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What to do when you're out of ideas: enhance your creativity today

Experiment: do something, then write

Experimenting is a no-brainer method of content creation. Although there’s extra work involved—you’ve got to conduct the experiment—you’re creating unique content.

Think about experiments you (or your clients) could create. These experiments needn’t take a lot of time and energy. They can be quick, or more complex.

A quick experiment: use A/B testing to test headlines, in advertising, or in content. These itty bitty experiments always teach you something, and give you material for content creation.

Longer experiments are useful too. For example, perhaps you’re working with a freelance writing client and discover that his top competitors are on Instagram, but your client isn’t. You ask the “what’s the problem?” question and decide that yes, it may be a problem for your client—he could be missing out on sales.

Read the complete article.

 

How to Become a Professional Web Writer

Want to become a professional web writer? They are huge opportunities available for you. It won't take you very long to build a great writing career.

As a web writer, you will work with businesses all over the world. As you develop more skills, your income will increase. If you're aware of the opportunities you can make much more money than you could make at any day job.

Here are some articles which will help you.

* Freelance Writing - Get Started as a Web Writer

Web writers are in high demand because Web sites’ traffic and sales depend on a constant stream of fresh new content. This means that you can make money freelance writing for the Web, even if you’ve never been published before.

* Writing - How To Make Money As A Web Writer

Want to make money writing? You can - it’s never been easier. Here are three tips which will help you to develop a successful writing business from home.

* Web Writing: Build Your $200K a Year Business

Web writing is taking off in a big way. Experienced Web writers are finding that there are unlimited opportunities online; there’s a huge demand both for straight content, and for copywriting skills.
If you’re a competent writer, you should be aiming for a six-figure income. If you’re published in print, do realize that the Web environment is very different from the print world.

* Writing for the Web: 4 Content Mistakes to Avoid

Are you writing for the web? Millions of webpages are created each month, so for your pages to get the results you want, you need to avoid content mistakes. It’s all too easy for your site’s visitors to click the Back button. Let’s look at four common mistakes.

* Web Writing: Build your Writing Career Fast

Do you want to build a web writing career? There’s big money to be made in writing for the online world, but you need a strategy for success. Most web writers spend too long dithering when they could be increasing their income. Let’s look at a process you can follow.

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.

Web Writing Opportunities For 2010

In 2010, web writing skills are in high demand, both at the bottom and at the top ends of the market. If you're already a professional web writer, it's time to spread your wings and diversify into new areas.

Let's look at four areas which will be profitable in 2010.

1. Web Content: Always in High Demand

There's money to be made in web content. Several huge companies have set up web media companies and are hungry for content. These companies won't pay you very much, but they'll teach you to write on demand; they make a good training ground for beginning writers.

Don't stay with these jobs for too long however. You can develop bad habits which will ensure that your writing never develops beyond a basic level.

If you're an experienced writer, look at opportunities in creating Private Label Rights (PLR) content. This is developing into a huge field, with many opportunities. Consider hiring other writers to write the PLR. Edit it, advertise it, and develop relationships with customers, and you can make a six-figure income in 2010 without working particularly hard.

2. Email Marketing: Create Full-Blown Campaigns

Spam filters becoming ever more restrictive, and the difficulty of message delivery means that many companies just gave up on email marketing.

That's changing. Despite delivery challenges, email marketing compares favorably in response rates with other forms of web advertising, so there's been a resurgence.

If you're an intermediate web writer, there's the huge opportunity in creating full-blown email marketing campaigns for companies.

3. Blogging: Hop on the Gravy Train

In 2010 blogs are more popular than ever with businesses. Look through your contacts list and find companies haven't yet created a blog, or which aren't making the most of the blog they have. Make proposals to these companies.

If you know how blogging works and can integrate a blog with other forms of social media marketing like Twitter and Facebook, you'll get plenty of clients.

4. Ebooks and Information Products: the Market Is Bigger Than Ever

The huge market for ebooks and information products is healthier than ever in 2010. Ebooks sell in their millions, and if you're an experienced web writer, this is the area in which you can make the most money, and in which you can achieve autonomy.

It's an exciting time to be a web writer. Make 2010 the year that you reach out and grab the opportunities which are available to you.

"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.

Profitable web writing: are you earning a great income?

In this week's issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, our theme is profitable web writing.

Unfortunately for many web writers, it's just not profitable. They hear about professional writers earning a great income online, but because they have no background in writing, they're not sure whether they believe it. If you're making five cents a word, it's hard to believe that someone's making $1 a word.

But what's profitable?

Find tomorrow out in the ezine.

From the Editorial:

Many writers scrabble around with low-paying web writing jobs, and while this is OK in your first year as a writer, it's NOT OK after you've been writing for a while.

The web offers you an UNLIMITED income

There's literally an unlimited income waiting for you, if you take web writing seriously, and study for it as you would for any other profession. Here's the good news: study, and you can make more income than doctors and lawyers.

How unlimited is your potential income? Well, if you can create a blog someone wants to buy, for example, you can score a 15 million dollar payday.

What's possible for you may be greater than you ever imagined, if you have writing skills, and realize their value. (Most writers, unfortunately, don't.)

Read more in the ezine.

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

Want to make great money writing? Discover the secrets of high-selling, highly paid writers, for free. Each week, Angela Booth's Fab Freelance Writing Ezine is delivered in easy-to-print PDF format.

Join the thousands of other writers who are using the information to change their lives. You'll learn how to write, and how to sell. Angela's been writing for 30 years, and shares her knowledge with you.

Writers' Christmas Treats: Writing Gifts for You, Dear Writer

It's that time of year again: time to celebrate the holidays with your loved ones, and to give and receive gifts...

