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Pro-Sumer Power: How to Create Wealth by Buying Smarter, Not Cheaper!

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This book is excellent... Bill Quain gives good information about discount stores and how they are making more and more profits while us consumers are making higher debts than ever. He teaches us about the marketing tactics that shops use to entice us to impulse buy--seventy percent of our buying is via impulse buying.

At first, I thought this book would be some good tidbits of info and then lots of fluff. Thankfully, there is more good information than fluff by a long shot. Great Book.

Excellant...I read this book within 24 hours, I could not put down, this author points out that any time you shop you ARE giving a profit to someone else, regardlesss of how much you think you are gettin a deal, stores are not put up for Your convenience, they are there for a PROFIT, AND Bll Quain points out.. there is a way for your household to benefit on money you are already spending.

This just sums it all up for you. A great book to open your eyes and bring things into prespective. It has really made me change my buying habits, and really consider my purchases.

The book was extremely good and easy to read! But it is an eye opener! Unfortunately, there are people such as Mr. Scott Larson (one of the reviewers) out there who not only didn't do their research but probably even started their own business and quit! Now they're excusing their failure by putting private franchising down! Don't let them steal your dream! I researched private franchising for a couple of months before my light bulb went on. But I had the guts not to quit or judge it immediately unless I had spent some time looking into it! Read the book, talk to me or others and judge for yourself! Keep that dream alive! ....

I'M A MAN OF FEW WORDS. THIS BOOK MAKES ABSOLUTE AND TOTAL SENSE. ANYONE WITH A BRAIN CAN UNDERSTAND THAT HE (BILL QUAIN) IS RIGHT ON TARGET. YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS MAYBE JUST A BOOK WRITTEN FOR THOSE IN QUIXTAR...I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT'S TRUE...BUT, EVEN IF IT IS, WHO CARES? THAT DOESN'T TAKE AWAY FROM THE FACT THAT THE AUTHOR GETS IT RIGHT...THAT PRO-SUMERISM IS WHERE IT'S AT.

Excellent Book! Bill Quain is right on as to how we think as consumers and what will happen in the future as we roll into the new millenium.

This book teaches you why it is so important to have your own business and buy from yourself not from the big store chains. Promote your own business not someone elses. It will also open your eyes to the tricks those big stores are playing on you. Be a PROSUMER not a consumer...

I usually do not write these reviews, but felt the need to do so after reading one of the other comments about this being a sales tool used for people marketing the website Quixtar and not of any other value. I think the same person indicated that the concept of Prosumer was just another buzz word to entice you into a MLM. Well, I just want all the readers to know that there will be in early June a seminar by Agency.com (one of Adweek Magazine's Top 10 interactive marketing firms in the country) in Pittsburgh entitled "Moving from the Era of the Consumer to the Prosumer". So if it is not an accurate book with awesome information, why would a successful marketing company like Agency.com be doing a seminar to talk about the same basic concept...being a Prosumer. Great book!

This is ground breaking education about what is happening to the current Consumption Model.

Ever notice how just about every website offers "affiliate" or "referral" commissions? Ever notice how more and more of your friends are joining networking marketing companies to earn "referral" commissions from their consumption? How about this one... ever notice how major corporations are trying to get you to refer their product/service to your friends?

Take our local phone giant. They (like most other cell-phone companies) offer free client-to-client calling. They have elegant direct mail marketing letters trying to convince you to get your friends onto a Telus phone plan. And your incentive? Free calling to that friend and possibly other discounts.

My webhosting company says that I get a free month of hosting if I refer someone to them that becomes a customer.

Greyhound offers "companion fares" where the companion receives a half-price ticket (which of course means that both could just split the total price making each person's ticket cheaper too). Yet again, another incentive to "refer" friends/family.

Fact of the matter is, while some choose to remain ignorant, others are seizing new technologies and creating opportunities for themselves. It's undeniable that we are evolving into a Prosumer Model. This book will add great value to your life. If and when it does, please make sure you "pay it forward" and educate others as well.

As a teacher and a PH. D. I can't believe this got published. On the plus side, it provides a brief description of how consumer economy works and how the multitudes work their buns off to get somewhere, while someone else is making money off of their labor, but that could have been said in 2-5 pages. He should have stuck to that and written a title that related to that topic alone. One reviewer called this motivational material. It doesn't even rise to that level. Motivational material leads you somewhere. This book promises the reader a rainbow, and then quits before the reader gets there. I bought it as a yard sale and I paid too much for it. It is actually tremendously successful at proving the initial premise - that stores, and authors in this case, are more interested in getting your money than providing you with any sort of service. This author certainly suceeded at getting someone's money with a bunch of hype. Prosumerism is much more dveloped than this and is not equal to pyramid schemes. Anyone who is really interested in prosumerism should read Adam and Heidi Toffler's Third Wave. That said, this author's message could have been transmitted in 5 pages, and still would have been lacking a destination.