Becoming Your Own Banker Audiobook

[Claribel Szwaja]

HiRob! Thanks for posting such helpful info. I want to record the bible as a gift to my family for when I am no longer around. Do you have any information on publishing public domain books? Will Amazon allow it?

I have a question about the sounds allowed on the files.you state at the beginning that there should be no sounds between chapters. But then later you say, if you want to add sounds, go ahead and add them. I want to have a very soft drumbeat between my chapters. Is that going to be kicked out?

Wow, this is so nice. I was referred to e-Audio Productions -AudioProductions.com (do you know them?) to help me self narrate my audiobook. I got so much information from them (that is also mentioned here) and help on my gear setup and settings. I am about to start reocrdings. The thing is that the audio will need editing because I believe I will be making a lot of mistakes during my reading and also cleanup and mixing to meet the technical requirements for audiobooks otherwise they tld me it can get rejected and that is basically why I am going with this company. The before and after examples were amazing!

One idea that comes to mind is to include a link to a page on my web site where the listener can access all the models and follow them while listening to the audiobook, and/or which could also be downloaded for free as a PDF. Your thoughts on this?

You only have to trawl through volunteer feaders site like LibriVox to see how bad some volunteer readers are and how they can destroy the literature. There are very few good ameteur readers. The best are trained.

Hey, Rob. Just a quick thank you for this post. Recently published my first book and this post on how to do an audio version was supremely helpful. I pretty much copied your file as a model and duplicated it in Garageband. All new stuff for me so your step-by-step really helped Thanks much!

Do you have a page-turner or teleprompter setup for use during production? I feel that reading off a screen would be quieter (as well as better for the environment) than trying to flip printed pages whilst recording, but the clicking of keystrokes or having to look down at the keyboard would also add noise and disrupt the reading flow.

Hi Rob, thanks for all that you do for us novice audiobook authors. This is my fifth audiobook and when I downloaded my first file I got an error message from ACX. Under the category AMS (dB) which is greek to me, it has a red -38.6. What do you think I did wrong? Everything else in the ACX report is okay.

Great Article ! thanks for sharing . Can you advise on the following. I have a lot of books that I have kept from childhood. I would love to record to an audio book and share them with the world. What would you suggest ? where should i start ? should i inquire with the author and publishing company? .. I would appreciate your suggestions and insight . Thank you!

Hi Rob, I love your kindness.

I appreciate your reply. I am not convinced about findawayvoices.com

Just browsing, I see Google Play have an option to add MP3 to ePub titles. I wonder if anyone uses this pathway?

As a trained (Ireland) stage actor I feel that I would be the best person to record my own titles as I understand the emotions etc., and of course, I created the wonderful characters, like you did.

I am looking into Google Play to see if I can work this out.

I have another book since Covid19 came along to destroy the universe. I hope you have another title too. It is a sweetner for the trying times.

Love you heaps. Marie xx

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My son and I co-authored a non fiction real estate investing book. We have it on Amazon and would like to distribute on Audible. The tone of the book contrast my 35 years of self taught experience with my sons economics degree and millenial views. I think it would require two seperate voices to effectively narrate. We have done lots of video and have recoeding equipment, however we stay very busy and would like to get someone else to narrate. Do you have any idea how much we should budget for 220 pages?

Also, if you say that I can use your file, if I add additional tracks that I need will they automatically be set to go and connected to what you have already done. Probably silly questions but just not sure.

I read from an iPad. I connected the mic to my laptop which I put on the floor about 3 feet away (the lenght of the cable) on edge so it kept cool and the fan stayed off. I had the heating off so no boiler noise, desktop off so no fan noise, no household appliances on. I recorded when the neighbours were out or quiet.

What about room tone? ACX calls for .5 to one second of room tone, but both you and ACX also call for noisegate, so how is this resolved? Also in your video you show yourself cutting out extraneous sounds but not replacing them with room tone. I would have surmised, prior to watching your video, that each chapter would consist of two tracks: a vocal track and a room tone track. No?

Very informative article. My father is a writer from India with many books to his credit. He writes in Nepali language, a language which uses Devnagiri script. I am planning to re-sell some of his titles in Amazon and then get an audiobook of the same, and may use ACX. I was wondering if ACX provides services for audiobooks in languages other than English. Any idea on that?

I have tried Audiobook Builder, an app available on the iTunes App store, to create an Audiobook. But the problem is that it comes in as either a single giant file, or many chapter files. All of the Audiobooks from Audible come in as a single file that has a dropdown menu showing the chapters and allows you to jump around by chapters. Is there any software that allows creation of books like that that do not require use of Audible? Stand alone?

Great! Nice stuff!

After some research I found some online services that provide audiobook productions. At first I was thinking of narrating my own and then have

-audioproductions.com/audio-book-editing do the post production (they have better rates and gave great tips for self recording) but I am thinking of doing a full production with a pro narrator with them now instead. Has anyone had any experience with such services?

Hey Rob, great post and video, thank you. I have a book (in paperback and ebook) but its not for sale on Amazon. Do i need to get it on Amazon before I can set up an ACX account and make an audiobook?

My friend wrote a book. He gave me permission to record it as an audiobook and then we plan to split the proceeds. Can we do that in the manner described above? Or does the reader and the author need to be the same?

How promoters and life insurance agents often explain how to be your own bank can be sensationalized and over-hyped. In fact, even the most popular publications (seen below) can be downright misleading at times:

There is a unique combination of features, riders, and life insurance policy design techniques that allow for an overfunded whole life policy to optimize these 7 key benefits ideal to be your own bank:

Also, contrary to popular belief, Indexed Universal Life (IUL) can also function quite well as your own private bank if it is designed and monitored correctly. You can read all about the pros and cons of IUL here.

What I find so interesting is that if your local bank offered an account with these benefits, then people would be lining up around the corner to deposit money into. But since the whole life insurance industry has done such a terrible job of positively promoting its own wares, this concept remains one of the best-kept financial secrets in America.

The agent helping you set up the policy should use a combination of policy design features and optional riders to allow for robust cash growth to occur early and often. Designing a whole life insurance policy in this manner will substantially reduce agent commissions and allow for more rapid cash value growth inside the policy to be used for your own private family bank.

And furthermore, we have to assume then that you are disciplined enough to save up cash afterward for your next purchase. If so, you will in most circumstances be much better off funneling those funds through a properly designed life insurance policy and utilizing the flexible loan feature as described above.

Do you like the flatter left-hand side of the curve or the steeper right-hand side of the curve? You want the right-hand side, of course, and how you get there is by not interrupting the curve anywhere along its journey.

Well guess what? The moment you withdraw funds from any compounding asset to pay cash for a purchase, you just killed the compounding. Once you refill your account with the amount you spent, you reset that curve to the flatter side on the left

If however, by becoming your own banker you borrow against this continuously compounding asset class, you can often create more wealth for yourself because your entire balance keeps working for you in this tax-sheltered environment.

Samuel Saver wants to be a cash buyer for everything. So he saves up cash and withdraws it to pay for major expenditures and strategic investments. Once he does, he starts aggressively saving again to bolster his reserves for the next time.

His best friend Benjamin Banker wants to become his own banker with life insurance. So he pays premiums to build up cash value in life insurance and then borrows against his safely growing equity when he has a major expenditure or strategic investment opportunity. Rather than rebuild his savings account, Benji flexibly pays down the lien against his continuously growing cash value and ends up at a higher place in line in his own bank (that also happens to be immune from market risk, taxation, and possibly even suing creditors).

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