Steve,
You may have already considered this and decided that it just wasn't the path you wanted to take to make your first million, but have you thought about starting your own publishing company? Something like "Pavlina Press"?
To get an idea of what I mean, the kind of people I'm thinking of include:
- Tim O'Reilly and his computer-related "animal" books.
- Tom Rollins and his Teaching Company audio programs.
- Earl Nightingale and Lloyd Conant and their Nightingale-Conant audio programs.
- Robert Kiyosaki and his "Rich Dad" series of products.
- Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas and their "Pragmatic Programmer" series of products.
All of the above example products, in my opinion, have a higher level of quality to them that aren't there *only* because of the particular author/teacher of that particular book/program. The publisher also adds it's own level of quality and value to each book or program that, I think, wouldn't otherwise be there if the author pubished their book/program somewhere else.
I don't know... Maybe you could make your first million by helping other people express their own unique ideas and techniques on personal development by providing them with an outlet and a platform for them to reach even more people than they could on their own. Similar to Nightingale Conant - Earl Nightingale had his own personal development ideas and he published his own audio programs (which are great BTW), but he also helped other people publish their own personal development ideas too.  |