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1 Tip About Publishing Your Book 📚

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It’s time to get nervous. It’s to get worried. It’s time to freakout and doubt yourself on a host of different things. 😱🤯

Yup, it’s time to write a book. ☠️

Brian shares one of his many tips on lessons learned while going through the process of publishing his first book.

P.S. – Get over the freaking out, you’ll get through it and be all the better for it. 😇

Checkout IngramSpark Today If You Are Looking To Publish a Book ➡️ https://ingramspark.com

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One tip about publishing your book.

I am Brian pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I got the hardbound versions of my book finally delivered. This took quite a while, okay.

This is one tip I want to be able to pass on to you and a couple different ways of talking about it. So I just wrote my brand new book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business, which you can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

If you want a physical copy, you go through the free copy process, and it will give you a chance to be able to purchase a physical copy for less expensive than on Amazon. But if you want to get one right away quickly, in the most efficient manner, go to amazon.com they print them right there, I believe, because everyone I know that bought them off of Amazon got them before I did from the publisher themselves.

So who was the publisher, I went with a company called IngramSpark.com, IngramSpark.com will have a link down in the description. And overall was a it was a, it was a relatively simple process.

Going through it the first time was a little confusing, I did not know what I was doing. I did not have anyone on board. So that’s one tip you could take away from this, I have somebody that knows what they’re doing when you’re doing something new, or, you know, pay somebody to help you out with the process.

This was one of those things where I wanted to kind of do it the rough way, so that I really understood it from all the way through the first time. And I’m happy I did it that way. But it didn’t take longer.

And it did it I have hit stumbling blocks along the way. The one major thing I’ll tell you about in a second here.

The first thing that I ran into though, and I’m hoping this was only because of the current world situation that we’re in, is that they said after I had gone through the process and ordered my books, I ordered 10 copies of these to be delivered to me.

And they said okay, it’s gonna take, it’s gonna take a while, it’s gonna take a while because COVID has us back backed up. So everything, every problem with every company out there right now is being blamed on on COVID-19 and all the surrounding issues.

Not that it isn’t true.

It just, it’s one of those things you get tired of after a while, because it’s like everybody, every single thing that could possibly go wrong. Well, it’s COVID’s fault, you know what, it’s gonna take longer while you’re on hold, because COVID, you know, so it’s just one of those things you just got to deal with.

Hopefully, if you go and do this, it won’t be during the pandemic, or what have you, the world won’t be riding around with the terror on fire. But if you do, just be ready for it, because they can do that type of thing.

So they said that it was going to be a good three weeks or something before before it got delivered. Turns out it was a lot longer than that. Okay, I don’t know what it ended up being. But you can go back and see when I got the video when I got the the deal published.

While this has been this has been well over a month. So these just showed up today. So it was a month and three days is how long it took for me to get it probably about 35 days, from the point at which I ordered it to when I actually received the box with the things and people were ordering them off of Amazon and getting them within a couple days physical copies.

So I knew that that wasn’t the best way to go about doing it.

But it was the best price.

And it was one of those situations where I had to see what I ended up getting from the publisher. And it’s good and bad.

In general, most of the ones that came through turned out okay, and then I got a couple that were a little problematic.

This one here, you can’t really tell by looking at the cover, the front cover looks okay. If you look closer, you can tell that it’s a little off. There’s a straight line here and it’s a little bit crooked and it starts becoming more more that way as you look along.

This is where the spine it’s supposed to be on the spine that what like my name, but the title kind of falls over under the edge and then the back is just a total total mess up. It’s it’s crooked and everything else.

So I’m going to try to send this one back and I’ve got a couple like that this was probably the worst one out of all of them. Many of them are just kind of just off center.

And that could be my fault or their fault but this one’s completely their fault because it’s completely jacked and it’s not like the other ones. The inside of the book looks great.

I had I really had a lot of fun going through the the publishing process and it looks like a professional real book.

How about that? Who would have thought right?

