Category Publishing
You created the category.
Claim it with a book.
Turn your category expertise into a book you can hand someone in 60 days
Claim Your Category
CATEGORY ABANDONMENT
Your Category
Is Orphaned.
You named your category. You framed it with language and process. But you never wrote the book that claimed it.
That's Category Abandonment. And it turns everything you built into an orphan and it's waiting for someone else to pick up.
THE LAW You can't be the authority on a category you haven't authored.
Claim Your Category
WHAT YOU GET
The category answers
to you.
Here's what's different the day the book exists.
ORPHANED
You struggle to communicate your value.
You're a consultant who works in an industry.
You're forgotten moments after your talk ends.
Your calls start cold.
Anyone can still claim the category before you do.
CLAIMED
The book explains it clearly for you.
You're the author of the category.
People look you up and find a book with your name on it.
Your calls already know you and are ready to buy.
You give the market new language and it all points back to you.
Claim Your Category
Chris Stanley
Chris Stanley
Author of 31 books · 21+ Amazon Bestsellers
WHY I DO THIS
I claimed a category with a Mini Book... It changed everything.
I ran a training company for insurance adjusters. There was a real problem in that world and nobody had a name for it, so I wrote a small book and gave it one. About ten thousand words. It took days to write, not years.
Then the customers and industry started coming to me. People found the book, then they found me, and by the time we talked they had already decided to buy.
I thought I had gotten lucky with a book. What I had actually done was claim a category, and I didn't have the framework for that until years later.
Then I did it again on purpose. I wrote the Mini Book Model and claimed Mini Books.
Now I help solopreneurs and billion dollar brands write Mini Books to Claim their categories.
If it works in adjusting with no famous name on the cover, it isn't about the author. It's about the claim.
Claim Your Category
Three steps to a claimed category.
1
Book a call
You hang up with a plan that turns your expertise into a category-defining book.
2
Name & Frame Your Category
You give your customers language they can use that makes you memorable.
3
Claim it with a Book on Amazon
They find the book, then they find you, and they show up already decided.
Claim Your Category Sixty days from the first call to a book you can hand someone.
THE PROOF
It works in any industry.
Marketing · Category Design · Insurance · Transportation · Publishing · Theology
Some of the Books We've Worked On
The Existing Market Trap
The Existing Market Trap
Lightning Strike Marketing
Lightning Strike Marketing
Mini Book Model
Mini Book Model
Independent Adjuster's Playbook
Independent Adjuster's Playbook
Claims ER
Claims ER
Life by Design by Dan Stanley, Ph.D
Life by Design
Doesn't matter what category and niche you are in. People assume you are the leader if you write the book on it.
WHAT THEY SAY
Trusted by category leaders.
Chris Stanley is a legend.
The work he did on our book, The Existing Market Trap, reminded me of what it looks like when someone owns the work like it's their own. He became a vital member of our team during our Lightning Strike. Highly recommended.
Al Ramadan
Al Ramadan Author of Play Bigger & The Existing Market Trap
Love all things Chris Stanley.
Christopher Lochhead
Christopher Lochhead Co-author of Play Bigger & Category Pirates
Chris is one of the sharpest minds in category design.
He has helped me countless times refine my category position and category name.
Fernando Labastida
Fernando Labastida Author of The Startup Book
Chris is the real deal.
I now have a full flywheel of content, funnels, and lead magnets, all of which circle around my book, which Chris helped with. But most of all, adding value first.
Stuart Corrigan
Stuart Corrigan Author of Project ER & Claims ER
WORKED WITH COMPANIES LIKE
Play Bigger
Category Pirates
Descartes
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
Three ways in. Start wherever you are.
COACHING · $3,000
Get Help Whenever You Need It
Ninety days. Book a call every time you get stuck, one at a time, and you leave with one clear action. No session count.
BRING ME ANY STAGE OF IT
01Claiming your category with a book
02Setting up a lazy book marketing system
03Building your flywheel
Best if you are doing the work and you need somebody to ask on the day you are stuck.
See How It Works
PRODUCTION · $10,000
Manuscript to Book in Hand
I run production as the production manager for your team, or with my team doing the work. From manuscript to the book in your hand.
Best if the writing is done and you want the book made.
Book a 20-Minute Call
GHOSTWRITING · $20,000
Done-For-You Mini Book
Everything in production, and I write it. I interview you, work through your category material and everything you’ve already produced, then write your Mini Book in your voice. Edited, designed, and live on Amazon in 60 days.
Best if you want it done for you.
Book a 20-Minute Call
MORE FROM CATEGORY PUBLISHING
Start smaller.
Category Publishers
Category Publishers
The newsletter and the podcast. This is where the category gets built in public.
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The Mini Book Series
The Mini Book Series
Amazon bestselling books on how to write and publish a Mini Book.
Read the series
Chris Stanley
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Where most of this gets argued out first.
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