On the real though are you guys REALLY making money out of blogging? I m from South Africa and blogging or internet based business are not so popular but more and more people are starting to use the net.

I m asking this because my decision to blog was solely based on my passion for my field (Learning and Development but I would love to make some cash out of it and hopefully make it a part of my business.

So, is it really possible?

I do trust anything that Yaro recommends though, but at $97 this is just too expensive and I can probably get most of the information by digging for free. $100 is a lot for new marketers.

I am desperate to buy products that help me in my business, but after reading these comments and seeing the price, the only desperation I see is Ms Dawes’s need for large amounts of money.

The sales page is fairly scarey, and I worry that with this being on sale at not far off a hundred bucks for nearly 3 years why hasn’t the site owner spent a little of her moolah on a nice site?

I think the thing that peeves most of the naysayer commentators here, (me included), is that we could have knocked up a better site for her in a couple of hours. I wouldn’t ask for money, I’d do it for a free copy of her book.

Terrys’ analogy with Kindle books is a good one, but this is the world of Internet Marketing, where everyone is paying ridiculous amounts of money for 30 or 40 papped out pages of ‘info’ that will supposedly change our lives. The emperor has no clothes on, but no one wants to be the first to stand up and say it.
To quote Yaro’s review:
“Thanks to Alexis and her e-book, you can use her techniques to chase the dollar by focusing on “desperate buyers”, people ready to spend money to solve urgent problems”.
I find it ironic that this ebook could easily be talking about all of us here in the IM community, and it will probably be offered as an opt in bonus two years from now.

Apologies for the tone everyone, shouldn’t have had that third cup of coffee.

When people say, “Worth its weight in gold!” or “Easily worth 10 times its price!”, that’s a figure of speech and it doesn’t mean the person would actually pay that for it.

Let her drop her prices to something reasonable, like 1/10 of the current price, and I’ll consider getting it. That would be more in line with what Kindle books go for (and personally, I think they’re overpriced).

Also agree with others about those horrible sales pages. To me, all they say is, “Scam up ahead, run!” and I immediately leave the page. It’s a total turn-off, and I’d never buy their product.

Just picked this post up off your autoreponder email not sure if you will see this reply… thanks for reminding me about this I have a copy fishing around… I remember it was a great read but I picked it up b4 I had a real use for it… Only started my IM journey in Sep this year…
Cheers

I like very much that this ebook appears to focus on “need to know” information without a lot of fluff and pumped up page content, as so often happens.

But the basic formula of “find someone’s pain and offer a solution” is as valid now as it was 100 years ago, and this sounds like good advice.

I got a kick out of your characterization of the potential audience for this ebook as those lost souls who are passionless, money-hungry, wannabe information sellers.” There is more truth than poetry there for many of us–and I don’t think there’s anything wroing with that if you’re upfront with yourself about your motives.

Thnsk for the post.

Smart on you for incorporating this post into your autoresponder. You’re currently ranked #2 on first page of organic Google listings for the term “Desperate Buyers Only Review.”

Even better is that this is the best darn review of the ebook on the entire net. Great content always sells.

I had heard of this ebook in passing from something that Sonia Simone wrote once upon a time over at Copyblogger, or it may have been her blog called Remarkable Blueprint. I know she knows her stuff. And I know you know your stuff. So two people who know their stuff mention (and recommend) Desperate Buyers Only.

Now that’s social proof.

For everyone here in the comments who has griped about the price… bad news. The price went up from $77 — which must have been the price at the time of this posting — to $97.

I would urge all of you griping about price to look at it from a different perspective. In fact, look at it from two perspectives.

1. If you buy and implement, you’ll earn it back. The knowledge that is being offered is worth ten times the cost IF you implement.

2. If you focus and implement immediately, but you find that it stinks, you can get your money back within 60 days.

Thanks Yaro. I like this review. I find it helpful.

Eric Walker

Gary

“this is the book for those lost souls who are passionless, money-hungry, wannabe information sellers.”

That’s me!! Sorta! Nothing harsh there, in fact, it made me laugh. Something I’ve been in short supply of lately.

Tom and others – as to long sales letters, if you’ve seen one, you’ve prolly seen them all. But… sales are a fact of marketing, can’t do without them. Still, I tend to skim through, stopping and reading if a section catches my eye and then I zip down to the cost at the end of the letter.

Have a great day!
Clare