Moonlighting on the Internet: 5 World-Class Experts Reveal Proven Ways to Make Extra Cash [Paperback]

Yanik Silver (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 21, 2007

Turn the Internet Into Your Money Machine

“Well-written, practical, useful, money-earning advice for anyone interested in using the internet to create an extra $500 to $5,000 a month. Yanik Silver, one of the internet's truly remarkable success stories, holds nothing back. Instead of lots of meaningless claptrap contained in most books about the internet, the author shares the inside secrets of what really works. And what doesn't.” -Ted Nicholas, author of Billion Dollar Marketing Secrets

“Moonlighting Online is a breath of fresh air. Yanik Silver doesn't claim you'll become a millionaire online, but he can show you 5 effective and simple ways to pull in a lot more money than you're earning now-and do it month after month. This is brilliant advice from a true professional. I strongly recommend this book.” -Joseph Sugarman, chairman, BluBlocker Corporation

“Forget all the hype and B.S. you see about making money on the internet-Yanik Silver has truly provided the easiest and most down-to-earth ways of legitimately socking away a little (or a lot of) extra 'life-changing' money each month online.” -Robert Scheinfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Busting Loose From The Money Game

“Imagine waking up every morning and finding orders waiting for you in your email box. While you were sleeping, customers from around the world were sending you money. I've been doing just that for over 12 years and Yanik Silver shows you how you can do it, too. It's a thrill every day.” -Melvin Powers, author of How to Get Rich in Mail Order

“If you want to get rich overnight, this isn't the book for you. If you want simple-to-use strategies for making an extra $500+ per month online with minimal effort, listen to Yanik. He is one of the few who truly knows how this works.” -Timothy Ferriss, New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Well-written, practical, useful, money-earning advice for anyone interested in using the internet to create an extra $500 to $5,000 a month. Yanik Silver, one of the internet's truly remarkable success stories, holds nothing back. Instead of lots of meaningless claptrap contained in most books about the internet, the author shares the inside secrets of what really works. And what doesn't."

-Ted Nicholas, author of Billion Dollar Marketing Secrets

"Moonlighting Online is a breath of fresh air. Yanik Silver doesn't claim you'll become a millionaire online, but he can show you 5 effective and simple ways to pull in a lot more money than you're earning now-and do it month after month. This is brilliant advice from a true professional. I strongly recommend this book."

-Joseph Sugarman, chairman, BluBlocker Corporation

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

About the Author

Yanik Silver is the leading expert on creating automatic, moneymaking websites. He has sold more than $10,000,000 of information products online, despite minimal knowledge of web design and HTML.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press; 1 edition (November 21, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599181576
• ISBN-13: 978-1599181578
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #373,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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106 of 121 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What started out as a book on online infopreneurship (Internet mkting) branched off unnecessarily into online retailing, et. al., December 18, 2007

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Jeff Lippincott "JLIPPIN" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonlighting on the Internet: 5 World-Class Experts Reveal Proven Ways to Make Extra Cash (Paperback)

This book was OK. It covers a very broad range of topics regarding how to use the Web (Internet) to make money. Basically there are five sections to the book (5 topics): (1) online infopreneur, (2) eBay retailer, (3) affiliate marketer, (4) Yahoo! Stores retailer, and (5) blogger. I've reviewed other books on all each of these topics. And I've been pretty clear in my reviews that topics 2 through 5 do not provide much benefit for the cost when it comes to making money. There are books written about each. And this book just does not do any of them justice in the short space given them.

