If you want to make money like a best-selling author, you can and should learn how to make money before you write your book.

Now, that might sound strange to you–how to start making money with something that doesn’t even exist yet! Well, the reality is that’s what entrepreneurs do all the time. And a best-selling author is something akin to an entrepreneur; for entrepreneurs come up with visionary new products or ideas or services, and every book is a unique, singular vision and one-of-a-kind expression.

And a very important part of that plan involves a lot of ways to make money while you’re in the process of content gathering but have not yet even written a single word of the actual book. You will make money from teleseminars, their audio transcriptions, e-classes, even selling yourself as a coach to someone–all before you write your book!

This means that you as an author should not dream of making money with your book. It happens for some people, but they are few and far between, and that has as much to do with good luck as it does with their talent, for the reading public are an extremely fickle group. Instead, you will plan to make big money from the credibility that your book brings to you.

You see, if you have credibility as an author, then when more people learn of that credibility, they decide they want to buy your books. It’s a feedback loop: you write a book to establish credibility, then your credibility causes you to sell more books (and you can make money in other offshoot ways).

So, if you want to know how to make money before you write your book, it’s like this: envision; plan; and get motivated about the right thing.