How to Become a Bestselling Author with Julien Smith

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: How to Become a Bestselling Author with Julien Smith
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 00:48:54
• Published: 2012-01-04 12:00

Julien is no stranger to success. It's a given - he’s written a New York Times Best Seller with his co-author Chris Brogan.  So  when I met him at BlogWorld, I knew that I had to get him as a guest on BlogcastFM. To start the year off with such a high profile interview really excites me for what’s coming in the new year. Here are some highlights from our chat:

• Why Julien Hops Platforms as Often as Possible and Experiments with New Platforms 
• An In-Depth Look Into the Kindle Publishing Process and the Audience it Gives You Access To
• How Being an Early Adopter Can Result in Massive Growth for Your Personal Brand
• Leveraging Your Existing Network to Build Your Audience
• Julien’s Process for Writing Content That Results in massive amounts of traffic
• How our Concern for Audience Response Holds Back our Content
• Why Publishing a Book Raises Your Credibility
• Some Key Tips to Associating Yourself With Bigger Names
• Why Small Private Invite Only Events Can Be Incredibly Useful

Some people and resources mentioned in this episode include:

• Epic Meal Time
• John Lajoie
• Monique Johnson
• Revolution Apparel
• Scott Stratten
• Trust Agents
• The Flynch
• Never Eat Alone and Keith Ferrazzi

Julien Smith is a blogger, consultant, and speaker who has been involved in online communities for over 15 years. He was one of the first Twitter users and among the first people to use podcasting in 2004. You can follow him on twitter @julien. If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter. One of our goals for 2012 is to become a top 100 show in iTunes. We can get there with your help and it will enable us to improve the how and bring on even bigger guests. So if you can, we’d be really grateful if you write us a review in iTunes.