The 5-Year Journey of Publishing Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte
29 Feb 202417:42

Summary

TLDR这段视频脚本讲述了作者在过去五年中创作和推广书籍的经历。他分享了自己在创作过程中的时间线,包括写作、编辑、合同谈判、书籍推广和销售等各个阶段。作者反思了自己在过程中的决策,提出了一些改进的建议,如更早地雇佣项目管理者、建立自己的平台和系统,以及在书籍发布前后的营销策略。他还讨论了如何通过电子邮件营销和YouTube等渠道建立和扩大读者群,以及这些努力如何最终转化为书籍销售和电子邮件订阅者的增长。

Takeaways

  • 📈 五年的时间线显示了作者从开始创作到书籍发布的整个过程,包括不同的阶段和活动强度。
  • 🚀 书籍推广是一个持续的过程,作者建议投入大量精力,就像争取风险投资一样。
  • 💡 在创作高峰期,作者意识到应该更加有策略地分配时间和精力,专注于最重要的任务。
  • 📝 写作提案和合同处理的时间比预期长,作者建议在这些阶段要有耐心等待。
  • 🔄 出版过程中有多个所谓的“最终”截止日期,作者建议不要在第一个截止日期上过度投入。
  • 💰 与推广代理合作可能不是最佳选择,作者建议自己建立平台和系统。
  • 📅 作者在Q3 2021雇佣了项目经理,认为这是一个明智的决定,有助于处理繁琐的细节。
  • 🎨 设计完整的品牌形象和媒体包是值得投资的,它为内部和外部沟通提供了便利。
  • 📚 预购期长达7个月,这段时间内作者的预购量达到了13,000本。
  • 📈 书籍发布后,作者建议准备好低价位的自学课程,以满足读者的需求。
  • 📊 书籍销售在发布后9个月内从100,000增长到180,000,显示出书籍和YouTube的推广效果。
  • 📧 电子邮件订阅者数量在书籍发布后显著增长,从65,000增长到近140,000。

Q & A

  • 作者在五年的时间轴上经历了哪些主要阶段?

    -作者经历了从开始创作到书籍发布后的推广,包括等待、缓慢工作、突然忙碌、雇佣人员、建立系统、销售书籍、建立个人平台等阶段。

  • 作者在书籍创作过程中最后悔没有做的事情是什么?

    -作者最后悔的是没有在书籍创作高峰期更加深思熟虑地分配自己的精力和时间,没有拒绝更多不必要的项目。

  • 作者在书籍推广过程中遇到了哪些挑战?

    -作者在推广过程中遇到的挑战包括处理多个项目、维持高强度工作、管理时间线以及与出版相关的复杂合同和文书工作。

  • 作者为什么推荐在书籍发布前就开始推广?

    -作者认为在书籍发布前就开始推广可以更好地利用预购期,为书籍发布积累动力,并且有助于在书籍发布时获得更好的销售成绩。

  • 作者在书籍发布后多久开始盈利?

    -作者在书籍发布后大约三个半季度才实现盈利,主要是因为推出了与书籍内容不同的新课程。

  • 作者如何看待与推广代理合作?

    -作者认为与推广代理合作的时间不宜过长,两到三个月足够,因为作者认为将时间和金钱投入到建立自己的平台和系统更为重要。

  • 作者在书籍创作过程中最看重的资源是什么?

    -作者最看重的资源是时间,特别是在书籍创作高峰期,合理分配时间和精力对于成功至关重要。

  • 作者在书籍发布前后的邮件订阅者数量有何变化?

    -作者在书籍发布前从6,000增长到60,000,发布后18个月内增长到140,000,显示出书籍和YouTube对邮件订阅者增长的显著影响。

  • 作者在书籍销售方面有哪些策略?

    -作者通过建立个人平台、利用预购期、发布新课程以及通过额外的分销和口碑来推动书籍销售。

  • 作者在书籍创作过程中有哪些建议?

