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Writing Articles to Build a Solid Online Business: Four Tips

Want to build a solid online business? If you have writing skills, it will be easy. There's an enormous demand for Web content, and as more and more companies develop online sales channels, that demand will only increase.

However, article writing is different from other businesses. You're creating  products which you need to both write and sell. You need to be proactive, to make those sales.

Here are four tips which will help. These tips come directly from my students, who've established profitable Web content development businesses.

1. Focus on Building Your Client List
There's a huge demand online for quality articles. However, there also many writers who produce junk articles, so buyers are wary of hiring writers they don't know. 

Once you've been hired, you need to do everything you can to keep your clients. Get them onto a mailing list, so that you can contact them again. Once you have a list of 20 buyers, you will make a very nice income.

2. The Easier It Is, the Less It Pays
In my days of writing magazine articles, I soon discovered a horrible truth. It's this. The writers on a magazine's staff get all the plum jobs. Freelance writers get all the jobs that no one on staff wants -- but those jobs pay well.

The same applies in writing web articles. If you write “10 minute articles” you'll make minimal income. To get paid more, you need to focus on quality. This means original, carefully researched articles which are in demand by buyers.

If you're not sure what's in demand, visit the outsourcing sites. You'll soon see which topics are hot.

3. Get Help when You Need It
To turn article writing to a business, you need help. You can't do everything yourself. The more clients you get, the more you need to write, and there's a limit to how much one person can write in a single day.

Collaborate with other writers, or go into business with another writer.

4. Keep All Your Focus on Your Buyers
Make it your aim to keep your buyers happy. Always go beyond their expectations. Quality, reliable, and enthusiastic writers are rare. Become one of those rare writers, and you'll soon build a solid online business writing articles.

 

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Yes Virginia, you can start your own writing services business

Want to start your own writing services business?

If you can string words together, you can. You don't need to have "talent", you just need to have courage. Five out of every 20 email queries I receive from writers are just pleas for reassurance.

Here's an excellent article for you if you're wondering whether you can do what many thousands of others are already doing: "How To Start A Web Business And Survive".

Yes, I know you're nervous about asking complete strangers for money. :-) Just realize that your services are valuable.

The guest blogger, on Aaron Wall's blog, offers this advice on getting credibility when you're brand new:

It is very difficult to market a business without some form of track record. But every business needs to start somewhere, and they don't start with a track record. So, the most important task for someone starting out - in any occupation - is to get one.

One way to get a track record is to treat your first few jobs as a marketing cost. This is the cost of establishing a reputation, and if you make any money at all from these first few jobs, it's a bonus. The aim is to get referrals and a portfolio of work.

You can't expect to charge big bucks without a reputation, but eventually, you'll know how to charge for your services. The first five clients are the hardest, after that, you'll wonder why you bothered to be nervous.

With millions of pages added to the web every day, someone has to write all that content: if you want this life, you can have it. Just get started. :-)

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You can get money into your PayPal account anytime you want. Just seven short days from now, you'll be able to treat the Internet as your very own just-in-time cash machine.

Making consistent money online is a lot easier than you think. I promise you that if you follow the instructions in my "Your Just-In-Time Cash Machine: Sell Your Services Online In Seven Days" guide, you'll be making money within seven days. From then on, you can use this just-in-time money-making system whenever you wish. You'll feel much more confident, when you know you can make it rain money at any time.

How to Build Your Professional Writing Services Business

Want to develop your own professional writing services business? You can, and more quickly than you imagine.

All it takes is a decision.

My friend Robin was working in the marketing division of a large company. She created her company's first blog, and wrote lots of web content. When the marketing department's budget was cut, eliminating many jobs, Robin decided that rather than attempt job hunting, she'd sell her writing services. Within a couple of months she was making more money than she'd made in her day job, and she found  that she liked being her own boss.

Once you've made the decision to sell your writing services, here's what to do next.

1. Decide What You'll Sell

Start by deciding what you'll sell. Choose an area in which you enjoy writing.

Robin started by offering blogging and web content writing services.

