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Yes?

Can you possibly commit to staying here and reading (skimming?) these newsletters three times a month until you're moved to try again? Find the right inroad for you?

No?

Fantastic! What will you do next to move your author business forward? In the last newsletter, I declared that October's theme was warming you up to business. Learning business. Practicing business. Applying business to your author life.

Here are three articles in that spirit for you to digest in the next ten days until we meet again.

1. Make These 7 Moves This Week to Start or Re-Energize Your Author Business: One baby step each day will transform your year ahead

This is especially for you if come the fall, you tend to postpone any new goals or putting effort into goals until January. New year, new resolutions, new effort..."It's just around the corner."

Well, these 7 baby steps can be implemented at any time (this week!) to jumpstart stalled efforts. See suggested to-do dates.

1. Get clear on what you want. (Today!)
2. Know it's possible to have what you want. (Tomorrow, 10/15)
3. Make the commitment to have what you want. (10/16)
4. Ensure profit from Day 1. (10/17)
5. Begin doing 5 things a day, every day. (10/18)
6. Learn business at your own pace. (10/19)
7. Manage your mind. (10/20).

​Read the rest of the article.

Pay it forward

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2. Find the Path to Your Own Author Business by Copying Others: Mimic to learn, succeed, and discover your originality

Let’s look at six types of copying that I've observed as useful for authors starting or building sustainable business enterprises around their books, their author status, their experiences, skills, and expertise.

1. Copying good ideas.
2. Copying the answers.
3. Copying to learn.
4. Copying for mastery.
5. Copying through mix and match.
6. Copying for self-discovery.

​Read the rest of the article. (Read by 10/21 and make a plan by 10/22.)

The Profitable Author

Thanks to all who voted on a book cover design for my book coming out in January. This one was the clear winner.

3. Move Over 80/20 Rule, Your Author Business Also Needs to Know About 30–40: A lesson of ‘Influencer’ suggests your challenges need a quantity of strategies

You’ve likely heard about the 80/20 rule: 80% of consequences or results come from the top 20% of causes, inputs, effort. I do keep this, the Pareto Principle, in mind when making business decisions, but since I read Influencer: The Power to Change Anything (Mc-Graw Hill, 2007) almost fifteen years ago, I keep another set of numbers more forefront in my mind: 30 to 40.

Influencer authors Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, and Swtizler present many thought-provoking, unexpected, and tested ideas on what actually influences the outcomes we desire in ourselves, our families, our communities, and our businesses. One of their powerful observations is that we often try to make changes in our various realms with one, two, or a small handful of methods — and often fail again and again to meet our objectives.

What the authors discovered, however, is that the most successful change agents employ as many strategies as possible to produce a desired result. They say that can mean implementing 30, 40, or more ideas in the service of a goal! They demonstrate this through case studies as diverse as personal efforts to lose weight, a public health department’s campaign to reduce teen pregnancies, and The Carter Center’s work to eradicate guinea worm disease.

​Read the rest of the article. (Read by 10/23 and begin brainstorming 30-40 strategies for tackling your biggest author goal.)

Thanks for reading and on behalf of your future self...thanks for taking steps today to develop and grow your author business.

Sharon

P.S. Remember that all my coaching pacakges will be 20% off through October 31, 2024, in anticipation of price increases in January. Sessions can be used in 2024 and 2025. There will never be a lower-cost way to begin. Learn more.

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Sharon Woodhouse, Conspire Creative

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