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Ray Edwards, a best-selling author and a copywriting coach. Listen as Nathan asks Ray about books, the mechanics of publishing, how he was able to sell a thousand copies before getting promoted, and how affiliation works.

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Favorite Business Book? \\u2013The Biography of John Adams
What CEO do you follow?\\u2014 Peter Diamandis
What is your favorite online tool?\\u2014Evernote
Do you get 8 hours of sleep?\\u2014 No
If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be?\\u2014 Don\\u2019t do credit cards, invest your money, spend less than you earn, take better care of your body\\u2026most of the stuff you worry about in your 20s you won\\u2019t even remember so lighten up.

Time Stamped Show Notes:
01:17 \\u2013 Nathan\\u2019s introduction
01:54 \\u2013 Nathan welcomes Ray
02:07 \\u2013 Writing Riches
02:42 \\u2013 Ray\\u2019s revenue stream
03:00 \\u2013 How to Write Copy that Sells
05:30 \\u2013 It\\u2019s relatively easy to get published compared to how hard it is to write
06:03 \\u2013 Mechanics of publishing Ray\\u2019s book with Morgan James
07:50 \\u2013 Business books should be positioning pieces to win clients
08:27 \\u2013 As a result of having written the book, I can attribute directly or indirectly at least $.5M in revenue
09:07 \\u2013 The goal with this one (How to Write Copy that Sells) is to sell a lot more books
10:02 \\u2013 We\\u2019re looking for list placement in the book list
10:36 \\u2013 How did you get the first thousand sales? \\u2013 Just from my email list
11:11 \\u2013 How big is your email list? \\u2013It was about 37,000 people
11:28 \\u2013 We went through this whole campaign, for about 2 weeks, basically driving people off the list. Now we are about 17 to 18,000
11:55 \\u2013 Lining up affiliates for the book
12:45 \\u2013 How did you do the $400,000 in one month? \\u2013We sold to our own list and we had affiliates to promote the course on their list
13:42 \\u2013 I am the most expensive direct response copy writer in the internet
14:17 \\u2013 Sometimes people forget that they need to pay you royalties and you start chasing them
14:45 \\u2013 Making the Call to Action effective
15:08 \\u2013 What would you headline this podcast to maximize downloads? \\u2013Magic Words that Make You Rich
15:25 \\u2013 www.rayedwards.com

3 Key Points:
Writing something that people want to ready is a lot harder than getting published.
If you\\u2019re working on a royalties payment scheme find a way to automate it so you\\u2019re not chasing down payments.
Life is short\\u2014lighten up.

Resources Mentioned:
Writing Riches \\u2013 book authored by Ray
How to Write Copy that Sells \\u2013the updated version of Writing Riches
Morgan James \\u2013the publisher that published Ray\\u2019s two books
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