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The Circle of Profit - Edition #2: How To Turn Your Passion Into $1 Million
There has never been a better time to start a business online. More and more people are buying information online. Entrepreneurs from around the world are transforming their lives by building businesses from their living rooms. To join them, you need the right system. The Circle of Profit is that system. Over 100,000 people read the first edition of The Circle of Profit. Now it’s been revised for a second edition. Updated for 2016, this book will give you exactly what you need to stay on the cutting edge of fast-evolving world of online business. Using this system, you can turn any passion, hobby or professional expertise into a lifetime of profits. Start up costs are low and you don't need any technical expertise. You just need to use the proven system you'll discover in this book. Phase 1: Building Your Audience & Creating Profit You will learn how to build an Email list of subscribers who quickly view you as a true expert in your chosen topic. From there, you will learn how to write perfect Emails that help you build a strong relationship with your reader. Last but not least, Anik Singal shows you exactly how to use your new subscribers to start generating profits quickly right from your computer! Phase 2: Using Digital Information Products To Create $1 Million In this phase, Anik Singal guides you on the exact steps to take to create your own digital information product. You will then get a model to follow to market this product online. The entire model will show you how to automatically scale this business to generating your first $1 Million online! The goal of this book is simple; to help you create the life of your dreams and achieve true financial freedom.
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First published February 12, 2015
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December 30, 2017
I appreciate what Anik is doing and at the same time I don't. I'd give the book 2.5 stars. I read this because I'm now starting an eCommerce business and saw that both Robert Kiyosaki and Brian Tracy recommended it (heavily). It's obvious they are promoting their own methods and will probably get affiliate sales from doing it.
Anik gives you a broad outline of catching people with strong hook lines to buy ever increasing expansions of the same message. It's easy for Anik to claim it as a wonderful method, and he appears to truly be a master of the craft and offer real value. The problem I have is he is teaching anybody, ANYBODY, how to monetize their passion and promises huge success if you are passionate enough. What that translates to is a ton of people with a lot of passion are going to continue to flood the Internet and email boxes with promises of losing weight in 7 days and attracting wealth in your sleep and learning perfect pitch in your free time when in reality people who have dedicated their lives to mastering these issues are still not magically achieving it.
Just because you have a passion doesn't mean you can necessarily produce any legitimately valued product, especially value that you then expand into a funnel of up and down sales at every click.
Largely, he has monetized his method of promising your dreams come true without really any work. It's easy to say, you have to have real value to do this, but it's questionable to lead thousands on with dreams of millions without ANY guidance on how to actually create a valuable product. Am I making sense? He hasn't taught you how to create value. He is teaching you how to sell perceived value. It's the unethical capitalist way. Yes, stars will rise and he will always find those who have just enough skill set, time, or money to learn to create a product worth real value to large numbers of people. But the vast majority of the people will not find success beyond their day job. That's one reason he spends one in five pages advertising his free live workshops that are only a week after the book is released! He's obviously not too concerned with the value of the book much after his initial catch comes in. Of course, he can always adjust dates and release it again in the future.
I'm not trying to be cynical. He has a proven method, but he is leading people on thinking that purely because they have a passion they will become millionaires. That is promising play without work anyway you look at it.
Edit: The fact that every 6 months a number of people will suddenly like this review within the same week tells me that he is re-releasing the book again and again.
Anik gives you a broad outline of catching people with strong hook lines to buy ever increasing expansions of the same message. It's easy for Anik to claim it as a wonderful method, and he appears to truly be a master of the craft and offer real value. The problem I have is he is teaching anybody, ANYBODY, how to monetize their passion and promises huge success if you are passionate enough. What that translates to is a ton of people with a lot of passion are going to continue to flood the Internet and email boxes with promises of losing weight in 7 days and attracting wealth in your sleep and learning perfect pitch in your free time when in reality people who have dedicated their lives to mastering these issues are still not magically achieving it.
Just because you have a passion doesn't mean you can necessarily produce any legitimately valued product, especially value that you then expand into a funnel of up and down sales at every click.
