How I Made $2000 Writing An eBook
Published in 2010, this chronicle by @mcantelon details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $2000.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Charging customers from day one acts as the ultimate filter for building software that solves genuine, high-urgency problems.
Keeping fixed overhead low and leveraging lean infrastructure allows founders to stay alive until market tailwinds kick in.
Small, repetitive improvements in customer retention and conversion rates yield massive returns over multi-year horizons.
Community Debate Themes:
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
CATEGORY Bootstrapping & MRR →
HISTORICAL ERA Web 2.0 Genesis (2007–2013)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 19 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 14 comments
Ignoring the spammer's attempt to spam and trying to bring some ideas in this conversation, If you're really interested to write anything useful, you should get in contact with Geoffrey Grosenbach from peepcode(http://peepcode.com/questions#are-you-hiring). They often publish third part ebooks, if your book is accepted and sold about 1k copies they claim that you'll receive US$3,000. peepcode's eBooks and Screencasts are memorable for it's simplicity and pragmatism.
My hotshot affiliate marketing client in Dallas made $150,000 on his eBook over a period of 2 years' sales. I don't usually approach my affiliate marketing clients and press them for details -- that's kind of why they like me I'm thinking. But I sure am curious what the topic was about. My guess was that it was about affiliate marketing.
Does anyone know if there is some sort of contribution-friendly eBook store with high amounts of visitors? In a way like the App Store, just for eBooks (of course with less visitors)?
The eBook it self probably took around 3-4 hours to write
holy cow, i don't think i could type 60 pages of coherent markup in 3-4 hours.
4 minutes per page? As someone who has written two books, I call BS.