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Mending and Alterations Made Simple : A Complete Guide to Clothes Repair
by Anna De Leo
This manual provides all necessary knowledge for anyone who wants to acquire the basic skills for mending, altering and fixing clothes. The publication explains in an easy to understand and simple language the most usual clothing repairs, like shortening pants, a seam to be redone, darning a hole, shortening the sleeves of a shirt, etc. From learning to do stitches by hand to using the sewing machine, the author guides the reader throughout the process by simple texts and useful photographs proving that mending is easy. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms. With this DIY guide, the reader will be able to perform some alterations and mending without the need of going to the professional tailor. It's a basic manual, but also contains some more complicated mending that people with advanced skills can tackle.
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How to Build a Goddamn Empire : Advice on Creating Your Brand With High-Tech Smarts, Elbow Grease, Infinite Hustle & a Whole Lotta Heart
by Ali Kriegsman
Filled with heart and humor, How to Build a Goddamn Empire shares the real-world, hard-earned business wisdom of one female entrepreneur who transformed an idea into a massive, category-disrupting national brand. By using the questions she’s most frequently asked as her blueprint, Kriegsman offers candid insights into the nuts and bolts of building a brand from scratch—discussing early failures, picking the right cofounder, securing press, finding funding, and even staying afloat during a crisis—to give women the tools that will help take their ideas to the next level.
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Blogging for Dummies
by Amy Lupold Bair
The bestselling blogging book-- updated in a new edition! Ready to make your mark on the online world? Start a blog! Blogging For Dummies provides you with information on blogging basics, the anatomy of a good blog, and the tools required to get started. Plus, you'll get advice on a blog topic, choosing a domain name and host, writing your first post, planning an editorial calendar, and using your blog as an important part of your personal brand. Decide which of the major blogging platforms will work for you. Use SEO to drive traffic to your blog. Monetization through advertising and sponsorships. Create content that draws readers in. Covering shifts in popular blogging platforms and tools, changes in social media, and the latest best practices in the blogosphere, this new edition sets you up for blogging success.
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The YouTube Formula : How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, Build an Audience, and Grow Revenue
by Derral Eves
This book will provide everything a YouTube creator needs to optimize their content strategy, including in-depth, applicable strategies for how to launch a channel, drive massive view and subscriber growth, build a brand and increase engagement, improve searchability, and drive commerce through YouTube. This book will explain things about YouTube's algorithms that haven't been taught in any other book about the platform, and it will be done in an easy-to-follow format. It will have case studies and real answers from creators and businesses who are getting the results that every YouTube creator wants. It will take readers through the successful content creation process and how to follow-through and follow-up for best results.
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Profit from Your Podcast : Proven Strategies to Turn Listeners into a Livelihood
by Dave Jackson
Pick up any book on podcast monetization, and you will find 90 percent of it only covers how to launch a podcast. If you already have a podcast, you have that information; you're ready for the next step. Profit from Your Podcast provides top strategies and real-life examples of podcast monetization. Built on the author's fifteen years of experience in podcasting, this action-packed guide will benefit new and veteran podcasters. Get clear on who your audience is and what they want, deliver value, and build an engaged audience that wants to give you money. Leverage your relationships and the integrity you have built through your podcast to create multiple streams of income. Profit from Your Podcast gives you the tools to do it all.
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Online DIY ResourcesLooking for more DIY resources? Check out the databases and other DIY virtual resources available to you through the Library. Click here for more information.
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