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Learn the best strategies and tips to attract the right readers to your books. Tom shares what works and what doesn't in today's episode.

What's Discussed in this Episode:

  • How Tom Prevents Research Distractions

  • Optimizing Your Book for Readers

  • Tom's Advice on Email Marketing

  • Tom Shares His Advice on Content Planning and Marketing

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

About Tom Corson-Knowles

Tom Corson-Knowles is an entrepreneur, blogger and international bestselling author. He’s best know for his bestselling book series, "The Kindle Publishing Bible," "The Amazon Analytics Bible,” and "Rich By 22: How To Achieve Business Success At An Early Age”. Read more about him on his publishing website.

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Direct download: 29_Attracting_Readers_to_Your_Book_Tom_Corson-Knowles.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 2:00am EDT

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It's possible to become a bestselling author. Today's guest has written 27 books for Kindle and every single one has been a bestseller! Listen as Tom Corson-Knowles bestselling author of the "Kindle Publishing Bible" series, shares his strategies for writing bestselling books.

What's Discussed in this Episode:

  • Why Tom Wrote His First Book

  • What Success Looks Like to Tom

  • Tom's decision to self-publish

  • How Tom Got His First Book Edited Without Paying for an Editor

  • Why Tom Decided to Continue Writing and Publishing Books

  • Tom's Steps to Becoming a Best Selling Author

  • How Tom Outlines His Books

3 Steps to Becoming a Bestselling Author

  1. Focus on what your mission or purpose is
  2. Come up with as many book ideas as you can
  3. Narrow down the ideas into one book idea that you have a passion to write now

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

About Tom Corson-Knowles

Tom Corson-Knowles is an entrepreneur, blogger and international bestselling author. He’s best know for his bestselling book series, "The Kindle Publishing Bible," "The Amazon Analytics Bible,” and "Rich By 22: How To Achieve Business Success At An Early Age”. Read more about him on his publishing website.

Connect With The Podcast:

Enjoy the episode? Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes and leave a 5 star review! The Podcast is also now available to subscribe to on Stitcher Radio.

Direct download: 28_How_to_Become_a_Bestselling_Author_3_Steps_Tom_Corson-Knowles.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 2:00am EDT

Missed episode 1? Hear Rob share how you can achieve your goals of writing and publishing your own Kindle eBook today. Learn Rob's outlining process for writing non-fiction books. Plus Rob shares his blueprint for book launching in today's episode!

What's Discussed in This Episode:

  • Rob's process of outlining and writing his book
  • How Rob perfected his marketing schedule
  • Rob's blueprint for book launching
  • Understanding Amazon Sales Ranking system
  • How to design your books to revolve around your brand for consistency
  • Why you need to do survey for feedback with your books before publishing
  • How to set writing goals to achieve the eBook finish line
  • Rob's process for editing his first drafts of his eBooks

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Learn More About Rob:

Rob is a Amazon bestselling author, online teacher, and graphic designer. In the past year, he's published 4 eBooks on Amazon: From Freelancer to EntrepreneurBuild a Brand, Sell Products and Earn Passive IncomeRunning A Web Design Business From Home, and How to Sell Video Courses Online.

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Direct download: 27_How_to_Brand_Your_eBooks_for_Consistency_Rob_Cubbon.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 2:00am EDT

Learn how you can finally achieve your goals of writing and publishing your own Kindle eBook today. In today's episode, we have special guest Rob Cubbon, who's published 4 Kindle eBooks in the past year, share with us his tips and strategies to getting launched on Kindle now!

What's Discussed in This Episode:

  • Rob shares how he went from freelance designer to an online marketer and blogger
  • How Rob started an online web design business
  • Rob shares the different ways he's been upping his passive income through: eBooks, online courses, video learning, and more
  • Rob's source of inspiration to start writing eBooks
  • How Rob got started with eBook publishing
  • How Rob transitioned from PDF eBooks to Kindle eBooks
  • Why you should focus your time most on content and not how your eBook looks
  • Where to go to gain feedback on your book idea
  • Why you need to get a book on Kindle now
  • How long it took Rob to write his first book

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Learn More About Rob:

Rob is a Amazon bestselling author, online teacher, and graphic designer. In the past year, he's published 4 eBooks on Amazon: From Freelancer to EntrepreneurBuild a Brand, Sell Products and Earn Passive IncomeRunning A Web Design Business From Home, and How to Sell Video Courses Online.

