Who Is Tim?
Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company‘s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune‘s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of four #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and his latest, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads.
You can learn more at his about page.
His Podcasts:
The Tim Ferriss Show
The Tim Ferriss Show — focused on deconstructing world-class performers — is often ranked #1 across all of iTunes (also selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running) and has exceeded 200,000,000 downloads.
- How I Built a #1-Ranked Podcast With 60M+ Downloads
- How Tim Ferriss Became the ‘Oprah of Audio’—Behind the Podcast With 70M-Plus Downloads
- 25 Great Things I Learned from Podcast Guests in 2015
Tribe of Mentors
Tribe of Mentors is a short-form podcast series from Tim Ferriss and highlights short life advice from the best in the world.
His Books:
4-Hour Workweek
- How Does a Bestseller Happen? A Case Study in Hitting #1 on the New York Times
4 Hour Body
- Behind the Scenes: How to Make a Movie Trailer for Your Product (or Book)
- 12 Lessons Learned While Marketing “The 4-Hour Body”
4 Hour Chef
- 4 Hour Chef Launch: Summary of Week One
- How to Create a Viral Book Trailer (or Get 1,000,000 Views for Almost Anything)
- The Ugly New York Times Bestseller — The Creative Process in Action
Tools Of The Titans
Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life
Tribe Of Mentors
What Tim Ferriss Learned from 100-Plus Elite Performers
The podcast star and bestselling author sent the same 11 questions to more than 100 of his dream interviewees. He shares their answers in his new book, ‘Tribe of Mentors.’
Top Articles
Book publishing
Your Book Is A Startup: Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Chef, And The BitTorrent Publishing Model
Instead of marketing The 4-Hour Chef as a book, Tim Ferriss marketed it as a startup; relying on an iterative release schedule and spreadable, targeted content. Ferriss let usage drive product upsell, and users drive book seeding and distribution. He built in mechanisms for reward and social echo throughout the promotional cycle, mobilizing potential readers to act. This post by Ryan Holiday shows how you can hack publishing in sixty days or less.
How to Write a Bestselling Book This Year — The Definitive Resource List and How-To Guide
After three #1 bestsellers from 2007 to 2012, and publishing in 35+ countries, Tim Ferris has tried a lot. Having experimented with everything from “traditional” (Random House) to Amazon Publishing, from BitTorrent Bundles to self-publishing audiobooks, he has developed strong opinions about” what works and what doesn’t, what sucks and what doesn’t, what makes the most money and what doesn’t. In this meaty post, he shares his top tips.
12 Lessons Learned While Marketing “The 4-Hour Body”
This post is Charlie Hoehns first guest post on Tims blog. In it, he describes 12 lessons learned while marketing The 4-Hour Body, as he was involved from the earliest editorial stages straight through to #1 on The New York Times
Blogging
How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself
One of Tims favorite presentations he gave in 2009, an opening keynote at the last San Francisco WordCamp, titled “How to Blog without Killing Yourself”. More than 700 people from 32 countries were in attendance, which made for a wonderful experience.
Startups
How to Say “No” When It Matters Most (or “Why I’m Taking a Long ‘Startup Vacation’”)
Interviews + Articles
Features
Interviews
- Behind the Scenes of Tim Ferriss: His Secrets of Success (and More) (OkDork)
- The 4-Hour Workweek’ author Tim Ferriss reveals what he’s learned after a difficult year of introspection, and how he built a passionate fanbase of millions
- SPI 110: Tim Ferriss on Podcasting, Productivity, Experimentation, and if He Had to Start Over
- The Answers to My Favorite Questions
- SPI 110: Tim Ferriss on Podcasting, Productivity, Experimentation, and if He Had to Start Over
The ‘Tim Ferriss Effect’
The Tim Ferriss Effect: Lessons From My Successful Book Launch
But as more of our attention (and our book buying) shifts online, its only natural that the mantle Oprah held for a quarter of a century in introducing readers to new books, shifts to a digital native. And in Michael Ellsbergs opinion, the digital native who has taken up that mantle in the book world, is Tim Ferriss.
The Tim Ferriss Effect — Podcast Edition
“The first three days of our presence on one of Tim Ferriss’ podcasts have been three of our highest grossing sales day ever. What’s more, we’re seeing increasing sales and visitors, not a dropoff.”