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Article Writing: How to Excite Your Clients and Make Sales

Writing articles is the easiest way to make money online. Do you realize that thousands of writers are making six figure incomes, just from writing articles?

Articles can be a goldmine for you too, if you excite your clients. In this article, I'll share three tips which will help you to do that.

1. Write Articles for Yourself, First

Who's your first best client? Yourself -- no one else. You need to write articles for yourself, and keep writing.

Why? Read on.

Here's what I see when I visit a typical writer's website: an anemic laundry list of what the writer can do.

Writing teachers are fond of yelling "Show, don't tell" at their fiction writing students, but "Show, don't tell" applies to other forms of writing too. It's especially vital on your website.

If I'm a prospective client of yours, I don't want to go to your website -- the website of a WRITER -- and see a laundry list of services you provide.

If I'm going to hire you, I want to be excited at the thought of what you can do for me. A list of your services does nothing, except convince me that you don't have a clue.

Therefore, to convince and EXCITE your clients, you need to flesh out that anemic website. If you're a writer, I want you to work for me. But you need to not only convince me that you can write for me, you also need to excite me. This means that I want to see content, and lots of it.

Write articles and post them on your website. Each article is a salesperson for you.

Here's a tip: a blog is your most valuable tool. It enables you to use article marketing (articles as a form of advertising) to promote your article writing services.

2. Plan: Create a SWOT Analysis

Do you have a plan for how you'll make six figures writing articles?

Your plan starts with a SWOT analysis.

SWOT is an acronym:

S: Strengths
W: Weaknesses
O: Opportunities
T: Threats

A SWOT analysis helps you to look at your writing skills and the writing environment objectively. That's its primary purpose. Make a list of your writing strengths, your weaknesses, the opportunities you can see around you, and the threats to your writing career and business.

Your analysis make take just 20 minutes, but it will have a powerful effect. Try it.

Another tip: PLAN ON PAPER. Yes, I'm shouting, because it's important. Write everything down. Date the document.

Use your SWOT analysis to create a plan. Then turn the plan into daily tasks, and carry out those tasks.

When you plan, you've taken a giant stride towards building a successful article writing career.

3. Carry out Your Plan: No Excuses

Have a plan, and carry it out. Does that sound simple? It sounds simple because it is.

I'm fond of asking writers what their plan is, and how much they're writing every day. If they don't have a plan, we make creating that plan a priority.

You can solve any and every challenge you will ever have, in writing and in your life, when you create a plan.

Please remember that you can make a fantastic income writing articles, if you can excite your clients. You do that by showing what you can do. That "show" starts with a plan. Carry out your SWOT analysis right now. I wish you every success.

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How to Make the Most of Your Blog

A blog is a powerful tool for a writer. Unfortunately, few writers make the most of their blog.

I receive questions about blogs and blogging every day. My responses can be summed up in a couple of sentences: "Create goals for your blog. It doesn't matter what those goals are, as long as you have them."

Your goals for your blog are your destinations. Without them, you won't get anywhere.

I've written extensively about blogging. Here are some links to help you to make the most of your blog.

* Blog - 3 Hidden Benefits of Blogs for Writers

Want to blog? Many writers are hesitant about blogging, until they start. Then they realize that a blog can super-charge their career.

Why are blogs great for writers? Simply because your writing career depends on both your writing proficiency and speed. Yes, speed - if you can write fast, you’ll win many more writing jobs than writers who are slow.

* How to Make Money Online by Writing a Blog

Want to make money from your blog? You can - within days. Here are three easy ways to a quick income.

Here’s an important tip: any blog can be an income generator, but you’ll make more when you think of ALL your blog’s content as being helpful, especially the products you advertise.

For example, if you have a dog training blog, then think about your readers. They own a dog, and they want to take care of him. So find products, both useful and fun which will help them to do that, and you’ll make sales.

* Pro Blog - Get Paid to Write Articles

Do you enjoy writing articles? If you do, you can make money online as a professional blogger. Here’s how.

* Take the Blogging Fast-Track: Blog Your Writing Career

Want to build a profitable writing career? You can, when you take the blogging fast-track. Discover how in this article.

