Ferriss suggests:

1) Reducing information/news intake (Peter Drucker said that) 2) Working ON the business (automating it) rather than IN the business. 3) Pushing the envelope on how much mundanity you can outsource.

You don't have to look far for people who've had success following these ideas.

I appreciate that he is using largely recycled ideas. What I am looking for, though, is someone stating that Four Hour Workweek is the tool that they used to get them from point A to point B.

The information in FHW is simple but not easy. It takes a lot of initiative to create a Muse (Ferriss' term for a semi-autonomous business entity). However, it's not black-and-white - choose to apply what you may.

I'm confident if you successfully applied FHW you wouldn't just have a blog post - you could have a blog e.g. ihaveafourworkweeknow.com where people would pay to subscribe - to learn how you did it. For added value, keep a detailed blog while you are figuring out how to apply the FHW (e.g. Day 25 - Boss negotiation) and timecapsule so you can unveil it to paying subscribers once you achieve the FHW.

From what I've read, the founder of plentyoffish.com might have been doing much of this before the book was written. I've heard he only works 2-4 hours a day on the site.