Archive for February, 2009
Freelance Blogging: Develop a Blog Career
Want to develop a freelance blogging career? Blogging is a great way to make an extra income. As you get more clients and build your client list, you can even blog full time if you wish.
But how do you get started?
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Work from Home: Offer an Article Writing Service
Are you looking for work from home jobs? Consider offering an article writing service. On the Web, articles are in high demand as Web content. You could have your home new business set up within days.
Your new service will make money because it’s needed.
In a Recession, Businesses Are Looking for Cheaper Advertising
With the economic slow down all over the globe, businesses are looking to trim their advertising budgets. Since they can’t stop advertising completely, they’re looking for cheaper alternatives. Article marketing is a cost-effective solution.
Here’s how to start your article writing service.
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Blogging: Easy Blog Content Anyone Can Create
Blogging can be intimidating for new bloggers. How will you cope with writing content for your blog week after week? Relax. You can do it — let’s look at five easy types of content anyone can create.
1. Articles: Short and Long
Articles are basic blog content. Your articles may be short: just 200 words or even less.
They can also be long, if you want to cover a topic authoritatively. Be wary however, if your articles run to 2000 words and more. Long articles are difficult for new writers to control. Ensure that the structure is logical, and that you have a reason for writing at length. As a rule of thumb, any article which is longer than 800 words usually benefits from splitting the content into shorter articles.
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Get all the writing jobs you want
I’ve just posted a new article at the Fab Freelance Writing Blog which will help you to get writing jobs.
Here’s an excerpt:
Are you a new freelance writer who’s worrying about the competition? Relax. To all intents and purposes, your only competition is with yourself. You’re unique, and so are your clients: you just need to find the perfect clients for YOU.
Here are four steps to boosting your freelance writing income, and beating your “competition.”
Enjoy. 
“3. Develop Your Writing Skills: Spend Time Learning Every Day” is especially applicable to your work with Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) — at the end of your Web writing training, you’ll have great writing skills, and these translate to money.
Hypnosis for Writers: Clear Your Writing Blocks
Want to improve your writing skills, sell more of your writing, and feel more confident as a writer? You can clear any and every writing block you have, when you use hypnosis. Hypnosis is the secret of many bestselling authors, including Lawrence Block and Sue Grafton.
In 1985 in New York City, I was lucky enough to take a self development course for writers with Lawrence Block, “Writing for Your Life”, which included some hypnosis techniques. Over the years, that course has helped me to become a much more confident writer; I’ve used hypnosis ever since.
Here are three hypnosis tips which will help you to clear your writing blocks.
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Make extra money from writing: write articles
If you’re looking for a part time job, consider using your writing skills and writing Web articles. You can make more than you would doing other part time work, and you can work from home.
When you write online, you don’t need to be a literary genius, because people are not reading online, they’re skimming for information. This means that writing speed and efficiency are more important than talent.
In next week’s Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, I discuss making money writing articles.
Here’s an excerpt:
It’s very easy to make money online with articles; the more you write, the more income you make. However, it’s essential that you PLAN and take a long term view because you need to get known as a competent, reliable article writer first.
Once you’re known for the quality of your work, you can charge more, and you’ll quickly build up a stable of clients who buy articles from you every month.
Subscribe now — you may find a whole new career.
Information Products You Can Sell in 24 Hours
Interested in creating your own information products to sell? If you’re short of time, you can create a product, and get it ready for sale, within just 24 hours. Discover how easy it is in this article.
Developing and selling information products is a great way to make money online. Millions of people are looking for information, and if you can provide them with that information in an appealing package, you can make money.
1. Choose the Information You Want to Share: Who Needs the Information?
If you’ve put off creating your own information product because it seems to difficult, there’s no need to create a 100-page ebook. Create something simpler, such as an audio program of 45 minutes. You can create an audio program within a couple of hours.
Start by deciding on the information you want to share. Everyone has information they’ve uncovered which is valuable, because it’s based on their own personal experience. For example, perhaps you’ve lost weigh recently, or have discovered how to make money online in a unique way. Perhaps you’ve had a health issue, and have resolved it.
Choose the information you want to share. As an example, we’ll imagine you want to share how you lost 60 pounds in six months.
2. Research Your Audience on Forums
Your next step is the most important step. You’ll be selling your information product to a specific audience. You must find out what your audience needs. Find forums by entering “______(topic) forums)” into Google. For our weight loss example, you’d type: “weight loss forums”.
Spend half an hour reading forums, and make a note of most-asked questions. You’ll answer these questions in your audio program.
3. Create Interview Questions
Your next step is to write some interview questions, using the information you discovered in forums. Write around ten questions. You can create more if you wish. If you do, your program will be longer.
4. Interview Yourself, or Someone else
Next, set up your computer to record audio, and either answer the questions (interviewing yourself) or ask someone else to interview you for the audio. Create two or more audio files; this makes the material easier for buyers to download.
Save your audio files in MP3 format, and upload them to a site to which you can send buyers to download the files.
5. Write a Sales Letter for Your New Product
You next step is to write a short sales letter for your product, and put it online. Keep it short — your aim is to get your product selling. You can always tinker with your sales letter later.
6. Fast Promotion on Forums
There are dozens of ways you can promote your new information product. Start by linking to your sales letter from your forum signature. In forums, people are looking for solutions. You should sell your first product within hours.
So there you have it: you’ve created an information product, and have sold it, within 24 hours.
Want more information on creating information products? Angela Booth’s Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) training gives you all the know-how you need.
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