The Online Sunshine Plan

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Mostly, I’m re-editing this book for the umteenth time in places. What you should now find is:

1. A summary review of the sections, which is some hard-won views and data about how this particular area works, compared to how you are told it works.

2. Some articles of various insight which are valuable as highlights.

3. Space permitting, some collected ebooks which are tailored to a specific skill that is useful here. (And these will otherwise be available as downloads and/or on the accompanying CD for that section.

4. Each section looks to have a CD – or several – depending on how much useful material and programs have been found for each section.

5. Each section will have online lessons available in several formats (PDF, podcast, presentation, video) which will be hosted online for your easy access.

6. Current plans are to provide a DVD with these different versions of the course lessons for each section.

So this isn’t a straightforward book in any sense. It’s a bit disjointed in place sand not necessarily logical or sequential or even "intuitive." It’s not written like something you can sit back in an easy chair with a stock of favorite beverages and be amused and entertained for hours on end. You are expected to actually get hands on and work with this stuff in various lessons and practical applications. Consider this more of a workbook and study guide than some sort of highly-polished prose which you can curl up in an easy chair for hours. More like you are going to have this book curled back on itself, dog-eared, underlined, and highlighted while you put in various CD’s and search on the Internet for ways you can do this all easier, faster, or more effectively.
In short: you are going to have to work at this to really get the most out of it.

Now, you can really just study the opening reviews of each section, then go back to pick up the bulk in whatever section is most interesting to you. Factually, that is probably the best way to study this book – not a straight linear approach at all.  While this book is designed to logically take you through from nothing to being well on your way to achieving a professional e-business standing – I don’t expect that everyone has the same level of understanding, or that you haven’t run across what I’m saying somewhere else.

So, skip around, study what’s interesting to you. Put it down, pick it up later. Use what you can. See how you can improve what I’ve covered here. Write your own sequel. Create your own online or in-person seminars and teach your own version of this stuff.

Have fun and earn money doing it. That’s all I’m trying to help you with in this rather disjointed "book".

This was never meant to be a "popular" book.

I’m purposely appealing to the 3 percent out there who will actually put this stuff to use. Of the people who buy this book, only 20 percent will get the most out of it, but only 3 percent of 3 percent will actually become outrageously rich or successful or famous from anything they read here.  If you are one of them, give me a nice review, OK? 

But by the time you’ve purchased and read this book or got it somehow, I’ve already moved on to other projects.

This book is the culmination of research I’ve done in order to figure out selling books online. Nothing more. I figured all this stuff was valuable and so cobbled a book together. The next book after this has nothing to do with Internet Marketing, and I don’t expect to have to revisit this area at anytime in the future.

One reason is that by the time I finish writing this, most of it is outdated. The Internet moves too fast. The other reason is that this isn’t my own passion in life, but does align with helping people – which is.  Visit my other sites to see the other books I pour more of my heart and soul into. And leave a comment while you’re there.
Another point is that you’ll find that my earlier articles tend to be contradicted by my the material at the top of each chapter. This fits two reasons:

1. You apply what you learn and learn to think for yourself.

2. You see the learning curve I went through.

As I said, this stuff changes rapidly and so does your own understanding of it. The material at the beginning of each chapter is the summations of how things actually work. The articles I include augment that material and expand on certain points. And the stuff I include on the CD is even wilder. I hope to review everything on those CD’s for you, but you will also probably see first editions which simply go out without them.

This book isn’t meant to be a masterpiece or a classic. It’s simply a statement of a new approach to marketing which is becoming more and more mainstream. It’s a rusty, dented, old toolbox with all sorts of useful tools that have been around for a long time. But in the top, as you open it up, here’s this dog-eared, grease-spotted instruction manual which has directions on how to build the most marvelous stuff. You just have to supply the raw materials to build your own fine furniture, or souped-up car, or intricate trinket.

I’ve done what I considered as my part. Now, consider what yours should be.

Hope to meet you one day. Cheers.