Kindle Publishing 2018 - Top 3 Challenges I Faced When I First Started

About this video

Dollwet lists the top three challenges he faced starting Kindle publishing. First was bad and conflicting information online: different gurus taught different methods for fiction, nonfiction, children’s and no-content books, which left him confused about who to follow, and he warns in hindsight some information was flat-out wrong or could put an account at risk. Second was information that was not step-by-step: he says the first course he bought for about $100 left him asking what to do next after finishing it. Third was fear of losing money: he says after four years of trying online businesses and making only about $500, he hesitated to buy another course for a couple hundred dollars and then to spend $100-$300 making a book. He says he overcame that fear, reinvested profits from a first money-making book into more books, and claims it takes about three months on average to make back the investment, about a month for a good book in his case. He further claims that across around 80 books he never had a single book fail to make back its cost — claims presented as his experience to argue that following a good step-by-step course and taking action makes the business simple.

Key takeaways

• Conflicting guru advice across different publishing models can confuse beginners; verify information because some of it is wrong or risky for an account.
• Choose a course that is genuinely step-by-step, so finishing it leaves a clear next action rather than confusion.
• Fear of losing money after past business failures delayed both buying training and paying to produce a book.
• His model is to reinvest profits from one book into the next and repeat, rather than treating each book as a one-off.
• His claimed timelines — about three months average to recoup, faster for a good book — are his own experience, not a guarantee.

Episode details: published October 7, 2018 · 9:32 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Sean Dollwet’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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