Business Blueprint: How To Start Your Ebook Side Hustle

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good morning, good morning, Good morning, all my Gunisians out
there and Gwnette Land and all of my friends up
around the world. It's a decent day here in Georgia,
Gunette County. Fifty three degrees going up to a high
of only fifty nine. It was so windy last night,
Like the wind was crazy. I was it was kind
of hard for me to sleep because you know, we're
in the South and they have tornadoes and so I

(00:50):
was like I was a little bit on edge. But
I finally dozed off at some time some part of
the night, went to sleep. But it was windy. Knocked
out power line, so we have power outages around g
Whennette came, Hopefully people got their power restored because I
know without your power. Oh my god, that's got to
be pretty rough. But anyway, I hope you guys have
had a wonderful start to your day. Today. It's Wednesday,
It's home day. Baby. You have made it to the

(01:11):
m I ddl E the middle almost a weekend. I
know somebody saying, thank God, I know, I get it.
Get I used to say that all the time. You know,
it's crazy, though, Monday is like my favorite day. So
Sunday is my clarity day, but Monday is like my
favorite day because I go back to work. See that's
what happens when you like what to do. I'm just saying,
I'm just saying, all right, I got a good one

(01:32):
for you today. Today I'm gonna be talking about how
to publish and sell e books and books. I have
been a publisher, a self publisher since nineteen ninety eight.
I am dating myself, but that's okay, because that is
a blessing. I've been publishing self publishing books since nineteen
ninety eight. I've self published our first book as a team,
me and two of my friends, and then after that

(01:53):
I went on to publish I think between I can't
even remember. I've lost count, and I'm working on one
right now. Between eleven and thirteen books, I think, I
think that's where I am. I've lost count the last three,
though I can't tell you I have created by leveraging AI,
but the rest of them all sitting down to the computer,
typing it out, putting it on a like back then
it was on a floppy disc. I'm just saying it

(02:15):
might have been on a CD, but I think it
was a Yeah, it was on a CD. Floppy was
when I was in high school. Somebody saying, oh, you,
what is a floppy disc? Go back and look it up.
If you're like under the age of twenty five. I
don't even know under the age of thirty, go back
and look at what a floppy disc was. That's hilarious
when I think about that. But it wasn't on a
floppy disc at least I don't think it was on

(02:36):
a floppy disc. It might have been, I can't even remember.
But anyway, I've been publishing since nineteen self published since
nineteen ninety eight, and I've published up to now thirteen books.
The last three of those books have been published leveraging AI,
and I know some people were so upset when AI
first came out, they felt like it was gonna take
away from the genre and all these different things. And

(02:58):
when I tell you from me the way I look
at AI, because it allows me to be extremely it
allows me to me so creative, to now bec being
a creative. It's almost like an addiction because there's no
limit to what I can pretty much create. So it's
like it's almost like an addiction for me, which is
why I have a tough time stopping and a tough
time sleeping, because you can tell the AI I want

(03:20):
to create this, and here's the thing you learn, Like
there are so many things I've learned just because I've
had an idea for something. And then I go over
there and I talk it out with Chat GPT and
chat listen. Chat GBT and I have been having conversations.
It's like having my own personal business coach. However, let
me just say this, I love Chat GBT for that, right,
but I realize I still need the human touch because

(03:42):
I still need the human experiences. Right. It's good, it's
good for giving me like the bun band band, like
getting straight to the point, but I find that I
still need that human touch and I say that because
I was watching a video this morning with David Shan's
and I used to be a part of this morning
meetup and then I stopped one as all, you know,
like a lot of the people, they were just kind

(04:03):
of starting out. I've been around for a long time,
with two decades almost three at this point, twenty eight years.
That's two decades almost three. And so I was like, oh,
I don't really need this, but what I missed was
the camaraderie of the group. And so he did a
in person moren to meet up workshop and I was like, man,
I would have loved to have been there, but because I,

(04:24):
you know, I got out of his out of his community,
I wasn't. I didn't know about it anyway, I said.
I all that to say, AI is amazing for the
things that I use it for. I do find, however,
that I still need the human touch. Now let's get
onto these books, cause I know that's why y'all really
came here. Let's talk about books. So e books have
been around for a while, and I remember when when

