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Thriving Best Sellers book services: $15K a month, self-reported in 2023
Thriving Best Sellers sells writing, publishing, marketing coaching, courses, and done-for-you book services. Its $15K a month was reported by the founder in an interview (not independently verified), as of May 16th, 2023.
What it actually sells
Thriving Best Sellers sells book writing, publishing, marketing coaching, courses, and done-for-you book services for aspiring authors needing writing, publishing, launch, or marketing support. Its pages say, “Whether your book is still an idea in your heart or already a manuscript in your hands, we meet you exactly where you are.”
Self-paced options cover book writing and book-marketing strategies. The group writing program includes expert coaching and feedback: “Surround yourself with expert coaching, powerful feedback & a tribe of driven authors.” Done-for-you options cover writing, launch positioning, reader outreach, media preparation, and ongoing marketing.
How it charges
The pages we read do not state a price. The offer includes self-paced book-writing guidance, self-paced book-marketing strategies, a group writing program with coaching and feedback, and done-for-you writing and launch services.
Where customers come from
The pages we read do not list customer acquisition channels. They identify aspiring authors needing writing, publishing, launch, or marketing support and present self-paced guidance, group coaching, done-for-you writing, and done-for-you launch and marketing services.
What stands out
Founder Steve Kidd is described as a visibility expert, strategist, author, and sales, marketing, publishing, and media practitioner. He says he is a 40-time international best-selling author and has worked at the intersection of sales, marketing, publishing, and media for more than four decades.
From the official site
Whether your book is still an idea in your heart or already a manuscript in your hands, we meet you exactly where you are
Surround yourself with expert coaching, powerful feedback & a tribe of driven authors
Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.
Where it sits in the data
Thriving Best Sellers's $15K a month is higher than 71% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.
Currency
All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.
Could you build something like this?
My view is that this needs real work. Demand would come from aspiring authors who need help writing, publishing, launching, or marketing a book. Buyers would choose among self-paced guidance, group coaching, and done-for-you services. Distribution would require attention to search, direct outreach, author communities, and partnerships with publishing or marketing professionals.
The hard parts include editorial quality, coaching, project management, and support load. Launch positioning, reader outreach, media preparation, and ongoing marketing also require coordinated execution. Claims about author results would need clear evidence and careful review, while competition would come from other writing, publishing, and marketing services.
Verdict: Needs real work.
One thing to take from it
The clearest product lesson is to organize services around a book author's writing, publishing, launch, and marketing needs. Thriving Best Sellers presents self-paced guidance, group coaching, and done-for-you work as separate formats within that offer.
Sources
- Thriving Best Sellers official website, fetched October 1, 2026
- Thriving Best Sellers about page, fetched October 1, 2026
- Starter Story founder interview: revenue reported by the founder in an interview (not independently verified), as of May 16th, 2023
Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure