SNM018: Write Fast and Make Money

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Now thin, you've come to the right place. Welcome to serve no master podcast, where you'll learn how to open new revenue streams and make money while you sleep. Presented live from a tropical island in the South Pacific by best selling author Jonathan Green. Now here's your host phone rings. It's a friend of a friend with a business emergency. They have a new product coming out in just four days.

They bought traffic, announced it to a few leads, invested tens of thousands of dollars and getting everything together, and their author left him high and dry. They try to get a discount author, cut a few corners, and the product it's garbage. The content, It's not worth it. They'll have a barrage of refunds. If they try and release it, they'll lose a bunch of money. They'll destroy their business relationships with people who send them traffic, who send them customers.

And they can't back out because when you cancel, you hurt your reputation as well. They're stuck against the wall or days. Jonathan, we heard you're the best. We heard. You're fast. Can you write a book for us? Can you fix this? Can you save this? Will triple your usual fee. We know you're the best ability to write fast opens up some amazing opportunities. Sometimes I get projects that for other people are emergency.

But I can write at my normal rate, and I get paid that emergency feet. It's amazing and it's wonderful. The ability to write fast will give you more money in less time. Your time is most precious value on wonderful resource you have. The last thing you want to do is waste it at the end of your life. You're not gonna get any extra time. Time is more valuable than money.

I want you to be as efficient as successful as quick as possible so you could do amazing work, make amazing money and get more time with your family. The faster you write, the more money you make the fast you get paid. If I can help you with this episode, turn a two hour job into a one hour job. You can either double your income or have a next hour of your life back. You get to choose.

You have more power over your destiny and control of your destiny. Power of your life, power over what you spend your time doing. That's what I'm all about. And that's what I want to give you. There's a dangerous trap called perfectionism that many writers that many people are projects fall into. We want everything to be so perfect before we show it to anyone that we never release anything. My block is not perfect, right? I work on it all the time.

I can tell you right now I was looking at today. I'm pretty proud of how it looks, but it's not finished. It's not 100% done for me. It's maybe 90% done. There's still some things I want to change. I'm still working on freaking out the form software. I've tried several different platforms. It's very difficult to get it perfect. Hard to find exactly the right set up that I want.

I've been working on a little bit of my time, but I am having invested huge amounts of it yet, but I want to get that done. Haven't finished tweaking all of the different products. Every different thing about each course I'm still tweaking some of the pdf that come with lessons of my course is to make the better, better, better. The video training is perfect. The training itself is really wonderful. Now I want to keep adding and elements to make it better and better and better.

If I let the desire to be a perfectionist, stop me. I wouldn't have released this podcast. You would be hearing it right now. My book wouldn't be out yet and I wouldn't have any posts on my block. We could get caught up in the desire to be perfect, and it destroys its most perfectionists die in poverty. They never released anything. I know people that have been 13 novels and never show them to anyone. I don't even know if that counts is writing a novel.

I'm not sure you can say that if you've just written that showed any well, So it's like a dream. I had some amazing dreams. Do I get to Sam a master dreamer? No one's ever seen him. No knows of. It's real. It's not real until you put it into reality. Don't let the desire to be a perfectionist destroy you. The 80 20 rule is very real.

Always focus on efficiency, always focused on getting the job done good enough to get paid good enough to give people what they need. There's some other authors I know that are amazingly right as well as Hemingway. They're eloquent, they're so talented, and I can't write as good as them. But because I write fast because I'm efficient, I make 10 2030 times more money. I write 10 2030 times faster. I have some friends who could write about 500 words a week, right?

500 words, 10 or 20 minutes easily. Yesterday I re edited and rewrote an 8000 word mini book that about a year ago I have a small book that I wrote very quickly year and half ago. I didn't put much effort into it, and I never really thought about it because it was a very small, low priority project. I was working on this particular pet name this week. I saw the book and arised. It was not up to my standards. It's terrible.

It's actually embarrassed by how bad it was. I don't know what happened, how I got distracted. I was overwhelmed at the time or something. But I released something that I'm not proud of. 8000 words. I rewrote the entire book. 11,000 words re edited. Everything and the new versions already live. I replaced the old version. I write fast, which means I can fix old problems quickly. Even when we do something that we're not proud of, we can fix it quickly and change things.

We don't want to wait for everything to be perfect. If you wait for perfection, you'll never make any money. Even though I wasn't happy with, it wasn't perfect. It did make money, was out in the world making sales, and now I fixed it and replace it with something much, much, much better. And it did.

