MARKET FOR EVERYTHING

1. You Can Write a Book about Anything

I was travelling the past four weeks and came across this book at an airport.

“How to Speak Whale” might not have a mass-market of people interested in communicating with animals, but there’s definitely a solid audience of people who are intrigued by the idea (like myself).

Enough of an audience that it makes sense someone wrote it.

Turns out it even made the New Yorker’s best books list in 2022.

So if you’re still toying with the idea of writing that book that has a narrow audience, go for it.

THE BIG PICTURE

2. Business Card on Steroids > Book

I recently had a great conversation with Teddy Smith from Publishing Performance where he interviewed me about leveraging books as business cards on steroids.

Here’s a quick snippet from our conversation. You can also listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts or YouTube.

COURSE NOW OPEN

3. Interested in Writing a Book?

I recently updated my course, the “4-Week Write Your Book on the Side” system.

It has helped several people write their first book and have it hit the bestseller list, and I just updated it with some new content.

You can learn more about the program by clicking here

P.S. Here’s some feedback from Taz who took the course and already published 3 books.

WORDS I LIKE

4. A Small Tweak to Improve Your Sentences

If you have a piece of information you want to stress to your reader, Gary Provost recommends that you include it at the end of your sentence.

Here are three examples:

From Gary Provost’s “100 Ways to Improve Your Writing”

ONE-MINUTE HACKS

5. A Quick Side Gig Hack You Can Apply Today

Forget fancy tools.

Just use the one you already know.

New tools waste your time and give you excuses to procrastinate.

For example:

I still use Microsoft Word to write all my books (I’ve written over 20, including a few bestsellers on Amazon). Any simple word processor would work just fine.

I still use an old version of PowerPoint to record all my courses (I’ve published over 15, including some that are top-rated on Udemy). Any basic presentation app would do.

You can always upgrade later.

Just start with what you’ve got today.