(04:45):
when I first started doing books, it was just regular books.
There was no e book. You published your book, you
got it printed, somewhere, cause I don't even think. I
think Amazon might have been just jumping off and I
didn't know how to get on Amazon at that point.
But then I figured out how to get on Amazon later.
So now all pretty much all of my books are
on Amazon, except for the ones that are really old
and outdated. Don't even know where they are, but they

(05:08):
you know, it was books, It was books. Then Amazon
came out with Kindle Kindle, but it wasn't called Kendle.
Was it called Kendle. It was Kendle because they came
out with the Kendle, so it was Kendle book pro.
I put my books on Amazon through create space at
that time. I don't remember. Listen, this is how long
it's been. I can't remember. But I think when you
used to put your book through create space on Amazon,

(05:30):
you could turn it into an ebook if I'm not mistaken. Now,
when you think about where we are today, right, think
about this. I'm gonna I'm gonna, I'm gonna say this, right,
a couple of things you can do because I have
amazing ideas for things and and I'm gonna share some
of them with you. About this space. So most people
who sell ebooks they do like a PDF, and they

(05:52):
come up like most of them pretty much nonfiction, and
then it's something that you want to learn. Why people
like e books is because they're they're not like one
hundred two hundred pages. Some of them are, but for
the most part they're short. So what I would like
for you to do is sit down for a second
and take out a piece of paper, and I want
you to think about something that you know really well,

(06:15):
or something that you're passionate about. That's what I want
you to think, or something that has happened that you've
learned from right and what your experience was with that.
I want you to write those things down on a
piece of paper right now. You can do one or
two things. You can sit down at your computer and
you can pick one and you could just start writing.
It doesn't have to be a lot of pages, because
e books are normally between twenty four I've seen like

(06:37):
seven page e books, but I normally try to keep
mine if I do one at twenty four pages, maybe
to one hundred, right, and one hundred is stretching it.
But people pay money for that. They will pay money
for instant downloads because that's what ebooks are normally they're
in a PDF foul that you pay, you know, seven dollars,
twenty seven dollars, thirty seven dollars, ninety seven dollars and

(06:58):
you hit pay and they send you a link and
you just download the ebook. That's why people love ebooks. Now,
you can also sell your ebooks on publishing platforms because
people have these readers like they had to Kindle the
Kinder Pro reader, the Apple has the iBook reader, and
then Barnes and Noble has the Nook. So people like

(07:19):
to read books on these devices. So that's why you
can put your ebook inside of these stores. But if
you don't want to do that because it may be
too much work for you to figure that all out
because you don't know how to, you can easily take
your content and put it in a PDF and put
it behind a paywall, like at gum road, so gumroad
dot com. That's gum like chewing gum. Gum road like
the road to drop on gum road dot com. So

(07:41):
when I do digital products, I normally use gum Road.
I've been using gum road for a long time. So
people go there, they pay for the they pay for
the product. And then they can download it from gum
Road instantly. They don't have to go to Amazon, it
doesn't have to be shipped, it don't have to be
transferred to the Kinder Pro. It's just instant download on
whatever device they just purchase from. That's what I like

(08:01):
about that. Now you can turn you can become an
ebook author and just put out a lot of e
books about a lot of different things. And it's I
think what I'm so exciting about where we are right
now is that you could pretty much sell anything like
literally and because of that, if you are like me,
you would get lost in that whole crazy life of

(08:23):
just creating, creating, creating, and then you're not focused. So
I don't want you to do that. I want you
to pick one ebook, one one ebook title. If the
e book gets up to one hundred and something pages,
I want you to even think about putting it on
Amazon as a paperback, because there's no harm in it.
If you create an ebook and it's enough pages. I
think for Amazon you need about seventy five pages. If

(08:44):
I'm not mistaken, I lose count. I do this so much,
but I lose count. I think you need about seventy
five pages to make it a book on Amazon unless
it's a children's book. So if you get to that
many pages, I would say, listen, make it an instant download,
make make it a key book, uh Kindle pro book,
and make it a print an Amazon book, paperback book.

(09:05):
Make it all those why because those that's three different
streams of income. Right, And if it's even really really good,
turn into audiobook. We'll talk about that tomorrow. I talk
about audiobooks tomorrow. I ain't gonna even I'm glad I
thought about that. We're gonna talk about audiobooks tomorrow, and
I tell you some good stuff about that. But anyway,
think about something that you can write about, right, you
want to You want to write about something that solves

(09:28):
a problem, something that you're knowledgeable about, like when it
comes to podcasts, in which my books are there. When
it comes to business, I have books there. I talked.
I wrote a book about can They See You Now?
That book was about when people really hate being on
on video? And I can tell you that book is
old too, because I think I wrote that five six
years ago. Now the video techniques and two are much better.

