An Insane Book List That Will Make You a TON of Money

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Matt Karamazov
August 31, 2024

📚 Hey! Time to win.

Alright so there’s this guy I know, Andrew Gould.

He’s been a freelance copywriter since 2009, and as far as I’m concerned, he’s one of the absolute best copywriters/marketing strategists on X right now.

He recently posted a gigantic list of book recommendations, and here are “just” two columns of them (that could help you make a ton of money):

Books to pump up your powers of persuasion: 

• Yes! by Noah Goldstein

• Influence by Robert Cialdini

• Magic Words by Jonah Berger

• Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini

• The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

• Propaganda by Edward Bernays

• Exactly What to Say by Phil Jones

• Instant Influence by Michael Pantalon

• How Minds Change by David McRaney

• Methods of Persuasion by Nick Kolenda

• The Composite Persuasion by Joel Marsh

• Mass Persuasion Method by Bushra Azhar

• The Persuasion Story Code by David Garfinkel

• Secrets of Power Persuasion by Roger Dawson

• The Art of Woo by Richard Shell & Mario Moussa

• The Forbidden Keys to Persuasion by Blair Warren

• How to Argue and Win Every Time by Gerry Spence

• The One Sentence Persuasion Course by Blair Warren

• The Persuasion Code by Christophe Morin & Patrick Renvoise

And his favorite marketing books: 

• Ask by Ryan Levesque

• Drilling Down by Jim Novo

• Leadsology by Tom Poland

• $100M Leads by Alex Hormozi

• $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi

• Get Clients Now by CJ Hayden

• Traffic Secrets by Russell Brunson

• Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson

• Dotcom Secrets by Russell Brunson

• Invisible Selling Machine by Ryan Deiss

• The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib

• Watertight Marketing by Bryony Thomas

• No B.S. Direct Marketing by Dan Kennedy

• Traction by Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mare

• The Sticking Point Solution by Jay Abraham

• 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall

• The Ultimate Marketing Plan by Dan Kennedy

• Make 'Em Beg to Buy From You by Travis Sago

• RFM and Beyond by Donald Libey & Christopher Pickering

• Tales From The Customer Experience Crypt by Vance Morris

• Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got by Jay Abraham

• How to Create a Million Dollar Unique Selling Proposition by Bill Bodri

• How To Make Maximum Money With Minimum Customers by Craig Garber

Going down the list, I’ve “only” read 12 of them, but I trust Andrew implicitly when it comes to business/copywriting books, so you really can’t go wrong with any of these recommendations.

There’s also WAY more than this, by the way.

Here’s a link to the full post, and at the very end he lists one of my absolute favorite books of ALL-TIME. Like…ALL TIME.

I’m going to add a bunch of these to my Amazon cart right now, and I hope this was helpful to you!

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Note: “Week Four” Runs From August 25th-31st

Woke Up: 1PM

Sleep Quality: 86%

Pages Read: 174

Workout: Arms

Tricep Pushdowns - 68lbs, 63lbs, 63lbs, 58lbs (12 reps)

French Press - 50lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs (12 reps)

Rope Extensions - 33lbs, 33lbs, 28lbs, 28lbs (12 reps)

DB Curls - 40lbs, 40lbs, 35lbs, 35lbs (8 reps)

EZ Curls - 60lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs, 50lbs (12 reps)

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 4x on Twitter

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Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Posted 2x on Facebook

Outlined 3 Medium Articles

Worked on Updating My Website

Worked on Current Author Campaigns

Had Live Call with Competitive Advantage Community

Managed Paid Competitive Advantage Community

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

Completely Organized My Content Calendar for September

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Today was a big one. I basically took a step back so that I could take a bunch of BIG steps forward next month, and I took the time to outline my entire content strategy for September.

I’ll fill you in on what you can expect later on, but suffice it to say I’m basically just burning the damn BOATS next month and going all-in. I’m making some necessary changes to my schedule/routine as well, making SLEEP a much bigger priority.

I fell short in some ways this August (although I did VERY well in other ways), but I think once I get my sleep under control I’m going to be damn-near unstoppable.

But hey, it’s 4:05AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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