click on book to zoom	Country Bound! Trade Your Business Suit Blues for Blue Jean Dreams By Tom and Marilyn Ross 432 pages, charts, quizzes, tables, maps, appendixes, index ISBN 0-918880-30-0, trade paperback, $19.95 or 6-tape audio cassette program, $29.95 Published by Communication Creativity
Now You Can Escape the Big City Rat Race! The One-Step Resource for City Dwellers with Small Town Dreams

Do you want to: Wrestle your children from the grasp of drug dealers Protect your family from violent crime Flee traffic congestion and endless commutes Replace the urban stress of a dog-eat-dog mind set Escape an unhealthy, polluted environment

How?

Now there's an answer . . . a proven way to elude the big city rat race. Country Bound! shows you how to trade your business suit blues for blue jean dreams. Easily. Effectively. Inexpensively. Discover how to experience country living by moving to a small town.

This incredible book helps you realize your dream of escaping the three C's: Crime, Congestion, and Corporate politics. It shows you how to exchange your current existence for enhanced quality of life and more leisure time with your family. There's specific, proven advice for locating your ideal small town, then getting acclimated into the community. This breakthrough book is a cross between a friendly chat and a unique reference book. It shows you how to regain control of your life, simplify your life, and launch a new life adventure.

A business book as well as a lifestyle guide, it also addresses how to make a good living in Small Town USA. Tom and Marilyn Ross, who know from first-hand experience, include hundreds of practical, thought-provoking ideas for prospering in paradise. You'll discover ways to turn spare-time interests into paying profits -- telecommute to your present job -- set up an Information Age home-based business -- buy an existing rural enterprise -- use the Internet to access a global customer base -- or create your dream job in the country. Dozens of quizzes, tables, checklists, maps, and web sites to make your rural relocation easy, fun, and economical. You'll discover practical, useful personal guidance: Practical advice on how to "unplug from the system" Ways to locate your special Eden quickly and cheaply Counsel about the safest, least-congested places to live Checklists, quizzes, charts, maps, and web sites to guide your selection Creative ideas to improve your quality of life Help in understanding small town needs and attitudes

And these business solutions:

	Strategies for becoming successfully self-employed
	Tips for tapping into the Internet information age
	Tactics for home-based business success and telecommuting
	Guidelines for buying a moneymaking small town business
	Start-up directions and profitable marketing advice
	Ideas to turn avocational interests into regular paychecks
	Ways to launch a global business from the boonies
	23 gutsy tactics for finding the right rural job
	Plus much, much more

Tom and Marilyn live this

Tom and Marilyn Ross live what they write about in Country Bound!. In 1980 they traded a suite of offices overlooking southern California's Pacific Ocean for a remote 320-acre horse ranch nestled in the Rocky Mountains. Finding that too isolated, they now live in a small Colorado mountain town where they write books, run a nonprofit international trade association for publishers, and consult with clients from all across North America.

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