2. Making Money Online. Mmmm, doesn't that sound
awesome! Easy money, right? Well, maybe it could be
according to millionaire internet pioneer, Marc Ostrofsky.
In his book, Get Rich Click, Ostrofsky provides multiple
moneymaking ideas and examples of people who used
them to made money online, big money. Additionally to
several pages of accolades on the book (mostly from other
successful online marketers), the book contains 17 full
chapters of methods to potentially break into the internet
monetary market. Mr. Ostrofsky also gives the reader
input on developing a mindset to get into this business,
plus loads of references to resources for tools or
additional information.
3. What I liked about this book is the fact that is does indeed
deliver the goods. The methods presented are proven
methods for making money on the internet and Ostrofsky
gives you enough information about the method to at
least get your started, should you wish to pursue further.
So in regards to quantity, this book is a hands down
winner. If I sat down and wrote out a list of every single
way you might be able to make money on the internet,
from selling personal items on eBay to selling domain
names for millions of dollars (Ok maybe the domain name
for millions of dollars isn't up for grabs anymore - unless
you are keeping your eye on the future of the dotMobi
domains), I don't think I could have covered the field any
better than this book does.
4. The other thing I liked about this book is the resources
provided. Within every method described in the book,
Ostrofsky does a good job of providing links to resources
for tools or providers that are valuable to the newbie
entrepreneur. Additionally, at the end of the book, there is
a whole chapter dedicated to resource and supplier
information.
5. Because Get Rich Click is packed with information that
serious lookers for internet opportunities could benefit
from, I highly recommend it. I applaud the authors style to
present important key processes in easy to follow
numbered sequences or with bullet points. As someone
who reads a high volume of technical information on the
web or in books, it is refreshing to see the steps broken
down into little chunks that are easy to read and digest.
The book is also broken down into small sub chapters so it
goes pretty quick and for those of us that may only be
interested in one specific method or two, the book is laid
out to easily accommodate them. I don't recommend this
of course, because you will not get your money's worth
from the book by just cherry picking a method or two.
7. Despite my recommendation of the book, to give fair
warning for anyone with their hand hovered over the "buy
now" button on Amazon; I would like to point out a few
things I did not like about the book.
8. First - although the book appears to be organized in a nice
standard Microsoft Word Outline with titles, and sub-titles
with text attached to it, sometimes the organization of the
author's thoughts get a little off course. For example, in
the chapter titled "Collecting Your Payments - Fast and
Easy", the author gets into collecting payment with credit
cards and using drop shipping and so on. So far, so good.
But then right in the midst of that, he presents a flow
chart and a concept about Database Marketing and talks
about the qualifying and selling leads. What? What does
this have to do with getting paid? I found examples of this
ADD writing style throughout the book, which could be
more attributed to bad editing than bad authoring, but
either way it does take away from the flow quite a bit.
9. Second - you cannot get through the book without feeling
a little bit snookered either. Clearly many of the references
provided by the author must be obtained by a link back to
his website. No doubt this is for a monetary affiliation
with that referenced product or service. While the book IS
about making money online and I cannot fault the author
for trying to make money as he proposes to you, the
reader, it would be so refreshing to read a book about
online marketing or monetizing that is truly altruistic from
the author (like they claim they are.) "I made money so I
want to give back, blah, blah, blah....." Make no mistake
about it; besides the profits Ostrofsky is making from book
sales, his intention is connecting to you, the reader, as a
potential income source. So, keep that in mind. I
personally don't have an issue with it and frankly, given
10. Finally, the last thing I didn't like about the book is the
author self-aggrandizement that is splashed throughout
the book. Again, this is super typical for this type of book
where the author uses his/her own success as the most
shining example of how to do whatever they are
promoting in their books. Maybe I'm not being fair here,
because of course we wouldn't want to hear from the
author unless they hadn't done something to establish
themselves as an expert on the topic. Still, I keep hoping
to find one that is not like this. I think it is entirely possible
to present your success without coming across as an ego
maniac name dropper. Get Rich Click is not as bad as that
but there was enough self aggrandizement in the book to
irritate me once in a while.
12. Ok so maybe I'm jealous or maybe I just have never been
good a fit for over the top salesy stereotypes that tend to
write these money making books. Hint, hint...does this
mean this type of personality is a requirement in mindset
to be successful? No, I don't really believe that is true. In
fact, when you think about the concepts promoted in this
book for "online" success, which implies individual non-
corporate achievement, self entrepreneurship, and an
independent spirit, then the opposite logically might be
true. I've given Mr. Ostrofsky a little bit a grief for his
salesman like style in the book but nevertheless I still
applaud him for creating a story and an example of
individual spirit and ingenuity. These are the stories that
interest us and make us buy books to see if there is
anything we can do to emulate these stories.
13. This book is just too filled with good information not to
read it. You may have to investigate a little further any
specific method that appeals to you, but the book does
provide a comprehensive overview of each method
presented. I rate a book of this genre, which is intended to
inform and educate, by how much I actually learned. And I
did learn from this book, plus I also got several good ideas
and resources I intent to look into further. I feel you will
too.