The centuries old secret to rapid success.

Yup. A self published book no longer has the lack of credibility it once had.

And on Fiverr, you can get books formatted, a cover produced, and even uploaded to Amazon for way under a hundred dollars. These can be Kindle books, paperbacks, had cover, and audio books. (Audio books you narrate yourself, or hire a narrator. There are sites that list these services)

There are even a few writers websites that show writers that will write your whole book for you for under $2,000.

These non-fiction books make you money, and they are the best business card/brochure/sales letter you can have.

Great advice.


One thing I'd add is, building your book around a unique Big Idea helps immensely.


If you take a look at some of the most popular non-fiction books on Amazon, they're built around a Big Idea that allows the book to stand out from the crowd.


Sometimes it's a brand based on a story ("Rich Dad, Poor Dad") and sometimes it's more like a concept ("The 1-Page Marketing Plan").


That's where I'd start - with the question, "What's the Big Idea I'm trying to convey, that will make me distinctive from the crowd of other books trying to teach people similar things?"

Well its nice but i dont think its so easy how it was like in the past ,now this field its also very competitive and you need to put a conaiderable effort to have some succes

Gotta straddle yr chargah an' maraud off inta the wilderness.

For here be glories both resonant to yuusself only, plus also cool valyoo for the planit if'n you gaht any empathy hormones runnin' rampant in yuh bloodstream.

So, hey, next stahp is to straddle yuh chargah again an' head home.

Do this, you are a CHANGED KINDA PERSON.

An' yr wilderness insights may be of valyoo to the Howevahso Imprisoned back Wherevah.

That is why intel, info, nooz, hearsay, lies, promo an' mental chattah drive the world on more'n most stuff you might wanna mention.

Words 'pon lips evoke.

Words 'pon lips wish to be spoke.

Why, 'tis a miracyool.

I've wanted to try this for a few months now! More and more I'm hearing that writing a book is a great way to bring in extra money. Everything can be outsourced too. I think this will become a new project of mine, I want to test these waters for myself!

I'm surprised at this thread. Not the topic because having your own book is a real secret.

But I'm surprised at how some of the WF top people are saying have a book in an hour through AI. I would've thought that some of you would be laughing at those trying to make it by selling their 15 AI generated books of the week. But you are saying that it's okay? A good idea?

These aren't personal judgments and besides what I think won't affect you guys at all. I guess I'm still too old school. Yes, have a book or two or twenty. But write it out yourself based on your experience. Is that whole thing dead now?

Mark

great advice guys

No disrespect but I've seen plenty of people write a book, publish it, and make little-to-no money from it.

Thanks for the great suggestion GordonJ.

Yeah I think writing a Book/eBook can be a tremendous thing ... However ― if People are going to Author something truly amazing ― I don't think it would be a case of "rapid success" (Depending what you mean ...)

Usually People have to put in the time, effort, and energy ... Of course, it's usually worth it.

2C

I agree; yes, book writing is one of the best marketing techniques today. Choosing the trending topic and adding your value, rather than relying too much on AI technologies is the best approach.

Thanks for starting this thread Gordon, It's loaded with valuable information (like most of yours).

It's even possible to write a book - give it away and make money. Ebooks are good lead generators and they're practically free to make. Use it to build your congregation.

I also like the idea of writing something like a little eight-page booklet about something like plumbing tips and selling them to plumbers around the country in bulk to use as mailers. Costs less than 50 cents a booklet at GotPrint for 1000 (cheaper the more you order) full color, and you could mass sell them for whatever each. You could start with just a couple of samples to use for marketing to the plumbers, etc.

Of course, plumbing is just the start. Electrical. Car repairs. Dog Care. Cat care. Beauty tips. On and on.

I also like the tip sheet thing. I have a whole Pinterest page saved with nothing but one-page tip sheets that explain a ton of interesting stuff in detail. Fish and how to catch them. Meat and how to cook it. Just a ton of unbelievable stuff that is one page but full of information that a lot of people would love. People would buy them to hang on their walls...give them away as gifts to friends that were into what was covered...only limited by your imagination.

I did a post about 10 years ago talking about selling a booklet in gas stations and convenience stores and making 20k. I got roasted by some of the big marketing people of that era on WF. One of the guys that was a superhero on WF at the time roasted me calling me a fraud and said I was making up stuff. He went on to sell a WSO, take everyone's money, and disappear. He came back some time later begging everyone to forgive him. Haven't heard from him in a long time.

There will always be naysayers. There will always be those that are looking for a shiny lottery. There will always be those that oppose ideas, but over time they fade away never to be heard from again.

Your idea has been proven time and time again.

Thanks again for your post.

Gordon -

I really think that we're in the age of people looking for spiritual enlightenment (I guess it's the best way to say it).

With your decades of knowing about hypnosis, I think you're sitting on a gold mine.

Self-hypnosis, to me, would be a killer subject. It's so deep and limitless in possibilities...and it's personal.

You've rubbed shoulders with some big names and been around the block a few times, that gives you a lot of credibility...not to mention all the accomplishments you've achieved.

The booklet I mentioned was about the Pick 3 lottery in Ohio. It gave 3 different ways to play and most of the pages were past lottery statistics. As far as I know, it was the first time any of those methods had been published...I still see them talked about today.

There was a guy named Lenny that had an ugly website that had all the Pick 3 statistics from when it started. Doubles, triples, pairs, most hit, least hit...there wasn't anywhere to get that info back then. He was an old guy that had nothing basically to do all day but keep track of Ohio Lottery results.

