Address labels are many things to many different people. If you are a huge fan of address labels, you aren't alone. If you are not a fan, you simply haven't yet realized many benefits address labels carry. Address labels are quite simply a quick and efficient tool for creating a more convenient life.

Most people use address labels to simplify mailing, to express their personality and to offer a unique hello to friends and family. Let's look at some of benefits of using address labels.

Why People Love Address Labels

You already know that address labels make you life easier. How do they do this? Did you know average person wastes hours and hours every year handwriting their return address on bills, holiday cards, letters and other mailings? Why not recapture your time by using preprinted return labels? Address labels also offer numerous benefits including:

• You can easily customize them to express your individual preferences or personality.
• If you own a business a customized return label looks much more professional than a handwritten one.
• Customized labels are also more professional for sending out job applications and resumes, query letters and more.
• Most address labels are cheap and inexpensive. You can get them for pennies on dollar AND save loads of time in process.
• Most come in various styles, shapes, sizes and designs. You can select a label to meet almost every individual need.

If you want, you can even select a label for every different day of year! Some labels, especially different colored labels, allow you to do just about anything on any day.

Benefits of Holiday Labels

Self-publishing can be rewarding in order to become a self-published author you have to have motivation and will to succeed. How do you decide if you should self-publish your book or not? Ask yourself following questions:

1)Can you be a businessperson as well as a writer? Writing is a quiet occupation, while business demands proficient communication skills. 2)Are you motivated enough? You will need to see your book through from beginning to end, and this can be a lengthy process. 3)Are you willing to take a risk? You can't be afraid to take plunge, you have to believe in yourself!

Tracy Lyn Moland, self-published author of Mom Management - Managing Mom Before Everybody else, states that when she started to write her book, she didn't realize self-publishing was even an option. Tracy Lyn discovered that a well-defined business and marketing plan had to be put into place. There were also different considerations to be made such as learning what market to target your book to, who to hire to design your book cover, layout and editing and how to get book into bookstores and online. Tracy's favorite part of self-publishing has been control she was able to maintain over her book.

As a self-publisher you need to be aware of your personal marketing abilities, in order to get your book sold, you have to get out there and sell it. The advantages of publishing your own book can be plentiful.

By choosing to self-publish, you only have yourself to convince. You have enthusiasm for a book that you have written, and you know that there is a market available for it. You don't have to give anyone else final say of what you put in your book, how it is to be marketed or any thing else. You have complete and total control when you self-publish. Once you have successfully self-published your book you can always negotiate with a large publisher to produce your book since you have experience in market.

Your book can be printed in just a few weeks instead of waiting for a large publisher, which usually takes over a year to print and get into bookstores. By that time you could be on your second printing. You can also get distribution for your book through Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com just as easily as any larger publisher can.