Every month the future of publishing changes more than we've seen it move in years. So, how do we understand the scope of the problem, the size of the opportunities, and then take advantage of it.
What if you're at the stage of just starting out and don't have a full series yet? The time it's taking me to write more books is all the time I have right now. Setting some of these systems up, especially direct selling via a website feels like it would be very time intensive 😅 I guess I need to focus on the product first, right?
Yep I've done that. I just mean the selling direct from your own website. The logistics of that when you haven't already a large tribe of readers seems time intensive, when really my time should go on the next book. 🤔
Yeah, it should, but once you have the blurb and the other stuff, it's really just copy and past, then you just have to connect bookfunnel with it. It really takes less than 30 minutes to do that stuff once you have all the copy. Once you upload it once, the others are not that must.
I think about this, too. It took me a year of writing, around 20-30 hours a week to complete a book. Once the book was complete, that time went into marketing. Doing all that + Substack + work that actually brings in money + all these strategies = burnout. I don't know how this is all possible unless you work with a team.
I don’t know. I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words about how to do this, and I guess I would say to go read my books and my other posts about how to do this without burning out, because I’ve written extensively about it
Sometimes, reading about how not to burn out adds to my burnout. Still, many of your tips have helped me, and I genuinely enjoy the information you share. But honestly, your posts are so long, and you have so many; I find it overwhelming to know what to focus on. There are so many writers sharing their tips and tricks on how to grow, plus I like to have time to read other works as well. Too much thinking about strategy, funnels, crowdfunding, going broad, focusing on Substack, and so on takes away from my creative thinking.
Publishing is a business, but you don’t have to make money as your writing. You can just go write and not worry about making money. That’s a completely reasonable and acceptable way to exist in the world.
However, running a business is hard. And it takes a lot of work to make it successful. That’s not what anyone wants to hear and it certainly doesn’t help with burnout, but this business is harder than most businesses. It’s high competition, low margin, red ocean with nearly unlimited options and customers who don’t value what we do it.
No business school would tell this is a good business to enter. We do it because we can’t do anything else.
It seems like you just need to...not to the marketing part and just make things. That’s perfectly acceptable. Capitalism tells you that you need to monetize everything, but that’s not true.
You need to know when it’s time to step back and recover your energy.
That said, I wont apologize for the length of my posts, the amount of posts I makes, or the subject of what I write about. I show people what works and how to get where you want to go.
I don’t really care what other people are doing or how much other advice is out there. I believe my advice is the best in class. It is long because it has to be long to be effective.
I have watched it work with thousands of authors and met with thousands more about what worked for them. I know the quality of my advice, because it’s been given to me by the most successful indie authors on the planet.
If you don’t want to explore the archive and find advice that might work for you, that is a choice you have to make. I write for people that know this is the advice they need.
I don't want you to apologize or change the way you write. I wouldn't have subscribed and recommended you to people if I didn't enjoy and believe in what you're doing here. I understand writing is a business. I have been trying to succeed as a writer for 13 years and shaped my life around trying to make it work.
What if you're at the stage of just starting out and don't have a full series yet? The time it's taking me to write more books is all the time I have right now. Setting some of these systems up, especially direct selling via a website feels like it would be very time intensive 😅 I guess I need to focus on the product first, right?
You can set up going direct from your first book and I don’t see why you wouldn’t.
Yep I've done that. I just mean the selling direct from your own website. The logistics of that when you haven't already a large tribe of readers seems time intensive, when really my time should go on the next book. 🤔
Yeah, it should, but once you have the blurb and the other stuff, it's really just copy and past, then you just have to connect bookfunnel with it. It really takes less than 30 minutes to do that stuff once you have all the copy. Once you upload it once, the others are not that must.
I think about this, too. It took me a year of writing, around 20-30 hours a week to complete a book. Once the book was complete, that time went into marketing. Doing all that + Substack + work that actually brings in money + all these strategies = burnout. I don't know how this is all possible unless you work with a team.
I don’t know. I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words about how to do this, and I guess I would say to go read my books and my other posts about how to do this without burning out, because I’ve written extensively about it
Sometimes, reading about how not to burn out adds to my burnout. Still, many of your tips have helped me, and I genuinely enjoy the information you share. But honestly, your posts are so long, and you have so many; I find it overwhelming to know what to focus on. There are so many writers sharing their tips and tricks on how to grow, plus I like to have time to read other works as well. Too much thinking about strategy, funnels, crowdfunding, going broad, focusing on Substack, and so on takes away from my creative thinking.
Publishing is a business, but you don’t have to make money as your writing. You can just go write and not worry about making money. That’s a completely reasonable and acceptable way to exist in the world.
However, running a business is hard. And it takes a lot of work to make it successful. That’s not what anyone wants to hear and it certainly doesn’t help with burnout, but this business is harder than most businesses. It’s high competition, low margin, red ocean with nearly unlimited options and customers who don’t value what we do it.
No business school would tell this is a good business to enter. We do it because we can’t do anything else.
It seems like you just need to...not to the marketing part and just make things. That’s perfectly acceptable. Capitalism tells you that you need to monetize everything, but that’s not true.
You need to know when it’s time to step back and recover your energy.
That said, I wont apologize for the length of my posts, the amount of posts I makes, or the subject of what I write about. I show people what works and how to get where you want to go.
I don’t really care what other people are doing or how much other advice is out there. I believe my advice is the best in class. It is long because it has to be long to be effective.
I have watched it work with thousands of authors and met with thousands more about what worked for them. I know the quality of my advice, because it’s been given to me by the most successful indie authors on the planet.
If you don’t want to explore the archive and find advice that might work for you, that is a choice you have to make. I write for people that know this is the advice they need.
I don't want you to apologize or change the way you write. I wouldn't have subscribed and recommended you to people if I didn't enjoy and believe in what you're doing here. I understand writing is a business. I have been trying to succeed as a writer for 13 years and shaped my life around trying to make it work.