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Make Money Writing: How to Double Your Income This Year
Your writing business can be more profitable that you imagine. Want to double your income from your writing this year? It’s more than possible for you, if you set that as your goal. In fact, just by setting the goal, you’ve gone a long way toward achieving it.
Here’s what you need: the desire to achieve your goal, backed up determination, then you need a daily FOCUS on that goal. If you have these three attributes, not only will you double your income, but you’ll be amazed at how quickly it happens.
There’s no limit to your income from your writing on the Web. Some bloggers are making $30,000 a month from their businesses — if it’s possible for them, it’s possible for you, too.
Dissolve Your Disabling Beliefs by Writing Them Down
To clear the way for your accomplishment, take a few minutes to dissolve any disabling beliefs which may be standing in your way. The challenge with deep-rooted beliefs is that they become unconscious. They affect our behavior because we don’t know we hold them.
Open a new computer file, or get a notepad and pen. Set a timer (a kitchen timer will do) for five minutes. Complete this sentence: “I can’t double my writing income this year because____________”
Write, without pausing or thinking, until you hear the timer.
Excellent. Now you’ve made your disabling beliefs conscious. You know what they are, and because they’re conscious, you can refute them, so that they can no longer affect your behavior. Rip up the paper, or delete the computer file.
Think About Your Goal Morning and Evening
Did you set any New Year’s resolutions this year? If you did nothing other than set a resolution, it faded from your mind by the end of January. Here’s how to prevent that happening with your new goal.
Every morning, before you get out of bed, think about what doubling your income would do for you and the people you love. Do the same thing before you fall asleep each night.
Just think about having achieved your goal in a relaxed manner. This builds your desire. The more you day dream about your achievement, the more you’ll build you determination, and that determination will develop into a complete focus on your goal.
You’ll have a new outlook on life, and because you’re thinking and behaving appropriately, you’ll have the outcome you want.
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Make Money Writing: Write for Fun, and for Profit Without Burnout
Are you heading for writing burnout? When you make money writing, there’s a big danger that your creative well will run dry, resulting in writer’s block. Let’s look at how you can develop your creativity so you never run out of things to write about, develop high productivity, and increase your income.
“Have fun” seems simplistic. After all, you have clients who depend on you, and projects you must complete — you have a mortgage to pay. What’s fun got to do with it?
Fun has a great deal to do with it. Think about a time when you were intensely creative. For most of us, that time of high creativity ended when we were around eight years old. Would you like that childlike glee with your writing back again? Little kids are never blocked and rarely stressed. They love to play, and that’s the secret.
Here are three tips which will help you to look on your for-pay writing as fun.
1. Write for Yourself First, then for Others
In 30 years of writing, I’ve learned that my inner kid can turn off my creativity like a tap when it gets bored. The kid doesn’t care about deadlines and money, the kid just wants to have fun.
Think about when you first started writing: try to recapture that excitement. Feel it. Now complete this sentence (write it down): “To really have FUN with my writing, I’d like to write__________ and ____________ and ___________”. Keep writing. You may be surprised at what you’d love to write, just for fun.
Your “fun” writing primes the pump for all your other writing. It’s your warm glow within. When that warm glow dies, all your writing dies. So keep that warm glow alive.
2. Develop a No-Stress Writing Schedule: Get Help when You Need It
Your primary goal as a writer who’s writing for profit should be to keep your writing schedule as stress-free as possible. If there things you could pay others to do, pay them.
For example, a virtual assistant could help you with your email, and the many other housekeeping chores of your writing business. She or he could also do basic research for you, freeing up time for you to write. If you hate marketing, you can also out-source some of those tasks.
If you’re just starting out as a “for pay” writer, you may only be making $60 an hour. However, you can get a virtual assistant for $30 an hour. If you take the plunge and delegate stress-inducing tasks, you’ll be amazed at how much more you get done… and that your income goes up.
3. Shush! Stay Silent on Gestating Projects
Have many projects have you talked away? Think about it.
Gestating projects, those projects which are so new they’re just a glimmer in your eye, are delicate. You can ruin them completely if you talk about them with anyone, even your nearest and dearest. Keep all projects strictly under wraps until you’ve completed at least a first draft, or if it’s a Web site, until you have the site online.
I hope these three tips help you. They come from experience. To build your career and making money writing, remember to have fun: it’s vital. Here’s how to become prolific and write more.
Write more – become a pro writer
Yes, you can write more and become an expert writer - even if you’re a world-class procrastinator.
Did you know that when you write more, your writing improves? Many of my writing students experience this. They find that when they write more, writing is easier for them – they’re not dominated by their inner editor.
My new writing class, “Write More And Make More Money From Your Writing: Develop A Fast, Fun Productive Writing Process” is based on lessons I developed for my private coaching students to help them to write more, improve their writing, and make more money writing.
