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/p><p id="cb3f">What if there was a way to get more time to do your best work (writing or creating), while the work you <i>have </i>created could do more of the heavy-lifting?</p><p id="a941"><b>There is a way.</b></p><p id="eb69">We’re talking about taking one piece of content and using it six ways to Monday, instead of focusing solely on books as your only product.</p><p id="7911"><b>Instead of trying to write 100 books to earn a living, you can write fewer books and re-purpose the content in more-lucrative ways.</b></p><p id="32be">The delay between the idea and getting paid, is shortened when you re-purpose your content further.</p><p id="151c"><b>Here’s an example of what a single $15 print book can become:</b></p><ul><li>An audiobook</li><li>An e-book</li><li>A free lead-magnet</li><li>A six-month course</li><li>A private consulting session</li><li>A keynote speech</li><li>An excerpt can become an article</li><li>A chapter can become a Medium story</li><li>Quotes, characters, events or places can become physical merchandise for sale</li><li>An entire podcast developed around the theme of the book</li><li>A YouTube channel around the theme of the book</li></ul><p id="f287"><b>I use every Medium story as a little sub-contractor, walking the streets, encouraging readers to join my tribe.</b></p><p id="500c">Once they join my tribe, I can build a long-term relationship with them and use said relationship to recommend additional products and services.</p><p id="96bc"><b>Some of my readers buy.</b></p><p id="662f">This process of lead-generation, building relationships, and automated selling is the way I’m building a legacy publishing business.</p><p id="3c52"><b>I’ve got customers in 83 countries and I operate 95% of my business from my pocket. I did this almost-exclusively through Medium stories.</b></p><div id="145d" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/my-unconventional-autopilot-email-strategy-for-writers-and-creators-e6037b60f058"> <div> <div> <h2>My Unconventional, Autopilot Email Strategy for Writers and Creators</h2> <div><h3>This isn’t your grandmother’s 7-step recipe, but it works</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*pNr7FVN_XBeKuIqQ)"></div>

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    </div><h1 id="1086">Email builds legacy</h1><p id="8f5d">If you want a legacy-level publishing business, you’ve got to build a tribe of people, where you control the message. If your audience lives on someone else’s platform, like Medium, they own your traffic.</p><p id="78cb"><a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K"><b>If you don’t own your traffic you don’t own your publishing business.</b></a></p><p id="ac34">If you’ve read my stories for more than five minutes you’ve hear this before. But email is one of the best way indie creators can build a long-lasting business.</p><p id="a284">It’s much easier, faster, and cheaper to contact and repeatedly-sell a current customer, than it is to find and convince a new customers.</p><p id="59d4"><b>Your current readers already love your work.</b></p><p id="4d19">They’re happy to support you.</p><p id="4bde">Why pay for a bunch of ads that might get you a one-time customer, but you’ll have to go out again tomorrow and find a new one?</p><p id="08b9"><b>Email is the answer.</b></p><p id="0229">When you build a tribe of the people you’re mean to serve, you can contact them any time you want. All of them. Not just a small handful you have to pay for.</p><p id="5aac">If you’re ready to start building your email list, before you need it (because list-building takes time), I’d like to invite you to <a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K">enroll in my free, 7-day Tribe 1K, email masterclass.</a></p><p id="c9f0">I’ll show you how to get your first 1,000 readers (or your next 1,000) without spending a hot nickel on ads. These folks could feed you for life if you treat them well.</p><p id="13a8"><a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K"><b>Tap the link.</b></a></p><p id="704d">Guarantee your seat.</p><p id="d14b"><b>We’re waiting for you.</b></p><p id="a239"><a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/tribe1K"><b>Enroll in my Email Masterclass. Get Your First 1,000 Subscribers</b></a></p><p id="cce7">August Birch (AKA the Book Mechanic) is both a fiction and non-fiction author from Michigan, USA. As a self-appointed guardian of writers and creators, August teaches indies how to make work that sells and how to sell more of that work once it’s created. When he’s not writing or thinking about writing, August carries a pocket knife and shaves his head with a safety razor.</p></article></body>

That One Time I Made a Ton of Money Writing on Medium

…and it had little to do with the partner program

The Medium partner program is great. I won’t knock the program because it earns me a nice paycheck every month. But it’s neither the best source of income from Medium, nor the longest-lasting.

