GMR 159: Increase Your Impact, Your Income, and Your Business by Writing a Book
Whether you want to build something that improves the lives of millions or simply wish to leave a legacy for your children and grandchildren, writing a book can help you do it. In this episode of GMR, we talk with Chandler Bolt, the Founder of Self Publishing School, a business that helps people write and publish their book to increase their impact, their income, and their business.
Show Notes
What you will hear and learn from this podcast:
We believe books change lives; they change the lives of the reader, they change the life of the author in the process of writing it, and also in leveraged impact.
We help people write and publish books to grow their impact, their income, and their business.
I figured, Hey! I’m learning how to run a business from professors who have never run a business; that doesn’t make much sense to me, so why don’t I drop out.”
“It’s not about the book, it’s about who you become in the process of writing that book.”
“The big phases of writing a book are idea, writing, production, publish, and launch.”
“If you’re a business owner, what is the conversation you are having over and over and over with clients or prospects?” When you write a book on that topic, you can point to it and you never have to talk about that ever again.”
Writing your book is a series of steps. Step one is mind mapping. Step two is going from mind map to outline; grouping your ideas into sections, which you then break into chapters. Step three is writing or speaking your chapters to finish your first draft.
“If you’re in the first camp, you love the writing but hate the marketing, you might think, “if I build it they will come. I will just publish it and not tell anyone.” That’s just not true. If you build it they will not come,... you have to tell them about it.”
Get behind the marketing [of your book] even if you don’t like it...You’ve got to learn this skill set.”
No one cares about you, your book, or your business as much as you do.”
If you don’t understand it, you can’t manage it.”
“I think there are all the other things that don’t get talked about enough, which are, the life skills that you learn in the process, and the confidence to role into the next thing and the next thing.”
“If writing a book has been on your next year or maybe someday list for years, maybe even decades, you have to go from maybe someday to maybe now.”
Resources
Self Publishing School - Website
Chandler Bolt Books - Published, Book Launch, How to Not Suck at Writing Your First Book
Budgeting tools and other free resources - https://leosabo.com/resources
David’s website - www.stewardshippastors.com