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What My 5 Things a Day Has Looked Like, Month 4 of Book Promotion
I’m testing what I’ve seen work for others with my new “Profitable Author” book, starting with this daily practice
To hold myself to my commitment (and my advice to all authors) to do 5 Things a Day, Every Day to promote my 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 4
Below is my fourth month’s worth of 5 things a day, with some things I want to note first:
- Having finished 120 days of book marketing has not yet yielded a bounty of sales but it has made a notable difference in bringing me new business from unexpected sources in addition to what’s more common: word-of-mouth…