Make it enjoyable, keep it real, and incorporate it into your daily life — Ifyou’ve made it through the first 40 ideas in this series spelled out in Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, you should be well on your way to understanding the thinking behind — and power of — ongoing relationship cultivation to the sustainable success of your authorpreneurship ventures. Below are…

Lead your communities and constituencies by modeling pro-social behaviors — Setting good examples is not just for parents, teachers, or role models guiding children. It’s an element of distributed leadership and it’s for all of us. We can all lead through our use of and modeling of pro-social behaviors as we go about our days, business lives, and author-hoods. …

Ideas #21–30 of 50 to keep your author business growing through fond and interesting connections — When you’re done with this list of ten ideas, please review Part 1 (#1–10) and Part 2 (#11–20) if you haven’t read them all ready. The 50 items spread across this five-part series are all things I have tested myself and/or have seen more than one person use effectively time…

Ideas #11-#20 for supporting a sustainable author business with connections — Part 1 of this series listed the first 10 of 50 ways I and others I have known or encountered have built and re-built and sustained businesses through a practice of ongoing reaching out and relationship nurturance. Here are the next ten. Form a support group, cheering squad, or mastermind…

50 easy ways to build sustainable connections for your author business and general social satisfaction — Where did my most recent client work come from? Let’s see: Referral from the husband of an author I once published. Referral from someone I did a couple favors for two years ago. Referral from a neighbor. A former client. An author I once published. A minor Twitter relationship. A…

Social media, parties, volume sales, non-bookstore stores, events, classes, tours, and more — In Part 1 of this series, I explained four types of themes you can find in your book’s pages (the broadest theme, primary themes, tangential themes, and customer and reader themes), and dove into the first three of ten ways to max out these themes in your author sales and…

10 ways to exploit your book’s subjects for optimal sales and visibility — In Part 1 of this series, I explained four types of themes you can find in your book’s pages (the broadest theme, primary themes, tangential themes, and customer and reader themes), and dove into the first three of ten ways to max out these themes in your author sales and…

Fiction or non-fiction, find all your themes and dive deep for sales and marketing opportunities — For years my book publishing company specialized in nonfiction regional books and it taught me a lot about maxing out all the themes of a book, things that any author of nonfiction or fiction can adapt in their publicity, marketing, and sales efforts. Before you mine your themes for all…

How to get started even if you’re not ready — In Part 1 of this series, I covered what constitutes an author program, reasons in addition to good income to begin a speaking sideline as an author, who needs and pays for speakers, what to speak about, and, most important, that even you can start down this path. In Part…