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Start & Run a Personal History Business: Get Paid to Research Family Ancestry and Write Memoirs (Start & Run Business Series)

by Jennifer Campbell

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Anyone interested in genealogy, personal history and memoirs can turn their passion into a business. Communities, families, and even corporations are increasingly seeking out professional writers and historians to record their stories. For anyone who is interested in personal history and writing, this is an essential resource for turning your passion into an income source. Written by experienced personal historian and entrepreneur Jennifer Campbell, it covers topics such as: how to actually do the work, starting up, education and training, marketing and expansion. All books in the Self-Counsel Press Start & Run series are written in clear language and includes a CD-ROM packed with resources and templates to help you get started. This CD-ROM includes: a template for a first project, a sample business plan, a sample marketing plan, links to associations and online resources, examples of personal history research - and more!… (more)
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Interested readers should be cautioned to take the author's title literally.This is a business star-up guide with a clear emphasis on writing personal family narratives for profit. The focus is not on genealogy, nor on how to conduct family history research. None-the-less, the book does provide some very solid advice which can easily be applied to a family history / genealogy business. I was impressed that this is not simply a generic business star-up guide, but rather stayed on very much on topic throughout. I'm not sure the demand for the specific services covered is as great as the author suggests, but that was easy to get past, as was the fact that the book seems to have been written for a Canadian audience. Overall it is a good basic primer, full of practical advice, for anyone wanting to establish an small personal history / genealogy business. ( )
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Anyone interested in genealogy, personal history and memoirs can turn their passion into a business. Communities, families, and even corporations are increasingly seeking out professional writers and historians to record their stories. For anyone who is interested in personal history and writing, this is an essential resource for turning your passion into an income source. Written by experienced personal historian and entrepreneur Jennifer Campbell, it covers topics such as: how to actually do the work, starting up, education and training, marketing and expansion. All books in the Self-Counsel Press Start & Run series are written in clear language and includes a CD-ROM packed with resources and templates to help you get started. This CD-ROM includes: a template for a first project, a sample business plan, a sample marketing plan, links to associations and online resources, examples of personal history research - and more!

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