SPS 171: How To Write Useful Books That Help Readers & Sell Well with Rob Fitzpatrick

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

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Join me for an insightful interview with Rob Fitzpatrick, author of Write Useful Books and The Mom Test, as we dive into the topic of beta readers. In this episode, we cover the following points with a focus on how to improve your book with beta readers: Tips for writing useful booksBuilding a recommendation loop into your book and how Rob did itUsing reader conversations to create your table of contentsThe importance of beta readers and how they can help improve your bookThe three things Rob...

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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	Selfpublishing.com. For free training on how to publish a book that sells 10,000 copies,
0:32.5	go to self-publishing.com forward slash free training.
0:39.1	Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is Rob Fitzpatrick.
0:43.3	Rob is the author of three practical handbooks to what he's learned along the way.
0:47.9	He's ran multiple businesses and wrote about those in his book, The Mom Test.
0:52.6	This is a book about entrepreneurship and customer development.
0:55.3	This is actually how I heard of Rob originally. A friend recommended that book to me, and then
1:00.5	we started using this for our product development at self-publishing school. So a really great
1:04.2	book. Another book called The Workshop Survival Guide. This is about education, design, and
1:09.7	facilitation. And then lastly, his most
1:12.1	recent book, it's called write useful books. It's about designing nonfiction as a recommendable
1:17.8	problem-solving product. I read the book. I loved it. I thought that was when I realized
1:23.3	Rob and I had a lot of kind of similar philosophies about book publishing, book writing, all that stuff.
1:28.9	And so I figured I'd bring them on the show and let's jam.
1:32.4	So Rob, great to have you here.
1:34.2	Likewise. I'm excited to be here.
1:36.1	So take me back to kind of, I guess, your first breakout hit, which is the mom test.
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