SPS 181: Ghostwriters, Buying Back Book Rights From Your Publisher & Becoming A Successful Speaker with Grant Baldwin

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

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this podcast episode, I sit down with Grant Baldwin, the CEO of The Speaker Lab and author of "The Successful Speaker," to talk about hiring a ghostwriter. We dive deep into his experience hiring Jeff Goins as a ghostwriter, the structure of their contract, and whether or not you should consider hiring a ghostwriter for your book. We also discuss how Grant was able to buy back the rights to his book from the publisher, as well as whether or not having a book is necessary to be a successful...

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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 of self-publishing school, the author of the book
0:24.7	called Published and the CEO of Selfpublishing.com.
0:29.0	For free training on how to publish a book that sells 10,000 copies, go to self-publishing.com
0:34.5	forward slash free training.
0:38.9	Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is my friend Grant Baldwin.
0:45.3	Grant is the founder and CEO of the Speakerlab.com, a training company for public speakers.
0:52.4	He's also the best selling book of the best selling author. He's also the best-selling book of the best-selling author.
0:56.3	He's not a best-selling book, but he's...
0:58.6	Well, we'll talk about the process to get...
1:00.5	I was going to say he's written a best-selling book,
1:02.2	but there's a ghost author or there's a ghost writer.
1:05.0	There's a lot there.
1:05.3	There's a lot to unpack here.
1:06.7	He's the best-selling of The Successful Speaker. He's also the host of the Speaker Lab podcast and just an all-around, this great and funny guy.
1:19.4	So this is going to be a fun interview.
1:22.4	And if you're a speaker who wants to grow your speaking business using a book, we'll key in on that.
1:30.7	That's going to be really helpful for you.
1:32.2	If you're an author who wants to speak, we'll key in on that.
1:34.7	We're also going to talk about ghostwriter stuff.
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