The Geek’s Guide to Internet Business Success
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The Internet has created a whole new range of business opportunities. This book is the definitive business blueprint for Internet developers, programmers, consultants, marketers, and service providers. The Geek’s Guide is crammed with tips, worksheets, and templates specifically tailored for the Internet entrepreneur…. More >>
The Geek’s Guide to Internet Business Success
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Remarkable Work: Insightful- Practical- Focused- It took me to a new level of understanding. I recommend it to anyone doing business on the internet…
Rating: 5 / 5
This book was very helpful in showing me how to deal with clients and the people I need to help me design sites. I wish I had this when I started the business.
Rating: 5 / 5
I hope that my competitors never read this book! Topics that I found valuable included: what questions to answer in a brochure; what a biz plan should cover; characteristics of a great biz plan; competitive advantages; how to set rates; brochure ideas; how to select prospects; motivating an appointment setter; how to track leads; demographic data sources for a brochure; pre-presentation checklist; what to memorize for a presentation; content of handouts; the process (flowchart and steps); time-management do’s and don’t's; sample biz plan.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Geek’s Guide was very instrumental in the construction of my website. I think the cover is so funny! I love the geek icon too! I wish I had him on a hat or a t-shirt!
Rating: 5 / 5
While many of the references in this book are certainly somewhat dated (originally published in ’97 – a lot has happened on the Internet since then), The Geek’s Guide is still a bulls eye, on-target business guide for web designers, especially those just getting started. If you’re a new web designer or web programmer you’ll quickly learn what you need to know to succeed.
The fact that it was written before the dotbomb era means that you’re getting solid advice free of the bubble hype that crashed the stock market and put almost every dot com company out of business – and left many self employed web designers scrambling to find paying clients.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the fact that you won’t even find the phrase “business model” in the book (at least I couldn’t find it.) Most internet business models (except of course, good old Amazon!) turned out to be either illegal stock frauds run by con artists or the same as legitimate old fashioned bricks and mortar business models. And we all know that today, it is the bricks and mortar companies that have the most work and the most money for web designers.
So I say, grab this book now, even if you can only get a used copy.
Rating: 5 / 5