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THE IDEA THAT AUTHORS CAN’T MAKE MONEY IS BULL****.
And no, you don’t have to be famous or have a huge online following.
In less than a year I’ve made over $150,000 from self-published books. Plenty of my friends have made far more, all writing on topics so small and targeted a traditional publisher wouldn’t consider it. Many of them started—just like me—without an audience.
After hearing enough of these stories I can tell you they aren’t a fluke. With a good topic and the right marketing tactics you can make a living from teaching as well.
“Most people don’t realize you can actually make a fortune from your technical writing. Authority will help teach you how.
– Michael Hartl, author of The Ruby on Rails Tutorial
WRITING A BOOK ISN’T JUST ABOUT THE MONEY.
Making money from book sales is wonderful—but it is only one benefit. Getting a raise, landing a new job, and having new clients come to you are all common side effects of publishing a book.
Brett Kelly wrote Evernote Essentials because he loved the productivity tool and wanted to help other people use it more effectively. Evernote offered him a job—his dream job—even before the book was published. Now he works from home for a company he loves while still generating over six figures in revenue from his book (a side project).
Rob Walling writes a popular software blog and hosts a podcast on startups, but it was his book that opened up opportunites for interviews and speaking engagements.
When I still did consulting work I was on a call with two people from a company that was deciding whether or not to hire me to design their new iPhone app. This was just after my book, The App Design Handbook, had been released and the junior person on the call had read my book and loved it.
The manager wasn’t so sure about hiring me. If my design was so good, why wasn’t I working in the Bay Area?
I listened to the two of them go back and forth for a minute before the manager relented and said, “Actually, of course he’s good enough, he wrote the book on the topic.”
How would you feel if you could say you “wrote the book on the topic”? Do you think that would help your career?
WRITING A BOOK IS HARD. REALLY HARD.
Despite all these benefits I wouldn’t want you to get the wrong idea and think writing a book is easy. Nothing could be further from the truth. But what easy things are actually worth doing?
If you take the giant task of writing a book and just make slow, consistent progress every day it becomes attainable. When I started writing it was a struggle to write one blog post each week.
Now I’ve built up a habit of writing 1,000 words a day, every day. I’ve done this for over 275 days in a row, all tracked with an app I wrote called Commit. Those words have turned into over 50 blog posts, three books, and dozens of guest posts. Writing 30,000 words for a book may feel like an insurmountable task, but if you write just 500 words a day you can hit that goal in two months.
Slow consistent progress is the key to achieving any massive goal. Make a commitment to work on it every day—without skipping a day—and you will see success much sooner than you expect.
“BUT I’M NOT AN EXPERT.”
Neither am I. At least, not in the traditional sense. I don’t have a PhD in marketing or design and I don’t travel the world giving lectures–all things you would typically associate with experts. But I have designed a lot of websites and applications over the years and learned a lot in the process.
Plenty of people can learn from what I know about design and marketing. I’m not at the top of my field, but I’m also a long ways from the bottom.
Chances are there is a topic you know a lot about.
In fact, experts at the top of their field are often less qualified to teach than those who were beginners more recently, simply because those experts often can’t remember what it was like to be brand new in the field. Whereas someone who has learned the lessons and overcome the challenges more recently will have an easier time teaching at a beginner level.
No matter where you are in the learning process, someone always knows less about the topic than you do.
Finally, every successful person I know started before they felt ready. Embrace the fact that you aren’t quite comfortable and strive to become even more of an expert.
FOLLOW A PROVEN PLAN
People say, “sure, this works for you, but…” Now I have over 14 really good ways to prove them wrong. With this digital edition of Authority we are including 14 detailed case studies on successful books that follow the Authority method. The total book revenue from these 14 case studies is over $230,000!
And that’s just a few of the success stories that were willing to share their sales numbers with you. There are many more who either we didn’t have room to feature or they wanted to keep their numbers private.
All that to prove that this method works for anyone who is willing to put in the work.
LAUNCH FROM NOTHING
Building a following for your blog takes time. It’s especially difficult when you may not have a clear goal in mind for your blog. But products change that.
Just the act of writing a book—and giving readers a way to follow along—will make it substantially easier to build a following. In July 2012 I had just 100 RSS subscribers to my blog, two months later I had a $12,000 book launch. That’s all in one day. By using landing pages and blog posts to build an email list—and keeping the subscribers interested—you can build a profitable following in very little time. I’ll show you how to do it step-by-step.
