Damn! Another example of how anyone can turn their life experience into top selling books, take a look at Waiter Rant: Thanks for The Tip — Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
Over at Infomarketer’sZone we constantly get people with very strong infoproduct, ebook and book ideas who are paralyzed by fear that their idea, niche market or approach to writing their book will not work — so they sit and wonder what it would be like to be continually collecting profits from a book that took them a few weeks to write.
Meanwhile, there are tens of thousands actually seeing the money in the bank account, getting the interview requests, getting offers of opportunities to speak in front of groups and get even more publicity. The smart ones will take this platform their writing has brought to them and build additional infoproducts such as books, courses, membership sites, newsletters, software and more to really build a massive enterprise online.
Wonder how a waiter is suddenly turned into a top book seller (when we wrote this, they are within the top 170 titles on Amazon – partially due to an all-out publicity campaign, but certainly evidence that there is demand for these "tell all" type coverages of topics)
Here’s an interesting interview with the author giving some insight into how he made the leap from being a waiter to a top published author…it’s a fun and interesting read.
What can we hope to take away from studying this example of writing success?
- A common technique for turning seemingly mundane careers into highly desirable writing topics is to tap into the "voyeur" or "hidden" side of your career path. Think about the car salesman who gives the inside secrets into how car deals are negotiated or the doctor who comes clean on what REALLY happens within the medical system. How about restaurant health inspectors, I bet there is a tale or two to be told there? What can you "reveal" about your career, travel, parenting or other experience that you can present an "insider’s" view catering to the voyeur desire of your audience?
- The waiter – the author of this latest book – is another example of an author that first built a platform following using a blog, this is what we teach over at InfoMarketer’sZone as a stepping stone to a wildly successful writing and infoproduct marketing business
- Promotion through press releases and interviews. I’m noticing a major trend of late where a brief interview is released as a press release instead of the dry, ineffective drolling of most corporate-type press releases. If you have a project to promote, have someone ask you 4-5 questions about your topic and your book writing experience and you will find much more distribution success with your press releases.
Most of all, the point of writing this is that YOU can write your own book, ebook, report or information product – this one happened to be picked up by a traditional publishing house, don’t let that stop you. Learn to turn your experience, knowledge and ability to dig up facts into top selling infoproducts you can sell online over at InfoMarketer’sZone with our 45-day InfoProduct Publishing Video Course.
