OLP107 How to create a Book from a Udemy Course with David Nihill

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.

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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 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

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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/

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