Passion vs Profit: Self Publishing Business | @BookLaunchers

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In this Passion vs Profit episode, Dale asks Julie Broad — host of Book Launchers on YouTube and an author who reached the number one spot overall in the Amazon Kindle Store — which she prefers. Broad answers: passion, and it always leads to profits. She illustrates with a woman who wrote a book on women’s empowerment that had nothing to do with her day job, simply because she loved the subject. She wrote it for no other reason than passion, and three years later, with the Me Too movement, she was getting calls to be the media person and spokesperson, with offers to pay her to speak at events — an opportunity she could be cashing in on in a big way. Broad’s conclusion is that profits may not come today and may not arrive in the way you expect, but if you follow your passion and stay open to it, they do come. Her closing advice is to be passionate all day long, create a life you love living, and go live it.

Key takeaways

• Julie Broad, a former number one overall Amazon Kindle Store author, chooses passion over profit.
• Her claim is that passion always leads to profits, though not necessarily right away.
• Example: a women’s empowerment book written purely from passion led, three years later, to media, spokesperson, and paid speaking calls during the Me Too movement.
• Profit may arrive in an unexpected form rather than as direct book sales, so stay open to it.
• Create a life you love living rather than chasing profit as the primary motive for writing.

Episode details: published April 22, 2018 · 2:38 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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