[TSE 83] How to Land a Book Deal While Traveling the World with Benny Lewis

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I’ve been on the road full-time for almost four years, and I feel pretty damn pro at the whole process. I mean, I even self-published my #1 Amazon Bestselling book The Suitcase Entrepreneur while traveling all over southeast Asia.

But Benny Lewis?

He’s been on the road and “homeless” for eleven years, landed a pretty sweet book deal AND wrote the book in three months flat!

Benny Lewis is the creator of the site Fluent in 3 Months, where he challenges himself to three-month missions to become fluent in a language through what he calls “language hacking.”

Listen to: Language Hacking Tips to Become Fluent in 3 Months

When he first started his blog, his intention was never to turn it into a business, but with some expert marketing advice at his disposal, ambition, and a secret weapon that every entrepreneur should consider for their site, he was able to grow into a business and land a book deal.

In this episode, we talk all about how to land a book deal, write a book, and get it out to the masses in the most effective way possible.

Here is what you will learn in this podcast:

• Five strategic marketing tactics he’s used to build his blog to 500,000 unique visitors a month
• How he got a major book publishing contract and the benefits he’s found from it
• Which path of publishing he would recommend to everyone who wants to publish
• How to steal great ideas for your blog and be inspired by others
• Benny’s blog publishing schedule he’s followed since 2009 and why it works for him
• How to deal with 1,000 emails a day from fans and create a system to get to inbox zero
• Benny’s Bestseller List Book Marketing Plan of Attack
• Two top tips to get your book out of your head and written
• Why you can stop wishing to get on the New York Time Bestseller list

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Connect with Benny

Twitter: @irishpolyglot

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Fluent in 3 Months

Key sites mentioned in this podcast:

• Grab Benny’s famous language hacking course and guide Fluent in 3 Months
• Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
• 29 Life Lessons Learned in Travelling the World for Eight Years
• The Worst Language Learning Advice You’ll Ever Receive
• Scrivener – app for book writing

If you liked this session, chat with Benny by clicking the link below!

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