Behind the Scenes of a Best Selling Book Launch - Classy Career Girl

Behind the Scenes of a Best Selling Book Launch Welcome to todays podcast interview! Im very excited to introduce you to Corporate Rescue Plan member, Jenna Janssen. Jenna recently had a very successful best selling book and business launch and I wanted to feature her story with you today. As a young girl, Jenna loved to make others beautifulfrom putting barrettes in her dads hair to doing fake perms on her life-size Barbie. However, instead of going to cosmetology school after high school, she went the traditional route of college at Central Michigan University. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Business and Theatre. After graduating college, she felt she wasnt on her true life path and enrolled into cosmetology school at Douglas J Aveda Institutewhere she realized she had truly found her passion for creating beautiful hair and making others feel like their best self. Unexpectedly, she was no longer able to do hair because of a wrist injury, which devastated her. While trying to figure out what to do next, the idea for Salon Success System came about. Jenna was a highly profitable hairstylist and wanted to share her business skills with other stylists and salon owners. She helps other stylists live the financial life they have wanted, while succeeding in the career field they have always been passionate about. Click play below or  right click here and save link as  to download or subscribe on iTunes  here on this link: If you are enjoying our podcast, please leave us a review on iTunes! It would mean the world. Thank you! Behind the Scenes of a Wildly Successful Book Launch Did you decide to go to a publishing house or did you self-publish? How did you make that decision? I self-published my book, Salon Success System For Hairstylists, through  KDP  on amazon.com. I actually looked at the eBook template that you had at the Corporate Rescue Plan and I had a friend who writes books and help me with my business marketing message. With his help and CRP, I followed the different steps and put it right to KDP. I typed up the book and I used Grammarly to make sure everything was edited appropriately. I also had someone edit it through  Fiverr. I finished by doing the formatting through kindle and then uploaded the book! What was the mindset of pricing it at $0.99 on launch day? The $0.99 is what my business coach recommended and thats what he did. It just  helps people to easily get it and make the decision. I had people purchasing it that werent even in a salon industry because the information inside of the book about  email marketing using different social media, personal branding, business branding your message, its an overall good book for business. But, obviously, my niche/target market is hairstylists. How did you become a #1 bestseller? Becoming a #1 best selling book is a lot easier than you think.  So each book has a category and when you look at it theres an algorithm to figuring out how many copies you need to sell in order to be a bestseller, historically on average. So I needed around 135 copies that day to hit #1 bestsellers and I did it! What are the apps or websites you used? Fiverr for editing CreateSpace for printing How did you use your link (your lead magnet) in the book to grow your business? Theres a link inside the book and outside the book. On the back cover, I have a link that says, Go here to learn more. In each chapter theres and extra credit or bonus video information. So if theres something I want to explain more in depth, they can click on that link and it will drive them to the website where they can see more of whats going on. How long, from start to finish, did it take you? It was 8 weeks but if I time it out, I spent 3 days to actually type up the book. What was your writing process like? I outlined it into the headings for the chapters. And as I thought about the different chapters, I added additional bullet points. The book was pretty much  an outline first and then I restructured it into a book. I used Evernote to create it, so I clip things and I had a book folder. How much was self-marketing and building suspense before the book launch? I did something every day. My business coach would message me like go to a Facebook live and make sure youre promoting this. Having that constant reminder, making sure that youre a forefront on this. On top of that I had a book launch party so people came and hung out with me too. [RELATED: 21 Business Books You Should Read] What was the sales funnel that you setup? A lot of my traffic was driven by  Facebook. Like I learned in Corporate Rescue Plan to pick a platform that you enjoy using, and for me that is Facebook. I had a lot of people private message me and from there I directed them to Salonsuccessreport.com. I acquire their email and they receive a free guide. Then, Im able to schedule them for business breakthrough call. Thanks Jenna for sharing your tips and a big congrats on your book launch!!