How to Become a Bestselling Author in 30 Days: A Step-by-Step Strategy
Key Points Covered
Understanding Your Target Audience
- Identify exactly who you want to read and buy your book
- Research your audience’s demographics, psychographics, and interests
- Use AI tools like Claude to analyze your target reader profile
- Study what other books your audience is currently buying
Solving Your Reader’s Problems
- Identify what keeps your target readers up at night
- Research the key challenges and pain points they face
- Understand how your book will provide solutions
- Consider different book formats (journal, planner, workbook) based on reader needs
Optimizing for Amazon Success
- Research relevant keywords and categories
- Study successful book descriptions and covers in your niche
- Analyze bestseller rankings and what drives them
- Learn to navigate Kindle Direct Publishing effectively
Action Steps
- Pick a start date and mark your 30-day timeline
- Research your target audience thoroughly
- Study competing books in your category
- Plan your book format and outline
- Optimize your metadata before publishing
Resources Mentioned
- and SAVE $10 each month using code newstart25
- Want to see what WishListMember can do for your business? Let’s chat.
- Free Write THAT Book Bootcamp: unmarketingbusiness.com/wtb
- Get this Book “Prayers and Inspiration for Mom or Nurse”: csicorporation.com/mombook
- Learn more about Barbra Gentry-Pugh
Call to Action
Register for the free bootcamp training at to learn more about Carol’s bestseller strategy and the upcoming Bestseller Lab program starting February 26th.
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Let’s head into the studio now with our hostess with the Mostess, Carol J. Dunlop.
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Hey, everyone. How’s it going?
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Carol Dunlop, your online Wow strategist and ten time Amazon best seller on their. So first of all, I want to apologize to you. If you can hear the knockin and the,
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you know, all to all the lovers out there, to all the people who love, love.
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Happy Valentine’s Day to you.
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Today we’re going to be talking about how to become a bestselling author in 30 days. So this is going to be your prep window, your window where you get everything together because you’re really going to need it.
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I do the same thing in my Bissell lab program. We have 30 days for prepping, and then we have 30 days for producing and 30 days for launching. And then this year, this time, we have a special launch. Expert doctor Lori Amos is coming in, and she’s going to tell us how to teach us how to just exponentially increase, increase, increase, get a profitable launch and keep it going.
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But besides that, and I’ll tell you a little bit more about the BSR, the best seller lab a little bit later, we’re talking about you and how you can become a bestselling author in 30 days on your own.
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my members could have a much better experience in the academy. I wanted it to do things like track their progress when they’re watching the videos. I wanted them to show it. I wanted it to show exactly where they left out because I have over 300 videos and if you watch a video, then you come out, how do you know where you just left?
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Right. So this is an enhancement as well. And then also it lets you jump right back into learning with one click. It keeps tab of your total learning time. How many videos watch, how long you watch the videos so that you can know pretty much
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The main thing this does is there’s no more wondering about your videos, which ones you’re watching. What did I do? I’m not, you know, making good on my time because I’m also adding a feature in there that tells you how far you got, which video you were watching, and let you jump back in and start watching, rewatching, or watching the rest of it and the rest of that video.
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did for other summits, but I’m going to repurpose them and use them for you guys. And nobody can get nobody to get see them. But you. The member one is bougie and a backpack where I talk about how my husband and I decided that we were relocating from Atlanta, Georgia to Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
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that I’m going to be now early release those two probably next week.
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You know, people can get all the information they need out of it, and they can use it for their benefit in their marketing to help make their marketing better. Stop fooling around. What should I do that? Should I do this? No. Do this right here. Put your own sprinkle on it and and be successful. That’s what the Academy is all about.
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And that was way back in 2011. Nobody was thinking about mental, wellness and all of that. Right? So I created that. And then I reached out to the I saw a wish list member. I thought I was mad, I was like, this is awesome. So I, I had I had no money at the time because we were spending every penny that we had.
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I just need to get some stuff done, I feel me. So they gave me the license and I used it for debt and fitness matters.
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And then I upgraded and actually paid for it so that I could become a reseller and resell, which lost member to my clients because it was so super awesome. And there’s other membership things that have come out since then. I think member Mouse and then some other stuff, that, I can’t think of the last one, the Learning Academy one, but I use that as well.
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There’s no guest. Today is just me telling you about my experience and giving you pointers about how you can become a bestselling author in 30 days. So myself, I am a ten time bestselling author
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and I had to start somewhere, right?
