My book is almost ready, what are you last-minute suggestions

Hi All,

In the last quarter of 2021 I have decided to write a book that would help aspiring developers to be ready for a real job.

The book is created using lots of real experiences that I have seen during my mentoring career and is aimed at all new developers (fits the #100DaysOfCode followers).

I have written the book in notion for now, and I am about to start and think about how to move forward with marketing, promoting and self-publishing.

I have a mailing list of around 50 people interested already in the book, but I have not really done much to promote, so that is almost surprising (https://zelig880.com/book)

I would love to get your help and support. I am completely new here, so anything "how much to price it", "marketing" , "promotion", "links and resources".

Thank you fellow IH

Simone Cuomo

on January 3, 2022

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Hi!
I'm on the same niche, but I feel like we are not using the same tech stack :) Mine is Ruby on Rails and React

I highly suggest you check out the SamCart Course Creation Challenge, I joined a few days ago, they have really great advice about how to market and sale ebooks and courses : https://try.samcart.com/course-creation-challenge/

Good luck!

KarimMorta

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When I published my first e-book (I posted it for free), I thought long about promoting it.
1. I invited famous people to comment on every chapter of the book - this added some taste to the book itself, and also those people social media allowed me to reach a new audience
2. I prepared a landing page with the possibility to contact me in case of any questions.
3. I prepared a list of publishers, portals, magazines, journalists and sent them an old-fashioned press release. Information about the book appeared in many startup magazines for free in a few days after
4. I asked a friend (who is a press officer ) for help, and he advised me to do a press conference about the fact that I created an e-book for free. So I did it, and after that, the same day I got an invitation to television, where I gave interviews, and a few days later to radio stations
5. I made a premiere on producthunt
6. I found book listing websites and added it there
Adam_Trojanczyk

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Hi Simone! I think it's awesome that you wrote a book to help aspiring developers.

I checked out your website. It's impossible to say what your book contains. At least for me, the lack of information doesn't encourage me to sign up. Maybe you could include a sample chapter, something to indicate the quality of the product? This might be something to address before you start heavy marketing efforts.

As far as promoting it, @Adam_Trojanczyk has some great ideas!

brandonHacker

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  I put that landing page up quickly, and unfortunately is it "very basic" and does not allow more than a few lines of text!!
  
  Another great suggestion would be on a good landing page or software that people used... I would even be happy to provide the first chapter of the book on signup!
  
  Simone Cuomo
  
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I'm not sure about the title itself. Trens talking about - "let's make everyone developers" is not a good trend.
You can't suddenly re-brand everyone. Slogans like let's make miners, power engineers, cashiers, biologists into programmers are not good.
And even if the content of the book has a different message, the title can be misleading and be taken as a typical clickbait.

Adam_Trojanczyk

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  I got the code from ratatouille "everyone can cook"! :)
  
  The idea is really to provide people with the information they need to get into coding, and it is actually aimed at miners, power engineers, cashiers and so much more...
  
  I am a self-thought and have mentored and supported many people to get into tech, and that is the main reason for the book!
  
  Simone Cuomo
  
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