Naima B. Robert – Release the Book Within Should I invest in my book right now
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Hey there. Naomi Robert here. Author, editor and
coach to women like you who have an
idea and want to take it all the
way
to published book.
Now
let's talk money.
Yes,
fun times.
Let's talk money because I know that for
many people
committing to a any kind of writing program,
any kind of book coaching program it's going
to involve money. Okay, facts. Okay, just pure
facts. Especially when you're getting to work with
editors and experts
on your actual book and they're going to
help you to, you know, to shape your
outline. To, you know, to get your structure
right and to to actually develop your writing
voice, it costs money.
So let's look at some of the strategies
that I have been helping my clients with,
that may help you. Okay. So the first
is the one I'm gonna share in this
video and that is to
focus on the value
of the project as a whole.
Okay. When you're working with any kind of
coach,
they
are
going to be offering you
value.
Okay.
It's not a, an exchange as in if
I pay you this amount,
am I going to make that back from
book sales?
Alright. I've had this question before. I'm going
to be very honest.
It's not a, it's not the question you
should be asking. Okay. Because book sales
have, you know, very little to do with
the work that we are going to do
together. That's the truth.
Because when we are working together,
I am helping you to get clarity on
your idea, on what it is you really
want to achieve,
who your ideal reader is, you know, how
marketable your book is.
And then from there we can look at
the type of book that you should be
writing. What structure makes the most sense for
you? But then we work on your outline.
What to include, what not to include, you
know, how deep to go, how wide to
go.
And then I help you to write it.
Give you feedback on your on your writing
style, give you feedback on, you know, how
you're putting your ideas across, how you're structuring
your chapters, etcetera. And then my team and
I keep you pumped,
okay, for the length of the program so
that you stay committed and we help you
to create a lot of really cool things
as well. Like your own mailing list and
a freebie and all of these things that,
you know, kind of make your book more
marketable, right? But
not only
is the investment
in working with myself or somebody else like
me about getting your book
to be the very best that it can
be,
we're also helping you grow.
And this is something I have seen time
and time again with my clients.
Because people come into a writing program or
book writing program thinking, all they're gonna get
out of it at the end is a
book.
And they realize that they got so much
more.
Again, it is the woman they became along
the way.
The friends they made, the skills that they
learned,
the confidence that they gained,
you know, the possibilities
that you become open to
as you grow in confidence, as you grow
in expertise, as you're writing this book. I've
had many clients who even before the book
is published
are being noticed
because we teach them how to kind of
seed people's interest.
They are being noticed, they're being invited to
speak, they're being invited as an authority in
their niche or in their industry
and this is all because
they stood
up and they said, I am ready to
lead.
I'm ready to be seen
and I'm ready to be heard.
So that's nothing to do with the book
sales. Book sales is a different conversation,
but what they gained
even before the book came out
was priceless
and was worth way more than what they
paid originally in the program. So I want
you to focus on the value that you
get from working with a team.
Because there's a huge difference and I I've
seen the difference. And I'm not saying this
because I'm a book coach. I've seen the
difference between a book that somebody wrote all
on their own
and a book where they had a team.
Because remember that when you work with a
publisher,
okay, you have a whole team of people
helping you.
Right? You will have, you know, somebody that
first thing, if you're working with a publisher,
typically you've already written something. Right? So it
needs to be good already. Okay. It needs
to already have, you you know, the the
the the structure and the outline, etcetera. It
needs to have some kind of merit to
it for the publisher to even be interested.
But when you're working with a publisher, you
will work with several editors.
You will work with several editors, developmental editors
as well as copy editors, proofreaders.
Then you have, you know, the other people
on the other side, the publicists, the marketing
people, the sales people, you know, people who
do the publishing work of it, the publishing
side. So there's a lot that goes into
that. And there's a whole team behind every
book that you see. Every book that you
see on the shelf has been photoshopped,
as we like to say it, multiple times.
So now when you're doing a book all
on your own and you decide to self
publish, without the help of a team, what
normally results is a book that is underdeveloped
because it's only been you. And if you
may have a brilliant idea and you may
have, you know, a great story to tell,
But without
expert guidance to really get you on the
right track and get you focused on the
right audience and and structure it without that
outside eye, that expert eye,
you could waste a lot of time and
money
getting it wrong.
So focus on the value whenever there is
a price to pay. Okay. It's not like
a dollar for dollar. It's not if I
put in 5 ks, will I get back
5 ks in book sales? It doesn't work
like that because this
book
is
your calling card in the world.
And it is also a part of your
legacy and
that's worth investing in
because you don't want to put a rubbish
book out there and say, yeah, this is
me. You know, you want to put out
a really good book so you can say,
yeah, this is me. Right?
So
at the moment, as you know, we have
a case study program happening. It's not 5
ks. Alright. It's it's it's much, much less
than that because it is a particular lockdown
experiment.
So if you know that you want to
write your book in the next 90 days
and you know the value of working with
a team of experts,
then just comment committed below this or send
me an email with committed in the subject
line and let's have a chat and let's
see if we're fit to work together.
I'm loving the progress of the women in
our experiments so far. We are giving them
everything that we've got. We're giving them all
the support that we have and they are
on fire. So I'd love for you to
join us. See you hopefully on the other
side. Stay safe, stay sane and stay committed
to your dream.
Over and out.