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I'm not usually one to read books like this, but since I am studying to get my Real Estate license, I thought that I would give this a try. This book turned out to be a great read, and very helpful for the field I am going into. It was easy to follow, and I highly recommend it!

I have tried to understand Reverse Mortages for quite some time from friends and neighbors, but felt as though I needed to take the next step and read a book. I'm glad I picked this one (actually recommended by a neighbor) as it was easy to understand, helpful and most of all, comprehensive.

This book was so helpful in informing myself and my parents as to the options available for them. It was easy to read and easy to understand. It gave many helpful hints and helped us figure out if a reverse mortgage was approriate for them.

Nothing to say but the best book on technical analysis I've read , thank you the author .

I've read over 100 books on trading, and have to say, this is the best intro to technical analysis I've seen. You can start without any knowledge of technical analysis, and be competent to plan your own trades by the end of this easy-read.

Let me put it this way, when my mother expressed an interest in learning more about investing, I bought this book for her.

George Sranko's approach to trading is one of the best & easiest to comprehend that this reviewer has ever had the pleasure to study. Well written, direct & to the point, the author has a knack of making the most complex situations readily absorbable & uncomplicated.

I've just finished this ebook and I am quite pleased. I've read a few books of this sort and they are usually just useless fluff, and none really answer the question of what to sell on ebay. This book does do that, and gives pros and cons of different ways to purchase products.

There are a few issues with the book. Its a bit out of date, it was publised in 2004, so some of the information is no longer valid. Also the author doesnt seem to be above slightly shady practices, like misrepresentation(which someone else explained in a previous post), or padding shipping(which everyone clearly does, but still its a bit shady).

I was able to get this from my library's electronic resources, but I would recommend buying it if you cant do that. Its targeted to fairly new ebayers who have sold a few items and have a feedback of atleast 5 but preferably 10, and are looking to start at least a part-time business.

...you're looking for good advice for selling a few items on eBay. It has very good advice for maximizing your bids, writing your ad, etc. However, if you're looking for something to guide you in starting an ongoing eBay business at a high level, this is not the choice to make. In addition, if you are already using eBay to run your "virtual garage sales", you're not going to find much here that you don't already know. So I suppose my 1 star rating is based as much on my expectations and goals as it is the book itself.

Read this within an hour. Found one or two ideas I had not thought of. Is a little out of date on some of the websites listed

The author claims that if you start the bid at $.99 with no reserve, that no matter what the item is, that you'll get more for it than you thought you'd get for it.

i don't know if that's true. I've seen many auctions on eBay where the seller got ripped off because only one person bid on an item, and the bid was for $.99.

While years ago the author sold his Viper using the suggestions in his book and made a profit on it, I don't think that in today's market that would happen. Even with his suggestions, things don't work that way anymore, at least from what I've seen happening.

It isn't a bad ebook. The suggestions are pretty good if you're auctioning stuff that isn't expensive and you could afford to lose money on. However, if it is something that really is valuable, you shouldn't necessarily count on selling it for what it is worth if you follow his suggestions.

The copyright on this may be 2004, but if you are just getting started selling on eBay this little gem is invaluable. I followed the advice, and with literally thousands of other products comparable to mine, I was one of the few who actually received bids and sold my items. I attribute everything to the sound principles in this ebook.
It's fun to read, packed with good tips, and worth the price just for the sample email letters included! I encountered a "Troll" with my first auction, but thanks to this ebook I knew exactly what was happening and what to do.
There may be other books that provide all the technical aspects, but this is the FIRST one you should read if you're a newbie.

This is the top of its class. One of our best sellers.

Great companion to: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

This book was disappointing. Most of the advice is obsolete, like "switch over to free checking." Huh? Free checking accounts came out almost a decade ago. Or "deduct business expenses from your taxable income." Well no kidding. If you already keep diligent finances, this book won't help you. It's for people who've been asleep their whole lives and need common-sense instructions (the same people who need instructions on how to use things like paper clips).

As a customer service worker myself, some of the advice made me cringe. For example, the author says to call your cell phone provider and constantly threaten to cancel so they'll give you a better plan. First of all, employees have business rules to follow and threats do absolutely nothing but make us roll our eyes. In fact, later we go to the break room and laugh about the stupid jerks who called and threatened us that day, especially if the customer has a long history of constantly returning things, cancelling service, re-signing up, like this author recommends doing. We can see EVERYTHING on an account (and we can also see any/all accounts associated with that name, regardless of different contact info), and every time a customer harasses us we literally take notes. We can also flag an account "bad customer." "Cust called demanding free shipping from expired catalog, threatened to shop elsewhere. Told him catalog exp 3 mos ago, cust very rude, hung up." The author views customer service employees as people "whose only care is getting off work later to go hang out with her friends at the mall." Ha! I WISH that was my only care. The only way we'll bend over backwards to help a customer is if something truly unfair happened, like the post office lost the package or if the credit card was charged twice. And I applaud Sprint for dropping all those bad customers, which made headlines recently.

