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FREEBIE: Author Business Planner + Tracker in Google Sheets Template

Did you need a little help planning out your author business - your writing schedule, your social media content creation, coming up with blog posts and tracking your income and expenses. This tool even helps you to plan out your quarterly tax payments. It's amazing!

I'll walk you through my Google Sheet that I use to organize all things-author related and share it with you for free.

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TUTORIAL Overview of the StoryOrigin App

Evan Gow's StoryOrigin is one of my all-time favorite author tools - it's a great BookFunnel alternative that does a hundred other amazing things and has better customer service!

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TUTORIAL How to start a podcast

If you've ever wondered how to start your own podcast, then this is the tutorial for you. And everything I'm going to show you is FREE to use. I don't believe in paying a single dime to create a high quality podcast and you shouldn't either.

All of the best tools are free - hello Spotify for Podcasters and AI sound edits using Adobe.

I'll also show you how to publish your podcast on Apple iTunes and iHeart Radio.

Note: Google Podcasts no longer exists. Google will only be sharing SEO for Video Podcasts on YouTube. Don't worry - I'll show you how to set that up too!

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TUTORIAL Flodesk + Pretty Email Kit Canva Templates for your Author Newsletter

Is FloDesk the best email marketing tool for authors - heck, yah! Let me show you how to first save 50% off the annual price and then create your account and start sending out lead magnets to build your author mailing list and how to send out author newsletters to your readers.

We'll also utilize the Pretty Email Kit that you can easily customize in Canva to help make your emails look gorgeous and save you time from having to write a ton of copy but still get a full newsletter our to your readers

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Author Income Report 2023 - What I Made As An Author Last Year

Ever wished you could quit your job and make a full-time living as an author? Me, too! Let's see how close/far away I am from that ultimate author goal and check out my revenue for 2023 as an author.

What counts as author revenue... Only book-related line items like ebook, paperbacks, audiobooks and youtube income from my author channel.

What does not count as author revenue... Anything not related to books! A big pet peeve of mine is when authors claim to be full-time authors but the majority of their income is from coaching, editing services or something that has nothing to do with writing and selling their own books.

I'm all about side-hustles but unless you're ghost-writing fiction, then you're not a full-time author by my definition. Sure - You're a creative entrepreneur but you're not a full-time author.

So this video is all about the income I make from my books and talking about my books and writing on YouTube. I'm sharing actual dollars and not blowing you know what up your xyz with percentages and yes, I'm doing a full screen share so not faking the numbers here.

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Video Podcast Announcement: What To Click - Tech Tips for Authors - Become A Tech Savvy Author

It all begins with an idea. …

Maybe you want to launch an author website or revamp the one you already have

Maybe you want to turn your book covers into a coloring book for your readers as a lead magnet

Or maybe you want to start using all those cool features you originally hoped to use when you first paid for Scrivener

Or maybe you’d like to integrate your email marketing platform with your pop up announcement on your website

Whatever it is, you’re stuck trying to figure out what to click and how to do it

Don’t worry - I can help!

It’s easy and I can break it down for you into easy to follow full-length tutorials

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