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Very cool, congrats. I've published a couple of books on Amazon with similar levels of success (https://www.amazon.com/Product-Management-Interview-Manager-Proc
by awillen 6y ago
Very cool, congrats. I've published a couple of books on Amazon with similar levels of success (https://www.amazon.com/Product-Management-Interview-Manager-Process/dp/1075470986 https://www.amazon.com/Product-Management-Interview-Manager-... is the most recent), and the one thing I'd strongly recommend to you is to try Amazon advertising. It's very simple to set up and has been profitable the whole way. Nothing earth-moving; in the last month I've spent about $30 in ads and that's yielded about $80 in profit (before the cost of ads). The sales from ads also help keep your book higher in search, which can generate organic sales.
Congrats again!
- amrrs 6y agoDo you have any blog post on your experience of writing the book? I've got a few topics but I couldn't get started at all. Perhaps, the fear of not completing it or the # of pages I see with Packt Books (like ~300 pages). Do you have any tips for cases like this?
- awillen 6y agoUnfortunately I probably don't have much of anything that'll be useful. The genesis of that book was that I was on sabbatical and had decided to get a job again, so I interviewed at a ton of places. I took a lot of notes for my own sake, and when I saw how many sales the most popular PM interview book on Amazon was getting, I figured if I even got 10% of those it'd still be worth my time to compile the notes into a book. In terms of general tips on writing this kind of thing, I just start with a big Google Doc and start writing sections about whatever's on my mind. If I'm thinking about a particular interview question, I write about it and leave it with some kind of a note to make it easy to find when I'm searching later. Once I've got a fair amount of content, then I start organizing and filling in the rest.