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Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
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Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
— especially for an unproven author who lacks a pre-existing audience — is
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
are going to promote your own book,
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
Generation), who each ended up getting
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
its own marketing Engaging with and supporting superfans and evangelists (and optionally teachers and trainers) When I fixed just the first issue — the purchase funnel — for The Workshop Survival Guide, sales jumped by 50% overnight, adding more than $10k to that book’s yearly royalties. When I applied the full list of optimizations to The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
— especially for an unproven author who lacks a pre-existing audience — is
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
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