Want to turn your passion for fitness into a lucrative career? Each year, more than 5 million Americans use personal trainers to take their workouts to the next level―and this plain-English guide shows you how to get in on the action. Whether you want a part-time job at the gym or a full-time personal training business, you’ll find the practical, proven advice you need in this indispensable resource. 
Becoming a Personal Trainer For Dummies is for you if you want to become a certified personal trainer and start your own business―or if you’re a certified trainer looking to improve upon your existing practice. You get a thorough overview of what it takes to get certified and run a successful business, complete with expert tips that help you: <ul>
<li>Find your training niche</li> <li>Study for and pass certification exams</li> </ul>
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<li>Attract, keep, and motivate clients</li> <li>Interview, hire, and manage employees</li> <li>Update your training skills</li> <li>Expand your services</li> </ul>
This user-friendly guide offers unique coverage of personal trainer certification programs, including tips on selecting the right program and meeting the requirements. You’ll see how to develop your training identity as well as practice invaluable skills that will make you a great personal trainer. You also receive savvy guidance in: <ul>
<li>Choosing the best fitness equipment</li> <li>Creating a business plan, a record-keeping system, and a marketing campaign</li> <li>Performing fitness assessments</li> <li>Developing individualized exercise programs</li> <li>Advancing your clients to the next fitness level</li> </ul>
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<li>Managing legal issues and tax planning</li> </ul>
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<li>Offering additional services such as massage and nutrition consultation</li> <li>Training clients with special needs</li> </ul>
Complete with ten great starter exercises and a valuable list of professional organizations and resources, Becoming a Personal Trainer For Dummies gives you the tools you need to get the most out of this fun, fabulous career!

Becoming a Personal Trainer for Dummies

Business & Money

Formichelli, LInda

St. Michael, Melyssa

Job Hunting & Careers

For Dummies

Illustrates that breaking the traditional "rules" of freelancing can lead to success by revealing tips that the most successful freelancers use.

The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success

Burrell, Diana

Literature & Fiction

Marion Street Press, Inc.

Children will learn all about inventions: their inventors, the way they changed history, and their evolution over centuries, through the activities and anecdotes provided in this interactive series.From ancient civilization's earliest calendars and shadow clocks to the atomic clocks of today, the history of time measurement emerges in this interactive guide. The study of the evolution of timekeeping devices and the inventors of calendars and clocks is included and loaded with interesting facts and trivia. Fifteen hands-on activities help demonstrate humans' changing relationship with time over the centuries.

Tools of Timekeeping: A Kid's Guide to the History & Science of Telling Time (Tools of Discovery series)

Children's Books

Martin, W. Eric

History

Nomad Press

You want to do, see, and experience everything you can to create a rich, memorable life. Travel. Volunteer work. Athletic events. Entertaining. Reading, learning, and trying new things. And you want to look and feel great while you do it. In fact, your favorite saying just might be “Life is not a dress rehearsal.” BUT: Read any blog, magazine, or book aimed at women and the common refrain is, “You have SO much to do! You need to simplify your life and say ‘No’ to things you really don’t want to do. Oh, and ask your husband to clean the bathroom, you poor thing, so you can have 15 minutes to yourself. Now, take out your gratitude journal and write about how grateful you are that you can walk and breathe.” I call BS. In How to Do It All: The Revolutionary Plan to Create a Full, Meaningful Life — While Only Occasionally Wanting to Poke Your Eyes out with a Sharpie, you’ll learn: 
<ul>
<li>Why stress should be welcomed, not avoided.</li> <li>The importance of living a do-it-all life.</li> <li>Why you shouldn’t expect support from your family…and where to get it instead.</li> <li>Why you should shower less, sleep less, talk to yourself, and be inconsistent — and how this can help you live a more memorable life.</li> <li>How you can get it all done even when right now you have no time, no money, and no motivation.</li> <li>The revolutionary plan to accomplish everything you dream of doing in your life (includes free worksheets!).</li>
</ul> Let's do this thing.