With the right audience, a solid launch plan, a little discipline, and a lot of effort, you can make a living from your writing. Interested?
“On May 28th I bought Authority. The evening of May 31st I put up a landing page and started writing. Fast forward to yesterday when I launched my preorder sale to 200 email list members. Twenty four hours later I have $1100 sitting in my Stripe account and a ton of awesome feedback from early reviewers in my inbox.
I just want to say thanks. Authority gave me the courage to purse this wacky goal, and now I can say I’ve written a book and I’ve made a chunk of change in the process.
– Pete Keen, author of Mastering Modern Payments
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hey, I’m Nathan Barry, a designer, founder, and author. I’ve self-published 3 books on design and marketing earning over $500,000 in revenue. Through writing and selling those books I created the systems spelled out in Authority. My goal is to help other authors make a living from their writing.
Since first writing Authority I founded ConvertKit, an email marketing company for creators. Over the last 7 years I’ve grown ConvertKit to over $22M in annual revenue and the #1 software company on the INC 5000 list.
THE COMPLETE DIGITAL EDITION
Everything you need to become a self-published author.
RESOURCES
Authority (PDF)
160 pages of solid advice on planning, writing, pricing, launching, and profiting from your book.
ePub and Mobi Formats
Authority is also included in ePub and Mobi formats for easy reading on your Kindle or Nook.
Authority Audio Book
Professionally recorded and produced, narrated by the author. Listen to the book in the car or at the gym.
14 Authority Case Studies
Learn from successful authors who implemented the tactics in Authority with amazing results!
Book Cover PSD Templates
Photoshop templates to help you easily design a cover for your new book.
90 Day Launch Plan
Write, market, and launch your book in 90 days with this step-by-step plan.
VIDEOS
Pricing & Packaging
The tactics in this video have made me over $50,000 in less than a year. Pay attention.
Building An Audience
You can’t make money selling books if you don’t have an audience. I’ll show you a proven method to build an audience from scratch.
Writing Consistently
This video contains my best writing tips and tricks. All to help you actually finish your book.
Picking a Topic
Learn which topics to pick for your book and how you should be teaching a skill that other people use to make money.
Double Your Book Revenue With Workshops
Once your book sales level off you can offer workshops to help your customers with more specific problems.
Should you sell on Amazon?
A discussion regarding where you should sell your book.
VIDEO INTERVIEWS
Chris Guillebeau
Learn how Chris has used both self-publishing and traditional publishers to build an audience and make a living.
Michael Hartl
Michael gave away a version of his book for free to make it the best known in the space—and it has only helped his sales.
Brett Kelly
A book that started as hobby project to help pay down some debt helped Brett land his dream job.
Benny Lewis
Benny’s first guide allowed him to quit his job and focus on traveling and learning new languages full-time.
Matt Henderson
Matt wrote the shortest possible guide to investing—all to provide an easy introduction to a complex subject.
Brennan Dunn
Brennan’s great products and masterful use of email for cross-promotion has made him a quarter million in product revenue in the last year.
Josh Kaufman
Josh self-published the audio book for his traditionally published bestseller. In this interview he shows us why audio should be a primary focus.
Brandon Savage
Can a developer without an audience make money from a technical book? Yep, and Brandon shows us exactly how he did it.
Pat Flynn
Pat’s study notes made him an expert—all on accident. Hear more about the journey from being layed off to half a million in book revenue.
Steve Corona
Steve didn’t want to write a book if no one was going to buy it. So he put up a landing page to test for interest—8,000 subscribers later he started writing.
Rob Walling
Rob wrote a popular blog and hosted a podcast, but it wasn’t until he wrote his first book that he started getting invited to speak at conferences.
THE STRATEGY EDITION
Get a personal, one-on-one review of your audience and launch plan.
The goal with this call is to help you avoid two costly mistakes that I see nearly all beginners make:
1. Choosing the wrong audience and only discovering it after spending a year or more working like crazy only to find it isn’t profitable at all.
2. Screwing up the product launch for an audience that otherwise could have been quite profitable.
In both of these areas small mistakes can be very costly. The only thing worse than a product launch that fails is spending over a year tirelessly growing an audience that won’t pay you.
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