Be Awesome At Online Business: A Handbook For Succeeding On The Web

by Paul Jarvis

Are you wondering how to start an online business or take your existing web business to the next level?

Be awesome at online business is the opposite of every other ‘make money online’ pitch you’ll read. This book cuts through the bullshit get-rich-quick-on-the-web advice and generic guaranteed-to-succeed promises (if only life were that easy). Instead, you’ll answer some hard (but important) questions and tackle real homework to get you on the right track. I know this sounds like a lot of work—and it is. But these ideas and strategies can set you up for long-term rewards. And if you’re like me, you might even enjoy doing your homework.

I’ve laid out easy-to-follow plans and ideas to help you start your business or tweak what you’re already doing online. You’ll set the groundwork to do things right, hire smart people to help you, and create actionable steps to keep driving visitors and sales.

Be awesome at online business is a no-bullshit handbook for planning, creating and defining how you can succeed on the web. Its straight-talking approach provides real advice about the hard work you’ll need to do in order to make your online business work for you.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction

64 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 6, 2013

About the author

Paul Jarvis is a veteran of the online tech world, and over the years has had such corporate clients as Microsoft, Yahoo, Mercedes-Benz, Warner Music and even Shaquille O'Neal.

​Today, he teaches online courses, runs several software businesses and hosts a handful of podcasts from his home on an island on the West Coast of Canada.

Reviews

[Ignas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This should be a must for online business owners who are looking for the professional to help them. I wish all the clients I will work with would have read this book. Also it is very good read for web developers and designers. Not an ideal book, but contains a lot of good tips, great insights. Moreover it is easy and short read. Just grab it, read it - it will not hurt :)

[Curtismchale · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the book that all designers and developers wish their clients would read.

Lots of practical advice for business owners on how to choose a great designer or developer for their project, how to have a successful project (hint: deliver your stuff on time and give constructive feedback).

Then it goes a step further and gives great advice on how to run the site long term (which few designers/developers do well). If you build it they will not come. You need to generate content, engage in social media, build an email list, and a bunch of other things that Paul gives you a great overview of to get you started.

[Lauren]

I read this as part of my Get-Through-Readmill-The-End-Is-Nigh effort. It's a good read. A lot like the other ones in my readmill collection. Conversational, about how to talk to designers, and think about new business models.