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I understand your point, Darren from problogger offers tons of resources posts, and helps others to reach their blogging goals and so on. But, he charges for his personal, detailed training because it helps to pay the bills, he like others need to make a living. PERIOD!

I take issue with people who haven’t given anything to the blogging community but expect everyone to give to them! They expect people to buy their services, ads and so forth. They won’t succeed, why because they never paid their dues; they never took the time to build relationships or to help others. Eventually, after we do the time, after we built trust, after we reached an audience, then we may be able to successful offer services people will want to buy without complaint, why? Trust, you’re authentic, genuine and of course, proven!

Excellent work, Cheers,
-Miguel

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BUT! It is excellent in its concepts for business.

Some books/movies/music that I think are “good” are considered to be “crap” by most other people, and I may think that what they like is garbage.

So you’re right – if it accomplishes the purpose set out by the creator of the work, perhaps it is “good”. Now, is it “good enough” to sell?

That might be a bit more difficult to answer.

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True. But also there’s the matter of sophistication and readiness. A particular person may not be ready to read the “good” books. I’ve been yelled at before for asserting that Steven King, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were atrociously bad fiction writers with the major argument being “they must be good: they are so darn popular”. Well no, they aren’t: their characters are shallow, juvenile and clumsily drawn. It’s NOT good writing, but I’d be the first to admit that a lot of people just don’t care. For those people, those ARE good books. It’s probably safe to say that the books I enjoy would get a cold reception from that same audience. So what really is “good”?

I say good writing is writing that accomplishes its purpose, whether that’s to entertain (Heinlein fails to entertain me but certainly hits the mark for others) or to sell an ebook. My 9th grade English teacher was a martinet about grammar and sentence structure she’d never agree with my judgment of “good”, but that’s OK: she needed certain rules to be observed for her to enjoy the experience. She wasn’t “wrong”, just different.

I just finished reviewing “The E-Myth Revisited”. That’s a very popular book which obviously resonated with many readers. I hated it. Is it “good”?
Sure.. but not for me.

Oh well, I’m rambling..

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You’ve got to get your media or whatever in front of someone who will buy it. You need other skills besides the artistic ones. You need connections. And you need luck.

Take my local bookstore. There are a lot of great books there by damned fine authors, and maybe my skill doesn’t approach theirs – no problem. Then, I’d say there are a lot of other books I wouldn’t even use to wipe my butt.

People buy them anyway, because they might not have high standards for what they read, or just because they can’t find anything better. I mean, once you’ve read all the good books, what then? You read the not so good books.

Or watch the “B” movies. How many bad movies make money when they go to video, because people are bored and try it anyway?

Music is the same. How many artists are at the level of a Beethoven today?

Not many. But I’ll bet you 50 cents that 50 Cent sells more CD’s.

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