I have been investing hundred of dollars in buying ebooks since the past 2 years. Like anyone else, i am inspired by how those authors claimed, “you can make $50/day or even $100 /day by using my method!” But obviously, i am not making $50 or more per day. For example, there’s an ebook that i bought which is about website flipping last time. The title is “Earn $500 per day by flipping websites! Guarranteed!” The title seems kind of addicting right? Wow, if i can make $500 per day, i am earning $15000 per month.
Well, i bought it and LOL, basically it just teach you the basics of what is site flipping? how he create his site, where to sell it. This may be good to newbies but i doubted the results would be same for everyone. The information given in the book are just common sense. Since then, i stopped buying ebooks that claims to be able to make you money online. If people are really making $500 per day, why would they bother to sell their ebook for just $5 instead of using the time to duplicate their “proven” method? Making more money?
My research on money making ebooks
Most of the money making ebooks are written by “kids” and of low quality. Methods might works now, but after a while, it won’t. Reasons may due to saturated market. Mostly, this ebooks are being sold in webmaster forums like digitalpoint. However, there are exceptions good books such as Holly Mann internet marketing book etc.
Many people buy books to learn something new or want to make money online. But common mistakes that we make are that we have not change our mindset to learn the new things. Among 100 people that bought the book, 85 people just read it, 10 people practice the method, and only 5 people with the correct mindset and attitude master it. If you ask me, Derek, are those making money ebook for real? I could have say to some extent. Though there are some black sheeps ( scammers) of the trade, there are others that really works. So, see the reviews before buying.
But for me, after wasting so much money in those money making ebooks ( which none of them works after a couple of weeks or months), i’m not wasting my bloody money on them anymore. Someone told me this sentence that kind of given me some insights.
“Don’t rely your success on others, rely on yourself”
So, despite on just buying ebooks that contain methods on making money from others, why not invest in yourself, buying inspiration books, designing / programming books or any other books that teaches you a skill? I think those help more and i am 100% sure that you are learning things that “really works”. This is a more worthwhile investment.
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I agree, ebooks are a waste of a lot of money and time – free forums like DP have heaps of great free info
Totally agree, I to have wasted money on ebooks, and because of this I did my best to get as many free ones as possible and make them available to all on my website.
Hope you don’t mind me posting the link.
Free Money Making Ebooks
@Otooo : yes, why buy it when you can get it free?
@Steve: thanks for sharing the info.
I agree that almost all such ebooks are written for beginners of internet….and you can get a lot more information free by Googling.
If something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Many new marketers still got cheated by too many such ebooks that barely scratch the surface of what the subject is about. A good way is to enrol in an affiliate marketing school.
@Franck Silvestre: Thanks for your advice, so do you have any affiliate marketing school that you can recommend to our interested readers?