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Happy to answer questions as well!

dools 14y ago
Hey, excuse me if this is covered in the podcast, but I can't watch it right away and so I thought I'd take the opportunity while you're sticking around here to ask the question: Did either of you follow the route of doing an intro/TOC/first chapter before you did the entire book then start marketing it to test out the response and do some lead gen? If not, do you have any thoughts on that approach? (including potentially doing pre-sales of the book before you've actually gone ahead and written it?) I'm working on a couple of eBook concepts right now and these are some concepts I've been thinking about, would be very interested in your point(s) of view. Congrats on the publishing success!
- sgdesign 14y ago
  I didn't do that myself but I think it's a very valid strategy. The only problem I can see is that it might hurt your momentum: sometimes you just need to go ahead and write without having to wait for feedback or A/B test results for every chapter. Same with presales, it's a great strategy as long as you don't spend so much time promoting the pre-sale that you forget to write the book! It might sound like I'm exaggerating but there is so much you can do to market eBooks that the book itself can sometimes become almost an afterthought…
Ygg2 14y ago
Got any other good design ebook you want to recommend other than the two in this thread? I'm always looking to read more :) Disclaimer: I bought yours and I'm going to purchase Nathan's in the near future (i.e.today).
- sgdesign 14y ago
  To complete the series, here's the third "design-ebook-that-was-launched-on-HN-and-made-a-surprising-amount-of-money": http://bootstrappingdesign.com/ http://bootstrappingdesign.com/ :)
rjzzleep 14y ago
i have one, any chance I'll ever get to see the copy i bought, considering paypal won't return my money?
- sgdesign 14y ago
  What do you mean? You couldn't download the book? Did you get in touch with me?
simplegeek 14y ago
Hey, really liked the transcript. My wife is a Doctor and she's writing an ebook on health related topic and I'm trying to find ways to market it. Can you kindly share few pointers on marketing? Thanks in advance and wish you very good luck.

dools 14y ago

Hey, excuse me if this is covered in the podcast, but I can't watch it right away and so I thought I'd take the opportunity while you're sticking around here to ask the question: Did either of you follow the route of doing an intro/TOC/first chapter before you did the entire book then start marketing it to test out the response and do some lead gen? If not, do you have any thoughts on that approach? (including potentially doing pre-sales of the book before you've actually gone ahead and written it?) I'm working on a couple of eBook concepts right now and these are some concepts I've been thinking about, would be very interested in your point(s) of view. Congrats on the publishing success!

sgdesign 14y ago
I didn't do that myself but I think it's a very valid strategy. The only problem I can see is that it might hurt your momentum: sometimes you just need to go ahead and write without having to wait for feedback or A/B test results for every chapter. Same with presales, it's a great strategy as long as you don't spend so much time promoting the pre-sale that you forget to write the book! It might sound like I'm exaggerating but there is so much you can do to market eBooks that the book itself can sometimes become almost an afterthought…

Ygg2 14y ago

Got any other good design ebook you want to recommend other than the two in this thread? I'm always looking to read more :) Disclaimer: I bought yours and I'm going to purchase Nathan's in the near future (i.e.today).

sgdesign 14y ago
To complete the series, here's the third "design-ebook-that-was-launched-on-HN-and-made-a-surprising-amount-of-money": http://bootstrappingdesign.com/ http://bootstrappingdesign.com/ :)

rjzzleep 14y ago

i have one, any chance I'll ever get to see the copy i bought, considering paypal won't return my money?

sgdesign 14y ago
What do you mean? You couldn't download the book? Did you get in touch with me?

simplegeek 14y ago

Hey, really liked the transcript. My wife is a Doctor and she's writing an ebook on health related topic and I'm trying to find ways to market it. Can you kindly share few pointers on marketing? Thanks in advance and wish you very good luck.