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There's seven types of authors with shockingly high failure rates.
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81% of Americans say that they want to write a book.
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We know that less than 1% actually do it because you gotta write it, you gotta go through the whole process.
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Even the ones who do it, the ones who finish and self-publish, 90% of them sell less than a hundred copies in their entire lifetime.
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That sucks.
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We're on a mission to change that.
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We've helped over 8,000 people publish their book at selfpublishing.com.
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And our goal is to raise the average, and not just raise the average, but help authors be more successful.
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Well, to do that, we gotta understand why people fail in the first place.
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We've had tens of thousands of one-on-one conversations with authors.
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So everything I'm teaching today is not from theory, it's from the phones, from the mouths of customers, prospects, people who are working with us, people who are thinking about working with us.
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As we get through the seven types of authors, fewer and fewer authors make it to even this seventh failure point.
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Stick around for number seven because this is actually a big trap that I wrote a whole chapter on in my book.
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It's called Published.
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Check it out.
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Let's get into it with number one, the dreamer.
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The first type of author with a shockingly high failure rate is the dreamer.
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This person never finishes the book.
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We have talked to thousands of these people.
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They have the idea, they start the doc.
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Maybe this is you.
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You've got five perfectly written chapters in your unfinished book.
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Or maybe even worse, you've been telling people, hey, I'm gonna write a book.
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You've had people tell you you should write a book.
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You've been thinking about it.
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You've said maybe someday, maybe next year, maybe someday, maybe next year.
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The dreamer phrases that they use are, oh, I don't have time, or the timing isn't right, I don't know what I would write about.
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Oh, this book has already been written.
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So yeah, it's a dream of mine, but I think there's already a book in this category.
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They keep dreaming and they dream so much that they never get to doing.
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I love this quote.
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It says, A dream without a plan is a wish.
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A dream without a plan is a wish.
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So if you're just stuck in the dreaming phase, you're a dreamer.
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So you've got one of two choices.
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Choice number one, you can actually put a plan to it.
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All right.
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We do this all day, every day.
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There's a link in the description.
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If you want to book a publishing consultation, click the link in the description.
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This is a 45-minute call where we talk about your goals for your book, your challenges, all that stuff.
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We'll help you create a plan.
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So you can either do that, you can create a plan, or you can just say, My dream is a wish and give up on that dream.
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Stop thinking about it, stop saying that you're gonna do it.
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I know that's maybe kind of harsh, but stop lying to yourself.
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Dreamers never get published, right?
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Your book doesn't work unless you do.
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The process works.
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The process that we teach, the process that we help people with, it works, but you got to take the first step.
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Second type of author that always fails is the perfectionist.
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This is the person who finishes but never publishes.
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They rewrite the manuscript for months.
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They never stop self-editing, they never stop regular editing.
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Maybe they've worked with five different editors, so they never get published.
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This is a real big trap.
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So I think there's two big pitfalls that people fall into.
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Either they never start, they don't get their rough draft done, or I guess maybe a third pitfall is their rough draft's done, but they don't get to publish.
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This is a minority of people, but if you're doing it on your own, well, then you probably will fall into this trap.
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This is what I call the crisis of meaning phase.
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It's the point where you just reread that rough draft over and over and over again, and you say, I suck, this book sucks.
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What am I even thinking about?
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Why am I doing this?
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And you give up.
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There's an image in the book about this.
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It's just like the journey,
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like, hey, this is gonna be so fun.
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Wow, this is going really well.
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Oh my gosh, this is hard.
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Wow, this sucks.
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I suck.
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This book's a horrible idea.
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Hold up, maybe I've got something, you know, it's just like, and then you end up on the other end, and you're like, wow, that was incredible.
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If you keep going and you push past that perfectionist phase, the fix for this is there's something called Parkinson's Law.
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Maybe you've heard of it.
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That Parkinson's Law says that an object will swell to fill the container that it's given, right?
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So this is why when you're in school, maybe you cram the night before to study for your test or write your paper.
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Well, because there was a deadline.
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So whether you're traditionally published, self-publishing, doesn't matter.
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Most books get written in that month or two right before the deadline.
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Well, why?
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Because there is a deadline.
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And so you've got to have hopefully some external accountability and someone saying, no, no, no, stop the madness.
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You can keep editing forever.
