Naima B. Robert – Release the Book Within Should I invest in my book right now

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.