The Art of Profitability
I have to admit that when I first picked up The Art of Profitability I wasn’t expecting to be as good as it turned out to be. It was good. The only negative I can say is that I didn’t like the overly descriptive and colorful story telling, it was a little too much for me. But the content by far more than makes up for it.
This book is all about the different profit models, not on how to maximize your existing profit model. It CLEARLY explains the difference between the many different profit models. And not only does it explain but it also gives many examples of each profit model.
One aspect of the book I really appreciated was the effort the author went through to create “assignments” for the student Steve in the book. Having had already read several of the “assignments” beforehand (books the student had to read), I found they were very appropriate. And the ones I didn’t I’ll probably pick up.
Overall a good book which I recommend. Even if you’ve already defined your profit model for your business, you might be in for a surprise. If I rate this book on the revenues it will make for me compared to it’s cost and time to read, I’m way ahead.
Therefore I recommend the book The Art of Profitability.
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Blogging Book Interview Update
As many of you already know I’m in the process of compiling a book of interviews with many of the most prominent bloggers. The idea of the book is to ask every blogger I interviewed similar questions to find out what’s common, what’s different, what works, basically what it takes to be a successful blogger.
At this stage I’ve completed all the interviews and I can tell you that the answers are amazing. I’ve been successfully blogging myself for over two years now and I still learned a lot! Thank you everyone for taking the time to participate in this project and giving such great responses and advice.
The book will be sent off for editing by the end of this month.
I also initially posted a list of bloggers who had agreed to participate. This list has changed somewhat since then. A few people weren’t able to complete their interviews for different reasons, which is expected when you interview so many outstanding people. I was very honored they accepted in the first place, but I can also appreciate their busy schedules. Therefore you’ll find a few new names on the list which is very thrilling.I’m very happy and proud to announce the official list of bloggers who will be part of the book (in alphabetical order of their first names):
- Aaron Wall from SEO Book
- Ades Tynyshev from Ades Blog
- Al Carlton from Coolest-Gadgets.com
- Alex Papadimoulis of Worse Than Failure
- Andy Brice of Success Software
- Anita Campbell from Small Business Trends
- Asha Dornfest from Parent Hacks
- Ben Casnocha
- Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog
- Bob Walsh author of several blogs books including Clear Blogging
- Dan Lyons from The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
- Dane Carlson from Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog
- David Armano from Logic+Emotion
- David Seah
- Derek Semmler
- Dharmesh Shah from On Startups
- Eric Sink
- Ian Landsman of Userscape
- James and Alex Turnbull from Google Sightseeing
- JD from Get Rich Slowly
- Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror
- Jeff Clavier from Jeff Clavier’s Software Only
- Jennette Fulda from Half of Me
- Jenny from 101 Reasons I Hate Being Fat!
- Jessamyn West of Librarian.net
- Joel Cheesman from Cheezhead
- Jonathan Snook
- Manolo from Manolo’s Shoe Blog
- Neil Patel from Quick Sprout
- Pamela Slim from Escape from Cubicle Nation
- Patrick McKenzie from Micro ISV on a Shoestring
- Penelope Trunk of Brazen Careerist
- Ramit Sethi from I will Teach You to be Rich
- Rob Walling from Software By Rob
- Rohit Bhargava from Influential Marketing Blog
- Seth Godin
- Stephane Grenier of Follow Steph (me)
- Steve Rubel from Micro Persuasion
- Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar
- Yaro Starak from Entrepreneur’s Journey
Quite an exciting list! Several people listed here have over a million unique visitors per month on their blogs! Most have hundreds of thousands of unique visitors a month. All are of course very successful bloggers!
As soon as the book comes back from editing, I’ll post an update and let you all know when it will be available to buy from Amazon. I’m sure you’re as excited as me to see it in print!
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Christmas Book Gift Ideas – General
Today’s list of Christmas books ideas was suppose to continue the series and contain all those that didn’t really fit in one of the previous categories. Those I still appreciated and learned something from for my business LandlordMax.
However I’m finding that the books I was going to suggests are too wide spread in topics to really be interesting. So rather than force the subject, I’ll finish the series here and ask you the readers what other non-fiction books you suggest which will help us improve our entrepreneurial knowledge and skills. Please comment below, I’d love to hear what books you recommend. I’m sure I’ll pick up a few to read myself! I’ve already added one to my list from someone’s comments in one of the previous posts of this series.
