In less than a year I’ve made over $150,000 from self-Published books. Plenty of my friends have made far more, all writing on topics so small and targeted a traditional publisher wouldn’t consider it. Many of them started—just like me—without an audience.
Nathan Barry – Authority: Complete Edition
In less than a year I’ve made over $150,000 from self-Published books. Plenty of my friends have made far more, all writing on topics so small and targeted a traditional publisher wouldn’t consider it. Many of them started—just like me—without an audience.
After hearing enough of these stories I can tell you they aren’t a fluke. You can also make a living teaching if you have the right topics and the right marketing techniques.
Writing a book isn’t just about the money.
Making money from book sales is wonderful—but it is only one benefit. Publishing a book can lead to many side effects, including a promotion, new jobs, or new clients.
Evernote Essentials was created by Brett Kelly out of love for the productivity tool and a desire to help others use it more effectively. Evernote offered him a job—his dream job—even before the book was published. He now works remotely for Evernote, a company that he loves and still generates over six figures of revenue from his book (a side-project).
Rob Walling blogs about software and hosts a podcast that discusses startups. However, it was his book that provided opportunities for speaking engagements and interviews.
One of my first consulting jobs was when I was still working. I was on a conference call with two people from a company to decide whether or not they wanted to hire me as a designer for their new iPhone application. The call was held just after my book, The App Design Handbook had been published. The junior person on the call had also read my book and enjoyed it.
The manager wasn’t so sure about hiring me. If my design was so good, why wasn’t I working in the Bay Area?
I listened for a while as they went back and forth, until the manager spoke up and said, “Actually, of course he’s good enough, he wrote the book on the topic.”
What would you think if you could tell you how you felt? “wrote the book on the topic”? Would you consider that a career change would be beneficial?
It is difficult to write a book. It’s really difficult.
Despite all these benefits I wouldn’t want you to get the wrong idea and think writing a book is easy. It is impossible to be more wrong. What are the easy things that are worth doing?
You can make a huge book if all you do is slow and steady progress each day. Writing one blog post per week was difficult when I first began writing.
Now I’ve built up a habit of writing 1,000 words a day, every day. I’ve done this for over 275 days in a row, all tracked with an app I wrote called Commit. Over 50 blog posts, three books and many guest posts have been created from those words. Although it may seem impossible to write 30,000 words for your book, if you only write 500 words per day, you can achieve that goal in just two months.
Consistent, slow progress is key to any large goal. Make a commitment to work on it every day—without skipping a day—and you will see success much sooner than you expect.
“But I’m not an expert.”
So neither am I. I don’t think so. I don’t have a PhD in marketing or design and I don’t travel the world giving lectures–all things you would typically associate with experts. However, I have created many websites and applications over the years, and learned a lot along the way.
There are many people who can benefit from my knowledge about marketing and design. I’m not at the top of my field, but I’m also a long ways from the bottom.
There is a good chance that you are familiar with a particular topic.
In fact, experts at the top of their field are often less qualified to teach than those who were beginners more recently, simply because those experts often can’t remember what it was like to be brand new in the field. It will be easier to teach at a beginner level if you have already learned the lessons and mastered the obstacles.
No matter where you may be in your learning journey, you will always learn less than you know about the subject.
Every successful person I know began before they were ready. Embrace the fact that you aren’t quite comfortable and strive to become even more of an expert.
A proven plan is best
People say that “sure, this works for you, but…” There are 14 ways I can prove them wrong. We have included 14 case studies from books that used the Authority method to create this digital edition. These 14 case study books have brought in over $230,000 in revenue!
And that’s just a few of the success stories that were willing to share their sales numbers with you. There are many more who either we didn’t have room to feature or they wanted to keep their numbers private.
All this to show that this method works if you are willing to do the work.
Start with nothing
It takes time to build a blog following. It’s especially difficult when you may not have a clear goal in mind for your blog. Products can change this.
Just the act of writing a book—and giving readers a way to follow along—will make it substantially easier to build a following. I had 100 RSS subscribers in July 2012, and two months later, I had a book launch of $12,000. That’s all in one day. By using landing pages and blog posts to build an email list—and keeping the subscribers interested—you can build a profitable following in very little time. I’ll show you how to do it step-By-step.
If you have the right audience, a solid plan for your launch, some discipline and a lot to put in, you can make a good living writing. Interested?
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