And when you see it for yourself the first time going through the process yourself. It’s incredible think okay, I took this from beginning to end.

And now I’ve got a book just like the other books on my shelf. It’s like a book.

It’s an actual book that this is how books happen. Not not all the time. But you could make books happen for yourself, and you shouldn’t be scared of just the little crazy things that can go wrong one, the one major tip is just be ready for the unexpected when you’re dealing with a new way of doing it.

So if you’re going with a new publisher, if you’re going with a self publishing mode, if you’re going with any type of printer, just be ready for the unexpected. And if you can work with somebody that’s worked with that publisher with that printer, with that situation, so that they they’re on top of it.

Great thing about IngramSpark, they put it into all the different places.

So he got on Amazon, Barnes and Noble everything immediately. I mean, really, it took it took 24 hours for it to show up just about everywhere. And anywhere that books are being sold online.

That’s a legitimate bookstore, including many foreign foreign bookstores that I didn’t know existed online, have my book in them.

And so when if you go and you type in the name, you know, 9 Ways Amazon-Proof Your Business in quotes into Google, you’ll see all these different stores that you can find them in, and that was all remote control.

I didn’t have to do any of that they handled all that. So it’s a great service IngramSpark.

I’m a little disappointed with the print job just because I got a couple funky ones. Other than that, very interesting. I’m going to see, I’ll let you know how it ends up going.

So I’m going to ask them if I can get these ones replaced. Because it’s not a doesn’t look good to send one of these off to a client or potential client. When it’s got a goofy cover like that. I don’t know. Maybe these will be…these will be a special collector’s edition. Who knows We’ll see.

If you’d like to be able to know how to really take your business how to stand out in your industry and make every competitor irrelevant. That’s the subtitle. Then go and grab my book, 9 Ways Amazon-Proof Your Business.

Like I said free free book at AmazonProofBook.com. We’ll be back here tomorrow night.

We’re back here every night talking about ways that you can improve your business in ways of principles, strategies and tactics. Have a good one. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Worst Part of Writing Your First Book

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So you want to write a book.

Well listen in as Brian gives you a few tips, fresh off of publishing his first book 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

Amazon-Proof Your Business➡️ https://brianjpombo.com/amazonbook/

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The worst part of writing your first book.

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.

I’d like to welcome you back to the headquarters for Brian J Pombo. We’ve done a lot of these in a lot of different places over the last year and a half or so that we’ve been doing these videos. One was the orange office, who’s my previous office that I used to use quite a bit, don’t use that as much anymore.

I have another office in town that I that I use on occasion one of my clients offices another one of my clients offices is also nearby.

We’ve done ones out of there, we’ve done a lot from outside here and they’re either here out on the property on the ranch, or somewhere else wherever I happen to be for for the day.

But this is the most easiest place to make be able to come back here when you’re doing it day after day after day, and you want something consistent and you want to be you want everyone to be able to hear you and everything else. I just I’d like to keep it simple.

So that’s why we’re here.

A little bit of a background. I just recently came out with a book you can if you’re watching this video and not listening to it, you’ll see the address down below. If you are listening to this, that address is AmazonProoBook.com. AmazonProofBook.com.

And what it is, is that’s a page you go to and get a free copy of my book. Now you can go and look for it on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble or the Apple Store or anywhere else and you get yourself a digital copy or a hardback copy.

You can go and purchase that but if you want a free digital copy, go to AmazonProofBook.com.

Why am I talking about this?

I’m talking about it because I wanted to go through kind of some examples of what I would consider the worst part of writing your first book. And I think for most people, the worst part of writing their first book comes with the actual writing of it, getting yourself to sit down and write something.

And for most people, they’re not natural writers. Some people are some people have a knack for it. Not that you’re a natural good writer, but you have a propensity, a an enjoyment for sitting down and typing something out or scribbling something out on paper. And that’s great. That’s great.

If you have that, you should keep doing it over and over and over. You should do it on daily basis.

Just write yourself silly.

