the joy of reading
I’m traveling back from Hong Kong, in the airport, and walk into one of the book stores. You know, there are a load of them all over the place selling both Chinese and English magazine and books, etc.
I stroll over to the Business section, as usual, and pick up a copy of The 4-Hour Workweek, thinking to myself “Sounds like a plan…!”. And, it is now.
I must say, I am an avid reading of business, self-help books and I always collate one or two new ones on a business trip. I rarely read them cover to cover however. Generally, I glance through the chapters that I might find interesting at the time or potentially need a little ‘help’ with. However, with this one, I’ve been glued.
After just a few days, I am almost done and have learnt a lot, already put practices into action and am slowly planning my attack on the virtual product selling world of ours to join the New Rich as the author puts it.
I especially liked his ideas about mini-vacations and how the “NR” value mobility. I could defiantly relate to the author, and found myself agreeing with his thoughts and actions most of the time, especially owning and running an outsourcing company myself!
Make sure you pay close attention to pages 166-176 where Tim gives a system for testing a product before putting up money to have it manufactured.
- Find a market
- Find a need/product in that market
- Put up a short sales page online
- Put up an order page after the sales page where someone thinks they’re going to buy (but don’t collect their credit card info)
- Advertise on Google Adwords
- Track sales
Once you’ve done all those things, and become a success and made lots of money – call us! We’ll help you run the company and have all those little vacations…!
Tags: 4-hour workweek, live2sell, tim ferriss, virtual assistant
