Comments on: Super Crunchers

By: Timothy S

Timothy S — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:54:39 +0000

“One of the things I loved most was that he actually named the book by buying adwords on a few relevant keywords with the proposed names of the book as the title for the ads and then measuring CTR to determine what got the best response.”

I’ve heard the author, Tim Ferris, of the “Four Hour Workweek” did the exact same thing using Google AdWords. Even his subtitle was a tested/proven part of the winning CTR ad.

The book Mr Ferris authored is *far* from being a recipe for working just four hours a week, but presumably the title had more believability than something entitled “The Four Minute Workweek”.

By: Matt L

Matt L — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:18:35 +0000

I’m with S1ick on this,

I am such a loser, because I was scanning down my feedreader, and did a double take on the title while I figured out if that was the blog I was thinking about (”I thought he was dead…”) I then said, “sweet” and clicked. Nobody should ever get that excited about a blog post. Ever…

By: Smaxor

Smaxor — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:47:00 +0000

headed off to Borders now. Nothing I like better then a good read. If you nightstand doesn’t have a book on it you’re doing something wrong.

By: J

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:40:01 +0000

thanks for the tip! Book will be ordered!

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:05:15 +0000

The last 5 books that I have read have been recommendations from random blog posts just like this. Not once have I been let down. Such faith do I have in bloggers book recommendations that I have just ordered this.

Thanks for the tip!

By: S1ick

S1ick — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:33:31 +0000

Is it bad that I get excited when Random Musings shows up on my feed reader? Its even better to see that I’m picking up books that other people are reading.