Did like the format, and boy, I loved the piece on monetizing youTube as well. First of all it reminded me so much of my first years as an indie author when I went from $5000 in revenue first year 2010 (with one book) to $25,000 in revenue with 2 books, at which point I quit my teaching job to go full time, hitting the peak of $100,000 in 2013. with more books and more revenue streams (in my case, more books and adding audiobooks). Since then income has dropped because of the nature of industry changing (amazon algorithms changing etc) but also because of decisions I made about how much I am willing to work in my retirement years. -including not wanting to spend so much of time marketing versus the writing, which is the whole reason I am into this career. But again, I really appreciated his honesty about drop in profit and some decisions he needs to make going forward. So, I started, this video thinking I would just see if it had any resonance to me as an indie writer, or useful for my younger author friends, and found myself watching the whole thing! Which also explains why he has been so successful (smile.)
You've got to chat with Paul MIllerd, who wrote a book and self-published it last year called The Pathless Path. He just published a breakdown of how it did in his first year (spoiler alert: he sold 10,000 copies).
Yep. 100% love this shorter, snappier format. deep dives are great, but only every once in a while, please, and only when it's really, really fun to go deep.
SO...loved the piece on monetizing youTube...are you familiar with anyone who consults in this area ? Enjoy your work...thank you, Peter Sprague (peters@premierguitar.com). P.S our youtube channel has 632,000 subscribers and we do little or nothing to promote it
Did like the format, and boy, I loved the piece on monetizing youTube as well. First of all it reminded me so much of my first years as an indie author when I went from $5000 in revenue first year 2010 (with one book) to $25,000 in revenue with 2 books, at which point I quit my teaching job to go full time, hitting the peak of $100,000 in 2013. with more books and more revenue streams (in my case, more books and adding audiobooks). Since then income has dropped because of the nature of industry changing (amazon algorithms changing etc) but also because of decisions I made about how much I am willing to work in my retirement years. -including not wanting to spend so much of time marketing versus the writing, which is the whole reason I am into this career. But again, I really appreciated his honesty about drop in profit and some decisions he needs to make going forward. So, I started, this video thinking I would just see if it had any resonance to me as an indie writer, or useful for my younger author friends, and found myself watching the whole thing! Which also explains why he has been so successful (smile.)
You've got to chat with Paul MIllerd, who wrote a book and self-published it last year called The Pathless Path. He just published a breakdown of how it did in his first year (spoiler alert: he sold 10,000 copies).
https://boundless.substack.com/p/i-accidentally-launched-my-book-a
Paul is great! +1 this
Linus also has a pretty good breakdown of their revenue. A bit more dated than Ali's video, and certainly not as expansive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zt57TWkTF4
Always find these super interesting, thanks for sharing!
Yep. 100% love this shorter, snappier format. deep dives are great, but only every once in a while, please, and only when it's really, really fun to go deep.
Love it. Actually enjoy all of your content and encourage others to join
SO...loved the piece on monetizing youTube...are you familiar with anyone who consults in this area ? Enjoy your work...thank you, Peter Sprague (peters@premierguitar.com). P.S our youtube channel has 632,000 subscribers and we do little or nothing to promote it
https://www.youtube.com/@premierguitar/featured Thanks, PFS