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Jake Ducey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
266 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

Oh, we sold about 30,000 in print.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

In online, we've probably done like, it's probably done half of that in eBooks or so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

From, from that book alone, I probably, I printed them myself and still do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

So I put it back in, but I probably, I probably done probably about, um, maybe like a hundred, a hundred thousand, a hundred thousand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

listing price.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

I mean, it's, it says 1495, but I mean, if you sell publish, I print them for 75 cents, 74 cents.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

Yeah, I kept everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

I made a deal with my agent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

So my agent took like 15, 15%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

I got a big literary agent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

Why did you want that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

why did I want it to go to a literary agent route?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

Because I wanted someone that had experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

Well, at first I thought we were going to get a publisher and he thought we could sell it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

And then everyone told me no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

And so I had this big literary agent that couldn't even sell the book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

And we just, we've become, he's like a dad to me, somebody 55 years experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

He'd done a lot of the Neil, Donna Walsh, Eckhart Tolle, the dummy series and gave me a lot of support contacts and,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

uh, basically I got a mentor out of it.