SPS 127: Traditional vs. Self Publishing: Dropping The Mic On Which You Should Choose with Ruth Soukup (And How I Sold 500,000 Copies Of My Self Published Book)

Self Publishing School: How To Write A Book That Grows Your Impact, Income, And Business

Chandler Bolt, Founder of selfpublishing.com

Courses, How To Publish A Book, Self Publishing, Business, Books, Arts, How To Write A Book, Education, Book Marketing, Traditional Publishing, Book Publishing

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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One of the most asked questions when it comes to publishing is whether to go the traditional or self publishing route. Ruth Soukup has done both and is here to share both her experiences and her recommendations. Ruth is a New York Times Best-Selling author, founder of Elite Blogging Academy, and host of the Do It Scared Podcast amongst so many other things. After blogging for several years she decided to write a book and so started her journey into publishing. A friend of hers referred ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast. This is the podcast to listen to if you're an
0:07.7	aspiring writer or an author who wants to be more successful. On this show, you'll learn how to
0:13.1	write and launch a book successfully, all from the top authors and people just like you
0:17.8	who are doing it at the highest level. I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder
0:22.0	of self-publishing school, the author of the book called Published and the CEO of
0:27.5	Self Publishing.com. For free training on how to publish a book that sells 10,000 copies,
0:32.1	go to self-publishing.com forward slash free training.
0:39.8	Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is my good friend Ruth Sukup.
0:44.4	Ruth is the founder and CEO of Ruth Sukup Omni Media and the New York Times best
0:49.4	selling author of six books.
0:51.5	That's right, six books, including her most recent book, Do It Scared, which I have
0:56.8	here. I think I have like three to five copies in my house. I've got my Do It Scared mug,
1:01.5	which I, in my coffee mug, I've got two of them, which I usually have during my podcast
1:06.1	interviews. I totally forgot to today. But you may have heard about her through Elite Blog Academy. So she's
1:13.0	got over 11,000 students that have went through Elite Blog Academy. So helping them get started
1:18.3	or to grow their blog. She's also got the Do It Scared podcast in her Living Well Planner. And I think
1:24.3	that's close to 90,000 copies of that has been sold so a ton of people
1:29.3	using a living well planner and you may also remember her from episode eight of the sps podcast
1:36.6	so on that episode we talked a whole lot about living well spending less so she's got the book
1:42.1	she's got living well spending less.com.
1:44.8	That's a massive site and also the planner. And so we kind of talked about all things that.
1:50.0	That is not what we're going to talk about today. Today we're going to talk about traditional
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