GORDON BURGETT's BIOGRAPHY
Gordon
currently speaks nationwide about niche
marketing and niche publishing,
offering keynotes, break-out sessions, and workshops mostly at conventions or
to associations. His most recent book (January, 2008) was Niche
Publishing: Publishing Profitably Every Time! (See http://www.nichepublishing.org). He
also speaks 20+ 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 just released his newest book, Niche
Publishing; has produced 26 audio CD and cassette programs, and has
written 36 published 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.
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: 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 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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