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I wasn’t always even a one time bestseller, or even author at least. And this all started in 2017 when I decided that I needed a book because I wanted to do more speaking. And if you want to do speaking or some some of the other things that you want to get out there in front of some of the people you want to get in front of, you need a book.
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So I’m like, okay, I need a book. I went to my book coach
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and I said, because she was actually in it, we were in business together with her. Like, I need to put a book out. And she was like, I’ll help you with that. What do you what do you want? And I’m like, I don’t know. I don’t know what I want to post.
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I have no idea. I was thinking about traditional book, so that’s what we did. And she helped me to create this wonderful book that went to number one international bestseller on Amazon in India. Three other countries. They got bestsellers out. So I was like, oh my gosh. And guess what? They weren’t even, you know, my book coach and and what even like, you know, why are you all that why you want that moniker?
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I was like, I want to because I work so hard at this, and I did that on my own. I studied, I figured out how to do it, and I became a bestseller. Now, it was not in 30 days, but I’m going to shrink it down and tell you how you can do this, how you can prep for it, and once you upload it,
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you can get to bestseller and you can do all of this research and everything, even even the writing part, if you choose the low content book, like a journal and something you can get, you can do you can do this in 30 days.
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Because my first one, I did the not the,
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the big traditional book, but the second one, the 90 Day Gratitude Journal for your business. I did that in less than 30 days, and I had coauthor. So I know you can do this.
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So there’s three crucial tips you need to adhere to to do, to not leave out.
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If you want to become a bestselling author. And number one, the first one is you need to know who you’re talking to. Who are you talking to in this book is probably your audience, but do you know who your audience is? You know their demographics and all of that. So if you know that and you know you want to reach your audience, then we have to find your audience on Amazon so that you can reach out to them.
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Because these people are the people who are going to buy your book. So you can also look at Amazon and look at similar books to the one you’re thinking about writing. Think about, you know, take take some time and think about it. What kind of book do you want to write? And just go to Amazon and see what books are up there
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and see what, you know, kind of hits you.
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What makes it seem like, yeah, this is a book I want to use. This is a book I would like to write this. I could do a better job than that book. And that’s the book you got to write.
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And now and then after that, because we’re going to be using AI a lot. And I will talk about it more as we go on with the episode, because I, I love I told you, I just wrote that plug in with him, right.
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We coauthored it. I guess I have to put him in the in. They saying that he’s part. Oh no no no no no it’s mine. It’s fine. Right. So now I want you to go to cloud that I use a lot. Now you can use ChatGPT. I don’t know if you can use Gemini. I haven’t heard good things about them being in-depth, but I know ChatGPT is.
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So you can ask what type of people. But this type of book. So not you’ve gone on to Amazon and you’ve looked at the books and you found a type of book that you like. So now you need to ask what type of people buy this book and tell them the name of the book, what the book is about, and he will come back and tell you the type of people.
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And then you can see this, this match up with the audience that I have right now. Or is this a little bit off? Maybe you need to do some more digging until you match up the audience you want to serve with the audience. Who wants who is going to buy the book? The number two thing is to know their problems.
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This is your audience. You need to know their problems or the audience you’re trying to reach with that book. Know what their problem is and how do you do that? You want to know what keeps them up at night, or what interrupts of sleep, or keeps them from going to sleep at night? What makes them set? Bolt right in bed.
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Oh my God, I gotta solve this problem right here. What is that problem with what you know, that is a key to a lot of different things.
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Again, I want you to use code and I want you to put your audience in there. The demographics and psychographics. Like what?
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What coaches do they follow, what books they read, what movies do they like?
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What’s their guilty pleasures in addition to the demographics, like how old they are? What is their. Yeah, you can put them. What are their what is their race? If you’re going to make it a center to them. Right. It’s like a black woman’s got to be an awesome or something like that, you know? Maybe it’s age appropriate.
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Maybe it’s a children’s book. Whatever it is, you gotta put that put that information in there, tell all about your audience.
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And then then I want you to ask when you say that, I want you to ask this. What are the three biggest problems these people have? So why don’t you put your audience? You know, my audience member is 50.
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She’s a former corporate director and blah, blah, blah. She loves these books. And I’ll ask them, what are the three biggest problems that she has or he has? Whoever you have is. And then you got to take that knowledge and search for books on those topics and see if what you want to write this type of book. So you have to know who your audience is.