In a single day, 11,000 words, and I rewrote almost every single word in the book to make an amazing Your time is valuable, and the faster you can write, the more efficiently you can write, the less writer's block you run into the fewer mistakes you make more of your time. You get back in, the more money you make, and that's what's important to me. That's what I care about.

I want to share with you some of the key tools that I use to be very fast and very efficient. Some people are traditionalists. They'll only write on a typewriter. James Patterson writes on Yellow Legal Paper, and that's amazing to me. He writes by hand all of his books, and he puts out 50 or 100 books a year. He's so prolific, my hand would crab like you wouldn't believe once we lock into a system.

It's very hard as a writer to change the way we do things. Modern times call for modern tools, and I want to take you through the software. Tools and techniques I use is part of my work flow to ensure that I write us fastest possible. The faster I write, the more money I make. I only bring tools into my workflow that increase how fast I can write, increase my efficiency or increased the quality of my product.

I would never bring in a tool that slows me down. What's the point of that? These are the tools that I actually use. We've talked before about turning words turning. Talking into writing is a previous podcast episode about it. There's an amazing block post about it. You can simply talk into your phone or an app on your computer. Record yourself talking. Click a button and it turns into text. There's amazing software tools. I use Dragon on My Mac. It's kind of expensive.

Mac also comes with some free software that guys talk to text. That's pretty good as well. You can talk. Look in the word processor. Watch your words appear with your phone. If you have a smartphone, iPhone, android, whatever they have all these amazing APs that will do everything you talk into it. It turns it into text for you for free. You don't obey anything. They're free APS to do all the work for you. If you find typing tedious if it takes too long, for.

If it slows you down, then use your voice. Do whatever's faster, more efficient to get the job done. Your time is so valuable. In addition to these tools, you want to strategize your projects from the beginning correctly. For all of my initial outlining and designing of chapters and structure for videos or for book courses or anything I put in together When I'm in that initial research and outlining phase, I use X Mind or Omni out liner. Mostly I use X might.

It's a free piece of software, which means you should definitely grab it today, and I use it to create my outlines for almost everything. It's a mind mapping piece of software. That swine mind is in the name again. It's called X Mind. What's great about this software is that I can organize my thoughts in a circular fashion. I take all of my ideas that I could move them around I often when creating a video course, especially changed the order as it come up with new ideas.

As I decide to change the structure when I flash on my outlines, the order often changes. Sometimes I use on the outline are probably 10% of the time. I used it most recently when planning a 30 day block challenge that I may be launching in the next few weeks. And I wanted something that was shorter of 1 to 30 when I read something really linear. That's when I use on the outline. Er, I don't remember what it costs cause I haven't used it in so long.

Well, put a note in the show notes to let you know. I also then use Scrivener, which is my personal favorite tool. Scrivener is how I've written the majority of my books. It's how to create the majority of my products, and it's my favorite tool. The reason it helps me is that it allows me to structure my books piece by piece. It's very overwhelming.

What I'm looking at a word document and knowing I need to generate 35,000 words in a few days, Scrivener allows me to chop it up and do one chunk at a time. It's such a simple difference, but it's so powerful. I used Scripture for writing my email sequences. I use scrivener for writing my sales video scripts. I use scrivener for writing all of my products. Anything I do written goes through Scripture first.

The only thing I don't do in Scripture is my block post, which I usually right inside of my website. I do those online. Otherwise, everything else I create I do in Scripture. It's the most powerful tool in my arsenal. I've written more than a 1,000,000 words inside of Scripture and stole all of them. It's a really powerful tool. I like the way it allows me to structure my books. It lets me create folders and sub folders, reach a little section.

I only have to focus on one tiny section at a time. I look at that one little section. I focused on that small gold, whether it's going to be 500 words or 1000 words that can hit that goal and feel good about myself and move on to the next one. Scrivener does have one glaring weakness. The grammar and spell check in Scrivener is garbage. It's probably the worst spell check in the entire history of the Internet. It's structured horribly. It doesn't catch almost any mistakes.

I don't really understand why it's so bad, but I want you to know I don't even use it when I have a book like Serve No Master. For example, the most recent book I wrote in Scrivener, it's divided into almost 180 small little files Inside of Scrivener. I have about 15 folders, and each one has between 10 and 12 little mini sections. When I run this about Jack and Scrivener, it only checks one at a time.

I have to manually go to the next section and click spell check again. Does it work as faras process? And it doesn't work as far as actually finding mistakes. If I only depended on scrivener spell check, I'd be in big trouble. So I want you to know that's the one weakness. If it worked well, it would be perfect software, but it doesn't to fill in that gap. I recently added Graham early to my workflow. I only added Graham early just before the launch.

