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Hal Elrod

1 appearance on the record.

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13statements → 8claims → 0claims resolved → 3.85/5average certainty → 1.31/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 7said about them ↓

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8 assertions · 2 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 8 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Hal argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Everything Hal Elrod said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Elrod: Self-publishing is the best path for over 99% of authors
“I came to the conclusion that self publishing for 99, you know, point something percent of authors is the way to go.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 14:19 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
Insight
Elrod: Books driving daily behavior change generate sustained word-of-mouth
“However, if that first book changed your daily behavior, where you now do something different every single day that adds significant value to your life. Well, the talking about that book, Is going to extend beyond the book itself for as long as you do the beha…”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 8:37 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
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Elrod: Miracle Morning audiobook sales currently outpace Kindle sales
“We sell more audio books than I think being Kindle right now.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 17:41 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
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Elrod recounts surviving near-fatal car crash and six-minute clinical death
“I broke 11 bones almost completely severed my ear, punctured my lung, ruptured my spleen. And an hour later I was dead. I was clinically dead for approximately six minutes after the paramedics and the rescue crew used the jaws of life to pull me out of the car…”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 3:28 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
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Elrod nets roughly $7 profit per book across all Amazon channels
“The, it's about seven profit on Amazon across all channels from audible, you know Kindle it's average about seven dollars per book.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 12:57 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
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Miracle Morning sales dropped from 7,000 at launch to 300 monthly
“My first month I sold 7000 copies second month, I think I sold 700 copies and you know, and then down to 403 hundred and that's kind of where, you know, it found its average.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 15:51 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
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Elrod: Miracle Morning is averaging over 10,000 book sales monthly in 2016
“We've been averaging over 10,000 copies a month for the entire year.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 16:51 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
Disclosure
Elrod: Keynote speaking fee is $25,000 plus travel
“25,000 plus travel.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 17:13 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
Disclosure
Elrod: Inbound readers drive 99% of speaking gigs without outbound marketing
“It sounds like we do no outbound marketing. It's all people that read the book and then they want to bring me in.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 17:26 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
Disclosure
Elrod: Presold 5,000 copies of Miracle Morning via direct client phone calls
“I pre-sold 5000 copies by calling Every person, all of my former speaking clients, my coaching clients, everybody that I knew and asked them, I put together packages and, Hey, by a hundred, you get this by 200, you get this by 50, you get this.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 17:58 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
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Original Miracle Morning sells 10,000 monthly copies versus 1,000 for spinoff
“So I think like for example, last month we sold 10,000 of the original on average, and we're averaging about a thousand of the best selling books in the series, which is the network marketing book.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 19:47 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
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Elrod: The Miracle Morning Has Sold Around 240,000 Copies
“I think two 40, right around there, give or take.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 2:32 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
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Elrod completed over 300 guest podcast interviews and 150 solo episodes
“In the last four years, I've done over a 300 podcast interviews on other people's shows. I've done over a 150 episodes of my own.”
Hal Elrod Oct 31, 2016 ▶ 16:12 EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes

The other half of the tape: Hal Elrod's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 4 episodes on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 5John Ruhlin 1Joe Apfelbaum 1

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes Oct 31, 2016 13m
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