For me, that was a very difficult process. And so I knew I would, it would take me a very long time if I’m going to sit there and write it because it all goes back to school training, of wanting to get it just right, and not wanting to have to go over and reedited the new all this other stuff.

So what I learned how to do from other people that have done it, is I said, well either I’ve got to do it auto And be able to talk about my book, Dean Jackson talks about this about talking out your book, he offers a actually a service called 90 minute book where he helps you to build a book within 90 minutes.

There’s a lot of people out there offering that when I started doing these vlogs on a daily basis, the Brian J Pombo Live Podcast.

When we started doing these, I found that hey, if I strong enough of these together, and I stuck to one topic ahead of time, I could probably get a book somewhere out of that.

So that’s what I did.

I had a I had a series called the 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. Which is the name of the book. And we had a series on that i h day I did a different way. And each of those separate videos became the basis for a chapter.

So all we did was we took those we made up we took them and had them transcribed. I had a lot of help from a lot of people. The main one was Sean Douglas producer of the podcasts all the podcasts I put out.

Sean is the main man behind the scenes taking care of it, you could read his descriptions of all of these shows that go out. And so very talented person and he’s he helped me transcribe everything and kind of do a rough edit on it and then I go through and just kind of make it readable.

So change things to make them make sense.

Anywhere that I misspoke or whatever else I switched that to make it work I added in pieces where necessary, but I already had the backbone in place that’s really easy for me to do is go in and edit something after it’s already been done.

I have a tough time doing it scratch, you know, whether it’s me or working on somebody else’s stuff. So went out, did all that all that was relatively easy. It’s just main thing was just making enough time to do it and making it a priority.

That was a little difficult because all of my life is crazy. I’ve got a million projects going on and they given time so it had to become a priority. So once we made it a private already, that part got done the toughest thing, all from that point on is just the fact that it’s my first book. And I didn’t really know what I was doing.

I wasn’t quite sure if what I was doing was the right way of doing it or not. And so there’s all that hesitation involved. I wasn’t quite sure all the I didn’t even know all the steps. I kind of had to guess at the steps based on what I had heard before and what I had read and what you could read online.

And so I went with IngramSpark, ingramspark.com, to publish it.

I didn’t completely understand what they needed. So I needed to take it step by step. And during that process, I found out that they had a bug in their new system to where certain things weren’t working, right. And so I was trying to communicate back with the four with them. This was all during COVID.

So they had extremely, extremely long wait times to get back to me. And finally worked out all that stuff, focus on it, that every time I’m taking off Have something I move on to something else.

While I’m waiting for something over here, I go over here and spin this plate around. And so it’s takes a long time to get through all that it’s if it’s your first time through that doubt is always there.

It’s not heavy doubt it’s just a consistent, is this really… am I doing it right? Is this what I’m supposed to be doing is this? I don’t know, you know?

And so that’s always there.

After I’ve gone through it one time, I’m completely positive, I can do it 20 more times, no problem. But going through it that first time. That’s the worst part of writing your first book is just not knowing the next step in the process.

I suggest getting somebody to work with you see, I I enjoy kind of being in that frame because it gets me to have a deeper understanding of what’s going on.

Even if I would do it differently with somebody else or and helping somebody else. I at least have an idea of the process and all the gist that I was looking for the minimal way to get it done.

And I think I found a pretty good way if you’re ever needing help on something like this, reach out to me, go to BrianJPombo.com and reach out.

And I’d be happy to happy to work with you.

If it seem like work out for both of us, I’d be happy to help you through this process, but find somebody that’s done it before.

And you might be able to avoid going through the worst part of writing your first book. Hopefully that’s helpful to you go check out my book that’ll help you out also in the process, Amazon proof book.com we’ll be back tomorrow.

We’re back here every day. I’m a business strategist, I help kind of unload these ideas of the principles, strategies and tactics that help you move forward and really explode your business.

If that’s what you’re looking to do. So, subscribe, follow and go check out back. Show’s over at BrianJPombo.com. We’ll see you next time. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.