I have scoured the net for more recent bloggers and businesses who have released ebooks and manifestos to help others drive their businesses forward.

It’s an approach I am now taking and will be releasing 2 free ebooks before the end of the year which will be packed full of great info.  For now I will share some of the best ebooks I have read which you can grab for free (you might have to sign up for some of them but believe me they are worth your email address), Also I have not set the links to open a new tab (not got my faithful Dreamweaver here in Turkey)  so right click each link and click on ‘open in new tab’:

50 Fantastic Free eBooks to Enhance Your Online Business

1. Rich Schefren – The attention Age Doctrine Part 2
2. Dave Navarro – 7 Steps to Networking Your Way to A-Listers Fast
3. Jonathan Fields – The Firefly Manifesto
4. Chris Guillebeau – A Brief Guide to World Domination
5. Jonathan Mead – The Zero Hour Workweek
6. Seth Godin – 7 Ways to Reinvent Yourself
7. Michael Martine – How to Start a Business Blog
8. Daniel Scocco – Make Money Blogging
9. John Chow – Make Money Online
10. Rich Schefren – Internet Business Manifesto
11. Ben Tiggelaar – Dream, Dare, Do
12. David Risley – 6 Figure Blogging Blueprint
13. Jens P Berget – Successful Traffic Generation Strategies
14. Diva Marketing – Social Media Marketing GPS
15. Dave Navarro – 7 Simple Income Streams (That You Can Actually Create)
16. Chris Guillebeau – 279 Days to Overnight Success
17. David Shay – Podcasting Secrets unleashed
18. Rich Schefren – The Missing Chapter
19. Seth Godin – Insubordinate
20. Mark Levy – The Fascination factor (and How You Can Use it to Write Books)
21. Strategic Generation – Online Professional Branding
22. Alex Makarski – Internet Marketing A – Z
23. Zac Johnson – How You Can Be the next $100,000 blogger
24. Mike Smith – Guide to Guerrilla Freelancing
25. Skellie – Rockstar Personal Branding
26. Rich Schefren – The final Chapter
27. ConversationAgent – Twittertales
28. Valerie Maltoni – Why Blog + 25 Tips to Make it Work
29. Colin Wright – Personal Branding
30. David Parrish – T-Shirts and Suits A Guide to the Business of Creativity
31. WebWorkerDaily (Various) – How to Escape The Cubicle
32. Chitika – Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging
33. Seth Godin – The Tribes Casebook
34. John Jantsch – Lets talk Social Media for the Small Business
35. Rich Schefren – The Maven Matrix Manifesto
36. Scott Ginsberg – 203 Things I’ve Learned about, Writing, Marketing and Selling eBooks
37. David Meerman Scott – The New rules of PR
38. Michaeal Cheney – Top 20 Traffic Disasters to Avoid
39. Kathrien Ahn – How to be Positive When Things Suck
40. Jay Conrad Levinson – A Guide to Guerrilla marketing for Consultants (oldie but goodie)
41. Laura Vanderkam – 168 Hours: The Blank Slate of Time
42. Chris Garrett – Killer Flagship Content
43. Peter Antonio – Endless Micro Niche Markets
44. Willie Crawford – How to Make a Fortune Offering Freelance Consulting
45. Kok Choon -  The ultimate Six Figures Strategy Guide
46. Ewan Chia – Secrets of Internet Business
47. John Chow – The Ultimate Blog Profit Model
48. Rob Brooks – How to Be Aamzing on Youtube
49. Mike Enlow – Masters of Marketing
50. GeekPreneur – A Geeks Guide to Promoting Yourself  in 140 Characters or Less

]]> http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/50-fantastic-free-ebooks-to-enhance-your-online-business/feed/ 44 http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/are-you-creating-a-job-for-yourself-or-a-business/ http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/are-you-creating-a-job-for-yourself-or-a-business/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:54:39 +0000 Steven Aitchison http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/?p=443 A lot of people on the internet, and offline, dream of creating a business and finally give up that dreary old day job.  I am definitely in that category and have been trying for two years to make money online with internet marketing.  Recently I had a mindset change which has changed things for me in a dramatic way.

As most of my regular readers will know I have been making money with affiliate marketing and producing my own ebooks, writing for other blogs and selling them via adwords, article marketing and banner ads etc.  In 2007 I made around $1000 profit, this year I have made around $5000 profit so far.  However in the last 3 weeks I have produced another product for clickbank which will be the start of a new business venture for me and it has already brought in around $500 on top of earnings of $1000 for other products I promote and writing I do for other blogs.

Me at the centre

The trouble I had in starting a business was that I was doing every single thing myself which included designing web pages, sales pages, opt in pages, graphics for banners, learning about and installing scripts on websites, videos, adwords, affiliate promotion, writing articles, writing sales materials, copywriting, answering emails, troubleshooting, every single little thing you could think of in a business and I was doing it.  This is on top of a full time job and spending as much time with my family as possible.  I wasn’t the business owner,  I was the business!  without me nothing would happen, if I fell ill nothing would get done and the money would start drying up pretty quickly.   So, in effect I was creating another job for myself and not a business.

Now my mindset has changed from creating a new job for myself to becoming a business owner where I have other people helping me do the most time consuming jobs.  Yes, I have to pay them but it frees up a lot of my time to concentrate on producing my own products.  This has only happened in the last few weeks and I can see a difference already.  No longer am I worrying about all the things I need to get done and ultimately falling behind schedule as I have other people around the world helping me produce web pages, sales pages, my writing etc.  I can concentrate on building a business up rather than being the business.

I have started to outsource a lot of the work using a service at www.elance.com for my sales page design and for my writing.  In the next few months I hope to pass most of my work to people I come to trust from elance this will include, graphics, writing, adwords management, cd production, email screening etc.    don’t get me wrong it will take some time to find people to trust and who can work well with my work philosophy but it is a start and will make a huge difference.

I am already seeing a difference in my energy levels.  I still get up at 5am to wok a few hours before getting the children ready for school and then going to work and still work in the evenings but I work on producing more products rather than dealing with other more time consuming issues like sales page design and writing emails for autoresponders ad all the other little jobs that are so time consuming.

Mastermind group

I have even created time to join a mastermind group with Brian McElroy and Rachel Rofe to drive the business forward.  This will last for 10 weeks and I will report back here with progress, it’s the first mastermind group I have joined and am really looking forward to it. I am hoping the lessons i learn and the contacts I make will more than outweigh the initial investment.

The reason for this change in mindset from creating a job for myself to becoming a business owner was down to a video I watched a few weeks ago from Rich Schefren.  I have  posted the video below so you can watch it.  It’s 90 minutes long but if you are looking to create a business online or offline it will be 90 minutes of pure gold.