Launch Experiments with Jeff Gothelf

Lessons learned from launching book 5: What worked and what didn’t

Five-time author and sometime publisher Jeff Gothelf joins author Jurriaan Kamer to talk about launching his latest book, Who Does What By How Much?: A Practical Guide to Customer-Centric OKRs.

Thanks Jurriaan for hosting! More on Jurriaan at his website.

Topics & timestamps

1:09 Jeff's experience as an author and publisher

8:54 Going from working with traditional publisher to starting a publishing company

11:22 Publishing a very short book as an experiment

12:48 Jeff's OKRs for this book launch

15:20 What drives people to buy books?

18:08 What has worked, and what has failed?

19:55 Building an email list and LinkedIn group of early readers

22:00 Setting up podcast appearances

22:45 "Cousin reviews"

24:10 Interpreting the results since launch

26:59 Launch year and recommendations

27:50 Also experimenting with PR and paid advertisements

28:28 More about PR

30:17 Asking people to share and post about the book

33:20 Never shut up about your book

36:09 Make every post, email, and reminder valuable to build good will

37:50 Offering bulk discounts and bonuses

39:40 Handling fulfillment for bulk purchases

42:06 What would you do differently next time?

43:43 Beta reading

44:56 Book launch parties

45:35 Bulk purchase as part of conference speaker fee


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