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Good overview of what you'll need to do to get started but short on details and the computer-related stuff is outdated in 2002. Legal advice is good and sample form letters are useful.

Overall this book gives a good overview and lots of useful information. It could use some updating to accommodate for the current market.

The samples are helpful and can be modified to meet one's needs.

For the photographer who wants to find a way to market his or her photography, this great little book will save a tremendous amount of time and energy that one might spend in trying to figure out how to get started. This is not a book that tells you specific companies to go to in order to sell your work, for that you'll need to obtain photography marketing catalogs. Fortunately this book supplies you with names of some of those resources so you can begin your search for clients.

"Photo Submission" guides you in many important legal aspects of starting your business, things I either wouldn't have thought of, or that I might have learned through trial and error. For example, you learn how to obtain releases from people who serve as subjects in photos, and what to look for in a contract with a client. The author includes how to submit photos in various forms, including loose photos, bound, and on CD, plus gives suggestions for artistic, appealing presentation of these portfolios. There are also important guidelines on how to charge a fair price for your work. One of the most helpful parts of this book is that it is full of templates of letters, contracts, and other forms that you can copy.

You may have more questions to ask after going through this book, and you'll have to do your own research on finding clients, but this book has the potential to build your knowledge of legalities as well as a sense of confidence and professionalism.

Well first let me say that this is a very short book - easily read in one sitting with 118 real pages. Unfortunatley for this book, it came out in 1999 so as we know this was during the hayday of stock fever. I found that a lot of his referenced website's don't exist anymore and only a fraction of his bulletin board's mentioned still survive. He also talk's about them WAY to much. In the era of technology and pertinent information, this was it's major downfall. Where he recommends bulletin board's for talking to others about stock & recommendations, I've only found the "bashers" and the "pump and dump'ers". No real value there unless you get lucky. I mean he even defines "LOL". I could hardly believe it. Most, if not all his examples make it sounds like he's a zillionaire, yet he's made several thousand. Whoopie. I've only found on average that less that 3-5 stocks a day go up significantly, and finding out when one or two stocks in a 1000 is going to "pop", impossible. Day trading of penny stocks is not recommended but there are several decent strategies shown for several day and on holding/playing the game. Penny stocks are nothing like Nasdaq except the way you buy and sell. Uber-Volility is the name of the game and it's very easy to loose. I read the book and it makes it look it's just to easy.. well in 99', it was hard to loose. In today's economy, it's a whole different ballgame. If you need some strategies, this could potentially be a good book, otherwise it's far outdated with old websites, and potentially incorrect inforation for the well informed. Read's like it was written by a sophmore in high-school, so it maybe an easy to understand, but of questionable value on 2004.

The book was excellent reading to supplement my knowledge of penny stock investing. Weaknesses include the strategies and emphasis on trading exclusively on the over-the-counter bulletin boards. Any reader who is interested in unemotional, systematic strategies including trading penny stocks on Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, and American Stock Exchange, may wish to browse through MAKING DOLLARS WITH PENNIES: HOW THE SMALL INVESTOR CAN BEAT THE WIZARDS ON WALL STREET, by R. Max Bowser. Bowser shares his twenty-two years experience in the penny stock arena. I think it encompasses a more comprehensive approach to investing in these type stocks.

being fairly new to the stock game, i have acquired quite an extensive library on books about penny stocks. each seemingly different from the last and confusing more. but picking up this book by dan holtzclaw, has finally made sense out of the complexity of penny stocks. solid information about the risks and rewards.. friendly advice in an easy to understand format. tips and warnings to help you along your way. i now feel more comfortable after reading this book, and have even made a nice size return following mr. holtzclaw's advice! two thumbs up!

A solid, fluid look at experimental economics! In these turbulent times on Wall Street (and really in markets around the world) this proves to be a great source of how we've come to this point, but more importantly, where we can go from here.

But that's not my only reason for thinking this a great book.

Ross M. Miller makes three large claims here. I think he makes good on the first two. I'm not so sure about the third, but even there he makes a case that needs to be made.

First, he explains that one branch of economics has become an experimental science.

Second, he says that this variant of economics has produced important results - theorems disclosing how markets might best be structured or restructured, and how the privatization of now-public goods might be accomplished, in ways that could produce enormous productivity gains.

He more pessimistically claims though, thirdly, that these theorems probably won't produce such gains, because in doing so they would hurt politically powerful interests.

The idea of "experimental economics" is simple enough: a college professor need only ask his students to co-operate in a simple auction-based game, so that he (and they) can observe the process by which prices come into existence under simplified conditions. Once a body of observations has developed, he and other experimenters can vary the rules and conditions of the game and observe the effect the changes have upon the trading strategies of the players and the game outcomes.

It was at Harvard University, in the 1940s, that such experiments got their start, in the classroom of Professor Edward Chamberlain. In the decades since, a body of observations has developed that in some respects supports neoclassical economic theory, but that in one crucial respect calls for its modification. Neoclassical theory needs to be modified to account for the possibility of irrational price bubbles. What is of greater policy importance, though, is that post-Chamberlainian experiments have given us a good idea of how markets can be structured to prevent bubble formation.

About 1975, when Ross Miller and I were grad students in economics, there was a consensus "economic view of the world." Economists who had to deal with the real world -- policy makers and development types -- didn't really believe it, but the mainstream did. Not only believed it, but took it for granted.

That's not true today. The consensus is fragmenting. If you want to understand the underpinnings of this intellectual shift, read Ross's book. It's written clearly, even excitingly, with well-chosen examples. And it is written by a real economist, who's trying to understand what's right and what's wrong about how we think about the economic world.