Many years ago, I started out by selling copywriting services. I was writing romance novels, and copywriting for a business I was running. I loved writing copy -- I still do.

2. Create Samples to Show What You Can Do

Chances are you already have some material you can use a samples. If you don't then getting them is your first priority. Please don't rush this: samples are vital.

3. Get Your First Client, and a Testimonial

Once you've got samples, get a client. Clients are everywhere. Use your contacts, or use Twitter. Or, use one of the outsourcing sites.

Consider your first ten clients as simply a foundation -- something you can build on. All you want from them is a testimonial.

4. Promote Your Business

Now you're off and running, you'll soon discover that marketing is an essential part of your business. If you're hunting for writing jobs, you're not running a business, you're just serially employed.

In the beginning, you WILL have to hunt for clients, but your aim must be to have clients coming to you as soon as possible.

5. Keep Learning: No-One Stands Still

There's a saying: if you're not growing, you're dying. This is true. Nothing stays the same.

You must keep learning and growing. If you don't, one day you'll wake up and realize that the carnival has moved on without you.

The newspaper industry is learning that, right now. They've had fifteen years to face up to the reality of the Internet and what it would do to their business. They refused to grow and experiment.

Many journalists saw the writing on the wall (on the web, in this case:-)) and jumped ship before they were thrown overboard. Others refuse to see, and they'll go down with the ship.

So PLEASE keep learning. I make time every day to study, and so should you. It doesn't matter much what you study, as long as you don't become complacent. Keep trying new things, and your professional writing services business will bloom.

Are you scared because you're BROKE? You need cash, fast... Discover how you can sell your services online for cold hard cash, in just 7 days, even if you're a total newbie

You can get money into your PayPal account anytime you want. Just seven short days from now, you'll be able to treat the Internet as your very own just-in-time cash machine.

Making consistent money online is a lot easier than you think. I promise you that if you follow the instructions in my "Your Just-In-Time Cash Machine: Sell Your Services Online In Seven Days" guide, you'll be making money within seven days. From then on, you can use this just-in-time money-making system whenever you wish. You'll feel much more confident, when you know you can make it rain money at any time.

How to Write and Sell Ebooks and Information Products

Writing and selling ebooks and other information products is the perfect writing career. Initially, you can write in your spare time, and once your part-time income surpasses that of your day job, you can make creating information products a full-time career, and business.

Some popular information products earn millions of dollars for their creators each year. Although you may never hit the dizzying heights of bestsellerdom, you can nevertheless earn a very nice living indeed -- far beyond what you could earn at a day job.

Wondering what "information products" are? They're guides, which may be delivered as ebooks, ecourses, online classes, membership sites or training audios/ videos.

So how do you get started?

Here's a simple process to follow.

1. Go to the outsourcing sites and win a few ebook projects. The idea here is to build your own skill, and writing speed. Writing 50 or 100 pages can seem intimidating if you've never done it before.

When you work on projects developed by others, you earn while you learn.

One of the big benefits of winning projects on the outsourcing sites is that you learn what other people think will sell as an information product. (They may well be wrong, and often are. :-)) It gives you a feel for the marketplace, in other words.

2. Next, write your own ebook. Don't take too long over this. You're helping the reader solve ONE major problem he has, not dozens. Aim for 20 to 50 pages of solid information.

Convert your MS Word or other word processor document to PDF format. (There are many freebies which help you to do this: )

3. Sell your ebook. I suggest that you create a small website on which to sell it. If you don't have the time or expertise to do this, and have no money to hire someone to do it for you, you can just advertise your ebooks on the many classifieds sites online, and communicate with buyers via email.

Once you have a buyer, send him a PayPal invoice for your product, and then deliver your ebook as an email attachment.

You can use this simple: invoice/ get paid/ send product via email method of selling your ebooks until you get your website built and can automate the process.

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Freelance Writing and Copywriting: Every Writer Needs a Bio

You're a writer: do you have a bio? Every freelance writer and copywriter needs a bio, because people need to know who you are before they'll hire you. Discover how to write a killer bio today.