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Editing is never done.
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Done is better than perfect.
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That's the beautiful thing about self-publishing is if you get the book out, you can always go back and edit it later.
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Push past the perfectionist stage.
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Done is better than perfect.
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Author type number three is the gatekeeper waiter.
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This is the person who keeps waiting on other people to give them permission to publish.
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They say, no, no, no, I gotta have a publishing deal.
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Uh, but whoa, oh, I guess to have a publishing deal, I gotta have an agent.
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Okay, so then how do I find an agent?
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They start chasing it, they're sending out all these proposals.
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They spend years chasing a traditional deal instead of just publishing.
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They think self-publishing is below them, or you know, hey, that's for the backup plan, the thing that people only do if they couldn't get a publishing deal, which is an antiquated view of how this works.
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Traditional publishers, they work like venture capitalists.
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For every 10 that they sign, seven or eight are gonna totally fail.
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Two will maybe do okay.
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One is gonna be the unicorn that pays for everything else, maybe even less than that, right?
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Maybe it's one out of a hundred, not one out of ten.
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So don't wait on the gatekeepers.
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Traditional publishers add no value.
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They are horrible.
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They're extorting authors.
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It's just a horrible path.
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So not only is it gonna take you years longer, but you're waiting for a gatekeeper.
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My friend How Elrod, he got shorted on royalties by his first traditional publisher.
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So he just self-published book number two.
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That book's called The Miracle Morning.
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Maybe you've heard of it.
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It sold millions of copies, tens of thousands of dollars a month in royalties, turned into a 14-book series.
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I've got multiple interviews with him on this channel.
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If you want to learn more about how he did it, he didn't wait for the gatekeepers.
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He self-published.
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Author type number four that always fails.
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This is the one and done.
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So this is the person who it kind of shows up in a couple different forms.
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They either publish one book and then they quit, or they publish one book, drop it like it's hot, never talk about it again.
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Right.
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So they don't market the book, they don't follow what we would call the one-year launch.
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So maybe they do it and sales aren't that good.
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So they just never keep going.
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Authors with over 10 books earn five to 10 times more than authors with only one or two.
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This is one of the, you know, it's kind of a this weird thing that once you see it, you can't unsee it.
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There's not many authors that just have one book.
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Because once you figure out how to write a book, well, then it's kind of like learning how to ride a bike.
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It's way easier.
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You just can do it again and again and again.
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But there's this big threshold to get the first one published.
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I'll go back to my friend Hal Elrod.
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He was proof here too.
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The first book wasn't the business, it was the 14 books beyond that, which fed into the main book that has made
him millions of dollars.
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So comment which one of these four that you are.
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Uh, so we're gonna get going in the last three, but you fall into one of these traps, comment below.
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Are you the dreamer, the perfectionist, the gatekeeper waiter, or the one and done?
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And if you're enjoying this video so far, subscribe to the channel and share this video with a friend who's maybe falling into these traps like you are.
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Hey, quick interruption: if what you're hearing right now is making you think about your own book, don't let that feeling pass.
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Our team will reach out, we'll learn about your book, we'll map out exactly the path forward and what it looks like for you.
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We'll create a custom plan, DM us ready, find us on Instagram, and let's get back into the episode.
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Number five is the ghost.
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I alluded to this a little bit earlier.
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This is a person who publishes with no audience, no email list.
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They upload the book.
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They just hope and pray the Amazon algorithm finds readers for them.
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They say, here's a common phrase of the ghost.
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If I build it, they will come.
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No, they won't.
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You got to tell them about it.
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If you want to change someone's life with this book, you can't change their life if they don't read the book.
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They can't read the book if they don't buy the book.
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And they can't buy the book if they don't know about it.
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And knowing about it means you, yes, you have to market it.
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So many people, they just the ghost just says, Oh, yeah, I'm either not going to market or I'm just gonna pay someone.
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Yeah, I'll pay someone to do that for me.
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Sure, maybe that's helpful, but you cannot just posting ghost or publishing ghost or whatever you want to call it.
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You can't do that.
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You you've got to market the book.
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An email list, my email list specifically is one of the most valuable assets that I have.
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When I send an email, revenue happens.
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So you need to obviously build an email list, but that can happen after you launch.
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I talk about that in my book.
