Book Funnels

Everyone Wants a Book Funnel. Nobody Has Time to Write a Book.

Stuart Bell 2 min read

The secret as a business owner... you're not writing a book. You're packaging what you already say on every consultation, every sales call, every client meeting.

After creating 1,200+ books for business owners over the last 13 years, the pattern is always the same. The expertise is already there. It just hasn't been turned into something that works when you're not in the room.

And that's what separates a book from every other marketing asset.

A PDF checklist gets downloaded, skimmed for 90 seconds, and forgotten. A brochure gets held onto just long enough to make it to the trash.

A book sits on a desk. Gets mentioned to colleagues. Gets passed to a spouse or business partner.

One of our authors, an estate planning attorney, told me his book sat on a prospect's kitchen counter for five months. The prospect wasn't ready when they got it. But then his mother had a health scare. Guess who he called? Not the attorney who sent a brochure. The one whose book had been staring at him every morning over coffee.

No other marketing asset does that.

So if you've been waiting to start yours, here's the simple version:

  • Pick ONE problem your best clients all share.
  • Pick ONE specific audience — not "everyone who needs help."
  • Then talk about it for 90 minutes. Don't write. Talk.
  • The big ideas that come out become your chapters, and a clear next step — an assessment, a checklist, a personalized review — becomes the equation that turns readers into meetings.

That's the whole model. Your book doesn't need to be clever. It needs to be useful to the one person you want reading it.

P.S. The biggest misconception is you need to be a good writer. I failed high school English and founded the company that's produced those 1,200+ books. You need expertise, not writing skills. Those are very different things.