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How I Self Published a Book that Sold 5,000 Copies
Dear subscribers, In January 2020, I self-published a book called Principles of…
My Book Marketing Plan: How I Sold 5000 Books in Four Weeks
Discover the exact method I used to sell 5000 books in four weeks as a first ti…
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I'm writing How to Enjoy Wilderness Backpacking using Rob Fitzpatrick's Write Useful Books as a guide!
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My Book: The Pathless Path - 25k Sales, $130k Royalties in 500 days (With Details)
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What was your experience with self-publishing?
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Book editing?
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Landing Page: Looking for feedback
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Trying out "Kindle Free Promotion"
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How do you make a book landing page
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I'm starting on Amazon KDP
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Do I need an epub? or is the PDF enough?
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The 2022 tech stack for an e-book: lessons learned
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Tech Stack for an e-book?
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$7000 in 7 days with an e-book. Channels breakdown.
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The Minimalist Entrepreneur is out now!
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How I published a set of seven books - from crowdfunding to completion
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How much can you pay to guest post on your blog?
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The Writing-in-Public Story of Deploy Empathy
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I'm writing a book about how my co-founder and I bootstrapped our SaaS to $50k—with 0 employees. Here's the 1st chapter (it's free)
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I'm writing a book about how we bootstrapped to $50k MRR
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5 Lessons From Bill Walsh
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5 Lessons From Kurt Vonnegut to Help you Write Better
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It's out ! My first e-book - Zero To PM : A handy guide for aspiring product managers
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Grim Tales can now be read for free!
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25 Pre-orders for my ebook - Zero To PM. Launching today 🚀
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Launched The Embedded Entrepreneur, a book that I wrote in public with over 500 founders
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I'm Writing My First Non-Fiction Book In Public
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10 Lessons from David Ogilvy's books, the father of advertising, for writers.
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The one where writing books is not really a good idea
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Don't write the best book for everyone.
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Do you ACTUALLY read ebooks?
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This is How You Use Beta Readers to Make a Great Book
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[VIDEO] Rob Fitzpatrick & Tendayi Viki on Writing Books the RIGHT Way
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Earned $7K+ in 14 days - Advice for people working on info-products
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How an Academic Turned Innovation Expert Created Massively Successful Books
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Why Business Books Fail and Exactly How to Avoid it
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This is How You Make Your Book Sell More Every Year
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Paying my bills with 'free' ebooks
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The pricing sweet spot?
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How to organize a fictional story timeline in Notion
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Published my first book: Everyday Data Science
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I am writing a Behavior Science book in public
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Where to Find Daily Writers?
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💲 Got a bit creative with my e-book pricing tiers - What do you think?
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[Video] Robfitz & Arvid Kahl on the business & process of designing nonfiction as a reliable, profitable product
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2021 Publishing Predictions – Pandemic Reshapes Publishing, Accelerates Consolidation
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How I self-published a book that sold 5,000 copies: A step by step guide
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Next steps for e-book?
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