Mini-Review: Day Job Killer

So Day Job Killer was released early today. The site was really slow; if you're looking to bypass the marketing BS and buy the book you can go directly to the ClickBank order page. I promised a full review of the book today as soon as I had read it, however what follows is a mini-review, the full review will be up later tonight. I'm still reading through the latter part of the book and I have to think some more about the content to do a proper review.

So for the mini-review let me describe what you get. Day Job Killer (DJK) is a 69-page ebook from the writer of AdWords Miracle and Affiliate “Project X” (APX). It's written in much the same style as APX, a cheeky British all-guns-firing-and-damn-the-consequences way. Entertaining, if nothing else. The launch price is $77, it apparently is going to go up at some point.

Pages 4 to 24 of DJK are about the “Direct Linking X” method. This is a variation on the direct linking method that affiliates used in the early days of AdWords. This one limits itself to bidding on brand names that target specific products. You could, for example, target the product “Microsoft Office” and send targeted traffic over to Amazon and make money via Amazon's affiliate program. There's actually lots of emphasis on Amazon here and also on exploring non-US markets (UK, Canada, Australia, and if you know the languages or know someone who does then countries like France, Germany, etc.).

Pages 25 to 42 describe “The Leveller”, a method to “leech” traffic off a popular product to get subscribers who are interested in that product and then turn around and sell them one or more competing products.

Pages 43 to 46 describe methods you can use to get your ads shown above a competitor's ads even if you're using the same display URL in AdWords and then a simple workaround for the “Google Slap”. Then there's a few more pages devoted to finding good niches.

Pages 51 to 55 describe “The Undercutter” method, which is basically where you create a small report based on the ideas of a big-name and higher-priced infoproduct. Sell the report for $5-$20, get a list of targeted buyers, and start selling other things to them.

The remainder of the book describes some methods for offline marketing. I haven't read these yet, I may limit my upcoming review to the online-only parts.

Like the other books, a big benefit to this one is the step-by-step approach he takes to his methods. He presents an overview of the method and then drills down into the details. I like that aspect.

So those are some basic details about what's in the book. I'll let you know what I think of it later tonight…

Eric Giguere is the author of Uncommon AdSense and the award-nominated (that just means it lost!) blog Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense.

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