    -作者建议在书籍创作过程中要认真对待,合理分配时间和精力,避免在高峰期过度压力,同时建议在书籍发布前后积极推广并建立个人平台。

  • 作者在书籍发布后如何维持销售增长?

    -作者通过持续推广、建立个人平台、发布与书籍内容不同的新课程以及利用邮件列表来维持销售增长。

Outlines

00:00

📈 五年创作历程回顾

作者分享了从开始创作到书籍发布的五年历程。他提到了在创作过程中的不同阶段,如等待、写作、推广等,以及这些阶段对个人生活的影响。作者强调了在创作高峰期时,应该更加专注和有策略地分配时间和精力。他还提到了在创作过程中的一些教训,比如在高峰期没有改变生活方式,以及在出版过程中遇到的一些意外挑战。

05:00

📚 出版过程中的挑战与策略

作者详细描述了出版过程中的多个关键点,包括与代理和编辑的合作、提案的撰写、合同的签订以及书籍销售的策略。他提到了在出版过程中遇到的多次“最终截止日期”,以及如何围绕这些截止日期集中精力工作。作者还分享了与推广机构合作的经验,以及在书籍发布前后的推广活动,包括预购和媒体包的准备。

10:03

🚀 品牌建设与平台发展

作者讨论了在书籍创作过程中,如何建立和维护个人品牌和平台。他提到了从MailChimp迁移到ConvertKit的决定,以及这一转变如何帮助他更好地管理电子邮件营销。作者还分享了在YouTube上的投资,以及如何通过建立自己的平台来持续推广书籍。他还提到了在书籍发布后,如何通过创建新的课程来实现经济效益。

15:04

📈 成果与影响分析

作者分析了书籍发布后的影响,包括电子邮件订阅者的增长、书籍销售情况以及YouTube和书籍如何共同推动品牌发展。他提到了在书籍发布前后,电子邮件列表的显著增长,以及书籍销售如何从依赖个人平台转向更广泛的分销和口碑传播。作者还强调了在书籍发布后,如何通过新的课程来吸引读者,并最终实现盈利。