Anyway, this book boasts "savings of over $100,000" but I couldn't find a single penny's worth of advice in it.

Morse uses a humorous, no-nonsense approach to help readers navigate the sea of credit card offers, tax refunds, cell phone rebates, and more everyday financial issues in the most advantageous way possible. He provides many valuable, never-before-revealed tips on how to make the most of your finances, and he sheds light on the often confusing policies of our major corporations, as well as on many of their shadier marketing ploys and full-blown scams. Whether it's with a lower interest rate or a free iPod, a newly discovered tax write-off or a free vacation, everyone will benefit from reading this book.

The title would have you think that you're being given access to a wealth of inside information that most people don't know about. Well, that's only true if you are just stepping out into the big world on your own, or if you've been living paycheck to paycheck and not paying attention. For anyone who understands the basics of finance and business, this book won't tell you anything you haven't heard many times before. It's reasonably well written, although a good edit would have caught many of the typos and grammatical gaffes. And there is information provided here that everyone should know. So if your eighteen year old is heading out to their first apartment, this would be a good going away gift. If you itemize your tax deductions, or operate your own business, you'll find this elementary level reading at best.

I read this book after the Evolution Diet- and I really like the style of writing. It's lighthearted, but very good informative. I'm going to do two of the technique right away including start an online business to get ad revenue and change my deductions to give me more money throughout the year, save that money, and make money on interest instead of giving it to the government before it's due. This was really smart I thought- why is it that we give the government our money through income tax all year without earning interest, but once we're late on our tax return, we're instantly charged interest. Very suspect! Morse shows how to capitalize on that.

All the reviews are right on except for Bertie's review below - this one time reviewer seems like he/she has a bad job and is taking it out on this guy.

I got this book with Scam Proof and that looks good too.

Who would have thought that "Financial Strategies for Today's Widow" would be a book I'd enjoy reading? I'd picked up a copy for a friend, and - curious - began to page through it... Eminently readable, the book surprised me with its great stories, and excellent advice.

All true, the stories in the book are poignant, eye-opening and presented in such a way that I truly didn't feel as though I was reading a self-help book. And yet all the lessons were clear. I'd imagine that everyone could benefit from reading "Financial Strategies for Today's Widow," but that the women for whom the book is written will especially appreciate it. The key thing is - not only is it important for women to have this information available to them - it has to be readable. And this book is, quite literally, hard to put down. A quality rarely found in arid self-help books these days.

I'd originally intended to give this book to a friend who *is* a widow, but I kept reading - till I'd gone cover to cover. There's so much information in here that I'm keeping it for myself even though I don't fit the title's market. But I do promise to pick up a pristine copy for my friend.

The second hardest day of my life came less than a month ago, when one of the best friends I've ever had --or ever will-- died suddenly at age 34. But the hardest came two days later, when I arrived at his wake and attempted to offer condolences to his widow, a lovely woman whose eyes were now far too aged for a woman of her years.

"What do I do now?" she asked, though I know now she was probably not addressing me. "What can I do now?"

I had no answer to give her. At the time, I believed that perhaps no one did.

But that was before I discovered David Latko's new book, FINANCIAL STRATEGIES FOR TODAY'S WIDOW. It's a book that should be given to every woman, regardless of age or situation, who faces the lose of her spouse.

Latko provides an effective (and better: a workable) life-plan for the modern widow, layout out an easy-to-understand framework on which to build ongoing financial security. But almost as importantly, he does so through the true stories told by women who have experienced the same devastating loss that the intended reader is facing. Seldom have I been so moved by the words of any book-- but never have I been so touched by a book from the financial or self-help genres.

Of particular note was the chapter that told the story of the Mortons. Husband Bill comes to visit Latko shortly after being informed of his impending death. The way the Mortons work through the end-stage planning --both financial and that of personal leave-taking-- is something every married couple should experience.

This is no dry, dogmatic "how-to" advice book. Latko is obviously a skilled storyteller as well as a financial expert who knows his business. And just as obviously, he is a man who cares.

FINANCIAL STRATEGIES FOR TODAY'S WIDOW is the perfect book to give every widow, and every woman-- be it wife, mother or friend. I've just sent my copy to my deceased friend's widow, and I'm ordering another copy today.

--AT, San Francisco

First of all, if the negative reviewers were such experts in the field, they probably wouldn't be looking for opportunities, so they wouldn't really need this book! I love it when I hear reviewers call something "dated" or "for beginners"...Well if they don't deserve a big pat on the back.

For those who are looking for a little more than something to criticize, this book is ABSOLUTELY LOADED with REAL, LEGITIMATE, BONE FIDE home based business opportunities. If you are still relatively new to the world of working from home, then these opportunities could not possibly be "dated" (that's just ridiculous).

I have spent thousands of dollars on the internet with so called "gurus" and "mentors" whose only real purpose is to keep you ignorant while they empty your wallet... and I am convinced that almost all of them are really clueless about professional entrepreneurship.

