Start reading The Six-Figure Second Income on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here.

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

 
 
 

Try it free

Sample the beginning of this book for free

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

Read books on your computer or other mobile devices with our FREE Kindle Reading Apps.
The Six-Figure Second Income: How To Start and Grow A Successful Online Business Without Quitting Your Day Job
 
 

The Six-Figure Second Income: How To Start and Grow A Successful Online Business Without Quitting Your Day Job [Kindle Edition]

David Lindahl , Jonathan Rozek
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)

Digital List Price: $24.95 What's this?
Print List Price: $24.95
Kindle Price: $13.72 includes free wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
You Save: $11.23 (45%)

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle Edition $13.72  
Hardcover $15.80  
Audible Audio Edition, Unabridged $20.95 or Free with Audible 30-day free trial


Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Proven methods for building an online income stream

You don't have to quit your current job, or already have piles of money, or be 24 years old, or riding a booming economy, in order to start a successful online business.

The Six-Figure Second Income explains how to start or grow a business even when you think you have plenty of strikes against you.

In the course of building an eight-figure real estate information marketing business, David Lindahl and Jonathan Rozek tested dozens of tools and techniques. This book is centered around principles they derived from all the tests they ran, tools they used, and money they spent.

If you're tired of the gimmicks and skepticism that anyone can really succeed online, this book will give you the no-hype, no-nonsense advice you need.

Amazon Exclusive: Business Tips from Authors David Lindhal and Jonathan Rozek

Think back to some great advice you received about something in your life. Let's just say for a moment that you had multiple job offers and “Bob” was urging you to go accept his. Now let's think how Bob might deliver that advice. If he were a typical internet marketer, this is how Bob would sound:

“I’ve got a closely-guarded secret that other big employers don’t want you to know about!!!!!”

“Oh, what’s that?”

“Well you just gotta accept our Chicago offer!!!!!! Why, the moment you say ‘Yes’ to our offer, you’re life’s gonna change! Trust me! I mean, it’s an absolute dream job! We’ll pay you so much money that you’ll tell us to stop. Plus, about the work—there won’t be any. Just show up and we’ll pay you….But you gotta decide right now because this offer won’t last long!!!!”

If Bob talked like that to you, we’re pretty sure that you’d slowly back away from old Bob and find an excuse to leave.

Why is it, then that so many internet marketers talk like Bob? They breathlessly talk about how they’re finally going to reveal the true secret to making mountains of cash from the Internet…how it’s “push-button easy” to set up sites in minutes that will crush your competitors and make you a bloody fortune with no work, no money, and no risk.

If you’re the kind of person who gets all excited by the Internet Bobs, and you’re looking for a true Silver Bullet to be revealed at last—don’t bother buying this book. Take your money and buy a fantasy movie through Amazon’s DVD department. They have lots of ‘em.

Our book, Six Figure Second Income, is much more like the solid advice you would get from a trusted friend. We’ll tell you the truth as we know it, and that means the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. We’ll tell you that success takes a certain amount of work, but that there are some handy shortcuts you can take to minimize that work and expense. We’ll tell you:

• How to follow a simple, straightforward path to finding your first product to sell online

• How to get a perfectly good website for just a few bucks or even for free—with no gimmicks, no spammy stuff, and no ads on your site •

• Exactly where to look for people who will buy your product

• How to create a relationship with your customers so they pay you again and again

This book is about clearing away the barriers that may have prevented you from making money online. It’s also about showing you the tested and proven tools you can use to start that income stream while you still have a day job.

No gimmicks and no fakery to seduce you. Just straight talk about what works. If that sounds like a breath of fresh air, then we invite you to get 232 pages of it in our book.

Product Description

Proven methods for building an online income stream

You don't have to quit your current job, or already have piles of money, or be 24 years old, or riding a booming economy, in order to start a successful online business.

The Six-Figure Second Income explains how to start or grow a business even when you think you have plenty of strikes against you.

In the course of building an eight-figure real estate information marketing business, David Lindahl and Jonathan Rozek tested dozens of tools and techniques. This book is centered around principles they derived from all the tests they ran, tools they used, and money they spent.

If you're tired of the gimmicks and skepticism that anyone can really succeed online, this book will give you the no-hype, no-nonsense advice you need.


Product Details

  • File Size: 691 KB
  • Print Length: 260 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0470633956
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 5, 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B003Z0CQWM
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,630 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  •  Would you like to give feedback on images?


Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
218 of 238 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I enjoyed reading this book. I purchased it from Amazon because Jim Cockrum endorsed it in his newsletter (which is how I heard of it). The book basically outlines step by step how to set up an information product business online. The first chapter explains why this business model is ideal for most people, due to low overhead and the almost bottomless demand for information products online. Chapter 2 suggests ways to build a profitable infoproduct quickly. I think they should have explained the "profitable" side of things a bit more explicitly. For example, while many people might have collections of recipes at home they think they could sell online, most people searching for recipes online are searching for FREE information, not an ebook they have to pay for. Ideally, you should create an infoproduct for a market where infoproducts are already selling well. Scanning the categories of products on Clickbank.com is a good way to get ideas for products of your own. If you aren't sure what to create, think about the products that people are already selling on Clickbank, and then come up with a complementary or supplemental product that would be a logical "upsell" to the audience for those products. This is the most important decision you will make, and determines if your product will sell, more than any other factor. Beyond that the book outlines the different content formats you can choose to make, how to set up a website, get traffic and turn your "prospects into buyers." I learned the most from chapter 6, and I think that chapter alone is worth the price of this book. While it doesn't explicitly teach you how to write a sales letter it tells you some important things to consider when setting up your sales page. I think a few sales letter examples and a simple template would have enhanced this chapter a lot, especially for beginners who are new to information marketing online. A separate chapter on outsourcing would have been helpful also. My thoughts are you should probably write rough drafts of your ebook and sales page and then outsource the rewrites to someone more experienced to "clean them up" for you. I prefer vWorker for all my outsourcing, since I have the option to pay for deliverables only, rather than for time. It seems to result in faster turnaround, and since the funds are escrowed, I don't have to release them until I am completely happy with the end product. For beginners, I also recommend using e-Junkie rather than Clickbank or 1shoppingcart. With e-junkie you get payment processing, but they also create expiring download links automatically and I believe they also host your actual product files, so you don't have to create any web pages yourself other than just the sales letter page, with the order button connecting to your e-junkie checkout. That saves time, and also eliminates some of the learning curve with having to create web pages and learning to FTP your files to a download page, as well as not having to learn to install a script to create expiring download links yourself. If you're a beginner and you don't know much about web design you should probably try out Blinkweb's hosting - you get a free domain name and a wysiwyg editor that includes simple sales page templates that are super easy to use, and are designed specifically for information marketers. All you have to do at that point is upload an image of an "add to cart" button and link it to your e-junkie account for checkout. e-Junkie does the rest. If you don't like paying $14.99 a month for hosting and you don't mind the learning curve, then google "Chris Farrell" and sign up for his free "Success Grenade" videos that walk you through web page setup step by step. You'll learn how to FTP your web site, create download and squeeze pages, upload files to your site's hosting account and more. I think Blinkweb + e-Junkie would save you more time and let you get your business up and running a lot faster, but if you don't mind a few months extra work and study, you can learn to do it the "hard way" through Chris Farrell's video series. Overall, "The Six-Figure Second Income" has a lot of good ideas and recommendations, even though I disagree with some of the recommendations in chapter 4, since they aren't very beginner-friendly, and can stymie someone for months before they can get an actual product online. Even if you start with only Blinkweb for hosting/web design, e-Junkie for shopping cart/payment processing, and the basic Aweber account for managing your customer list, it will cost under $40 a month to get going, and takes a lot of the technical stuff off your plate.
Was this review helpful to you?
42 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is one of the best practical guides on how to start your own freelance business that I have ever read. It is full of simple, easily understood, and easy-to-follow advice on how to get started with no cost and minimal effort. A lot of books about freelancing tell you how to market yourself before you are really ready to be marketed because you don't know what you are doing to start with. In fact, at first, most people don't even know how to get started. This book is different- in no-nonsense language and step-by-step directions, it takes the fear out of getting started on your own and directs you step-by-step on how to just jump in and do in, the no-frills way. The author has provided numerous links throughout the book to his website, where his links take you exactly to where he directs you in the book. I loved this book and I feel it was money well-spent.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
62 of 69 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book does a great job of walking through the process of creating an online business. It focuses on information products because that is the fastest way to market starting from zero.

Jon deals with many of the excuses,hype, and barriers right up front. While some of the techniques and information is common with other books on this subject, I found this one puts everything together in a concise and clear manner. The information on the website analysis tools alone was worth the price.

An unexpected and pleasant surprise was I had a question about something in the book and sent an email to the address in the book and actually got a personal response back from the author in 24 hours. - A very nice touch.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
easy to read, but too simplified
Most of the ideas are along the vein of "come up with idea, sell or publish content, sit back and collect money". It's utter nonsense and completely oversimplified.
Published 1 day ago by jimcrackcorn
Great overview of Information Marketing and a Fun, Easy Read
This was the first book I read about information marketing and it allowed me to understand the nature of this business model easily and with excitement. Read more
Published 6 days ago by John Cole
If you are wanting to start your own internet business, must read !
This book has some very good step by step instruction in how to start from scratch. Good for the beginner that want to learn about the industry.
Published 1 month ago by Luis Huerta
I skimmed the book and it is good
I skimmed the book and it is good I skimmed the book and it is good I skimmed the book and it is good
Published 1 month ago by JZ
Disappointed
I purchased this book 1 Jul 2011. Read all of it, then went back to read some sections more than once. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Tired
Very informative
Currently I'm about two thirds of the way through this book.I feel compelled to write a positive review after reading the negative reviews. Read more
Published 2 months ago by E.C.R
Thrilled! New perspective on online business.
I've, in fact recommended the book to more than a few people and bought copies for my closest (business-minded) friends. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Rishab M. Rao
This is NOT a "get rich quick" book!
Originally, I bought this book as part of my personal challenge to myself to read 100 business books for my own personal and professional development. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Michael Neely
Solid Information But It's Nothing Revolutionary, and It's Harder Than...
I actually got this one from the library. I read about half way through it, found out I already knew most of what was in it, and put it down. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jinger Jarrett
Only useful if you want to sell information online
This book only lists ideas on how to sell information online. The authors suggest selling online reports, DVDs, and Teleconferences. Read more
Published 5 months ago by veronica2011
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

More About the Authors

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.


Popular Highlights

 (What's this?)
&quote;
aboutGoogle Trends at www.google.com/trends and Google Insights for Search at www.google.com/insights/search. &quote;
Highlighted by 253 Kindle users
&quote;
If youd like a special Product Idea Generator Ive created, then just go to www.sixfiguresecondincome.com and type into the search box the words idea generator. &quote;
Highlighted by 169 Kindle users
&quote;
Google Keyword Tool I spoke about earlier and look for a button called Website Content. &quote;
Highlighted by 144 Kindle users

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
Wow, they are suppose to be web guru's and there own site is not up? 3 Sep 20, 2010
See all discussions...  
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
   
Related forums




Look for Similar Items by Category