(09:50):
And that was the cover on that was ugly I
was crazy, but now the covers are gorgeous. So I've
written about that. So I pretty much write about stuff
that I know and love. Right, However, in September was
a June. No, it wasn't September. It was before. September
was like April of last year I wrote my first No. No,

(10:10):
it wasn't last year. It wasn't no, no, no, it
was September. September last year. I wrote my first non
fiction called The Lyaryn Legacy, right the start Cee Chronicles again,
but I did that with chat GBT, and people who
have read the book that was like, that book is great.
I'm like, what, So I have a series of eight
books that I haven't gotten around to finishing up. But

(10:31):
I said all that to say I wanted a paperback
book in the fiction world because I've never written fiction
and I don't know how to write fiction. So I
used chat GBT to help me write my fiction book
and people loved it, and I was like, that is
a bit. I was so excited about that. So anyway,
pick something that you love. Now, let's look at this industry.
Talk about some money. Where the where's the money? At
the end of the the e book industry is still growing.

(10:54):
You would think by now to be oversaturated. Here's why
it's not oversaturated because everybody has their own different expertsperiences. Right.
You may know how to write a book, and I
know how to write a book, but your experience is
going to be different. So your book is going to
be different. Some of the things in the book are
going to be the same, but your experience and my
experiences about writing the book are different. So when you
put your experience plus the basics in it, it's a

(11:16):
different book there. And so you can't be worried about that. Right.
I can do an ebook right now on how to
launch a news site, which I have not done a
book on that yet, right, But I could because I
have gone through this whole process of launching a podcast
that then turned into a news site and I'm excited
about that, And I could do that if I wanted

(11:37):
to do that. And I could probably turn that same
concept into a course, which I thought about that. So
the industry right now is still growing, So there's still
a room for you. So even though you may think
it's saturated, you come with your own experiences, which is
going to make your e book different, right, now, ebooks
this year is projected to reach fourteen zero point nine

(11:58):
two billion dollars. Dollars would be fourteen point nine two
billion dollars. That is a lot of money and a
digital download market. I gotta get it. I gotta give
me a new digital download. That is a lot of money.
And so you know, in the United States alone, it's
nearly five point three billion, five point three eight billion
dollars just in ebooks, not paperbacks, not audio books, just ebooks.

(12:23):
That's it. So you are in the listen and time
is now, and you don't have to don't look at
what I do, because I do a lot. I want
you to pick something that you can get behind and
say this is my thing, and go all in on
that thing. The one thing I could tell you is
if I had just picked one thing, I would be
a millionaire. I'm not a millionaire, but I want to
be one, and I'm going to be one this year.

(12:45):
I'm proclaiming, I'm declaring and the crean that I will
be a millionaire this year. Why because I have learned
lessons about what it takes not to be a millionaire.
Because I haven't been one. I haven't gotten to that level,
and it's been twenty eight years. But I know why,
and I'm I'm transparent about that. I don't want that
to happen to you. So pick one e book topic
for now you can do. You can do the rest later,

(13:07):
but I want you to pick one. Now. Let's talk
about the revenue models. You can sell it. You can
go to you can sell it direct sales right. I
use gum Road, some people use Shopify. Some people just
have a landing page where they download link that comes
like when they when people pay the they their paid.
Their payment system is set up that when someone pays,
it'll automatically send them the e book link and then

(13:30):
they can download it Kindom, Kindol, Direct Publishing, Kendo. I
use that for my books, like all of my books
pretty much are e books because why somebody may not
want to order the paperback. So when I do a book,
I make it make sure it's a n Kindle kdie
people book as well, because now they don't want it. Now.
I've gone so far as to do audio books, like
my liiring legacy is also audio books, and I got

(13:51):
my first my first UH royalty from from Spotify. I
ain't know to do it myself. It was crazy. It
wasn't a lot of money. Let me just let me
just say that I sold two and I didn't do anything.
I sold two of my books on Spotify and I
did nothing. I didn't even realize the books had sold.
And I was like, oh, let me just open this

