In this issue we profile John Lee Dumas—a military veteran, author and entrepreneur who is expediting the transformation of the book publishing & expert industry.
With zero training as a book publisher and less than a few years delivering expert advice on his EOFire podcast, Dumas has done the unthinkable. He has leveraged his military training to mobilize a team of illustrators, book marketers and related professionals to design, implement and deploy a Kickstarter crowd funding campaign that raised $453,803 in just 45 days, breaking established self-publishing records.
John has clearly demonstrated his ability to set and meet goals; but, more importantly he has provided the best evidence that crowd funding is disrupting the book publishing and expert industry.
We encourage you to read "Crowd Funding is Revolutionizing Book Publishing & The Expert Industry” to learn the secrets John Lee Dumas used to presell $453,803 worth of books—and apply his proven formula to create your own crowd funding success story.
SUBMIT YOUR OWN SUCCESS STORY:
If you have created a similar success story or planning an innovative crowd funding campaign—we want to learn more. Please read the free ebook for submission guidelines.
ABOUT MATRIX THOMPSON
Matrix Thompson is a serial entrepreneur and child of the Internet. Matrix joined forces with the Computer Freelancer Magazine to produce the Internet Marketing Report, long-before the World Wide Web was a popular medium. The publication enjoyed moderate success, until Matrix was recruited by the Computer Freelancer—to begin producing Year2000 computer problem conferences. Thirsty for experience and financial reward Matrix organized over 40 year 2000 computer problem conferences, each generating an average of $50,000 per event in advertising and gate receipts. Subsequently Matrix Thompson used the proceeds from his successful year 2000 conferences and seminars to set-up CashBack Telecom, Inc to initially provide consulting services to the Telecommunications industry.
Initial clients were Faxmate Inc and Eurotel ( Diallog Telecommunications ) whom he helped to grow sales revenues from $40,000 to well over $200,000 per month. Today, Matrix is a seasoned consultant with specialized interest in developing reseller networks, social media and content distribution systems. He has helped key clients to raise more than $1.5 million in private and public sector financing, assisted Riverside Worldwide in selling more than $1.2 million dollars worth of tickets and has drafted content for more than 100 content management systems.
In November 2012, Matrix began testing the Matrix 4.0 Social Sharing Rewards Platform with a local restaurant chain (Sunrise Caribbean Restaurant). Within 30 days of project launch the Matrix 4.0 software platform grew food delivery sales from $0.00 to $10,000 per month and booked business worth $200,000 per month. Now it’s final beta tests, the Matrix 4.0 platform is now being used by over 100 websites, and 2,000 businesses to generate sales leads, media publicity, improve search engine ranking and build social ambassador networks. Follow Matrix Thompson on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/
ABOUT SARIKA KHAMBAITA:
Sarika Khambaita is a writer and technology entrepreneur. With a penchant for quickly brainstorming great ideas and organizing teams of developers, marketers and content producers to bring it to market, Sarika Khambaita is a leading social rewards technology expert. Having sold her ItsSarika.com and BeautyOui.com websites and content aggregation business to Matrix Investments Inc, Sarika is now embarking on a new quest to change the world. In partnership with Matrix Investments Inc, Sarika is currently overseeing global rollout of TalkPix and the Change The World Movement. Sarika hopes to create a new generation of social entrepreneurs that embrace social rewards technology and usher in the social entrepreneurial changes pioneered by Google.