Bruce had a 33-year career as a business graphic designer with Bruce Jones Design Inc. I worked with legal, corporate, government, nonprofit, educational organizations. It was a great career, it enjoyed it a lot. Parallel to that was developing and marketing my own products. Products included books, software, posters, online courses, and many other items. I love making and sell stuff.
Bruce's latest book is How to Sell Your Book, How I Made $322,650 and Sold 34,605 Books on Amazon, the Inside Secrets. He shares his secrets on selling books from publishing over 50 titles over the last ten years. I design my new book to help authors bring success to their book publishing and marketing. I cover using your book's content to sell your book. How to make noise and build awareness, and making your book easy to buy. It is available on Amazon in Paperback, E-book, and PDF, along with additional bonus content.
My latest geography and map coloring book, European Country Maps Coloring Book, 46 Blank, Outline, and Detailed Maps for Coloring, Home, School, and Education. #6 in the World of Maps series. To learn more click the links below.
To purchase a paperback at Amazon, CLICK HERE
To purchase a PDF, CLICK HERE
Click here to visit my Amazon Author Central Page and see all my books
Join 5,000 Authors
Come over and join the How to Publish Your Book Facebook Group, we have a great group of authors publishing books every day. https://www.facebook.com/groups/HowToPublishYourBook/
InterviewBruce.com
Looking for a speaker or guest to interview for your podcast or event, Bruce speaks on self-publishing and creating products. Reach out and contact me on Facebook, click here, InterviewBruce.com or give a call 781-492-0742.
Discover Your Possibilities
I talk to lots of people about their businesses, their books, and their products. I love sharing ideas and digging out how you can turn your life, experiences, and knowledge into a product or a book, something you can sell to get things started. I have been doing it for a long time. In fact, if you know me, I have a hard time turning it off.
Our conversations focus on what you do, what you know, what resources you have, what you have been pushing out to the world. Then how you can combine it together and build something new. Something that you can sell or use to advance your business forward.
In these conversations, I generally give you a series of resources that you can use to bring these ideas to life. You will be able to create a test product and get started and based on that bigger and better products. Below are some of the tools that I usually talk about to get things started.
Sites to Host Products
• Gumroad.com, fantastic for hosting and selling a simple product on your website. Gumroad is like an electronic bucket that you can upload several files to and sell them on your website. Gumroad handles the e-commerce stuff and downloading product. Learn to sell a couple of PDFs, a few videos, a small course or product. I love this site, it is fantastic for idea sketching and for selling. I have about 30 products on this site. https://gumroad.com
You can read more about Gumroad.com in this Medium article. they are fantastic
Here is a good example of how I turned my latest book into a PDF download product, https://gumroad.com/l/COtvE
• Teachable.com. Ok, you want to go a little bigger and create an online course with multiple videos and PDFs. Gumroad is fantastic but doesn't handle the bigger stuff as well as a site like Teachable.com can. https://teachable.com/
• Kajabi.com. This is a big-time site. It has all that Teachable has, but also has email management, landing pages, the Jeff Walker Product Launch four video method and lots more. It is more expensive but can handle pretty much anything you want to do. https://kajabi.com
If you are starting out, begin with Gumroad.com and make a simple product and grow. Making a product is very easy but start small. The goal is to make one $. Then grow to $100 and then $1,000 and beyond
• Google Blogger Blogs. The world is focused these days on social media, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Linkedin, and Twitter. And those are all good. But we all need a home online to host and display our products. Some simple, inexpensive or free tool. I love Google's Blogger platform. We are on it right now. It is free, stable, secure, and gives you just enough to get started. You can do it yourself, you don't need a webmaster. It will host pretty much anything, text, images, videos that you will need. It doesn't have a ton of expansion but it has enough. It is a great place to begin.
Examples of My Platform and Product Sites
I also talk about a couple of my websites and my Facebook Group on Publishing as examples. Everyone should have some version of these.