(14:12):
up because I wasn't expecting. When I got the royalty,
I was like, wait a minute, So we'll talk about
ebooks audiobooks tomorrow. So ken the book publishing pro You
may also be able to sell through something like a scribt.
You may have like a Patreon account you can sell
through there. You can sell it as a part of
a package. You know, if your ebook has enough money

(14:32):
to be made, you can also maybe make it as
an affiliate product. Will other people help you sell it,
But it got to have you gotta have a it's
gotta be enough money for people to want to do that.
If the e book is really good, you may be
able to sell it to like schools. Now. I can
tell you this. I don't even think kids go and
get not not in not maybe in high school, in
elementary school, but in college. I don't even think they

(14:53):
go out and get books like I think they just
have a I think my daughter said, because she's finishing
up her degree. I'm so proud of her. She you know,
oh she could have did like me. It's like, no,
I forget this, carap I ain't doing this. She's like, no,
that's a chapter of my life I need to be closed.
So she's almost finished. She graduates in December. But she
doesn't have physical books. Her books are digital. So if

(15:13):
you got a really good e book, you may be
able to sell that rights the rights of that book
to schools and libraries right and get you mass distribution
on that. So that's a thought. So those are some
ways to sell the book. The most The most popular
way though, is just the PDF and KADP, Amazon kind
of direct publishing. Those are the ways that I know
most people sell them just to download. That's a down on.

(15:36):
Now here's the thing. Let's talk about your audience. Who
are you writing an e book for? Who are you
trying to reach? I'm thinking about an ebook right now.
Who am I trying to reach? Well, I want to
reach people who want to start a podcast and they
want to do a part time and they want to
do it, they're past fifty. I could write an e
book just for them based on that?

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Why?

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Because I live that life every day every what does
it take? Even though I have two books on I
think I got three books on podcasting. I think I
got two or three books on podcasting on Amazon already,
so I don't need to write that book. But when
you think about your audience, who are you writing for, right?
What are their needs and what are their interests? Here's
what you want to do. You want to write something
that people want to buy. It has to solve a problem. Now,

(16:21):
if you want to write your memoir as an ebook,
I don't know if people care, right, but if you
got a problem that you can solve based on your experiences,
that's what they're looking for. And trust me, you will
be surprised that the things that people are looking for.
All you got to do is go and hit Google. Right,
Let's say your e book was on Chapstick. Go to
Google and type in Chapstick and you're gonna see and

(16:42):
you're gonna see what people are searching for. Just based
on that, go to Google. Just type in the word
Chapstick in Google. And then when you do that, Google's
gonna give you all these other things that people are
searching for that's a problem. People are searching for these
things because they're looking for answers. You could be the
answer to what they're looking for. So think about what
problem do you solve?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
You know?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
You know, are you trying to do this as a business.
Are you just doing it because you want to sign hustle?
What are you trying to do it for right? Are
you trying to diversify your income? You know? So think
about that as well. And let's talk about the startup costs.
It's not expensive, It really isn't if you sit down
to the computer and write it. Just so, even if
you use chat GPT to help you out, Chat GBT
is free. I happen to have the pro plan because

(17:27):
I you know, I need it. I use it all time.
But I use chat GPT to write my entire uh
my entire fiction book now and my startup costs. If
you are total perfectionist, which I am not, you may
have to pay for editing and proof reading. And I'm
gona give you all a promem example. One of my

(17:48):
good friends, she's been my friends since we were like sixteen,
and she's still my good friend. And but when we
were younger, she talked fast like me. She talked faster
than me, but she was always correcting our grammar. So
we could be walking down the street and say something slang.
She would always and she would do it annoyingly. She
would just correct it. She would if I said something wrong,

(18:08):
she would just automatically say the right thing. That's just
who she's been our entire lives. So whenever I needed
a book edited, I would just go to her. When
I had a client that I was working on a
book for book with, I was like, look, you need
an editor, I'll send them to her. So she has
I've sent her plenty of clients who needed book editor.
I remember, this was so funny. I had a client,
he's a sweetheart too. He had written a book. He

(18:31):
had did some time in jail. He had written a
book and he wanted me to help him get the
book out. And I need to contact them because I
haven't contacted them. And so he sent me the book
and he wanted an editor, and he didn't He didn't
have a problem paying her anything. So I sent her
the book and she called me and she said, did
you read the book? And I said, I read the

(18:52):
first couple book I read the first few pages and
she said, this book and it's how she said, this book,
but I'm blow out. This book is an FM mess
and I thought I would roll. I was like no,
she said this book has to be totally rewritten, and
I was like yeah. So so I put her in
contact with him, the author who's my client, and I said, hey,

(19:15):
I said, you know, she needs to talk to you.
She needs to talk to you about the book. He said, okay.
He did not want to rewrite that book. That was
the second person he had gone to, and they said
the book need to be redone. He wanted that book
to be authentic, authentic, authentic, authentic, bru. You know what
I'm saying. He wanted to be him. I don't know why.

(19:37):
I can't say the word. And he didn't want to.
He didn't want to edit it, so he didn't edit it.
But she has been my editor for a while. Her
fees are normally pretty good. As a matter of fact,
I sent the client to her last year and she
did some editing for him. Now you can do editing,
you can hire editor. You're going to pay for that.
This is what I'm saying. I'm not telling you to
do this I'm just telling you what I did. When
I wrote my fiction book, which had GB there was

(20:01):
no editor. It did such a wonderful job. There was
no editor, and I just sent it and people read
the book and that was like they loved it. It
was just it was a great storyline. Cover design, same thing.
You can go and hire somebody. It's gonna cost you
fifty to three hundred dollars. I used Leonardo. I did

(20:22):
my cover in Leonardo. People loved the cover. That's a
beautiful cover. I paid twelve thousand, ninety nine cents. I
think I'm just saying I'm not trying to take jobs
away from people, but my goal is to show you
how to do these things under five hundred dollars. So
I use Leonardo for the cover design. I used chat
GBT for the book itself. I formatted the book myself.

(20:43):
There are companies their software is out there, like Atticas.
I've heard people who use Atticus to format the book.
I just put my book directly into word and format it.
I put in the little things on and the header,
little things in the footer, and it works out fine.
And when I'm finished with the book, I turn in
to a PDF and I uploaded to Amazon. So the

(21:04):
ISBN number is probably gonna cost you the most money
if you want to separate I sbing numbers. So let
me talk about that real quick. So, when you have
an ISBN number, if you if you publish on if
you just do an ebook, a flat out ebook PDF,
you don't need an ISBING number. You don't need that.
If you plan on publishing your book on Amazon, Amazon
will assign you an ISBN number, but it's gonna be
an Amazon ISBING number, which means that your book cannot

(21:28):
be sold anywhere else with that IBN number because it's
specifically connected to Amazon. Now, if you know you want
to put your books on a whole lot of other platforms,
get by your own Amazon, by your own ISBN number.
You can go to r R Balker r R R
R R balker dot com, b o wk R dot com.
Go to r Balker. I've been buying my my I

(21:51):
sbing numbers from there from since nineteen ninety eight. And
I used to bub in batches of ten because I
was I was a publisher and I was helping my
client's public so I was buying batches of ten. It's
a lot less expensive if you buy in batches of ten.
If you don't buying batches of ten, you're probably gonna
pay a little bit extra money, probably up to one
hundred and twenty five dollars for ISBN number. But what

(22:12):
does that do that helps you track your book if
you're gonna put it on all of these other platforms,
if you want your books to Me and Barns and
Noble Books a million, Amazon, Lulu, all of these different
and it's so many, y'all, all of these different places,
you really kind of want your own is being number
so that this way you can track yourselves across that
one is being number. I made the mistake with lowry

(22:33):
legacy of putting it on Amazon first, because I've always
done that. And when I did that, I realized, oh crap,
I can't take that ibing number and put it on
draft to digital, right, I can't do it. So I
had to I had to go and use like a
different is being number. So I have two i's being numbers,
and so Amazon has one, and then my books are
that are sold on all these other platforms have to

(22:55):
have a different issbing number. So that's if you want
to put it on those platforms. If you're just gonna
use it as a PDF download, you don't need any
ibing number. Now, if you do do that, you're probably
gonna have to go to our Balka. If you're only
gonna use Amazon, it's free. Amazon doesn't charge you to
a sun of ice being number. I don't think any
of the publishing platforms do. The problem is is that
the tracking is gonna be off, so you can have

