tl;dr: Today, we're answering the most common questions you might have about becoming a Lifetime Member of Four Minute Books. This way, you can make the best decision on whether you should join until 4/4/24 @ Midnight to lock in lifetime access to thousands of audios, PDFs, and more, before our model changes to a monthly subscription. If you're ready, you can join here »
"Why does it cost $99?"
That's the most common question I get about our Lifetime Membership. In fact, it might be the most common question anyone asks about anything: "Why does this cost what it costs?"
Sometimes, the person or company selling the thing gives a very good answer, and that makes buying the product a no-brainer. At other times, the answer is bad — or worse, they don't provide one at all — and so you may walk away from something that might even have been useful to you — because reasons matter.
At Four Minute Books, I think our answer is a pretty good one, and it comes in several layers. Here they are, starting with the most important one:
1. $99 for a daily learning habit that'll help you become your best self and accomplish your dreams is an absolute steal of a deal. That's what the Four Minute Books Membership is for.
Right now, we give you all the tools to put together your daily learning curriculum and follow through on it. In the next iteration of the membership, we'll take it even further: we'll design the curriculum for you and package it in a way that makes following through absolutely effortless. A daily learning habit on autopilot, if you will.
That's the goal for our membership 2.0 — and once we achieve it, $99 for lifetime access will look like even more of a steal in hindsight.
2. As it stands, our library is easily worth $100,000+. $99 is 0.1% of that, once again making access to our book summary stash a steal.
If each book costs $20, you'd have to spend $26,000 alone just to get all the information in our 1,300 titles. But then you haven't filtered anything yet! There's no audio. No one-sentence summary for each title. No 3 key lessons.
How much would you pay someone to get you the essence of a potentially life-changing book in 4 minutes because you simply don't have the time to read it in full? $50? $100? $500? Whatever your number, take it times 1,300, and you have what our library should be worth to you personally — and I guarantee you $99 will still be just a tiny fraction of that value.
3. The thing we value most at Four Minute Books is your time — and if you value ours too, $99 is once again a no-brainer compared to the 10,000+ hours we've invested in creating our library.
How long does it take you to finish a good nonfiction book? 10 hours? 20? Even on the low end, you'd spend at least 10,000 hours reading all the books in our library. We've spent those 10,000 hours and then some — probably closer to 20,000 — to do it all for you.
If you now give us $99 for the result, that puts our hourly wage at $0.00495 — less than half a cent. 🤣 Honestly, even the power or server capacity to hire a robot or chatbot probably costs more (never mind the fact that despite all the advances in AI, they still won't do as good of a job yet :)).
What's your hourly rate? Even if it's something as low as $10, our library will save you $200,000+ of your time — and if that's not worth $99, then I don't know what is.
4. $99 is a meaningful amount to help us run our business. It's "fair" in the sense that despite being incredibly good value for the money (see 1-3), its still a sum that helps us make reasonable progress towards paying for web hosting, software tools, audio production, books, and of course my cereal. 🥣 If you value what we've done for you thus far, this deal is a great way to both support our work and get even more out of Four Minute Books going forward.
Simple: There's a single, secret page on our website which has all the links, instructions, and video tutorials you'll need to seamlessly hook up our library in your life and start accessing the PDFs, MP3s, books, and mini guides wherever you are, whenever you want, right from your phone or laptop.
"What software/tools will I need to use everything in the membership?"
Our secret podcast feed works with any podcast app. So no matter how you listen to podcasts, you'll be able to get all of our audios loaded into your feed. Alternatively, we also have playlists on SoundCloud, and listening to those does not require an account or distinct app at all.
Regarding our PDFs, you can download some of them straight from the website, others via Dropbox, which also doesn't require an account for simply downloading files. The same goes for viewing our notebook on Evernote.
If you want the real-time syncing feature or to make a custom version of our Evernote notebook for yourself, you'll need a free account with Dropbox/Evernote, but both of those won't cost you a penny to use the features as intended.
Finally, our big ZIP downloads where you can save everything offline in one file will always be completely freely accessible to Lifetime Members. Which brings me to the next question:
"Can I download all the files and keep them forever?"
Yes. I know we now live in a subscription economy, and owning things, especially digital goods, has gone completely out of fashion, and even if Four Minute Books might soon be headed that way too, I still think ownership matters. Especially after you pay a certain amount or reach an upper tier of some membership, I think you should have full access to everything without restrictions or limitations — and that very much includes downloading our entire library and audio collection and keeping them forever.
Since you're trusting us with your money, we'll trust you to handle our content responsibly. To modify and save it and customize it for your own use without going out and reselling it somewhere.
We update the big files once a quarter or so, but generally, you'll have the chance to do a full download at any time.
Of course. We made video tutorials for every single feature, and we offer customer support as well. We're always just one email away, and we'll gladly work with you to figure out what you need to make everything work for you as it should!
"What's the best way to get the most out of the membership?"
Of course, how exactly you use the membership is up to you, and you can always email us for suggestions, but generally speaking, here's what I would do:
I would add the Four Minute Audiobooks feed to my podcast app, pick and download 7 titles each week, and then listen to one each day, maybe after lunch or on a short walk.
I would also install the Dropbox app and activate notifications so I can see new summaries appear in real-time. Then, whenever the latest titles pop up, I would decide if they interest me on the spot save and read 1-2 PDFs each week (or whenever new updates are synced).
Once I have a baseline daily learning habit, I would put together some of the Evernote versions of the summaries on a certain topic I want to learn more about and compile them in a separate notebook, for example one about productivity, health, or relationships. Then, I would spend a few minutes each week browsing those summaries, highlighting relevant bits, and deleting out the parts that don't apply to me (you can always copy the original summary again later), thus building my own knowledge bank on, say, how to be more productive!
These are just some starting ideas, but as you can already see, the sky's the limit!
Okay, those are all the most common questions, I think. Ah, except for...
"Do you offer a money-back guarantee?"
Of course! We have a 30-day money-back, no-questions-asked guarantee. If you're not happy for whatever reason, we'll try our best to fix it and live up to our promise, but if we can't or you simply decide it's not for you, we'll give you a full refund without making a fuss.
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