12 Days of Author Gifts, Day 7: The ABCs of Growing Your Author Business

Always Be…

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Keep on keeping on. Keep doing all the things that work and matter for promoting and selling books, for building and sustaining a profitable author business, for finessing the author life of your dreams.

Always be…

A — Affirming the Authorpreneur’s Creed!

B — Building a sustainable author life you love.

C — Customizing your sales and marketing approaches to fit your life.

D — Doing 5 things a day every day to promote your book, expertise, experiences, and author status.

E — Expanding — your body of work, your repertoire of skills, your network, your sense of what is possible, your vision for your author life and business, and — especially — your comfort zone, which makes the rest of it possible.

F — Fast-forwarding your success. You’re not obligated to go slowly. Or incrementally. Figure out how to get to the next level sooner.

G — Growing your email list.

H — Heeding the business advice I give authors on repeat.

I — Improving — your craft, your marketing, your selling abilities, your relationships, your business processes, your mindset, your…