Making Money Online: Book Review of KaChing by Joel Comm

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When I picked up this book two years ago, I was still an aspiring wana-be-online business owner.  Two years down the road, I finally started the engines for some serious blogging, to give my best level try on making money through blogging.

Joel Comm did a fantastic job on this book for those who are aspiring to use Internet marketing as a means of making a steady income or just as a sideline.  He has written his book in an easy to use manual with models he has used throughout his career in online business.

The book is divided into 8 chapters as follow:
Chapter 1:  The New Web Order - How the Internet Has Brought Opportunity to Everybody.
Chapter 2:  Your uniqueness Equals Cash
Chapter 3:  Content is not King - It is KaChing!
Chapter 4:  Information Products - Selling.
Chapter 5:  Earning from Affiliate Programs
Chapter 6:  Membership sites - Turning your Internet Business into a Passive Revenue Machine
Chapter 7:  Coaching Programs
Chapter 8:  Case Studies

Each chapter rules out the fundamentals of making your online business a success.  Joel Comm explains each fundamental in a simple and easy model which makes anyone capable of starting an online business.

His main model to create a great online business is listed out as below:
1.  You have a dream
2.  You have to believe
3.  You have to prepare
4.  You have to act
5.  You have to relate
6.  You have to use models
7.  You have to grow

Each of the fundamentals above were written with clear examples of how you could achieve them in a step by step method.  As a new blogger, I found his tips to be very practical.

However, I would like to stress that Joel Comm does not give solutions to online businesses but he offers invaluable advice and insights into what would make an online business successful.  His book is relatively easy to use and follow even when it comes to the more technical aspects of online business.

What I liked most about the book is the sincerity of the writer in which he stressed that starting a website is something everybody can do but to start making money from it would take a lot of preparation, hard work and determination.  Not many books like this would say such a thing accept for hyping you up to possibilities that cannot be achieved just to sell their ideas.

This is a great book for those who are just starting out as it points to all the right strategies and fundamentals that are needed to start on the right side of the trade.  It is also for those who are already seasoned Internet business owners as there are a few nuggets worth picking at to make your online business even better.

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

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This is Jeanette Winterson's first novel, which speaks in every way a memoir as well as a delightful fiction that would delight any reader.

She used the different books of the bible to arrange the structure of her book.  Starting from Genesis and finishes in Ruth, she weaves her story in a sequence that would bring you from her childhood days to her adolescent years that were closely intertwined with rigorous bible learning and growing up with a mother whose dominance overshadows her father who is mainly quiet in the whole course of the novel.

Gender roles in the novel were very much turned around with Jeanette's mother being the head of the house and Jeanette deemed too manly to be a girl.  She was given roles to lead Bible study and preach in church.  There are only two male characters that are mentioned throughout the book; Jeanette's father and Pastor Spratt.

The story revolves around Jeanette's mother who is a fervent evangelist and an advocate for the Society of the Lost in their church.  Jeanette was constantly drilled on the Bible so that she can recite word by word during Bible quizzes in church and come up as the top of the class.

Jeanette's mother never believed in sending Jeanette to school, in which she calls it 'the breeding ground'.  She believes that all is lost in terms of spiritual guidance from God when one goes to school.  However, Jeanette welcomed it with an open enthusiasm and glee.  Jeanette goes on to terrorize the kids in school about how they would all eventually burn in Hell if they don't accept the Lord which brings her into a lot of trouble even though she believes that what she was saying was the truth and her way of trying to fit in.

As she grow into her adolescent years, Jeanette started realizing her hidden sexual attraction for the fairer sex.   She grew to love a new convert named Melanie and all turned topsy turvy when the church found out about their 'evil' relations.  Jeanette went through exorcism which aimed to rid her of her 'demons', where she experienced and orange demon that bids her to make a choice - either stay the same or change.  The writer clearly showed Jeanette's strong will and strong belief in God that helped her make her decision.  Jeanette eventually left home as she no longer is able to tolerate her mother who keeps cursing her as 'evil' and she worked in a funeral parlour, sold ice cream in a van and eventually moved out of town.  She eventually went home to visit her parents after some time away but nothing much has changed except for some extra electrical appliances in the old house.

This book is quite an inspiration for anyone whose searching for the inner truth within themselves.  It's a typical coming of age novel that not only inspires but also entertains.