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Sharon Woodhouse, former indie book publisher, owner of Conspire Creative (conspirecreative.com/subscribe), and author of "The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books" (profitableauthorbook.com).
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Author Business Coaching Minute. Try tracking the 5 things you do each day this week to promote your books and author business...for inspiration, record-keeping, and accountability. #authorgoals #authorhacks #authormindset #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #bookmarketing

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Author Business Coaching Minute. Today is World Compliment Day and I want to compliment and congratulate you for working on your author business, and working on your author goals by taking an entrepreneurial approach. You only have to start where you are and take it one step at a time.

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"But what is history without readers?" Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

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Author Business Coaching Minute. Tomorrow (March 1) is World Compliment Day. Who all have helped your author business and deserve a compliment? Publisher? Editor? Designer? Agent? Customers?

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Author Business Coaching Minute. Where in your author life and business can just DOING THE OPPOSITE help make things right? #authorgoals #authormindset #authorcoaching #authorstrategy #authorbusiness

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Sign up on Goodreads today to win one of 50 free copies! #authorincome #authorprofit #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #authorgoals #bookmarketing

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This Saturday, Green Bay's @theartgaragegb.bsky.social is hosting a grown up Scholastic book fair in the old Main Street district. Come down, meet your #writingcommunity on March 1 from 10 a - 3 pm. PS there's a hot new coffee shop ten feet from this place, so books and brews and fresh croissants!

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Author Business Coaching Minute. What other formats could you deliver your work in? Hardcover, paperback, special editions, ebook variations (Kindle, PDF, ePUB), foreign translations, children's version, YA version, audiobook variations, 1 of 2

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One of my few posts ever not on the business of writing/authoring but on writing itself… “I never forgot a philosophy professor I once had, Sandra Bartky, who cocked an eyebrow and looked at the class with a withering stare and a toss of her short hair, 1 of 2

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Author Business Coaching Minute. Where are boundary issues getting in the way of your author goals? #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authormindset #authorcoaching #authorhacks #authorbusiness

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Thanks to *sturdy* shipping, my first batch of books from the printers have been unboxing themselves!

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Thanks, Daniel! Let me know again in 6 months how the information has worked out for you.

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Author Business Coaching Minute. With which of these 12 author business model templates does it make sense to start your own business model experiments? #authorbusiness #authoroaching #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorincome #bookmarketing #profitableauthor

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Author Business Coaching Minute. Start to consider that "profitable author" is not an oxymoron. What kind of profitable author do you plan to be? #authorgoals #authorincome #authorprofit #authorbusiness #authorstrategy #profitableauthor

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„[readers] are your true fans. They think about your books, talk about them, review them, post on social media about them, […] Even if they never spend a cent […] they and their word-of-mouth style are critical to your overall success.“ – The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social #booksky

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Author Business Coaching Minute. Change the course of your author trajectory. Sign up on Goodreads today to win one of 50 free copies! #authorincome #authorprofit #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #authorgoals #bookmarketing

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Sign up on Goodreads today to win one of 50 free copies! #authorincome #authorprofit #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #authorgoals #bookmarketing

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Author Business Coaching Minute. If you're an author whose books are primarily sold in stores, what can you learn this weekend about online sales and digital marketing? If you're an author whose books are primarily sold online 1 of 2

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Author Business Coaching Minute. What's the biggest author/publishing problem you're currently facing? Click the link to find out how to focus on being with yourself and not the problem (and the benefits of that). #authorcoach #authorcoaching #coachyourself #authorgoals #authorbusiness

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#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #authorincome #authorprofit

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Author Business Coaching Minute. What will you focus on next to grow your readership? #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #authorincome #authorprofit #profitableauthor

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It's all the ways you've heard about + 2 simple formulas + 2 big, fat, overlooked secrets... #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing

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Nudge your agent to buy you a copy! (And one for all their other authors too.) Nudge your publisher to buy you a copy! (And one for all their other authors too.) The book that pays for itself and changes everything...

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"Politely"

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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

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43 Folders; Getting Things Done; email scheduling; ToDoist; making myself right, right now; fault tolerance; the School Day Model; Steve Chandler's morning brainstorm; and hiring a coach. #authorcoaching #productivityhacks #authorgoals #authorbusiness #authorstrategy

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Author Business Coaching Minute. What actually works for you and your books? How can you do more of that? ~Focus on the things that make a real difference ~Establish and work the three pillars of author life ~Put profit first 1 of 2

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My newest piece for @pipelineartists.bsky.social. #authorbusiness #authorstrategy #authorgoals #authorincome #authorprofit

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Author Business Coaching Minute. What is the state of your contact databases? Do you have any? Do you use them? Media contacts? Store contacts? Biggest fans? Events coordinators? Do you have campaigns going to regularly contact those in your databases? (P.S. A database can be a spreadsheet.)

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Perplexity, building your contact databases, bookstore adjacent sellers, and who really moves books in this week's Ahead of the Curve for paid subscribers of The Profitable Author / An Author Business You Love.

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Author Business Coaching Minute. Sunday's a great day to rest so you'll have energy for book promotion and author business building in the coming week. Sunday's also a great day to brainstorm the list of "5 things a day, every day" you'll be doing this week to promote and sell your books.

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#indiepublishing #Indieauthor #selfpublishing #LiteraryArt #DebutAuthor

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Author Business Coaching Minute. What would make you love being in business as an author? #authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorincome #authorprofit #authorstrategy #profitableauthor

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Doing 5 things a day every day to promote your books... It requires commitment. It requires discipline. It requires just doing it. 1 of 3

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Happy Valentine's Day! Are you in love with your author business yet? ♥️ #authorcoaching #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #profitableauthor

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Author Business Coaching Minute. If you don't already consider yourself an entrepreneur, authors, why not? What makes that hard for you? What about it is hard? What small mindset shift can you consider today? #authormindset #authorcoaching #authorbusiness

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Author Business Coaching Minute. Will any of these simple approaches help your author business? ~Treat learning business as if it's a new hobby ~Just copy what works for others ~Share information with potential customers and make an offer

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