In 2003, ABC News published an article entitled “Want to Get Rich? Write a Self-Help Book” that detailed the explosion of popularity of self-help books. Ushered in by the rabid success of Oprah Winfrey, the genre went from occupying one shelf in the back of the bookstore to being a legitimate, hundred-million dollar industry. Eleven years later, the self-help genre has gone far beyond books, with experts suggesting it is now a $10 billion-plus market that includes everything from personal coaching to motivational speakers. And that doesn’t include most content-producing websites, particularly ones playing to the business crowd, which are …Read more »