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What do they you have to know what they’re looking for, what they need, and then these are the books that they’re buying. So you have to say, okay, I wanted to write this type of, but the people are buying this type of book. Do I need to change to this type of book or can I do some kind of hybrid?
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It’s going to still be like this type of book, you know, use your imagination because your imagination is going to what’s going to help propel you to bestseller, but you still got to keep those key details. Who are you talking to? What is their problem? And number three, how will your book solve their problem? So now we know who our audience is.
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We know what their problem is with the help of plug. And now we want to know how will this book solve their problem.
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And you can think about it like this. Do they need do that? Excuse me? Do they need a guided journal to help them work through their problem? Like every day there’s a different prompt and they can journal in it.
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Maybe that’ll help them. You’re going to get what one of my clients, Theresa Daniel, she took that journaling to a whole nother level. She had chapters in there about her book is called Unstoppable Leaders. So she went in the beginning. What do you need to do to be an unstoppable leader? What does an unstoppable leader being in the Stop Unstoppable Leader mean?
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And what can you do after you’re an unstoppable leader? You can categorize yourself, and she has all these helpful points and tips in with the journaling, which is why her book became a bestseller even before we started promoting it.
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So are they disorganized? And they need a planner to help them organize things better? Maybe they need something that will help them reach their goal and evaluate their attempt.
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Like a log book. Maybe think about who uses log books. Fitness people who are trying to work out they want to look at their daily workouts. They want to lose weight. Maybe a meal planning, maybe wellness, maybe prepping for a test like a SAT or something like that for them to get into, you know, a top level school.
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What this could be a log book for that’s targeted and students who are trying to take the SAT, you know, that’s a that’s a big that’s a big moneymaker that they’re prepping for that or the M stats in SATs or M stats, you know, medical people, lawyers. Who do you want to connect with? If you have lawyers as part of your ideal clients, maybe you can help them by helping them prepare for that.
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The bar that they got to take. Now, this would require some specialized knowledge on your part. If you’re like, oh, I don’t want to do all that. Whatever it is, whatever it is, remember who your audience is. What’s the biggest problem and how is your book going to solve it? Remember that
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they don’t want you to take all this knowledge that you’ve gained and decide what?
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What is the real book that you’re going to create, right? What is it that you’re going to create that these people will buy because they’re looking to solve this problem?
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Now, before you start writing anything, you know your type of book. You know what your audience wants, you know what their problem is, and you know how this book is going to solve it.
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Now you need to optimize the book before you start to create meaning.
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Unknown
Use your keywords and keyword phrases. So you may say, Carol, what is the keyword? What are you talking about? That’s the part that trips everybody up and that is the difference between a bestselling book, which makes you a bestselling author, and a book that sits on Amazon or wherever you going to put it.
00:25:42:19 – 00:26:02:52
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For example, just just collecting, virtual dust. Right? Keywords. Keywords are what people use to search for what they want. If I am a Christian woman and I’m looking for a prayer journal and I go to Amazon, what do you think I’m going to put in that prayer journal? Right? You don’t even have to say a prayer journal for Christian women.
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You can say a prayer journal and see what comes up, and then you can niche it down even more in that in that search bar that comes up with Amazon and say, I want a blue prayer journal. I want a prayer journal that has a cat theme on it. See all these different products that you could create just from that?
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One thing?
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So that’s why you’re using these keywords. It’s a prayer journal. Is it a planner? Is it a bullet journal is a book. What a, a log book. Is it a traditional book? Is it an anthology? All these things you got to consider beforehand. There’s a bunch of prep that you need to do beforehand, which is why I would do that same thing in my bestseller alarm program.
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We get all of that out of the way first hand before we start even writing or producing anything, because we have to know
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who this book is for, how it’s going to help them, and what type of book that it’s going to be that is going to help them.
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Unknown
So now you’re going to use this information that for certain books that look like
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the book that you are or in the same genre, see what your competition is about, or see other books that may not directly compete with yours.
00:27:08:56 – 00:27:27:17
Unknown
But you got to know what’s out there. This is the key to you becoming a successful author and a bestselling author. You got to know what the what your competitors are. What are they writing about? How did they make that book out? What colors are they using? What is the design on the front of the book? You got to know all that stuff.
00:27:27:17 – 00:27:48:28
Unknown
So I mentioned the cover design. You want to examine that? Look at it. Does it look childless? Does it look professional? The colors glaring and kind of in it, or is that. Oh my gosh, this really pulls me in the cover says everything I need to know about this book, examine that and kind of critique it, because you’re going to have to do something similar with your cover.