Mindmap

Keywords

💡甘特图

甘特图是一种项目管理工具,用于规划和调度任务。在视频中,它被用来形象地展示作者在过去五年中从事书籍创作和推广的时间线。

💡五年时间线

五年时间线是指作者从开始创作到书籍发布所经历的整个过程。这个时间线反映了作者在不同阶段的工作重点和精力分配。

💡推广

在书籍出版领域,推广是指通过各种营销活动来增加书籍的知名度和销量。作者强调推广是一个持续的过程,需要投入大量时间和精力。

💡代理和编辑

在出版过程中,代理和编辑是帮助作者完成书籍并推向市场的专业人士。作者提到雇佣代理和编辑是出版过程中的关键步骤。

💡提案

提案是作者向出版商展示书籍概念和内容的文档,通常包含书籍大纲、市场分析等。作者强调了撰写提案的重要性和所花费的时间。

💡合同和签约

合同和签约是出版过程中的法律程序,涉及版权、版税和其他条款的协商。作者提到这个过程耗时且复杂。

💡预购

预购是指读者在书籍正式发布前提前购买的行为。预购数量可以作为书籍受欢迎程度的一个指标。

💡电子邮件营销

电子邮件营销是一种通过发送电子邮件来推广产品或服务的营销方式。作者提到了使用ConvertKit作为电子邮件营销工具的重要性。

💡YouTube

YouTube是一个视频分享平台,作者提到了通过YouTube来扩大影响力和推广书籍的策略。

💡电子邮件列表

电子邮件列表是收集潜在客户或读者电子邮件地址的列表,用于发送定期更新、促销信息等。作者提到了电子邮件列表增长对书籍销售的重要性。

💡课程

课程是指作者基于书籍内容或相关主题创建的在线教育产品。作者提到了通过创建课程来实现书籍经济效益的重要性。

Highlights

作者在一年半前出版书籍时创建了一个甘特图风格的时间线,现在更新并回顾了过去五年的工作历程。

作者在亚特兰大的酒店房间中更新了这个时间线,感慨五年的时间和投入的精力。

作者建议在出版过程中要全力以赴,就像筹集风险投资一样。

作者在项目高峰期没有改变生活方式,同时处理多个项目,包括照顾两个孩子,感到压力巨大。

作者建议在项目高峰期应该更加策略性地分配时间和精力。

作者提到在出版过程中,等待和准备的时间比预期的要长,例如等待合同签订就花了近六个月。

作者强调在出版过程中,应该在每个阶段的最后期限前集中精力工作。

作者与一家推广机构合作,花费了六位数,但后来认为这是不必要的,建议只合作两到三个月。

作者在2021年第三季度雇佣了一位项目经理,认为这是一个很好的决定。

作者在2021年第四季度中期开始接受预订,这是推广的开始,持续了七个月。

作者在2019年转换到ConvertKit邮件营销平台,这是对作者非常重要的决定。

作者在2022年初开始认真投资于YouTube,雇佣了第一位YouTube总经理。

作者在书籍发布后一年半才实现收支平衡,通过推出新的自我学习课程。

作者的电子邮件订阅者数量从6,000增长到140,000,书籍和YouTube对增长有显著影响。

书籍销售在发布一年内达到100,000册,之后九个月内增长到180,000册。

作者在书籍发布后推出了两个课程,第二个课程“生产力支柱”取得了成功。

作者通过这个五年的时间线,得到了深刻的洞察和视角转变。

Transcripts

play00:01

hey uh great questions those are exactly

play00:05

the right questions I think you should

play00:07

be thinking about at this point um I

play00:10

started answering them a couple times

play00:12

but then I realized and remembered I had

play00:14

created a little uh Gant chart Style

play00:17

kind of

play00:19

timeline uh when the book was released a

play00:21

year and a half ago and I just realized

play00:24

uh when you mentioned the fiveyear uh

play00:26

timeline that this January right now

play00:28

basically as we speak is the 5 year

play00:30

anniversary of when I first first

play00:32

started working on

play00:33

this and so I'm here in a hotel room in

play00:36

Atlanta and I thought I would just

play00:38

update it and kind of take you through

play00:40

that five-year

play00:42

Arc um it's long that's like kind of the

play00:47

tldr I wish I could go back in time and

play00:49

like shake myself and be like this is 5

play00:53

years of your life take it seriously

play00:56

wake up and slap myself around a little

play00:58

I mean I did take it serious seriously

play01:00

but it's still I mean to this day really

play01:04

hard for me to wrap myself around wrap

play01:06

my head around uh how much of my life

play01:08

this has occupied and the energy that's

play01:11

gone into it and it's still going you

play01:12

can see those bars go off to the right

play01:14

because promotion basically never

play01:17

ends so basically here's how I'd think

play01:20

of

play01:21

it yes there yes it is 5 years at least

play01:25

but each year is so different the energy

play01:29

that you you are expending and the

play01:31

proportion of your time that's going

play01:32

into it very

play01:34

wildly uh as you can kind of see just by

play01:36

looking at this towards the early years

play01:40

um there's not much going on a lot of it

play01:42

is just waiting you're just waiting for

play01:43

things to happen or you're slowly

play01:45

working on you know one thing at a

play01:48

time and then a couple years in or a few

play01:50

years in suddenly everything starts

play01:52

happening all at once it's the critical

play01:54

path as suddenly you went from just

play01:56

locadas sort of doing your little author

play01:59

thing to having to hire people and build

play02:02

things and spend a lot of money and make

play02:05

decisions as you can see in the

play02:06

middle so that's kind of like the it's

play02:09

like a bell curve the the activity and

play02:11

intensity starts low gets high and then

play02:13

it kind of more slowly tapers off as you

play02:17

just keep promoting it doing things like

play02:20

YouTube like

play02:21

courses um of course all that is up to

play02:23

you how much of that you do some authors

play02:26

launch the book and then just they're on

play02:28

to the next thing I really don't

play02:30

recommend you do that I recommend you uh

play02:32

really swing for the fences which it

play02:34

sounds like you're doing I think that's

play02:35

the only way that traditional publishing