Let's start by defining "blog." A blog has often been called an "online journal," which is very misleading. Essentially, a blog is an instant publishing tool, which anyone can use to get their message out across the globe within minutes, via RSS.

* Freelance Writing: Make Blogging Work for You

Do you blog? If your answer is "No", start blogging today, because if you're a freelance writer and your name doesn't show up in Google, your credibility is zero. Here's how to get the most from your blog.

There's more to blogging than you think. Forget considering your blog an online journal: your blog is a professional tool.

Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income - much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth's blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars - blogging is fun, and profitable.

Blogging: Become a Content Maestro

Blogging is an adventure. You never know where it will lead. One thing's for sure: once you get into blogging, you'll decide that it's the best thing you've ever done for your writing career.

A blog is CONTENT. That content may be text, images, audio, video -- you decide. The options are endless. Although there are many distractions when you're blogging, if you realize that your blog is solely about its content you'll be streets ahead of most bloggers.

Since content's so vital, let's look at how you can become comfortable creating it, so that you'll create a powerful blog.

These tips will help.

1. Plan Your Content at Least a Week in Advance

Life happens. Even if you're a full-time writer, life gets in the way of your best intentions. Without a content plan for the coming week, you'll procrastinate -- the urgent will drive out the important. Before too long, you'll realize it's several days since you last posted to your blog.

Devote 15 minutes on Sunday to creating your blog content plan for the coming week. Then schedule time to make the posts.

2. Write Draft Posts

Here's secret: writing is a process. Just follow the process, and you'll be productive. That process consists of planning, drafting, writing and revising. Professional writers know this, and now you know it too.

Make good use of the draft post option in your blog. Every platform (Blogger, TypePad, WordPress etc) has one.

3. Focus on Content: It's Promotion

The best way to promote your blog is to create more content for it. Please don't concern yourself with traffic for the first few months. Your traffic will grow, but only if you keep adding content.

Some new bloggers are much too concerned with traffic. Traffic is unimportant. It's much better to have five visitors a day to a blog if those visitors respond, than 5,000 visitors who don't.

4. Track Your Readers: What Do They Want?

Once you start getting traffic, check out your referrer logs, to see what actions your visitors are taking on your blog. What's your most popular post?

What search terms do your visitors use? It's been said that behind every search is an intention. Think about your visitor's intentions, and help them to achieve their goals, and your blog will be successful.

Introducing -- Angela Booth's Lazy Rich Blogger method

After several years of trial and error, these days I create blogs which I know will make money: I've cracked the code. Not only do my blogs make money almost immediately, they'll also keep on making money for years to come.

If you wish, you can join me on the blogging journey. I hope you do. As the Internet grows ever larger, there are endless opportunities which can turn you into a lazy, rich blogger.

Beginning Copywriting: Tips to Help You

If you're new to copywriting, you have lots of questions. Since I've written extensively about developing a copywriting career, chances are I've answered your questions already.

Here are some links which may help you.

* Freelance Copywriting for Beginners: 3 Essential Secrets

Want to build a highly profitable freelance copywriting services business? Writing for businesses can seem intimidating at first. Let's look at three essential secrets you must know to make a success of your new career.

* Copywriting Beginner: Essential Service Offerings

Are you a beginning copywriter? If you’re new to copywriting, you may be wondering which services you should offer. You can offer any service with which you’re familiar, and which you can write with ease. Let’s look at three very simple offerings any new copywriter can create for his clients.

* Copywriting - Get Paid, Even as a New Copywriter

If you’d like to develop a great career with unlimited opportunities, look no further than copywriting. It’s ideal for anyone with marketing and/ or writing experience.

Copywriting is a business writing: writing to promote and persuade. It’s been called salesmanship in print, and that’s precisely what it is. I’m often asked by people considering copywriting whether they have the talent for it.

* Make Money Copywriting: Three Tips for Beginning Copywriters

Copywriting is a highly lucrative career; essentially, it involves writing promotional and general marketing materials for businesses. In this article, we'll discuss three tips which will help you to begin copywriting.

There's no formal training for copywriters. Learning copywriting is very much a matter of experience and practice.

