Reid Tracy – The Powerhouse Behind Hay House
When I told my friends that I was thinking of going to work for this lady who thinks that your thoughts create your life, they thought I was crazy. But that was the big thing –I kept falling back on the fact that she might be crazy, but she was doing it to help people and so I was going to give it a try.
I always tell others that over the next 25 years, I gained so much knowledge from the Hay House authors, from osmosis and from just being around them all the time. Even though I started off as an accountant, within a couple of years I was running the company with another person and after three years I was running the company together with Louise.
Most people don’t realize that I selected about 90% of the books that we publish at Hay House. When I select the books, it’s more about the author than the book, so I pick the authors that I feel have the best message and really want to get out there and spread that message. I then leave it to them and to our editorial department to come up with a good book to get the word out.
OMTimes: Did you learn all that over the years?
Reid Tracy: I didn’t know anything about book publishing when I came to Hay House and that’s one of the reasons Hay House is much different than other book publishers. We have more marketing people than editorial staff and so we really have a big presence online. We definitely learned a lot about publishing in those 25 years.
