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		frist45 on Jan 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what... I wrote a book called Build a Ruby Gem ( http://brandonhilkert.com/books/build-a-ruby-gem/). After release, it's required very little work and has totaled about $20k in 9 months since launch.

gedrap on Jan 6, 2015 [–]

How did you market this book? Do you think having 1k twitter followers helped with sales?

frist45 on Jan 6, 2015 | [–]

Mostly in places I knew Rubyists hang out online. Message boards, link aggregators, etc. Twitter helped very little towards sales. Although I use Twitter here and there, focusing on capturing emails was more valuable.

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