From Nothing: Everything You Need to Profit from Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Blogging, Online Business, e-Commerce and More… Starting With <$100

by Ian Pribyl, Regina Pribyl (Editor)

Isn’t this industry long overdue for a legitimate, step-by-step guide to building an internet business?

Not a crappy $97 PDF delivered via email. Just the age-old gold a reasonably priced book.

These pages contain EVERYTHING you need to start an online business in the affiliate marketing, internet marketing, blogging, and e-commerce industries… using less than $100.

It doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to this or if you’ve tried for years without seeing success.

If you can bring yourself to trust a ginger millennial as your guide (difficult, I know) , you’ll be on your way to first-time success in online business the moment you begin reading.




“Three lessons in and I put this on my shortlist as one of the most valuable courses I’ve taken, and that includes college, grad school, and studying law.” ~ Andre D.

“I already rank you as one of the best instructors I’ve had… As a former USAF pilot and currently one for a major airline I can get a sense when a guy has the right stuff. You do.” ~ John C.

“I already bought trainings for several hundred dollars and nothing worked.... I found Ian's training and I was speechless.” ~ Gonde L.

“This is training you could easily charge $2,000 for.” ~ Danyon T.

“I’ve probably doubled the organic traffic we get to our site.” ~ Paul G.

“Your training is by far the #1 best training for anyone to succeed in this industry… I know deep down you are one of the most honest marketers I have EVER SEEN.” ~ Zahra A.

“I wish I found this four years ago.” ~ Rino S.

“Up until now it was just one scam after another! I am very excited to get the ball rolling and I can’t begin to explain to you how relieved I am that I found you…” ~ Jesse-Deana D.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction

360 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 12, 2019

Reviews

[East West Notes · Rating 5 out of 5]

From Nothing is an incredibly useful step by step reference guide to starting an online business. I requested a review copy from NetGalley while looking to promote my visual novel for learning Mandarin Chinese. Promoting one of my own digital products is listed as one of the "only four paths to wealth online." The others were content-based business monetised through advertising, service based businesses and e-commerce. Each pathway is discussed in depth, as well as developing your mindset (thankfully not woo woo), finding your niche, building your website, setting up Google Analytics, keywords, writing quality content and increasing traffic.

Ian Pribyl does not promise any get rich quick schemes and outlines how to difficult it is to be successful in online marketing. His advice is rooted in classic business skills and consistency. This is not a book promising any secret system to instantaneously have passive income so you can play with your children all day as a digital nomad in Bali. However, he does recognise that working online may be appealing to you due to various factors such as having caring responsibilities or for improving your quality of life.

Selling digital products, he rightly points out, may require years of education and production before the product goes live online. However, the profit margins are noticeably higher. He does not shy away from providing formulas and numbers, including the number of hours you should be working per week, to even think about approaching success. He is also very clear about how much startup capital (money) you'll need to launch a website and the pros and cons of various marketing tools you can purchase to make the most of your website. In his outline of what the first year should look like in terms of creation, traction and generating income, he once again shows how working online is still real work that requires a lot of trial-and-error and self-study. For those who don't know how they would like to make money online, there is a brainstorming guide on how you can make a career change after reflecting on your interests, skills and previous traditional work experience.

This book does not cover social media marketing in depth, however he list other useful sources for the reader to look into. Much like Cal Newport, he reminds us to focus on the quality of our product and forming real connections, rather than feeling as if we are working because we are highly active on social media. He recommends social media marketing for brands wishing to appeal to younger buyers or for lifestyle brands.

This book is not for those involved in multi-level marketing and indeed, the author mentions he published an article titled "How MLMs Ruin Friendships." Since I just finished listening to the horrifying MLM podcast series The Dream , I'm happy this book is written for those wishing to promote their own product or service as authentic entrepreneurs. I'm personally wary of how the dropshipping industry has been flooded, but this book does cover dropshipping and crucially outlines how one could start with dropshipping and expand into their own branded products.

I have an undergraduate degree in advertising from a century ago and so I was pleased that this book updated my knowledge on how digital marketing has wildly changed since then. The book itself is in a familiar format to most business textbooks with useful summaries in bullet points at the end of each chapter. For my last position in a startup, I did attend a digital marketing day conference and I am so pleased that this book is not at all like most of the presentations at that conference. Far too often digital marketing tips have focused on being a 'personality' or 'building your brand' or 'telling your story' without enough attention on how to make sales. From Nothing also includes a number of helpful step-by-step images on how to navigate WordPress and also the best way to format your blog posts in terms of text, images and advertising links.

If you are looking to work online or make a career change but feel overwhelmed by the number of online guides to various aspects of starting a business, this book is the best place to get started.

[Harry Dale · Rating 2 out of 5]

How to Start a Wordpress Site

That would be a more appropriate title for this book.

Whilst it provides a basic overview to starting a Wordpress site for absolute beginners, it doesn’t do much more. Only about 5% of the book is actually dedicated to monetising the site. When Ian does finally talk about monetisation, it’s stuff you could find for free on Google in 2 seconds.

Almost like he ran out of steam and skipped over the ‘profit’ part.

Also links to his paid online course consistently throughout the book. Annoying. I guess you can’t take the affiliate marketer out of the man.

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

"From Nothing" is a good primer on the very basics of how to get started in internet marketing. Especially if you don't want to put in a ton of effort. It explains how to set up a website, how to generate traffic and how to monetize it with a few ways. The challenge, for me (as a marketer), is that it didn't go BEYOND what I already know about internet marketing. I was hoping to learn about how to leverage social media, work with influencers, design my site to maximize conversions, and get into some of the bigger ad networks, etc. Granted, what I'm looking for might be internet marketing on steroids, and for those who already have some decent traffic. So maybe I had too high of expectations for this book, and wanted it to be something it's not? If you only have $100 and don't care about social media marketing and learning how to work with people to generate traffic, this might be a good reference guide.

Thanks to NetGalley for an electronic copy in exchange for my honest review.

[Jie · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bit outdated for today’s world. Book is mostly about building websites but today is more TikTok and again, like mobile games, the Chinese are leading on this now. Although one can argue that the basic concept doesn’t change, but another can still argue that people are still formulating the so-call basic in this novel thing.

Learned some keywords that’s all.

[Darya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book about things we tend to forget, the things that being us to success. Mainly it is focused around American Area but I think that looking for success and believing in who you are and what you can achieve is not connected to any specific geographical location.

[Sean Nevins · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you know the basics of SEO, then you don't need this book. However, the author proposes an SEO strategy for new businesses that makes a lot of sense for getting traction, and that may be worth the read in itself.

[Melina · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a professional digital marketer I thought I'd learn somthing from this, but I was just tutorial on how to set up a e-commerce/WordPress site. Good if that's what you want to do with no previous knowledge.

[Meggan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was really straight forward and easy to read. I am new to internet marketing and think this book is an excellent jumping off point. I could immediately see how the path suggested and the techniques explained will apply to my own work. I'm looking forward to applying what I learned here.

[Anthony Barragan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Book

A good primer. Now I need to learn dales copy, website design, etc, etc. A lot of hard work, just keep at it.

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tips and very easy read. Finished it in two days, but refer back to it often.

[Gill · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this rather too American for my taste, although it had some good advice. I do think some of the reviews are a bit over the top though. I'm probably not really the target audience, though.

[Joshua · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for anyone starting a blog

[Metero Aloys · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is quite fine Book to start these Online Job

[Alannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNFd. Basic level entry point to affiliate marketing and slightly out of date on some methods. Mostly a marketing book for his products.