play02:37

makes sense is if you swing for the

play02:38

fences it's kind of like raising VC

play02:41

funding um

play02:43

but I can sort of see in this timeline a

play02:48

few lessons um that I'll kind of

play02:52

highlight uh things I would have done

play02:55

differently uh the first one is really

play02:59

especially in that middle part like the

play03:01

the peak of the bell

play03:03

curve um I I basically didn't change

play03:06

anything in my life I'm used to handling

play03:08

multiple projects multiple goals at the

play03:10

same time especially with my second

play03:12

brain notes and I just thought this is

play03:15

just one more project and it was for a

play03:17

while but then when that middle part hit

play03:19

it was really crushing and overwhelming

play03:22

especially also uh having you know my

play03:25

first kid and then the second one in

play03:27

that time uh I really should have more

play03:30

thoughtfully and strategically set aside

play03:33

like all my bandwidth or nearly all of

play03:36

it you know I had other people teach the

play03:39

cohorts which I was still teaching at

play03:40

this time um said no to way more other

play03:44

projects that I really didn't need to do

play03:47

uh spent more money although I did spend

play03:50

a lot of money anyway uh it really was a

play03:53

surprise to me how intense that middle

play03:56

period was uh and I could have prepared

play03:58

for it better

play04:02

what else um let's see so you can see

play04:05

you know it took a couple months few

play04:06

months to hire my agent and my editor

play04:09

then took a long time like almost a year

play04:11

it was like nine months to write my

play04:13

proposal I really wanted to get it

play04:15

perfect and then this is when things

play04:17

really started happening is when we sold

play04:19

the book cuz then the book was actually

play04:20

going to happen uh and even then it took

play04:23

what is this almost 6 months just to do

play04:26

the paperwork the Contracting if you can

play04:27

believe that so you don't really want to

play04:29

start on writing the book until it's

play04:31

like signed sealed and delivered so

play04:33

right when you're really excited to get

play04:35

going and you want to jump into it

play04:37

you're just sitting around for six

play04:38

months I mean of course you can get

play04:39

started and I did a little bit here so

play04:42

after six months of more or less waiting

play04:44

and just kind of passively reading and

play04:46

researching I started on the

play04:49

manuscript but even this is kind of

play04:50

deceptive I mean according to this I

play04:52

went on 1 two 3 four five six quarters

play04:56

so what is that a year and a half but

play04:58

that was from the very very first words

play05:00

on the page all the way to the final

play05:02

final Final deadline and that's

play05:03

something that was really a surprise to

play05:06

me is they call every deadline a final

play05:08

deadline and so in the blogging world

play05:10

you're used to you know hitting publish

play05:12

and that's it that's the one deadline

play05:15

but in publishing uh there's like three

play05:18

or four quote unquote final deadlines

play05:20

the first one that you that you submit

play05:23

which they'll call a final manuscript is

play05:25

only final in the sense that everything

play05:27

is there more or less it's not final and

play05:29

like you know you've you've polished

play05:33

every sentence you found every typo

play05:36

everything is perfect so I put way too

play05:38

much energy and stress into the first

play05:41

final deadline when in fact I had

play05:43

another like six to eight months to

play05:46

further work on him so that's one thing

play05:48

to watch out

play05:49

for um I found that within the I mean in

play05:52

total there's probably four five six

play05:54

individual deadlines within this period

play05:56

so almost one a quarter if you think

play05:58

about it uh and I found that the energy

play06:01

and time I was putting in was very

play06:04

concentrated around deadlines I think

play06:05

that's why they do it that way uh most

play06:07

people have trouble maintaining

play06:09

intensity for months at a time so the

play06:11

two to four weeks between each or before

play06:14

each deadline I would really find the uh

play06:18

