6/29/2007
- 4 Hour Work Week Review
Yesterday Chris Knudsen and I went out to lunch. He said he had finished reading the 4 Hour Workweek on a plane a few days before and he kept thinking “This is John Jonas” as he read it.
Last night I finished reading it.
A few thoughts.
1. The stuff he says in the book is possible for anyone.
2. It’s not as easy as he makes it sound (what ever is?).
3. Making a lot of money, and then taking “mini-retirements” is VERY possible.Read pages 166-176 where Tim gives a system for testing a product before putting up money to have it manufactured.
Basically it involves
- Find a market
- Find a need/product in that market
- Put up a short sales page online
- Put up an order page after the sales page where someone thinks they’re going to buy (but don’t collect their credit card info)
- Advertise on Google Adwords
- Track sales
Most people get stuck on
- Find a product
- Put up a sales page
Here’s how to solve them:
- In an area you know something about (golf, scrapbooking, construction, health, diet, souping up cars, paper, …), pick a product you know people want/need. IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT IT IS. Just pick something. Once you’ve done it and failed once, finding another product and succeeding the second time is much easier.
- Write a headline, 2 sub-headlines, and about 500 words of sales copy. Then hire someone on elance.com to put it on a website for you (it’l cost you between $100-$500).
Simple.
So why am I writing this “review”? Because Tim put onto paper a bunch of ideas/thoughts I’ve had over the past years/months. Because I’m planning my first extended trip overseas right now (because of the book). Because it’s something you should read.
Because tons of people are reading this book right now but after they’re done with it, nothing changes. They just go back to their J-O-B and talk about how it would be cool if they could actually do what Tim talks about.
You Can!
PS. Please don’t come to me asking me to help you sell your idea unless:- You’ve already done (or are willing to do) a significant amount of work on it
- You’re willing to give me half of your business
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8/29/2006
- Review of Revenge of the Mini-Net
Earlier today I did a review of revenge of the mini-net, the ebook.
I didn’t actually review it, I summarized it and added a bunch of my own advice and experience into the summary.
Within minutes of sending it out I got this email back from someone whos email signature includes
SEO Specialist, [Company Name]
John, this is the best SEO information I have read all year!!!
This is also some of the best info you have ever given to me personally!
This is the reason I do the internet marketing reviews.
I like getting the feedback from people and I especially like helping people out.
If you’re involved in SEO or in running your own business IMO (in this case is not an HO because it’s my own writing), this is worth reading.
Whoever you were who sent me the email (you know who you are), You’re welcome.
Note: I don’t claim to be the best SEO around. I’m not. So all you SEO experts can now feel free to call me an idiot after reading what I said about creating mini-nets.
[tags]revenge of the mini-net, review revenge of the mini-net, seo, seo review[/tags]
7/13/2006
- I can’t take it anymore
I’ve sat quiet long enough.
The email I got this morning was the last straw.
But first, here’s why I’m posting this.
I buy a lot of information products.
“How to make a gazillion dollars in 24 hours”
“How to get a gazillion links to your website”
“How to build a gazillion person email list”
“How to make gazillions off of adsense”Some of them I buy to read at a later date. Some of them I read now.
Some of them have really good information in them.
Some of them are COMPLETE CRAP.
Because I buy a bunch of stuff, I have also been subscribed to a ton of
internet marketing “guru” newsletters.I get tons of emails every day from them.
You know who they are, because you get them too. The ones who tell you:
“Don’t just send sales pitches to your email list. Send them valuable
information. And if you want to learn how to do this, BUY XXXXX!”Then they proceed to send you an email every single day telling you to
buy something.It ticks me off, and I’ve had enough of it.
So, for a long time now I’ve thought about reviewing all these products.
The ones that are good, I’ll tell you I think it was good.
The ones that are bad, I’ll tell you it’s total garbage.
The ones that have some good info in them, I just might summarize the good
parts of it for you so you don’t have to buy it.I haven’t started doing this yet because I don’t have the time to do it, but
the email I got this morning was the last straw.It was an email from Joel Comm advertising another one of his 500 words sites.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I totally respect Joel. I know the guy is a genious, but
the links he’s selling on these sites are complete CRAP.Don’t buy them!
Why?
Look at the most recent site:
http://www.499sites.com
IT’S A PAGERANK 0!!!
Who are these people?
They’re paying between $50-$100 for a link from a pagerank 0 page!
And whats worse, this page isn’t about anything!
How much help do you think a link from a PR0 page that isn’t about your
topic is going to help you in Google OR Yahoo (Ok, so MSN is stupid, it might
help you there…).IT WON’T.
But it gets worse!
On 499sites.com I clicked on the blog link and find a page that has a huge
testimonial from Michael Cheney saying how much of a genious Joel Comm
is with his software because Michael earned $21796.13 in the first 36 hours.THIS IS SUCH A SCAM.
Of course Michael Cheney earned that. He set up a site, mailed it out to his
list of people who trust him, and they all bought these garbage links.And it still gets worse!
Joel is selling the software for these sites to people like you and I.
How in the world do you think you’re going to make money with these sites
unless you have an email list of 50,000 webmasters who don’t really know
what they’re doing?YOU’RE NOT!
Ok, ok…ok
Enough with the rant.
But you get it now.
If you want to buy links to promote your website, buy them from a site that’s
at least somewhat related to yours. Or, at least buy them from a high PR
site.So, I’m going to start a newsletter for this:
http://www.whatscrapandwhatsnot.com
I won’t review every info product out there, but I’ll go back and review some
of the ones I’ve read over the past year. I’ll tell you which ones stunk and
which ones are great.John
[tags]internet marketing,marketing guru,500 words review[/tags]
6/15/2006
- Review on “High Performance Affiliate Marketing” by Jeremy Palmer
Last night I finished “reading” Jeremy Palmer’s book on affiliate marketing.
I say “reading” because it took me about 15 minutes to get through the last 70 pages of it.
I bought it because Janet said he’s an expert on building affiliate sites.
He may be an expert (I trust Janet), but his book stinks.
I didn’t get a single idea from it.
It’s basically a regurgitation of every other book on internet marketing that has ever been put out, except he left out the details.
It’s not exactly “High Performance” stuff in there. It’s really a basic guide to what affiliate marketing is.
I don’t understand why he didn’t just detail exactly what he does to do this stuff.
Why didn’t he talk about using joomla or drupal or some other cms to build sites.
Why didn’t he talk about the secrets of using PPC. Why not talk about the details and secrets of getting links to the sites.
Instead, he says that you can get traffic to your site using ppc and that seo is important.
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