This podcast right when I was launching my book, I actually first used Graham early to edit, serve no master and turn it into the masterpiece that is now. It made a huge difference. Scram Early is so amazing. I have an entire review of the software on my website, where I break down every different aspect that I use, whether you need the free or paid version, no matter what, you should be using at least a free version.

The free version Spellcheck is amazing, and it's better than any other spot check I've ever used. It will make a huge difference. You don't necessarily need to upgrade to the paid version. Don't feel the pressure to do that. They'll give you all these messages like, Oh, we have 150 advanced alerts that we can only show you if you have the page version. Don't worry about that at first. Start with the free version. It's the best about check. It's better than word.

It's better than any other spot check I've ever worked with. And it will make a huge difference in the quality of your writing. Only if you're actually making money for your writing. Is it worth the upgrade? Because it's about 100 $230 a year, depending on what promo they're running. I really don't think most people need to go to the paid version until it's profitable, because I sell my words It's very important to me, and I did upgrade of the paid version.

I have an entire block post with lots and lots of pictures. Why explain each different aspect? I love the plagiarism check, which really helps me when people send me documents. It's a great way to make sure anyone writing for you is on the up and up and can protect you from an incident down the line. I recently was talking to someone who got into a lot of trouble with Amazon. They paid an outsourcing to write a book.

They didn't check it, and it turned out parts of it were plagiarized. Amazon shut down their entire account. You get into a lot of trouble, even if you say I didn't know. It doesn't matter. It's your responsibility. Great tool, Very powerful. Great way to protect yourself. Another tool that I'm dabbling with right now is called Hemingway Right now. Last time I checked Hemingway. It's about $10 so it's a really cheap piece of software. There's also some free versions of it you can use.

What's great about Hemingway is its simplicity. You can copy and paste and something you're working on. It will tell you if sentences air too long or too boring. Hemingway was known for revolutionizing the way people wrote in the early 19 hundreds. He was the first author to write in a way that regular people could really understand and read before him. Authors were so long winded. It was all about being eloquent and using very complicated words.

He was the 1st 1 to really focus on getting to the message and focusing on moving the story. I have a tendency to write really long sentences and put in phrases that I don't need and make. My sentence is too long. Graham really catches a lot of my mistakes now. It's been helping with that, so I'm not sure if I need Hemingway on top of Graham early. But if you're writing fiction, especially, it's worth checking out Hemingway. It's a great tool.

It's very interesting what it does. It will highlight your sentences and say, Oh, too many sentences air too hard. There are also some tools out there that let you check the age or reading level of what you've written. I don't use those personal my workflow, so I'm not gonna recommend anything. The tools I really use every day. My workflow right now is ex mind discriminator to Graham early. That's it. 123 on the outline. Er is an alternative.

If you prefer outlines to mind maps, and then Hemingway is an alternative. You contest beyond software. Now do you understand my basic workflow? The reason I write faster than everyone else in the wear it fast and everyone else is my research methodology. The great thing about researching well and understanding how to research is that you can then train other people to research. I only do about 20% of my own research now. I've created an entire research strategy.

I've trained my assistant on it, and now she does a lot of the research on my behalf. She's able to take a lot of the material I send o'er and break it down, and that saves me a huge amount of time. This is a great technique to master, and then you can teach it to other people because it doesn't require high level thinking.

You can give someone a list of books to go through, and they could pull out the most important parts they could plot the most important research. Just today I found a new website that does really extensive polling. It's a company on Edison. They dio massive polling to see which type of smartphones people use. How many people have smartphones, how often people listen, podcast health and people read books. How often people to social media, They come up with huge amounts of data.

And what's great about a resource like that? You can use it in all of your products. You just do a reference and say in a recent study, it turns out 70% of people listen to one podcast in the last week buying original pieces of medical data, and you can use them when you're creating your content. The more heavily you research, the easier it is to go through writing.

Anyone working in nonfiction article writing, book, riding anything in between doing block posts, you run into writer's block when you don't research properly. Some people research on the fly while they're writing, and that's a terrible mistake that slows down your workflow. Your brain has two states. There's a state where you're receiving in a state where you're transmitting. Research is research happens when you're a receptive state. That's when you're receiving information, absorbing data, collecting information. When you're riding, that's when you're in a transmission state.

You're riding down information. You're projecting ideas. It's very hard to go back and forth. I discovered when I was younger, if I would listen to talk radio and then take off my headphones and meet people will be hard for me to switch to talking. Because I'm in a listening state of mind is that of a talking state of mind. Going back and forth will really slow down your process. So you want toe over research up front.

