Thanks. Rep+ to you both.
THANKS for what looks like a valuable contribution. Some good reviews on the sales page. +5 for you
Thanks OP! Repped you!
\\Review//
Kindle killer?
Nope, not by a long shot. The title sucks and is just one of lots of problems this seller has with this product. Notice I said seller - not writer or author.
I wanted to like this book!
I am doing more Kindle every day. Let me tell you what he gets right:
He reveals additional distribution methods for your books - excellent ones. I use all but one of the sources he mentions. He nails this!
But it's the only thing he nails. He is so busy trying to be a cute marketer with lots of tricks that he forgets to write the f*cking book!
The bad:
You can tell multiple outsourced writers were used to write different parts of the book. The writing "skips" in the level of language used, but most of the writing is poor. It reads like several third world writers were trying to write in English, but all did it poorly.
It's 100% OK to use outsourcers - if and when you know what the f*ck you are doing - he doesn't!
And the overuse of truly bad metaphors?! Does the sound of nails screeching on a blackboard bring any painful memories? The attempts at humor and metaphors used are worse than that!
He totally f*cks up the formating. There are lots of blank pages, errors in basic stuff like paragraph and line breaks. I know what he did - he tried to use the same format submitted as Kindle and a few other sites, and has changed it back to PDF.
Bad move - It looks like a comic book written by a nine-year-old!
This is barely a poor outline for a successful book of any kind. The stats for this are 4,665 words in 54 pages - barely 86 words-per-page - not even one d.amn paragraph-per-page! And this is before you subtract a 383 word disclaimer!
This is because he uses huge and annoying full page graphics to indicate the fields you need to complete on each of the sites to get setup.
So that's it - that is all there is to the process?!
Bullshit!
He doesn't even give you all the basic information about how to use each of the resources he talks about in the book. Some of it is wrong, but most of the necessary stuff is MIA. It is much more complicated to use the sites he mentions than he writes.
The horrible:
At the end of the book - after you have given him your $7+, he has a pitch to sell you another book on the last page!
So you can buy more bullshit!?
Lots of totally dumb crap here guys!
The sales pages for all his books are basic, but (as I always do) - I checked to see if he used an exit pop. So, how does a $7+ ebook become a $5. Click to exit the page!
This is such a stupid mistake! How do you tell someone you were trying to f*ck them on the sales page?
Show them an exit pop - an abandon-avoidance pop - with a price of $5!
And he does try to sell you multiple offers on dime sales with the same id.iotic $5 popup - several times!
Then - being the intelligent people you are - you realize what you just paid to read a 54 page SALES LETTER!
If you want to see how NOT to make a book you want to sell, check this out. He breaks lots of cardinal rules - but one I see most Kindle wannabe writers breaking most often - he offers near-zero value in the intial product.
He assumes buyers are stupid and will buy your backend offer at the end. They won't buy sh.it when you've already f*cked them!
But the best insult - the one that had me laughing out loud! Expect to pay an outsourcer for your "production" - PLUS pay a minimum of $500 to $1500 PER BOOK to have an effective marketing setup of tiered marketing streams for EACH book.
And $400 to as much as $1200 of this is - drum roll please!
For the COVER!
He's actually right about this too. If you use his system, a decent cover will set you back at least $400. I have spent that much for covers before. And 90% of your book sales ANYWHERE are driven by the COVER! He is 100% right about this!
(I don't spend this much on covers now, but I used to do it when I was dumb.)
Only this book - the one you bought that tells you to spend a minimum of $400 to buy a cover - HAS NO F*CKING COVER!
Da.mn! He's totally practicing what he preaches, isn't he?!
Look, there are lots more totally stup.id things this guys does and writes about, but they aren't worth any more of my time.
Read this book and weep! This is no way to either write or market a book effectively - not if you want to be in the self-publishing business tomorrow - or at all.
This is about a seller that thinks he is a slick marketer wanting to sell a book he didn't write - could not possibly have reviewed - to get you into his pipeline to sell you other worthless bullshit he threw together for suckers.
Once again, I want those 20 minutes it took to read this sh.it back!
My grade for this (if you want to know) is: .05 / 5 stars.
He gets the .05 for revealing some sources that are highly usable if you have money or outsourcers - or lots of both! Don't throw the same 20 minutes of your lives away on this one.
Thanks Quasar for you in-depth review! +5 reps added
Thank you Quasar for your review, now I know not to waste my time on this! +5 reps added.
