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What My 5 Things a Day Has Looked Like, Month 2 of Book Promotion

I’m testing what I’ve seen work for others with my new “Profitable Author” book, starting with this daily practice

9 min readApr 9, 2025
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To hold myself to my commitment (and my advice to all authors) to do 5 Things a Day, Every Day to promote my/your book, The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books, and to give you a sense of the ebb and flow of this practice, how it unfolds over time, and what counts as “a thing” to do, I’ll be documenting everything I do this year on behalf of this book and measuring reviews, book/author/business exposure, book sales, and business impact along the way.

Month 2

Below is my second month’s worth of 5 things a day, with some things I want to note first:

  1. I always take the time to build systems and put the pieces in place as I go or as they occur to me as far as things like building out the book’s website and automated email sequences, and taking advantage of other…

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Sharon Woodhouse
Sharon Woodhouse

Written by 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

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