The Business Advice I Give Author Clients on Repeat

Sharon Woodhouse
8 min readMay 1, 2024
Photo by Nicolene Olckers on Unsplash.

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 esssence 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.

All you have to do is follow the system outlined in the book, Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine, by Mike Michalowicz. I have been self-employed since I was 16 years old, and I’ve never had greater profit, steadier take home pay, less financial stress…

--

--

Sharon Woodhouse

Sharon Woodhouse is an author coach, publishing consultant, and project manager. She was an indie book publisher for 25 years. www.conspirecreative.com