If you want to sell your writing - your articles, books, copywriting skills - you need a bio. So let's get the fundamentals out of the way first. What's a bio?

A "bio" is short for biography. But don't be misled. You're not writing a complete autobiography, your bio just covers relevant information. Therefore, as a writing services provider, no matter what you write, you'll have several bios, tailored to specific purposes.

You'll have a bio on your Web site, a short bio you attach to materials you're sending out, bios for news releases, and a mini-bio you'll use as a signature on your emails and forum posts.

Here are your bios' essentials:

1. Your name and business name if you have one (tip: use your name as your business name).

2. Your contact details, including your phone number and Web site address.

3. Information about you that's relevant to a specific audience. Why you're the perfect person to write _________, or why you have experience that's relevant to __________. A bio is always written with its audience in mind, so you'll have several bios, and when applying for a writing job, or introducing yourself and your writing to someone, you'll craft a specific bio that's relevant. Bios are never "one size fits all", they're always tailored to an audience.

4. All bios are written in the third person. For example: "Jenny Smith's writing career began when..." NOT: "My writing career began when..."

5. Your bio must be factual. Don't fabricate, ever.

Interesting Bios Get Read: Strings of Information Don't

Warning: bios are not resumes or CVs, as you'd create for a job application. The first rule of any bio you write is: BE INTERESTING.

For a quick education on what makes a good bio, wander down to your local bookshop, and browse the fiction and nonfiction shelves. Look for the blurbs on the back covers or on the dust jackets telling you about the authors. These bios have been carefully crafted, usually by the authors, to interest the book's audience.

How to Write a Great Bio

Your ability to write good bios will improve with time. When you first start, just write everything about yourself that you can think of that's relevant to your writing career, in the third person. Aim for at least a couple of pages.

Just write - don't think. With my writing students, I ask them to write a bio quickly, in 20 minutes, in free writing style, without taking their fingers from the keyboard - just writing anything that comes to mind.

You can try that too. It prevents you being overly self-conscious. It may help if you create a mind map, or a cluster diagram, with relevant highlights of your writing career to date before you start. If you're very young, relevant highlights could just be that you've always written stories, or that you're beginning a freelance career.

Your bios, and your ability to write a bio quickly, is a wonderful skill to have. Practice it, and you'll be in the top one per cent of writers who treat their writing in a professional manner.

Acting like a professional gets you hired. It also gets your books sold. Enjoy writing bios - they're a wonderful tool.

Become a Copywriting Master Fast

Copywriting is writing for business: promotional writing. Copywriters write material like advertisements and compared to most writers, they're VERY highly paid.

The explosion of the influence of the Web means that copywriters are flooded with offers of work. Even new copywriters find it easy to get copywriting gigs and to build their copywriting services business.

If copywriting intrigues you, join me in my Copywriting Master Class. I'll take you from copywriting novice to pro.

“Copywriting Master Class - Ten Weeks to Copywriting Genius” gives you a comprehensive copywriting course, as it helps you to set up your copywriting services business.

Your Home Business Offering Writing Services Fast-Start - 5 Tips

Next week's article in Fab Freelance Writing Ezine is "Your Home Business Offering Writing Services Fast-Start - 5 Tips".

I've had lots of questions about running a writing services business, so this will help.

Here's an excerpt:

Want to make a great income from your writing? Start a writing services business. There are many services you can offer, including copywriting, Web writing, and creating resumes and bios.

The more experience you have, the more you can charge for your services. If you're completely inexperienced, your first priority is to get some writing jobs so you can create your portfolio.

When you run a writing services business you'll initially write from home, and this can present some challenges. Ensure that you have the agreement of family members before you start, and set up your home office in a room with a door you can close.

Read the rest of the article in Fab Freelance Writing; the issue is out on Tuesday.

Subscribe to Angela Booth's fabulous free weekly ezine for freelance writers: get a free report just for subscribing. Even if you're a new writer, you can freelance your way to a fantastic writing career.

Join the thousands of freelance writers who are making great money freelance writing, using Fab Freelance Writing Ezine as their guide.

