I noticed that several people came to my site from the keyword search “Bookwise Review.” So, since a bunch of people are looking for reviews of BookWise I thought I would give my thoughts after having been in it for a couple of months.
Getting any new business up and running takes patience and time. After only a couple of months I have not yet gotten my first associates signed up, but I have found a few new preferred customers, and I think that’s a good start.
I’ve also spent lots of time listening to the current and past WealthWin, TaxWin, and PresidentWise calls via their podcast feeds. Lots of good stuff to learn there and applying it all will take time as I’m currently doing this part time while working my day job.
The book selection in the store is not quite what I’d like to see, and is really missing out on some of the newest books I see at other online stores. However, I do understand what a task it is to get all that data imported into the system (I’m a web programmer by day) and I’m willing to be patient while they get the job done. Once they actually have the 1.5 million products they have promised in the system the store will be the place to shop for me. I think getting new customers enrolled will be much easier at that point.
I hope that gives everyone stopping by an idea of my experience so far, and if you want to talk with me further about it please feel free to contact me.
Richard is more than an award-winning #1 Bestselling Author (with a string of eleven New York Times bestsellers and 13 million plus copies of his books in print worldwide). He is also a savvy businessman and entrepreneur. At the age of 31, Richard was awarded the coveted Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. Richard is also the founder of The Christmas Box International; an organization that helps abused and neglected children. BookWise combines three loves of his life: Books, Business and Charity.
Robert G. Allen is one of North America’s most famous and most influential financial advisors. After graduating with an MBA from Brigham Young University in 1974, Robert began his real estate investment career and turned his successful experiences into the #1 bestselling book, Nothing Down, with forty-six weeks on the New York Times national bestseller list. He followed that success with four other major New York Times bestsellers with sales in the millions: Creating Wealth, Multiple Streams of Income, The One Minute Millionaire and Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth. He has appeared on hundreds of programs including Good Morning America, Larry King and Your World with Neil Cavuto. He has also been featured in such national publications as The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Barron’s, Money Magazine, Redbook, and Reader’s Digest. In addition to his publishing career, Robert and his wife of 30 years, Daryl, have enjoyed extensive success in the network marketing industry as one of the top 25 associates in a major company for the past ten years. On his decision to become a founding member of BookWise, he says, “When I sense that something major is about to happen, I don’t question my intuition. I simply jump and ask questions later. BookWise is such an opportunity. I said to myself, ‘Bob, you’ll kick yourself if you miss this.’” Mr. Allen is thrilled to add his name and expertise to BookWise—a company that is destined to transform the lives of people all over the world.
Dennis Webb’s name holds cachet among the world’s business elite. As one of the co-founders of the internationally successful Franklin Quest, Dennis was responsible for 250 million dollars of product development and distribution. In addition, Dennis trained clients from numerous Fortune 500 companies, including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Dow Chemical, Merrill Lynch, and Citibank. Dennis is a much sought-after speaker on a wide range of topics, ranging from leadership to time management to financial planning to team building.
Andy Compas, a.k.a. ‘Ironman Andy’ and ‘Andy the Kid,’ brings more than a decade of leadership and network marketing experience to the BookWise team. Andy has worked in nearly every realm of the direct sales industry: sales and marketing, call center organization, IT, executive management and order fulfillment. Most recently he has worked as United States General Manager for one of the largest MLM organizations in the world. Andy has also managed successful global sales teams and in one stretch revitalized an entire sales force by running 100 meetings in 100 days.
Within a week of learning about BookWise, Mark sold his interest in Utah’s most award-winning advertising agency—where he served as the President and Chief Creative Officer—to join the BookWise Executive Team. In Mark’s 30-year career in advertising he has won hundreds of awards for his work and is considered a world-class leader in strategic and creative marketing. Mark spent five years in San Francisco working as Director of Brand Planning for DDB—the largest ad agency organization in the world. Mark has assisted many well-known businesses including Microsoft, Novell, Deloitte Consulting, Jiffy Lube, Evans & Sutherland, and Megahertz (now 3Com). He has been a featured speaker around the country on business-to-business branding and has authored a book on that subject.
BookWise is a complex, online business model because we are buying and selling thousands of books each month through associates all over the country. It requires the skills of a highly trained expert in software and internet management to make it all run smoothly. Blair Williams is the perfect fit. He is a skilled technology guru with experience as a software developer and web manager. He manages people and code equally well. He comes to BookWise from Franklin Covey where he worked as Chief Systems Architect. He has managed a successful Enterprise Web Hosting company called Caseproof and has led software development projects for major US technology corporations including DuPont, EDS and McAffee.
