When You Become Too Famous Too Quickly: A Book Marketing Case Study (Part III)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008A Novel Book Marketing Case Study: Why Author And Grow Rich book is not being published anymore. This is Part III Of A Special Three Part Blog Series. NOTE: Grab another copy as it will be worth something as a collector’s item. Amazon has about 50 copies left. If you are interested in authoring business coaching, this is the perfect place to start.
To bring you up to speed with with this short blog series, please read the previous two posts–Part 1 and Part II of When You Become Too Famous Too Quickly: A Book Marketing Case Study.
The head of marketing for ADOBE was so impressed that a Vice Principal (I was still in my job at that time) was leading the field in authoring and e-publishing with a system to help anyone write a book fast and build the necessary home business skills. They were further impressed that it was being done from a teaching and learning perspective. (To date, there is NO one doing this even though some of my competitors who have been coached by me are trying to appear to do this.)
An Aside…Advanced Book Marketing Speed To Market Principle: The ability to build a business quickly and then teach others how to do it are mutually exclusive skill sets. That is, just because you have done it (and there are really only just a few who have), doesn’t mean you can teach it!
Shortly thereafter I received a phone call from one of the CEOs of BookSurge, which has since been purchased by Amazon.com, wanting to do business with my company. In fact, just recently I shared on a previous blog post how Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, thanked me publicly at Book Expo before a live audience as he received a copy of our book on how to write a book fast.
Prepare for this kind of growth: companies who want to do business with you because they see the win/win.
Now, the story behind this blog post.
Some of the largest companies in the market who have very limited thinking will not be able to see a win/win with you and your company so they play out of perceived fear. Perceived fear is what constitutes most types of fear today…perceived fear really comes from the ‘what if’ scenario and is psychologically based with virtually no chance of this happening.
Real fears on the other hand are reality based and have a high probability of occurring. For example, a real fear is that if my young child walks out in front of traffic she/he will probably be hit. The probability is very good that this will happen.
What does perceived fear look like in business? The ultimate form of perceived fear is threatening a law suit against someone else because that company is scared. The ultimate source of perceived fear is jealousy.
This type of win/lose thinking ultimately comes from limited thinking and a limited world view on the opportunities that exist for each of us.
My company has been under attack from a very big organization who want the rights to my domain name (http://AuthorAndGrowRich.com), they want me to change my book title with its focus on how to write a book fast etc.
In fact, here is another example of the power of what I teach around rapid home business skills deployment. I got noticed by this company right from the inception of launching my idea into the market place, and this happened even though many companies have domain names related to mine and have been in the market years before me! This organization is using me as a case study to build legal precedence before they go after these other companies.
Here is an extremely important point I want you to understand. Yes, market feedback is critical to your success, but competitor feedback in this manner can even be a greater form of feedback for you!
This is a company that has deep pockets and even though there are numerous other companies that have owned similar domain names for a lot longer than I have, they are beginning with me.
Why?
Because of our rapid advancements in the market place and our client success rate.
Because we are perceived as a threat.
And because they live in a world with limited opportunities.
Here’s what I am doing about this…
I first consulted my lawyer and we put disclaimers in the latter published copies of Author And Grow Rich and on our website.
However, they continued to confront my company and instead of fighting this in court which is where it was going—as much as I would have loved to do this—I did NOT want to expend my energy in a negative fashion—so I made the executive decision to republish our book under a new title and have just moved our domain name to http://AuthorAndGetRich.com.
And here is how you win.
I am going to show you personally how we are going to get launch http://AuthorAndGetRich.com and quickly influence the search engines to choose us over our competitors with respect to our key words.
And I am going to allow 12 of you to come to Sarnia to work with me personally for three days in the most intensive three day event that you can imagine.
Please Note: a one day’s consultation with me starts at $15,000 and a three day consult is $40,000. Yes, we are not cheap, but there is also no one teaching what we do with the focus on rapid business deployment and authorship to become the Thought Leader of your market place.
The specifics of the three days will be shared shortly when I get home from the business trip and vacation I am taking in the Virginia Beach area. The event will be intense…so I am going to include eight bonus weeks working with me live before you come to get yourself ready to work with me and train with my trainer.
Three weeks ago I first discussed this, but have not had a chance to let you know more because of this legal battle and the fact that I have been travelling.
To get yourself ready for this “BizFit Three Day Intensive” we will focus on the following:
1. Systems to fast write your book if you are just starting to putting this together.
2. Systems to build the most expensive back end programs in your niche.
3. Specific outcomes focused on increasing your Speed To Market execution and instantly increasing your cash flow by at least 3X.
And much more.
This will be the most intensive three days of your life.
Pure and simple.
That’s why you will need to qualify and ready your mind and body to achieve what we have in store for you.
Here are some of the deliverables.
This will NOT be a ‘pitch-athon’ event.
Before you come, you must be ready to compete. Yes, you will compete. With yourself. But you must be ready to do this both cognitively and emotionally.
Before you come to my town, we will spend an eight week preparation period delivered over the phone focusing on getting your body and mind ready to attend this event. That’s right. You will work with me and my team–including my trainer–to get you ready to attend this event.
Whether you are a seasoned gym rat or you can’t remember ever stepping foot into a gym, it does not matter. What matters is that you will be trained properly and that you exemplify the discipline to go through with the qualifying process in order to work with me for three intensive days.
If you are interested in attending and qualifying for this, please note the following:
No alcohol will be allowed during the event. You must engage yourself in a proper diet that you will be given during the qualifying eight week preparation period. Proper diet and conditioning will allow you to maximize our time together in my home town..
1. You will work out with me in the gym each day with my personal trainer, who also trains professional athletes from numerous fields including NHL hockey players.
2. You will develop your observation skills using the systems that you will have developed before you get here.
3. You will create next steps for your business. Refer to the following diagram as an overview of what we will be taking you through to get yourself ready.
4. You will leverage all the ‘Speed To Market’ principles we will cover in advance.
5. You will speak and be video taped before a live audience.
And much, much more!
There will be many more measurable outcomes, but I want to provide you a cursory understanding that this will be focused on measurable outcomes.
The net focus will be on cash flow. But cash flow begins with developing an asset. And in the Recommendation Age, your asset is built on the ability to forge long term relationships. The means that the value you create must not only engage your ideal client’s mind, but it must be build within the context of your million dollar story. That involves you looking and feeling your best.
Your Homework:
1. Jump onto the following blog post if you are interested and gain a few more details here…
http://authorandgetrich.com/blog/a-three-day-intensive-do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-meet-me
2. –>CLICK HERE To Download An Overview Of Our Speed To Market System In PDF<--
3. If you are interested, please phone our international headquarters in Canada at 519.542.3043 and let Victoria or Karen know of your interest and what you think the investment should be for an event like this.
Your feedback on this blog is always greatly appreciated. I love hearing from you and every blog post is read.
To Your Legacy!
Glenn









