The Business of Bliss

How to Profit from Doing What You Love

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by Janet Allon

William Morrow & Co.

Due/Published January 1999, 224 pages, cloth

ISBN 0688160840

Victoria Magazine's newest book, The Business of Bliss: How to Profit From Doing What You Love, brings you secrets of success from women entrepreneurs whose dreams took wing. If you've ever been tempted to turn a special talent into a money-making venture this is the inspiration you've been seeking. Dozens of women who started their own businesses share insights and advice on everything from choosing the right name and location to design ideas to marketing your skills. Also included is an extensive list of publications and organizations that provide important services to the self-starter. A Business Directory provides contact information for the entrepreneurs profiled.

• Rebecca Cole, whose Potted Gardens grew out of her talent for creating gardens for her friends' urban apartments.
• Joyce Ames, whose unique lampshades are inspired by history and covered with a rich variety of antique cloth, trims, and tassels,
• Karen Skelton, who was compelled to open a pottery studio when her glazed pots were so popular at the New York Gift Show that she came away with 7000 orders to fill,
• Elizabeth Terry, the proprietor and chef at Elizabeth on 37th, who opened a restaurant in the same turn-of-the-century mansion in which she and her family lived, enabling her to run her business and raise her daughters simultaneously,
• Wells Jenkins, a young architect whose ideas for a business making jewelry crafted from such meaningful charms as family photographs, old postcards, and childhood keepsakes literally came to her in a dream.