Largely, he has monetized his method of promising your dreams come true without really any work. It's easy to say, you have to have real value to do this, but it's questionable to lead thousands on with dreams of millions without ANY guidance on how to actually create a valuable product. Am I making sense? He hasn't taught you how to create value. He is teaching you how to sell perceived value. It's the unethical capitalist way. Yes, stars will rise and he will always find those who have just enough skill set, time, or money to learn to create a product worth real value to large numbers of people. But the vast majority of the people will not find success beyond their day job. That's one reason he spends one in five pages advertising his free live workshops that are only a week after the book is released! He's obviously not too concerned with the value of the book much after his initial catch comes in. Of course, he can always adjust dates and release it again in the future.
I'm not trying to be cynical. He has a proven method, but he is leading people on thinking that purely because they have a passion they will become millionaires. That is promising play without work anyway you look at it.
Edit: The fact that every 6 months a number of people will suddenly like this review within the same week tells me that he is re-releasing the book again and again.
July 17, 2016
Anik Singal is an internet marketing entrepreneur, who has done well for himself and to a very large degree for hos student as well.
I bought the book after having attended one of his webinars where he had awakened my curiousity towards his method, but not enough to invest in his higher price tag offers.
Now having read the book as well, I found that the first 140 or so pages (out of 221) were a simple rehash of the webinar. The remainder of the book had considerable more meat on the bone, providing me with plenty of ideas how to successfully launch a successful internet business and get more out of the leads you obtain.
It is clear that the entire book is one long sales pitch to utilize Singal's companies and their training products and ressources, some of which I find questionable, but that doesn't eliminate the fact that it does in fact also provide a lot of practical and valuable advice.
I bought the book after having attended one of his webinars where he had awakened my curiousity towards his method, but not enough to invest in his higher price tag offers.
Now having read the book as well, I found that the first 140 or so pages (out of 221) were a simple rehash of the webinar. The remainder of the book had considerable more meat on the bone, providing me with plenty of ideas how to successfully launch a successful internet business and get more out of the leads you obtain.
It is clear that the entire book is one long sales pitch to utilize Singal's companies and their training products and ressources, some of which I find questionable, but that doesn't eliminate the fact that it does in fact also provide a lot of practical and valuable advice.
October 30, 2015
I am reviewing the book The Circle Of Profit by Anik Singal which is a good book. This book is about finding a profesion you enjoy and making money from it. That is probably the most important career lesson you will ever learn. Whwether you enjoy making the banter with customers or simply enjoy making money. You have to look at your strengths and weaknesses and in this regard you sometimes see aptitude tests that have a variety of jobs you are suggested as following. These tests aren't always 100 % accurate and this book isn't specifically about these tests but comes out with a similar result. If it had been specifically about these tests it might have been a better book. Instead we get a kind of topical prose on the subject. It is a decent book but only has one idea at least it seemed to me. Shame really this book isn't better. This book is also a decent length read.
December 4, 2015
This is a multiple level marketing scheme for the internet.
November 5, 2017
The system offered in this book can be used as an inspiration for models that do work (sorry Anik, email is dead because everybody is doing what you say and you failed to mention how to differentiate yourself from the crowd).
You have to ponder the offered system and make it work in other elaborate ways. Ultimately this is nothing new. You have heard all this before in different settings and words.
I also should note that it was very difficult for me to ignore the shamelrss promoting of the authur's products and its affliates'.
You have to ponder the offered system and make it work in other elaborate ways. Ultimately this is nothing new. You have heard all this before in different settings and words.
I also should note that it was very difficult for me to ignore the shamelrss promoting of the authur's products and its affliates'.
October 16, 2016
Anik Singal is a master at what he does and if you are prepared to follow the steps he outlines, you can succeed. But... affiliate marketing is not for the faint-hearted so don't expect to become a millionaire overnight... it takes a lot of hard work.
August 21, 2017
First, i want to say that this book was given to me from a friend that is already doing this program and she had invested. So I'm reading to make sure it's not a Scam. I have not gone into the website either so this is just from reading this book.
