Author Income Streams, 2 of 15: Rights Sales Rights sales refer to primary and secondary rights (pre- and post-publication, respectively, in a traditional author contract) sold to an individual, organization, or business for their own commercial...

Author Business Coaching Minute.

What primary and secondary rights will you (or you, with your publisher) pursue next?
#bookrights #secondaryrights #primaryrights #bookcontracts #publishingcontracts #authorincome #authorstrategy

Author Income Streams, 1 of 15: Royalties So royal, so vaulted, and just the beginning of book money

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Wait, WHO called your royalties peanuts?! No matter…they’re royal, so vaulted, and they’re just the beginning of book money…
#authorincome #authorroyalties #bookroyalties #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness

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Push Pin Marketing: The Free, Low-Tech Strategy Authors Overlook The community bulletin board "tack-tic" for IRL visibility

Author Business Coaching Minute.

The low-tech, low-cost, hyperlocal guerrilla marketing technique you need to reach those who actually get out and do stuff for your author events.
#bookmarketing #authorevents #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #profitableauthor

15 Types of Income for Refining Your Author Business Model Plan a part-time or full-time author career by working with these revenue streams

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Build out an income-generating, sustainable part-time or full-time author career by working with these revenue streams. Where will YOU start or go next?
#authorbusiness #authorincome #authorgoals #profitableauthor #authorstrategy #authorcoaching

Sales for Authors Who Hate Sales: How to market your work without feeling crass or inauthentic

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Today's newsletter looks at the business topic authors love to hate: Sales!
#bookselling #bookmarketing #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #authorcoaching

What Self-Publishing Business Books Taught Three Business Pros About Author Businesses Realistic expectations, hard truths, and lessons from the trenches

Author Business Coaching Minute.

What can we learn about author businesses from business pros who self-published business books?
#authorbusiness #authorincome #profitableauthor #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #bookselling #authorcoaching

Author Income Streams, 6 of 15: Event Book Sales “Event book sales” refers to the income you make selling directly to the public/audience members at, during, or after your events. For example, it may be the sales you do after a program you give at y...

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Take a moment to brush up on best practices for making money on book sales at your author events.
#bookselling #authorincome #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #profitableaauthor

QR Code Royalties: The Voluntary Payment System Authors Can Implement Today A simple way to get paid when readers borrow, buy used, or receive your books for free

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A Question on the Going Rate for Ebook Royalties Opens Up Some Finer Points About All Publishing Contracts Here are 12 things for authors to know and consider

Author Business Coaching Minute.

One question opens up 12 things to know about author contracts.
#authorcontracts #bookpublishing #publishingcontracts #bookcontracts #royalties #authorroyalties #bookroyalties #authorstrategies #authorgoals

#writing #writers

Experience-Driven Marketing: Creative Events & Partnerships That Work for You with Author David Jay Collins | Conspire Creative Indie author David Jay Collins has mastered the art of getting visibility beyond traditional book marketing—and he's ready to show you how. Learn his proven strategies for creating events, partnership...

Join our next free Zoom power hour for ALL authors. Get the link in the article below. Thursday, April 16, 1pm-2pm CT. Be prepared to learn and be inspired by DJC...and come with your creative events and partnership questions!

Creating Customers: What That Looks Like for Authors and Author Businesses Don't get, find, or attract customers—create opportunities

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Take a moment to find a new way to create customers for your author business this week.
#authorcoaching #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #bookmarketing #bookselling #authormindset #creatingcustomers #customerservice

Today! 1:30pm at the DesPlaines Public Library. I will be putting all attendees on the path to an income-generating author life they love. Join us! Free copy of "The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books" to the first 20 to arrive.

What Continuous Improvement Looks Like in Practice for Book Marketing 100 shifts that compound into bigger results

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Find one, ten, or a hundred little ways to up your book marketing game incrementally over time.
#bookmarketing #authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorincome #profitableauthor #authorcoaching #bookpromotion

How Authors Can Freelance with Small Businesses 30.7 million small businesses in the U.S. need your marketing help

Author Business Coaching Minute.

30.7 million small businesses in the U.S. are underserved when it comes to marketing, editorial, and others skills you have as an author. Here's how to reach out to them as you build your author business.
#authorincome #authorbusiness #authorstrategy

Not even worth trying to negotiate an opening offer like this.😄

Experience-Driven Marketing: Creative Events & Partnerships That Work for You with Author David Jay Collins | Conspire Creative Indie author David Jay Collins has mastered the art of getting visibility beyond traditional book marketing—and he's ready to show you how. Learn his proven strategies for creating events, partnership...

Join our next free Zoom power hour for ALL authors. Get the link in the article below. Thursday, April 16, 1pm-2pm CT. Be prepared to learn and be inspired by DJC...and come with your creative events and partnership questions!

Authors, Expect to Get Paid You are skilled, self-employed humans who bring value and are building businesses, so consider the math

Author Business Coaching Minute.

In honor of a recent invitation to provide an intensive workshop 2 hrs from home to a group of writers paying good money for a week’s retreat for a grand total of $100 (you know I gently declined), I implore authors, and all creatives, to expect go get paid.

What Many Authors Get Wrong About the Business of Being an Author Some beliefs that keep you stuck—and what to believe instead

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Which of these common author beliefs about business may be keeping you stuck? And, more important, what's your way out or around that belief?
#authormindset #authorgoals #authorcoaching #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #bookmarketing #authorpreneur

QR Code Royalties: The Voluntary Payment System Authors Can Implement Today A simple way to get paid when readers borrow, buy used, or receive your books for free

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Authors, take a minute to consider this stepping-stone concept to structural change in the publishing industry.
#royalties #authorroyalties #bookpublishing #authorincome #authorbusiness #profitableauthor

25 Calls to Action for Your Author Events and Why Using Them Matters Don’t pass up the multifaceted opportunities of a captive audience

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Find some new, effective calls-to-action for your virtual and in-person events today!
#authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #bookselling #authorbusiness #profitableauthor

Authors, 50 Ways to Leave the Sidelines Name your goals, show up and do the work, claim your rewards

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Take a moment and review the list of 52 benefits (many unexpected?) I've seen people enjoy over the years from becoming authors.
#authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorbusiness #authorstrategy

Experience-Driven Marketing for Authors: Creative Events & Partnerships That Work for You Join us April 16 for our free monthly Beyond the Margins Power Hour with author David Jay Collins

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Take a moment to check your calendar. Are you free on April 16 to join us for one free, amazing hour with indie author and master creative marketer, David Jay Collins?
#bookmarketing #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorincome #authorbusiness #profitableauthor

— to bring about useful, valuable, appreciated goods, services, and ideas to fellow human beings.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus Thinks Even Authors Can Be Entrepreneurs His microcredit movement has helped millions of new entrepreneurs around the world and shows a way forward for meaning-makers in the new economy

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Entrepreneurship isn’t just for some people. It is a pathway available to all human beings. It is using innate human creativity, problem-solving, and service orientations — and instincts for survival and curiosity and expansion
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DIY PR for Authors: What we learned from 20-year PR pro Tristra Newyear Yeager A recap from Beyond the Margins' last power hour for all authors

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Take a moment to absorb the best, simplest DIY PR advice for authors I've seen. Includes 6 steps you can take this week to start your own campaign.
#authorpr #bookpromotion #bookmarketing #authorpromotion #authormarketing #authorbusiness #authorstratey #authorgoals