And for those of you who just found this series today, the categories of books I’ve been sharing this week include:
- Software Development (language independent)
- Business
- Marketing and Sales
- Technology
- Investing
- Personal Success
- General (a catch all for remaining books that I learned from)
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Christmas Book Gift Ideas – Personal Success
What is personal success? It’s how to improve yourself. How to become successful. There are lots of books on this subject. Too many to be honest. Most that I’ve read has been focused on increasing your personal securities, conquering your fears, etc. Today’s list is not about this. It’s about how to improve your own personal productivity. How to better understand other people, what their goals are, and so on. How to improve see past the BS, such as with the book How to Lie With Statistics.
For example I could have included this book in the marketing and sales section, but then I would have been advocating using it for evil versus good. I’m suggesting it here so that you can better understand what people are trying to tell you (sometimes wrongly but to their best interest). How they might be stretching the truth to convince you.
Others are as straight forward such as Get Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got. It’s to help you maximize your efficiencies.
One book that’s odd is the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. I appreciated this one because of this perspective on life. The book has some really great life lessons. For example, early on in his career he realized his opponents were just as afraid of him as he was of them. This realization was crucial for most of his success. But it goes beyond that. There is lots to learn from this great man.
For those of you who just found this page today, the categories of books I’ve been sharing this week include:
- Software Development (language independent)
- Business
- Marketing and Sales
- Technology
- Investing
- Personal Success
- General (a catch all for remaining books that I learned from)
Personal Success Christmas book ideas:
Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see remaining Christmas book ideas, the ones that didn’t really fit into one of these categories. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed so that you don’t forget. If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, don’t worry you can also subscribe to receive the articles by email here.
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Christmas Book Gift Ideas – Investing
Today’s list is probably the largest of the series. I’ve included all kinds of investing books, from stocks, real estate, to you name it. As you’ll probably notice, the focus is mainly on value investing, no matter what the vehicle (stocks, real estate, etc.).
For those of you just found this page today, the category of books I’m sharing this week include:
- Software Development (language independent)
- Business
- Marketing and Sales
- Technology
- Investing
- Personal Success
- General (a catch all for remaining books that I learned from)
Investing Christmas book ideas:
Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see my list of investing books for Christmas ideas (probably the biggest list of all the categories). You can also subscribe to my RSS feed so that you don’t forget. If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, don’t worry you can also subscribe to receive the articles by email here.
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Christmas Book Gift Ideas – Technology
Continuing with my series of great Christmas book ideas, today’s list will be focusing technology in general. Mainly ranging from the history of the computer industry (those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it, therefore I prefer learn from it) to just some interesting books related to technology that I really appreciated.
For those of you just found this page now, the category of books I plan to share this week include:
- Software Development (language independent)
- Business
- Marketing and Sales
- Technology
- Investing
- Personal Success
- General (a catch all for remaining books that I learned from)
Here’s today’s list:
And since I know there are a lot of you who read this blog are also software developers, I’ve decided to add a few extras to today’s list to also include some science, math, and related books:
Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see my list of investing books for Christmas ideas (probably the biggest list of all the categories). You can also subscribe to my RSS feed so that you don’t forget. If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, don’t worry you can also subscribe to receive the articles by email here.
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Christmas Book Gift Ideas – Marketing and Sales
Today I continue again the list of great Christmas book ideas, focusing on marketing and sales books. For those of you just found this page now, the category of books I plan to share this week include:
- Software Development (language independent)
- Business
- Marketing and Sales
- Technology
- Investing
- Personal Success
- General (a catch all for remaining books that I learned from)
For many business owners, especially software based, this is an area that is often too neglected. Marketing and sales are important for your business, you just can’t ignore them.
And don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see my list of technology books for Christmas ideas. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed so that you don’t forget. If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, don’t worry you can also subscribe to receive the articles by email here.
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Christmas Book Gift Ideas – Business
Today I continue the list of great Christmas book ideas, focusing on business books. For those of you just found this page now, the category of books I plan to share this week include:
- Software Development (language independent)
- Business
- Marketing and Sales
- Technology
- Investing
- Personal Success
- General (a catch all for remaining books that I learned from)
So without further ado, here’s today’s list of great Christmas business book ideas:
And don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see my list of marketing and sales books for Christmas ideas. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed so that you don’t forget. If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, don’t worry you can also subscribe to receive the articles by email here.
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Christmas Book Gift Ideas – Software Development
As Christmas is quickly approaching I thought it would be a great time to share with you a list of non-fiction books I really benefited from. Maybe it will give you some Christmas gift buying ideas, and if nothing else feel free to share it with your other half as a book buying gift list.
Each day will be a different category of books. Including:
- Software Development (language independent)
- Business
- Marketing and Sales
- Technology
- Investing
- Personal Success
- General (a catch all for remaining books that I learned from)
So feel free to bookmark and check often. If you subscribe to RSS feeds, this might be a good time so you don’t forget to check back this week.
So without further ado, here’s today’s list of software development books in no particular order (I’m sure I missed some but these are just the books I had in the bookcase behind my desk):
All the other software development books I have in bookcase behind my desk are either too language or technology specific (although books such as Concurrent Programming in Java are Java based, they are generic enough to be applied to any language).
And don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see my a list of business book Christmas ideas. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed so that you don’t forget. If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, don’t worry you can also subscribe to receive the articles by email here.
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Blogging Book Interview Update
Earlier this month I stated that I am in the process of writing a book which will interview some of the most prominent bloggers, asking them what it takes to blog successfully. Since that time the list of people who have agreed to participate in this project has significantly increased. Not only that but all of them are very successful bloggers. Many have traffic above 100,000 unique visitors a month!
As part of choosing who to contact and interview, I’m trying to bring in as many different types of bloggers as possible. As many different niches as possible. There’s the obvious choice of bloggers who choose to write about how to blog such as John Chow. But in addition to this I tried to include people from as many different topics as possible, including business, marketing, software development, specific niches, etc. What I hadn’t realized beforehand is that bloggers seem to congregate to certain common topics more than others, making it harder to get a breath of experiences. And This is why you’ll see that most of the bloggers fall mainly into a handful of different blogging categories. I’m trying my best to extend the range of experiences as much possible.
As well I was planning on keeping the list of bloggers confidential until I had completed all the interviews, but I’ve decided it’s better to share it now. This project is just too exciting to keep it under wraps until the last minute. So without further ado, here’s a list of some of the bloggers that have already agreed to participate in this project (in no particular order):
- John Chow
- David Sifry founder of Technorati
- Seth Godin
- Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror
- Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users
- Alex Papadimoulis of Worse Than Failure
- Dan Lyons from The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
- Aaron Wall from SEO Book
- Penelope Trunk of Brazen Careerist
- Neil Patel from Quick Sprout
- Eric Sink
- Jennie Tan from OfficeTally
- Jeff Clavier from Jeff Clavier’s Software Only
- Bob Walsh author of several blogs books including Clear Blogging
- Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog
- Anita Campbell from Small Business Trends
- Ian Landsman of Userscape
- JD from Get Rich Slowly
- Hani from the Bile Blog
- Joel Cheesman from Cheezhead
- Andy Brice of Success Software
- Derek Beauchemin of DerekBeau.com
- Al Carlton from Coolest-Gadgets.com
- David Armano from Logic+Emotion
- Yaro Starak from Entrepreneur’s Journey
- Ben Casnocha
- Jonathan Snook
- Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar
- Pamela Slim from Escape from Cubicle Nation
- Rohit Bhargava from Influential Marketing Blog
- Patrick McKenzie from Micro ISV on a Shoestring
- Steve Rubel from Micro Persuasion
- Rob Walling from Software By Rob
- Jenny from 101 Reasons I Hate Being Fat!
- Dane Carlson from Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog
- Dharmesh Shah from On Startups
- David Armano from Logic + Emotion
- Ramit Sethi from I will Teach You to be Rich
- Jay from Dumb Little Man
- Manolo from Manolo’s Shoe Blog
- Emily Chang
- ArseBlog
- Derek Semmler
- David Seah
- Ades Tynyshev from Ades Blog
If you have any others you’d like to suggest to be interview for the book then please comment below. Especially if they are blogging for an interesting and somewhat different/unique niche. If you yourself are a blogger and you have traffic exceeding at least 10,000-25,000 unique visitors a month (preferably over 100,000) then please email me directly. There’s still a few spots left, at least until the end of November. At that point I will definitely not be able to include any more bloggers because of some harder deadlines.
This is a very exciting project! And as you can see from the people who have already agreed to participate the book has quite a range of knowledge and experiences. I’m really looking forward to its release!
** Update: As of today several new people are looking to participate in this exciting project. You’ll find I’ve just added their names to the list tonight.
** Update: A few more names have again been added.
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