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| How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan S. Kennedy
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (32 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4990
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0452273161
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.421
EAN: 9780452273160
ASIN: 0452273161
Publication Date: January 1, 1996
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 Read this book only if you want to be successful! December 16, 2007
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
Do you want to be successful? Read this book.
I have been a CPA for over 25 years and so many clients have a great product, but fail because they don't know how to get it to the marketplace and actually make money with it.
I recommend this book to business owners that don't want to learn from the School of Hard Knocks, (which may be too late) but want to stimulate their minds and actually figure out what opportunities would sell their products.
Dan Kennedy knows his stuff!
But getting your product to market and selling it is just part of the business, you need to have systems in place and deliver your product and stay in business. I am the author of Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter: Recipes for Running a Successful Business from Scratch and this book has over 500 strategies, in an easy to read format, to help the business owner be successful and stay in business. It is a desk reference that can be used to start your business or be pulled down off the shelf when you have business challenge and want to look up how to fix it.
So after reading How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide, you need to read Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter: Recipes for Running a Successful Business from Scratch, the two together will take your business to the next level and keep it there.
Ellen Springer, MBA, CPA
Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter: Recipes for Running a Successful Business from Scratch
A Classic for Your Bookshelf December 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Three books for inspiration:
1. How To Make Millions With Your Ideas. This book has in spades the reason I read books--street smarts that apply to my own life. Dan Kennedy pulls together in this 1996 book wonderful stories from his long experience of writing and business consulting. He has been writing for a long time, holding seminars and workshops and has a myriad of products for sale. His real life examples of people building businesses is inspiring and they are full of truths that are applicable to one's own ideas. I will keep it in my library for referral for whenever I get tired of being entrepreneurial and need some inspiration.
2. The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living, by Randy Komisar. Komisar's book goes beyond the commercialism of infomercial marketing and talks not only about building a business, but balancing that business with one's life. Don't start a business for the sole purpose of making money, but also build it for a 'soul' purpose. Find something that stirs your passions and makes your life worth living, do something that you can throw yourself into.
Kennedy's book is packed with marketing ideas. Komisar's book continues that plus gives an inspirational message for finding meaning, but neither addresses today's world of online business.
3. That brings us to: Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires by Scott Fox.
Where are the real world opportunities today for making money and building a life? Despite its title Fox's book is not only about becoming a millionaire but is a depository of ideas for building a meaningful business. Not a get rich quick scheme but solid practical advice for anyone who is intrigued by the possibilities of the Internet.
It is packed with real life examples of web success stories and strategies, a useful book that can teach anyone how to get their share of this new marketplace.
I'd say to read all three: Kennedy for helping flesh out ideas, Komisar's to put meaning into those ideas and Fox's for bringing those ideas into today's world of e-biz reality.
 Helpful Stuff but Dated October 30, 2007
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
Dan Kennedy wrote this book to be helpful and is genuinly insightful for the reader. "How to Make Millions with Your Ideas" is dated material, but helpful and inspiring. Dan is candid and has a ton of practical knowledge to offer in this book. I can recommend this book because it delivers what is says it will; 8 different approaches to making your ideas work and make money. More recently his books are the longest sales letters ever written, all designed to get you to buy more of the same material from him.
However, be warned he hates the internet and would like to ignore it. He wrote this in 1996 and the web was really forcing these old school guys to deal with it. So if you were looking for help with anything "e" related, like I was, this is not the book for you.
Ironically, the two companies I found relevant to my marketing have been indited or convicted and are now out of business. I thought I would learn more about these companies after reading about them in this book. So I Googled them and found court cases and a bunch of nastiness. Interesting! Again, the book was written in 1996 and I read it in Mid-September 2007, anything can happen. Right?
If you are looking for a book that is truly helpful with "e" marketing or is at least current STAY AWAY from "The Official Get Rich Guide to Information Marketing" I finished it a few days ago and was very disappointed; it kept referencing me to their website for the information I really bought the book for. If you really want to learn how to be a Junk-Mail Jockey or a Spammer skip buying that book and go directly to the Kennedy-Glazer web site and be prepared to spend BIG BUCKS for the real information.
Dan is the Man! July 28, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Got an idea for a product or service you'd like to sell, but you don't know where to start? Dan Kennedy comes through again with a wealth of proven, yet often out-of-the-box ideas for making money with your ideas. Everything I've ever bought from Dan has been worthwhile, and I own all his books and a few of his workshop transcripts. Dan is the man when it comes to out-of-the-box and highly effective marketing ideas. Even if you own a "mundane" business like dry cleaning or dentistry, Dan's book will give you a boatload of ideas for creating more revenue.
Excellent 10 years ago July 23, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I found the book generally helpful, but now is clearly dated (the author was just becoming familiar with his PC). Still, one can glean a few useful ideas. The book should be revised in order to make it worth buying.
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