Gordon Burgett

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Gordon Burgett has 46 books and 1700+ published articles in print, has given 2000+ paid speaking presentations, and offers a free monthly newsletter at www.gordonburgett.com/free-reports. He posts at his blog at http://blog.gordonburgett.com twice weekly and discusses publishing, niche marketing, and selling one's writing.

Where to find Gordon Burgett online

How to Create the Best Staff Possible: Building K-12 Excellence From Hire to Rehire (Focus Book #2)
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 15,380. Language: English. Published: January 18, 2017 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Administration / elementary & secondary, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Administration / school superintendents & principals
Creating the Best Staff Possible (Building K-12 Excellence from Hire to Retire) is In my mind non-negotiable. It's not an option. It's absolutely necessary for a school leader who wants a school of excellence that accomplishes the one universal vision for all schools: "To provide the best educational opportunities possible, within the resources available. Climb aboard--and hold on!
Rights and Responsibilities of School Principals
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 11,730. Language: English. Published: August 11, 2015 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Counseling / career development, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Leadership
Rights and Responsibilities of School Principals answers the question: What is more important for school principals than knowing the principal’s rights and responsibilities in their district? What do others expect of them—others like kids, teachers, parents, the tax-paying public, their superintendent, and the school board? It is condensed from The School Principals' Toolbook...
The School Principal's Toolbook: Building the How-To Path to Excellence:
Price: $19.95 USD. Words: 29,150. Language: English. Published: September 11, 2014 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Administration / school superintendents & principals
The eternal, unvoiced plea of every school principal is “HELP!” But who helps the building leaders with everyday answers, encouragement, practical tips, how-to lists, and almost any resource needed so they can continue to lead with joy and passion—and change their students' world? Here's the help in Jim Burgett's The School Principal’s Toolbook:
The Art of School Boarding: What Every School Board Member Needs to Know
Price: $19.95 USD. Words: 49,250. Language: English. Published: September 19, 2013 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Administration / school superintendents & principals, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Organizations & institutions
Forty-year-plus education expert, Jim Burgett, explains to new, veteran, and to-be-elected school board members nationwide the basics of boardsmanship, school governance, and the role of the board, its members, and the administration. On these straightforward, jargon-free pages Burgett explains what every board member has to know, then how it is best done. "Absolutely invaluable..."
The Kid in Purple Pants: Structured Approaches to Educating Underprivileged Students
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 43,330. Language: English. Published: November 12, 2012 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Behavioral management, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Administration / school superintendents & principals
The Kid in Purple Pants: Structured Approaches to Educating Underprivileged Students, by Patrick Anderson, is a best methods book that is immediately applicable for any teacher, principal, superintendent, or board member. It tells what it takes to meet the needs of those underprivileged students who either never reach their full potential or simply vanish in today's U.S. educational system.
Booklet About Niche Publishing: Want to Publish Profitably Every Time?
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,260. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2012 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Publishing business
This 14-page no-nonsense booklet explains the process for designing, pretesting, and marketing a niche book. By extension, it tells what must be said if you wish to write a niche book. Gordon Burgett, the booklet author and best known for his book Niche Publishing: Publish Profitably Every Time, shows that niche publishing is a high-profit, low-risk, barely tapped river of gold.
How to Handle the Death of a Student, Faculty, or Staff Member
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 8,510. Language: English. Published: April 13, 2012 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Administration / school superintendents & principals, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Counseling / crisis management
It's inevitable that a school administrator will have to deal with the death of a student, faculty, or staff member at some point during their career, and that each situation will be different in nature and scope. When that happens, there isn't much time to develop a plan or to research options for handling the often complicated situation. So here are guidelines to refer to in that time of need.
How to Pick the Right Kind of Publisher: A Pre-journey Map to Success
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 13,930. Language: English. Published: October 26, 2011 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
Do you want your book in print right away and to snag every reward, with those rewards in view before you write the first word? That's where picking the right kind of publisher comes in, whether it's you or a giant house in New York City. This how-to book tells you how to pick right, the five kinds and seven additional choices, and tools to use in making your selection.
Niche Publishing: Publish Profitably Every Time!
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 56,140. Language: English. Published: May 21, 2010 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
Publish profitably, risk free, and quickly by using veteran publishing guru Gordon Burgett's widely-tested process. Sidestep unsold books, balky wholesalers and distributors, and unusable returns. You test first, then sell directly to eager, price-flexible buyers who badly want what you put in print. Find a demand, double-check it, and create the supply, and, if you wish, from that your empire.
Finding Middle Ground in K-12 Education: Balancing Best Practices and the Law
Price: $19.95 USD. Words: 74,530. Language: English. Published: May 20, 2010 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Study guides - Education
Brian Schwartz masterfully makes complex K-12 education laws understandable while Jim Burgett magically creates win-win situations. Here, the two prize-winning educators balance best practices and the law in a compelling book that’s full of practicality, reality, humor, and common sense. “It should be required reading by every educator everywhere” is what we hear most.
The Perfect School
Price: $19.95 USD. Words: 62,850. Language: English. Published: May 17, 2010 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Study guides - Education
Everybody wants a perfect school, but what does that really mean? That’s what three top award-winning educational leaders from Illinois asked each other, then dug into their areas of strength to answer. The result is their second book, The Perfect School, a no-nonsense look at perfect teachers, perfect staff, perfect parents, and perfect principals, plus a dozen chapters more!
Teachers Change Lives 24/7:150 Ways to Do It Right
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 47,790. Language: English. Published: May 17, 2010 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Teaching
One of Illinois’ favorite educators taps the mind, memory, and heart of every teacher who stands (or stood) in front of a classroom, with wit, humor, wisdom, and immediately usable how-to tips. A loving yet no-nonsense how-to guide that every new teachers needs and every veteran lauds. Unforgettable stories of what always works in the classroom.
How to Get Your Book Published Free in Minutes and Marketed Worldwide in Days
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 44,740. Language: English. Published: April 7, 2010 by Gordon Burgett. Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
Only now can a writer get his or her book published free in minutes and have it marketed worldwide in days. Gordon Burgett now offers a how-to, step-by-step guide that walks beginners and veterans through the process: from writing to submitting to marketing. It can be a novel, cookbook, nonfiction, kids' book, memoir, or a dozen other kinds. In fact, this book is a perfect example!

