Add Book Publishing to Your Business Without Building a Publishing Company From Scratch
License the infrastructure, experience and capabilities of MindStir Media, a 3x Inc. 5000 publishing company founded in 2009.
If your company works with entrepreneurs, executives, experts, speakers, coaches, professionals or other aspiring authors, there may be a significant service opportunity hiding inside your existing customer base.
The MindStir Media Authorized Publishing Partner Licensing Program gives qualified businesses the opportunity to add professional book publishing services to their existing offerings while MindStir Media provides much of the publishing infrastructure behind the scenes.
You bring the clients.
You set your own pricing.
You build your own publishing packages.
MindStir Media helps fulfill the publishing services.
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Licensing opportunities are limited and subject to approval.
Turn Book Publishing Into a New Revenue Stream
Building a publishing company from scratch can require years of experience, specialized personnel and substantial infrastructure.
You may need editors, designers, formatters, project managers, distribution relationships, publishing processes, royalty-accounting systems, author-support personnel and marketing capabilities.
MindStir Media has been building that infrastructure since 2009.
The Authorized Publishing Partner Licensing Program is designed to allow qualified businesses to leverage that established infrastructure rather than recreate it themselves.
Your company can concentrate on what it already does well: building relationships, acquiring customers and selling valuable services.
MindStir Media can help handle much of what happens after the sale.
An Established Publishing Company Behind Your New Service
MindStir Media isn’t a newly created publishing platform or untested fulfillment company.
Founded in 2009 by USA Today bestselling author J.J. Hebert, MindStir Media has grown into an established professional publishing company serving authors throughout the United States.
The company is a three-time Inc. 5000 honoree, recognizing it among America’s fastest-growing private companies, and has developed high-profile relationships and partnerships that have included Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington and Mariel Hemingway.
Qualified licensees gain the opportunity to associate their businesses with an established publishing organization while continuing to operate independently.
You Own the Customer Relationship. You Control the Opportunity.
This isn’t a traditional referral or affiliate program.
Authorized Publishing Partners operate their own independent businesses.
Partners can:
- Generate their own publishing customers.
- Conduct their own consultations and sales.
- Create their own publishing packages.
- Brand eligible services under their own company.
- Establish their own retail pricing.
- Collect customer payments through their own merchant accounts.
- Incorporate publishing into their existing services.
- Purchase applicable fulfillment services through MindStir Media at established partner/wholesale pricing.
That creates opportunities for substantial flexibility.
A PR firm might create an Executive Thought Leadership Publishing Program.
A business consultant might offer a CEO Authority Book Package.
A ghostwriter might add complete publishing and marketing services after finishing a client’s manuscript.
The partner determines how publishing fits into its business.
MindStir Media Provides the Publishing Engine
One of the most powerful aspects of the program is what an Authorized Publishing Partner doesn’t have to build.
Depending upon the services purchased, MindStir Media can provide access to infrastructure and fulfillment capabilities including:
Professional book production
Cover and interior design
Ebook production
Professional copyediting
Publishing project management
Distribution administration
Audiobook production
Royalty accounting and reporting
Direct author royalty payments
Book marketing and publicity services
Publishing agreement templates
MindStir Media’s project-management and fulfillment teams can also work directly with authors during applicable stages of production through regular email communication and/or MindStir’s project-management portal.
The partner doesn’t need to become an expert in every operational component of publishing before making its first sale.
No Royalty Department Required
Publishing a book is only part of operating a publishing company.
Someone also needs to account for book sales, process distributor reporting, calculate royalties, prepare royalty statements and pay authors.
MindStir Media handles applicable royalty accounting, reporting and author royalty payouts for books published through the program.
This gives Authorized Publishing Partners the ability to participate in the publishing business without having to build an ongoing royalty-accounting operation.
Sell More Than Publishing
A published book can create additional opportunities for marketing, publicity and author promotion.
Authorized Publishing Partners can also gain preferred access to a broad portfolio of eligible MindStir Media book-marketing services, giving partners additional opportunities to expand the value of their client relationships.
Available services can include applicable:
Book publicity.
Bestseller campaigns.
Advertising.
Press release campaigns.
Podcast promotion.
Book review outreach.
Social media promotion.
Audiobook production.
Additional book formats.
And other publishing and author-marketing services.
Specific services, partner pricing, exclusions and fulfillment details are provided to qualified applicants.
Who Is This Opportunity For?
The MindStir Media Authorized Publishing Partner Licensing Program is designed for established businesses that can realistically generate publishing customers.
It may be particularly attractive to:
Public relations agencies that want to turn clients into published thought leaders.
Marketing and branding agencies that want to add books to their authority-building services.
Ghostwriters that currently finish manuscripts and hand clients off to outside publishers.
Book coaches that want to provide a more complete solution.
Executive and business coaches whose clients could use books to build authority.
Speaker consultants and agencies whose clients could benefit from becoming published authors.
Professional-service companies with established relationships among entrepreneurs, executives, experts and other potential authors.
This is not designed as a passive-income opportunity.
The strongest prospective partners are established businesses with the ability to generate, sell and maintain valuable client relationships.
A Different Way to Enter the Publishing Business
There are essentially two ways for an established company to add professional publishing services.
The first is to build everything.
Recruit editors.
Find designers.
Create production workflows.
Hire project managers.
Establish distribution processes.
Develop publishing contracts.
Build royalty systems.
Create marketing capabilities.
Learn through years of trial and error.
The second is to license access to an established publishing infrastructure.
That’s what the MindStir Media Authorized Publishing Partner Licensing Program is designed to provide.
The Opportunity
Qualified businesses receive access to a licensing relationship with MindStir Media and the ability to build independently branded publishing offerings supported by MindStir’s established infrastructure.
Initial License Fee: $100,000
The program also carries an annual licensing fee beginning on the first anniversary.
Because this is a significant business opportunity and not an entry-level affiliate program, MindStir Media reviews prospective licensees before providing complete program materials.
Qualified applicants receive the comprehensive MindStir Media Authorized Publishing Partner Licensing Proposal, including additional information regarding the program structure, partner services, fulfillment, pricing and operations.
Applicants who elect to proceed will then receive the applicable licensing agreement for review.
Could Book Publishing Become Your Company’s Next High-Value Service?
Your company may already have the customers.
Your team may already know how to sell.
Your clients may already want to become published authors.
What you may be missing is the publishing infrastructure.
MindStir Media has been building that infrastructure since 2009.
The Authorized Publishing Partner Licensing Program gives qualified companies an opportunity to put it to work.
Add Book Publishing to Your Business Without Building a Publishing Company From Scratch.
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Applications are reviewed individually. Submission of an application does not guarantee acceptance into the MindStir Media Authorized Publishing Partner Licensing Program.