| | |  | Home Business Books | Home » » Author & Get Rich: How to Write a Money-Making Book in Only 12 Hours! | | | | | | | Description: | | What does every professional, consultant, coach, speaker and business person struggle with? How to bring instant recognition and qualified leads. Author & Grow Rich delivers a system to showcase an author's expertise, passion to bring a flood of qualified leads, and gain instant credibility to quickly set them apart among their competitors. Author And Grow Rich is a system to help anyone...even if they flunked high school English or think that they have no time...to author their own money-making book in less than 12 hours of actual writing time...and gain instant access to a New York Publisher-Easily, quickly and affordably. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Glenn Dietzel | | Paperback:
| 264 pages | | Publisher:
| Morgan James Publishing | | Publication Date:
| November 01, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1600372937 | | Product Length:
| 8.92 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.06 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.73 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.99 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 27 reviews |
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33 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 All the 5 star posts about this book are surely contrivedApr 25, 2008
By Bottom Line
How funny...I find this book about "authoring" to be a perfect example of what NOT to do. Most of the links referenced in this book do not work (they are obsolete or never existed). His step-by-step is not step-by-step. There is a checklist, which is good, but if you are looking for an easy way to follow this checklist and know what to do, well, good luck...his descriptions are all over the place and not in order, or perhpas are so laden with rhetoric, it is hard to keep track. Also, the first 15 pages or so are advertising and promoting other products, even before you know if the book shows the author knows anything!!!
Granted, I do have to say that there is good material in here...unfortunately it is mixed with a lot of useless information. So should you buy this book? I say yes, but be prepared to skip the first 15 pages until after you finish the rest of the book, and be prepared to spend a lot of time reorganizing the information by writing notes so you can see the final picture.
16 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Author an e-book, publish, and repurpose for big $$$$!!!Jul 25, 2008
By The Book Bomber
To a great extent, some pretty basic stuff here. If you don't write, never have written, don't know how to generate ideas, have writer's block or any of the above, this is the book for you. But there's more . . .
A&GR has some good points but, after all, it is just a book, or as the marketing world describes it (also the author, Glen Dietzel) a brochure or business card (no one gets rich writing books). It is Dietzel's business card--first in the line of products that works as a foundation for re-purposing and profit building. He tells you that your book will build a business (as Dietzel has) and the repurposed or reworked material in the book will be made into CD's, DVD's, work books, classes, seminars, and so on.
That's the other part of the book or beyond the book. But let's get back to the book, shall we? (Did I say book enough here? No? OK. Book. Book. Book. ;=) )
Let's take a look at the marketing of the book to get an idea as to how successful aspects of marketing work and how some of the contemporary ideas expressed by Dietzel and others like Dan Kennedy (super marketing guru) and Alex Mandossian (top freelance direct marketer [infomercials: QVC, HSN), teleseminar, virtual book tour, and podcast guru) play out. If you've read a lot, you'll see Kennedy's, Mandosian's and the hands of others (Mark Victor Hansen, Napoleon Hill, et. al) all over this book.
To promote, it is best to get others to say good stuff about you than you. A Dan Kennedy supported approach. So Dietzel has done this in droves: over 20 pages of blurbs open the book! Dan Kennedy has said the more the merrier. Don't be afraid of too many supportive blurbs. However, on one of his teleseminars on web page testing, it was discovered that a sales page without blurbs did better than the same sales page with. Go figure. Maybe the age of "If you've got big-name supporters, I'll buy" is coming to a close. I know I, like many, now ignore this often overused ploy. Nevertheless, onto the book . . .
Dietzel begins by defining what an Entrepreneurial Author is to get your head into the game with clear definitions, what a marketing funnel is (yeah, you're a writer but to be successful with your book ya gotta know how to market, just ask Robert Kiyosaki--was a big advertiser in RTIR [Radio Television Interview Report)], and Dietzel promotes, promotes, promotes his stuff. As any good marketer should. Lots of it found free on the Internet, leading up to his $5000 course, which you need in order to become successful at marketing your book, of course.
He's got a free get-your-head-right CD set, attached to a free 3 month trial to weekly "life-enhancing lessons" after which you'll pay $19 / month. But you can cancel any time. But this IS required reading / studying for success CAN'T HAPPEN if you don't have enough of you working right, meaning, that there's a lot of bad habits, thinking that needs to be nipped in the bud to take it to the next level. Very important! However, I think Dietzel, like Tony Robbins and other motivators, don't dedicate enough time to this highly important issue. For example, Tony Robbins mentions how only about 10% of those who buy his tapes listen to them. But he doesn't even say how many make them a life habit? Maybe 1% of the 10% who listen all the way through. So few are not doing because of deeper issues mere motivational or NLP techniques won't improve upon. But that's another topic.