Whenever I'm researching a topic, I start by looking for the top 5 to 10 books on Amazon. On the topic. I start by looking at the top five direct response products on the topic. I look at their sales messages. I look at their tables of contents. Then I look at all the reviews that people have written special on Amazon. I look for the best reviews in the worst reviews that will tell me what those books got right and what they're missing.

The negative reviews show me the opportunity to say, Oh, if I have this additional information, I can satisfy those one star reviewers. When they read my book, I'll get a five star. Beyond that, I then go and use Google. Scholar. I love to have a lot of research and studies and specific references. Sometimes when I'm doing a Google search, it'll pull up a story. This happened the other day. I got sent to this article and it references a study.

It doesn't give me a link to the study. It doesn't tell me the name of the study these days. Most bloggers and people that right, they're not good at referencing anymore. You see an amateur nous when they don't use the proper way to cite a study. I went to college and all the time when I did my Masters wanted demands dissertation. You have to use a specific format for referencing these days. I don't do that. I provide a link to the original study.

Anytime I talk about a study, you could go and find the actual one. When I read that article, I'm not gonna reference that a lot of people do that. Don't fall into that pattern. That's amateur hour. That's what 90% of other bloggers do out there, and that's how bad information gets spread. Instead, I go to the original research article using Google Scholar.

Usually those other sites will least site the names of the scientists and sometimes the name of the publication or the university There from the use those search terms to find the original study, and I just read the beginning summary and then their conclusions. Their final answer. At the end of the study, you only have to read a few paragraphs. Sometimes I discovered that the interpretation that I saw on that initial blogger a news story does not match what the scientists actually said.

Finding that original story, finding that level one piece of data ensures that my content is better than everyone else ensures that I have the most up to date accurate information In my book. I talk about some tax information. I talk about how when you live abroad, you pay lower taxes. When I first started traveling outside of America, if you lived in a foreign country, you didn't have to pay taxes on the 1st $85,000 of your income. When I was working.

My most recent book I wrote down that statistic and I said, Wait a minute, I wonder if that's still true And in my initial search, I saw a bunch of block posts. But I went and found the actual page on the IRS website to get the exact accurate number. It turns out the number these days is more than $100,000 I rest Website actually showed what the number will be for the next two or three years.

The number increases based on inflation and some other factors, and that's very important to know when you're working on your taxes. If you pull the block post that I wrote three years ago or that someone else wrote three years ago, the number will be different cause the number changes. Same with statistics. Same with other numbers. You always want to try and go to that original source. This will really separate you from the rest of the crowd.

I know this feels like it slows you down because it's an extra layer of research, but when you go to the writing phase, you'll write so much faster that you'll make up for this lost time. Plus, you'll have that confidence. Knowing my information is based on science. That's how you create superior content and created fast. This is part of my process.

Once I complete that research phase once I have all of my research, either in X mind or indiscriminate ER, as I'm copying and pasting some data a copy and paste any information I want to use into the note. John Scriven. I never copied into the main part of the document. You never want to accidentally plagiarize anything. It's unforgivable, and the punishments are very severe. If you get caught, you could get hit with a cease and desist. You could get kicked off of Amazon.

You get hit with a lawsuit. You want to avoid all of that if you go to my blogged. If you got my website, you'll notice I don't have any stolen images from Google. Every single image is either a photograph that I took myself or it's a stock photo that paid for. You want to be on the up and up with your business and treat it like a business and not cut corners.

If you can't afford pictures, there's plenty of places where you can get creative Commons photos, photos that are free that you're allowed to use anywhere else. Lots of people take photos that way, and they love getting out into the world. Sometimes you have to post an attribution or a link, and sometimes you don't. But staying on the up and up. Avoiding plagiarism, avoiding stealing data photos. Anything is how you can protect yourself. Remember, we're starting a business here, not some fly by night.

Make money, Get rich. Quick scheme. That's not what we're doing here. When you follow your process in the correct order deep research and then go into the writing process, writing becomes very easy. The outline writes itself. What I'm creating an outline. I look at all the table of contents, five or 10 competing products. I look at those important questions on forums where people talk about this topic.

I look at what people say in the best and worst reviews of competing products that tells me what people in here about. That helps me generate my table of contents, and then I fill it out by extending my research. Once you have a really deep and great table of contents, riding fast becomes easy and the faster. You right there, more money you make and the more time you get to spend with your family. Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Serve No Master.

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