* Your Copywriter's Web Site - They Need to Know Who You are

As a copywriter, you’re privy to many of your clients’ secrets. You know all about their target audience and their marketing plans. This means that before anyone asks you to do any copywriting for them, they have to trust you. They need to know that you won’t go running off to their competitors with what you know, for example.

So copywriting as a new copywriter is all about trust: no trust, no copywriting jobs. But how do you start building that trust?

Enjoy. :-)

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How to Start Your Copywriting Career Today

Every writer needs copywriting skills. We're all in the sales business, whether we know it or not, and "copywriting" is sales writing.

I'm fond of saying that if you can write a letter which gets a response, you can write copy, because you're already a great salesperson. You sell your kids on the benefits of going to school, your spouse on the benefits of a vacation spot, your boss on the benefits of giving you a raise...

If you're a new writer, take this "you're in sales!" message to heart.

It will save you lots of grief. You'll stop thinking about rejections, and you'll take a more objective view of your writing. You'll realize that if your writing was rejected, you simply failed to get your message across, and you'll  wonder how you can get the response you want. You'll see how to improve any piece of writing.

How To "Sell" Your Writing Today

Copywriting is a fascinating profession. It's fun, and you can start your career today. Just start thinking in terms of sales.

Developing a copywriter's mindset is essential. Start watching how other people sell to you. Your kids sell (they're great at it), your partner sells, everyone sells -- even the people on the evening news.

When you realize that everyone sells, you'll stop thinking of copywriting as a bag of tricks. It's not. Copywriters who look for, and collect tricks, damage their native ability. They never realize that if they don't believe in a product they're selling, few others will.

Today, take a current project you're working on, and think about how you can sell it. Write a small advertisement for it. Then write a longer advertisement.

Please do this exercise. It's both simple, and powerful, because it forces you to be objective. You'll instantly see how you can improve any piece of writing, once you try to sell it.

You'll be well on the way to developing a copywriter's mindset, and this is the foundation of your copywriting career.

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 Writing Career: Make Money Writing

Would you like to boost your writing career? Writers often fall into a rut. There are literally endless ways for you to make money writing.

Once you're aware of opportunities, you can extend your writing into new areas. When you do this, don't be surprised if you double and triple your income within weeks.

In my blogs and in Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, I cover many ways to make money writing.

Here are some links to posts you may have missed:

* Top Seven Ways to Make Money Writing at Home

Want to make money writing at home? Writing can grow into a huge home business. Here are seven ways to cash in.

* Make Money Web Writing: Get Started Today

Do you want to make money writing? If so, you can get started today. The Web is a combination of the world’s largest marketplace and world’s biggest library; if you have writing skills you can look forward to making a massive income.

* Copywriter: Make Money Online Today

What’s the one essential skill you must have to make money online today? Without a doubt that skill is copywriting. Luckily you can learn how to become a competent copywriter very quickly, so that you can sell affiliate and other products, and can make a great income online.

* Ebooks: Make Money Writing Ebooks for Others

Ebooks sell well online. They’re delivered digitally, so they offer a good return on investment for producers, which means that marketers are always looking for new ebooks to promote, as well as new writers to write them. It’s a huge market, and if you have writing skills, you can tap into ebook writing and selling very easily.

* Blogging: 3 Fast Ways to Make More Money With your Blog

Are you trying to make money with your blog? If you want to increase your blog’s income, you can. Let’s look at three fast ways.

Build your writing career, step by step

Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) web writing training gives you highly marketable skills which will build your writing career for a lifetime.

You discover how to:

* Make great money writing simple Web articles

* Develop sites and blogs (using easy, free tools) which you can sell for 12 times their monthly earnings. (For example, if you create a small site which makes you $500 a month, you can sell it for $6,000 and more)

* Create ebooks which bring you in a passive income for years to come

* Develop a successful writing services practice -- charge $250 an hour for your writing services

* and much, much more.

Start your new writing life today.

Your Writing Career: Use Cross Promotion to Extend Your Reach

Are you cross promoting your writing? Cross promotion is a vital form of marketing. Once you have a presence online (a website or blog), it's up to you to promote it.

