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279 Days to Overnight Success is a guide to creating a successful blog. Chris Guillebeau mocks the overnight success marketers with the title, and explains how he grew his blog, The Art of Non-Conformity, into platform to become a full time writer and blogger in approximately 279 days.
In 279 Days to Overnight Success Chris Guillebeau tells us how he became a full time writer in 279 days. He really lays it all out for us, including the income he’s seeing from his efforts. I liked seeing how he achieved success, and how he defines success. He says the audience for this eBook is anyone interested in unconventional living. Chris says 279 Days to Overnight Success is targeted at bloggers, writers, and online artists. I felt it was mostly targeted at bloggers, but I could see how the other groups could gain from it as well.
Overview of topics
- How I Became a Full-Time Writer in 279 Days
- The Complete Revenue Estimate for my Personal Site in 2009
- The World Domination Strategy for Establishing Your Brand
- Avoiding the Vampires who Want You to Fail
- Why Adsense (and most other Web Advertising) Sucks
- How to Stay Off the Digg Home Page and Still Get All the Traffic You Need
Table of Contents
Part I: How to Become a Problogger in 10 Months
- Introduction
- What Does Success Look Like
- Show Me the Money
- World Domination Strategy
- Big Mistakes
- Part II: Fire Google and Hire Yourself
- Why Adsense Sucks
How to Get Paid for Meeting the Needs of Your Followers
- Listening
- Examples
- Scaling Up
Part III: Short Notes on Vampires, Rule-Breaking, Email Lists, Etc.
- The Vampire Chronicles
- Hard Work and Working for Free
- Logistics
- Wrap-Up: Go and Be Awesome
Price/Value
Free. Chris only asks two things in return for downloading this free eBook. He asks that you provide feedback and spread the word by sharing his blog and this eBook with your friends. You don’t need to sign up for any email list like many other free eBooks, so that’s a nice plus.
What’s Included
Just the eBook
Pluses
- Beautiful aesthetics and layout.
- Great instruction for anyone looking to get started in blogging.
- He leads by example, telling us exactly how he created his own successful blog.
- A “Mistakes” section that shows us the mistakes he made along his way.
- A decent section on how to make money on your blog.
- Great examples of three other people that are achieving success online.
- A good section on how to handle the Vampires or Naysayers.
- He gives some good suggestions on statistics to track and how often to check them.
Minuses
Some of the lessons in 279 Days to Overnight Success may be difficult to apply (or will take longer) if you aren’t able to work on it full time.
I would have liked to see more detail on the monetization strategies and product launch. I’m sure an entire book could be written on that alone, but I felt the overview left me wanting more. He may have included this in his premium offerings, but I haven’t had a chance to read them yet, so I can’t say for sure.
Rating
I give 279 Days to Overnight Success 4 stars. It’s a beautiful eBook filled with good content. It’s a must read for anyone planning to start a blog, and a good review for current bloggers. I found lots of good content that reinforced things I had learned along the way, and a few ideas for the future. I really liked his mistakes section, as it demonstrated that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve success, it showed there are multiple paths to the top. The examples section really stood out to me as well as it showed how a three people are progressing through differing outlets on their own paths to success.
Head on over to The Art of Non-Conformity and download your copy 279 Days to Overnight Success!
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