How To Write Your First Book
Dan Lok Show
Dan Lok
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Should you write and publish your first (or next) book? In this episode, Dan Lok shares his experience from writing and publishing over 12+ best-selling books in his career. You’ll discover how these books helped him gain the slight-edge in business to acquire more clients, scale his business, and grow his brand. So if you’re wondering how to write your first book listen now.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you thinking writing your first book? |
| 0:04.0 | See, writing a book and publishing a book, it's a lot of people's dreams. |
| 0:20.0 | And sometimes you hear people say, oh yeah, I would love to write a book someday publishing a book, it's a lot of people's dreams. And sometimes you hear people |
| 0:21.2 | say, oh yeah, I will love to write a book someday. And now I have published a dozen books. And this is my |
| 0:27.1 | latest book. Unlock it. You've probably already seen it if you follow me on social media. |
| 0:32.1 | So when it comes to writing your first book, I want to give you three tips. Some of the things |
| 0:36.2 | that I've learned over the years |
| 0:37.9 | and I've published with a publisher and I've also self-published print on demand or having |
| 0:43.0 | thousands and thousands of books and inventories. I've done a lot of things in terms of publishing. |
| 0:48.0 | So when it comes to writing your first book, number one, the key is knowing what it is that |
| 0:53.9 | you want from the book. What is it is that you want from the book, |
| 0:55.3 | what is the outcome that you want. |
| 0:57.2 | Now for some, if this is just simply your legacy, |
| 1:00.9 | or this is, you simply wanna share your story, |
| 1:03.4 | and that's perfectly fine, right, |
| 1:04.7 | if that is your goal, but you need to be very, very clear |
| 1:07.8 | about what exactly is the outcome. |
| 1:09.8 | Some people, they try to make money from the book. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, if your goals try to make money from the book, |
| 1:14.2 | I could tell you from experience, don't bother. |
| 1:17.1 | Right, a book, it's a very, very bad business, |
| 1:20.5 | unless you're Harry Porter, okay? |
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