For example, in Lesson 7 of Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON), I make this point:

Cross-promote all the writing you do online to make more income

The more writing you do online, the more opportunities you will have to cross-promote. For example, you've got a site and blog, so now you can link the two together and can promote your blogging services (which we'll discuss in this lesson) on your article sales site. And vice versa, of course.

Linking helps you to make the most of your traffic. You can lead your site visitors from one of your Web properties to others.

The more you promote your writing, the more your career will build.

Even if you've worked with a client several times, chances are he'll have forgotten your name the next time he's looking for a writer.

Get into the habit of promoting your writing services every day, and your writing career will take off.

Develop a great income writing for the Web - start by writing simple articles

I've developed "Sell Your Writing Online Now" (SYWON) to help you to start making money writing online in 24 hours or less.

Each week, for one full year, you'll receive a lesson, with an assignment which will build your Web writing income – you EARN as you learn.

SYWON is totally unique, and if you want to write for the Web, it's your ticket to success.

Your Writing Career: How to Work Effectively With Clients and Keep Them

Do your clients make you nervous? This is natural when you're starting your writing career. Sooner or later you'll be startled to realize that they're even more nervous than you are. :-)

It's up to you to take charge of the relationship and settle your clients'  fears. Be kind, be professional, and be reliable, and your clients will stay with you for years.

Here are three tips you can use to work effectively with your clients and keep them.

1. Please Realize That Every Client Is Different: Ask Questions

Every client you will ever have is different from every other, and has different expectations.

Never assume. Ask sufficient questions so that you and your client are on the same page before you start writing. Most conflicts with clients arise from miscommunication. Therefore, communicate!

I always advise my writing students to rewrite the client's brief (project description) in their own words, before asking the client to sign off on it.

Tip: few clients know exactly what they want. It's up to you to ferret out what they really expect from a project.

2. Be Pragmatic About Money: Invoice, and Get Paid

It will take you a while to get comfortable discussing money. That's OK. The more you do it, the more relaxed you'll become. The fees you charge are what they are. State them without comment or explanation.

Discuss fees early in the relationship. Tell the client what the full fee for the project will be, and how you'll be paid -- retainer, milestone payments, and so on.

Add this copyright advice to every invoice: "The copyright in the project devolves to you on payment in full."

Invoice regularly. On longer projects, invoice at least weekly. If an invoice is unpaid, stop writing.

3. Completed a Project? Ask Your Client What else He Needs

Consider your clients' needs, and think long-term with every client.

If you've just finished an article for a magazine, send along another couple of queries with the invoice.

If you've just written ten articles for a client, ask when the client will need additional content.

If you've just written a sales page for a copywriting client, ask whether the client would like you to write an autoresponder sequence.

Clients are busy. It takes time and energy to find a writer and brief him. Every client has multiple needs, but the pressure of running a business or publication means that he's likely to remember what other writing jobs he wants done after he's paid your final invoice.

Suggesting other projects to your clients is a kindness -- they appreciate your offers. Chances are if you propose an additional project, he'll suggest others.

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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.

Writing Tips Ezine: How to Quit Your Day Job

In next Tuesday's issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, our theme is "How to Quit Your Day Job".

Here's an excerpt:

There has never, ever been a better time to be a writer. I wish I were 30 years younger, and were just starting out today. :-)

Here are five steps for you to follow to make the transition to full-time writing.

Even if you're happy with your day job, it might be an idea to follow as many of these steps as possible. In today's economic climate the major benefit of being your own boss is that no one can fire you. :-) Freelancers thrived during the financial crisis, because hiring freelancers or contract workers on a "just in time" basis makes better sense for many companies than keeping on full-time employees.

OK, let's get started.

1. Realize that there are literally endless opportunities for you today

Firstly, please realize that there are literally endless ways for you to make money writing today, and build your own career and business. All you need to do is pay attention to what's happening around you, and grab the opportunities you see.

The communications world is in the middle of a major transition, arguably the biggest shakeup in communications since the 15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press.

Read the rest in Tuesday's issue.

Discover the secrets of highly-paid writers: free each week

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Want to Turn Your Writing Skills Into Cash?

All it takes is a decision to do it. That's all. There's a huge demand for writers, and if you have writing skills, you can make a great second income, and in a short time, a great full-time income.

Each week, I get questions from people who feel that maybe, just maybe, they could turn their love of writing into a career and business. I always say that if you think you can, you can. The desire to write professionally is a pretty good indicator that you CAN.

I've written on this particular topic in hundreds of articles and blog posts.

Here are links to a few:

* Get Started Writing for the Web – Easy Writing you Can Do

If you enjoy writing, you can write from home, and make money, even as a beginning writer. The Web has an enormous appetite for words, and thousands of new Web sites are created every day, providing you with an endless supply of writing jobs.

The fact is, if you’re a beginning writer, and can write the way you speak – in a relaxed manner, you’re a perfect Web writer.

Let’s look at four easy kinds of writing you can do as a new writer.

* Make Money from Blogging - Three Steps from Beginner to Pro

Even if you’re completely new to the concept of blogs, you can make money blogging. This is because blogging has now gone mainstream. Every business which has a Web site either has a blog too, or feels guilty because they don’t. So bloggers are in high demand.

Not only are bloggers in high demand, experienced bloggers are very busy. They’re reluctant to take on new clients, and when they do, they charge like wounded rhino for their blogging skills. This means that even as a total newbie, you can get hired.

* Web Writing: 3 Days to Article Success

Want to make money writing for the web? Web content in the form of articles sell well. Let's look at an easy process which will help you to create and sell more articles.

This is a three day process. Once you've learned the process, you will be very confident in writing articles. The process saves you a great deal of time and procrastination.

* Online Writing Jobs the Easy Way - 5 Tips

  Want to get online writing jobs? These five tips will help. Writing skills are in huge demand; set up your own home business and prosper.

* Writer for Hire - Freelancing for Profit

Want to make a great income as a freelance writer? You can. I'm fond of saying that anyone who can write an email message can write for pay, and that's accurate.

Unfortunately, many new writers get in their own way. They want to make the process of writing for money more complicated than it is. It's very simple: as a writer for hire, you sell your writing services to people and businesses who need those services.

Let's look at the process involved, and then we'll discuss how you can put the process into action, even if you've never been paid a cent for your writing.

"Go From Zero To Making $250 Per Hour For Web Writing - Kick Off Your Web Writing Career In 24 Hours!"

There's great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.

Want to jump on this opportunity? No matter what your level of writing skill, you can make great money writing for the Web too.

Get a full year of weekly assignments; become a Web writing pro with Sell Your Writing Online NOW.

What Writing Services Can YOU Sell?

Every week, I receive email messages from writers who'd love to write for money, but just don't know where to start.

Start where you are. If you can write an email message, with reasonably correct grammar, spelling and formatting (vital!) -- and if your recipient responds to the message in the way you wish, you can sell your writing services, even as a beginning writer.

Here's an excerpt from Chapter One of "Your Just-In-Time Cash Machine: Sell Your Services Online In Seven Days" which expands on this.

Sell Your Writing Services: Can You Write an Email Message?

There's an enormous hunger for competent writers online. If you have writing skills you can parlay these skills into a massive income. There are currently many more jobs available than writers to fill them.

Big tip: you don't need to be an expert writer to get writing jobs which consist of writing articles and blogging. If you can write an email message with correct spelling and punctuation (most of the time) you can write articles, reviews and blog posts and get paid for it.

If you're a beginning writer, realize that every website needs content. The more content a site has, the more traffic it gets from search engines, and the more sales the site makes. Therefore hundreds of thousands of sites pay for content every day.

This content is in the form of straight web pages (web content), articles, newsletters, and email messages.

If you can write an e-mail message that people can read and understand, you can learn to write for the web. Most writers start off by writing simple articles. These articles are short, are generally no longer than 250 to 500 words. When you've gained a little experience, you can write one or two articles every hour.

There's unlimited opportunity for you as a writer. All you need to do is SEE IT, and respond.

I developed Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) training to help you to build a great web writing career fast. The door's open: walk through it.

Build your writing career, step by step

Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) web writing training gives you highly marketable skills which will build your writing career for a lifetime.