(05-12-2014 05:39 PM)Quasar Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks OP! Repped you!
\\Review//
Kindle killer?
Nope, not by a long shot. The title sucks and is just one of lots of problems this seller has with this product. Notice I said seller - not writer or author.
I wanted to like this book!
I am doing more Kindle every day. Let me tell you what he gets right:
He reveals additional distribution methods for your books - excellent ones. I use all but one of the sources he mentions. He nails this!
But it's the only thing he nails. He is so busy trying to be a cute marketer with lots of tricks that he forgets to write the f*cking book!
The bad:
You can tell multiple outsourced writers were used to write different parts of the book. The writing "skips" in the level of language used, but most of the writing is poor. It reads like several third world writers were trying to write in English, but all did it poorly.
It's 100% OK to use outsourcers - if and when you know what the f*ck you are doing - he doesn't!
And the overuse of truly bad metaphors?! Does the sound of nails screeching on a blackboard bring any painful memories? The attempts at humor and metaphors used are worse than that!
He totally f*cks up the formating. There are lots of blank pages, errors in basic stuff like paragraph and line breaks. I know what he did - he tried to use the same format submitted as Kindle and a few other sites, and has changed it back to PDF.
Bad move - It looks like a comic book written by a nine-year-old!
This is barely a poor outline for a successful book of any kind. The stats for this are 4,665 words in 54 pages - barely 86 words-per-page - not even one d.amn paragraph-per-page! And this is before you subtract a 383 word disclaimer!
This is because he uses huge and annoying full page graphics to indicate the fields you need to complete on each of the sites to get setup.
So that's it - that is all there is to the process?!
Bullshit!
He doesn't even give you all the basic information about how to use each of the resources he talks about in the book. Some of it is wrong, but most of the necessary stuff is MIA. It is much more complicated to use the sites he mentions than he writes.
The horrible:
At the end of the book - after you have given him your $7+, he has a pitch to sell you another book on the last page!
So you can buy more bullshit!?
Lots of totally dumb crap here guys!
The sales pages for all his books are basic, but (as I always do) - I checked to see if he used an exit pop. So, how does a $7+ ebook become a $5. Click to exit the page!
This is such a stupid mistake! How do you tell someone you were trying to f*ck them on the sales page?
Show them an exit pop - an abandon-avoidance pop - with a price of $5!
And he does try to sell you multiple offers on dime sales with the same id.iotic $5 popup - several times!
Then - being the intelligent people you are - you realize what you just paid to read a 54 page SALES LETTER!
If you want to see how NOT to make a book you want to sell, check this out. He breaks lots of cardinal rules - but one I see most Kindle wannabe writers breaking most often - he offers near-zero value in the intial product.
He assumes buyers are stupid and will buy your backend offer at the end. They won't buy sh.it when you've already f*cked them!
But the best insult - the one that had me laughing out loud! Expect to pay an outsourcer for your "production" - PLUS pay a minimum of $500 to $1500 PER BOOK to have an effective marketing setup of tiered marketing streams for EACH book.
And $400 to as much as $1200 of this is - drum roll please!
For the COVER!
He's actually right about this too. If you use his system, a decent cover will set you back at least $400. I have spent that much for covers before. And 90% of your book sales ANYWHERE are driven by the COVER! He is 100% right about this!
(I don't spend this much on covers now, but I used to do it when I was dumb.)
Only this book - the one you bought that tells you to spend a minimum of $400 to buy a cover - HAS NO F*CKING COVER!
Da.mn! He's totally practicing what he preaches, isn't he?!
Look, there are lots more totally stup.id things this guys does and writes about, but they aren't worth any more of my time.
Read this book and weep! This is no way to either write or market a book effectively - not if you want to be in the self-publishing business tomorrow - or at all.
This is about a seller that thinks he is a slick marketer wanting to sell a book he didn't write - could not possibly have reviewed - to get you into his pipeline to sell you other worthless bullshit he threw together for suckers.
Once again, I want those 20 minutes it took to read this sh.it back!
My grade for this (if you want to know) is: .05 / 5 stars.
He gets the .05 for revealing some sources that are highly usable if you have money or outsourcers - or lots of both! Don't throw the same 20 minutes of your lives away on this one.
Thanks so much for your spot-on review!
+ Rep added for saving me some time.
Thank you!
appreciate the time you've saved so many of us with your review...reps for you and blek23 for sharing....