(23:17):
sales on Amazon that's not gonna connect to the sales
on Burns and Noble, to sells on Books a Million,
or the seales on Lulu because everybody has a different
iss being number. That's the horror behind that. So don't
do that. When I did, when I did my book
on draft of Digital, which which syndicates my book on
all these other platforms, I have one isbing number all
of those and Amazon has a different money all right,

(23:37):
website and hosts. And you do need a website. I
know people think you don't need a website. You need
a website. You need a website. So you're talking about
you know, probably twenty twenty dollars a month, two hundred
dollars a year, right, but you can do twenty dollars
a month. Most of the time I think I pay.
I think the most I pay right now, it's like
twenty nine dollars a month. But that's like for five
sites on Google, on go Daddy. So your total, well,

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the total startup causes between two hundred dollars and fifteen
hundred dollars. I know that's not a lot. I'm trying
to tell you. Now you can get it going. You
got great places to publish, and now you got to
get your marketing together. Now, the marketing is going to
be the thing. That's gonna be a thing, and you
gotta have a plan for that. Before I get into
the plan for that, let's talk about some pros and
some cons. The pros are low startup costs. You ain't

(24:22):
got to carry no inventory. It can become very passive income.
If you put it somewhere and just market it. It
can give you a global reach, and it's very scalable
because it's a one product, is a digital product. Now
the cons are it could be high competition depending on
what space you win. If you if you carve out
your own little niche and work your magic on that,

(24:44):
you may not have that much competition. If you go
into a crowded space where there's a lot of competition,
you gotta fight for that, which means you got to
put up a lot of marketing or a lot of
marketing dollars, right, strong marketing potential for policy. Yes, ebooks
are known for getting stolen. They just are take your
product and rebrand it as their own. It just happens
if you don't have a way to lock it down

(25:04):
really good, where there's like an encryption on it, there's
some type that only the person that bought it can
get it, and they have tools out there to do
all that. I just don't know how to do that
because I'm like, whatever they take it, they take it. Yeah.
So and another thing, the other kind is, you know,
you don't make money from platforms like Amazon, and it's
all you, it's all you, and it's that. But that's

(25:26):
not really bad cons in my in my opinion, write
your ebook and push it out there. Get it out there, right,
So when you write your ebook, you can have like
an ebooks launch party. I don't know, maybe that's something
you want to do. You know, you make sure everybody
in your network notable ebook is coming doing really nice cover.
You know, set up a website, make sure it's optimized

(25:46):
for your book. If you can buy a domain name
for the title of the books or not, a book
and the title go together. These are the type of
things you want to put in place, and now all
you got to do is just get busy marketing. You
know it sounds simple, that's because it really you can
really launch an ebook like today. Like look like if
you sat down and say, I'm gonna do my e
book today, I'm gonna talk about chapstick and how to

(26:09):
become a chapstick chapstick entrepreneur. I'm gonna now if I
wanted to talk about that, I really couldn't do a
whole course on that. Why because entrepreneur side of it
is the saying the chap The chapstick side of it
is the different side because I don't know how to
make chatstick, so I would have to go in there
and figure that all out. But listen, amazing tools will
help me do that. I'm just saying. All right, So

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so you can start today if you wanted to pick
your idea right, pick your idea, do some research, get
figure out what you want your cover to be, figure
out what you want your name to be. Look at
the platforms. Gum Road is one that I use where
they have a bunch of them. You can even sell
on Shopify, I think actually does digital downloads. I just
use gum roll because it's pretty simple for me. Shopify

(26:51):
requires a little bit more getting into the thenutia of everything.
I don't need that. Gum roll works fine. And gum
road doesn't charge your money up front. They charge you
on the back end. So when you're ebook makes money,
you can go back and you can you know, they
take the money then, right, And then you got partnerships
that you can you know, people that probably help you
promote your book, your ebook, but the money's gotta be good,

(27:11):
like a twenty seven dollars ebook. You may it may
be hard to find somebody that you're gonna get seven dollars.
And you may find some people because some people promote
for anything, but you may not. So I'm just I'm
just saying, think about that, all right. I feel like
I said a lot, and I probably did, but I
wanted you to understand that this is a really really
easy way to get started selling something. And all you

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gotta do is pick one thing and stay behind that
one thing. Don't do a lot of stuff. Don't do
like me. Pick one thing and stay behind that one thing,
all right. All right? If I was talking too fast,
or if it sounded like I was all over the place,
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