by Gundi Gabrielle ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 6, 2019
Audacious ideas aplenty in this breezy financial guide.
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An entrepreneur shares ideas for generating passive income in this business manual.
Gabrielle (Influencer Fast Track, 2018, etc.) is no stranger to passive income. As author of the self-published SassyZenGirl series of guides and other titles, she has achieved Amazon bestseller status numerous times and claims to generate a six-figure passive income from her endeavors. In this chatty, informative book, Gabrielle willingly opens her bag of tricks, presenting 23 “passive income blueprints” for both novice and seasoned entrepreneurs. The volume starts with some smart tips that include a caution against false get-rich-quick expectations and advice on how to build an income-producing asset (“Creation-Systems-Automation”). Then the author launches into overviews, or blueprints, of ideas to produce a stream of passive income, most of which focus on online creation and marketing of one kind or another. Several of the concepts are cleverly designed to leverage and build on top of what others have done; for example, “AirBnB Arbitrage” involves renting properties owned by landlords that can then be offered through AirBnB at higher nightly or weekly rates. Other ideas take advantage of certain online characteristics, such as employing search engine optimization locally to achieve a high-ranking video or website on search engines and then renting that spot to another business. More than one concept seems to be essentially designed to make money via repurposing or remarketing the work of others. As a result, more conservative marketers may wonder whether some of these notions are too risky, and opportunists will likely view them as shrewd, if not ingenious. Regardless, each tantalizing idea is described in an engaging, conversational style, with just enough breathless detail to tease readers into wanting to know more. The guide itself is the very model of passive income, incorporating many references to other resources available from the author, including a slew of her books. Gabrielle is marvelously adept at mining the depths of passive income, and she writes with vitality and verve. The real magic, though, will be in each reader’s ability to select and execute the most appropriate concepts.
Audacious ideas aplenty in this breezy financial guide.Pub Date: Jan. 6, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-79324-212-9
Page Count: 315
Publisher: Time Tunnel Media
Review Posted Online: March 15, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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