the the wherewithal to push everything

play06:20

else aside and really go deep on that

play06:23

which I think is kind of how you should

play06:24

do it how it makes

play06:26

sense um I worked with a promotional

play06:28

agency p them six figures which I would

play06:30

not do again we can talk more about why

play06:33

um but I think your money and time is

play06:35

much better spent down here building

play06:36

your own platforms and own systems that

play06:39

was also way too long if you're going to

play06:40

work with an agency just do just do two

play06:42

to three months which is more than

play06:44

enough time for them to do the few

play06:46

things that they do so around Q3

play06:50

2021 which was a little less than a year

play06:53

before uh the book came out I hired a

play06:55

project manager that was an excellent

play06:57

idea really good idea even if they're

play07:00

part-time even if they're a contractor

play07:02

which they should be uh there's so much

play07:04

minutia that you have to take care of

play07:07

and it all arrives right in this period

play07:09

that you can least afford to pay it

play07:12

attention uh I would just pay them a

play07:13

reasonable amount I think I overpaid as

play07:15

usual uh to just be your assistant they

play07:18

don't need to be a PM or a senior role

play07:21

just have them be there from kind of the

play07:24

beginning like the beginning of the

play07:26

intense period so that when you hand

play07:28

something off to them or forward them an

play07:30

email they have all the

play07:33

context uh the other thing we did during

play07:35

this time was designed a complete brand

play07:37

identity uh around the book plus a Media

play07:40

Kit that had all the stuff head shot and

play07:43

typography and colors to use and dos and

play07:46

don'ts and Sample slides and all the

play07:48

stuff that was an amazing investment I

play07:50

think it was 20 or

play07:52

25k uh but what it did is allowed

play07:55

anytime anyone had any question internal

play07:57

or external or they were creating any

play07:59

kind of asset or whatever you could just

play08:01

send them and I had it on a on a like a

play08:04

text shortcut because I was using it so

play08:06

often the media kit that literally had

play08:08

everything they could possibly need

play08:10

right uh so that was

play08:13

good then um around Q the middle of Q4

play08:18

2021 uh pre-orders opened that's why

play08:21

promotion starts uh that was for us 7

play08:25

months it's November 2021 book came out

play08:28

June 202

play08:29

2 so we had just about 7even months of

play08:32

pre-orders which is long I think we did

play08:35

make use of it um so I wouldn't have

play08:37

changed it but that is on the longer end

play08:40

of how much time you'll

play08:43

have uh between right here and the

play08:46

release those S months we sold just

play08:48

short of 13,000 pre-orders which is

play08:50

quite good uh especially for a first

play08:53

time book uh was enough to get us on the

play08:55

Wall Street Journal list but not the New

play08:58

York Times list so keep that in mind all

play09:01

right so I'd say the year before release

play09:04

was the most intense right

play09:07

because you can already promote the book

play09:09

so everything entailed in promotion is

play09:12

happening because pre-orders have opened

play09:14

and yet there's a whole another round of

play09:16

things that have to be ready for the

play09:17

actual release uh when people can

play09:19

actually read it including you know by

play09:21

the way finishing the book so that was a

play09:24

kind of funny thing was to be promoting

play09:26

the pre-orders really hard and I don't

play09:28

even have the final version of the book

play09:31

ready uh it's really weird how these

play09:33

things overlap uh so that's the

play09:37

release uh and then I have kind of this

play09:40

lower quadrant here which is such a

play09:44

paradox which is you know you're trying

play09:46

to have this book launch be not this

play09:48

oneoff thing not be a uh a flash in the

play09:52

pan and so there's all these big

play09:55

platforms you want to build and kind of

play09:58

need to build

play10:00

that are enormous Endeavors in their own

play10:02

right right people dedicate themselves

play10:05

just to doing this without writing a

play10:06

