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You decided to write a book. Congratulations, that's great! Being an author can gain you recognition and help your business draw more clients And if those are your only goals, then the faster you write your book, the better. But you might miss one of the best reasons for having a book if you just focus on getting it done fast. That reason is to make money
The quick and easy way to attract more recognition and clients is "slowing down and taking the time to create a bestselling business around your book", says book business expert DrProactive Randy Gilbert. DrProactive says you will end up with a more money, a better book, and a passive income far in excessive of what the book alone would have earned.
DrProactive calls it a "bestselling business," because it can make you a bestselling author and a millionaire at the same time. You can use these three steps to create an information business centered on your book.
Step 1:
Make a list of the top 10 benefits (20 is better) you can provide for your clients. Then write out the top 7 ways that you will create those benefits (i.e. the tools, tips, and short-cuts that help solve their problems in your area of expertise). These will become your Table of Contents and are now your guide to writing your book's content.
Step 2:
Use the same expert knowledge that will be going into your book to create other information products. One quick and easy info product is a Teleseminar.
Ask someone with an e-mail list (friend or JV partner) to interview you over the phone and invite their followers to listen. This is good for you and them, because they will be exposing their followers to some great content, and you will have a recording that can be transcribed and turned into a part of your book. A one hour phone interview could become an entire chapter of your book. Do the same thing for each Chapter and you'll have your book in no time.
There are at least six other optional products that will help you write your book and make money at the same time. Before your book is published, these info products can help generate lots of pre-sales for your book. By pre-selling your book you can often sell enough copies so that you become a bestselling author when your book is published. You'll get more clients and recognition by achieving bestseller status than you would by just being an author.
Step 3:
Use the 80-20 rule as a habit and work on the most important thing everyday. Sixty minutes would be awesome but even 30 minutes would be great. Even, if you have a conflict and must do something else for that time of day...do something anyway for at least 10 minutes on your busy days. Don't focus on perfection, just take action. Write a first draft, find an editor or revise it yourself.
Change your plan of action and start creating a bestselling business to write your book. Follow the guidelines above and in 90 to 180 days (or less) you will not only have the first draft of a great book written, you'll have a nice passive income and enough copies sold to become a bestseller as soon as it's published.
There is no time like the present. Take your book idea and start building a bestselling business around it today. You'll get a bestselling book and a million dollar business the quick and easy way. |