• My How to Publish Your Book Facebook group. FB Groups are powerful and a great way to build a platform. Look at my group as an example.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/HowToPublishYourBook/
• My blog, BruceTheBookGuy.com. You need some home online. I blog is a great way to start. I use Google Blogger Blogs a lot. They are free and super easy to put up. A lot of what I talk about is being tested on my blogs. Blogs are a great place to try all kinds of things because you usually don't need a webmaster to do stuff. Sometimes webmasters can block the nutty ideas that you want to try. Again this is idea sketching, http://brucethebookguy.blogspot.com/
• One of my main marketing ideas is to wrap ads that you create around your own content that is sitting on your own blog or website. Let the power of Google work for you and bring interested visitors to your site. Once they are there, give them a clear path to buy your stuff. I have been using this idea for decades to sell my stuff online. One of my best examples is my site AcousticMusicTV. com. From this site, I sell my music books and posters. http://www.acousticmusictv.com/
• Google Analytics. I will talk about web stats. Stats are super important to building your products. If you don't have Google analytics on your website make it one of the first things you do. If you have a Gmail account you actually have a Google Analytics account, they are free. Many blogs also have a stats package attached, Blogger does. Get yours connected.
Ok, there you go. Give me a call and we can talk about your project. 781-492-0742 or reach out to me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jbruce.jones
Angela DeYoung_Testimonial about Working with J. Bruce Jones on Creating Books from Bruce Jones on Vimeo.
I have a very active group on Facebook for author of all kinds around publishing your book. Come over and join us, https://www.facebook.com/groups/HowToPublishYourBook/
My Dream 100, People I Follow
Chandler Bolt, the founder of SelfPublishing.com. Has taught thousands of students on the power of being an author and publishing books. https://selfpublishing.com/
ClickFunnels, Russell Brunson, https://www.clickfunnels.com/
I read everything this guy puts out, amazing internet marketer
Ed Dale, the original internet marketing master. The founder of the 30 Day Challenge. How we all started, https://yourfirstdollar.com
Pat Flynn, Smart Passive Income,
Joel Friedlander, Book Design Template
Jane Friedman, helping authors and publishers, excellent newsletter, https://www.janefriedman.com/
Tim Grahl, author of The First 1,000 Copies, has some great resources on launching your book. https://booklaunch.com
Daniel Hall, Creator of the Real Fast Brand of publishing courses. A fantastic resource on self-publishing and creating products for the internet, https://realfastresults.com/
Tony Laidig, Expert Media Group
Discover Your Possibilities
I talk to lots of people about their businesses, their books, and their products. I love sharing ideas and digging out how you can turn your life, experiences, and knowledge into a product or a book, something you can sell to get things started. I have been doing it for a long time. In fact, if you know me, I have a hard time turning it off.
Our conversations focus on what you do, what you know, what resources you have, what you have been pushing out to the world. Then how you can combine it together and build something new. Something that you can sell or use to advance your business forward.
In these conversations, I generally give you a series of resources that you can use to bring these ideas to life. You will be able to create a test product and get started and based on that bigger and better products. Below are some of the tools that I usually talk about to get things started.
Sites to Host Products
• Gumroad.com, fantastic for hosting and selling a simple product on your website. Gumroad is like an electronic bucket that you can upload several files to and sell them on your website. Gumroad handles the e-commerce stuff and downloading product. Learn to sell a couple of PDFs, a few videos, a small course or product. I love this site, it is fantastic for idea sketching and for selling. I have about 30 products on this site. https://gumroad.com
You can read more about Gumroad.com in this Medium article. they are fantastic
Here is a good example of how I turned my latest book into a PDF download product, https://gumroad.com/l/COtvE
• Teachable.com. Ok, you want to go a little bigger and create an online course with multiple videos and PDFs. Gumroad is fantastic but doesn't handle the bigger stuff as well as a site like Teachable.com can. https://teachable.com/
• Kajabi.com. This is a big-time site. It has all that Teachable has, but also has email management, landing pages, the Jeff Walker Product Launch four video method and lots more. It is more expensive but can handle pretty much anything you want to do. https://kajabi.com
If you are starting out, begin with Gumroad.com and make a simple product and grow. Making a product is very easy but start small. The goal is to make one $. Then grow to $100 and then $1,000 and beyond
• Google Blogger Blogs. The world is focused these days on social media, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Linkedin, and Twitter. And those are all good. But we all need a home online to host and display our products. Some simple, inexpensive or free tool. I love Google's Blogger platform. We are on it right now. It is free, stable, secure, and gives you just enough to get started. You can do it yourself, you don't need a webmaster. It will host pretty much anything, text, images, videos that you will need. It doesn't have a ton of expansion but it has enough. It is a great place to begin.
