GMR 159: Increase Your Impact, Your Income, and Your Business by Writing a Book

Show Notes


What you will hear and learn from this podcast:


We believe books change lives; they change the lives of the
reader, they change the life of the author in the process of
writing it, and also in leveraged impact.


We help people write and publish books to grow their impact,
their income, and their business.


I figured, Hey! I’m learning how to run a business from
professors who have never run a business; that doesn’t make much
sense to me, so why don’t I drop out.”


“It’s not about the book, it’s about who you become in the
process of writing that book.”


“The big phases of writing a book are idea, writing, production,
publish, and launch.”


“If you’re a business owner, what is the conversation you are
having over and over and over with clients or prospects?” When
you write a book on that topic, you can point to it and you never
have to talk about that ever again.”


Writing your book is a series of steps. Step one is mind mapping.
Step two is going from mind map to outline; grouping your ideas
into sections, which you then break into chapters. Step three is
writing or speaking your chapters to finish your first draft.


“If you’re in the first camp, you love the writing but hate the
marketing, you might think, “if I build it they will come. I will
just publish it and not tell anyone.” That’s just not true. If
you build it they will not come,... you have to tell them about
it.”


Get behind the marketing [of your book] even if you don’t like
it...You’ve got to learn this skill set.”


No one cares about you, your book, or your business as much as
you do.”


If you don’t understand it, you can’t manage it.”


“I think there are all the other things that don’t get talked
about enough, which are, the life skills that you learn in the
process, and the confidence to role into the next thing and the
next thing.”


“If writing a book has been on your next year or maybe someday
list for years, maybe even decades, you have to go from maybe
someday to maybe now.”


Resources


Self Publishing School - Website
Chandler Bolt Books - Published, Book Launch, How to Not Suck at
Writing Your First Book
Budgeting tools and other free resources -
https://leosabo.com/resources
David’s website - www.stewardshippastors.com