SPA Girls Podcast – EP535 – Get Your Author Business Organized – with Lorna K. Bailey
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Getting Organized: Business Systems For Authors with Lorna K. Bailey
Self-published a book? Congratulations you’re now running an author business (whether you want to or not). Whether you have 5 books or 50, being an author is a LOT of plate-juggling. This episode we talk to the amazing Lorna K Bailey who as worked with bestselling authors and entrepreneurs, helping them organise and systemize their processes so they can manage their energy, focus on what they do best: creating and building their career.
This is a packed episode with a lot of great tips on systems, strategies and processes including:
How to know when you’re ready to hire help
How to find the right VA for you
The difference between energy management and time management
Building Systems Yourself To Maximize Efficiency and Minimize Your Stress
Tools to use
About Lorna K Bailey
Lorna Bailey has been an Executive Virtual Assistant since 2014 working behind the scenes for bestselling authors and entrepreneurs including Dave Chesson (Kindlepreneur, Publisher Rocket, Atticus) to help them grow but thrive in their business.
Lorna knows many authors struggle with systems, organization, and the business side of being a writer. She’s seen what actually works to get books into readers’ hands and to build sustainable writing careers.
Now, she focuses on teaching authors how to:
Work effectively with assistants
Create simple systems and processes to free up time
Shift into the mindset of a healthy, entrepreneurial author
In short, she helps writers stop drowning in the “business stuff” so they can get back to what they love most: writing!
Find her at www.lornakbailey.com
Resources mentioned Lorna’s course: Indie Author Empire https://www.lornakbailey.com/the-indie-author-empire 20Booksto50K Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/20Booksto50k
Notion https://www.notion.com/ Trello www.trello.com
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