Book Profit Secrets with Ray Brehm

Honorée Corder is a strategic book coach who helps professionals and entrepreneurs become authors. She’s also the author of 53 best-selling books in several different languages. Honorée wrote her first book in her twenties and built her business from there. One of the main things she helps her clients focus on is making sure the book they write sustains them over the years. The biggest indicator o...

Rob Kosberg is a great friend of mine. He’s an author and the founder of Best Seller Publishing, a company that helps authors promote their books and grow successful businesses. Rob started out in real estate, but after the housing market crashed, he decided to write a book and went all in. He used radio media to promote his book and wound up landing several clients through giving away free copies...

Navid Moazzez is the founder of Virtual Summit Mastery, a program that I used to create Book Profit School. We all know how popular virtual summits are today, especially for building out your email list, promoting your book, and making solid connections with other influencers. Navid knows exactly what it takes to make your summit a success, even if you’ve never done one before. A virtual summit al...

Early on, there were many times where I’d hold off on reaching out to someone to make a connection if I didn’t think I was big enough. A lot of people think they need to wait until they have a large audience before they reach out to bigger influencers to try to work with them. If you believe in yourself, decide that you’re worthy of that person’s connection, and treat them with respect, things hap...

Running ads has always been pushed on authors to drive book sales. There are so many programs out there and coaches who try to sell you on their methods and secrets. Even though there are a lot of great people who can show you how to hack algorithms and other things, they don’t touch on what I think is the best way to win in the long run: building an audience. Your book should serve the purpose of...

A great way for an author to earn passive income beyond book royalties is through offering a membership. Stu McLaren, the founder of the Tribe program, helps many people each year create and launch successful membership sites. The work involved to get up and running isn’t always as daunting of a task as you may think. In fact, Stu has seen some people launch their programs without websites at all....

Using affiliates when launching a book can lead to exponential sales. Working with authors and public figures that are within your niche and already familiar with affiliate marketing can translate into a huge success, even if it’s your first time launching. Matt McWilliams has helped several authors through massively successful launches and has a proven roadmap. Three top strategies for getting st...

Publishing a book takes a lot more work than simply finishing the manuscript. The world of ranking, getting on a bestseller list, and making sure you’re visible to your people are all important things to consider. The tasks to get there can be overwhelming, but luckily there are resources out there to help you get the job done. Sierra Melcher, CEO of Red Thread Publishing, helps women write and pu...

Effort makes all the difference when we’re working towards our goals. Henry Ford has a famous quote where he says, “whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right,” and it’s just so true. It seems like there are two kinds of people out there: people who complain about what’s not working and people who know that getting what you want will always take effort. A good friend of mine recently had...

Qat Wanders is a successful author and editor and knows how to maximize profits. She uses Kindle Unlimited to increase revenue from page reads and to generate reviews for her books. There are pros and cons to listing on Kindle Unlimited, and Qat has a lot of knowledge on what works and what doesn’t. Qat has written both fiction and nonfiction books, and her strategies with launching vary. Sometime...

Using virtual summits to launch your business or program is a great way to tap into your audience and to find the right partners. Summits can help you build authority in your space, but they also put you in a good place to go ahead and launch something else based on the feedback you receive from the summit itself. When you host your summit along with other experts in your sphere of influence, you’...

Today’s episode covers all the great reasons why you should start doing virtual summits. I share my own story about how I got into them in the first place. I’ll talk about what worked, what didn’t, and what I learned so that you can get an idea of how to set up your own. When you’re an author trying to build a business around your book, you need three things: proof of concept, your own audience, a...

In this bonus episode, I’m going to talk about email lists and why they’re important. The great thing about email lists is that they put your customers and fans all in one place. They’re also algorithm-proof, because we all know that Amazon and Facebook can change how they do things at any time. There’s a mindset that goes along with building and maintaining an email list, and that’s to be your ow...

Today’s episode is probably the most important of all, but it will likely be the one that people skip because it sounds too fluffy. I’m going to tell you the number one factor that determines who is going to make money from their book and who isn’t. It comes down to one word - abundance. I’ve met people with both at all levels. If you have a scarcity mindset, it scares you out of industries that y...

I could give you a lot of examples of times I’ve turned down things or not bought something because it was just too hard. I click on a link and I can’t see the price without giving them my email address or signing up for a newsletter, so I don’t complete the purchase. If I can't see the price of the thing before you take my email, it's more of a hassle for me to then have to go and unsub...

Having a book is your best business card. Being a bestselling author gives you credibility. Having a published book, or better still, two published books, demonstrates your expertise. But writing a book is hard work and can take a lot of time. In this episode, I’m going to talk about how you can use anthologies to get your books out there and onto the bestseller lists. When somebody reaches out to...

Will authoring a book make you independently wealthy? Well, maybe, but mostly likely it won’t. People who tell you that if you “just write a book” you will gain crazy amounts of wealth haven’t been truthful with you. You could potentially earn a lot from writing a book but that is going to take a large investment, especially in ads. There are other, very specific, reasons to write a book. I explor...