The review was by some retard who doesn't know anything about hedge funds. You don't run a hedge fund as others think of them considering your fund is tiny and it's just you and you only trade stocks. You really run a personal account through the vehicle that is a hedge fund. So the only reason the guy read the book was because you approached him, he never would have read it otherwise. Also, you approached him with that line of shit about turning $12k into $2M.....blah blah blah...before I was 25" without saying that you've lost much of it. So of course you interested him, you "had" more money than him at a young age. The review is mediocre at best because the guy is not even in the target audience and you're just spamming blogs attempting to get anyone to give you a good review, it's quite pathetic. I hope you sell a lot of books to a lot of dumb people so they can remain that way and you can lose their money trying to prove what a good trader you are to all the other people in your hedge fund....oh yeah, it's just you.
LOL, this is the most ridiculous post I've ever read. This guy isn't my target audience? The whole world is my target audience! You guys are so closed-minded. If you think that 'approaching people who would never read your book unless you asked them to' is pathetic, then maybe you're right. For some strange reason, I thought the goal of most authors/publishers was to get their books read/reviewed by as many people as possible? Hmmm, maybe I should double check my writing guides. LOLOLOL. You guys are complete morons--I love it!
Ok Tim, you got to sell the book so you do what you can. The Secret is a shitty book if you ever glance through the pages in the bookstore. The fact that the book is a best seller shows how bad the reading public has become and provides you a nice market to go after. But you are not exploiting a market or taking advantage of an inefficiency. Do you understand what an inefficient market means? You are simply taking advantage of free advertising. In fact you are being efficient by maximizing the free tools available to you, internet blogs and TV shows. Just do yourself a favor and move away from this talk of inefficiency of the publishing world. Self-publishing is not a new concept at all so you are in a long line of many who have done so before you and used the internet to advertise. Getting blogs to review your book to get to an audience is simply taking advantage of the internet.
This is the non-stock market part of the definition for market inefficinecy: "or when some individuals do not properly analyze the available information." Currently, publishers do not send review copies to the thousands of blogs, preferring to going the traditional route of old media, ignoring all the available data that suggests blogs are read by millions. That is a market inefficinecy. I'm not claiming to be the first to discover this or self-publishing, I'm simply taking advantage of the industry's snobbery. Many, many more examples of inefficincies in the publishing world as you'll soon discover I'm about to exploit. I look forward to your refute.
You dumb ass...Americans barely read anyway...why would they choose to read your bullshit if they choose to read at all? I can't believe you think that the whole world is your target audience so you go around spamming blogs hoping for good reviews. When you said "this is the most ridiculous post I've ever read" I can only assume you meant your own? Most HONEST authors would probably look for good reviews from people who know what they're talking about...considering you're a putz you are different.
Snobbery? You mean the fact that you're spamming blogs with posts about your book and the book industry doesn't do the same makes them snobs? Uh huh, wow, you're really sounding sensible now. So you're "teaching" these massive publishing conglomerates that make tens of millions of dollars how to do their job because they can't? Yeah, a guy who hasn't made money in years is teaching them...uh huh. Keep going, this is getting better the more you ramble.
I do not need to refute you as you are not describing inefficiencies. Publishers have outlets that reach millions, there is no need to go to the blog level when you have no idea who the person is writing the blog or their credibility. You are just claiming publishers do not target free blogs. It makes sense since Wiley, McGraw Hill, etc have to be careful about the image of the book as well. When they release a new trading book they send it to financial newspapers and financial magazines to target their audience. When they release a nontrading book and one that is more a personal story, which is what yours is, they hit the mainstream media big. Not sure I understand how you claim publishers do not properly analyze the available information. A choice not to use blogs is not an inefficient choice, it is just an advertising choice. If Random House can get the author on the Today show and on local news and reviews in Entertainment Weekly or other popular media, why rush to send out free copies to blogs when you have no idea who is behind the blog. Any idiot can start a blog but millions of people watch the news or entertainment shows or magazines. Blogs are a smrt choice for self-published authors who need free publicity. That is efficient use of resources. Major publishing houses use their version of free resources (it costs them nothing to promote the book to the media). That is efficient for them. Look at all the top selling books on the best seller list and see how they were promoted - free reviews.
optioncoach, you have no right to speak. Tim has published quite a few books and you've published none so you clearly don't know what you're talking about....OH WAIT! It's the other way around isn't it?! And my best guess is that you've made money in the markets recently and he hasn't!
I was about to say lol... Tim is doing the right thing for a self-published book, especially since his book is not a technical trading book, it is just a story of his experience. He wants everyone to be able to read it so hitting random blogs is the way to capitalize on it. If you doubt people will buy this book, next time you are in the book store, thumb through The Secret. Out of curiosity I looked through it and it was a lot of spiritual bullshit with no substance and was saddened at the thought that this was a #1 seller.
seriously, this is a bizzare post. no offense meant, we have the same friends at the same publishing house. your not understanding what tim means--- let's just wait and see what happens with tim's book--- im betting it will be a smashing success. regards, surf