Nomad’s Guide to Make Money Online – Book Review

Do want to make passive income online? I only ask because that’s kinda what this blog is all about so I figure that a number of you are looking of information on how to make an income online – and that’s why you come along here and hang on every world I say? The rest of you hopefully found me by doing a Google search and you really should be looking at investing in the Nomad’s Guide to Make Money Online .

To my regular readers who just spilt beer/coffee on the keyboard – its OK, I have not decided to write thinly disguised reviews for commission – let me explain. Those of  you who have been following that blog of the Big Ted of making money online should know to pay attention to what he does as much as what he says. There is a new affiliate on his sidebar – featuring Janet’s new e-book and Griz is endorsing it. (Now you have a choice give Griz the commission or me – no pressure – sorry about the keyboard…).

This is the e-book Grizz should have written – but he was too busy making money to get around to it – so “Janet Smith”  has written it – is Janet  in fact Griz in disguise? – but I digress.

First a quick note – you may not want to be digital nomad, a laptop hobo, or a location independent entrepreneur – Janet wanted to be – that’s part of the reson why she titled the book this because her methods of making passive income online allowed her to fulfil that dream. The point is that the methods she describes in the book will work whether or not you intend to move house, move location or move nowhere.  I got into this game because I wanted to live anywhere in the world and support myself and my partner – so the title strikes a big chord with me – getting out of working for someone else is just the start of being free – but being able to live anywhere I want to – without worrying about visas – that’s the ultimate – and the subject of a different post sometime!

What is the Nomad’s Guide to Make Money Online.

This guide is a pdf  format  e-book of some 167 pages. It will cost you US$37. There is a free chapter available from the Nomad’s Guide to  retire early website and  there is a 90 guarantee, money back refund period.

Its no fluff, no bullshite. There aren’t pages of  images of Janet’s claimed income, its not stuffed fool with Janet poising near the pool of her mansion with hot guys passing the cocktails and giving her foot massages. The first chapter is the background – after that its down to the detail: find niches, build websites, get links.

Yes the books costs  – and yes you can find all the information for free – if you want to be bothered looking – most of the references to the useful blogs can be found on this blog – the point is that if you have the cash – buy the book – its well worth $37!

Who this book is for:

• people who really want to take action and make money – seriously if you buy the book you won’t make money – if you buy the book and take action then you should!
• people who want to know how to get their niche blogs to rank and stay ranked
• people who are still struggling to understand how to fly under the radar with Google and why you should want to
• who can’t be bothered reading all of Grizz’s blogs but understand that he is saying something useful if they could just get past all the extra words …
• the focus of the book is making money from Adsense but there is some useful stuff on other affiliates and also about launching your own product
• people who are almost broke – you can implement this book without spending any further cash – Janet includes options for spending cash sure – but ultimately this is based of the “free blog” approach so even buying domains and hosting is optional.  Her unadvertised bonus will also help you along with something that you often have to pay for.

Who this book won’t help

• if you have no idea where to start – don’t know how to create a a blogspot or wordpress blog and want someone to walk you through the process – this book won’t help you. Don’t know what Firefox is and why you should install it? You will find this book overwhelming.  I’m not saying that the book won’t work for a beginner – but if you lack the basic Internet skills you are going tohave to be prepared to learn those on your own. In fact the level of information in the book may be overwhelming – I’m not saying its bad – just overwhelming
• if you want to have a famous blogger with lots of subscribers and content – this e-book won’t help
• if you still believe that you can write top-quality content and eventually make money from it because people will naturally link to you  – this book won’t help either
• if you already have read everything on Griz’s websites – this book would be repetitive – if on the other hand you want a handy reference point to Grizz’s methods…
• if you want to find a quick and easy way to make money while you sleep – this book won’t help either – it will make you money if you apply the principles – but its not a get rich quick scheme

What I think could be improved

• I’m not that keen on the typeface – I like that its easy to read on screeen – but I suspect that there is not quite enough whitespace – between the paragraphs – however I am design idiot and almost anyone else will be able to comment more usefully on that
• I’d tighten up the writing a bit – I think Janet has been doing long-winded Griz posts for a while and needs to get a red pen out in places ..
• I think its under-priced – I think v2 could easily price at $97 or even $147 – especially if she added  a podcast , people like to listen on the commute to the crappy job they are trying to escape
• I understand the title from an SEO and personal point of view – but I think it may be unnecessarily limiting your market – it would be interesting to hear in the comments if those of you who are trying to escape the day job realise that this whole online money-making caper is about location independence too?
• Janet is using Primus to manage sales – on the sales page you may notice that the price has changed to your local currency, if you are outside the US. If you are paying with paypal and already have a US$ balance – make sure you check the box back to US$ so you don’t end up paying currency conversion fees. Also you don’t need the CD for extra cost or the “one year warranty” – its a single file just back it up – like you should your whole hard drive!

Bottom line is although I got a free review copy I would have paid for the Nomad’s Guide to Make Money Online – and not just because I’m a Nomad at heart!   Its rare that this blog will review an e-book – in fact there really aren’t that many out there which really teach you in detail how to make money online which dont’ require some highly specialist skills. Janet admits to have started from scratch two-years ago – about the same time frame as myself -its a valuable perspective – I doubt that Griz or Vice even remember how much they have forgotten about making money online – they’ve been doing it so long.  From a two-year time frame you can still look back and go – wow  boy have I learned a lot!

You can also check out Janet’s new site at Make Money At Home

DISCLAIMER: This is NOT a paid post. However if you buy this e-book from the links in this post I will earn a commission. I was given a free review copy of this book.

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