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Book Review: “The Millionaire Messenger” by Brendon Burchard

June 4, 2012 / / 2 comments

Could my “message” really be worth a million dollars? That may sound cheesy, but that was the hook that grabbed my attention as I singled this title out amongst the many recent publications of finance books on Amazon.

There are a million books that encourage you to save as much money as you can in your 401k and IRA. However, as a student of passive income, I wanted to read about something different from conventional advice. Along the same theme of how the book “ProBlogger” entices you to become a six-figure blogger, I figured why not see if this guy can help me step it up to a million?

What Is This Book About?

As you would expect, “The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice” is precisely about what the title suggests – marketing yourself as an “expert guru” and getting paid to do so. Afraid you’re not expert? Author Brendon Burchard disagrees.

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Book Review: “Rework” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

December 17, 2011 / / No comments

Throw everything you know about business planning out the window.

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson offer a simpler approach: Ignore traditional business conventionalism and create the type of business you want.  Period.

Rework is a collection of advice from the blog “Signal vs. Noise” by the authors’ company “37signals”. In it, the authors trash almost every common corporate practice such as meetings, business plans, projections, marketing, hiring practices, etc. to the credit of their own success. Although 37signals is a small, Internet based company, their products are widely used and the blog has thousands of readers.

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Book Review: “The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated” by Timothy Ferriss

August 28, 2011 / / No comments
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This is one of the most entertaining and unconventional financial life-style books I have ever read. Not only will it open your mind to a world opportunities that few people even know exist, but it will challenge the status-quo of how you live your life.

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