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Honorée Corder: Author. Empire Builder. Publishing Strategist.

Pre-sales FOR THE WIN! 🏆

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Mr. $300K Course Launcher was bullish on me being able to monetize my knowledge about monetizing a book.

I know courses are now pretty ubiquitous and a lot people who can't make money doing something are creating courses about said thing. 🙄 That isn't me: I wanted a great course students would be super-pumped to take again and again as they developed new income streams.

He wanted to prove his point, though, so he introduced me to the world of monetizing before creating. Wait, what?!

Yup, here's what happened: Before I recorded a single video, I used my course outline to put up a landing page and opened pre-sales. Then I watched as people bought (at a 50% discount) something that wasn't finished yet. It was both proof of concept and the most motivating force I'd ever experienced.

You can learn more about that here.

The next thing I did was take a course I was teaching live three times a year and turn it into a blended-learning model--and I learned a whole lot of other new things.

I'll be back and tell you about that tomorrow!

Honorée Corder.
Author. Executive Book Producer.

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