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First, a big CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 🥳 🥇 🥂 🍾 on embracing the businessy side of your author life.
You're about to level up your author game considerably and for that you get ALL. THE. GOLD. STARS. ☆☆☆☆☆
© 2020: Business Plan Template created by Crystal Hunt, with ❤️ + thanks to all the Creative Academy for Writers members who contributed! ↙︎ Info on how to share this template is below.
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This is template Version: 2021 v2.3
Mouse over this square in google sheets to see changelog!		CLICK HERE to see if it's the most recent version if you're viewing your own copy.
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NOW...HOW THE HECK DO YOU USE THIS SPREADSHEET OF AWESOMENESS?!?! (scroll ⬇︎ for the video) 🎬 CREATIVE ACADEMY GUIDES FOR WRITERS
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A few hints from template creator Crystal Hunt from the creativeacademyforwriters.com and strategicauthorpreneur.com:
*THIS TEMPLATE IS MADE TO WORK IN GOOGLE SHEETS. If you download it to your desktop and open in excel or numbers, it may break some of the formulas and formatting. We recommend working with it as a google sheet.
*If you're going to poke around on your own and just wing it without the video tour, make an extra copy of the sheet first so that you can just hit the big reset button if something gets mucked up.
*If you click in a box and you see a formula in the URL bar (something with lots of stars and brackets and numbers and some code-like text like =SUM(B34:B567) back away slowly. If there's a formula in that cell it means it is telling you that it will automagically calculate stuff for you. I tried to put most of those in really bright colours so it'd be obvious. If it's a BRIGHT COLOUR DO NO EDIT THAT CELL!
*Use only what you need, and go ahead and make it your own! Get thee to the REFERENCE LISTS tab and customize your own lists of book titles, series names, formats etc. and then all the dropdowns that let you pick from preset options will automagically show your own info!
*You can totally re-order the tabs along the bottom based on which ones you use most and want to see at the "top" of your spreadsheet stack.
*If your rows are not tall enough to show all the content, here is how you resize rows in a google sheet! https://spreadsheetpoint.com/change-row-height-google-sheets/
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CAN I SHARE THIS TEMPLATE? HOW TO SHARE THIS TEMPLATE?WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED?
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Sure you can! 🤩

If you have an author friend you think would benefit from using this, we'd love to help them level up their author business.

Just make sure this front tab stays in the sheet so that they know where it came from, and how to access the help docs that go with it. 		Please share the direct link below to download their own copy of the sheet so they get the most up-to-date version of it! If you're sharing on social media or wherever, pretty please make sure you share the LINK and not the file itself.

⬇️ SHARE LINK (always the most up to date version!): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SCZjKksvewfIYPkuIbnQyPjoUuu_Ubb5Jy9AsDZb2lw/edit?usp=sharing		You cannot charge anyone to use this, package it into your paid product that you're selling to other authors, or be anything less than open and generous about sharing it.

We're spreading the love here, so thanks for helping us do that with integrity!

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BUY LINK: https://books2read.com/FullTimeAuthor
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Step 1: DOWNLOAD or
DUPLICATE THIS SHEET ⬇️		Step 2: GET THE BOOK 📖Step 3: WATCH THE VIDEOS 🎬CLICK FOR ALL CREATIVE ACADEMY GUIDES
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https://books2read.com/FullTimeAuthorhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Gsz7nxvXUeOqM4w2GqYwl0BJL8G7fgxD?usp=sharing
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If you click on the FILE tab in the Google Sheets Menu, you should have the option to save a copy to your own google drive or download it to your computer.

I cast a wee spell to ensure the template was protected from all you keeners who would like to just dive right in with the customizing. Once you download/duplicate it, that'll break the spell and you'll be able to customize to your heart's content. Be sure to change the filename to YOUR Awesome Business Plan!

❤️ ☕️ If you want to buy me a coffee to say thanks, I'm totally down with that. CLICK HERE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SAPPODCAST		This spreadsheet is really a whole business management system!

It is designed to work best with the FULL TIME AUTHOR book written by Crystal Hunt + Eileen Cook which will guide you through all the different steps and sections—and help you build a sustainable author career you love!		Crystal has recorded a handy how-to video explaining what each tab is for and how it all works.

The video on how to update your sheet for 2022 will be available before Dec 1, 2021!

You'll get the royal tour, and then you can dive in confident that YOU TOTALLY GOT THIS!
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Step 4: SUBSCRIBE to the 🎧
Strategic Authorpreneur PODCAST		Step 5: JOIN our COMMUNITY 👥
The Creative Academy for Writers
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Crystal also co-hosts a podcast and blogs at strategicauthorpreneur.com so if you're looking for more snazzy resources and some great conversations about leveling up your author biz then head on over there and check it out. If you're not really sure how to DO all the things that you're planning for your author business, don't panic. We got your back! We have nice people, helpful tutorials and a metric gigatonne of help awaiting you in our community of Most Excellent Writerly Folks. Come find us here:
https://creativeacademyforwriters.com
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