The Authors have dealt with computer businesses (from home) in a very refreshing way. No hype, no bull, no gimmicks, no come ons, no fog, no smoke screens, just 101 opportunities to make working from home a reality for you.

If you can't get your seventeen bucks out of this book, then you don't need to be wasting your time trying to act like an entreprneur... cause you won't make it.

Here's some advice. Go through the 101 businesses in the book, pick the ones you are interested in, and then sit at your computer and bookmark all the web sites they mention after each entry, including all the books (look them up on Amazon and then bookmark the pages for later).

By this time you will have yourself a nice little rolodex of tools to begin putting to use in your new profession. I guarantee you that this alone will have paid for the price of the book. And no, the businesses aren't dated. They are actually only the tip of the ice berg.

One more thing. Just a few years ago, two of the biggest names in Direct Marketing were saying the internet was just a fad that would pass. Kind of shocking to think that such "gurus" are so ignorant. No surprise to me, as I know the truth about these fellas. Anyway those with that limited sight are going to say a book like this is dated, because they can't see what's going on in the world around them.

But you are different. You are going to strike gold, by listening to these trustworthy authors and taking their advice. Because friend, there just aren't too many authorities in the world of business and marketing who you can really trust at all. Everything that they say or do has a hidden motive behind it, and it sure isn't your best interests either.

Paul and Sarah Edwards have given some really powerful guidance. What you do with it is up to you. Sure there will be alot of education required, but not nearly as much as would be required by going it alone. I hope you buy this book and I wish you well.

As one who makes his living at home using a computer I feel very qualified to make some comments about this book.

1. Become computer literate at a level where you can swap out a failed hard disk or powersupply or upgrade your memory. Your local community college probably has courses on doing this if you need help. Then keep spares of parts that are likely to fail around: power supply, hard drive, monitor, motherboard, CPU, etc. I usually buy these things on eBay before I need them - I just ordered a motherboard for $20 and an 866 MHz Pentium III for $9.

2. Research your business carefully. Some of the ideas in this book aren't very applicable. For instance #46 Internet Service Provider has been pretty well taken over by the big guys and you probably can't compete. And a lot of the things like medical transcription has been taken over by companies in India.

They comment that you should buy the fastest computer you can afford. Unless you really need the power, to do something like high end graphics or computer aided design, you don't need that much power. My fastest machine is a 1 GHz AMD Athlon that I bought with a 17" monitor at a thrift store for $75. I did upgrade the memory.

Further, you need more than one machine. I use four networked together: web server, database & mail server (the Athlon), and two slower machines for serfing the web, word processing, etc. Why two machines, often one gets busy for a minute or two (downloading something for instance) and then I can work using the other one. I also have a spare machine sitting on the floor if one of these should fail. Computers do fail, and Murphy says that will happen at the worst possible time, i.e. Sunday afternoon when you need to deliver your work on Monday morning.

This is another of Paul and Sarah Edwards'home business books, originally published in 1997. Much of the information here is similar to the computer-related material in their "The Best Home Businesses" book. Unlike the other book, this one has an Index.

While my comments about their other book obviously hold for this version of that information, the rapid changes in the computer industry make this a trickier buy unless you are already fairly computer savy, in which case you probably wouldn't need it anyway. The tremendous upsurge in outsourcing computer jobs to other countries, as well as sheer technological progress, has changed the face of some of these job categories considerably. You will need to research much more current information before committing to a business mentioned here.

That said, they do provide a good basic overview of what each business might entail. If you do not know much about computer-based business, this would be a good primer to see if something along that line interests you. I would recommend, however, that you do much more research with current information sources before you make a decision.

This book is quite comprehensive for those exploring working at home, or those looking to add to their offerings. There are 101 different business profiles, plus an extensive "how-to" on basic business, as well as a computer section.

While this book could be updated to be on top of current technology (social networking was not even around when this book was written), the basics are still the same. Good business practices remain essentially the same even though tools and methods may evolve.

The Edwards are self-employment gurus and have been for a long time. Their books helped inspire me to start my own successful business, and this one is likely doing the same for readers worldwide. I don't see everyone working from home because some people are not able to handle the isolation and/or are not able to work unsupervised. But, for those of us for whom this is an ideal lifestyle, this book can help. Many of us supplement our main business, and for that, these ideas are very beneficial.

For those wondering how to start from scratch, this book is a great place to start. I doubt if this book would be all anyone would need, but if you are exploring ideas and wondering how to make it happen, get this book.

Warning!!! DO NOT PURCHASE THIS BOOK!!!

It is a complete wast of money.
Even though this book was written a few years ago, there is absolutely nothing in it that could even possibly be helpful. Basically, they just give you a little synopsis of 100 different potential business, from catering, daycare, tutoring, etc ; Businesses that are going to cost you a lot more than you could ever make in profits. And most of the websites they give you(few and far between) and just about all of the newsgroups they give you are gone.

There are many books out there about how to make money at home with your computer, and just save yourself the time and most importantly, the money, and look somewhere else...