The Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online (Neatest Little Guide Series) [Paperback]

Jason Kelly (Author)

Book Description

Series: Neatest Little Guide Series | Publication Date: January 1, 2000

Practical advice for Internet beginners who want to explore the new online frontier

With his hugely popular Neatest Little Guide series, Jason Kelly has established a reputation for providing sound business and investment expertise in an accessible format. With The Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online, Kelly reaches out to the burgeoning segment of people who are intrigued yet intimidated by the power of the Internet as a business tool. Kelly provides readers with all the information they need to set up their own online business and earn extra money. This practical, step-by-step guide shows how to:

Select an Internet service provider and register an Internet address
Design a website-from purchasing the right software to keeping navigation simple and content fresh
Market a website through newsletters, discussion forums, and reciprocal links

Written with Jason Kelly's trademark flair, The Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online helps readers get connected-and on their way to earning money. Filled with advice and tips from business experts, it will have people up and running in no time.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

After penning three popular Neatest Little Guides that deliver helpful information on investing and personal finance in user-friendly terms, Jason Kelly has moved away from personal money management with The Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online. But, as he explains from the outset, in reality this is merely an offshoot of his previous books, because it focuses on "a new way to make additional money so that you actually have something left to manage after the bills have been paid." Those who have a worthwhile product to sell or service to provide--and who fully understand that no advice, no matter how clear and insightful, can ever guarantee success on the Net--will find it as comprehensive and useful as Kelly's earlier efforts. Under the "Getting Online Can Boost Your Bottom Line" mantra, it addresses every step, from the preliminary (buying the right computer, selecting the proper Web-hosting company, building and tracking your site) to the advanced (getting listed with top search engines, encouraging visitors to make your site their home page, using autoresponders to close sales), involved in making "your site the best it can be." --Howard Rothman

From Booklist

Some readers may be more inclined to pick up a book that bills itself as a "neat little guide" than one that targets "dummies," but Kelly's intentions are the same as the authors who write those other books. He aims to simplify a subject that seems intimidating and make it accessible and understandable. Kelly's "neatest" series includes such topics as the stock market, mutual funds, and personal finance. Kelly also conducts money management seminars and is a frequent guest on financial talk shows. This latest guide extols the moneymaking potential of the Internet. Kelly details how to select the right computer, Internet service provider, Web browser, and e-mail program. He explains how to find information online and use the Internet as a medium for personal networking. He also provides tips on creating a Web site and recommends becoming an online affiliate (selling other companies' products for commission). Kelly concludes with specific advice on how to market one's site as well as use it to sell advertising. David Rouse

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Product Details

• Paperback: 187 pages
• Publisher: Plume (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452281687
• ISBN-13: 978-0452281684
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,031,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jason Kelly is the author of nine books including "The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing," a BusinessWeek best seller now in its 2010 edition, and his newest title, "Stock Market Contest," published in November 2011. He also publishes "The Kelly Letter," a curiously readable weekly investment advisory.

He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1993 with a BA in English, but not before a professor told him that he would never succeed as an author because he "lacked a basic command of the English language." Luckily, IBM disagreed and hired Jason as a technical writer at its Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. Once income from his freelance writing matched his income from IBM, Jason left corporate life to become a full-time freelance writer. About IBM hiring him for the only "real" job he's ever had, Jason wrote in Financially Stupid People, "I keep a special smile for Big Blue because of that break. It was the only company that believed in me. I never knew the meaning of the term 'competing offer.'"

One of Jason's Japanese publishers, Shueisha, brought him to Tokyo on book tour in 1999. He took that opportunity to visit his old high school exchange student friend, and wrote a funny article about the experience. That article remains one of Jason's most widely read. It's still on his site, at http://is.gd/cLe5V. Japan went straight to Jason's heart, and he decided to live there. He rented out his home in California and moved to Sano, Japan in 2002 for what he thought was going to be a one-year stay. Eight years later, he still lives and works there.

In addition to writing new books and "The Kelly Letter," he's also the angel investor in Red Frog Coffee in Longmont, Colorado, a delightful little shop managed by his sister and business partner, Emily.

Learn all you could ever want to know about Jason at jasonkelly.com/about.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

70 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step by step makes it easy, January 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online (Neatest Little Guide Series) (Paperback)

I've been trying to make money on the internet since 1997 and I keep falling flat. Not until this book showed me that I shouldn't be competing with the likes of Amazon.com and Yahoo did I see where I'd gone wrong. I was trying to make millions like all the magazine cover heroes. Jason Kelly teaches that instead I should be trying to make $400 to $500 every month with a website that covers my interests and sells products that relate. I can't say enough about this approach. By the end of the book, my copy was so beat up and covered in sticky notes that I could hardly read it anymore. In two weeks, I had my own website up and running and making money with free giveaways from Bach Systems, books from Amazon.com including this one, and some ads from Burst. All of these resources I found in this book with no extra garbage to wade through. Kelly gives just the sites you need and just the information you need in the exact right order. Soon I hope to start selling my own homemade products in one of the stores he recommends. I could go on forever, but I've probably already typed enough. Let me conclude by just saying that if you've been beating your head against a wall trying to figure out how the runaway web can improve your bank account, this is the book for you.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Value For The Money, December 16, 2001

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"jupiter-cletus" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online (Neatest Little Guide Series) (Paperback)

Succinct, informative, and well-written, The Neatest Little Guide To Making Money Online is a great value. Admittedly, I am a novice at making money online, but in my opinion this book is a great starting place. Jason Kelly loads this book with well-researched resources for all aspects of successful website development, almost always suggesting reliable FREE alternatives to the pay-for-service resources on the net. It is fun and easy to read, and it contains no filler. Recommended.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Starter book for making money online, April 5, 2000

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This review is from: The Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online (Neatest Little Guide Series) (Paperback)

I found this book very valuable if you try to generate money from your web page. This book includes internet address for excellent web pages that help you build your web page and join affiliation programs