Ebooks to Help Grow Your Business on the Internet

I have read and summarized over two hundred ebooks on the subject of building a business on the Internet. I’ll share with you the ones I consider most valuable. Some are valuable because of the useful information they provide while others offer provocation, entertainment or just pure writing quality. Here is the first half of my list, and perhaps dearest to my heart.

5 Bucks A Day Junior

This excellent book by Dennis Becker explains how to create passive income one small step at a time. Mr Becker is an engineer, a fact that shines through in his thinking.
 

Adwords Blackbook

 
Written by ‘X’, this is one of the two most entertaining Internet Marketing books I’ve read. His writing makes you feel you can conquer the world. It has been sold out since 2006 and so I'm only teasing you. I may share some excerpts from it later

Campaign Blasts

Matt Levenhagen gives a blueprint for finding a successful affiliate product by force. Mr Levenhagen's delightful technique appears in Dennis Becker's (see above). Mr Levenhagen' gives battle-hardened techniques for selecting 20 or so products, promoting them with Google adwords, discarding the losers and keeping with profitable ones. Simple and powerful.
 

The Attention Age Doctrine Volume Two: Web Marketing 2.0

 
Rich Shefren's scary smile aside, his book oozes thoroughness. It provoke thought on the importance of being an honored guest with your prospects and customers rather than a party crasher. Its a big read which doesn’t lend itself to skimming and, I confess, it left me with a sort-of sense of hopelessness. Self-doubts aside Mr Shefren’s thesis rings true.
 

Joe Mack Way - 22 Step Plan

 
Joe Mack, a regular contributor on the Warrior forum, started a thread about 'Article Marketing' outlining 22 achievable steps anyone could do. Dave Gammage packaged it up into a pdf and released at no cost. Its a classic. Here is the idea in a nutshell:

  • find three related affiliate products
  • create 5 web pages containing related articles and affiliate links
  • Set up a 5-part autoresponder sequence
  • write an autoresponder squeeze page
  • over the next month, submit to EzineArticles 40 articles over a month, eachcontaining a link to the squeeze page

    • Simple, powerful, brilliant, achievable. I'll post a link to the eBook later
     

    Mass Control

     
    Frank Kern is a dude. Like many people, I’ll look at anytthing he produces. He is a real-life example of Shefren’s Attention Age thesis, and more
     

    Renegade Adwords Strategy

     
    This was a bonus for buying Xtreme Conversions (an excellent product in itself) through the affiliate link of a young man I only know as ‘John’. John’s wrote the book in English, his second language, so the book has grammarical idiosyncracies but what audacious techniqes and attitudes he displays! I've lost contact with John and so can't provide a copy but If you have it somewhere on your hard disk, read it.

    Operation Affiliate Storm

    Another excellent step by step procedure, this time for joining a product launch. It is an advanced technique but broken down into small steps so that a beginner could do it. One problem I’ve had is that it requires a week or two of lead time, before the lauch. Annoyingly luanch announcements from popular joint venture networks rarely have that much lead time. Another problem is that the technique works best if you have a review copy of the product or at least a partial copy — which is harder and harder to get especially in on a tight time frame. So you often need to buy any product you consider promoting.

    Adwords 180

    The author, who declines to identify himself, claims to have experience with huge Google Adwords campaigns. He explains in precise how to use the Google's Content Network, an area of Adwords that many advertisers avoid out of fear of runaway costs, and how to avoid surprises. I couldn’t keep from smiling as he revealed layer after layer of guerilla Adwords techniques.

    Project Quick Cash

    Alok Jain offers ninja techniques for capitalizing on fads, powerful trends and more. The book’s subheading is “Got A Minute? Encash It…” Gotta love the word “encash”.

    Affiliate Rock Star Status

    Any book that doesn’t show me how to set up Clickbank and Adwords accounts goes to the top of my pile. This excellent book by Erik Rockefeller shares characteristics with Chris McNeeney’s books because Chris and others from the DJK team contributed.

    New Age Millions

    Perhaps it has a silly name, has an annoying banner with a goofy-looking dude at the top of each page and lacks a table of contents and worse, lacks soul -- but it delivers a solid introductory survey of tools and techniques for so-called Web 2.0 Markeing: video, Craig’s List, Yahoo answers, Myspace, Facebook, Squidoo...
     

    More In Part Two

     
    That is the first half of my list of Internet business development books that I have found helpful, provocative or entertaining. Later I'll share the second half of the list and some favorite tools.