You discover how to:

* Make great money writing simple Web articles

* Develop sites and blogs (using easy, free tools) which you can sell for 12 times their monthly earnings. (For example, if you create a small site which makes you $500 a month, you can sell it for $6,000 and more)

* Create ebooks which bring you in a passive income for years to come

* Develop a successful writing services practice -- charge $250 an hour for your writing services

* and much, much more.

Start your new writing life today.

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.

Ebooks: get started writing ebooks and information products

Want to write ebooks? I get many questions about writing and selling ebooks each week.

Here are links to some of my (many) posts on the topic. They'll help you to get started.

* Ebook: Build a Bestselling Format

Want to write an ebook? Ebooks sell well online; you can even build an entire home business on a single ebook. Here’s how to ensure your ebook sells, when you build a bestselling format.

* How to Start Writing Your New Ebook Today

Have you been procrastinating on writing your ebook? Whatever your reasons for putting it off, here’s a way you can start writing today, no matter how little time you have.

You Can Write Your Ebook in 20 Minutes a Day

Yes, it’s possible to write your ebook in just 20 minutes a day, and shortly I’ll show you how.

* Fast and Easy Ebooks: Quick Cash from Ebooks

Everyone has obsessions. Currently one of mine is time management. I’ll read just about anything to help me to manage my time more efficiently. I haunt online and physical bookstores, looking for information on my favorite subject.

Judging by the thousands of magazines and special-interest Web sites, others have obsessions too, and they’re like me, obsessed with learning more about their obsessions.

* Ebook Creator: Build Your Information Marketing Business Fast

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Ebooks - Four Steps for Success in Writing Your First Ebook

Want to write a successful ebook? You can, just follow the four simple steps in this article.

Firstly, let’s look at what we mean by “successful”. In our terms, a successful ebook is one which sells well, year after year. This is because you’ve chosen your topic carefully, and people not only need your information, but they’re also prepared to pay for it in ebook form.

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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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Information products: can YOU write and sell ebooks?

Writing and selling ebooks and other information products is a wonderful way to take charge of your writing career and become your own boss.

Here's the beauty of the information product business; you can write what you want (as long as people want to buy the information), and can keep selling your products for years.

That said, each week I receive messages containing a writer's life story, ending with the question "Could I write and sell an ebook telling my story?"

Generally speaking, the answer is no.

Unless you're a celebrity, or have done something amazing, like climbed Mt Everest, found a cure for an illness, or have recovered from an illness which is usually fatal, the story of your life is unlikely to sell as an ebook.

Try writing it as a memoir. Then get an agent (a blog helps with this), and see whether the agent can sell it for you.

Ebooks are "information products", with the emphasis on the "information" aspect. To sell they must have information which the buyer needs.

The most common question I'm asked about ebooks is "how much can I make?"

That depends on the market for the information you're selling. Some ebooks earn millions (literally) for their creators each year.

If you have a method, you should be able to make $500 a day.

Here's an excerpt from the Introduction to my guide "Info Product Maestro":

Can you really make $500 a day from info products?

Of course you can. Many people do this; it's not unusual for someone to make $500 a day selling an information product. However, the aim of this ebook is to help you to make a $500 a day in pure profit from your info products.

Some people make $500 a day from one ebook, but unfortunately, if they're spending $450 on advertising, what they're earning is $50 a day.

The market for information is LIMITLESS: you're constrained only by the limits of your own innovative spirit and creativity.

What I teach you in this guide will help you to make $500 a day, without advertising if you wish. You will create several related products, all selling at the same time. Then, when someone buys one of your products and finds it useful, he can get more information from you, and you can make more sales.

Yes, you can certainly can make $500 a day – once you have several info products selling for you. This won't take long; you should be able to reach the $500 a day stage within six months.

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Are you make as much money as you could be making? Chances are that you're not. There's no shame in this. Writers often struggle to find their own special niche.

If you love to write, then you'll love the information in my new ebook/ coaching package, Info Product Maestro: Make $500 a Day with Your Information Products.

Write what you like, when you like, and make an income you've only dreamed of.

Enjoy. :-)