Breakthrough Success

Jasmine Star is an Instagram expert, public speaker, and business strategist. She goes wherever her camera takes her and uses Instagram to tell stories of her life. The visual storyteller turned her curiosity into creativity, and this creativity budded into a passion. 

She gave up law at UCLA to marry sooner so her mother (suffering from cancer at the time) would live to be there for her wedding. In this episode, Jasmine talks about that surreal experience and how she got through some hard times that she encountered soon after. The bright part about the story is that her mother recovered, and now Jasmine is following her dreams, one photo at a time.

Learn:

—The 3:1 ratio that forms the core of Jasmine’s Instagram strategy

—How to get your Instagram followers to trust you

—How to never run out of Instagram ideas

Links From The Show:

www.jasminestar.com – Jasmine’s Site

http://insta180.com/ – Jasmine’s Instagram course

info@jasminestar.com – Jasmine’s email

Chandler Bolt is the CEO of Self-Publishing School and 5-time bestselling author. He believes that there’s a book inside of everyone, and Chandler teaches you how to find that book within so you can start writing. 

In this episode, Chandler reveals how you can identify your first book topic and turn it into a bestseller. He goes over keyword optimization, content creation, and the other parts of writing an epic book that sells. 

Chandler has been teaching authors how to write bestselling books for several years. He’s taught people like Lise Cartwright who I interviewed on Episode 10 of the podcast. Within six months of following Chandler’s advice, she went from unpublished author to making $3-$4K per month from her books. 

In this episode, I ask Chandler why Lise Cartwright became successful under his program and why it has a high success rate. For people interested in receiving free training from Chandler, you can start watching the free video series he set up for you.

 

Watch Chandler’s free video series 

 

Don’t put this video series or episode off for next time. Chandler’s insights have literally changed the way I view self-publishing and success in general. More importantly, Chandler’s advice has allowed me to get better results from my self-publishing efforts and expand my brand. 

Don’t think you’re too busy to write a book. Chandler published his first book as a sophomore in college. He then proceeded to drop out and make a 7-figure income by writing bestselling books and teaching people how to do the same.

 

Links from show:

http://self-publishingschool.com/book-idea-sells-3-things-must-check-write-book/ —Chandler’s post on finding profitable book ideas

http://self-publishingschool.com/how-to-publish-a-book/ —Chandler’s post on how to publish a book

Published: The Proven Path From Blank Page To Published Author – Chandler’s Latest book. We talk about it in the interview

https://www.rev.com/ – Transcription service

Dragon Dictation – Transcription service

Ryan Holiday’s Thought Catalog Article – An article I reference in this episode

Richard Rieman used his experience as an NBC broadcaster to narrate audiobooks as an Audible Approved Narrator. In this episode of Breakthrough Success, we talk about the Audiobook Revolution that’s taking over the consumer space.

Richard discusses how to narrate an audiobook and get your audiobook published in the ACX marketplace. He also shares some insights on how to rank your audiobooks higher on Amazon. 

Richard believes that the biggest challenge of any small business is finding the clients. He addresses this challenge by promoting his services online, and get this, attends one networking event every week. He says that attending and speaking at these events seals him most of the clients he gets.

This one search I conducted reveals the massive advantage audiobooks gives you. I searched “social media marketing” on the Amazon Kindle store and got a total of 6,429 books. The first few pages are filled with books with 100+ reviews.

Audiobooks presents a very different story. On Audible (Amazon’s website for audiobooks), I searched the same keyword phrase and got a total of 105 results. Very few of these books have 100+ reviews let alone 50+ reviews. Audiobook reading is also increasing, and with fewer audiobooks available than eBooks, the audiobook revolution makes sense.

To capitalize on this audiobook revolution, listen to the interview I had with Richard Rieman. I just learned about this revolution a few weeks ago. Richard has been living this audiobook revolution for quite a while now. 