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You need to build a pre-release list before launch.
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Okay, and specifically, you need to build a launch team.
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If you do nothing else to market your book, create a launch team, use that launch team to get momentum right out of the gates.
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Then you have a strong launch week, you have a strong launch month, you publish in multiple formats.
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That's really, really important.
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And then you keep marketing it.
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You follow what we call the one-year launch.
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And so you keep showing up, you keep talking about the book, you keep pointing to the book, and then next thing you know, you're not gonna be the ghost.
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You're gonna have a lot more sales.
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Launching a book is kind of like launching a rocket.
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It takes all this momentum to get it into orbit.
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And then once it's in orbit, it somewhat effortlessly just keeps going, right?
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But the problem is most people give up on the book before it gets into orbit.
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And so, yes, it's gonna take a lot of work, it's gonna take a, you know, a lot of energy or fuel or whatever you want to call it to use the rocket analogy.
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But if you can just keep persisting, you get it into orbit, holy cow.
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There's nothing like it.
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Nothing will change your life like a book that's in orbit.
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It's gonna help you make a bigger impact, it's gonna help you grow your income, it's gonna help you make more money from your business.
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Like it's we've got a training on this channel.
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It's a secret training called the$7 million business card.
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You're going to business using a book, go watch that secret training.
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This book has brought in$7 million in sales over the last 12 months through that formula, right?
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It's not ghosting, it's optimizing the book on the back end to grow or start your business.
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Number six, the DIY everythinger.
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This is the person who they say, Hey, why would I spend money when I can spend time?
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And they end up making a really dumb decision, which is they just try to do it all themselves.
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They skip the editing, they skip doing a real cover.
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They do it solo to save money, thinking that it was
it's a smart move, but they ended up tripping over quarters to pick up nickels.
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They end up penny wise and pound foolish, right?
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Their book reads like an amateur.
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It kills trust at the exact moment that a stranger decides whether or not to buy, it kills their sales, and it certainly kills the stuff beyond the book.
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And so I think this is a really short-sighted approach, and it's not a great strategy because your self-published book shouldn't look self-published.
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Good enough is not acceptable.
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You need to have a high quality book.
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That that book needs to look good.
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Your title needs to be good, the cover needs to be good, the formatting needs to be good, needs to be edited well.
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Right.
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And so then it stands out and it's a little bit more effort and money up front, but then the book's gonna sell a lot more on the back end.
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So don't just try to do everything yourself.
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There's this phrase called who not how.
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Maybe you've heard of it.
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Who not how says anytime I run into a problem in my life or in my business, I ask the question, who has solved this before, not how do I solve it?
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Because if I can figure out the who, I can just pay them for a shortcut.
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Right.
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So instead of trying to do everything yourself, find someone who's done it, pay them.
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And yes, it's an upfront investment, but it will make your book a lot more successful on the back end.
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One of my favorite stories around this is I remember people telling me to read this book called Extreme Revenue Growth.
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It was the perfect book exactly for the phase of business that I was in.
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I was trying to scale from low seven figures to eight figures a year.
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That was literally the subtitle is scaling from one to$10 million.
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Right.
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And so I remember thinking, yeah, maybe I should read that book, but it looked horrible.
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The cover looked horrible.
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It this was a DIY everything book.
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And so I looked at that, I'm like, shoot, I'm not reading that.
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And then I had another friend recommend it and I said, Hey, it's got 13 reviews on Amazon.
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I value my time a lot.
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And I've sure I read a lot of books, but it doesn't mean I want to waste time reading crappy books.
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And so I said, No, I'm not reading it.
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I had another friend, hey, you should read this book.
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I said, dude, I'm I'm not the cover looks like it was designed in Microsoft Paint.
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Again, it's got 13 reviews on Amazon.
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Why would I read that book?
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And it wasn't until it just kept getting brought up so many times that I finally said, Hey, I'm gonna read it.
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I read it.
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It's one of the best books that I've ever read in my life.
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And I almost didn't read it because the guy who wrote it did everything himself.
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So you might have a similar book.
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Your book is the best kept secret.
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It's an incredible book, but it's not selling, or it's an incredible book, or you're worried it's not gonna sell.
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Well, the worst mistake you can make is just try to DIY everything.
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People say don't judge a book by its cover.
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Everybody does.
