📘 The secret ingredient every long-term bestseller has

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As promised, here are Keys #3 and #4—and this is where The Bestselling Book Formula gets really fun.

🔑 Key #3: Easy to Do

Every long-term bestseller I analyzed in my pursuit of earning excellence has a reason it was successful--and a formula. This formula isn't vague, and it's an actual, repeatable process readers can follow. (It's also easy. Otherwise your readers can't--won't--do it. Which means no bestselling book for you!))

The SAVERS from The Miracle Morning. The DEAL from The 4-Hour Work Week. The "winning feeling" from Psycho-Cybernetics.

When readers can do what you teach and feel successful doing it, something powerful is at work. The reader is changed, and changed people share with everyone within the sound of their voice.

So yeah, you need a formula in your book for it to be a best earning book! It can be an acronym, a step-by-step process, or a set of alliterative concepts. What matters is that it's clear, actionable, and gives readers the confidence to say:

"I can do this."

🔑 Key #4: Easy to Share

The #1 way new readers discover a book is personal recommendation. Nope, it's not ads or algorithms (although these are contenders, they just aren't #1!). It's someone telling someone else, "You have to read this."

The first three keys set the stage for sharing to happen naturally. But there's one more thing: you can also design your book to be shareable. Ask for reviews in your back matter. Make your formula so quotable that readers screenshot it. Create discussion questions. Give readers the words to use when they tell their friends.

TL;DR: Don't leave sharing to chance. Build it in.

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