Quote: (12-28-2017 09:08 AM)Beirut Wrote:
I appreciate the sentiment and understand why you thought so. But its not initiative im lacking since i have built a business and worked hard for it, its just not online.
Im interested in what kids these days are doing.
And anyway, forums and whatnot are, in the end, words and relayed info. Just like books.
If you work extremely hard at something you will learn it eventually, yes. But there is a faster and more effective way and there is a slower way. And when this is a side thing, time becomes even more crucial.
If a good resource doesnt exist, its because noone has written it yet. Not because it cant.
Although i appreciate that online changes so much that you have to join forums/groups to stay updated. For example, you offered help here. Peope will have questions and you will answer them.
Thats what a good learning book can do. Anticipates what those will be and answers them. Anyway doesnt even have to be a book. Just the best resources.
Sure trial and error works but picking the brain of someone more experienced to jump to what works isnt so bad either, which is what those forums will give anyway.
I want to do a little rant on books, being that you and I presume many other people reading this, come from an offline business background, where books make a lot more sense than they do here.
Why do people write books? Legacy, art, money, or to help people.
What drives people to become crazy good at AM? Money. That's usually it. Or legacy, but they know they need money to make that legacy, they're not looking to build a legacy as "the best AM author ever".
As we've established in this thread, truly next level guys are doing 5 figures/day. So why would they ever ever want to take the time to write and market a how-to book that will teach their future competition how to do what they do, and in the end most likely make them far less money than they were already making?
So let's just do away with the notion that anybody is going to give you their secret sauce.
Now who does push info products and 'how to make money online books'? GURUS! Yayy, gurus. Fucking scumbags. When the ROI goes down, the guru course goes up. Just ask Jason A. He's a legit super affiliate and made a site mocking gurus because he hates them so much:
https://thosethatcantdoteach.com/gurukilla
But gurus, if they're successful, are really only making money selling things to people that want to make money. Their niche is "sell shit to complete noobs that will be easily romanced". And since there's a constant supply of noobs that don't know better than to blow $599 on some useless info-course, some of em do alright.
Plus, most of the ebooks you'll see floating around are afterthoughts and trash, basically fancied up forum posts from 2-5 years ago.
Now if we're talking about REAL business books, then sure I think there are a ton of amazing ones out there for the budding businessman. But general stuff. The classics. Tony Robbins, Cialdini, Cashvertising (this should be your bible if you want to write copy that converts), mindset books, managerial structure books if you're at that stage, startup books like From Zero To One, etc etc. IMO these are things to supplement along the way, not start with.
/rant
I'm all for learning shortcuts too. If you want to pay someone really good at this to actually train you, if you can find someone willing, it'll cost a fuckload of money because they'd rather be doing other things. Otherwise, the best teacher is experience. But you say you want to do this part time.. this is not a part time gig, especially when you're starting out.
Re your points about books anticipating.. you sort of answered your own question there. This stuff changes constantly, a book would be irrelevant inside of a year. Plus all the above logic re: why you won't find a good AM how-to book. I haven't looked but I'd be pretty shocked if such a thing exists.