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Ryan Holiday's Research Assistant Reveals NYT Bestseller Formula

Mar 3, 2023

45:45

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Billy Oppenheimer

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How to Write a Good Book - Ryan Holliday

01:36

How Would You Do It Today?

02:22

How Has Content Marketing Adapted?

01:49

Introduction

2min

How to Write a Good Book - Ryan Holliday

2min

How Would You Do It Today?

2min

Are You Already Doing the Thing?

4min

Is It Like a Side Hustle?

2min

The Daily Stoic Content Calendar

2min

How Does Ryan Write Like a Daily Stoic Email?

2min

Harry Truman and the Justice Book

2min

How Do You Collaborate on a Book?

3min

10.

Is There a Difference Between Ryan's Process and Robert's?

4min

11.

Is There a Mentorship Between You and Ryan and Robert?

2min

12.

The No Card System

2min

13.

What's the Business of the Author?

2min

14.

What's the Strategy Behind Book Marketing?

2min

15.

How Do You Grow Your Newsletter?

2min

16.

Email Management

2min

17.

How Has Content Marketing Adapted?

2min

18.

What's Your Experience With Social Media Content?

5min

19.

How to Get 500,000 Subscribers in a Month?

3min

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
Billy Oppenheimer is Ryan Holiday’s book research assistant. Over the last 4 years Billy helped Ryan write 3 best selling books: Stillness is the key, Discipline is destiny, and Courage is calling.

Today’s episode we’re going to dive into the exact strategy that he used to land his dream job with Ryan, how Billy and Ryan collaborate on a book and every single step of the book writing process from coming up with the idea for a book… to sending the book out to publishers and finally Billy shares what he learned working with Robert Greene on his book the Daily Laws.

SHOW NOTES:
0:00 Intro
0:34 How Billy got a job with Ryan Holiday
07:28 Billy’s first projects and responsibilities
14:18 How Ryan writes books
21:36 Working with Robert Greene
24:38 Writing advice from Ryan and Robert
28:52 Ryan’s team
30:56 Ryan’s marketing strategy
38:45 Building your own newsletter
44:55 Outro

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Backstage Careers

Ryan Holiday's Research Assistant Reveals NYT Bestseller Formula

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How to Write a Good Book - Ryan Holliday

How Would You Do It Today?

How Has Content Marketing Adapted?

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