If you want more episodes like this one, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher: 

marcguberti.com/itunes

marcguberti.com/stitcher

 

Key Links from the Show:

http://www.acx.com/ – Amazon’s Audiobook Creation Exchange

https://www.amazon.com/Authors-Guide-AudioBook-Creation/dp/0997100206 – Richard’s Book

www.meetup.com – Meet different people in industries

https://voatlanta.me/ – Voiceover Atlanta

www.audiobookreviewer.com – Audiobook promotion and review site

www.audiobookboom.com – Audiobook promotion and review site

www.audiobookrevolution.com – Richard’s website

richard@audiobookrevolution.com – Richard’s email

 

David Jenyns is the founder of Melbourne SEO services and systemHUB.com. He’s also the author of Authority Content. David helps business owners get their marketing messages heard. 

I first came across David’s work during my Christmas shopping bonanza (I ended up with 20 books). His book’s description grabbed me from the start, I did some more research, and I knew that I needed to have David on the show. 

Key Links from the Show:

davidjenyns.com — David’s website

authoritycontent.com — David’s book

http://www.melbourneseoservices.com — David’s SEO services company

semrush.com — A powerful SEO tool David mentions in this episode

cognitiveseo.com — Another powerful SEO tool David shares with us

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en – Google SEO Guidelines

Learn:

—How to write content that grabs people’s attention and leads to more traffic

—The elements of authority content

—How you can increase your revenue with the help of authority content

—What people get wrong with creating authority content

—How to master any skill

When a corporate rockstar turns into an entrepreneurial coach with more than an 80% success rate with his mastermind groups, you need that guy on your podcast. That’s exactly what I was thinking when I first came across Ellory Wells. 

 

Ellory was the exact person I needed to talk to because I’m currently a part of a mastermind group and am considering creating a mastermind group. With all of this in mind, I asked Ellory some questions that focused on what it takes to run a successful mastermind group. Our interview also took an angle towards fighting self-doubt which is natural but still evil.

 

 

Key Links From This Episode:

 

http://www.theexitstrategybook.com — Ellory’s book

 

https://www.ellorywells.com — Ellory’s website

 

http://www.thesuccessprinciples.com/ —Jack Canfield’s book gets mentioned in this episode

 

www.ellorywells.com/marc — Ellory’s mastermind guide 

 

 

Learn:

 

—How to run a successful mastermind group

 

—How to get the best out of people

 

—How to avoid self-doubt

 

—How to transition from the corporate world into an entrepreneurial sensation

Adam Houge is an author and a beacon of hope for self-published authors. The status quo view of self-publishing is that it’s hard to make money and sell books. Adam proved both of this myths wrong by selling 2 million of his self-published book.

 

Adam’s initial motivation wasn’t to make money. He was more focused on spreading his valuable content and getting his books into the hands of as many readers as possible. He wrote a religious book in the midsts of a series of medical bills and retirement from his day job. This is the book he wanted to spread. After writing 100+ books (not a typo), he’s now done just that—spread his message. In this episode, he discusses how he found the time to write 100+ books. 

 

Adam also talked about overcoming the 30 day drop off in sales after your book gets published. He doesn’t just get sales in the short-term. His books continue generating sales years after they were published. We also talk about keywords and categories, Amazon’s SEO.

 

Adam treats us to a mini course on all things Kindle marketing. If you’ve got Kindle books that you want to promote, listening to this interview will greatly help you with your efforts.

 

As always, our guest shares his favorite inspirational quote, and much, much more.

 

 

Key Links from the Show

 

www.thefanbaseformula.com – Adam’s Training Course for Authors

www.adamhouge.com – Adam’s Personal Site

 

Learn:

 

– How to keep sales up on Amazon Kindle

– Why Keywords and Categories are so very important

– How to make your book reach the right people

– Adam’s best learned career lesson

– What most authors get wrong when first publishing

– Adam’s favorite inspirational quote