book so one thing we did is around

play10:11

August

play10:13

2019 uh this was a few quarters after I

play10:16

first you know began working on the

play10:18

project we moved to convertkit because I

play10:21

saw that MailChimp was not going to do

play10:22

it uh and that was such an important

play10:24

decision convert kit has so many

play10:27

features that are they design for

play10:29

creators but also work really well for

play10:31

authors um that I could I could go into

play10:33

more but uh convertkit was was huge but

play10:37

it's also complicated like email

play10:39

marketing tends to be these days so it

play10:41

took me like two

play10:43

years and during this period I didn't

play10:45

have employees so this was basically Me

play10:47

by myself took me so long to feel like I

play10:50

really figured convert kit out uh so

play10:54

many tests and trial and error and

play10:56

reading things uh Brennan Den's

play10:58

mastering convict convert kit course was

play11:00

like my Bible I just followed that thing

play11:02

like a religion which was so helpful uh

play11:06

and we we over the course of this period

play11:08

basically adopted his entire stack all

play11:10

the different pieces that he recommends

play11:12

and in some cases offers

play11:15

himself uh once that was finished

play11:18

although it really never finishes right

play11:20

you're always kind of improving your

play11:22

email funnel only when I kind of felt

play11:25

comfortable handing that off to someone

play11:26

that's what happened about here when I

play11:28

hired our head of marketing um did I

play11:31

feel comfortable really turning my

play11:32

attention to

play11:34

YouTube um that was right around here uh

play11:37

when we started investing in it

play11:39

seriously by Hiring Our my first YouTube

play11:42

general manager so that's what happened

play11:44

right here this is when we started

play11:46

spending money on it started buying

play11:48

equipment started really taking it

play11:50

seriously and I think the first video

play11:52

that came out was very beginning oh no

play11:55

it was February 2022 so right about here

play11:58

so we invested like like a full quarter

play12:00

or more in YouTube before a single video

play12:03

came

play12:04

out um and uh that is ongoing obviously

play12:08

that's also forever right so not only

play12:10

are you building these huge platforms

play12:12

from scratch in some cases but you also

play12:13

have to sustain them forever and somehow

play12:15

do that either by yourself or find the

play12:17

money somehow to pay them when most of

play12:21

your time is going to writing a book

play12:22

which does not make money it's spending

play12:24

money so I don't know how people do this

play12:27

um it was pretty stressful uh the other

play12:29

thing I'll note here

play12:31

is once the book was released I mean

play12:34

ideally I would have had a self-paced

play12:36

course at a reasonable kind of lower

play12:38

price ready to go right here right that

play12:41

would have been dream scenario but of

play12:43

course I didn't I had the cohorts which

play12:45

I I found were just way too expensive

play12:48

for someone buying a book right you

play12:49

don't pay 15 or 20 bucks for a book and

play12:52

then say you know what I think the next

play12:54

thing I should do is buy a $1,500

play12:56

cohort so we didn't see a rise in sales

play13:00

of the cohort in fact we saw a decline

play13:02

it was really only a few quarters later

play13:04

once we had the bandwidth to create a

play13:06

brand new self-paced course um that we

play13:09

really were able to make the economics

play13:12

of this book make sense up until this

play13:14

point you know three and a half quarters

play13:17

after the release did we actually break

play13:19

even on the thing and this first course

play13:21

actually didn't do that well because it

play13:23

was the exact same material as the book

play13:26

that was a big lesson people don't want

play13:28

to by what they just read in the book as

play13:30

a course it was really only the second

play13:32

course which is pillars of productivity

play13:34

a brand new course that expanded and

play13:36

went beyond what was in the book uh

play13:39

which just launched in on Black Friday

play13:41

couple months ago did the whole

play13:43

financial picture of the book actually

