Last Friday I launched – in soft mode – my latest ebook, Brilliantly Better. During the last 48 hours anyone interested in getting it had the chance to buy it at a discounted price, 9.99 USD. As of now, the price of the ebook is at the normal level, meaning 16.99 USD.
Also, a few other things have been completed, adding the final touches to the launch. First, I finished a promo movie. I’m really proud about how it came out, more about that in the next paragraphs. Second, a brand new website has been put in place, and that would be, obviously, Brilliantly Better.
The Brilliantly Better Movie
This is my first attempt ever at making a movie. I don’t know anything abut this so I asked a very good friend to help me out. He’s one of the best guys I know at this thing, with thousands of hours of work on the field, and dozens of commercials already aired. His name is Sega and you can find more about what he does by clicking on that link.
We spent the last Saturday shooting in my living room, experimenting with various lenses and gear and settings and props. I never thought that getting a few minutes of valuable filmed material can be that hard. But it was also incredibly fun. We both enjoyed our time and we did that not because we had to, but because we liked it. Huge difference. Meaning we had a blast 🙂
I should also mention that the music and the sound on the movie were also supervised by Sega (I’m the one talking, though, obviously). I should also note that we shoot it with my Canon 450D, with two types of lenses, and the music was made on my iPad, using Garage Band. The editing was completed on Sega’s laptop, on Adobe Premiere. The total number of hours spent on this was around 20.
One of the things that really helped us out was the fact that we have a lot of common beliefs. During the last 3 years Sega has been on his own quest too, traveling through India and Asia. Also, he started to write a novel about his spiritual adventures, the book (in Romanian) should be published soon. Also, we’re both fussy and expensive. But, as you can see, we deliver. 😉
As for the movie, you can see it at the end of this post. If you like it, share it. Also, leave a comment and let us know what you think.
What Should You Expect From The Ebook
I’m sure you already clicked on the first link and you read everything on the Brilliantly Better website. I’m writing this for the 1.34% of you who didn’t.
You will get more 70 articles, 500 pages, each and every one of them carefully selected out of more than 700.000 words I’ve written on my blog since I started it, 3 years ago. It’s just the best of what I wrote so far.
And I won’t say a word more than that, because you should really be at the ebook site now. And because I deeply hate those ridiculously long and shallow sales pages, that way of promoting stuff I did just doesn’t click with me.
Enjoy Brilliantly Better – The Ebook! 🙂
The video is really nice. Maybe need some little work on the end. But as a whole it’s really nice. Thanks for sharing.
Indeed, a fine job, however you should have worked a little more on that ending, still it is far better then anything I could ever put together, so good job!
Ivan is right – the whole clip is very good, but the music ends unexpectedly and easily you could read the title of the book emphasizing it instead of leaving empty space. Finishing toch is missing…
Very nice video, congratulations! It fits with my picture of you (I’m a reader of your blog since a long time). Just the end is al little bit abrupt.
Thanks for the nice words and that was the whole idea: to be exactly how I am. As for the end, it had to be abrupt to leave place for the product, in the end, it’s not all about me 😉
This I can’t control: I don’t know how you are. I only know my image of you after reading your articles. 🙂 But this fits well with the video.
I understood directly why the end is a little bit abrupt but it’s still abrupt. I see the video, I like it and suddenly it over without “a round end”.
But that’s a detail, the video as a whole is really nice!