It's a big sale.
all this is still in the hook stage.
So.... is it a Scam
It's a big sale.
really it is. the whole thing is to layout as a sells pitch. it's a little brilliant though. here is why. He is trying to sell you joining his business by, bit by bit giving you information, you know like one those add videos with the big caught line. Well, that is the book, and that is what he is trying to teach you at the same time. He is giving the process how to do a marketing business online. it does go step by step. And he teaches you really handly marking concept that is over looked that has (as he says) increased his cash flow. at the same time, he is doing all the marketing sets to you while you are reading it.
It starts off with him giving you the pitch in the prefix. all with marketing images that will grab your attention. Then he moves on to chapter one his story, and he goes slightly into his passions before he gives you a quick look at Jim's story. and how successful he is! and he is now the CEO of his own company SendLane then he goes back into his. his childhood. his dream, how it really wasn't what he wanted and then going off to be brave to discover how to make 10k a month before he graduated college. how he failed over and over, and then he finally got it, from the help of a guy that watched him struggle. how he used that to get to his goals. then he goes to Ogla story. then back to his story. as he progresses in his success. don't worry he gives you important tips in the story. then he how after all the years of success he made mistakes and left his system and had a huge failed, almost died and then like a phoenix from the ashes got back on top. but like a marketing prophet he came to spread the word of his success. you get a few more stories.
Then next chapter he goes into why you would doubt that there is still money out there in online marketing. He breaks it down and he uses graphs and images and uses simple language. because he wants anyone to understand. also as he says many times he isn't a great writer. This chapter is to assure you, that anyone with a computer and drive can do it.
In Chapter three he lays it out in marketing since. he still is always leading you up to something bigger. He shows you the structure of the business.
all this is still in the hook stage.
as you get to section 2, you are now getting the meat of the information (with his reinforcing sales pitch) with large images to indicate there is a video on his website that you can also watch for free. you get this with each of the pieces of information.
He does explain a lot of tips and tools that any one can use without him and how he did it. he does give you information and mistakes that are common and how to avoid them. during this, he is also saving you to items that he can help if you want to make easier if you want to invest. He tells you about an auto responder that he uses Called SendLane. (hmm I've heard that name before) but does give you other options. he tells you where it is smart to invest, how to know if your product is good enough, to build a relationship with your subscribers. build you up from in the money chain of the business. How to network, where to find people to hire if you don't want to do certain aspects yourself. so on.
So.... is it a Scam
I don't know because I haven't been to the site. What I can say from reading this book it's worth the money if you want to learn how to do online marketing. he does show you the ropes. He doesn't promise anything and he does tell you it's hard at times.
It's a pyramid scheme. But no different from Mary Kay or Avon. only online. He needs you to succeed. because that will help him succeed because anyone using phase one will market his phase two products.
Why would he want you in phase two? well, I think if you can make it there, then you have shown him you have the right stuff and he can use your product to market to his people and also now he has a larger stronger network. He doesn't need you exactly, he likely will be fine, but if helps people grow he will have a relationship with you built on trust. It makes sense, he is doing good get other to do good and we can be strong together.
So Sendlane is Jim's company and Anik owns part of it. it was made for doing this type of work. (it's smart)
Why did I say it's brilliant a sells pitch, he is trying to teach you the very sales pitch you are reading, with and including back end offers. When you go in and ask "how I know if it's going to work" well it brought you to the site, didn't it?
But if you don't want to do this or it's not for you. He also alluded to other career choices that you can do online.
after reading this book I notice that one of my favorite set of emails used this tactic and I am pretty sure they are from his company. They must hate me I am that constant custom that clicks skips the pitch and goes to the end to see the price. but sure do take all the free e-books ;p
I will update when I have checked out the site and see if it is legit.
July 21, 2018
It’s a very comprehensive book on digital publishing. It sells itself like a get-rich-quick book but as you read, like any business, it requires a lot of hard work to get it going.
The content is really good but it takes a lot of time to get to the meat and could have been structured better to give you an action plan.
On the upside, the book is free so no harm done.
