Biz Tip 5 – Write a Mission Statement

Write a Mission Statement In almost every book and course on business principles and starting your business, they talk about the importance of writing a mission statement. Almost every big business has one for good reason. A mission statement focuses everyone involved...

Biz Tip 4 – Use Your Own ISBN

Use Your Own ISBN Treating your writing and publishing as a business includes making sure you have complete control over your intellectual property. One way to do this is to purchase and use your own ISBNs for your books. This establishes YOU as the publisher. When...

Biz Tip 3 – Separate Space

SEPARATE YOUR WORK AND CREATIVE SPACE This next step has nothing to do with business principles, but rather your business mindset. When you are a solopreneuer, or in our case an authorpreneur, quite often we work wherever we happen to be. Or we make space on the...

Biz Tip 2 – Separate Bank Accounts

SEPARATE YOUR BUSINESS AND PERSONAL BANK ACCOUNTS Hopefully, you’ve taken the first step in treating your writing as a business and filed the legal paperwork to create a business (Biz Tip #1). The next step is to separate your personal and business money. Do you have...

Biz Tip 1 – Treat Writing as a Business

TREAT YOUR WRITING AS A BUSINESS Many times, we are only concerned with getting our book or story published. We don’t think about the ramifications of when we actually start selling them. Whether we write as a hobby or to become a full-time author, once we’ve sold our...