#44: Do you have a book in you? Could YOU be an author?
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
If you've had ANY success in life (or failures!), if you have a story to tell, or if you've overcome any challenges, then you have a book in you! The greatest business card you can ever have is a book! Today we talk about how easy self publishing has become because of the great tools we now have freely available to us. There are also some great tips in this episode about growing your following, growing an email list, and marketing virtually any product, course or book the RIGHT way. As always, show notes are at SilentJim.com Guest: Greg Perry of ServusPublishing.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, listener. You know we live in the greatest time in human history to launch and build a business, right? Well, we also happen to live in the greatest time in history to be an author. On today's show, we explore the huge positive impact that a simple book can have on your business. We also tell you exactly how to get that book done the right way |
| 0:21.9 | quickly. Get ready for an episode full of the best ideas in the arena of self-publishing as we |
| 0:28.3 | attempt to convince you that every business building warrior needs a book. |
| 0:33.6 | Hey, this is Jim. Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. So glad you've joined us again for another |
| 0:38.7 | great episode. Today we're going to talk about books. And no, we're not talking about sourcing and |
| 0:43.9 | selling books like we have in past episodes. Today we're actually talking about you writing a book. |
| 0:48.9 | And I've got a guy with us right now, Mr. Greg Perry, he helps us run our self-publishing service, which |
| 0:57.1 | I know sounds kind of funny, but we've actually got a self-publishing service where we help |
| 1:00.9 | you with different aspects of getting your book published. And we're going to talk about that |
| 1:04.4 | today. But as you may know, listener, I am a huge fan of writing books. I love writing books. I love |
| 1:10.7 | the effect that it can have on you. And the |
| 1:12.7 | gentleman we have with us today is Mr. Greg Perry. We're just going to jump right into content and talk to you |
| 1:17.9 | about why you should have a book, who should have a book, and what's the process look like now as |
| 1:22.9 | compared to maybe 10, 15 years ago when it was a lot more difficult to get a great book out there. |
| 1:28.3 | So, hey, Greg, how are you today, buddy? |
| 1:30.0 | Hey, Jim, I'm great. |
| 1:31.3 | And I'm so glad to be here. |
| 1:32.8 | This is exciting to talk to people about books. |
| 1:35.2 | We'll do a little bit of an introduction later. |
| 1:37.0 | How about we jump straight into content? |
| 1:38.3 | I'm thinking, I want to tell people who you are. |
| 1:39.9 | You've got such a cool story, and you've been in our community for a very long time. But how about we hit them with some content, and then we'll backfill in some introductions about who you are and how we came to find each other because that really helps tell the story as well. |
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