But there is a course I have stumbled on that I feel is very worthwhile, and that I endorse. Everyone who wants to sell stuff on the web needs to read this.. The
name is Make
Your Site Sell.
Make Your Site Sell
Make Your Site Sell (MYSS) is a book by Ken Evoy, a Canadian
physician-turned-web-marketer. It's available only as an online e-book. Ken also
has a number of other e-publications you might find useful.
I got cold-emailed by Ken's staff, and found out the book -- which is
huge, around 800 pages. It's well laid out and chock full of great suggestions,
examples, and descriptions of things not to do.
MYSS covers a lot of ground , but IMHO concentrates more on the process of
building your website and your sales copy. It's written in a very personal style
(much like the way I write on my website), and in very great depth.
I'd say that the difference between the other courses and MYSS is that the other
courses come from the perspective of traditional "mail"
marketing and shows how to adapt those principles to the internet, whereas MYSS
feels like it comes from a more web-based starting point. It's a hard difference
to explain, but the other approaches are a little bit more oriented towards
the hard-sell than MYSS.
So which should I buy?
Both these type courses are good. If you're serious about selling on the web,
you should read both types . However, if you have to order only one, get Make
Your Site Sell. It covers all the basics, it's very comprehensive, and it's
very modestly priced (about $20US at the time of this writing).
The other courses I have tested are considerably more expensive than
MYSS, so my advice is this: get MYSS first, use it to tweak your sales effort,
and then, after you're successful and making some money, use some of your
profits to get another course as well - it will serve as an excellent
refresher course, and the different perspective will be useful to you.
MYSS offer 100% no-strings-attached money-back guarantees , so there's no
real risk.
One final note: In the interest of Full Disclosure, as I was so impressed and
have signed up as an affiliate, this course pays a commission to me each time one of you
buys something based on my endorsement. All commissions received from this
endorsement will be donated to the Salvation Army, one of the most
effective charitable organizations around.