- ISBN13: 9781600371738
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Product Description
While the general public is familiar with the larger Internet companies such as Yahoo!, Google, eBay and Amazon, very few are aware that small business is thriving online like never before, especially in the realm of information products. Click Here creates an entertaining and instructive narrative that provides an in-depth look at the unintentionally underground movement known as Infoproduct marketing, and the people who have profited and succeeded in the industry…. More >>
Click Here to Order: Stories of the World’s Most Successful Internet Marketing Entrepreneurs
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March 5th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
I found Click HERE to Order an entertaining account of internet history. I learned a few things too. I find Joel’s writing entertaining most of the time and in an easy going style.
I did find it hard to follow numerous times as it is neither written chronologically nor in nearly as topical a format as the table of contents may suggest. Chapters seemed to just “take off” & go totally another direction than it started out. To a certain extent I believe this is the nature of the beast considering the topic Joel is attempting to document. (Glad I wasn’t MY job to document this history!)
Still I, found it entertaining & worth my time & money. Since I was familiar with most of the players already it helped fill in a number of interesting gaps. Also, there was an obvious effort to do thorough research about the beginnings of the world wide web and early browsers as well.
Just don’t consider it as the end all, be all documentation of history of the internet & all of the marketers. It is more a good old boy accounting of many of his friends and acquaintances. Since Joel is one of the power houses of internet marketing that DOES include many (if not most) of the more important people in this industry who may be considered pioneers.
So I would say, sure go ahead, purchase it, enjoy it.
Rex
Rating: 3 / 5
March 5th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
I was at one of the companies that Joel cites in the book. Every fact and I do mean every fact, even the smallest details, he writes about are incorrect. Therefore, I have little confidence in any of the ‘facts’ in the book. Skip this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 5th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
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Rating: 5 / 5
March 5th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I read this book hoping to want to take notes throughout and get some takeaways about how successful people have marketed and succeeded in online business. I own an offline business and would love to someday make money online with my knowledge.
But internet business has changed so much that while these stories of early successful online marketers were entertaining, they didn’t hold a whole lot of concrete, specific insights to take away.
In addition, the paths to success were so circuitous that it often felt like listening to a rambling person at a party – you find them interesting but would they just cut to the chase already.
If you are at the point where you are devouring info on successful people so you can feel a connection with other people who are a success, then this is a great book to read. If you’re looking for specific takeaways, beyond just the biggest concepts (automate, don’t give up, etc), then try Blog Blazers or Problogger instead.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 5th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
I was greatly and positively surprised, that it’s possible to write “one more” book about so called internet marketing heroes, and make it a so great read, that I finished it all the way on plane from Bangkok to Amsterdam – I just could not put it down.
Now, of course why and what you can find in there.
1. Author claims himself as adsense expert, but I need to tell, he should take a writers carrier – he can write great fictions – his writing style is so great, interesting, fun and entertaining – well, I wish I could write like that. You will enjoy the writing only, not talking about the content.
2. History – in fact the book is a history based on conversations with those, who formed the industry – well, gain I need to tell, you should be from this sect – SEO/SEM/PPC/ROI/ORM and all those letter should make you dizzy and euphoric – only then you will truly enjoy this book.
3… and only then you will see some hidden gems and secrets there. Because this book is NOT written in imbecilic interview style with a really guru in marketing, where author asks:
- Mhm, where you host your site?
- Mhm, what is an e-book, and what is a pdf?
You know what I mean. Joel Comms book is free from those imbecile questions, and more – he does not made it in interview style, instead it’s flowing on like a river, smoothly, and besides the stories, author practicaly throws in a hints where he touches ths or that topic.
Impressive, that’s all I can say
Rating: 5 / 5