5 Successful Business Book “Structured Format” Types For Growing Your Business

Posted on by Carol Abrahamson

Seeking successful types of business books with a structured format? There are many hundreds of — perhaps 1,000(!) — successful business book types, including over four dozen structured format types.

One of the most important decisions an executive makes about their book is its type. That’s because a book’s type and topic so heavily influence the resulting business growth. A type determines a book’s structural framework, point of view and voice. And success-bound executive authors spend significant time and energy deciding the type — or fusion of types — for their book.

We’ve identified 700+ proven business-building book types. And our 18-step Spark Ultimate Book Start System (complete with worksheets) will help you decide which to choose. Plus we reveal titles of two real-world examples of each — and the ones that often require less writing* — in our 2022 multi-award-winning, groundbreaking family of printed and digital workbooks. This excerpt from 666 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand reveals a few of the many structured format types for your book.

A To Z (often requires less writing)*
• Making Money A-Z With Self Storage Unit Auctions by Glendon Cameron

• Book Marketing From A To Z: More Than 300 Authors Share The Peaks And Pitfalls In Promoting Their Books by Francine Silverman

A Manuscript
• Butterfly Marketing Manuscript 3.0 by Mike Filsaime and David Gardner

• The Confidential Internet Intelligence Manuscript by Mark Joyner and David L Hancock

A Workbook (often requires less writing*)
• Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook For Public And Nonprofit Organizations by John M. Bryson and Farnum K. Alston

• Leveraging Circles Of Influence: Be Influential Workbook — Step-By-Step Publicity Strategies To Success by Jill Lublin

Chronicles
• Leadership Chronicles Of A Corporate Sage: Five Keys To Becoming A More Effective Leader by Susan J. Bethanis

• The eBay Success Chronicles: Secrets And Techniques eBay PowerSellers Use Every Day To Make Millions by Angela C. Adams

A Colored Book
• The Little Blue Book Of Advertising: 52 Small Ideas That Can Make A Big Difference by Steve Lance and Jeff Woll

• Little Green Book Of Getting Your Way: How To Speak, Write, Present, Persuade, Influence, And Sell Your Point Of View To Others by Jeffrey H. Gitomer

See our 18 steps, worksheets and more types and examples by downloading our free workbook, 77 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand, in the sidebar to the right. For additional help, check out the related posts below, our other workbooks and our Getting Started on Your Business-Building Book individual consulting program.

We’re thrilled to help you create a successful business book that’s one of our structured format types!

* Requiring less writing is a subjective judgment because some books of this type might have a lot of original writing — while some books of types without this designation may have a limited number of words.

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