I bought this book well over a year ago, and I pretty much read it from cover to cover.  Even though I'd had my real estate license for years...I was no good at it.  I could do the backend stuff as easy as pie, but the front end stuff...I just wasn't comfortable with.  I never felt like I knew the area good enough or how to negotiate well enough...  I'd taken all the classes, I had my license with Prudential for awhile, so they make you go through this long array of classes when you first sign with them, plus I had taken other classes, attended other seminars, but what I didn't have was experience.  There's no way to fake it.  But, I think this book does a really good job of walking you through the steps to getting the huge array of knowledge you need and feeling comfortable spouting off about that knowledge, and I think this confidence will get you through (as long as you have a very supportive broker to go to with questions) as you gain the actual experience level.

Here's a partial list of some of the chapters in the book:

• Online or Offline: Danny Kennedy's 12-Month Farming Almanac (very good stuff)
  
• Confront Old Pro - And Win (wonder if this chapter would help the gentleman who blogged recently about losing a listing to a well endowed female agent? Probably not.)
• High-Tech Promotion and the Personal Touch
• Self-Organization
• Prepare and Perform - Or Pass Out

There're 28 chapters in the book, so that is just a sampling, but I really enjoyed it and had several "ah ha" moments when I read it through the first time.  I just picked it up again and am going to scour it again over the coming weeks.  I am getting ready to hang my license with another broker (still trying to decide who to go with - it's inactive now), and I really want to go in feeling confident and ready this time out. 

I've been a Real Estate Virtual Assistant for 7+ years now...this book isn't about the admin. side of the business much (yeah, think I've pretty well got that down), it's about the "Do or Die - gotta have the courage to get out there" stuff.  Enjoy!