If you’re struggling with your writing, the class will help. The techniques you’ll learn in class with help you write fiction, nonfiction, and copy for business.
Discover how you can write more, improve your writing, and sell more of your writing to higher-paying markets.
Here’s the secret to great creativity and eliminating writer’s block for good: have fun with your writing.
Web sites: if you can write, you can create Web sites
A site I set up on Weebly in about ten minutes
Runners Yoga, a site I set up on Weebly in about ten minutes for the first page.
One of the most common questions I’m asked by new Web writers before they join Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) is: “Do I really have to create my own Web sites?”
Here’s the short answer: no, you don’t. You can always hire it done. Just go to getafreelancer.com or another out-sourcing forum, and someone will do it for you for less than $50.
However, you just might want to do it yourself, because there are many free services online that let you create a website in minutes.
For example:
* Squidoo.com
* Blogger.com
* Weebly.com
Weebly has become my own personal favorite: I’ve just paid for a Pro account so I can have more sites (you get two sites in the free version.)
(Basically, I intend to use Weebly to set up sites fast. Weebly sites are incredibly easy and fast to set up. Once I get them making some money, I’ll sell them.)
If you’re just starting to make money writing online, free Weebly is all you need for the first few months — you can set up your online portfolio, can create a blog and in general just get yourself set to really make great money writing.
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Web writing: fail your way to success
No one likes to talk about failure. Writers are especially failure-shy. I understand. I’ve been there. In the 1980s, when I started to write for magazines, I’d burst into tears whenever I completed an article query and stuck it in an envelope.
I wish I’d learned sooner that your failures don’t count. What counts is your successes. Any successful writing career is built on your failures: you fail your way to success.
I love this comment in Court’s article "5 Places You Can Look For New Keywords":
Before we get started I should probably make something very clear – I have had tons of sites that didn’t work out very well. I have always been willing to fall on my face. The honest truth guys is that you have to be willing to fail a few dozen times. You’ll find some winners, gain some experience, and you’ll also find some losers. The losers still have value because they can make some money and they can still be used to build some links. In that light, there is no such thing as a ‘loser’.
The article resonates with me because it’s happened to me too — I’ve started way too many writing blogs, for example. BUT… all my writing blogs are still online, and they get traffic and make money. Failures? Not really, not unless I’m suffering from a bad case of the "shoulds" and am being really hard on myself.
If you’re scared of failing, relax. It’s a writer’s disease. Sooner or later, you’ll be eager to fail, because you realize the more times you "fail" the more times you succeed.
The only real way to fail is to let the idea of failure paralyze you.
Here’s how I got over being scared of rejections and failing in any project: I made up my mind that I would only write what was FUN for me. If I was having fun, and the writing was its own reward, I could become cavalier about failures. So what? It’s the end result that counts, not how you get there.
Fail on!
Make money with Squidoo: your free online goldmine
In the early lessons of Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) Web writing training I show you how to get a Web site online for free using Squidoo.
Squidoo can make lot of money for you, and it’s a lot of fun too. Here’s SYWON’s lens on Squidoo.
I suggest that you make using this free application part of your business plan, and spend a little time creating lenses every day.
Popular blogger PotPieGirl writes:
Through process and elimination, I learned how to generate real live income from those free pages at Squidoo. I couldn’t believe it! I kept duplicating my process, trying new things and removing ineffective things until it became a simple, daily action plan that I did every day.
After a bit of time, all the parts came together into a whole and money started to come in consistently. It felt like a miracle! And it was all because of this simple little action plan I put together. I was then able to pay the bills AND fund my online business so I could create my own niche sites and have things like website hosting and an auto-responder.
Best part of all – I was no longer overwhelmed and frustrated… and THAT is PRICELESS!
So whether you’re a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscriber or not, do use Squidoo to generate income. Others are doing it, and so can you.
Make Money Writing: With Squidoo
We cover creating lenses with Squidoo extensively in our make money writing traing, so if you’re a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscriber, I hope you have at least three or four lenses.
I’ve always looked on Squidoo as a way of creating a presence and backlinks, rather than looking on the site as a way to make money writing.
This post "One Squidoo Lens, One month, $1,000" opened my eyes to the income generating potential of Squidoo, however:
Now I’ve earned $1,000 in a 30 day period from a single lens. That is also very very cool.
Will the earnings from this lens carry on forever? I doubt it.
Will I be able to use the lessons I’ve learned from this lens and the nearly 400 others I’ve built to continue to build lenses that make money? You betcha.
Just because of the money-making potential, I’m devoting more time to Squidoo in 2009, and I strongly suggest you to likewise — Squidoo lenses are simple to create (you should be able to create a lens from an article in under 20 minutes), and as you can see, they have great potential.
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