Yesterday my copy of Problogger’s book – Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income arrived in the mail from Amazon! Now everyone knows I cant read a book so I would be lying if I said I have read the whole thing or am going to read the whole thing. But it has topped the stack of books for “on the can” reading and also “while cooking breakfast”.
My initial reaction thumbing through the book is that it looks pretty good. It looks to be a great walk through on everything from blogging software to getting started to finding profitable niches.
Actually I really like the chapter on finding profitable niches. There are some really good tips there.
Also it uses a lot of real world blogs to show case studies. I saw eMom Wendy in there…. hmm no mention of shoemoney (whats up d?). Its all good though.
The book is only $19 on amazon. Congratulations to Darren Rowse and Chris Garnett. Its been a really hard process for me writing the shoemoney playbook and I give major props to these busy guys getting this done!
I highly recommend buying this book.
April 30, 2008 at 9:50 am
So when can we expect the first in the ShoeMoney triliogy??
Warm geeky regards,
“TheAdmiN”
April 30, 2008 at 10:01 am
mine is in the mail already, has to be some good bits in there
April 30, 2008 at 10:18 am
Heh; love the expression in the second picture…
April 30, 2008 at 10:31 am
is Daren paying you to advertise his book?
April 30, 2008 at 10:32 am
Just the reading part is left
I too received the book.
April 30, 2008 at 10:32 am
Have recently ordered a copy of this, so am happy to get your endorsement of this product. Your endorsement will definitely generate some more business for these nice people. Nice of you Shoe, am looking forward to the Shoemoney Playbook, consider the order placed!
April 30, 2008 at 10:34 am
I am sure Darren isnt paying. Actually he deserves the reviews
April 30, 2008 at 10:39 am
This doesn’t exist on amazon.co.uk…. Annoying!
April 30, 2008 at 10:49 am
Shoe, I am very much like you, there are only a few times a day I can sit down and read a book.. The Problogger book looks like a good one for the John J. Crapper rack!
April 30, 2008 at 10:49 am
Who is Chris Garnett??
April 30, 2008 at 11:17 am
I love the second photo, that is hilarious… looks like you just figured out how to achieve world peace
April 30, 2008 at 11:29 am
Being a chick I of course am checking out your kitchen. I love the stainless steal fridge, did you polish that before photo time. LOL:)
I dig Darren, not sure I’m going to buy the book though.
April 30, 2008 at 12:01 pm
my problem is i live in phlippines and it takes months before it arrives
April 30, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Probably not Darren, but a company with a name of a big river may be.
April 30, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I can’t believe your friend made you buy the book. I think I will have to pick up a copy.
April 30, 2008 at 12:41 pm
That look is priceless on your face. Are you sure there isn’t snuff pictures in there? Seriously though, I think I will probably purchase as throne reading material. props to Darren and Chris.
April 30, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Definitely comes highly recommended. Have any other peeps here read this book?
April 30, 2008 at 1:39 pm
It is a tiny bit annoying, however it only takes a few more days from the US. I’ll definately be getting a copy.
April 30, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I don’t know why but I just don’t like buying things in a different currency when I’m not in the country. Makes me feel uneasy!
April 30, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Unfortunately it’s not always such a small world after all… Now all I need to get my message across is a man made river and some freakish looking automatic dolls. Yes I can see it now….
April 30, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Seems this book is really helpful. Willing to buy my copy. BTW i like your second picture
your expression…..
April 30, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Not available in India ?
April 30, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Great to see folks in the blogging community authoring books. That should be motivation for others to hone their skills and write some good printable content.
The upstairs kitchen is much nicer than the one in the basement, all you need now is a swimming pool, and you’re set for the summer.
April 30, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I agree. Sweet fridge. I was looking at the plants on top of the cabinets. EVERYONE does that. In my condo, I have cabinets to the ceiling.
I’ll have to look into this book. I’m a bad novice blogger, so I could use the help!
April 30, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I looked for a download copy from Amazon but couldn’t find one. Would be great if it becomes available in download or as a audio book.
April 30, 2008 at 4:22 pm
haha same here!
April 30, 2008 at 4:49 pm
It’s a shame that the book isn’t available as a downloadable format. Looking on the problogger site there is a chapter that can be downloadable so that you can get a sense of what the book is like.
April 30, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I’m looking forward to reading this book. I have a feeling that it will help even people that have been blogging for a while
April 30, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Available everywhere probably!
