GORDON
BURGETT's BIOGRAPHY
Gordon
currently speaks nationwide about How to
Plan a Great Second Life and Life
After Dentistry, offering keynotes,
break-out sessions, and workshops at conventions, dental meetings, retreats,
and universities. (See www.super-second-life.com).
He also speaks from 50-100 times a year at colleges and universities, mostly in
Burgett
has also published 1,700+ articles and offered over 2,000 professional spoken
presentations, including dental and medical associations, conventions
nationwide, and through university extension programs. During that time he has
appeared extensively on radio and TV, as a guest author and a publishing
specialist. Burgett is a long-standing member of the National Speakers
Association, the American Society of Authors and Journalists, and the
Publishers Marketing Association; has produced 26 audio cassette and CD series
and singles, and has written 31 books, including Standard Marketing
Procedures for Dentists, Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles, Publishing to
Niche Markets, Treasure and Scavenger Hunts, Life After Dentistry (with
Dr. Jay Hislop), Niche Marketing for Writers,
Speakers, and Entrepreneurs, Self-Publishing to Tightly-Targeted Markets, The
Travel Writer’s Guide, How to Sell More Than 75%
of Your Freelance Writing, The Writer’s Guide to Query
and Cover Letters, Standard Marketing Procedures for All Dentists (with
Reece Franklin), Empire-Building by Writing and Speaking, Speaking for
Money (with Mike Frank), Ten Sales from One Article Idea, and
The Query Book.
* During
the past two years, three of Gordon's books were revised, updated, and
reprinted. These include How to Plan a Great Second
Life, the Travel
Writer's Guide, and Sell and Resell Your Magazine
Articles. His first novel also saw life late in that year: Lian McAndrews and the Perfect Human World.
* Four of
Burgett’s books have been Writer’s Digest Book Club top choices: Sell and Resell
Your Magazine Articles, The Travel Writer’s
Guide, The Writer’s Guide to Query and Cover Letters, and
How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance Writing.
* Gordon
has owned and directed a publishing company, Communication Unlimited, since
1981. It originally specialized in (and continues to offer) books, reports, and
cassettes about writing, empire-building, and niche publishing. In 1995, his
company merged with Marsha Freeman’s Team Systems and
created Dental Communication Unlimited and Medical Communication Unlimited, to
begin a series of standard operating procedures manuals (and other, related
office operations products) for health care professionals. In late 2006 Burgett
sold the dental and medical imprints but retained the other branches of his
publishing company.
Burgett
earned four academic degrees: B.A.,
* To much kidding from his local friends, an article about and
two photos of Gordon appeared in the Pulitzer Santa Maria Times on April
24, 2004.
Want to see more about Gordon's presentations?
Or his How to Plan a Great Second Life
book?
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