Get an Army of Passionate Buyers While Still Writing Your Book
Why?
- Every new chapter will bring most of the old buyers back and many new buyers.
- Significantly improve your book’s market fit and magnetism.
How?
Have an outline of the book and write the first one or two chapters. Make sure that the chapter has real value to the reader and can stand on its own. If it’s just an overview (non-fiction), or it takes more than one chapter to get the reader immersed, this will not work. Readers have to get actual value from it.
Advertise (to the right target audience) and sell this chapter for a very low price ($1). The objective is not to make money but to get the seed of people who are willing buyers. In your ads, you can communicate this as an experiment, and explain why it’s special.
Why is it special?
1. Everyone who bought the first chapter will now be a part of the editorial process for the rest of the book.
2. You will consult with them and get their feedback. They’ll get an outline of the next chapter, plans for the cover (towards the end), etc. This will make them feel good, and you will get help in tailoring the rest of the book even better to the target audience.
3. They’ll have a chance to invite others to buy the next chapter published (with the first of course, for $2.) This chapter has their input already in it, so they are motivated to spread the word.
4. They will also have an online editorial wall, where they will be listed. When someone they invite buys the next chapter (with all the others published before), their status and position will increase on the online editorial wall.
5. When the book is finished, they’ll have a chance to sell it and make a commission. By that time many have already invested so much time, it’s like selling their own book.
You repeat this for each chapter until you finish Make sure you make each chapter have its own value independent of any future ones, but make sure there is always a cliffhanger, giving them reasons to buy the next chapter.
By the time you finish this book, not only will you already have sold many copies, but you will also have an army of readers that will be ready for your next book.
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Choose Your Diet Based on Your Favorite Foods
Why?
If you can lose weight without giving up your favorite foods, you might have a better chance of success.
How?
A website or app, where you can choose your favorite foods from a list, and in return, you’ll get the diet that should work without you having to give up your favorite foods.
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Subscription to All of an Author’s Books
Why?
- For authors it’s a dependable income source, and also creates a community of real fans that can be further monetized.
- For fans, it’s a low-cost solution to having their favorite author’s entire oeuvre, a more direct connection to the author and also to belong to a community of like-minded people.
How?
A subscription service for authors that for a very low price ($1/month) gives the readers access to all the books the author has already written. Other facets are can include:
1. Sneak peeks at new books.
2. An online (and offline) community of like-minded people sharing their thoughts.
3. A communication channel for and to the author.
The point is not so much to make a profit out of this monthly fee, as much as to build a community of raving fans that can be monetized by other means like selling special editions, swag, etc.
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Have One Hyperlink in an HTML Page Link to Multiple Targets
Why?
Many times you want to link from your web page to an external source or related page, but you have multiple such sources or related pages connected to the same word or phrase.
How?
Optimally this might be built into the needed protocols, but currently, it can be accomplished using JavaScript. When clicking you will get a small popup menu with all the links and their separate anchor texts and you can choose which one to follow. These are actual multiple hypertext tags, just hidden until you click on the visible one. This will enable search engines also to crawl all linked URLs.
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Learn From the New Geniuses
Why?
Most people have a disdain to younger generations. The future is largely going to be defined by them. It’s worth following, listening, watching and reading what their brightest have to say.
How?
A website dedicated to curated or original content from the younger generations. The editors scout and publish the top of the crop, as well as inviting some to write specifically for the website.
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