April 30, 2008 at 5:26 pm
So what’s going on with your book? I’d buy that.
April 30, 2008 at 5:28 pm
i brought the book. waiting for my copy
April 30, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Thanks for the mention Jeremy – and for the pics. I’m still yet to hold one in my hands so it’s good to see it actually exists!
IN terms of those from outside the US wanting a copy there’s two options:
1. order from Amazon who ship to most places. I ordered a book last week and got it in 5 days here to Australia
2. it’ll have a global release and is expected to hit stores in most counties in 4-6 weeks. I’ve had one person in India tell me that he had success in ordering it from a bookstore there – they don’t have stock yet but are getting one in for him. He just gave them the ISBN number.
thanks again Jeremy
April 30, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Good News Darren!!
I am waiting for mine to be delivered, will give it a little review on my site when I get the chance!
April 30, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Is that one of those antique books you’re holding? Like those things made out of paper?
You would think with the technology today you would be able to just download a book in digital form.
~Terry
April 30, 2008 at 8:29 pm
nope but I did use a aff link… i mean cmon
April 30, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Maybe Mr. Shoemoney hasn’t been doing anything spectacular to get into the book?
You nkow I’m just messing.
-Mike
April 30, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Okay, by the look on your face I’m convinced, I’ll get it.
April 30, 2008 at 9:58 pm
OK…LOL,i brought the book. waiting for my copy
April 30, 2008 at 11:06 pm
All you people who are commenting here are probably not the most likely candidates to be buying/reading that book, as you already know all the basic “secrets”.
April 30, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Global release has made it a big hit, otherwise being just in a few countries would have sucked!
May 1, 2008 at 1:36 am
One question Shoe – I checked out that JohnCow is making around 2500 from just over 100,000 pageviews .
How does he reach that much ?
May 1, 2008 at 1:54 am
Yeah I am waiting for the Shoemoney Playbook ?
Please include some nude pics too .
May 1, 2008 at 1:55 am
Yes i agree with that .
But i would be interested in reading shoemoney’s playbook .
May 1, 2008 at 1:57 am
It would take atmost 2 weeks to get your copy .
May 1, 2008 at 1:59 am
Thats a smart thing to do .
May 1, 2008 at 2:00 am
you mean you bought it …….
May 1, 2008 at 2:13 am
Thanks to the internet and international mail, this book should be pretty much available anywhere!
May 1, 2008 at 2:35 am
I know what you mean – I used to feel like that, but it’s worth getting over it
May 1, 2008 at 2:37 am
That’s good to know, thanks. I don’t know if I can’t wait that long though. I think I’ll order a copy from the US
May 1, 2008 at 3:10 am
Very good news indeed. Thanks for the update Darren
May 1, 2008 at 3:52 am
Heh that was some weird picture in the book that might have struck his eyes lol :p
May 1, 2008 at 4:24 am
i trust u can be better clever blogger and richer
May 1, 2008 at 4:35 am
I’ll buy this book, i think it’s great!
May 1, 2008 at 6:23 am
Based on the look of amazement on your face, I think it MUST be worth the money
May 1, 2008 at 6:24 am
Eh, as long as you can use paypal, personally, I’m happy.
May 1, 2008 at 6:38 am
I think you may be getting confused. If your not John Chows page views to money ratio will astound you.
Total Earnings: $31,441.24
Blog traffic for March was 282,424 page views from 152,523 unique visitors.
May 1, 2008 at 9:09 am
I have ordered a copy of their book. Thanks for the heads-up. I would have expected a little something on you guys. Books are a nice break from the PC.
May 1, 2008 at 10:58 am
Okay, by the look on your face I’m convinced, I’ll get it.
May 1, 2008 at 10:59 am
OK.LOL,i brought the book. waiting for my copy…
May 1, 2008 at 11:00 am
Форум о поисковой оптимизации
May 1, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Yep, I ordered a copy today myself. I’m also interested in the “picking a niche” section.
:O)
george
May 1, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Which pic you were convinced with? :p
May 1, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Shoemoney Playbook is apparently coming out Spring 2008. I’m definitely looking forward to it!
May 1, 2008 at 4:24 pm
He was obviously referring to some form of kinky sex being a profitable niche and I am sure he had graphic pics…
May 1, 2008 at 4:25 pm
what chapter was that on the grand ol’ book on blogging.
May 1, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Shoe just posted on wicked fire that he was reading the chapter on viral blogging, it was talking about how posting the goatse pic would help you go viral and increase profits.