Instead, I’ll show you an alternative (an additional income stream). We’ll use your Medium stories to grow your long-game, while you simultaneously make some extra cash on the side, from all the reads.

This strategy isn’t for everyone, but it might be for you.

I’m coming from a place of being totally banned from curation. I used to write about how to get curated. I don’t anymore, because I’m out.

What I’ll show you will probably get you banned too.

If you want Medium to be your only source of income — with typing time in exchange for income — you may want to ignore this method.

But, if you want to grow a legacy-level writing business, where you make money, literally while you sleep (my favorite kind), keep reading.

How I Ruined My Medium Earnings Permanently

…and what you can do to avoid (or copy) my ‘mistake’

medium.com

Build a legacy-level publishing business

Most writers think too small. Books are inexpensive. We’ve got to sell them in large quantities to earn enough money to buy food.

What if you could make your writing work harder for you?

What if there was a way to get more time to do your best work (writing or creating), while the work you have created could do more of the heavy-lifting?

There is a way.

We’re talking about taking one piece of content and using it six ways to Monday, instead of focusing solely on books as your only product.

Instead of trying to write 100 books to earn a living, you can write fewer books and re-purpose the content in more-lucrative ways.

The delay between the idea and getting paid, is shortened when you re-purpose your content further.

Here’s an example of what a single $15 print book can become:

An audiobook
An e-book
A free lead-magnet
A six-month course
A private consulting session
A keynote speech
An excerpt can become an article
A chapter can become a Medium story
Quotes, characters, events or places can become physical merchandise for sale
An entire podcast developed around the theme of the book
A YouTube channel around the theme of the book

I use every Medium story as a little sub-contractor, walking the streets, encouraging readers to join my tribe.

Once they join my tribe, I can build a long-term relationship with them and use said relationship to recommend additional products and services.

Some of my readers buy.

This process of lead-generation, building relationships, and automated selling is the way I’m building a legacy publishing business.

I’ve got customers in 83 countries and I operate 95% of my business from my pocket. I did this almost-exclusively through Medium stories.

My Unconventional, Autopilot Email Strategy for Writers and Creators

This isn’t your grandmother’s 7-step recipe, but it works

medium.com

Email builds legacy

If you want a legacy-level publishing business, you’ve got to build a tribe of people, where you control the message. If your audience lives on someone else’s platform, like Medium, they own your traffic.

If you don’t own your traffic you don’t own your publishing business.

If you’ve read my stories for more than five minutes you’ve hear this before. But email is one of the best way indie creators can build a long-lasting business.

It’s much easier, faster, and cheaper to contact and repeatedly-sell a current customer, than it is to find and convince a new customers.

Your current readers already love your work.

They’re happy to support you.

Why pay for a bunch of ads that might get you a one-time customer, but you’ll have to go out again tomorrow and find a new one?

Email is the answer.

When you build a tribe of the people you’re mean to serve, you can contact them any time you want. All of them. Not just a small handful you have to pay for.

If you’re ready to start building your email list, before you need it (because list-building takes time), I’d like to invite you to enroll in my free, 7-day Tribe 1K, email masterclass.

I’ll show you how to get your first 1,000 readers (or your next 1,000) without spending a hot nickel on ads. These folks could feed you for life if you treat them well.

Tap the link.

Guarantee your seat.

We’re waiting for you.

Enroll in my Email Masterclass. Get Your First 1,000 Subscribers

August Birch (AKA the Book Mechanic) is both a fiction and non-fiction author from Michigan, USA. As a self-appointed guardian of writers and creators, August teaches indies how to make work that sells and how to sell more of that work once it’s created. When he’s not writing or thinking about writing, August carries a pocket knife and shaves his head with a safety razor.