How to self publish a book, easily, fast and affordable!

Billy Sticker teaches a three-week class on self-publishing a book cheaply and fast. His method costs under $200 to set up and $2.22 per printed copy, compared to his first book which took five years and thousands of dollars. The class includes video lessons, a manual, homework, and weekly FAQ recordings.
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Write the sales letter for the Instant Influencer class and product and you know how to write a book in as little as three weeks and totally dominate your competition. And decided I just really didn't feel like writing the sales letter. Thought that was a little too much, too much like work. I'm not into hard work. I'd rather it be easy, simple. So I figured it'd be easier just to shoot a video. So I'm heading up to the Batcave, AKA my office to go ahead and shoot a video. It's just gonna go over all the benefits if I don't get a wreck here. All the benefits of what you're gonna get in the program and the class and if you do decide to go ahead and sign up for it. So that's what we're gonna do. I'm not into the hard stuff. If it's easy to do it, you know, let's figure out the easy way to do something. As a matter of fact, the. That's kind of the whole purpose of the class is to show you the easiest, simplest, most hands down, most affordable way to write a book. I figured it out and it's really, it's not that hard at all. So I'm really excited about the program. Let's head on up to the office. Okay. Welcome to the Bat cave. Again, I've shot some other videos from here. You've probably seen it before. But let's talk a little bit about what the Instant Influencer program is going to be about. First off, how is it laid out? I've had some questions already about that. Is it going to be an ebook, Is it going to be a manual that you get audio videos? It's actually going to be a little bit of everything. It's set up as a three week class and at the beginning of the week you're going to have some videos. Go through the videos, it's going to come with a manual. You'll go through the manual that's going to correspond with the videos and you're going to have homework to do. It's going to be real simple stuff, but you're going to want to do it because it's all going to be about getting your book done. It's not homework for me. This is homework on getting your book done. And then during the week, if you have any questions at all, everybody will be emailing the questions in. And then I'll go over all the questions and I'll put together an audio kind of a frequently asked questions thing that I'll have ready at the end of the week that will go over and answer everybody's questions. The benefit of that is you may have questions you don't know you have. So being able to listen to what everybody else has concerns with or any other questions they had, you're going to be able to benefit from their questions also. And honestly, it's just going to be a lot easier for me to do that way if we have several hundred people or however many people are going to be taking the course. But it will last for three weeks. Week one, you have your homework, the questions at the end, Week two and week three. So it's going to be everything. You're going to have the videos, you're going to have a manual and you're going to have the audios. And this is all stuff that you're going to be able to keep and go over again and again and again. Once you have this book done, you're going to know so many ins and outs. A lot of stuff that it's taken me years to figure out. You'll know it all. And it's going to be so much simpler to write your second book and your third book if you so choose to do so. So that's a little bit about what the class is going to be about. But I want to talk about kind of what I did to get my book done. This was actually my second book to write. My first book to write took about four, almost five years. And it's actually being edited and the graphics and stuff are being done right now. This one. And I spent a lot of money getting my other book done. This one took me three weeks and I spent well. I'll tell you what, before I tell you how much I spent, let me tell you some of the things that you run into, if you've ever looked into self publishing a book. Now, this program is not about how to get a book published through a traditional publisher. Now, there are some things we will go over in the program about that. As a matter of fact, sometimes if you have a book self published and you do a great job marketing the book and you've got a big enough list and some distribution channels, you may get a book deal out of it. But my purpose was not to sign a big publishing deal. I wanted to have a book done that was going to get me out and help establish me as an expert in the market. So that's what I did. But when you look at your different options to self publish, one is going through a traditional printing company that would actually Print the books for you. Well, what are some of the expenses that you've had? And I'm probably telling you some of the stuff you already know. If you've done any homework at all, first off, you're going to have to one, write the book, get the book edited. But you've got a lot of expense as far as buying the ISBN numbers, the barcodes, paying to get all the graphics done for your book, cover, everything for the back of the book, getting everything laid out inside the book. It's not just simple to do this. You actually have to pay to have all that done. Unless you're just very, very good at some of the programs that you can use. But going through a traditional printing company, if you use even the people they recommend, you're looking at your expenses outside of having the book printed, just everything that you need to get it set up. You're probably looking at say, $500 for the graphic design, 3 to 500 for the outside cover, another couple hundred for the interior stuff. Then you've got to buy your barcode, your ISBN numbers and stuff like I just talked about. But then to print them, to be able to get your cost down to around two to three dollars a book, to print them, you're looking at spending probably having to buy 1,000 books. And buying 1,000 books, you're looking at another 2,200 bucks or so. So you're looking at close to three grand going through a regular book printing company. So what's another option? Another option is what would be known as just a print on demand company. And I almost went with the Print on demand company, but there's a couple issues with that. One, the setup is pretty easy. A lot of these companies have some guys that can do a great job designing the exterior, you know, the book cover, they do a great job laying out the interior of the book. But what happens is it costs around $1,000 to $1,500, sometimes more for the initial setup fee, which a lot of those expenses are in. But you still have to write the book, you still have to get the book edited, but they still cover your Aspien number, things like that. But another problem with that, there's two main problems with that. One, the money two is your book is listed, will always be listed under their ISBN number, unless you just decide to go get it published somewhere else. But once they put everything together to have it printed for you, it has their ISBN number. And anytime anybody goes and types in that ISBN number, it's going to show up as Them as the actual publisher of the book, and it's under their name instead of just being under yours if you self publish it. Another issue with that is getting the books printed. They can print them one or two or five or 100 at a time. But you're looking what would normally cost you two or three bucks is going to cost you about $6, five to six dollars per book, which could be pretty expensive if you're wanting to use these to set yourself up as an expert, to send some out basically as a fancy business card, which is what I really recommend doing. So you want to have your cost as low as possible. So in all my research, in all the time that I've spent doing this, I finally found a company and I found a way to get all of this done very, very inexpensively. As a matter of fact, for this right here, for this book, I figured it up just right before I started this video. Less than $200 is all it costs for me to actually get everything set up with them. That's everything. I mean, 200 bucks. And you know what? They'll print one to two to three at a time. They'll print 1,000 at a time. And it's still only going to cost me $2. Actually, it's $2.22, I believe it is, per book to get these printed. So that's what you're going to learn how to do. And you're looking at saving thousands of dollars in a lot of expenses that you don't need to spend. But one of the main things is you're going to know how to actually write the book the easiest way possible, get it edited, really. And it doesn't cost you much whenever you learn all the tricks that we're going to go over in the class. So that's about it. There's going to be some other other bits of detail about the program that will be underneath this video that you can read over. Or maybe it's above the video or next to the video, but somewhere here on the page there will be some more information. That's it.