This book has an introduction and conclusion along with 26 chapters:

0. Introduction
1. Creating "Digitally Delivered Information Products"
2. What is information marketing?
3. Top 7 information topics
4. How to figure out what information to sell
5. Researching the online marketplace
6. Evaluating your "brilliant" idea
7. Creating your information product
8. Licensing
9. Joint ventures
10. Public domain
11. Getting your site's foundation built
12. Creating your hot offer
13. Setting up your site
14. Headlines that sell
15. The eBay Machine
16. Finding the right products and setting up business
17. The `flood"
18. Your listing
19. What makes a successful seller?
20. The world of affiliate programs
21. Finding an affiliate program and working it
22. The Yahoo! Stores phenomenon
23. Establishing your niche
24. Why blogging?
25. How to set up a blog
26. Making money with blogs
26a. Conclusion

My favorite part of the book was Section 1 (chapters 1-14) regarding online infopreneurship. It covered 122 pages of text. And I thought much of it was pretty good. But there could have been so much more. Another book that did a "less than" job on the subject which I just reviewed earlier today is "The Official How to Get Rich Guide to Information Marketing" (ISBN: 1599181401). See my review for that book to see other books that one should read if they want to supplement the material in this book presented in Section 1.

This book suffers from trying to cover too many topics in not enough pages. And when I picked the book up I had hoped that the author or authors would have given some insight into where the profits really exist when moonlighting on the Internet. Instead, all we got from these authors is a list of options that one can select from when they want to moonlight.

Blogging is not something that generally is done to make money online. It is something to do to build credibility for yourself as an author, consultant, infopreneur, or public speaker. Or it can be used to direct online traffic toward your business' Web site. But blogging in and of itself is not something to be done to make money online. See my review for Blog Smog (ISBN: 078521576X) and read the book for a pretty good take on blogging. 3 stars!

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Would have gave it a 5 but,,,, January 18, 2008

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ttowngrl (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moonlighting on the Internet: 5 World-Class Experts Reveal Proven Ways to Make Extra Cash (Paperback)

I have great respect for Mr. Silver and I aspire to quit my day job one day! I loved the personal success stories - that lets me know I can do it also. I was disappointed in that there are TONS of links in the book. I spent time bookmarking the ones I wanted to go to after reading the book. When I went to the MOTI website they are ALL gone!! What gives? There was also comments in the book of an accompanying CD - that was not included in my book (which I bought here on Amazon). If you think this book is a hand holding expedition in making quick money on the internet this is not the book for you. If you are looking for ideas to help you make money on the internet this could be your book.

31 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dumpster Diving On The Internet, September 16, 2009

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Mike Williamson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonlighting on the Internet: 5 World-Class Experts Reveal Proven Ways to Make Extra Cash (Paperback)

After reading all the other reviews, I have a better insight into how the Yanik Silvers do so well. Do I believe the guy has made a fortune selling crap on the Internet? Absolutely! Do I believe vultures get fat feasting from the corpses on a recent battlefield? Absolutely! Do I believe all the "real world examples" this smirking con artist delivers up in his book, "Moonlighting On The Internet?" Can't you fools see that he is smirking at you behind his hand? Is it an accident that, when he is describing how to steal public domain material to publish and sell under your own name, he chooses PT Barnum? I think not. Do you really believe the one about the little old lady who discovered a public domain book published 100 years ago about how to get rich and after trying to give it away to all her friends, she ended up selling it on the Internet because that was essentially easier and she could then sail away on her yacht and keep track of her swollen bank accounts via wireless Internet access?
Silver repeatedly reminds you of his inability to create websites. Have you seen any of his websites? I have. They are slick or should I say oily, greasy.
To this group of persons and obviously there are a lot like him, nothing is beyond the pale. People are prey; meant to be preyed upon and the slicker you are at it, the better you feel about yourself, I suppose.
I found myself unable to believe any of the hokum in his book no matter how much or how loudly his huckster cohorts swear to it. The central message of this book is how to profit from the gullibilities of all the people who surf the Internet looking for some way to provide themselves and their families a better lifestyle, a more financially secure lifestyle. You find something that has no intrinsic value and you carefully dress it up with words and then you entice people who don't need it to buy it. Then, you chuckle as you watch your bank accounts swell. Don't worry. You'll never have to look any of the dupes in the eye because it's the Internet, baby.
Far too many Yanik Silvers already in the world.