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AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

How Did You Write Your Book?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business, Small Business, Getting Started, Passive Income, Business Advice, Business Strategy, Marketing, Podcasting, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9636 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Travis, who asks about about my new book, Will It Fly? How did I write the book? What tools and habits did I use? Travis is talking about my new book on validating your idea for a business, Will It Fly? (http://willitflybook.com). In this episode, I talk about the writing program Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php). The transcription tool that I used is Rev (http://rev.com). You can find the SPI TV playlist on YouTube at http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/spitv-playlist. Do you have a question about writing? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

AskPath.

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AskPath.com.com.

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AskPath.

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Hey, what's up, everybody?

0:12.0

Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 613 of Ask Pat.

0:15.5

Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:17.0

As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.

0:20.7

We have a great question today from Travis. But before we get to that, I do want to thank

0:23.8

today's awesome sponsor, which is FreshBooks, which makes super simple cloud accounting software

0:29.0

for small business owners like you.

0:31.9

And it makes it easy to use, and it's just a joy to use, actually.

0:35.0

So as soon as you try it, you're going to realize just how much time you can save dealing with your day-to-day paperwork. So for instance, with invoicing, you can

0:42.5

create and send perfectly crafted invoices, and it literally takes about 30 seconds. Online payments,

0:47.7

your clients can pay you online, which can really improve how quickly you get paid. And

0:51.3

there's automated expense tracking so you can link your facebook account

0:55.3

or your fresh books account to your credit and debit cards so next time you expense something it

1:00.6

boom shows up in your account which is great so if you want to check out fresh books for 30 days

1:05.0

for free seriously check it out it's going to change everything in terms of accounting for you

1:09.3

go to freshbooks.com forward slash ask pat and enter ask pat in the how did you hear about a section again freshbooks

1:15.9

dot com slash ask pat enter ask pat all right now here's today's question from travis hi pat this is

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travis from joan smiter dot com i have a question about your upcoming book, Will It Fly? How did you write it?

1:28.8

Did you write it on paper? Did you write it with a program? Did you write it in a coffee shop?

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