Published and approaching the one-year anniversary. Trying to warm up the marketing and promotion.

My audiobook JUST came out, which I recorded myself in my backyard shed/office. I recorded in Descript, which made editing super easy and took care of a lot of the background noise reduction (though I'm using a high quality Shure mic and my shed is pretty soundproof.) Then took it into Adobe Audition to fix the leveling and round off the RMS. I did it entirely myself and it took about a week of recording and a week of editing.

@Julie Broad Thanks for the options! A downloadable PDF sounds like a great option. I already call out a "goodies" link throughout the book that includes worksheets and templates to follow along with in the print version. I'll make it a separate link unique to audiobook listeners so they can download "what they're missing" with non-print. And, I'm my own podcast producer, but I have access to some great professionals who can help me prep the files for ACX, if needed.

Here's an update! Well, I did it! Decided since I have the gear to do the recording, I spent the end of December recording and then about a week editing. I definitely took your advice, @Julie Broad, and ran some samples through the ACX lab. I found some videos that helped me smooth out my RMS and all the stuff. Uploaded to ACX for Audible and and inAudio for Aggregation. I went with the recommendation to compile a PDF download, which is unlinked on my site, but mentioned in the opening credits of the audiobook and also included as an attachment on platforms that support it. I just got the notification that it went live on Audible today and will start trickling out onto the other platforms over the next few weeks!

@Julie Broad I know!!

@Bruce Wayne I'm 100% confident it's a scam. Gmail address. Misspelled name (jeniferr.lawrencee.workss?). Clearly AI written synopsis of the book. I'm a cybersecurity guy by training. I can sniff these out. :)

I'm a little bit of a domain hoarder. So here's what I did. For me, my company name, MessageSpecs.com came first. Because that was what I was doing most of my revenue-generating business under (consulting and coaching). So that was what I used for my main site. I also had my name (first+middle initial+last.com) for YEARS as a separate personal blog. When I launched the company page, I just made that a redirect. Recently, my first+last.com came available and I got that and pointed it to the company's page also. When I sort of landed on my "identity" as the "Nerd That Talks Good," I bought that domain as a joke. But I pointed it as a redirect to the main company site also. But, working with the Book Launchers team, we landed on a book title "Be a Nerd That Talks Good." So I started just telling people they could find me at nerdthattalksgood.com/book. That seems to work out. I've also got a podcast "Nerds That Talk Good," so I verbally say nerdthattalksgood.com/podcast and it forwards to the messagespecs domain. The way I look at it, all roads lead to my company, which is what I'm driving traffic toward. But the on-ramp to get there might be different depending on the audience. Regardless, I make my site's landing pages VERY obvious that they're on the right site. Because the domain ultimately resolves to MessageSpecs, which may not be what they were expecting.