Make the most of your writer's Web site

Got a Web site? I sincerely hope you have. Your writer's Web site is much more than an online portfolio or brochure: it's the key to a fabulous writing career.

Think I'm over-stating the case, or indulging in mere hyperbole? Not so.

I can give you dozens of reasons you need a Web site, but I'll confine myself to just one: credibility.

Read the rest of "Your writer's Web site - make it easy for buyers to buy".

Write and sell ebooks for a great home business

Writing and selling ebooks is a great home business. You can start part-time, and then turn it into a full-time profession. However, the key is "bestselling."

Not every ebook you create will become a bestseller, but with a little thought and planning, you can increase the odds considerably that your ebook will sell not one, but many copies every day.

Read the rest of the article.

Your writing success needs a PLAN

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From my mailbag:

Angela, I'm trying to get writing jobs. Over the past three weeks I've created a one-page Web site, and placed a couple of ads on Craigslist as well as on two other Internet classifieds sites. No one's responded at all to the ads. I've also applied for several writing jobs and again no one's responded - what am I doing wrong?

Signed: Striving Writer

Dear Striving Writer

You sound as if you've made a good start with marketing your writing. However, you don't mention a marketing PLAN. A plan is vital for your success. With a plan in place, you're focused on the overall plan, rather than on each individual action you've taken.

Your marketing plan needs to include:

* The kinds of writing you're doing and the markets you're targeting: Web writing (content, articles, copywriting, with the names of sites), print writing (newspapers and magazines you're targeting with the types of articles), copywriting (types of businesses plus names of businesses and agencies, with the kinds of copy you're writing);

* How you'll approach those markets - queries, cold calling, advertising - both free and paid, press releases, article marketing... etc;

* The amount of money you have to invest in your writing business;

* Your projected income for the first year (and years two and three as well).

Then your marketing plan must be transformed into an action plan for the year, month, week, and day.

I'm sure you have a complete marketing plan in your head - you know what you want to do, and have some idea of how you'll do it. However, it's vital that you write down your plan, so you can see it in black and white.

With your plan written down, simply take action on the plan, and each day, perform your marketing tasks.

Can I guarantee your success? Of course I can. The demand for writers has never been greater. Your clients NEED you. However, they also need to be able to find you. And you need a plan for finding them.

Create a plan. Create it on the back of an index card if you wish. Your plan certainly doesn't need to be a 20-page documents (although creating such a document couldn't hurt.)

Once your plan's created, you'll know exactly what you're doing, and when. You can contact me for help  in creating your plan if you wish.

Plan first. Then act - and you'll succeed.

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Turning your writing into a writing business

As more and more writers become familiar with writing for the online world, more are turning their writing into a business. Setting up a business is much easier online than in the physical world, especially a writing business. If you've got a computer and an Internet connection, you've already got most of what you need to start your own writing business.

But what about money?

Bootstrap your writing business

The easiest way to start a writing business is to bootstrap it: to start it without external funding. Rather than taking out a business loan, you're funding your business from your savings, and from working outside the business, in your day job.

Bootstrapping is also the best way to start your writing business, and to learn the fundamentals of running a business, such as the importance of cash flow. A writing business is just like every other business; cash flow rules your life. You need money flowing into the business, so you can pay your business expenses.

Start with a napkin business plan

Most business plans are too complex, and you don't need a complex business plan for your writing business. So write a simple "napkin" business plan, covering:

* A short description of what your writing business is, and what it does

* A short description of who needs your writing services (your target audience)

* A list of the writing services your business provides, and the fees you will charge for these services

* A marketing plan - how you will let your target audience know about your writing services

* A cash-flow estimate for the first 12 months

The best kind of writing business: copywriting services

Copywriting services is the most lucrative type of writing service. Many copywriters earn six-figure incomes, so if you want a writing business which will thrive over the long term, consider copywriting.

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Writing a book? You may want to rethink your process

Publishing has changed dramatically in the 21st century. You can now make money more money faster self-publishing online than you can going the traditional publishing route.

