Product: The Business Plan is A Living, Breathing Thing In Part 4 of the 8-part Indie Author Business Plan, we’ll revisit some of the strategies we covered in previous sections of the series in making sure our product is ready for the light of day. In Part 1 of our series, we crafted […]
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8 Parts to the Indie Author Business Plan
[Guest Post] The final word on ebooks vs paper books.
In a guest post by Neil Baptista, CEO of Riffle, he gives us “The final word on ebooks vs paper books.” He also discusses how accessibility promotes literacy and the liberation of ideas through ebooks. It’s not an overstatement to say that we’re currently going through the biggest fundamental shift in book publishing since the […]
8 Parts to the Indie Author Business Plan
Part 3: Your Competitive Edge
Your Competitive Edge as an Indie Ebook Author Welcome to Part 3 of the 8-part Indie Author Business Plan. In this segment of our series we’ll discuss the importance of knowing your competition and explore ways you can use knowledge gained from researching competitors to your advantage. We started this series with […]
8 Parts to the Indie Author Business Plan
Part 2: The Market
If You Write It, Will They Come? Welcome to Part 2 of the 8-part Indie Author Business Plan, where we’ll be tackling the topics of getting to know your audience and propelling your e-book to a prominent position in the hearts and minds of as many people as possible. Part 1 of this series highlighted […]
8 Parts to the Indie Author Business Plan
Part 1: Company Purpose
The 8 Parts to the Indie Author Business Plan If you’re an author on the brink of finishing that first novel, or maybe looking to branch out and release your collection of completed projects to the world, but not sure where to begin, Authorpreneurlaunch is debuting an 8 part blog series that may […]
Getting the Most out of Marketing: Calculating Marketing ROI
How Authors can get the Most out of Marketing: Calculating Marketing ROI Marketing is often uncharted territory for authors. For independent authors though, calculating marketing ROI is one of the most important components of producing a successful book. Creating the book is what most authors are best at, but it’s only half of the equation. Even for major […]
The Keys of Self-Sufficiency for the Modern Authorpreneur
The Keys of Self-Sufficiency for the Modern Authorpreneur Self-sufficiency is one of the main reasons an Author may end up deciding to go the indie route. The ability to have control over your own timeline, creativity, and profits is a tantalizing prospect. Even in today’s traditional publishing model, the trend has moved toward authors taking […]
8 Tips for Authors to Create an Awesome Private Writing Space
8 Tips for Creating the Master Home Lair for Your Private Writing Space Whether you’ve been eyeing that room at the end of the hall that’s been collecting junk for years or have decided to leave a traditional office atmosphere, creating your master home lair for your private writing space shouldn’t be a chore. Embracing […]
The Proactive Author: What We Do When We Need Book Reviews
The Proactive Author: What We Do When We Need Book Reviews So you wrote a book. You suffered and toiled over it and got it to publication. Time to sit back and relax, right? Not so fast. Your book’s online page looks a little bare without those shiny gold stars and comments underneath. […]
How to Embrace Your Quirks In Order to Be a More Successful Author
How to Embrace Your Quirks In Order to Be a More Successful Author We’re not sure exactly what it is in some of us that drives us to create. We do know that this compulsion to mold narratives, develop characters, invent lives is not exactly normal. If it were, there’d be a lot more of […]