Tim Ferriss needs no introduction. He not only hosts one of the world’s most successful podcasts and maintains one of the world’s most successful blogs but he was also an early investor in companies like Uber and Shopify and is the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. 

Since there’s no one alive who’s better at launching books, I decided to do something new for this episode: break down exactly what he does and how he does it. His tactics include reading 50 different books on his book’s topic before he even starts writing, offering spectacular launch bonuses for those who buy his books in bulk, attending conferences in order to chat with bloggers and influencers and way too many others to list in this post—so many that you’ll soon learn why this required its own episode.

If you like this sort of episode, I’d be excited to do more on other people who are brilliant at launching books but would be hard to land on the show. It’s fun to research and talk about how someone like Ferriss manages to do what he does (spoiler alert: it doesn’t involve just getting lucky). Please let me know in the form of an Itunes review if you want me to do more of these. In the meantime, enjoy this breakdown!

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