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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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Lisa Siefert Lisa Siefert

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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