00:27:48:28 – 00:28:05:11
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You have to make it. Your cover explains what the book is about without too many words. Because the thing is, you don’t need that many words on your book unless your cover is all words. And I did that where she thinks like a CEO. The whole thing is she thinks like a CEO. And you know exactly what that means.
00:28:05:16 – 00:28:18:26
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So that you like to see. Yeah. What does that mean? Let me get that book. That’s what you want people to think. Let me get that book right now. You need to look at the layout. You know Amazon has that little look inside things. So take advantage of that and look at the pages inside of the book easily.
00:28:18:27 – 00:28:39:27
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Should look at about 10% of it. So you can see basically what the layout is. Or you may even need to buy some of them, maybe wait until the book is on. 90,000 special or something and buy it and look at it, look at the layout. Do they have misspell words? Does the layout flow? Does it look right according to what you’re trying to do?
00:28:39:32 – 00:28:58:24
Unknown
And then, the other thing is the categories. What category is this book in. Is it in more than one category. What are the other books that are in this category? Where does this book lie in a category? If it’s in a category and it’s like number 1 or 2 high, that’s great. Right. What is making it number 1 or 2?
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If it’s in a category and it’s down toward the bottom like number 3548, why is it so low. What what is it. You got to analyze all that stuff and look at it now I know I’m taking you out of your comfort zone and saying, hey, I just wanted to write a book and become a bestselling author. Well, this is how you do it.
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This is how you do it. You got to pay attention to all that little stuff that you think all that minutia that you think doesn’t matter. It really does matter.
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Now Amazon has a system for ranking, and you also need to look at when you look at the go to wherever these books are, click on the book, go to the book page, scroll down to where it says description and see what the rank is.
00:29:38:32 – 00:30:00:35
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The rank is going to be down there where it says something like 100,000 Amazon, and then it says the categories and it shows the rank in each of those categories. That is very important because the rank on Amazon, if you’re ranked number 1 to 100, meaning the lower the rank, the higher your book is 1 to 100. And all of Amazon is phenomenal.
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It means you’re making Planet Dollars. Leonard Cohen’s out making that right now. If you look at the categories in your book that you’re looking at, just for an example is rank 3542. That’s not too bad, but if it is rank 300,542 and that’s not that’s not good at all. That means that it’s probably has it’s hard sales because it has a rank, but we all know how many sales it has.
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Unknown
What was the last sale? It has, but it’s kind of down there in the bottom. You want to look for books that are in categories, at the top, so you can see how far it goes in the mid range. And the mid range would be like
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a hundred thousand or less. And then the bottom of the bag, which would be 100,000 or more because leave it that way, one 200, $100,000, 100,000 or more.
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And you want to look at categories that are in that range. And yes, it does take time. That’s why I say 30 days, right? Because after you write it, you you can really and truly and I did this, you could really and truly write a gratitude journal with the same prompt on each day for 90 days and have a spot where they journal about it
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in less than 30 days.
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Your book, your book could be done and you can upload it. Do all these other things that I’m telling you and make bestseller. In case you did that, this girl did. I created the 90 day Gratitude Journal for your business. It was in, I want to say March, February, late February, early March of 2020. Now, you know what happened.
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The end of March, we shut down everything. But I booked and shut that, and it still made it to bestseller. And I had not just one, not just more, but I had nine other authors in there. And we all became, that’s an office. That was the start of this whole becoming a bestselling author journey. And now I am a ten time bestselling author, and I’ve helped close to 100 purpose driven entrepreneurs become bestselling author.
00:32:07:48 – 00:32:28:59
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So I think that’s pretty good, right? And I did all of this, all of this stuff. And I’m telling you about all this minutia, the keywords, the description, you, oh, did I say description? You have to look at the description and see what the description says. The description for a book on Amazon that’s going to make bestseller. It’s not get this book that is not a description.
00:32:29:04 – 00:32:37:01
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You got to tell people why they need to get this book, how this book is going to help them and what results they can, they can expect after they read this book.
00:32:37:01 – 00:32:45:24
Unknown
So got it is more than a notion to create a bestselling book. And even if you think that’s not worth it, well, bestseller,
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why not? You put all that hard work, all that money, all that effort, all that time into your book, why not make that thing a bestseller?
