Writers sooner or later will need to take their eye balls away from their screen and take a broader look at their writing business.
They will usually begin to ask themselves what it takes to succeed, what does it take to actually be able to make a full time living from your passion? Here are 8 must haves business concepts that you will need to bridge the gap form dream to income;

1. Relationships - this is the most important strategy that you can master, treat every contact, friend.
   associate and family member like gold because thats what they are.
   
2. Networking - the key to this strategy is to find as many people as possible to do something for.
   That's right help other people and they will be interested in helping you.
   
3. Technology - find someone other then yourself to manage all of your technology issues, you don't want to be wasting time struggling with computer glitches.
   
4. Competition - research your competition (everyone has lots of them) take a look at what there doing right and wrong and take notes.
   
5. Routine - create a daily routing for the day to day tasks involved with your marketing efforts and stick to it even when things don't seem to be going well.
   
6. Staff - begin immediately to congregate a staff of volunteers, paid professionals (only hire short term contract professionals) and investors.
   
7. Mentor - find a competent mentor to assist you with brainstorming and coaching (teaching, troubleshooting, accountability) you through this experience.
   
8. Cash Flow Model - determine how often you will be able to sell a book, or article and how much its going to cost you, as well as how often you can repeat that cycle.
   In short this is the second most important element get control of the numbers from the start.