Charlie Hoehn

17 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2024 by Charlie Hoehn · across every show →

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Dec 10, 2024 positive
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Hoehn: Creating or revitalizing a book category creates winner-take-all dynamics
“That would be like the ultimate tip and trick, and that's actually on my list, is does this create or revitalize a category? And so, if you can do that, it's like winner-take-all scenario. Tim Ferriss did this with lifestyle design.”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 1:41:15 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hoehn: The average book sells fewer than 1,000 lifetime copies
“The average book sells less than a thousand copies over the course of its lifetime”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 54:50 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Hoehn: Tell-all books about Trump crash in sales and never recover
“People who write about, like, Trump, you know, when he was in office in, like, a tell-all, sales go up, fall crashing down, and never return ever again.”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 1:37:10 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024
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Hoehn: Authors Make a Mistake Starting With History Instead of Best Material
“A lot of authors make the mistake, both self-published and traditional, They'll bury the best stuff in the back of the book, and it's like, what percentage of your readers are even getting to that? You know, they'll, they'll start with theory of like, here's h…”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 51:49 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024 negative
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Charlie Hoehn: The Best Books Are Written for One or Two People
“The best books are written for one or two real people on the other end, and a lot of authors write as though they're speaking to a huge general audience or to their perceived fan base, the entire fan base. It's the fastest way, in my opinion, to kill a book be…”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 3:42 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024 positive
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Hoehn: Authors should not write prose before solidifying table of contents
“You should not write a word Until you have solidified your table of contents. And your table of contents is the thing. It is the structure, the makeup, the foundation of your book.”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 38:14 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Only 20 of the 500,000 Books Published Annually Sell a Million Copies
“There's 500,000 books published. Plus, published every year. 20 of them sell a million copies, and most of those are fiction.”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 55:25 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024 positive
Insight
The Five-Beat Formula for Writing Engaging Nonfiction Book Chapters
“Yes, you should lean into a formulaic structure for chapters when you're writing it, and I want to differentiate, differentiate between writing and editing. Writing is getting the clay on the table. Editing is shaping it into the sculpture, right? And so when …”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 45:57 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024
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Hoehn: A Nonfiction Introduction's Sole Purpose Is Serving as a Sales Page
“The whole purpose of the introduction is just to sell you on reading the book. That is, it's the sales page. Convincing you this will be worth my time, which is you've got smart readers. The thing that they're going to value the most is, is this worth my time?”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 50:48 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024
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Hoehn: Authors should validate their framework with three people before writing
“The method I encourage is teach it in real time first. And ideally, you're somebody who's already transformed numerous people, at least three, with the transformation that you're trying to codify into a book. So generally speaking, you ought to have coached, c…”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 8:23 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoehn: Automated Email Funnel Tripled Normal Sales-to-Review Conversion
“I think 30,000 people or something went through that series. As this is excerpted from the book, I think it was like every third email, I would be like, if this was helpful, This is from Play It Away. If you wouldn't mind leaving a review, that'd be great. I h…”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 1:31:37 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024 positive
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Hoehn: Million-copy books succeed by driving visible, shareable reader transformations
“It's like, do they provide a quick transformation that the reader wants to talk about and the people around them can't help but notice and talk about?”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 1:34:31 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024
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Hoehn: Authors Must Front-Load Editing Time Due to Reader Retention Drop-Off
“Up front. A hundred percent. You are correct. It's the YouTube hook. It's the retention graph. It's the exact same with books.”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 49:16 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024
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Charlie Hoehn: Authors Must Embody Their Subject Before Writing
“You have to become the embodiment of the book First. So you can't really write it as though you're that person that you haven't become yet, or the person that you're becoming. You kind of have to write it from a place of, I've already become this. I've already…”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 5:08 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024
Insight
Hoehn: Authors Must Write for Readers Below Their Expertise Level
“If you think of the author, their expertise is a ladder, right? And so they've climbed so many rungs to where they are. If they're trying to write for people on their rung or above, it will not be a good book. They need to write for the people below them And a…”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 5:48 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2029
Hoehn: Bestselling book tables of contents are typically divided into 2-4 parts
“If you look in table of contents of bestselling books, they're typically divided into two to four parts, often three.”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 38:49 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
Dec 10, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoehn: Virtually all books selling over 10,000 copies rely on word-of-mouth
“Virtually all books that sell more than 10,000 copies are driven by word of mouth.”
Charlie Hoehn Dec 10, 2024 ▶ 31:47 Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
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