May 1, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I always like playing the “Who will make more money” game. Will problogger make more from his book sale then shoe from amazon during the next week? Shoe will get sales and hopefully get other big items added to the cart. PB will be getting books moved…
May 1, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Translation please?
May 1, 2008 at 10:09 pm
For sure! If you’re going to post about a book that is available on Amazon you might as well post you affiliate link. If people are going to buy from Amazon, you might as well buy it through an affiliate link because Amazon doesn’t need 100% of the profit now do they?
~Terry
May 1, 2008 at 11:03 pm
bought it, in the mail =]
May 2, 2008 at 5:29 am
PayPal is quite safe, and a non-reputable site won’t be a vendor. You’ll be quite OK ordering the book via the internet.
May 2, 2008 at 5:49 am
Sold out already (and Shoe your affil link has broke). Looks like the rich get richer, great work Darren, I’ve reserved my copy.
May 2, 2008 at 5:55 am
Seems like the ebook has received great reviews.I have to buy it, hopefully it will be available soon again.
May 2, 2008 at 7:14 am
I hope you can give us your free make money online ebook like darren did. Thx.
May 2, 2008 at 9:21 am
I’m sure the book is great, but I’m totally distracted by your beautiful kitchen
May 2, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I’m new to all this, so I think I’ll check the book out.
And yes, your kitchen is awesome
May 3, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I’m just buying the book now.. can’t wait to read it
May 4, 2008 at 12:59 am
Does anyone else have an “Honest Review”, posted elsewhere besides shoe?
I would consider buying it.
May 4, 2008 at 10:51 am
are you saying shoe is not honest?
just kidding, i’m also interested in other reviews before i buy
May 4, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I got my copy of the book over the weekend but it was damaged. As I glanced through it I think it has a lot of decent content but really it is just a physical copy of some of their posts.
May 4, 2008 at 8:11 pm
thanks for for recommending!
May 5, 2008 at 3:50 am
Me three! Where can we place advance orders?
May 5, 2008 at 4:02 am
Geez, some of you guys only got dirty minds! The look of surprise was surely feigned to indicate surprise at some “trade secret” that was dispensed in the Problogger book?
May 5, 2008 at 4:07 am
Affiliate Marketing is what it is all about. There are 16,000 odd subscribers to the Shoemoney RSS feed, so if one is dedicating a page to punting something, there are bound to be some leads generated, and sales converted from this traffic. It is only fair to have a percentage for one’s troubles.
May 5, 2008 at 4:12 am
Feel your pain. If you think the UK is bad, try ordering stuff via the internet from South Africa. The money transfer thing (especially if you don’t have a credit card) is bad, but the unreliability of the postal service is something else! This is Africa, after all!
May 5, 2008 at 4:17 am
Hahahahah….you must be confusing the Shoe with the Hugh…..Playbook sounds similar to Playmoney, but methinks the stuff being marketed in the two publications might be a tad different…
May 5, 2008 at 4:22 am
Assimilation whilst excreting….sort of the old making way for the new…now poo and new does rhyme, so maybe we can come up with something that sounds like this…
Excrete the dirty old poo
Whilst assimilating knowledge new
My english teacher must be rolling in her grave….
May 5, 2008 at 4:56 pm
My recommendation is to go and read some of their posts to determine their authority.
May 6, 2008 at 6:00 pm
As far as the Shoemoney book goes,
I’m just gonna wait for the movie.
May 7, 2008 at 1:47 am
Do they have this for Kindle? Not that I have one, but I thought that it’d be cool to read it on one. Kinda new-age book-reading for a Web 2.0 book.
May 7, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Is there any PDF copy or not?
I would like to read PDF if it is possible.
May 7, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Besides, anybody have already read this book???
May 8, 2008 at 6:56 am
I am going to buy this book
Can’t wait to read it.
May 8, 2008 at 7:24 am
I had just thought that your mouth and eyes wide open on the picture is in great combination and rhythm.
May 11, 2008 at 12:01 am
I think I’m enjoying the pictures on your blog immensely.
May 11, 2008 at 12:02 am
So how about a summary in the book’s lessons as a post in the future?
November 10, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Ok! I got my copy just today with help of a relative from Amazon. I am going to read it. I do not know why I did not go quickly for this but let’s see. Now I am ready to digest it and will post my thoughts at my site.
Thanks…