555 Ways to Earn Extra Money [Paperback]

Jay Conrad Levinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1992

Revised for the 1990s, this essential handbook for increased earning power shows you how to get started, how to market and promote yourself, and how to build lasting, productive relations with clients.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks; Revised edition (March 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805014594
• ISBN-13: 978-0805014594
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #350,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jay Conrad Levinson is the author of the best-selling marketing series in history, "Guerrilla Marketing", plus 27 other business books. His guerrilla concepts have influenced marketing so much that today his books appear in 41 languages and are required reading in many MBA programs worldwide.

Jay taught guerrilla marketing for ten years at the extension division of the University of California in Berkeley. And he was a practitioner of it in the United States -- as Senior Vice-President at J. Walter Thompson, and in Europe, as Creative Director and Board Member at Leo Burnett Advertising.

He has written a monthly column for Entrepreneur Magazine, articles for Inc. Magazine, and writes online columns published monthly on the Microsoft Website -- in addition to occasional columns in the San Francisco Examiner. He also writes online columns regularly for Onvia.com, FreeAgent.com and MarketMakers.com, and InfoUsa.com in addition to occasional columns for Guru.com.

Jay is the Chairman of Guerrilla Marketing International, a marketing partner of Adobe and Apple. He has served on the Microsoft Small Business Council and the 3Com Small Business Advisory Board. His Guerrilla Marketing is series of books, audiotapes, videotapes, an award-winning CD-ROM, a newsletter, a consulting organization, an Internet website, and a way for you to spend less, get more, and achieve substantial profits.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Motivational Rather Than Practical, May 13, 2000

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This review is from: 555 Ways to Earn Extra Money (Paperback)

I have read two or three of Levinson's books and they got me through a period when I was self employed. However, as good and useful as the ideas are, not enough is mentioned about having to do the actual work. It's easy (for me at least, and obviously for Levinson) to think up good ideas but one has to actually do the work and many ideas sound good and like they should work but when you get to working, the work to payoff ratio isn't enough or there are serious mental blocks to doing the volume of work necessary. Sure, write a book and get royalties forever sounds wonderful but how many people actually write that book, market it aggressively, etc.?

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent $$ earning ideas and "jobless philosophy"., August 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 555 Ways to Earn Extra Money (Paperback)

This book was wonderful. I enjoyed Levinson's philosophy regarding "jobless earning" and feel that anyone who is unhappy working in a typical 9-5, is looking for more freedom regarding work and the type of work they do, or is simply interested in earning extra money will do well to read this book. It contains numerous and wonderful ideas about ways to earn extra income, and the philosophy behind these "earnways" is a wonderful gospel that should be preached from the "mountain-tops". I loved this book. I really did.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ready to check out of corporate life? Check out this book!, July 15, 2002

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Heather (Mechanicsburg, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 555 Ways to Earn Extra Money (Paperback)

As a person who is mentally done with working for other people and on other people's timelines, I find this book very inspirational and helpful. While obviously not every idea in this book will work for you, several of them should get your mind open at least a crack as to how creatively you can manipulate your own talents and interests into ways to earn money independently of someone else. However, the book is merely a starting point. Mr. Levinson provides ideas for work, basic ways to market your offerings, and some potential pitfalls just to keep you in reality. The rest of the details will have to come from yourself. So if you are looking for a comprehensive guide to starting your own business,the hows and the wherefores, this isn't it. But it's a great tool for lifting your mind out of the corporate gutter and realizing there are may other opportunities out there for you as long as you have enough spirit, determination and belief in your own sense of entrepreneurship.