SPS 214: The Pursuit Of The Wall Street Journal Bestseller List…Exactly What It Takes with Steve Chou

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

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Steve Chou is the host of the My Wife Quit Her Job podcast and the author of The Family First Entrepreneur. Today he joins the podcast to show us the behind the scenes of the launch of his first book. In this interview, we talk about: -Why Steve chose the traditional publishing route and how he negotiated a deal with Harper Collins -Why books are harder to sell than ecommerce products, live event tickets, etc -The 3 month pre-order process: exactly what Steve did to move books ahead of...

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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,
0:21.7	the founder 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,
0:32.1	go to selfpublishing.com forward slash free training.
0:39.3	Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is Steve Chu.
0:43.7	Steve is an influencer in the e-commerce space and has taught thousands of students to
0:48.3	effectively sell physical products online at profitable online store.com.
0:52.8	He's also the creator of a wildly popular blog
0:56.8	called My Wife Quit Her Job.com and an e-commerce podcast, the same name. My Wife Quit
1:03.3	Her Job. And he's also the author of his upcoming book, The Family First Entrepreneur. Check it
1:09.7	out. So if you're on watching on youtube right now
1:12.9	let's see the book steve you just got the first physical copies of the book it just came man
1:18.9	i'm so excited this is it look at that thing beautiful hard copy great cover uh yeah so that's the
1:26.1	book we'll talk about that, obviously, on this episode.
1:28.9	He also, this is crazy. I don't, it's like, normally have a pretty short bio, but I'm doing this
1:33.1	research and I'm like, wow, you've got about five more businesses than I even knew yet.
1:38.1	So he also runs a seven-figure e-commerce store called Bumblebee Lenins. So he's practicing what
1:43.8	he's preaching in the e-commerce
1:45.4	space and puts on an e-commerce conference called the seller summit. So a lot of experience in
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