Mega Speaking & Book Writing Tips: The 40-hour book

Several top speakers sang the same tune at the Mega Speaking Event last weekend: Write that book! It's clear that getting a book published (self or otherwise) provides 6 powerful elements to your marketing:

1. Attraction
2. Differentiation from the others
3. Visibility
4. Credibility
5. Authority
6. Longevity

Here's Gerry Robert's (The Millionaire Mindset, Life Success Publishing, LLC) tips for easily and quickly writing a book...in just 40 hours:

1. Create 15 major subtopics for your topic = 15 chapters
2. Pare down the list to 10 chapters and put in sequence
3. Take 1 chapter at a time and add 18 ingredients to each
    
4. Cut those down to 15 and put into sequence
5. Turn these 15 ingredients into 15 significant statements, creating emotional energy
6. Make each significant statement a question, such as why? or how?... and come up with 3 answers

I don't know about you, but this couldn't be that difficult.

Oh, and did I mention that several authors with published books talked openly about the ghost writing process? They provide the book proposal, a chapter, an outline, all the basics as above and turn it over to a ghost writer. Not a bad idea if you're a busy professional.

Prices? I heard $20,000 and $53,000 prices mentioned, some of which included editing, design and formatting and other detail work as well.

Everyone said how important it was to have a killer title and killer cover, which includes the short marketing copy. We're giving a teleseminar next Wednesday, November 14 on this very topic:

Packaging Is Everything: How the Right Words Can Sell Your Book or Product in 15 Seconds or Less

Don't miss it, info here: www.blogsquadteleseminars.com/SK

Comments

[shann Vander Leek]

Thanks for the great post.

You have just given me exactly what I needed to get started writing my first book.

In Balance,

Shann