Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a harsh critique, but I feel compelled to offer it such just because the book is so bad. How this book ranked so highly is beyond me. The book reads like it was written in a couple of days. Interestingly enough, the author (or ghostwriter?) has a strategy about writing a book in a week. Aside from the fact there are no new strategies presented (unless you’re stuck in 2007, nothing is new here) and a few distracting typos, the writing rambles aimlessly and could use some serious editing. It attempts to be conversational (I guess), but I found the constant smiley faces at what seemed like the end of every other paragraph to be quite annoying. :) Speaking of which, I found it amusing that the lack of editing made one of the smiley faces a frown, when it obviously shouldn’t have been :( The book is really just a compilation of “here’s a strategy that works, and to learn more, go to this affiliate link and pay for a membership via this third-party seller that I endorse.” All of the “blueprints” (again, nothing new) can be found in a 5 min Google search. And the idea of any of these being “passive” is highly debateable. None are “set it and forget it,” and all will require work beyond the initial set up, namely maintenance, marketing, monitoring, etc. That’s not passive like, say, investing in index funds using dollar-cost averaging. This book was such a waste of time, it’s the ONLY Kindle book I returned for a refund. And I only paid $1. So if you want this “secrets” of this book in a nutshell: 1. Write an e-book (or better, outsource it) 2. Use it as the low-cost entry point of a sales funnel by giving it away for free or charging less than $5. Then use it to sell higher priced stuff of your own (or that of an affiliate). 3. Repeat Again, nothing new here...