00:32:53:05 – 00:33:10:45
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Come on now. Why not? Right. Because this is going to help you and your business, which I will get into more next week in my episode, How, having a bestselling book changes the trajectory of your business. I don’t think that is the name of it, but I will tell you and let me think what is going to be the name.
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Cut this out.
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So go back.
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Just just started over. I said, what is going to do, how it changes the trajectory of your business.
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So next week we’re going to be talking more about that.
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So the one thing you want to look at also when you’re looking at these books is a book extremely popular or not so much. And I told you if it’s 100,000 or if the rank is 100,000 or less, it’s very popular.
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If it’s 100,000 or more, you know, it’s going down that scale. So if you see it, the rank is 4 million. It’s not, you know, anybody buying it, but they might have bought it from the very beginning, but they want it now, which didn’t deter you later on. And I’ll talk about that also in the bestseller lab, how you can take one book and start your own and create your own economy with it.
00:33:56:36 – 00:34:09:31
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So after you hit bestseller, if the book doesn’t sell anymore. So I don’t care, because I’ve got so many other things that I can create just from this book. Now, if you want to keep that book, sell it. There are some things to do for that to,
00:34:09:31 – 00:34:25:11
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and I go over that in the program. So now, you’ve got your categories down, you get a description, you know, you have your cover created, you have your book laid out, you know, your top keywords.
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Are you ready to upload?
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Unknown
So I have an entire lesson in the Bissell lab about keywords, categories and how important they are
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in my bestseller lab program.
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And is now open. Yay! So you can. But before.
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Unknown
So go back to is now open. You.
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And the best a best seller lab starts on February 26th and if you are interested in that, I have something very special for you.
00:34:55:11 – 00:35:14:58
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I have a boot camp and I just did last week that tells you all about the best seller, but mainly it tells you how to get started on writing a book. It includes a lot of the stuff that I’ve said here, but I go more in-depth and I’m telling you more about the best seller lab. And then when you go to this page, then I’m going to share with you.
00:35:14:58 – 00:35:28:42
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In a minute, you’ll get to see actual students from the best seller lab, their results. You’ll get to hear some of them actually talk about how best seller, best Seller Lab changed their business with this best selling book.
00:35:28:42 – 00:35:46:03
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So the, link to that is on market. Your business.com/w t be on market business.com for us last TV. The bootcamp is absolutely free once you register it’ll take you straight there.
00:35:46:03 – 00:36:02:49
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And you can look at those videos on your own. And if you feel like, hey, this is for me, this is something I need because I don’t know what Carol’s talking about, the keywords and description and all that stuff. I never even thought about all that being involved in a book. I just wanted to write my book. Then you need to
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schedule your order inquiry with me.
00:36:05:28 – 00:36:23:57
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It’s totally free. It’s you and me. We’ll just. It’s all about you. We’ll be talking about what kind of book you’re going to write, who your people are, all of these things. And I’m telling you now, and I’ll share with you the information about the best seller, lab investment, all that good stuff. So get your freebie own, go to and market your business.com.
00:36:23:57 – 00:36:33:18
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So forward slash w t b. So now that you’ve gotten all the stuff done, you are ready to upload your book,
00:36:33:18 – 00:36:45:33
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which is a whole other thing and is in itself. And I go over that in the Bissell lab too. How to navigate Kindle. Direct. What is it? KDP? Kindle Direct Publishing is what they call it from Amazon.
00:36:45:33 – 00:36:47:55
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I go over all that, tell you step by step how you do it.
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Unknown
So now this is why. This is why
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the description and the cover, all of that stuff, all that prep we’re doing. This is why it’s important, because I’ve had two clients to go to best seller directly after we uploaded the book in like three days or so, and we did not do any promotion, any advertising in the other day was uploaded, but that let you know how important the keyword research, the description that you’re writing that has the keyword research in it as well, your title, your subtitle, the cover itself, and the contents of the book.
00:37:25:10 – 00:37:37:24
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It shows you how important it is and picking the right categories, choosing the right audience. All this stuff is important. It helps you to get to bestseller. And that’s what we did.
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And I want to help you do that as well. Remember, you can get those free the free bootcamp training. All you need to do is go to and market your business.com/w TV and I’ll see you on the other side.
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Welcome back. My client success story today is Barbara Gentry here.
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Unknown
And I met Barbara. I want to say okay, I think we’ve been working together since 2019. So somewhere around there, it seems like to me it was before. I believe it was before the pandemic. You know, our lives are this line before Covid, after Covid, and I think it was before Covid.