Let's look at more of A&GR . . .
Dietzel does tell you how to generate ideas, free up time from you schedule to write, the importance of niche marketing, how to pick your niche--a good niche, how to prepare your mind and recognize your expertise, how to move from your comfort zone to a mindset of success, the authors mindset, creating a knowledge-based information business, goal setting and accomplishing, and so on.
To summarize, Dietzel does a good job of presenting some of the necessary information one needs to achieve the proper mindset to write and obtain success, what an info. business entails, some contemporary marketing issues--how to do so through the power of the Internet, and so on. But this has all been covered before by other gurus. And if you're motivated, know of the contemporary business environment, know how to write, then why buy this book. Ahhhhh, here's where it gets interesting.
Dietzel's biggest advantage is his connections ("how to gain instant access to a NY publisher) and experience. He's been there so you, the neophyte promoter of your e-book, don't have to waste time re-inventing the wheel.
And THIS is why you should buy the book (get the free stuff if you like) and sign up for his class. Of course, there's the discounted version ($400) but as Dietzel tells you, best not to waste your time with it because you need to speak to us to get things right the first time. Don't waste your time or money get the high ticket item. Good marketing, eh? Right.
Overall, it's pretty good. But if you're business savy, know how to write (or at least can generate ideas in a consistent and disciplined manor--don't need hand holding), get motivated, most of the basics Dietzel talks about, then it's best just to go to awakentheauthorwithin.com and sign up for an authoring program. And you may want to apply for a scholarship and get $2500 off Dietzel's Basic Authoring for Business Profit class.
Good Authoring!!!
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
...by advertising all your very expensive products in your book.Jun 23, 2010
By Robert P. Beveridge
"xterminal"
Glenn Dietzel, Author and Grow Rich (Morgan James, 2008)
I figured I knew what I was getting with Glenn Dietzel's Author and Grow Rich, but I didn't expect it to be quite as blatant as it is. Every few pages, you're interrupted with directions to get to one of Dietzel's websites hawking the Entrepreneurial Author program or some sort of spiritual-fulfillment thing. There are also veiled references to anyone buying the Entrepreneurial Author program being put in touch with "a New York Publisher". Exactly which publisher this is is never revealed, though the examples Dietzel mentions were all published by Morgan James, the publisher of this book. My guess is that many others have gone through this and been routed to another publisher (remember that a few vanities are headquartered in New York, though looking through Morgan James' backlist, I'm even wondering about them; some of those covers just scream "vanity press"). In any case, Dietzel's refusal to mention the publisher's name, the constant hawking of other products (and the "free bonus materials worth" some ludicrous amount of money no one in their right mind would actually pay) should be raising huge red flags in your vision within five pages of you starting to read this book. If there's actually any useful information here you can't get from the thousands of better writing manuals on the planet, I couldn't find it before flinging this out the window in disgust. I've read a lot of useless books on writing, but none that have tried to sell me so many things that had nothing to do with writing in the process. An insult to the intelligence of any would-be writer. (zero)
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Glenn made my new life happenMar 13, 2008
By Ken Jensen
"Smoky Jar Productions - our strength becomes your power"
My name is Ken Jensen, author of the book "It Takes Guts To Be Me: How An Ex-Marine Beat Bipolar Disorder". You can find it here: www.ittakesgutstobeme.com.
The only reason I can even make the prior statement is thanks to Glenn and his team. His system works and a book was dug out of my head that I did not even realize was there. After 8 years of trying to find the right business goal to pursue, I am home.
Take it from one who has been burned repeatedly and chosen the wrong business model to follow more than once - Glenn's system is true, honest, and doable by anyone. Let him help you open a new chapter in your life just as he helped me.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
A supersales approach, but with many good ideasMay 29, 2008
By Barry Parker
"Author of You Should Write a Book: Writing it With Style and Clarity, Selling Thousands"
I bought this book on a whim and wasn't sure what to expect. I'm an author of 22 books and I sure haven't grown rich. As I began reading the book I soon became convinced that the author was a super salesman, and was promising much more than he could deliver. In particular, I was skeptical of his "write a book in 12 hours" scheme. Sure, anyone can write a book in 12 hours, but I'm not sure how publishable it would be. As I looked into the book in more detail, however, I began to see that it contained a lot of useful information. I'm not sure most of the people reading it are going to get rich quickly, but there are many good ideas in the book. For the most part they are presented in flamboyant step 1, step 2 ... fashion, with lots of white space around each point. Some of them, in fact, begin with "Secrets Ways to ...." Despite several drawbacks, the book is a good addition to any writers library. Each time I've gone through it, I've found something useful.
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