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Black Friday/Small Business Saturday Winging It. Your ABC Nudge, vol. 55

Published 20 days ago • 3 min read

Just Wing It.

  • Black Friday.
  • Small Business Saturday.
  • Just over a month to Xmas.

Hello author friends,

I'm sending this a few days early so that I can start my holiday break ASAP! So...

Decide right now that you will wing it. You may not have planned ahead for the holidays and you're wringing your hands about what you haven't done and won't be able to get done.

No worries. Put those aside because you're just going to wing it.

An essential skill for entrepreneurs and small businesses and creative solopros such as yourself.

This week. Today or tomorrow. You will simply come up with an offer and make it to your audiences...on social, on your website, in your newsletter, even in person if you'll be doing any events this week.

It's a "making money move." And it's as much about the practice as the making of money. It's taking advantage of the very next moment to offer something of value to your readers and customers even if it's not perfectly finessed, produced, or strategized. (This is not a call for shoddy anything, just to deliver something of value pronto without overthinking it.)

Just try it. Join the rest of us and give it a shot and let me know how it goes.

What will you offer your fans for Black Friday or Small Business Saturday or the December shopping season? Decide to do it. Solidfy the details. Prepare for the logistics. Put it out in the world. Serve the takers and collect your compensation.

There's no need to wait or delay or ruminate.

What can you wing in no more than 1-2 hours time that can make the difference for your income and your customers' satisfaction?

Here's my Black Friday/Small Business Saturday special for you...

In January, my new Substack Profitable Author Life subscription and community will begin for those who are committed to building an income-generating sustainable author business they love of any size. The price is $72 for the year, which is $6 per month or less than 20 cents per day.

And, if you subscribe this week, from November 22 through November 30, there are extra bonuses for you.

I hope you'll strongly consider joining us. Because things are a tad unpredicatable right now, making it a terrific time to take matters into your own hands, bet on yourself and your abilities, and get the ideas and boost you need in a supportive community. Day in and day out.

  • The subscription will actively address 6 of the 7 steps of my Profitable Author framework. (Step #4, The doing of 5 things a day every day to promote your books and author business is up to you.)
  • It will come with a guarantee that if after two months you haven't made back the cost of the subscription that you can request a free 30-minute phone call with me to get you on track.
  • It will come with an additional guarantee that if you engage with the material, participate in the group, and do the basic work on behalf of your books and author business and don't at least 10x back the cost of your subscription in a year's time, you can request a full refund of the subscription cost. (I happen to think it wouldn't take much for the industrious to 100x or 500x your investment.)
  • It will be a group for those who:
    • are committed to making a profit on their author activities;
    • know it is possible to have the author life they desire but may not be sure how;
    • will actively participate, learn, and test new ideas;
    • want the group coaching, business education, mindset support, and networking that this vibrant group will offer; and
    • are ready to dive in.

If you subscribe before the end of November, you will also get these two bonuses for free:

Please join us and begin building your profitable author life today

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Sharon

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Sharon Woodhouse, Conspire Creative

3150 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60657
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ABC (Author Business Coaching) Nudge

by Sharon Woodhouse, Conspire Creative

Author coach and 25+ yrs indie book publisher. I help authors create enterprises they love around their book/s, experience, and knowledge and send a brief 3x/month email newsletter to support the creation of profitable, sustainable author businesses.

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