GORDON BURGETT's
BIOGRAPHY
Gordon
currently speaks nationwide about niche marketing and niche publishing,
offering keynotes, break-out sessions, and workshops at conventions, retreats,
and colleges or universities. (See www.gordonburgett.com).
His most recent book (January, 2008) was Niche Publishing: Publishing
Profitably Every Time! (See http://www.nichepublishing.org).He
also speaks 50+ times a year at colleges and universities, mostly in
Burgett
has also published 1,700+ articles and offered over 2,000 professional spoken
presentations, mostly to associations and conventions 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 CD and cassette programs, and has written 36 books, including Niche Marketing for Writers, Speakers, and
Entrepreneurs, Publishing to Niche Markets, Self-Publishing to Tightly-Targeted
Markets, Empire-Building by Writing and Speaking, Speaking for Money (with
Mike Frank), Sell and Resell Your
Magazine Articles, Treasure and Scavenger Hunts, Life After Dentistry (with Dr.
Jay Hislop), Standard Marketing Procedures for
Dentists, 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), Ten
Sales from One Article Idea, and The
Query Book. (See http://www.gordonburgett.com
for specifics about each book or product.)
In
2007, 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.
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 2007, Gordon sold Dental Communication Unlimited to Marsha.
(See www.sops.com.)
Burgett
earned four academic degrees: B.A.,
* To
much kidding from his local friends, an article and two photos
about Gordon appeared in the Pulitzer Santa Maria Times on April 24, 2004.
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