play13:45

become really compelling and be

play13:47

something that was very Roi

play13:49

positive what happened to our email list

play13:52

so this blue line that's kind of

play13:54

superimposed in the background is our

play13:57

email subscriber

play14:01

numbers uh the scale here over on the

play14:04

left is the is the right scale right so

play14:08

this was when we moved from MailChimp to

play14:11

convertkit we only had I think we only

play14:13

had 6,000 subscribers which had taken me

play14:15

like six or seven years of extremely

play14:18

slow growth to

play14:19

achieve uh so I moved over to convertkit

play14:22

that's that vertical line right

play14:24

there and from then until the release

play14:28

which was three years later it was

play14:32

pretty slow growth it went from you know

play14:34

6,000 to by the time the book was

play14:37

actually released I think it was like 60

play14:39

60,000 or so subscribers so not bad

play14:41

actually that was 10x

play14:43

growth um but what's really interesting

play14:46

to see is that after the release it's

play14:48

kind of hard to see at the scale but

play14:49

there was quite an inflection point the

play14:51

growth rate from here to here was really

play14:55

changed after the release from there to

play14:57

there right right so from the release 18

play15:01

months ago until today it's it's more

play15:03

than doubled from 65,000 or so to almost

play15:08

140,000 so you see the clear effect of

play15:10

the book and YouTube which unfortunately

play15:13

kind of started around the same time and

play15:15

so I can't really figure out how much of

play15:17

the email growth is from the book and

play15:19

how much from YouTube but it's probably

play15:21

both because those are both very high

play15:23

reach uh

play15:26

channels um and so you see here when we

play15:30

when we created these two courses the

play15:32

one reason they they did so well

play15:33

especially the second one was that we

play15:36

had built such a big email list uh

play15:38

organically by that time so I guess

play15:40

there was some advantage in having some

play15:43

time elapse from the release to the the

play15:46

launch of the self-paced courses the

play15:48

other thing I wanted to see was Book

play15:50

Sales so I've actually never looked at

play15:52

this it's kind of interesting uh

play15:54

pre-orders began right here so that's

play15:56

zero this is using the same scale um um

play15:58

as email subscribers by the way so the

play16:01

whole pre-order period 7 months we

play16:03

achieved 13,000

play16:05

pre-orders then it took us uh about 3/4s

play16:09

about 9 months to go from 13,000 to

play16:14

100,000 uh So within a year of release

play16:18

we had reached 100,000 sales uh

play16:21

sales then

play16:23

from basically March the end of March

play16:27

2023 to to essentially today so 9 months

play16:32

it's gone from 100K to

play16:34

180k uh if you added another quarter

play16:37

here I think it would reach 200k so

play16:39

we're on a very approximately 100,000

play16:41

Pere run rate which is nice but you can

play16:44

kind of see here since these are on the

play16:45

same scale exactly when the sales of the

play16:49

book went from being primarily driven by

play16:52

my platforms right here to crossing over

play16:55

and actually they re they both reached

play16:57

100,000 around the same time but there

play16:59

was that inflection point where from

play17:01

here to here the sales were clearly

play17:04

driven by something other than me in my

play17:06

platforms which I think is that extra

play17:08

distribution and word of mouth and all

play17:11

the other things that you do to kind of

play17:12

go beyond your own

play17:15

reach uh and I'm hoping this red line

play17:17

obviously continues to go up uh but

play17:20

that's basically the The fiveyear Arc

play17:22

The Five-Year big picture view that I've

play17:26

never looked at myself until right now

play17:28

and is

play17:29

tremendously um insightful and

play17:31

perspective shifting for me uh I'm

play17:34

hoping there were some things in there

play17:36

that benefit you that you learn from but

play17:38

um just let me know if you have any

play17:39

questions on any aspect of this

Rate This

5.0 / 5 (0 votes)

Related Tags
创作历程书籍推广个人品牌时间管理项目规划营销策略内容创作行业洞察作者经验出版流程自我成长
Do you need a summary in English?