I just bought the book and the preview chapter is what convinced me that the book was worth owning. The content was new to me and it was obvious you've put in a lot of effort. I'm just at the beginning stages of iOS development and I thought reading your book now will be a good start to get me thinking differently about app development.
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#32Nathan - congrats buddy! There are a few key takeaways anyone who has a product, or wants to create a product, should take note of. * Email lists are very, very important. I was also able to market my freelancing book to 2,000+ freelancers on my Planscope list. Like Nathan with his weekly list, I had a huge head start. * Additionally, the theory that you can't sell to the HN audience is bunk. When I wrote a post simi…
Email lists are very, very important. I was also able to market my freelancing book to 2,000+ freelancers on my Planscope list.
I'll second this (along with the scores of people I've discussed this topic with) because I accidentally turned this into my full-time business!
I started my Ruby Weekly newsletter merely with the goal of promoting books and screencasts I wanted to make but it has gone a bit too well and now I have 75k subscribers to speak with. Sadly still no books.. but the training and screencasts have gone well.
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#33Great post Nathan. What tools did you use to author the ebook and are you looking beyond pdf format?
Yes! I would like to know a bit more about the tools used to create the ebook too.
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#34Nathan - congrats buddy! There are a few key takeaways anyone who has a product, or wants to create a product, should take note of. * Email lists are very, very important. I was also able to market my freelancing book to 2,000+ freelancers on my Planscope list. Like Nathan with his weekly list, I had a huge head start. * Additionally, the theory that you can't sell to the HN audience is bunk. When I wrote a post simi…
Email lists are very, very important. I was also able to market my freelancing book to 2,000+ freelancers on my Planscope list. I'll second this (along with the scores of people I've discussed this topic with) because I accidentally turned this into my full-time business! I started my Ruby Weekly newsletter merely with the goal of promoting books and screencasts I wanted to make but it has gone a bit too well and now…
And because you're dishing out a weekly email, you're keeping the list healthy and motivated.
I've made the mistake (and I know a lot of other's have too) of: build email list, silence, silence, silence, SELL SELL SELL. ...And then Mailchimp contacts you about your unsubscribe rate being too high :-)
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#35Nathan, I almost completely missed this. I woke up to it on HN. Yes, I did get your email yesterday around 8:30am but when I read it on my iPhone, I skimmed right to the center section, with the 4 icons, which is now my routine after getting it for months. Your book has been coming for a while so didn't actually notice that it shipped.
Anyway, I'd suggest a more prominent headline in your next newsletter, or even include the different versions. Heck, why not just dedicate half an issue to discussing it?
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#36You've probably heard the following parable:
Little Bull: "Let's run down the hill and make sweet love to a couple of cows."
Big Bull: "I got a better idea, let's walk down and make sweet love to them all."
When you have content of a transient nature, you got to get the going while the going is good. An ebook launch like this will get the job done.
However, if you write a book that will blow people's minds and change a culture or an industry forever, you don't need the big launch. The name of your book will be whispered into the ears of others for a long time. You will get your sales.
The latter is a lot harder to do, but I'm hoping I can do just that.
Watch this space.
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#38I just bought a copy. Looking forward to great designed apps.
How long did it take to get the confirmation email? I've been waiting over 3 hours now.
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#39No money to be made in the App store, much to be made teaching people how to build apps. Kudos.
Teaching people commercially relevant skills which bill out at $150 an hour is a great thing for everyone involved. (And in that light this is possibly severely underpriced . I love the packaging options available, but I think there is probably also a packaging option for selling the same benefit to customers at 10X the prices on this page right now.)
I knew at some point you would tell me it was underpriced! :)
Patrick, thanks for all your encouragement and reminders to charge based on value. Without that I would have picked a much lower price and probably made half the money.
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#40Nathan, I almost completely missed this. I woke up to it on HN. Yes, I did get your email yesterday around 8:30am but when I read it on my iPhone, I skimmed right to the center section, with the 4 icons, which is now my routine after getting it for months. Your book has been coming for a while so didn't actually notice that it shipped. Anyway, I'd suggest a more prominent headline in your next newsletter, or even inc…
I didn't want to seem like I was spamming my list by focusing on it too much. Though I will continue to mention it in the coming weeks.
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