<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Check out the Small Business Administration for help in writing your business plan. <br><br><p><font size="2" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Mary Clement Douglass</font></p><p><font size="2" face="Garamond">Your Kansas research specialist</font></p><p><font size="2" face="Garamond">URL: www.historical-matters.com</font></p><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 6/11/11, Debbi Lyon <i><dlyontamer@verizon.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Debbi Lyon <dlyontamer@verizon.net><br>Subject: [APG Public List] Genalogy business plan<br>To: apgpubliclist@apgen.org<br>Date: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 3:04 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1060171454"><div style="FONT-FAMILY:Verdana;COLOR:#000000;FONT-SIZE:12px;"><div>Hello,</div><div>I need help writing a business plan for my genealogy business. I would appreciate some insight either publicly or via e-mail. </div><div>1) How are professional genealogists able to recoup travel and hotel fees when the are not paid for a speaking gig at the convention?</div><div>2) How do the pros get reimbursed for the time involved in writing an article that is published in a scholarly genealogy publication?</div><div>3) Is there room for one more genealogist to make a decent living (and pay for medical benefits) or is the field already too crowded?</div><div> </div><div>I have worked as a freelance writer/photographer in the music industry and I wonder if genealogy vendors comp trips, tickets, supplies and subscriptions like the record labels do. </div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Debbi</div><div> </div></div> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>