7d ago in Share Your Wins
I’m turning courses into royalty-slinging Guidebooks with A.I.
With the holidays and feeling under the weather lately, I haven’t posted much.
But in between naps and getting up to blow my nose, thought I’d share a little epiphany if you will.
I produced a book for a partner this year based around his podcast episodes.
We launched on Amazon in January.
We split the royalties 50/50.
My outta-pocket monetary expense to produce the book was probably only a couple hundred dollars.
(Woulda been more but I sold a bonus chapter and a couple advertisement spaces on the bonuses page to cover costs)
Since then we average a couple hundred dollars in royalties every month… sometimes more, sometimes less.
Looking at $220 for December.
I get $110 of that.
And there’s not much button pushing I have to do for it anymore.
It’s evergreen money coming in, for a deal I set up and work I did once.
I don’t see it slowing down anytime soon.
Now a hundo might not be much to some.
But I’ll take a hundred bucks a month recurring for work I did one time, and not have to push buttons to make it come in.
Anyway, I just thought it was cool.
Here I am, feeling like poo, neglecting a few things until I feel better, and still getting paid royalties.
lol
Now this is an AI group so let me tie into that.
The only AI used for this book was for video transcriptions.
But, turns out my partner approached me about producing a series of “Guidebooks” based on his video course modules and trainings.
We started guidebook #1 around the first challenge people run up to that his course solves.
(I think we can pull out 5 guidebooks total over time)
Where the original book was more strategy, these guidebooks are the tactical how-to’s.
How-to guides are pretty popular on Amazon.
Plus the nature of the “how-to” makes it super easy to write with AI using a combo of Claude dot ai and ChatGPT.
It took me longer than this, but I’m convinced with a little extra focus without interruption, I could have produced the full guidebook in 3-5 hours tops.
I’ve got the first one DONE, just being reviewed by my partner.
It’s about 100 pages long. And we’re attaching some bonus templates and other things to it.
Using it as a natural lead gen to his paid course, of which we have a deal split for that, too.
If I wanted to, and maybe I will in the future, I could also sell ad space on the bonuses page.
And up those revenue streams.
But even without that…
Once we launch, I fully expect the royalty train to keep on chuggin’ and growing.
Then rinse and repeat for the others.
Until we have a little fleet of guidebooks, produced mostly with A.I., delivering us royalties every month…
Even when all I’m much good for is naps interrupted by periods of blowing my nose.
To rocking those royalties,
Adam
P.S. Would you like me to share more on this guidebook journey as I go along?
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I’m turning courses into royalty-slinging Guidebooks with A.I.
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