In my talk I recommended getting plugged into the micro-ISV community. Here are some resources around that:

• Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality by Bob Walsh
• Patrick McKenzie
• Amy Hoy
• Rob Walling
• Andy Brice
• Business of Software Forum
• MicroConf

I also talked about sales. Here are some good sales (or sales-related) books I’ve read:

• The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
• The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
• How to Sell Anything to Anybody by Joe Girard (The title should perhaps be How to Sell Cars to People in Detroit Through Dishonesty, but contains a lot of good advice nonetheless.)

And here are some good marketing books:

• Internet Marketing: An Hour a Day by Matt Bailey
• The Art of SEO by Eric Enge, et al
• Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson*
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Jack Trout*

*I recommend these books with reservations as I question their usefulness to an internet micropreneur, but you’d probably be better off having read them than not, and both are pretty short.

Lastly, here are some uncategorized books I’d recommend to help you along your entrepreneurial journey:

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (can’t recommend highly enough)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (also very strongly recommended)
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• The Little Black Book of Connections by Jeffrey Gitomer
• Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty by Harvey Mackay
• Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey Mackay