Have been busy tweaking and seo’ing my other sites for the last couple of months so reading has taken a bit of a back seat. But now am up to date (and totally brain drained from it all) so moving back to my pile of books.

Currently reading The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell and should finish this today or tomorrow. After reading The Outliers have become a huge fan of Gladwell and cliff notes for Blink will be coming straight after The Tipping Point.

Other than that, there is still some fiction to review, but so many great non-fiction works are coming out at the moment, that fiction is being put on the back burner, but I’ll get to it, addict that I am.

Thanks and enjoy and share.

On my desk waiting for review are:
Blue Genes
Hypnotic Writing
Buying Trances
Your Internet Cash Machine
The Given Day – Dennis Lehane – my hero – can hardly wait to read this one. Might have to do this one first. Ever since Mystic River, been totally in love with his writing. It’s not often that you burst into tears while reading a novel, but he’s done it to me twice. Definitely recommend anything of his without even reading this yet.

Moonlighting on the Internet – that’s what I’m doing now, and I know a lot of people are now beginning to try to find some extra income so this will probably be second on the list.
Silent Grief – and Blue Genes are among the works I’m reading for The Suicide Survival Guide.
Should start writing reviews early next week. Stay tuned.

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Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive by Robert B Cialdini. Review to follow tomorrow. So far no cliff notes. Each chapter a cliff note in itself.

I’ve finished and I’m amazed.

Firstly I think Joel Comm has totally missed his calling and should just concentrate on writing.  He has a real gift and this book is an excellent story, intermingling facts with just enough story to create a rich text.

There is so much information jam packed within the stories of how famous internet marketers like John Reese, Rich Schefren, Rosalind Gardiner, Yanik Silver, Jay Abrahams and hundreds more, all got started and what they are most remembered for.

All of the marketer’s personal stories are overlayed upon the history of how the internet even came to be and what it actually began as and what it has evolved into, to date.

To date being the operative phrase and conclusion of the book as Joel Comm tries to look into the future to see where the next big thing will be.

He finishes off by profiling a story of an Iranian girl, Ladan Lashkari, borrowed from Eric Holmlund’s blog. The cliff note is she doesn’t have one advantage that we do but is still managing to earn $US6,300 a month.

The story from all of these marketers is that they laser focused on one thing or one niche or one topic that they knew and took it from there.  What they learned from their first experiences they took to their second and so on.

So even though what I know is not savory, I also know there’s a huge and growing market for it so I’m taking all the tips I learned and going forward with it.

History is important.  To know where something has come from, you can judge where it may lead.  Joel Comm has given an excellent, and relatively concise history of who, what, when and where and wrapped it in entertaining ditties about the personal struggles of the big guys.

Fantastic and highly recommended read for anyone, but EVERYONE who is even THINKING of starting an online business.

Joel, can we please have more books?  You are a fantastic writer. Well done mate.

Kath

Still sitting on my desk waiting for me to read and review.  Actually I ordered it straight away and it only arrived this afternoon in the same box as Problogging (see last post) and Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive by Robert B Dialdini. So these are the next two I’ll do reviews on while also trying to replace content lost in technical disaster. Still praying my backup will come through via some miracle but seriously doubt it.