12 Days of Author Gifts, Day 1: The Business Advice I Give Author Clients on Repeat

Sharing my most useful and most read articles to get your year and author goals off to a strong start in 2025

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Start where you are with what you know and what you have. It’s enough. You’re enough and you know enough to pull this off.

BUT…

Don’t stop learning, executing, evaluating.

That’s it.

That’s the essence of the things I share most with clients.

That’s the essence but here are the details — some variations of carrying out those basics I advise repeatedly:

Numbers Matter

Numbers matter and even the math-adverse among us can handle the calculations required to make a difference to business outcomes. It’s mostly counting and arithmetic.

Profit first

Profit and a paycheck represent numbers that matter.

Creating profit and a paycheck for yourself from Day One is an exciting thought…and a reality that you can bring about starting with the next bit of book or author money that comes your way.