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Kari Zahar Testimonial
Published July 7, 2021 · 83 views on YouTube
What did Kari Zahar say about the 7-Day Book Challenge?
Kari Zahar reviewed her experience completing the 7-Day Book Challenge, saying that although she came in with a fully finished outline, watching the challenge videos and working through the templates led her to scrap it and start over. She didn’t begin actually writing until day three, then finished the entire book in about three days.
What advice from the challenge did she find most useful?
Kari said the feedback that stuck with her most was the idea of the “minimum viable book.” Instead of writing the large, elaborate book she had originally planned, she wrote something targeted and focused that solved a problem right away, which she called really great advice from the team.
What steps did she take to publish and improve her book?
- Loaded the book onto Amazon Kindle without worrying much about the cover, using the standard templates provided in the challenge.
- Watched a video on making a quick cover, which she credited to Darcy.
- Made a few edits to the book after it was live.
- Redid the cover after the initial edits.
- Sent the book through two human editors, then ran it through Grammarly, which surfaced about 200 more suggestions.
- Watched a video on picking book categories and niches before publishing.
Did the challenge help her book’s ranking?
Kari said that a couple of days after loading her book, she reached number one in her category, and credited the challenge’s video on picking categories and niches as the reason she chose the right ones. She also recommended using Grammarly (roughly thirty dollars) even after using human editors, since it caught additional suggestions her editors missed.
Full video transcript
This is my review of the 7-Day Book Challenge I just completed. I had my outline entirely done before the challenge started, and of course, once we got into the challenge and I started watching the videos and doing the outline templates in there, I completely changed everything. So I didn’t even start using Jarvis and working on my book until about day three. Even then, I finished the whole thing in about three days.
One of the pieces of feedback that I really took to heart was the minimum viable book. So rather than doing the huge, elaborate book I had planned, I did one that was really targeted, really focused, and really solved a problem right away. That was really great advice that the team there gave me.
I got my book loaded on Amazon Kindle. I didn’t worry so much about the cover; I just used the standard templates that they have. Darcy has a really great video teaching you how to do that really quick, and I really appreciated that. After I got the book loaded, it was really easy to make some edits, so I made a few edits later and then completely redid the cover.
I do recommend using Grammarly as you go through the process. It’s only about thirty dollars, and I had sent my book through two editors, and then when I sent it to Grammarly, they had about 200 suggestions. So that is highly recommended from me, and it’s also recommended as part of the course, which is how I knew about it.
There’s also a video on picking your category and your niche. I highly recommend that as well, because a couple of days after I got my book loaded, I was number one in my category, and I wouldn’t have picked the right categories without watching that video.
So overall, I had a great time doing the challenge. It was really fun. I’d like to thank everybody for putting it together, and I do recommend it.