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Hey folks! My name is Bryan and I've been fortunate enough to be unemployable for the last decade or so.
I started with freelance writing around 2007. That led to a blog for writers in 2008, which turned into my first book in August 2010. Then things really took an interesting turn.
Upon learning more about self-publishing, I kept writing and learning. I dove deep into the marketing side of things and two major things happened in the last 7 years:
- I sold 100,000 books
- I became an influencer in the self-publishing world
The books have been a fantastic stream of passive income for me. They include a half a dozen novels, reference collections of creative writing prompts, and some writing prompt workbooks for kids.
The influencer side of things started with a popular podcast called The Sell More Books Show. It's a news recap show for the publishing industry and my co-host Jim and I recently passed half a million downloads. Becoming an influencer has helped me gather an email list of 15,000+ authors, sell six-figures worth of a marketing training course, and make some successful affiliate partnerships with other author influencers.
I also created my closest thing to a Productocracy yet, a book description writing service called Best Page Forward. My team and I have written over 600 book descriptions for other authors, and I'm looking to move to a less hands-on role in the business (though I'll still probably make sure every description goes through me before it heads to the customer).
The thing is... neither the book description service nor the books (nor the training courses, etc.) have felt like a true Productocracy. The book descriptions have been the closest (have barely advertised for the service other than to my own list), but I still feel like I'm missing something that would work well in the industry.
Software like Scrivener and Vellum (writing and formatting) and services like Book Report (sales tracking), InstaFreebie (list building), BookFunnel (book delivery), and BookBub (marketing) feel like true productocracies to me, because they fulfill a need, they scale, and everybody talks about them.
I'd love to come up with something that will really benefit the community. I don't mind putting in the work (I've put in plenty up to now, what are a few more years?), but I'd love to create something that would allow me to some day start my own Money System to provide for my family and give me occasional time off from the craziness of my everyday life.
I'm new to this, so hopefully I'm tagging @MJ DeMarco right
. Thanks for your extremely thorough and mind-opening books. And for the forum, of course.
I started with freelance writing around 2007. That led to a blog for writers in 2008, which turned into my first book in August 2010. Then things really took an interesting turn.
Upon learning more about self-publishing, I kept writing and learning. I dove deep into the marketing side of things and two major things happened in the last 7 years:
- I sold 100,000 books
- I became an influencer in the self-publishing world
The books have been a fantastic stream of passive income for me. They include a half a dozen novels, reference collections of creative writing prompts, and some writing prompt workbooks for kids.
The influencer side of things started with a popular podcast called The Sell More Books Show. It's a news recap show for the publishing industry and my co-host Jim and I recently passed half a million downloads. Becoming an influencer has helped me gather an email list of 15,000+ authors, sell six-figures worth of a marketing training course, and make some successful affiliate partnerships with other author influencers.
I also created my closest thing to a Productocracy yet, a book description writing service called Best Page Forward. My team and I have written over 600 book descriptions for other authors, and I'm looking to move to a less hands-on role in the business (though I'll still probably make sure every description goes through me before it heads to the customer).
The thing is... neither the book description service nor the books (nor the training courses, etc.) have felt like a true Productocracy. The book descriptions have been the closest (have barely advertised for the service other than to my own list), but I still feel like I'm missing something that would work well in the industry.
Software like Scrivener and Vellum (writing and formatting) and services like Book Report (sales tracking), InstaFreebie (list building), BookFunnel (book delivery), and BookBub (marketing) feel like true productocracies to me, because they fulfill a need, they scale, and everybody talks about them.
I'd love to come up with something that will really benefit the community. I don't mind putting in the work (I've put in plenty up to now, what are a few more years?), but I'd love to create something that would allow me to some day start my own Money System to provide for my family and give me occasional time off from the craziness of my everyday life.
I'm new to this, so hopefully I'm tagging @MJ DeMarco right
. Thanks for your extremely thorough and mind-opening books. And for the forum, of course.
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