October 24th, 2008
Do You Really Need To Buy Books On Internet Marketing?
If you are like me, you must have asked someone (with Internet Marketing experience) before if they can recommend you any books on Internet Marketing when you are starting out. Do a search in Amazon and you will be presented with tons of highly commented books ranging from Internet Millionaires to work from home guides. But do you really need them?
In my opinion, 90% of the Internet Marketing books currently in the market are outdated or the content can be easily found in blogs. I have came across some books that still illustrate and encourage readers on using link & banner exchange scheme. I find these techniques rarely work nowadays.. For me, the best approach to learn is to follow the authorities or the experts. During the past few years, the following people have built up enough creditability around their domain and I’m glad to share these valuable free resources with you.
Blogging to Success
Yaro Starak, who is a good friend of ProBlogger, Darren, has published an excellent guide teaching people how to create a blog and earns a sustainable income. You can download the guide, Blog Profits Blueprints in his blog by subscribing to his blog tips newsletter.
I have made a comparison between Yaro and John Chow’s eBook sometime ago as well.
Internet Business Enlightenment
Created by Rich Schefren, the Internet Business Manifesto has totally enlighten me and changed my mindset on how I perceive this online business opportunity. You can download this free eBook here. If you only have time to read an ebook from this post. Read this.
Affiliate Marketing
Paul Bourque at UberAffiliate has published an invaluable Affiliate Marketing Guide that illustrates useful tips from choosing a niche to keyword research. This guide is pretty comprehensive as Paul filters out a lot of redundancy on the Net and only link to useful techniques that work 
Internet Marketing Videos
Perhaps you are also looking for some seminars or conference recordings so as to see the super affiliates or big earners in action. You are in luck! Shawn Collins, who is the co-founder of the Affiliate Summit, the leading industry conference for affiliate marketing, has been putting up recordings of the Summit for free viewing. I have personally viewed a few series of this year’s Affiliate Summit East / West and I must say that you will definitely find the videos worth every bit of your time!
The videos are available at the Affiliate Summit video section here. You need to register to access the videos. Some previews of Affiliate Summit:
Do let me know if you came across any free resources that you feel should be brought up in this thread by leaving me a comment. Thank you!
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