Street Smart Internet Marketing Book Giveaway
September 7, 2007 by Adam
Filed under Entrepreneurship
After the success of the blogLOUDER competition (the reviews of which will be posted very shortly), I’ve decided to run another giveaway. Recently, Christine - the Project Manager for Justin Michie - contacted me regarding a new book written by Justin called Street Smart Internet Marketing.
At first, I was very sceptical as usual with this type of eBook again promising to make you rich overnight. The long ad copy and sales page really does put you off, although having one really is necessary in order for you to sell your digital product.
Christine was very polite and helpful and sent me a free copy of the book via PDF and by mail - and upon arrival on both forms of text, I was very much stunned at the sheer quality and professionalism that had gone into the book’s creation and content. With extremely in-depth articles about creating your site, marketing your product, selling your product, Search Engine Optimization, Website Promotion and Affiliate Marketing all piled into 300 odd pages - this book astonished me and has actually taught me quite a bit about topics I didn’t know about.
Instead of doing a full-on review, I wanted to help Christine to drum up some feedback and support for the book by holding another competition. Justin kindly offered to giveaway 3 Street Smart Internet Marketing books to 3 lucky readers of Blogtrepreneur.
To enter, all you have to do is complete the following sentence through a comment on this post.
You know you’re an internet marketer when…
Here’s a sample answer:
…you pay your kids allowance through paypal.
That’s it! Feel free to be as humourous or as serious as you want. On Sunday, Christine and Justin will pick their personal favourite answer, and the winner will receive the book as a PDF or in the real form - it’s up to them. Christine will mail you out a book, no matter where in the world you live.
On top of this, 2 random entries will win a book each via PDF or a real copy.
This is a really awesome prize and will no doubt help your internet marketing efforts. Be sure to enter straightaway to be in with a chance of winning! Thanks again to Christine and Justin Michie for this excellent giveaway.
Great idea!
Here is my entry:
You know you’re an internet marketer when your alarm clock is a Google Alert email.
You know you’re an internet marketer when your friends and family tell their friends and family you “work on the internet”.
You know you’re an internet marketer when…you participate in comment threads to get a free marketing book.
You know you’re an internet marketer when…you check your ads income every 5 minutes.
…you achieve your greatest marketing success in your pajamas.
You know your an internet marketer when you when count day the days until your next Google Adsense check arrives (or payment goes through).
You know you’re an internet marketer when…
you sign up to be an affiliate for a company just to get a discount for something you wanted yourself
Hey Guys!
Thanks for all your fab comments! Keep ‘em coming!
@ Chris - lol yeah I was wondering about that, it’s been edited!
You know you’re an internet marketer when…you spend more time online than your husband playing WOW (world of warcraft)
You know you’re an internet marketer when…
1.) … you check the domain name availability before you name your children.
or
2.) … you quit your day job.
You know you’re an internet marketer when, you..when your girlfriend says she is pregnant, the first thing you do is - setting up a twitter page for your baby
You know you’re an internet marketer when…
you take your girlfriend shopping online at your clients pages, film and create a promotional video about it, tweet about it, discuss it with friends, blog it, create a banner on your blog for readers to see the video, have testimonials about it, mail everybody to check the video and in the end take a photo of your girlfriend with the shopping items to talk about delivery details.
You know you’re an internet marketer when despite making $10,000s online you still want to win a free book instead of buying it.
You know you’re an internet marketer when you can’t look at a bill without checking your PayPal account.
You know you’re an internet marketer when calling a friend is no longer calling a friend. It’s networking.
You know you’re an internet marketer when…
… you tell your spoused that you are going to bed because you are SEO’d out.
… You have Google “link:” queries bookmarked because google alerts is too slow.
… You know your google page position for all your search terms by heart.
… You wake up in the middle of the night screaming “Alexa!”
… You find your wife searching your cell phone numbers for “Alexa”
… When you refer to your friends as Affiliates
… When you refer to your family as your Team
… When you talk to your friends just to get post ideas.
… When your friends all think you “work on computers” but can’t really explain how.
… When your latest project is referred to as a “get rich quick scheme” by your in-laws.
You know you’re an internet marketer when you eat sales copy for breakfast, conversion stats for lunch, and AdSense earnings for dinner.
You know you’re an Internet Marketer when you…
- Wake up at 3AM ****ing yourself - worrying you forgot to cloak your affiliate links in yoru latest e-mail broadcast.
- When you get blisters on the palm of your hand, having spent 72 consecutive hours replying to members of your list, explaining that they signed up and you’re NOT spamming them.
- When you have 92,387 MySpace friends, of which perhaps 3 you’ve met in person.
- When you consider naming your first born after an industry expert, in the hope of scoring that elusive joint-venture with him.
Damn… My ever-so-(not-so)-creative mind is blank.
Wish me luck bretherin buddy!
You know you’re an Internet marketer when you rate your friends by their PR & Alexa score.
You know you’re an Internet marketer when your family and friends keep up to date by reading your Twitter post.
You know you’re an Internet marketer when you are macewan.org and your wife is macewan.net
You know you’re an internet marketer when you use Google Alerts to keep up with what your friends are doing.
You know you’re an Internet Marketer when…
… “Traffic” doesn’t make you think of cars;
… “Conversion” doesn’t make you think of religion;
… “Feed” doesn’t make you think of food;
… “Tease” doesn’t make you think of a flirty woman;
… “Hook” doesn’t make you think of fishing (or a pirate);
… “Web” doesn’t make you think of spiders;
… “Spider” doesn’t make you think of 8-legged creepy-crawlers;
… “Search” doesn’t make you think of finding something that’s lost;
… “Spam” doesn’t make you think of canned mystery meat;
… “Rank” doesn’t make you think of something that “has its privileges”
… “Surfing” doesn’t make you think of waves;
… “Browser” doesn’t make you think of shoppers;
… “Post” doesn’t make you think of something that holds up a fence;
… “Tag” doesn’t make you think of being “It”;
… “Digg” doesn’t make you think of a shovel.
You know you’re an internet marketer when your “wish list” isn’t on Amazon, it’s on GoDaddy and you spend every PayPal payment registering new domains.
You know you’re an internet marketer when…
some idiot reports you for spamming, even though they double opted in at aweber.
D’oh!
Ok, so I won this thing and got Justin Michie’s book. I consider myself pretty knowledgable about this stuff, but I was still able to fin some value in the book.
Looking past the typos and a few grammatical errors - the book is pretty good and has some valuable information in it. So, I give it a thumbs up for what it is worth.
N o one asked my opinion, but since most of the books I get on the subject are crap - I thought it was worth mentioning.
Hey SmartyDad - thanks very much for leaving your feedback with us.
I’m glad you managed to read Justin’s book - and you’re right, even though the book is focused on newbie’s, there are still some good tips that a good internet marketer can pick up.
Excellent news, and I’m sure Justin will be very pleased with the feedback - hopefully I can drum up a few more competitions in the future, because it’s been a bit quiet around here!
You know you’re an internet marketer when….
Your wife communicates thru stickies on your laptop
Your children “think ” SEO is a Madden cheat
you’re cat is named Google Trends
Your dog is named Social Network
You arrange your wedding aroung Google updates
Wish I would have seen this earlier…any feedbook on the book? I’m thinking of buying it now.