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But anyway, she she is a fantastic entrepreneur, Christian entrepreneur, faith based entrepreneur, woman of God. She is amazing. I love her. So we got together, I created her website for her and it’s called Barbara Gentry Yukon.
00:39:57:19 – 00:40:07:08
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She wanted a place, she had several other websites and we had to kind of combine them all and get everything together. It talks about her, her business show showcases on her books.
00:40:07:08 – 00:40:33:26
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I mean, she’s the author of many, many books. I hate to say to give out a number, but I think 10 to 15, something like that. And she even came into the book that I’m talking about today that I’ll be talking about a little later. So hats off to Barbara Gentry Pew, you are amazing. And if you guys need any Christian coaching specifically, specifically Christian coaching, I’m getting closer to God.
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Challenge. And I say any change?
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And.
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I did not even say challenge.
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Three I know what that is.
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Unknown
Your challenge for today, for you to become a bestselling author in 30 days, is to number one pick a date that you’re going to start. Doesn’t matter if it’s today or tomorrow. Whenever. Just pick a day, put it on your calendar and said, my 30 day countdown starts now and then I want you to go through all the steps that I told you about previously in searching.
00:41:53:52 – 00:42:15:13
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Research is all about the research. Getting your book to bestseller, and becoming a bestselling author. The key is research. So all the things that I talked about in this episode that you need to do with your book, then you need to research. And when you research, you’re going to come out on the on the, most successful end anyway.
00:42:15:19 – 00:42:30:58
Unknown
So that is my challenge. Go to your calendar, set a date. You’re going to start that 30 day thing. And this is just going to help you because you have a time limit on doing this research. And you can definitely get it done in 30 days. And then you can write your book and upload it right.
00:42:30:58 – 00:42:34:02
Unknown
To recap, let’s go through the three points from this interview.
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Unknown
Then I want to drive home that you need to know about, that you need to use in order to become a bestselling author in 30 days. And that is number one. You got to know who your audience is. Who are you talking to? Who do you want to read this book? Who do you want to buy this book?
00:42:49:45 – 00:43:10:49
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Number two, what is their biggest problem? Remember I told you how to use far to do that? But what is their biggest problem that they need solving? What is keeping them up at night or keeping them from going to sleep at night? And then number three, how is your book going to solve their problem? Remember those key steps because you’re going to use them.
00:43:10:49 – 00:43:24:35
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I use them every single time I do a book. And like I said, I’m a ten time bestselling author, right? So I use them every single time. My clients use them every single time. That’s why they are now bestselling authors. Two, three, four,
00:43:24:35 – 00:43:27:55
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and seven times bestselling authors. They do the same thing.
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me to get this book.
00:43:39:09 – 00:43:58:54
Unknown
I know you’ve seen this book before. Prayers and inspiration for mom or nurse, but I had to bring it out again because my spotlighted client for today, Barbara Gentry Pew, is one of the authors in it. And remember I said, I think it’s six of us all together? I was like, hey, I guess I could just read read what’s on the book, right?
00:43:58:54 – 00:44:12:58
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But I think it’s six of us all together, and we’re each talking about our moms and how we are mom, her nurse and our mothers, who are my new North. Most of them, or they weren’t even mom or nurse at all, but they inspired us
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to be. And to have the life that we have right now is very touch.
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It’s very touching. So go get it. You can get that book by going to see insight corporation.com/mom book.
00:44:25:39 – 00:44:30:27
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Well that’s all I have for you today. Thank me for being my special guest.
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Unknown
And I hope that what I said was it helps you in getting your book again because you can do it. You can do this. Remember I started this in 2017.
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I did not know what I was doing at all. Point blank. I joined some groups and went through a lot of research. I did a lot of things and now I’ve just shrunk it down and told you the key points that you need to think is your best seller and let me know how that comes out. So if you want to dive in more about how a book changes the trajectory of your business with examples, tune in next week.
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Because I’m talking about write your book is your time. This is your time now. So that’s what we’re going to be talking to is time for you to write your book. And I’m going to go through all the stuff that
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that can really help how this book is going to help you, how this book is going to help you next level, your business, next level, your confidence, next level, your money.
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So join me for that. Now, if you receive value from this episode, please share with the audience. It means so much to me and go ahead and subscribe. So you don’t miss an episode of All at All. That’s all I have for you today. Thank you so much for joining me. See you next time.
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