Real Fast Results for Marketing, Business and Entrepreneurs

Welcome to this episode of the Real Fast Results podcast!  Today’s special guest is Joel Friedlander, who is an award-winning book designer, blogger, and writer who speaks regularly at industry events.  He is also the author of A Self-Publisher’s Companion and the co-author of The Self-Publisher’s Ultimate Resource Guide.  Furthermore, he’s the owner of the immensely popular blog, The Book Designer, and he was named by Writer’s Digest as one of the 10 top people to follow in book publishing. In addition to all of that, Joel runs a site called BookDesignTemplates.com, and he’s done a really good job of creating templates that help people.  Not only does he provide valuable book templates through this site, he is the webmaster at AuthorToolKits.com, where authors can find digital products to help with their marketing and business activities, and he is the webmaster at BookPlanner.com, which is the only project planning tool that’s specifically designed for indie authors.  Welcome to the show Joel…

Download the Complete PDF Show Notes Free for this Episode Developing Template-Based Products Today, I’m promising to deliver a method for monetizing your work and re-purposing material that you may have developed as well as making use of the community that you are trying to gather around yourself – with templates. [bctt tweet="The benefit of developing template-based products is being able to monetize on the work you’ve already created." via="no"] Or it’s creating another product very quickly.  It’s also the advantage of being able to quickly create a product that could be massively helpful to a lot of people. Templates and checklists.  I love them.  I love using them and I love making them for people because they love them.  This is my process, which I have developed with my partner Tracy Atkins. Download the Complete PDF Show Notes Free for this Episode Learn:

• Identify the problem
• Have a system in place for feedback
• Use your blog to identify problems
• Attend webianrs
• Q&A's
• Join Facebook Groups
• Fill the Need
• Analyze
• Plan
• Promote and Publish your Product

Links Books by Joel: A Self-Publisher’s Companion The Self-Publisher’s Ultimate Resource Guide AuthorToolKits.com TheBookDesigner.com BookDesignTemplates.com BookPlanner.com Real Fast Results Community If you are diggin’ on this stuff and really love what we’re doing here at Real Fast Results, would you please do me a favor? Head on over to iTunes, and make sure that you subscribe to this show, download it, and rate & review it. That would be an awesome thing. Of course, we also want to know your results. Please share those results with us at http://www.realfastresults.com/results. As always, go make results happen!