Here's the traditional book publishing process for writers:

1. Write three chapters plus an outline

2. Get a publisher and advance

3. Write the book

4. Promote the book (at your own expense, mostly)

This process doesn't work for 99 per cent of writers. The publisher makes the money; you're left the "glory" of calling yourself an author.

In "Traditional Publishers Are Wising Up to the Web", Aaron Wall reports that:

Books Publishing is Fast Becoming a Vanity Industry I was offered to get SEO Book published by one of the leading book publishing houses. I have made more in a day than what they were offering me as down payment for writing the book. And they wanted me to do all the book marketing as well, for no further compensation unless I sold enough books to make the hot books lists. It didn't help that my profit margins from a book sale would have been less than what I pay for a click.

I was unwilling to get published because I thought there was upside in the current model, in a growing market, and realized that the model of being published did not work unless I was interested in feeding my ego, in need of credibility, or was writing a book just to up sell more expensive services.

That's the way it is today: you can make more money publishing your book online yourself, than you can going the traditional publishing route. As Aaron says, the only upside to the traditional publishing model for writers is the credibility a published book gives you.

I've eliminated traditional publishing from my business plans for the foreseeable future, because there's no benefit in it. Publishing my own sites and blogs is faster (instant, compared to the two-year process of getting a book published traditionally), more profitable, and it's much, much more fun.

If you're writing a book, or want to, you may want to reconsider your options. BTW, this process works for novelists too. Publish your novel and associated material on a Web site as Kate Mosse did, and then get a traditional publisher to come to you.

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Writing scams: NEVER take writing "tests" or write a "scope" for a project

I've written about writing scams before. They're very common online, and offline too. If you're a new writer, PLEASE do not write "tests". Or "scope" a project.

Companies (and sometimes individuals) know how naive, insecure and needy many writers are. They love having their work done for FREE. Here's a very common tale of woe from WritersWeekly:

I found a freelance copyediting position (online). I emailed them expressing interest and with some questions about the company and they emailed me back with a sample chapter to edit.

If anyone, at any time, asks you to write something for them for free, just delete the email, or if you find the gig online, breeze right on by. No matter how plausible these "jobs" sound, they're not.

A legitimate company, if they're not sure that you can handle the work will PAY you to do some trial work - in ADVANCE.

Never, ever take any so-called tests. If you have writing credits, they're enough to give you credibility. If you have no writing credits, write some sample articles.

Again, please - never, ever take writing tests, write trials, or write scopes. Write some samples, if you have no credits, create a Web site, and get legitimate writing gigs. Currently, businesses are DESPERATE for writers, and they pay real money. Don't get taken in.

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Yet another writers' scam: scamming self-publishers

I get tired hearing about all the scammers trying to twist money out of writers, however this latest scam involving writers who are self-publishers, is scarier than most. Angela Hoy was contacted by a writer who suspected she was being scammed, and of course she was. Angela Hoy says:

Here's the most disturbing part. He said, "My shipper will come and pick them up from your location."

Obviously, if someone is ordering something directly from an author, they would assume they'd be picking up the books from the author's home. The author was justified in seeing all these red flags and contacting me. Reading this part made me sick. I suspected the author may have been the target of something possibly more sinister than a simple book-buying scam.

Please don't ever, ever, EVER invite someone you don't know to your home, even if they are promising to buy 100 copies of your book! To see why, just look at the news headlines!

Beware, dear writer. The scammers are everywhere.

On a brighter note, one scammer got precisely what she deserved: six years. A Writer's Life reports in Scammer Sent to Slammer:

Writers' Beware is reporting that Martha Ivery, the vanity press scammer and fake literary agent, was sentenced today to nearly six years in Federal prison for bilking aspiring writers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with her many swindles under various aliases (Kelly O'Donnell Literary Agency, Craig Roussan, PressTige Publishing, New Millenium Publishing House, etc.).

Great news. Martha Ivery has been scamming writers for years.

If YOU suspect a scam, Google the suspect! Just enter their name into the Google search query box, and see what the results are. These days, you can check up on anyone, just using Google.