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Enjoy the episode? Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes and leave a 5 star review! The Podcast is also now available to subscribe to on Stitcher Radio.

Direct download: 26_Master_Kindle_Publishing_Rob_Cubbon.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 2:00am EDT

Sean did something amazing with his recent book. He open sourced it and is allowing people to write inside the book's world. But that's not the best part. Sean is giving away the copyright and allowing people to own the copyright and royalties to anything they create within his world. It pretty amazing! Hear Sean explain everything in today's episode below.

In this Episode We Discuss:

  • Why you need to author a book series to be successful
  • Why Sean decided to open source his “Dream Engine” book world and allow anyone to write books in the world and own both the copyright and royalties
  • What is serialized fiction, how does it work, and is it still popular like it was in 2012

Resources mentioned in this episode:

About Sean

Sean has written more than a dozen books with the help of David Wright and Johnny B. Truant. Some of these books include his most popular series: Yesterdays Gone, The Beam, and Unicorn Western. Recently Sean wrote, The Dream Engine, with the help of Johnny B. Truant during a project they called Fiction Unboxed. Besides writing, Sean enjoys spending time with Sean his wife, daughter, and son.

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Direct download: 25_Sean_Platt_Revolutionized_Fan_Fiction_Book_Copyrights.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 2:00am EDT

Sean shares his strategies and systems for writing novels. He shares how he co-wrote more than 1.5 million words last year with his business partner, Johnny B. Truant, by writing out an outline that fleshes out his ideas on paper. Hear the systems he uses in today's episode below.

In this Episode We Discuss:

  • What got Sean interested in writing fiction
  • Sean’s gift of telling stories through copywriting
  • Sean’s system for writing online articles fast
  • How and why Sean started a blog
  • How Sean’s refined systems helped him produce more than 1.5 million words last year with his business partner
  • Sean’s outlining system of writing out character descriptions, location scouting, and more
  • How Sean writes out what he calls 300 word “Beats” which are description and background of each chapter in the novel
  • Sean shares how he and his business partner wrote a complete story, from no idea to finished novel, in just 30 days

Resources mentioned in this episode:

About Sean

Sean has written more than a dozen books with the help of David Wright and Johnny B. Truant. Some of these books include his most popular series: Yesterdays Gone, The Beam, and Unicorn Western. Recently Sean wrote, The Dream Engine, with the help of Johnny B. Truant during a project they called Fiction Unboxed. Besides writing, Sean enjoys spending time with Sean his wife, daughter, and son.

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Enjoy the episode? Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes and leave a 5 star review! The Podcast is also now available to subscribe to on Stitcher Radio. Can't wait for Thursday? Listen to Sean explain why he decided to open source his book, The Dream Engine, below.  

Direct download: 24_Write_Harry_Potter_Sized_Book_Sean_Platt.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 2:00am EDT

What's Discussed in this episode:

  • How Jonny Wrote and Published His First Kindle Book
  • Understanding Conversational Conversion
  • How Jonny Launched ILoveVampireNovels.com
  • Why Goodreads and email marketing is the most important social media for authors
  • How Jonny Launched P&R Radio Podcast
  • How to finish the first book
  • Why you need a book series of at least 5-7 books
  • Why Jonny doesn't believe in giving away your first book for free
  • How to give yourself a deadline to finish your book
  • Why an outline sets you up to success
  • How writers groups are great for characterization but not author marketing
  • Jonny's business model for writing and publishing

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Connect with Jonny

Direct download: 23_Jonny_Andrews_1M_Book_Series.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 2:00am EDT

In today's episode, learn how Jonny dug himself out of the hole of failure. Hear his story on how he did it and how he got into internet marketing and info products as well.

What's Discussed in this episode:

  • How Jonny dug himself out of the hole of failure
  • Jonny's try at internet marketing and info-products
  • How Jonny learned search engine optimization and creating info-products for a targeted audience
  • Jonny's lessons in being resourceful
  • Making commitments and sticking to them

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Connect with Jonny

Direct download: 22_How_to_Make_6_Figures_without_a_Bank_Account_with_Jonny_Andrews.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 2:00am EDT

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