CDL 027 – How to Write and Publish a Book in a Weekend – Part 2: Publish

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How to Publish your book on Amazon

Ok, so you’ve written the next War and Peace and you want to let the world know about it. How do you take it to the next level, format it, and put it out there for the world to read your inspiring words?

In this episode, I dig into the details on how you go about formatting your masterpiece for Amazon, how to upload it, and how to launch a landing page for your craving readers.

You’ll learn:

– Where to distribute and why you might want to choose Amazon

– How to format your book to make it easy when it comes time to upload – including how you need to save it within Microsoft Word

– The importance of having cover art that doesn’t cost your customers…I used a lil tool from webresizer.com

– If you need help, Amazon provides great help via their help system here

– How to create your artwork for the cover and why you need to make it pop

– Insight into the personal details you need to include during the publishing process – especially for all of those proceeds you’ll be making from your sales!

– How to stand up a landing page infrastructure to make it easy for you to market your book and to drive traffic to your Amazon sales page. If you need help getting the website stood up, check out my video here. If you need help with figuring out how to standup a Facebook ad, check out my reference graphic.

Let me know if you decide to follow your passion and write your own book. It really isn’t that bad. If I can do it, you can do it! Get busy!

5TIL

Also, in this week’s 5TIL (5 Things I Learned) you’ll hear about:

1. The importance of video in today’s society and how it can COMPLETELY change a situation (eh hem, Ray Rice)
2. Disappearing Facebook messages
3. Cars with WiFi (Thanks Jeff Page over at Hectic-Dad.com)
4. How to generate electricity with your feet!
5. The forecast is a lil cloudy with a chance for SOLAR RAIN…gahhhhhh!

As always, thanks so much for the support. If you feel awesome today, head over to crazydadlife.com/love and hook me up with a iTunes review.