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Beaumont: Great educational content has become a commodity across platforms
“And then the second thing is everyone is sort of focused on great content. And I would sort of say that that's a bit of a commodity. Now there's great content everywhere on every platform.”
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Beaumont: Required featured entrepreneurs to buy 1,000 book copies to participate
“What I then did is I raised the bar and I said, well, if you want to be in my next book, then you have to commit to purchasing a thousand copies. And I was able to fill up, you know, my next 11 books that way by having people actually commit to purchasing a ce…”
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Self-publishing through independent distributors can double author profit margins
“If you go through, through a major publisher, you normally get a 10% royalty, and that's it. If you go directly to a distributor, you'd get 35% out of which you take your costs. So if your costs are around about, you know, five to sort of seven percent, then y…”
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Over time, authors become the biggest purchasers of their own books
“So over the life of a book, five to 10 years, you actually become the number one consumer, the number one purchaser of your own book.”
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Beaumont: Writing a book manufactures business credibility without decades of experience
“Or secondly, you can manufacture credibility. And one of the ways to do that is through writing a book.”
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Bizversity acquired 160 paying subscribers in its first month
“Yeah, so we now have about a 160 people that are paying for that service. This is in our first month, so it's sort of brand new in terms of Monetization, and so now it's just a matter of how we can continue to grow.”
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Business Blueprint does $6M in annual revenue from 600 clients
“So we have over 600 people now that pay on average 10,000 dollars a year for our business education program and it operates all across Australia and New Zealand.”
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Beaumont bootstraps SaaS startup Bizversity using Business Blueprint revenue
“So what we've been able to do is take a portion of revenue and to be able to diversify and invest in in bizversity.”
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Beaumont: Printing 5,000+ books drops unit costs below $2 per copy
“If you're doing like a hundred, they might be like 10 dollars a piece, but if you're doing more than 5000, they end up being less than two dollars per book.”
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Beaumont: Business Blueprint generates over $5 million in annual revenue
“Now it's a business that does More than five million dollars a year in revenue, and it's a really fantastic business.”
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Beaumont: Less than 1% of small business owners have an advisor
“And I also done did some research and found out that less than one percent of people have a business coach or business advisor.”
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Business Blueprint runs about 60 live training events annually
“I've run a business education company for the last, like, 10 years called, called Business Blueprint, which is based around training entrepreneurs, but through primarily live events. We run about 60 live events per year.”
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Selling 10,000 copies makes a book a bestseller in Australia
“So best-selling in Australia is to sell 10,000 copies per, per book.”
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Dale Beaumont's 'Secrets Exposed' book series has sold 250,000 copies
“So a quarter of a million books have been sold in their secrets exposed series.”
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Beaumont: Published 16 Australian bestsellers and sold 250,000 copies
“And then I've published another yeah, probably 16 in total and sold a quarter of a million copies. So yeah, all of the books that I published hit the best bestseller list within Australia”
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Beaumont: Australian bestseller status requires only 5,000 physical book sales
“So a bestseller in Australia is selling 5000 books in physical bookshops. So that's the kind of technical definition of a bestseller in Australia.”
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Beaumont: Self-published book series generated $1.5 million from 250,000 copies
“And yeah, to sell, sell you know, that, that amount of books 250,000 all self-published was good. And if you want to know the revenues, we did about 1.5 million dollars in terms of book sales within the two and a half years.”
Disclosure
Beaumont: Business Blueprint charges $8,000 to $12,000 for 12-month program
“It's a, yeah, a program that people invest between eight to 12,000 dollars for a 12 month program with us in order to help them to Transform their business and implement new technology.”
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Beaumont: Brin.ai reached 21,000 downloads and 4,500 weekly active users
“So we've had 21,000 downloads within the past six months. So it's off to a good start and we have around four and a half thousand people using it now every week.”
