of allocating...

How to find products to import and then do market research to find out if you can sell them. What legal form is best for your business? Register for sales taxes and protect your trademarks. Consider operating a home-based business. Look at the advantages of bonded warehousing. Learn about ways of paying for imports and the companies that offer trade financing. Take a look at freight alternatives and customs clearance. How to use advertising and direct marketing to sell your imports. Set up...

How to create brochures, books and documents. Get an introduction to word processing, fonts, file formats and WYSIWYG. How colour is handled by commercial printers. How to create portable documents which can be read on different computers and to send documents to commercial printers. A chapter covers "Soup to Nuts" programs. Review the heavyweights in software publishing and layout. Learn about specialty programs for research papers and foreign language texts. Find out about voic...

Become a digital shutterbug! Which are the best digital cameras for your needs? Review the features of point and shoot cameras, interchangeable lens cameras, "mirrorless" cameras and reflex cameras. Enter a "digital darkroom" where software programs let you alter and touch up your photos, crop them, enlarge them and print them. Set up a studio and find out what equipment you'll need. Make money at weddings, taking product shots, repairing damaged pictures, news and spor...

Software to help prepare a manuscript and conduct research. Ways to edit and proofread plus the cataloguing, copyright and legal stuff. How to publish and market print books and sell online. How to prepare eBooks and the self-publishing alternatives. Learn about pricing and how to sell through resellers.

Create, sell and deliver digital products over the Internet. Open a Web site and sell online. Ways to promote your site and improve your chances of being discovered. How to use metadata to help in the "discoverability" of your individual titles.

Crowdfunding platforms raised $2.7 billion in 2012 and funded over a million campaigns with predictions of an 81% increase in future crowdfunding volumes. In this book, I'll put crowdfunding into the context of the socially connected world of the Internet. I will lead you through some of the preparations you will need to make before approaching the equity crowdfunding market and then I'll lead you through some of the issues which you are likely to encounter. I will then show you the state ...

A delightfully cynical book which looks at the paper fiat currencies which we use everyday and questions how long they can survive. Could worthless paper be replaced by an ingenious worldwide cryptocurrency called "Bitcoin" which threatens to overturn the tables of traditional fiat money changers?

This book helps readers evaluate their chances of obtaining formal venture capital or investment from angels. It takes a realistic approach and will save them time and effort in locating equity capital. It describes the venture business; the players and how much money is available. It discusses venturist's preferences and where to find them. It provides profiles of typical angels and the kind of investments they make. It covers angel clusters and corporate angels and hints on where to find...

Not enough is being done to prevent diabetes, heart disease and strokes which cause huge numbers of deaths. This book examines the main culprits: salt, fat and sugar. It looks at prepared foods, growth hormones and genetically modified foods. It urges the grocery trade to encourage customers to purchase healthy foods. 

The Euro is in crisis and the United States is burdened with a national debt which is spiralling out of control. All of this places the major paper (fiat) currencies of the world at significant risk. Indeed, the role of the US dollar as a "reserve currency" is under threat. As a consequence, many central banks around the world have been quietly increasing their gold holdings as a hedge against the possible demise of the US dollar. This book shows readers different ways to invest ...

It is estimated that 1.8 - 2.2 million deaths occur every year due to food poisoning and waterborne illness. More than one-in-every-three people in the US and Canada suffer from a foodborne illness annually. This book covers some of the bacteria, spores, parasites, viruses and infectious agents that are responsible. It also covers fungal infections, toxic agents and additives that can lead to illness or death. It shows readers the places where food poisoning can occur and also identifies t...