My gift to you: Holiday Season Writer's Gift Pack - Santa's sleigh is packed with gifts for you, dear writer. I wish you and yours a joyous holiday, and your best writing year ever in 2007.

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You Can Create Your Own Writing Job... If

Want to create your own job as a freelance writer? It's a brave new online writing world, so nothing could be easier.

However, you'll need to face the fact that you're now an entrepreneur.

Note: The rest of this article was first published in my Creative Small Biz ezine in 2003. I've revised the advice it contains a little, but the advice is timeless.

You can create your own job as a writing entrepreneur, if:

1. You believe in your products and services

You must believe in your products and services enough to be able to sell them consistently. For creatives, that means you must believe enough in yourself to KNOW that you can create products people will want to buy, and then you must market, market, market, and market some more.

Stating the blindingly obvious, right?

It should be obvious, but it's not. The saying: "Love what you do and the money will follow" should be amended to: "Love what you do and be prepared to market it and the money will follow".

I've lost count of the number of writers I know who've decided to freelance, and then after six months decided that they couldn’t take it and scooted back to the corporate world.

You must be passionate, but at the same time develop acceptance. Passionate enough to put your heart and soul into your work, and into your marketing, and at the same time, accept that it will take time to develop your niche, and that you may be making less money than you could if you were working for someone else -- in the beginning.

2. You can work harder for yourself than you would for someone else

When you create  your own job, you get to do it all. You're in charge.

A lot of the work that happens in a business is invisible to you if you work for someone else. The  invisible chores include a multitude of tasks, such as keeping the computer system functioning, getting material printed, placing Yellow Pages ads, and returning phone calls. All this stuff takes time and energy.

When it's all up to you, you have to decide what's important for you to be doing right now. You need a list of what must get done today, this week, and next week, and you need to keep up to date, even if it means working on Saturday and Sunday.

3. You're constantly learning

When you work for someone else, your employer trains you so that you can do your job effectively. When you've created your own job, your training is up to you.

Learning needs to be fun for you. You must see it as an investment in yourself. The Internet is a blessing, and you'll find many training packages online. You don’t even need to leave the house to learn something new.

4. You can ignore setbacks

Stuff happens. Your computer refuses to boot up. Instead of working on a client's project you need to take your computer to the repair shop. A client cancels a meeting that you've just cancelled another meeting to attend. You get the flu, and have to work anyway, even though you're so dizzy you can’t focus on the computer screen.

After you've been working as your own employer for a while, setbacks like this will amuse you rather than defeat you. You know that in a week or a month, you'll be laughing about this, so why not crack a smile now?

5. You're prepared to invest in your business

When you've created your own job, your business comes first. This means that when you get a hefty client payment, most of that money will have to go right back into the business.

You need to be clever about how you invest this money however. Do really you need a full page display ad in that magazine? Could you save money by placing a half page ad, or a quarter page? Do you need that new software package which costs a thousand dollars?

Is creating your own job as a writing entrepreneur for you? Only you know the answer to that question.

If you want to kickstart your own writing business, you need to invest in my ebook Writing For Online Cash: Turn Your Words Into Instant Gold -- this manual teaches you everything you need to know to get started.

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Beyond plagiarism: thief-take-all

Denny Hatch's great article: "Book Pirates! Diary of an Amateur Web Sleuth" tells the story of the theft of his father's book, which was still under copyright - not plagiarized, stolen. Essentially this was made possible by the advances in Print On Demand (POD) technology.

As Denny says:

Print on demand represents the future of book publishing. Rather than the old-fashioned model where huge investments had to be made in warehouses filled with books stacked floor to ceiling and gathering dust, the new book warehouse is in a computer hard drive where books and their covers are stored electronically.

Order a book and a computer somewhere tells a book printing machine to print one copy (or 10 copies or 100 copies) of that title. The efficiency of the new system is truly elegant.

POD means that anyone can take a published book and offer it for sale with horrible ease, as Denny says: "We hijack books. Catch us if you can."

If you've got books in print, or Out Of Print, and you hold the copyright, keep an eye on them. Some unscrupulous operators may just decide to snatch your hard work without so much as a "May I?"

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