you want to write like edgar allen but
you don't want to be poe like edgar
allen there is an untapped market in the
poetry world that has millions of
dollars for all poets but all the sad
boys all the sad girls and all the all
the people who have the logical insanity
syndrome will never see that opportunity
sad boy alert sad girl alert please exit
this reality now yo i have some good
news and some bad news for you the good
news is that you don't suck at poetry
like rupee carr the bad news is that you
can't exploit the post-literate masses
for millions of dollars like rupee car
every single year tens of millions of
dollars are spent by students and their
parents
on creative writing programs at
universities and what results do they
get most mfas after three years don't
publish any books their professors
publish no books
their professors are also not judged on
a system of meritocracy but of diversity
by filling a quota by publications and
journals that nobody reads by publishing
their books at small houses that sell no
copies the new york times 11 months ago
published an article that stated that 98
of books published in 2020 by major
publishing houses sold less than 5 000
copies and if you guys know the average
commission rate for authors which most
of the time is less than ten percent
that means that most authors didn't even
make ten thousand dollars for publishing
their book oh the big book publishing so
what options are left for poets to make
a ton of money and why does money matter
you may ask well if you're providing
value for people actual value not the
fellowship value not the government
grant money value the invisible money
they print in the federal reserve and
give it to poets i'm talking about
creating real value from scratch in a
bluegrass way
if you can make a million dollars as a
poet with the method that i am going to
describe today which is the only viable
method for 99.9
of poets out there today unless you meet
the
small identity publishing standards and
that's what happens today in the
publishing industry you guys already
know that publishing houses do not care
about the objective standard of poetry
because if they did why do they have a
team of marketers of diversity
specialists of pr agents who spend all
year finding a certain identity to push
then finding the poets to fit inside
that box and then they market the crap
out of those poets and then they win
awards and they go out go out on writing
and speaking towards and people obsess
and say i've never understood this
perspective but there are hundreds of
poets and you may be one who
live in what i call the kindle graveyard
where they self-publish and sell a
couple books a year that are on an
objective level
10 times better than any of the top
poets any of the poet laureates any of
the poets winning awards today and going
out on these tours but
they do not fit into the woke ideology
that is being pushed by these publishing
houses and if you have a problem with
that then you are stuck in the hegelian
dialectic of the republicans and the
democrats of politics in the modern age
and you need to escape that if you are
going to actually be a poet because
that's what poets do we do not get stuck
in little pitter-patter dialectical
games we break through all barriers with
our emotions our intellect and our
intuition that is what poetry feels like
it doesn't feel like a diversity quota
it feels like absolute expression to the
max turned up we need to escape the
dialectics in the publishing industry
also and i'm here right now to take you
through the process so step one is you
need to find your vibe because if
we are going to find a thousand fans
that's what it's going to take to make a
million dollars a year as a poet you
need a thousand true fans you need to
find your vibe because there are
millions of readers of poetry out there
and like i said you just need a thousand
you just need a thousand people who will
devour your work so what's your vibe for
instance i am you know i do yoga and i'm
mystical so i have a very eco poet meets
mystical vibe and i dress like that and
i kind of talk like that and my content
is geared toward that and i enjoy
hanging out with those types of people
so that is my vibe and i learned a lot
of that vibe from robert bly rest in
peace just died he's one of my favorites
favorite poets of all time he had that
vibe and if you don't know what your
vibe is
pick a poet who you like and mimic them
at some level and eventually after
mimicking them a little bit you
will start to suddenly become your own
person by standing on the shoulders of
giants you can start reaching new trees
and hopping to other trees so how do you
find and build this vibe tribe of a
thousand raving fans the first thing
that you need to do is create your own
website that you pay monthly for whether
that is your wordpress site is
squarespace whatever
and you need to publish 10 or 20 of your
best poems on there just get them out
there so that people can understand your
vibe you need some social proof in this
game you need some authority and the
best way to show that as a writer is to
show some of your best work because you
have an unlimited creative well no one's
going to steal from you stop having this
these scarce the scarcity mindset a way
to spread your work
is to give life to your poetry hop on
canva or photoshop and make you know
transform one of your poems with images
maybe go out into nature and recite some
of your poetry turn it into a song have
other people recite it there are a
million creative ways to get your poetry
out there there are also a ton of
different ways for you to create content
that can also
expose your poetry to more people such
as youtube social media all these
different things so the second thing you
need to do
is create an email list because email in
2022 is still the most effective way to
sell things and that's what we are going
to be doing to make millions of dollars
a year a year as a poet you need to
create a product that people will give
you their email for and this could be a
short poetry book it could be maybe a
video on how you write poetry a short
course on your favorite poet poet or on
writing poetry whatever you can think of
and this is called a league magnet you
can release a podcast series there's so
many different ideas and eventually once
you get 50 to 100 people on your email
list we can move on to the next step
which is the most important of all and
once you are at this step you need to
start asking your email list questions
because those 50 to 100 people are in
your vibe tribe and they have certain
desires needs and they are lacking in
certain areas you need to be an explorer
an investigator and figure out what
those areas are because those are going
to be the same needs desires and lacks
of your the other couple thousand people
who also resonate with your vibe and who
are eventually going to be a part of
your
thousand true fans once you understand
the needs and wants of your vibe tribe
you are going to
then create four different poetry
courses or literature courses that you
are going to run at four different times
of the year for eight weeks each and
that's so about two months each four
times a year so eight months of the year
you're going to be running these courses
and they're going to be co and i'm i'm
telling you guys the method that i think
will work for you that i that i am
seeing other people use and these are
going to be certain types of courses for
instance you could do a beginning poetry
course where you workshop workshop
people's poems go over some of your
favorite poets and you put a lot of time
into it you know you're putting a couple
hours of content out every single week
for those eight weeks everything you
know about poetry you could
also tailor it to your vibe so pretend
you're an emo emo poet you could do
advanced email poetry and have a small
group of people in there or a very large
group it's actually not gonna be small
it's going to be your thousand true fans
are going to be buying this so you are
going to do this four times a year and
you could do this on repeat or change
things up but if you find something that
works then keep doing it so now we are
going to look at a couple case studies
and hop on the calculator so i can show
you guys how this all works in real time
so let's check out an author and a poet
that i really love he's an eco poet
named david white i would recommend all
of his books he has a huge following for
eco poetry and environmental you know
thinking you know a lot of a lot of book
sales but he does something every single
month called not every single month but
a couple times a year called three
sundays where for three
three sundays in a row he'll talk about
a certain topic for two hours basically
riffing off some bullet points he
charges sixty dollars for this i've
signed up for one of these and i was in
the zoom call you know in the zoom calls
there were over a thousand peach
thousand people each week in the zoom
calls and i assumed that there were
hundreds of more signed up because he
posted the lectures later and you know
not everyone can make it but let's just
take that number 60 and let's say david
you know got on his game and he did one
every single month so a thousand
times 60
is 60 000 let's say you did that 12
times a year
boom that's 720 000.
we look at his book sales he self
publishes a lot there's a ton of reviews
he must sell thousands of book a year
thousands book a year um let's we'll
probably add 80 000 into that
at least
then if we look he's also an acclaimed
speaker he's developed himself into a
person who probably speaks for ten to
twenty thousand dollars per event so
and then if we he has digital downloads
runs in person workshops creative
writing workshops david white if you
wanted to could push over a million
dollars a year but let's focus on you
let's say that
let's focus on our courses so we are
going to have four courses a year and
let's say we have a thousand true fans
sign up for each of them and these are
in-depth eight-week courses that have
interaction
and you
hours of content and they are very deep
for your niche i would say a reasonable
price and what a lot of people charge
and even less of people charge for stuff
like this is 250 for the amount of
effort that's going you're going to be
putting a ton of time especially your
first time building these courses you
know eventually you're just going to be
repeating a lot of the same stuff so 4
000 times 250
it's a million dollars everybody there
it is there is the big kahuna right you
have now made a million dollars a year i
promised a million dollars and here it
is all you need is a thousand true fans
if you sleep eight hours a night and
work 40 hours a week over the next 15
years you will have over 50 000 hours of
free time is that enough time for you to
gain a thousand true fans i think it is
in that time you could also probably
develop the technical skills or earn the
money to hire people with the technical
skills to run four courses per year and
charge 250
and put enough value into that course
that you can justify that amount of
money because universities charge
thousands of dollars even the cheapest
universities i went to community i
started off at community college back in
you know 2012 i was paying 800
per course and i think i had a in-state
discount
what about out-of-state colleges
prestigious universities people that pay
thousands of dollars for these courses
and they own they get most of the time
no value out of them but you as an
independent content creator who is
aligned with your vibe tribe because
when you enter into a college classroom
you have no idea who your professor is
going to be maybe you've researched them
or heard about them but you're not
aligned all of your audience and you
everyone it's going to be a consensual
agreement and that's going to give them
they're going to want to enter that
agreement even more because it's with
you so let me know what questions you
have let me know how i can help
subscribe to the channel because i am
going to be
breaking this down step by step and
trying to do this myself that is my goal
to be able to do this myself and show
you guys the process of doing this but
go ahead and take this take these ideas
and go on but once again
stay tuned and there will be more on
this topic peace