The content is really good but it takes a lot of time to get to the meat and could have been structured better to give you an action plan.
On the upside, the book is free so no harm done.
March 8, 2018
This book gives you a general idea of what you need to do to start your eBook online empire and you have to be very self motivated if you want to launch this on your own. Granted, of course the author has to make money somehow, they have a handholding system that you need to pay for to gain access to.
February 18, 2015
step by step
I loved the step by step nature of Aniks instruction in this book. Brilliant for the beginner or someone looking to start again. Excellent stories from people who have used Aniks method to do well in their chosen market
Double thumbs up from me
I loved the step by step nature of Aniks instruction in this book. Brilliant for the beginner or someone looking to start again. Excellent stories from people who have used Aniks method to do well in their chosen market
Double thumbs up from me
April 16, 2018
Just finished reading this in 2 days or overnight. Very powerful book. I hope I can use this for financial freedom and getting out of the rat race. The formula in this book is the one used by Unity Networking (MLM) in my country. Most of the critics of this book are either lazy and can't face the fact that online marketing has a lot of work to do and not an overnight success OR they can't face the fact that the funnel system is how the marketing world works if you want to increase your total sales.
You experience the funnel in your daily lives, everytime you buy meals in fastfood chain like McDonald's or in the cashier of a department store. They always gonna offer you something extras that sometimes will gonna make you buy them because they give you more comfort or satisfaction. Also in the funnel section, it teaches you how to upsell or downsell your products that's why it's so important that you must have 2 and not just 1 product to sell.
You just need to create your own products so you can get ALL the profits. The book also tackles the value of search engines like Facebook advertising, google keyword planner, semrush, clickbank and udemy in searching to find out if your niche or passion is profitable (the 1 million people mark).
You experience the funnel in your daily lives, everytime you buy meals in fastfood chain like McDonald's or in the cashier of a department store. They always gonna offer you something extras that sometimes will gonna make you buy them because they give you more comfort or satisfaction. Also in the funnel section, it teaches you how to upsell or downsell your products that's why it's so important that you must have 2 and not just 1 product to sell.
You just need to create your own products so you can get ALL the profits. The book also tackles the value of search engines like Facebook advertising, google keyword planner, semrush, clickbank and udemy in searching to find out if your niche or passion is profitable (the 1 million people mark).
June 16, 2017
A lot of motivational stories and testimonials (some of which got a bit too much at times) along with great, easy to follow advice on creating and selling information products online. Anik uses the book to upsell his personal training and coaching programs which sound good for beginners in online publishing who need hand-holding, a lot of step-by-step instructions and advice tailored specifically to them. If you're not an absolute beginner I'd say you'll be good to go after reading this book alone. And even if you are a beginner, you'd still be OK with this book only and some experiments to test for yourself what works and what doesn't.
September 24, 2019
If you want to get started making money online this book is a good way to get energy flowing. It does have good ideas and clear explanations for several areas, such as sales funnels, though it falls short in the bigger areas, such as claims of making money within days from an opt-in form. To learn how to do that you have to sign up for the Lurn class. The book contents are targeted towards getting the reader to purchase the author's products. A quick and easy read if you want an overview of the pieces necessary to make money online with products.
October 26, 2017
Overall good Content... But some outdated
Good book overall. Good content, good strategies. The downside is this is a lead generator for a webinar that happened years ago so some info is outdated.
Other than that, learned some good tactics.
Good book overall. Good content, good strategies. The downside is this is a lead generator for a webinar that happened years ago so some info is outdated.
Other than that, learned some good tactics.
June 14, 2018
Light read with a lot of sales pitches.
I got two ideas out of it:
- double profit formula
- backend multiplier
The rest is just fluff, in my opinion, but overall the book is well worth the read, for these two big ideas that were totally new to me.
I got two ideas out of it:
- double profit formula
- backend multiplier
The rest is just fluff, in my opinion, but overall the book is well worth the read, for these two big ideas that were totally new to me.
