$2000+ Gross Revenue
by Pascal PrechtToday, after selling 120+ copies of REBASE - The complete guide on rebasing in Git, I've crossed the $2000 mark in gross revenue!
Happy to see there's constant interest in the book. For the past 8 weeks I've been selling ~10 copies every week and I've reached only a very small amount of people judging by the page views.
Very curious how this pans out when the book is released in just 3 days after which the book is sold without a 40% discount.
Here are some numbers:
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- Total gross revenue (as of today): $2,031.71
- Sold copies: 123
- Total page views (https://rebase-book.com): 2,979
- Total users (rebase-book.com): 2,358
- Conversion Rate past 30 days (rebase-book.com): 13.3%
- Conversion Rate past 30 days (overall): 13.03%
- Conversion Rate total (rebase-book.com): 8.9%
- Conversion Rate total (overall): 6.97%
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How large was your email list?
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I did not have one particularly for this project.
But I did send one out via https://thoughtram.io which has a bit over 2700 subscribers.
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Those are fantastic sales numbers for no email list!
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Nice, congratulations! One of my goals is to teach by writing, specifically in-depth writing on fundamentals. I guess I should start with writing blog posts. What advantages are there to writing an ebook vs. blog posts. (Other than the fact that you can actually charge for it)
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Hey @Earth256!
I can tell from my experience that writing blog posts is definitely a really really good place to start. It comes with a lot of advantages:
- You practice your writing
- It's public so people get to read "you"
- You leave a "dent" in the internet, once published your content won't go anywhere
- Blogging on a regular basis makes readers come back
- Very good way to build an audience
As a matter of fact, I've done a lot of blogging over the past 5 years at https://blog.thoughtram.io with 250k users per month at its peak time.
This was the main channel to requests for software training which was our main business.
There was even a guy who took all of my posts and generated an ebook out of that! :DI think a lot of these things you don't get when writing an ebook. I don't even think that there's any advantages to writing an ebook other than:
- You can say you wrote a book and technically you're an author (which is nice I think)
- You've created something that you can sell and people hopefully love (that's my main motivation - creating a nice experience. I actually won't stop with the book but plan some more things around it(
- It's definitely a nice learning experience as well
Having that said, considering all the above, I think blogging is probably the better thing to do for long-term outcome. But as I've mentioned, I've already done that for the past few years.
Hope this answers your question!
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Hi @PascalPrecht - just looked at your blog and the trainings offered at thoughtram, cool! Teaching foundational stuff like Git, Refactoring, Code Reviews is what I'd love to be doing if I wasn't building my product right now! Thanks for your thoughts about blogging I just setup a personal site and am excited to write and share!
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That's awesome @Earth256!
Setting stuff up is a great first step. The hard part is being consistent and put content out there on a regular basis.
A few tips:
- Try to make it a habit. Let's say you could aim for publishing a blog ever 2 weeks at least
- Don't wait too long. It's never gonna be perfect. Content is king, even when your blog doesn't look pretty
- You can start with small blogs that share individual ideas and stuff. Trying to write a 20min read from the get go is kind of tough and could demotivate you.
There will be times where it feels more like a hassle. Always come back to it and stay consistent. That's how people will come back to your because they know they'll get the content they are interested in on a regular basis.
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Hi @PascalPrecht - Thanks for all the tips and the encouragement! Good points to keep in mind!
-Bhumi
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Sweet! Congratulations, Pascal. I am still amazed by the speed at which you wrote this and set up all the infrastructure around it.
How about writing a book about writing a book next? (This is a serious suggestion)
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Thanks @arvidkahl !!
You've been certainly an inspiration in the past months!
Actually, writing a book about how to write a book sounds like a really cool idea :DI'll keep it in the back of my head
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Ha, Great! so you say that if I buy this book I finally will understand why when I make a
git pull –rebase origin master from feature branch, it always ends with mess :)-
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Hey @PawelDubiel
chances are very high you'll have a better understanding of it after reading this book, yes! :)
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Nice going ! Why don't you try accepting bitcoin, that could help you get a revenue spurt. Developers are generally well aware with crypto. You can use https://www.blockonomics.co/views/payment_demo.html to create a simple payment button
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Hey @shivaenigma!
That is actually a great point. When it comes to crypto currencies I'd rather have people pay in ETH than bitcoin, or even better SAI as a stable coin alternative.
Strongly consider this, thanks for bringing this up!
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