Poll Result: Have you ever read a book about making money online?

As promised, here’s the result of our poll: Have you ever read a book about making money online?

And, as you can see in this chart, majority of the JMMO voters say that they haven’t read any online business books, but they plan to do so (35%).

The next group of voters say that they have read a few (28%) and 13% said that they’ve read 1 or 2 so far.

Interesting to note is that there’s a good 24% who seem adamant that they’ll never read an online business book. And, I imagine there are varied reasons for this.

Anyway, here are some interesting comments:

From Barbara Ling -

My favorite to date is Jim Edward’s Lazy Man’s Guide to Online Business (he advocates writing a superior customer care autoresponder sequence that solves 99% of customer questions ahead of time, as well as create a great helpdesk).

The problems with MMO books are that if they require actual hard work…people tend to become quite unhappy with them. Folks are always looking for the Silver Bullet and after doing this now for 10+ years, I know for sure… there ain’t one EXCEPT hard work.

From Kay -

I’ve read a few articles and blogs about making money online. It always struck me that I would find it far too boring to devote sufficient time and hard work to the online aspects, rather than making the objects I like to make and may want to sell. I tried some scheme that turned out to be a pyramid thing of just persuading people to subscribe to introduce more people. BORING! As soon as they wanted my money for “nothing”, I dropped out. I haven’t got a business head and need more intellectual stimulation than what I’ve found online regarding selling.

From Michael Clark -

Books have far too long a lead time, so the information is generally going to either be very generic; or out-of-date. Ask this question again in a few years after self-publishing and on-demand publishing have matured.

From Jennifer Kyrnin -

So far, I haven’t found any that were worth the cost of their printing. All the ones I’ve tried to read have either been MMF schemes or all the same SEO and marketing techniques of every other “build a website” book out there.

Thanks again to everyone who voted. I’ll be posting a new poll soon.