I saw it as a gold mine.

The book was about making big money using small wins.

I actually contacted Lenny and gave him some money for using his stuff. Didn't have to, but I wanted to give him a little something for all his hours of taking the time to annotate everything. Probably could have done several more booklets on the subject from his info.

When it comes to books, booklets, and tip sheets, the possibilities are limitless.

Anyone that wants to make some money should read your thread over and over again. Ideas can come from just having an open mind.

Thanks Gordon.

You asked do people have patience?

No, they don't. How many diet programs are sold daily and very few stick to them?

I think sometimes we all know people don't have a lot of patience to stick with something, but that's not our fault. We can still make a profit?

Fitness Centers oversell memberships knowing only a few will actually keep going much over a month or two.

Not sure we can control people's long-term interest in things. At least I'm not sure how to do it.

But, there are always new customers born every minute.

Once upon a time, I suggested that a book can be written in 2 weeks. This was pre-ai intelligence.


On this forum and other places.


Lots of people said something along the lines, yeah, right and pigs fly.


It took me 36 years to complete a 3600-word short story. Two months to finish the first draft of a 181-page novel, 6 months to finish it.


It took me one week to write a 'book" of 37 pages (about the business I was in at the time, how to market it... I had just found Dan Kennedy, and applied a lot of his stuff to my industry).


A few months later, I turned that thing into a 220+ page book (no pictures, just words).


At the time, I was running a business and spending time with family and still had time to play a video game or two a day all by my self.



I am not the fastest or the slowest. I am one example.



AI would have made a lot of things faster...



Yesterday, I asked chatgpt a bunch of questions on one topic. It spewed 200 to 400-answers.


It took me a few minutes to read them, make a mental note of some ideas (a few I had thought of myself, a few I would have thought of on my own while writing the first draft) and a couple that I think I would have missed.


I turned all of that, combined with my lived-experience, into a 3000+-word article (or chapter).


If the subject matter had been entirely new to me, it would have taken me weeks of research.


I would not trust ai, I'd have to double and tripple-check everything.


Point? If you write about something you already now, getting a book-length piece written is easy enough. AI makes it easier.


The real issue is perception. People think I'm not a writer and end it there.


Or they doubt they have anything worth saying. And never start. I think I mentioned this one here:
I once knew of an accountant who had an accounting firm with two other accountants (employees) and an assistant who wanted to write a book for accountants but said he had no idea what to write.


I pointed out to him that he could write a book about growing an accounting business. He said nah, he did not know enough about that.


I said, your target audience is people who work for themselves and they are the whole company. You're ahead of them, you can tell them what you did to end up with 2 CPA's on your staff. And, as you grow, you show them what you did.


He was sure nobody'd be interested... his success was too small. He never wrote the book.



Next thing:
I recently saw an add for a cook book.
It was sooo different than other cook books.
It was for a book for people with back and knee pain.


Yup.


It was written by some person who likes cooking who enlisted a doctor to help write the book.


The whole book is addressing: how do you make dinner (or lunch) when you can barely stand for 10 minutes...


They had recipes, they simplified so it reduced the time needed to be in the kitchen. And advice on how to do things you do when cooking and avoid pressure / pain. Such as, how to load your dishwasher...


I did not read the book, only about the book.


I bring it up because:
it stands out

they identified very clearly who the book is for (people who do not have pains that interfere with cooking will dismiss it as a joke, people who do will be very interested).


Most people fail at this point. I mean, I've come across accountants writing books for accountants that no accountant's read because the writer failed at identifying a herd (Dan Kennedy's term). I guess, the big idea mentioned before.


I have known people who wrote books (non-fiction) without thinking about who'd read it till it was done.


If you want a book and are not a writer, pair up with someone who is. If you're a writer, just start.


Start means determine, before you write anything, what the book is meant to do...


Ideally, it helps people do at least one thing better. So, you know what that one thing is, who benefits from knowing it, how it fits into their lives, where you're going to market it.


The interesting thing to me is the number of people who, because something comes easy to them, because they've been doing it for a long time or it just matches related things they've done, think nobody'd be interested in paying for info on such an easy thing or cannot see that there's a lot of people who're interested in the topic... because it's so mundane to themselves.


PS to everyone who thinks you need to be a writer to write a book: No, you do not. You need to be a writer to write a good book of fiction that people will read 400 years after you've died.


If you want to write a fiction book that makes you money, you need to write... I know someone who read books for some audiobook company. One of the book she's read is badly written (but has heart). It's got over 7000 5 star reviews on Amazon.com.


It's compelling, in other words, to a lot of people. In other words, some people read fiction for the action, not for the excellent turn of phrases.


And if you're dealing in non-fiction: you have to be good enough so they understand the meaning of your sentences. It helps if you're not redundant, but it's not necessary (and, besides, an editor can take care of that for you) to be completely without redundancy. You can do a lot of things wrong (as per your English classes) if the info is good and you're presenting it to the right people.

Geesh just get permission from members and the material here could be sold on Amazon!

But l did write a book on being successful on Fiverr, (rewrote an ebook l had full right too).

Hired a professional voiceover artist on Fiverr for the video, did the graphics etc) turned it into a WSO here and it bombed.

Writing a book doesn't guarantee wealth it just guarantee's your name up in lights for a while.

But the software here did much better thought, (probably should have done a book on that instead, lol).

A book can be formatted, a cover produced, and even uploaded to Amazon for less than a hundred dollars on Fiverr. There are Kindle books, paperbacks, hardcovers, and audio books available.