business-strategies
Learn how to treat your writing like a business, not just a creative hobby. Explore practical strategies for planning, pricing, marketing, and growing a sustainable author career.
Your Author Learning Plan: How Successful Authors Keep Getting Better
Published on July 06, 2026 by Randall Wood
The 'Your Indie Author Plan' article names learning as one of the three core plans every author needs. This article builds that out — what to learn, where to find it, how to budget for it, and how deliberate learning compounds into a meaningfully stronger author career over time.
Full Guide: Your Author Learning Plan: How Successful Authors Keep Getting BetterYour Author Marketing Plan: Strategy Before Tactics
Published on July 06, 2026 by Randall Wood
The Marketing section of this resource library covers forty-three specific tactics. This article covers the strategic layer above those tactics — the plan that tells you which ones to use, when, for how much money, and how to know if they're working.
Full Guide: Your Author Marketing Plan: Strategy Before TacticsYour Author Production Plan: Building a Writing Schedule That Works
Published on July 06, 2026 by Randall Wood
Words on the page are the foundation of everything in your author business. This article covers how to build a production plan that's realistic, sustainable, and aligned with your actual life — not the ideal writing life you imagine having.
Full Guide: Your Author Production Plan: Building a Writing Schedule That WorksYour Four-Phase Publishing Journey
Published on July 06, 2026 by Randall Wood
Indie publishing follows four natural phases, each with its own priorities and challenges. Learn where you are, what to focus on next, and how to build a lasting author career.
Full Guide: Your Four-Phase Publishing JourneyThe Author CEO Mindset: Running Your Publishing Like a Business
Published on July 06, 2026 by Randall Wood
As an indie author, you are simultaneously the creative talent, the publisher, the marketer, the accountant, and the business strategist of your own company. The CEO mindset is about holding all of those roles consciously rather than accidentally.
Full Guide: The Author CEO Mindset: Running Your Publishing Like a BusinessIs This a Hobby or a Business? The Decision That Changes Everything
Published on July 06, 2026 by Randall Wood
Is This a Hobby or a Business? The Decision That Changes Everything Short Description: Before you can build a strategy for your publishing career, you need to answer one honest question: are you building a business or pursuing a hobby? Both are valid. But the answer changes every decision that follo
Full Guide: Is This a Hobby or a Business? The Decision That Changes EverythingReady to Take Control of Your Author Career?
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