Chris Guillebeau – The Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself

Friends and readers, my new guide on Creating Personal Freedom through a Very Small Business is now available for your consideration. The link is above for those who are ready to pick it up, and for those who want more information, just keep reading.

Who Should Buy This: Anyone hoping to escape the tyranny of a conventional working life, anyone interested in setting up a microbusiness to earn additional income, and anyone who believes in hard work.

Who Should Not Buy This: Expert Internet marketers who already know a lot about working online, anyone looking for a quick fix, anyone happy with their current working situation and income, and anyone not willing to work hard.

What You’ll Get: Here’s what you’ll get with the Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself:

• 53-pages of strategic and tactical info in a professionally designed report
• 3 25-minute MP3 audio teaching sessions (see below)
• 1 Special Bonus – 26 pages of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips from a real expert (i.e., not me)
• Free Updates for 6 Months

More specifically, here’s how each of those things breaks down.

About the 53-Page Report

In short, the report includes highlights of everything I’ve learned in ten years of working for myself by operating a series of very small, online businesses. It is roughly divided into 50% strategy and 50% tactics. The strategy section is designed to help you think outside the box and create a project that works for you regardless of the broader economy or your own circumstances. The tactical section will help with current opportunities you can use right now.

I started writing all of this down in mid-August, and kept going for weeks on end. I missed my initial deadline of September 1 mostly because I felt that more information was needed. I finally ended up finishing it in an all-night writing session in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after I had slept through most of the day upon arrival in my 100th country.

I figured I had to stop at 53 pages or it would become a real book, and I can only write one of those at a time.

Here’s a few of the topics that are covered:

*Truth and Lies of Affiliate Marketing
*8 Ways to Earn (At Least) $200 a Month
*Strategic Microbusiness Building
*3 Separate Ways of Selling on eBay (including one that 98% of eBay sellers ignore)
*The Truth about Blogging for Dollars
*How to Get Paid for Things You Currently Do for Free
*Where to Start from the Beginning
*Scaling Up to a Business Empire
*Affiliate Income 2.0
*Logistics for Getting Paid
*6 Top Mistakes of Entrepreneurship
*4 Overrated Businesses You Should Avoid

About the Audio Sessions

You’ll also get 3 25-minute MP3 audio sessions I created to explain more about getting started, building traffic to your web site or offer (a very important part of any online business), and all the logistical details that come up along the way.

These are not super-polished, recording studio quality audiobooks. It’s just me talking in a conversational style about real issues. The idea is that these are the kinds of things we’d talk about during a couple of long phone conversations.

Believe me, I learned the hard way about this stuff – health insurance, taxes, missed deposits, etc. It’s much easier to start off on the right foot with these kinds of things, so I used part of the audio sessions to talk about what not to do.

Here’s a quick rundown of the outline for the audio sessions:

#1: Questions & Answers on Very Small Businesses

In this session I answer questions submitted by readers in advance of creating this project. It covers getting started, risks, healthcare, taxes, and the critical relationship between cash flow and survival.

#2: 24 Actions You Can Take Today to Create Online Income

This session is all about immediate action. It covers domain registration, hosting, creating a mini-information product for eBay or elsewhere, and some notes on specific affiliate programs that may be a good match for you.

#3: 18 Tips to Get Traffic to Your Website or Offer

This session is all about getting traffic to your web site or offer. Without visitors, you can have the greatest site or greatest offer, but if no one sees it, you’ll never sell anything. That’s why building traffic is almost as important as creating a good product.

SEO Bonus and Free Updates

Naomi Dunford at ittybiz knows far more about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) than I do, and she recently wrote an ebook about it. The book sells for $39, but Naomi has agreed to let me share the first 26 pages with you. If you don’t know what SEO is, don’t worry – this bonus is very user-friendly. The first two sections, which you’ll get as a bonus, include more than enough info to get a good overview as well as a few specific ideas about optimizing your website for search engines.

Lastly, I will be providing free updates for six months. Each customer will be asked to fill out a short survey after about two weeks of owning the guide. Based on that feedback, I’ll revise or add more segments to the guide. These updates will be free for six months even if I raise the price of the guide for new buyers in the future.

Why Not to Give Me Your Money

I recently explained how I have a bit of anxiety over creating a product that deals with building a business, even a very small one.

Please let me give it to you straight — this is not a quick-fix system. I know of no such thing. If you are looking for the easy road to riches, feel free to keep looking, but not here. Send me a postcard from Mykonos when you find it.

But over here, I am working on something different. I do not provide a complete road map or a hand-holding guide. It’s a guide that will help you learn more. I wouldn’t offer it if I didn’t believe in it, but there are no shortcuts to learning.

Also, I focus almost exclusively on online business, because that’s what I know how to do. Offline businesses are cool too, but you’ll need to go elsewhere to learn how to start a coffee shop.

Lastly, not everyone wants to work for themselves. Some people adapt to self-employment quickly, some come around to it after a while, and others are better off doing something else. This guide is for people in the first two groups.

If You Haven’t Been Scared Off Yet

I believe passionately in creating personal freedom. I’ve done it for myself, and I’ll tell you how – including all my mistakes, so you don’t have to repeat them. Some of you are really excited about this or have already had some initial success that leaves you hungry for more. You are who I created this product for.

Therefore, with those earlier disclaimers out of the way, let me give you the strongest guarantee I could possibly think of.

The Incredibly Convincing Guarantee:

“If you read the guide, listen to the audio sessions, and put in a good-faith effort, I am not allowed to keep your money if it doesn’t work for you. You have to let me know if this happens, and I have to refund your money promptly. You have 60 days to succeed before I return your money.”

Specifically, I want to ensure that you can earn at least $200 a month ($2,400 a year) in new income through what you learn. Obviously, I want you to do even better than that – but this is the bar of success for the guarantee.

I make this guarantee in part to reassure you, and in part so I can reassure me. I really don’t want anyone’s money who can not seriously benefit from this information for any reason.

In addition, there is the usual, one full year guarantee – if it doesn’t rock your world, just tell me and you get your money back. (If you do that, you have to agree to delete the files from your computer, and I’ll remove you from the update list just to be fair to the others.)

For everyone else (even those who are just reading along), I promise to provide an accounting of the results, including specific case studies if possible.

International Readers

This guide is fully relevant worldwide, although a few strategies and tactics may be exclusive to North America. For the most part, though, working online can be done from anywhere.

Pricing and Additional Material

This is a “no hype” offer. In the future I’ll raise the price to better reflect the value, but for now, it’s just $58 – no shipping fees or anything else. That’s it.

There is also an optional session with additional material you can purchase for $21. The additional material contains:

• One additional audio segment on Creating a Brand to Build a Lasting Business. This will help people more interested in building a long-term, lasting business instead of just a microbusiness.

• 10 Ways to Earn Income through Travel Mind-Map with detailed notes. This will arrive as a series of updates and feature information not included in the other printed report and audio downloads.

This is a separate offer — some people will want the information, and others won’t – so I made it optional. You can get the optional session after the initial purchase is made (there will be a link on the page where you get all the other files).

Get download Chris Guillebeau – The Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself at coursesblock.com right now!

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