May 27, 2017
yet to start
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 16, 2017
Inspirational
You can do business and make money online other than just jobs in the past. Learn how to do it and achieve financial Freedom and passion.
You can do business and make money online other than just jobs in the past. Learn how to do it and achieve financial Freedom and passion.
August 22, 2017
Very instructional, interesting and hopefully, profitable. On the downside not everythings turns out the way is described in the book but, nothing is perfect! isn't it?
October 6, 2017
Robert kiyosaki is the reason I picked this book. Don’t waste your time here.
Ignore.
Waste of time and money.
After a real long time. I am skipping a book and not finishing it.
Ignore.
Waste of time and money.
After a real long time. I am skipping a book and not finishing it.
May 13, 2019
Nothing really new...
June 19, 2020
I pre-ordered this on release in 2016. A heavy read as filled with so much information but better to read and almost study while taking notes in chunks.
February 16, 2022
Basic
This book is really basic everybody on the
internet currently know what to do so it's just rehashed but for beginners it might be great to read.
This book is really basic everybody on the
internet currently know what to do so it's just rehashed but for beginners it might be great to read.
Read
March 15, 2022excellent book if you are wanting to start an online business.
April 28, 2024
This was horrible and useless. Full of ads for the author s website
December 23, 2018
Potentially really useful info. Will have to see if it's realistic. I appreciate the step by step instructions. I don't like how repetitive it is, or the sleazy vibe. Super quick read.
March 8, 2017
A good read for any one who has a desire to start a online business. He describes his struggle, and comes up with a outstanding system that can help others to become successful to.
February 26, 2024
This is a good book, I just rated it low because it’s more useful for a newbie and someone new to these concepts of internet marketing sand info product publishing - To me it seemed nothing new and too basic, but I did actually really like the authors “video breaks” links to external videos to better explain some of the chapters/sections being taught - gave me ideas to implement the strategy myself and found it’s pretty original...
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July 27, 2016
If you are concerned with making money online, whether via affiliate products or from selling your own products, this book is worth a read as to how it is done - by an expert marketer.
There is some very good advice coupled with some very good pointers to act on; particularly on creating a sales funnel. Also some very useful video links to help explain or underline points being made - these are through his Lurn training business.
Singal has the knack of making it all sound so easy to accomplish. One has to keep in mind that the book itself is designed as a marketing tool, to encourage the reader into taking up Anik Singal's training course(s) in order so as to fulfil the money-making excitement the book generates.
His training has been criticised (https://stoppingscams.com/profit-acad...) for being expensive, and for over-emphasising the ease by which money can be made following his guidance. It seems a lot of people are unhappy with results.
I'd still recommend reading the book
There is some very good advice coupled with some very good pointers to act on; particularly on creating a sales funnel. Also some very useful video links to help explain or underline points being made - these are through his Lurn training business.
Singal has the knack of making it all sound so easy to accomplish. One has to keep in mind that the book itself is designed as a marketing tool, to encourage the reader into taking up Anik Singal's training course(s) in order so as to fulfil the money-making excitement the book generates.
His training has been criticised (https://stoppingscams.com/profit-acad...) for being expensive, and for over-emphasising the ease by which money can be made following his guidance. It seems a lot of people are unhappy with results.
I'd still recommend reading the book
February 11, 2017
Do yourself a favor and read this book
Excellent book worth every minute of reading. Super informative. Even if you don't take any of the actions recommended, you will be a better marketer for having read this book.
Excellent book worth every minute of reading. Super informative. Even if you don't take any of the actions recommended, you will be a better marketer for having read this book.
December 8, 2016
Many would consider this book a scam. Well it is! If you blindly believe everything about making money online. Making money online is not so easy as he describes in the book. When some one says you don't need to invest money then they are lying. The truth is , in an online business some amount of investment is inevitable. If you are willing to spend money, then you won't results fast, that's it. Be ready to invest money, or time. There is only this trade in online business. And though the book is understandable for a layman, it is not easy to execute for a layman. It takes time, and many trials and errors to see any money coming in. So don't wish for free lunch, and I repeat there is no such thing as a free lunch.
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