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You do.
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So you if people are judging a book by its cover, you need to have a good cover.
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And so I'll just say specifically with a cover and editing, like cover formatting, and editing, those are three things that you should definitely not DIY, and you should definitely not have your cousin do, or oh, my aunt is a graphic designer, so I'm just gonna don't do that.
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That's not quite DIY, but it's just as dumb in most instances.
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So you need those three things to be good: your cover design, your formatting, your editing, and it's gonna cost some money, but it's gonna be money well spent.
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And your cover design specifically, the three jobs of a good cover is to grab attention, right?
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So you notice my cover is red, the title's easy to read, and you instantly understand what the book's about.
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I got a whole video on this channel.
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This video just blew up recently.
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So if you want to have learn how to create a good cover and not DIY it, uh then check out that video on the channel.
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Number seven, this is the half-built bridges author.
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This author always fails.
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And the sad part is they're so close to success.
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Right?
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Like I said earlier, fewer and fewer people make it to this point.
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This is the person that tries everything,
finishes nothing, and then quits and says, Oh, yeah, that didn't work for me.
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Right.
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So when it comes to launching your book or marketing your book or even growing your business, most authors take the shotgun marketing approach.
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If you know anything about shotguns, you know that, hey, it's it's a you know, there's a shell and there's a bunch of BBs in there and or pellets or whatever, depending on the shotgun.
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And so you you shoot it and it's it's the spray and pray uh method.
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Hey, I'm gonna do a little bit of ads, I'm gonna do social media.
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Oh, I think I need a website.
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Spoiler alert, websites don't sell books.
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Okay.
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So they do all of these things thinking that they're successful.
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And they start this and then quit.
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And then they start this and then quit, and they start this and quit, and they end up with a pile of half-built bridges and then give up saying, I knew it, this doesn't work, and it won't work for me.
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Okay.
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So the the punchline here is instead of half building a bunch of different bridges, build one bridge first.
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And so to do that, you need to ask three questions before you start anything new.
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What's gonna make me my first dollar first?
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So, what's gonna sell the most amount of books the fastest?
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Which one am I most likely to implement?
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And what actually sounds fun?
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So I'm gonna keep doing it and build one bridge and keep doing that long term.
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Okay.
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So instead of the shotgun approach, you need to take the rifle approach with your book marketing, build one bridge or focus on the handful of things that actually move the needle.
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How do you know which ones those are?
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Well, you ask yourself those three questions, but you also need to ask the who, not how question, which is you need to learn from someone who's done it.
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Don't pay the dumb tax, which is just trying a bunch of stuff and you don't really know what you're doing.
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This is what we do obviously all day, every day, is we're gonna teach you, and we've got a proven framework of, hey, here's exactly what works.
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And it's not what most people think, by the way.
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It's people are telling you, hey, you should do a hundred things to market your book.
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No, there's really five or ten that actually matter.
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Focus on those five or ten.
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And I would say even less than that.
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Pick two or three in that stack.
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Don't build half a bunch of half-built bridges.
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Build one bridge first.
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So here's my question for you: which one of these are you?
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Comment below which one either is you currently or was you before you got over it to publish your book successfully.
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Comment with a number one, two, three, all the way through, or you can just comment with a name of each type.
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Every one of these is fixable.
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Like that's the good news.
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None of them are about talent, it's just about a mindset and a way of being.
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If you're falling into these mental traps, we'd love to help you.
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I started this company, self-publishing.com, because I believe that books change lives.
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We're in the business of changing lives through books.
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We don't want you to be a statistic that always fails.
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We want you becoming the next Hal Lrod or the next person that published one of these books behind me, a successful author where your book is selling, you're making an impact, it's growing your income, and you're growing your business beyond that book.
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So if you want to put together a strategy on how to avoid these seven pitfalls, click the link in the description.
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You can book a free publishing consultation with one of the experts on my team.
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These are publishing strategists.
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They've talked with hundreds and in most cases thousands of aspiring authors just like you.
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So I guarantee you, they've talked to whichever trap you're in, they've talked to that person.
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They're gonna help you map out a plan.
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What are your biggest challenges?
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They'll see if we can help you get your book published.
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We publish thousands of books, we publish two to five books a day.
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I'd love for your book to be next.
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So I hope you enjoyed this video.
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