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How To Start A Profitable Self-Publishing Business With Mini Books

3 min readApr 28, 2025

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If I were to start over with my self-publishing business, I would do it with a simple strategy that I have only recently begin to understand.

The problem with self-publishing books is that most of us will never make a full time income with writing books only. Even if we sell our own books from Gumroad or direct with a service like SamCart.

And if you are like me, you don’t actually want to be creating this complicated business funnel to sell more things than the books you love to write.

However, from what I am learning from many aspiring authors and self-publishing authors early in their journey, you all want to make some money with these books. Which I 100% understand because I do too!

So, over the last year or so, I have been trying to figure out what would be the best way to create a significant source of income with self-publishing which could supplement regular income from a J-O-B or even replace that income.

What I have learned over this time is what I am going to share today, and I am going to share more on the 1st of May with my paid newsletter with a done-for-you template to get started.

Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out (otherwise, the template will be posted in a special section of my Gumroad store for more money).

The 5 Step Minimalist Author Income Strategy

I have come up with the strategy that I intend to use to grow my income over the rest of this year. The goal is to go from a few hundred dollars a month to a few thousand dollars.

What’s better is that I have already seen this start to take off and improve my income streams over the last couple of months since I have started working on this strategy. And now, I want to share it with you!

The strategy goes like this:

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My name is J.R. Heimbigner. I’m The Minimalist Author with 20 books to my name (15x #1 Bestseller on Amazon). If you want to learn more about self-publishing, start with my FREE Self-Publishing Author’s Checklist:

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The Minimalist Author
The Minimalist Author
J.R. HEIMBIGNER, AUTHOR
J.R. HEIMBIGNER, AUTHOR

Written by J.R. HEIMBIGNER, AUTHOR

Husband & Father of 3, Author of 20 books (15 Bestsellers) | I help aspiring authors write & publish their books from idea to bestseller in 90 days or less

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