How to Do It All: The Revolutionary Plan to Create a Full, Meaningful Life — While Only Occasionally Wanting to Poke Your Eyes Out With a Sharpie

Self-Help

Motivational

Renegade Writer Press

Score the best assignments and make more money with this rule-breaking advice from two writers who sell to magazines you want to write for! You want more acceptances from editors? Would you like your writing income to grow this year? Stop following the advice of writers who insist you can't pitch to national magazines until you've sold 15 articles to regional publications, or that you must follow the magazine's writer guidelines to a T. Instead, learn from a dozen successful magazine writers how to build your own profitable, fulfilling freelance career in which you can take pride. For over 20 years Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell have written for top magazines and newspapers you can find on every newsstand including Family Circle, Woman's Day, Cook's Illustrated, Parenting, Redbook, Fortune Small Business, Writer's Digest, Oxygen, The Boston Globe, Self, Inc., and dozens more. They pitch magazines they’ve never read, call editors to pitch ideas, research extensively before they even get an assignment, and usually follow their own inclinations rather than the official directions. They’ve negotiated for more money and better terms without risking their careers, learned that editors are not the writer-gobbling monsters many freelancers fear, and established long-term relationships with editors at top publications. And in The Renegade Writer, they share all their tips and tricks so you, too, can become the go-to writer editors love. When the first edition of The Renegade Writer was published in 2003, it helped thousands of magazine writers around the world find more (and better) ideas, break into new (or tough) markets, research and write their articles with more efficiency, and get paid more money...and showed them that the freelance life can be extremely profitable when they use their brains instead of tired-old rules. This third edition, which has been an Amazon best-seller in the journalism category, includes new “rules” that freelancers can break, updates on the featured writers from our second edition, and new Q&amp;As with successful rule-busting writers. Here's what readers have said about The Renegade Writer... "The Renegade Writer serves up a bevy of interesting, successful, real-life characters all of whom have instinctively broken the rules and not only gotten by with it, but also lived to enjoy big, fat paychecks and a lifestyle of their own choosing. Interviews and quotes from expert sources debunk many of the myths that we've come to accept as gospel." -- Savvy Writer "MJ", Verified Purchase "I am just an average Joe... a mom who works full-time at a job I can't hardly stand, and who dreams of becoming a known writer. I've read various books from the library on freelance writing, and how to write proper queries, and other various topics. None of them have filled me with confidence like this book has." --Jennifer, Verified Purchase "Reading this book has been amazing. I'm new to the freelance writing thing (less than a year), but after starting this book it gave me the "oomph" i needed to get out there to pitch magazines in my niche." -- Darrelle, Verified Purchase "Filled with tricks and tips for everything from the all important query letter to where to find those ideas editors drool over, this book is a must have for anyone serious about taking their freelance dreams and turning them into a paid reality. Do yourself (and your career) a favour by buying this book." --Mrs. T. Edwards, Verified Purchase Learn how to break the rules to become the successful magazine writer you’ve dreamed of. Order the completely revised and newly updated Renegade Writer and become a Renegade today!

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Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

We show you how professional writers sell their article ideas to magazines read by millions. Maybe you're a budding freelancer who dreams of seeing her byline in a magazine like Redbook or Women's Health. Or you're a mid-career writer who can't seem to break out of the pack and clinch the assignments that other writers seem to nab with ease. If you want to start scoring assignments from top magazines like Smithsonian, Inc., mental_floss, and Fitness—not to mention trade and custom publications—From Pitch to Published: How to Sell Your Article Ideas to Magazines is the guide you need to take you there. You'll learn how to craft winning article pitches that pique interest from editors and lead to lucrative assignments. Included are over 20 actual pitches that sold to magazines such as Women's Health, Parenting, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Entrepreneur, and more plus interviews with the writers and their assigning editors. You’ll learn from these insiders: • What every editor is looking for in a story pitch...and if you think it's a list of your writing credits, you're wrong. • Why your writer’s voice is more important than you think. • How to sell your idea to a national magazine even if you've never been published before. • What to do if you have no clips, samples, or credentials. • How to stand out from the competition with your very first sentence. From Pitch to Published also includes a comprehensive Q&amp;A about the art and science of selling article ideas to magazine editors...everything from how to structure a winning query letter to how to sell a “killed” article. If you're a beginning writer, you'll learn how to land your initial assignments with more ease and less angst, and if you've been around the block a few times, you'll find dozens of tips to help you improve your sales ratio. Written by two top freelance magazine writers who authored the freelancing classic The Renegade Writer, From Pitch to Published will guide your way to freelance writing success. Note: This book was previously published as The Renegade Writer's Query Letters That Rock. It has been revised and updated for 2017 to reflect changes in the publishing industry over the last ten years.

From Pitch to Published: How to Sell Your Article Ideas to Magazines

Gain self confidence, boost your happiness, and achieve success—by Committing to make this year the year you thrive.
We humans have a big problem.
We have exciting goals and dreams, but we feel stuck. We spend a lot of time thinking about what we should do, but don't take action. Our day-to-day lives overwhelm us, and our dreams languish. We settle for lives of mediocrity and regret instead of the happiness, joy, and success we really want.
Thinking small consigns us to a life of what-ifs and if-onlys. So if we have big dreams, we need to go after them in a big way. That's what Commit is all about.
Committing means taking massive action to reach a goal. In this book, you'll find details on how to prepare for your Commit practice, plus how to overcome common roadblocks with 20 tested tactics for reaching any goal—from losing weight to starting a business.
Tired of wishing you could start that business, get fit, find the love of your life, learn a new skill, go back to school...and more? A new life starts with Commit.

Commit: How to Blast Through Problems & Reach Your Goals Through Massive Action

Success

Learn to start and run your own coffee bar with tips to brewing success The caffeine-lover in you has always wanted to start your own coffee bar--and all the guidance you'll need is right here in your hands! Order up a double shot of success with this guide packed to the brim with all things coffee and business. In it, you will find expert advice on selecting the best coffee beans and cafe treats, foolproof methods for tracking sales and inventory, straightforward suggestions on developing effective marketing strategies, helpful tips on negotiating contracts with employees and suppliers, and so much more... So tie that apron, grind those beans, and get started on that dream!

Starting & Running a Coffee Shop: Brew Success with Proven Strategies for Every Aspect of Your Espresso Startup

Villanueva, Melissa

Industries

Alpha

Brew up your own business. This is a step-by-step guide to realizing what for many people is a cherished dream: opening a successful coffee bar. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting and Running a Coffee Bar includes the dirt on what it’s really like to work behind the counter and information on everything from how to build a business plan, to how to make the drinks and how to price them. -Only series book of its kind -The specialty coffee business is still growing -Small businesses create 7 out of 10 new jobs in America -Susan Gilbert has started and run five successful coffee bars

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting And Running A Coffeebar

Gilbert, Susan

Finance

Make those rooms sparkle … Most people hate it, but everyone has to clean. So why not do it right? This guide takes readers through the house, room by room, demonstrating how to clean each one thoroughly and efficiently—even the bathroom and the garage. Plus, it provides an A-to-Z treasure trove of hints to make cleaning even easier.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cleaning

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Findley, Mary

Home Improvement & Design

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Formichelli, LInda. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Formichelli, LInda

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Formichelli, LInda. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Becoming a Personal Trainer for Dummies

The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success

Tools of Timekeeping: A Kid's Guide to the History & Science of Telling Time (Tools of Discovery series)

How to Do It All: The Revolutionary Plan to Create a Full, Meaningful Life — While Only Occasionally Wanting to Poke Your Eyes Out With a Sharpie

The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success

From Pitch to Published: How to Sell Your Article Ideas to Magazines

Commit: How to Blast Through Problems & Reach Your Goals Through Massive Action

Starting & Running a Coffee Shop: Brew Success with Proven Strategies for Every Aspect of Your Espresso Startup

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting And Running A Coffeebar

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cleaning