Description

How do you take an idea from a free PDF to a hardback planner in its seventh edition? Helen talks to Fay Wallis, career and executive coach, host of the HR Coffee Time podcast and creator of the Essential HR Planner, about iterating a product, working with printers and Amazon, and how what you publish can be part of a service led business.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• How a free PDF of HR awareness days became a hardback planner, and what changed with each edition
• What a printer taught Fay about paper, finishes and print batches, and how print on demand through Amazon changed the risk
• How Amazon's low content book classification and the rise of AI-generated books affect anyone publishing a planner or workbook
• Why mistakes slip past even careful proofreading, and how Fay put things right when they did
• How a planner can feed a coaching business through planning days, monthly accountability sessions and client gifts

Connect with Fay:

The Essential HR Planner: https://essentialhrplanner.co.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faywallis

Website: https://brightskyhr.co.uk/

Connect with Helen:

Book: Enough: Rethinking Resilience in a World That Never Stops https://link.amazon/B0g9QtMZu

Coach Write Reflections: https://coachwrite.co.uk/reflections

Wait list for the 2027 Coach Write 90: https://coachwrite.co.uk/coachwrite90

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oneillhelen/