How to be a Successful Author Entrepreneur

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In college, I took a class on entrepreneurship, where our big project was to write a business plan. That same semester, I was also working on a book proposal, and I realized that book proposals are business plans.
Fundamentally, they serve the same purpose. A business plan helps you convince investors to invest in your business, and a book proposal helps you convince publishing companies to invest in your book.
To be traditionally published, you need to think like an entrepreneur and to be independently published, you need to be an entrepreneur.
In this week's episode, we'll hear from Kara Swanson. She's a successful fantasy author, entrepreneur, and the co-founder of The Author Conservatory, an online college alternative for aspiring writers.
You'll learn how to
· Build a financially sustainable writing career
· Build your skillset for marketing your book
· Build a schedule that balances creativity and business
Listen in or check out the blog and learn how to become an author entrepreneur by leveraging transferrable business skills to build a sustainable writing career.

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Chapters

1. How to be a Successful Author Entrepreneur (00:00:00)

2. How can you learn to think like an entrepreneur? (00:02:09)

3. How Kara became an entrepreneur? (00:02:48)

4. What are the risks of having a full-time day job? (00:08:55)

5. What are the benefits of entrepreneurship? (00:15:00)

6. As an entrepreneur, what do you do for health insurance? (00:18:44)

7. What businesses have your students have started? (00:21:57)

8. What challenges do new authors face as they try to start a business? (00:28:30)

9. What are some other benefits of running your own business? (00:33:53)

10. What advice do you have for the author who feels alone? (00:36:21)

11. What final tips or encouragement do you have for authors? (00:40:22)