In today’s Episode of the Online Learning Podcast, I am delighted to welcome David Nihill, Udemy Instructor, Comedian and Best Selling Author. David explains how he created his best selling book from his Udemy course and then launched a conference business on the back of both.
In this Week’s Episode: David Nihil
In this Episode David and I discuss:
- How to become a funny speaker
- Why David spent a year testing comedy techniques
- How David discovered Udemy and created his first course
- Why David found Udemy a great channel to find his audience
- How to create a Book from a Udemy Course
- How David took his course and turned it into an Book
- How David used his course as the outline for his book
- How he outsourced the transcription of his course to oDesk
- How David engaged an editor to help him create the written text
- How David financed his book from his Udemy earnings
- How David proved his book concept from his Udemy course
- The process of refining and editing the book before publication
- The importance of proving concept and building an audience
- How David engaged an agent once he had proved his book concept
- How David created the FunnyBizz Conference from his course and his book
- What David did to get his book to feature on Amazon Bestseller
- What was the single biggest thing David did to get downloads
- How David created his audio book from his book
- James Altucher’s blog post on self publishing
- Charlie Hoehn blog post on self marketing his book
- The importance of using a professional studio for creating an audio book
- The importance of creating an audio book as part of your product offering
- The benefits of using Createspace to publish hard copies of your book
- How David created his cover using a 99Designs competition
- Why he ran a test in Pat Flynn’s Facebook Group to prove his cover design
- The key lesson from the whole process hint, its the marketing!
- Outline budget to produce his book from his Udemy Course
- Why its worth spending money on a quality editor
Find out more about David
You can find out more about David at the following links:
David’s Blog:http://www.7comedyhabits.com/
The FunnyBizz Blog: http://funnybizz.co/
Davis is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FunnyBizzSF
Other Links Mentioned in the Episode
James Altucher Blog post: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/how-to-self-publish-a-bestseller/
Charlie Hoehn: http://charliehoehn.com/2013/12/09/how-im-marketing-my-self-published-book/
Nathan Barry: http://nathanbarry.com/full-time-salary-book/