There's a belief that as solopreneurs, if we just hustle and keep looking for it, opportunity and success will find their way to us. Our guest for episode 143 is a great example of that.

Chandler Bolt is a best-selling author and marketer who trains others how to write and sell their ebooks successfully on Amazon. But his earliest inclinations were not of the writing persuasion and the path to his current endeavor is an interesting one. Today he joins us to talk about his early days as an athlete, musician and the path that led him to his present solopreneurial success.

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Just a few years ago if you would have told Chandler Bolt he'd be a best-selling author and someone who teaches people how to write great books, he would not have believed you! Chandler was not an A+ English student and didn't enjoy writing in school. It didn't seem like a likely path for him to pursue.

But one of the earliest influences that impacted where he is today was growing up in an entrepreneurial household; his dad ran his own construction business and his mom was a real estate agent. The time flexibility he saw his parents' businesses afforded them appealed to him in many ways, from the after-school competitions they always attended to the family vacations they all took together.  Even at an early age, Chandler knew he wanted that for himself.

He didn't need much of a push beyond that. As a youngster, he began selling snacks to other kids and then ran a lawn care business that helped him pay for college.

While in college in Charleston, South Carolina, Chandler went to work with the company called "School Painters". He learned the ins and outs of running a successful enterprise with them, from hiring and firing to marketing to selling to customer service. He learned it all in his first year and did over $100,000 in business.

The next year he returned and helped three other solopreneurs do what he did in his first year: run a successful painting business. Again, he caught on quickly and did a tremendous job with his trainees. They all did over $55k in sales and were awarded spots on the company cruise.

Chandler was well on his way.

You'll also discover things like:

* What does MVP stand for and how can you apply it in your business?

* What are the 3 pillars of being a solopreneur?

* Entrepreneurs don't make excuses, they make ___ ____. Chandler fills in the blank.

* What are the benefits of having an accountability partner?

* What is a weekly action doc and how can you use it?

* And lots more!

 

His most recent successes are his ebooks, The Productive Person, The Productive Person Action Guide and Breaking Out of a Broken System.

He was an Amazon best-seller with those books and did what any wise and savvy business owner would do: he created a course to show others how to have the same success he had with self-publishing ebooks.

Today he has a 3 month program, Best-Selling Book System, that takes you from your book idea to an Amazon best-seller in 3 months. This program accelerates you through the writing and editing processes, and walks you step by step from idea to ebook launch. The great thing about this program, aside from the information it provides, is how it was created. Chandler didn't have it all locked down when he started, he knew what he wanted to cover but he hadn't created the content.

Instead, he let his participants show him what they needed and they would customize based on their needs. And that's exactly what they did with their initial 41 group members, all of whom have been pleased with their experience.