TL;DR: Working for Yourself is four books on earning a living without an employer. Build a Profitable Consulting Practice, Selling on eBay, Focus on LinkedIn and Networking Without the BS cover consulting done properly, selling on a platform that keeps changing its rules, being findable on LinkedIn, and building relationships that hold when you need them. A business school professor assigns the consulting book to his students.
Building something that pays without an employer
Four books on earning outside a salary. Consulting done properly, selling on a platform that keeps changing the rules, being findable on LinkedIn, and building relationships that hold when you need them.
These carry the most reader reviews of anything here, over a hundred across the four, including a business school professor who assigns the consulting book to his students.
The four Working for Yourself books at a glance
Book
Subtitle
What it covers
Build a Profitable Consulting Practice
The Part of Consulting Nobody Teaches
Building a consulting practice without the mistakes that destroy most of them
Selling on eBay
How the Platform Works Now
What still works on eBay after the platform changed its rules
Focus on LinkedIn
The Complete Professional Playbook
Being findable on LinkedIn: branding, crisis management, scam protection, the algorithm
Networking Without the BS
Building Relationships That Hold
An introvert learns networking after a system failure left him no one to call
An introvert spent 20 years avoiding networking, then a Trader Joe’s system failure left him with no one to call. This is what he learned the hard way.
eBay selling guide from someone who sold $35,000 in a single year and has run profitable businesses on the platform since 2003. What still works after the platform changed.
Richard Lowe is a professional ghostwriter and author with 113+ books authored and 54+ ghostwritten. Before writing full time he spent 33 years in enterprise technology, including 20 years as Director of Computer Operations and Technical Services at Trader Joe's. He writes nonfiction, fiction and memoir, and works with executives and experts on books that build authority.
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