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I have focused primarily on nonfiction books. My books, on average, are 100 pages, and they fit nicely into Amazon’s “Short Reads” category. Since writing and teaching are my passion, I knew I could easily do this! I needed to write short books (100 pages or less) and publish one book per month.

When I read that quote, I realized I didn’t need to spend months or years working on one book. The quicker one outsold the other 20 to 1.

One of my books took more than a year to write, ten hours a day. Seth Godin, who has published dozens of business books on sales and marketing, said: Starting in 2018, I spent more than a year writing the second edition of my book, “ Quit Your Job and Follow Your Dreams.” I was earning a few hundred dollars per month from this book but considering the amount of time I invested in writing, editing, publishing, and launching this one book, the payoff wasn’t huge. I immediately thought, “I need to make a $100K with myīooks! I’m going to write a book a month and see if I can create 6-figures in passive incomeĪt the time, I had published eight books since 2011 most of them were old, the information was outdated, and I had not been marketing them, so they died a slow death. I read a blog post by Written Word Media that said the average self-published author who Jump in 2020, and then again from 2020 to 2021. So you’re probably wondering what happened during these years to increase sales especiallyįrom 2012 to 2019 where I never sold more than 500 books in a year then there was a huge This way you have checks and balances.īefore we get to marketing your book, let me tell you the secret to how I soldĢ3,882 copies of my books as a self-published author and get paid to write.īut first, let’s start with some data of my annual book sales:

My philosophy is to learn it first before you Honestly, no one is going to care more than you do. To be successful, however, it’s one part creation and one part marketing.Įither you have to do the marketing, or you have to pay someone to do it for you. To do the marketing that sells the online course. Similar to someone wanting to create an online course, and not have Writing is my passion and like most writers, we’d rather spend our time writing than marketing. 0 Likes Would you love to get paid to write?