Relationship Building for Authorpreneurship, Part 5 of 5

Make it enjoyable, keep it real, and incorporate it into your daily life

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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 my final ten, #41–50. From here, I challenge you to add your own best ideas to this list (and feel free to share in the comments).

1. Follow David J. P. Fisher and read any or all of his 10 books on networking and selling, human-to-human, in the 21st century. Fisher and other networking/relationship experts know what they’re talking about. Customize their advice for your needs and situations and set about implementing as many tips as possible and testing their effectiveness for you. Remember, something tried that doesn’t work or work as well as expected is still successful data gathering. Now you know something you didn’t know before…what will you do differently next time?
2. Check in on others more than once when you know they’re going through hard times: job losses, injuries, tough diagnoses (their own or family member’s), grieving, etc. If you know them well enough or if…