Books

100 Ready-to-Use Treasure Hunt Clues
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 14,730. Language: English. Published: December 3, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Entertainment » Games, puzzles, & brain twisters » Logic & Brain Teasers
Nothing is more important to a successful, fun treasure hunt party than challenging, well written clues, plus some scavenger hunt items and four bonus brainbusters! So here Gordon Burgett (author of the long-used, top-selling book, Treasure and Scavenger Hunts: How to Plan, Create, and Give Them) now offers 100 Ready-to-Use Treasure Hunt Clues, in 34 categories, just waiting for a party!
Surviving Prostate Cancer: A Survivor's Mostly Funny Diary
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 27,370. Language: English. Published: April 11, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Sexual health
Surviving Prostate Cancer: A survivor’s mostly funny diary… is a humorous yet in-depth, no-nonsense account of the near-year the author, Gordon Burgett, spent experiencing successful treatment for prostate cancer. A quick summary of its contents would be “Discovery, The Shots, The TURP, Radiation, Incontinence, No Flow, Another Cut, and Victory.” If you ever wondered what it's like.
Emceeing, Show Planning, and Script Writing
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,330. Language: English. Published: January 11, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Creativity, Nonfiction » Publishing » Playwriting
In "Emceeing, Show Planning, and Script Writing" Gordon Burgett provides practical, applied experience and examples (including two full scripts) for folks wanting advice about emceeing, and the show planning and/or script writing often related to it or required to do a first-rate job. There is a bit of all three—emceeing, show planning, and script writing—in each of the book's six sections.
How to Get Your Niche Article in Print 75% of the Time
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 12,080. Language: English. Published: June 25, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Research
Why write articles if they’re not almost guaranteed to see print? Thus the purpose of this ebook report: How to Get Your Own Niche Articles in Print 75% of the Time in Magazines, Newsletters, Newspapers, and Journals. In 30 pages, Gordon shares the secrets needed for any writer to live handsomely in print. Even more handsomely if he/she focuses on one or two niche fields, where the gold hides.
"Open" Book Publishing is Almost a Miracle! (31 reports and guidelines)
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 26,020. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing, Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Publishing business
You can publish your book, fiction or nonfiction, through eight "open" publishers, fast (in minutes for ebooks; a few days for paperbacks) and free (for ebooks, about $25 for paperbacks). Best yet, those houses will format and market the books. This book is composed of 31 reports that describe that process as it has evolved in the past two years, plus guidelines that will get you in print.
25 Professional Query and Cover Letters
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 13,840. Language: English. Published: April 12, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing, Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
Nothing is more important to selling your magazine articles and nonfiction books than sharp, tight query letters, while cover letters are vital to selling to newspapers and to selling reprints or second rights. Most beginners have few examples of what professionals actually send editors. So in this report Gordon Burgett has written the five cover letters and other professionals, 20 queries.
Finding Topics That Make Your Articles Indispensable
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,790. Language: English. Published: November 28, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Marketing
It's harder and harder to place articles in magazines, newspapers, and other publications. The recession is up, the amount of advertising is down, and there are fewer articles being bought by fewer magazines and newspapers. There's a way (or a dozen ways) to do that. Gordon Burgett shows on these pages his topic-by-topic formula, with successful examples.
101 Niche Marketing Topics
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,860. Language: English. Published: November 21, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Marketing, Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
If you plan to sell to or service a particular niche, you must identify it in a book or speech title. This 101-topic report shows a process of niche-title thinking that can be applied to almost any field or topic.
Four Special Tools That Get Speakers Booked First
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 29,600. Language: English. Published: November 10, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Publishing business, Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
There are four tools that can make you top choice by the speech-picking committee: a book, a booklet, a tip sheet, or a report, ebook, or half-book. This is a step-by-step, how-to guidebook that will help you create any or all of these means, written by a publisher who has offered 2000+ paid speeches. It works!
How to Create a High School Graduation Book
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 18,140. Language: English. Published: June 23, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Computers & Internet » Biography, Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
Shows how, step-by-step, to create and publish an unforgettable gift, A High School Graduation Book, a lifelong keepsake that captures an event, memory, or one-time rite of passage. This is a book to give to your kid, your grandkid, or any kid getting a diploma!
Treasure and Scavenger Hunts: How to Plan, Create, and Give Them
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 30,500. Language: English. Published: December 10, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Handbooks & Manuals, Nonfiction » Entertainment » Games, puzzles, & brain twisters
Everybody knows what a treasure and scavenger hunt is, but here is the book that will make you look like a genius! Treasure and Scavenger Hunt: How to Plan, Create, and Give Them has all of the steps and details needed to amuse, delight, and bewilder your family and friends at the party of the year!
Administrators and Teachers: Getting Profitably in Print 75% of the Time
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 19,340. Language: English. Published: August 31, 2009 . Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
K-12 leaders use professional guides all of the time, so why shouldn't they save time and investment by doing the same to get their articles and books quickly and reliably in print? That's precisely why Gordon Burgett (author of 1700 articles and 38 published books) wrote this how to no-nonsense book. Another recent book by Gordon? Niche Marketing, an industry standard. Tools for professionals.

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