Examples of My Platform and Product Sites
I also talk about a couple of my websites and my Facebook Group on Publishing as examples. Everyone should have some version of these.
• My How to Publish Your Book Facebook group. FB Groups are powerful and a great way to build a platform. Look at my group as an example.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/HowToPublishYourBook/
• My blog, BruceTheBookGuy.com. You need some home online. I blog is a great way to start. I use Google Blogger Blogs a lot. They are free and super easy to put up. A lot of what I talk about is being tested on my blogs. Blogs are a great place to try all kinds of things because you usually don't need a webmaster to do stuff. Sometimes webmasters can block the nutty ideas that you want to try. Again this is idea sketching, http://brucethebookguy.blogspot.com/
• One of my main marketing ideas is to wrap ads that you create around your own content that is sitting on your own blog or website. Let the power of Google work for you and bring interested visitors to your site. Once they are there, give them a clear path to buy your stuff. I have been using this idea for decades to sell my stuff online. One of my best examples is my site AcousticMusicTV. com. From this site, I sell my music books and posters. http://www.acousticmusictv.com/
• Google Analytics. I will talk about web stats. Stats are super important to building your products. If you don't have Google analytics on your website make it one of the first things you do. If you have a Gmail account you actually have a Google Analytics account, they are free. Many blogs also have a stats package attached, Blogger does. Get yours connected.
Ok, there you go. Give me a call and we can talk about your project. 781-492-0742 or reach out to me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jbruce.jones
Angela DeYoung_Testimonial about Working with J. Bruce Jones on Creating Books from Bruce Jones on Vimeo.
I have a very active group on Facebook for author of all kinds around publishing your book. Come over and join us, https://www.facebook.com/groups/HowToPublishYourBook/
My Dream 100, People I Follow
Chandler Bolt, the founder of SelfPublishing.com. Has taught thousands of students on the power of being an author and publishing books. https://selfpublishing.com/
ClickFunnels, Russell Brunson, https://www.clickfunnels.com/
I read everything this guy puts out, amazing internet marketer
Ed Dale, the original internet marketing master. The founder of the 30 Day Challenge. How we all started, https://yourfirstdollar.com
Pat Flynn, Smart Passive Income,
Joel Friedlander, Book Design Template
Jane Friedman, helping authors and publishers, excellent newsletter, https://www.janefriedman.com/
Tim Grahl, author of The First 1,000 Copies, has some great resources on launching your book. https://booklaunch.com
Daniel Hall, Creator of the Real Fast Brand of publishing courses. A fantastic resource on self-publishing and creating products for the internet, https://realfastresults.com/
Tony Laidig, Expert Media Group
Steven Larson, cool internet marketing product creator. Former ClickFunnel's dude
Personal Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/stephenlarsen1
FB business, The Science of Selling Online, https://www.facebook.com/groups/256704244873735/
Mike Koenigs
Jenna Moreci, writer, YouTuber video creator on writing, excellent self marketer, https://www.jennamoreci.com/ . Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS_fcv9kBpDN4WWrfcbCrgw
BeBe Robinson, entrepreneur, very clever Gumroad product creator
Her Consultant Profit Hub Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/consultantprofithub/
Mike Koenigs
Jenna Moreci, writer, YouTuber video creator on writing, excellent self marketer, https://www.jennamoreci.com/ . Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS_fcv9kBpDN4WWrfcbCrgw
BeBe Robinson, entrepreneur, very clever Gumroad product creator
Her Consultant Profit Hub Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/consultantprofithub/
Her Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/biancashellie
Steve Pressfield, Steven is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and writes on writing. His stuff is outstanding. https://stevenpressfield.com/blog/
Gary Vaynerchuk, Get off your butt and get going, https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/
Websites I follow
Book Marketing Tools, Shawn Manaher
http://bookmarketingtools.com/ Tools, Education, and Community around book marketing
https://www.facebook.com/BookMarketingTools
https://www.youtube.com/user/bookmarketingtools
Facebook Groups
Gary Vaynerchuk, Get off your butt and get going, https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/
Websites I follow
Book Marketing Tools, Shawn Manaher
http://bookmarketingtools.com/ Tools, Education, and Community around book marketing
https://www.facebook.com/BookMarketingTools
https://www.youtube.com/user/bookmarketingtools
Facebook Groups
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