How To Self Publish Your Book with Chandler Bolt
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Will having your own book help you land more speaking gigs? Should you write a book before even trying to land your first speaking job? And how exactly do you navigate the self-publishing waters if and when you decide to write your own book?
The man to answer those questions is none other than Chandler Bolt, and he's our guest for episode 67 of The Speaker Lab!
Chandler is the founder and visionary creator of Self-Publishing School, a site devoted to helping you write, market and publish your own book in 90 days. The site also helps you leverage that book into coaching, speaking and other gigs.
On today's show, Chandler shares how his own self-publishing success became the groundwork for the Self-Publishing School, why you should have a book at all, and why you don't have to be a great writer to become a published author. It's all here for you on this episode of The Speaker Lab!
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW
- Which comes first: your first speaking gig or your first book?
- How do you overcome Blank Screen Syndrome?
- What is Chandler's 3 step writing process?
- How did he and his brother write a book in a week?
- Why he transcribes his own audio recordings to write his books.
- What are the pros and cons of self-publishing?
- Why publishers only give publishing deals to people who don't need them.
- Does self-publishing have to cost a lot?
- And much, much more.
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Self-Publishing School web site
- The Productive Person, by Chandler Bolt
- Breaking Out of a Broken System, by Chandler Bolt and Seth Bolt
- Book Launch, by Chandler Bolt
- Chandler's other books on Amazon
- Chandler Bolt on Twitter
- Find out more about Chandler's Summit
- Rev for transcriptions
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- CreateSpace web site
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Fran, Graham Baldwin here. |
| 0:01.4 | Hey, what if I told you that there was a single marketing asset that you could use to book tens of thousands of dollars in paid speaking gigs before you even have a website? |
| 0:10.2 | Well, that tool exists. |
| 0:11.4 | And Dan Irvin, one of the speakers on our team, used it to book over $36,000 in speaking gigs without a fancy website or any social media presence. |
| 0:19.6 | Even better, we're going to teach you exactly how |
| 0:22.1 | to create that tool for your speaking business in under an hour. For a limited time, we're going to |
| 0:26.9 | be offering a free live training on how to build and use this marketing asset to start booking |
| 0:31.9 | paid gigs in just a few weeks. If you want to hear more, go to thespeakalab.com slash marketing. |
| 0:38.5 | That's what you got to do is go to the speaklab.com slash marketing and we'll see you there. What is all, my friend? Welcome back to |
| 0:50.1 | the speaker lab podcast. My name is Graham Baldwin. Good to have you here with us today. We are on |
| 0:54.2 | episode 67. Yes, that is right. 67 right at the end of the month of May. Hope you're doing well |
| 1:00.5 | and hope as we venture into the summertime. Summer, summer, summer. What did you think of that? |
| 1:07.4 | That's pretty good. That wasn't too shabby. Man, I remember that song on my |
| 1:10.9 | teenage days, probably even my childhood days, little fresh prince, Will Smith. Ah, |
| 1:17.5 | it's a good song. Anyway, let's get into today. Today we've got my buddy Chandler Bolt, |
| 1:21.7 | who is joining us to teach us all about self-publishing. This guy knows a ton about it. |
| 1:27.1 | It's done. I had a lot of success with |
| 1:28.3 | it. Plus, on top of that, this guy is throwing one heck of an epic online summit, teaching all |
| 1:35.5 | about the world of self-publishing. So this is actually a free event that's going to be coming up |
| 1:40.6 | online where he is bringing together 40 of the top experts and speakers |
| 1:45.3 | on the subject of self-publishing to teach all different elements and aspects of it, |
| 1:50.4 | including yours truly. I have no idea how I made this list, but I'm going to be a part of that |
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