Another year has zoomed by. I hope you achieved all the writing goals you've set for yourself.

I know that for many people, 2009 has been a hard year, with financial struggles. If you've had a difficult time, the financial gloom is lifting, so you'll have a brighter 2010.

To ensure that 2010 is much brighter for you, I've compiled a special holiday bundle of writing guides.

If you're not already making an income online, these guides will help you to make the most of your writing skills. The big benefit is that once you know how to make money online, you won't fear downturns. When you're your own boss, no one can fire you, and the income you make is solely up to you. :-)

My gift to you: three writing guides, with a one-time special offer. Happy holidays to you, and yours, from me and mine. :-)

Ezine: Web Writing to Quit Your Day Job

In next week's issue of the ezine, we discuss how you can make $100 a day writing for the web, within a month.

Here's an excerpt from the Editorial:

Let me start by saying that there's never ever been a better time to be a writer. If you want to write for the web, you can.

Within a month, working only a couple of hours a day, you should be making at least $100 a day just from your writing. If you're not doing that, you either don't know how to write, or you're just being lazy.

I created Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) web writing training to get people started in writing for the web. There's a lot to learn.

This means that your writing efforts must be combined with building your web writing education. Keep learning. You don't have to know how to set up a website, how to upload files to a server, or how to set up a sales page when you start out… BUT everything you learn gives you the ability to increase your income.

Think of yourself as an apprentice carpenter, if you will. When you start out writing for the web, the only tools you have are a hammer and some nails… as you keep learning, you can buy other tools. Before you know it, you have a full tool box and you're a master carpenter.

Big tip: you don't need to know anything other than how to string sentences into paragraphs to get started writing for the web, so PLEASE don't let your lack of technical expertise cripple you. Knowing how to write when you start is enough, but as I said, the more you know, the better.

Read the rest on Tuesday in Fab Freelance Writing Ezine. Each issue consists of around 16 pages, in PDF format, packed with writing tips.

Enjoy. :-)

Web writing tips and tricks

Got questions about web writing? There's a lot to learn.

I've just written two articles which will help.

Web Writing: Build your Writing Career Fast

Do you want to build a web writing career? There's big money to be made in writing for the online world, but you need a strategy for success. Most web writers spend too long dithering when they could be increasing their income.

Web Writing: When Can you Quit your Day Job?

Are you making enough money from your web writing to quit your day job? If you're surpassing your current income, it may be time to make the jump. However, this is an important decision, and one you'll want to consider carefully.

Ezine: Web Writing – Get On Board, There's a LOT of Money to Be Made

In next week's issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine our topic is Web writing.

Here's an excerpt from the Editorial, "Web Writing – Get On Board, There's a LOT of Money to Be Made":

[In this issue] all we can do is scratch the surface: there are unlimited (not hyperbole) opportunities in Web writing.

Next week, for example, we're going to cover one special opportunity you should be aware of: Writing Web Sites for Profit.

Here's a warning. When it comes to Web writing, there's much uninformed opinion around, and that uninformed opinion can not only cripple your career, it can downright kill it.

Here's an example of uninformed opinion.

Read the complete issue to discover how you're being misinformed when it comes to Web writing.

Fab Freelance Writing Ezine is packed with writing tips each week. It's essential reading if you want to make money writing... and of course, it's completely free.

Make money writing from home: ditch your day job forever

If you can write, you can make money writing from home. The Web has made it possible for ANY writer, no matter how new or inexperienced, to turn writing into a fabulous career. If you're stuck in a soul-destroying, or just boring job, writing is your way out.

Fab Freelance Ezine helps you - subscribe and receive the free report: "Freelance Writing for Beginners: Great Opportunities to Make Money Today". It's 21 pages packed with information to help you to develop a six-figure writing career.

Blog Secrets for Writers: Boost Your Income

Do you have a blog? I hope you said yes, because blogs are incredibly useful for writers. A blog can build your career in ways you won't expect, often eliminating years of frustration.

Firstly, let's talk about what a blog actually is. A blog is an instant-publication tool. That's all. If you're caught up in thinking that a blog is "an online journal", it can stifle your creativity.

So when you think blog, think "instant publication."

Now let's look at secret ways in which your blog can boost your writing income.

1. More Blogs Equal More Money

I have many blogs, and each blog has a purpose. Blogs take time to develop a readership. Usually when I create a blog, it's for a project which is either currently in development, or which I intend to develop a year or two from now.

Think of each blog you create as an investment. Your investment in a blog may not pay off for several years, just as real-world investments.

2. Sell Yourself and Your Products on Your Blogs

If you're a new writer, a blog will help you because you'll become visible online. It helps you to build your name.

Make a list of all the writing services you provide, and make sure that you advertise these on your blog. As your writing services business grows, create a blog for each service.

If you're writing articles, for example, create an articles blog. If you're writing a book, create a blog for the book. And so on.

Ensure that you use your own name on each of your blogs. This means that when a potential buyer of your writing types your name into a Web search engine, all your blogs will show up. You develop credibility as a writer.

This leads to our final secret.

3. Every Blog Post Is an Advertisement for You

Every blog, and every post on that blog, is an advertisement for you as a writer. Writers are in high demand on the Web, however you need to build credibility as a Web writer, and trust.

Every blog you create displays your writing skill. This cuts down on your need to hunt for writing jobs, because clients come to you. Eventually, if you focus on blogging, you'll have more clients than you can handle.

Blogging is a way to become an established writer, fast. If you're not blogging, your writing career will never be as successful as it could be. Start a blog (or another one) today.

Want to learn more about blogging and Web writing? Sell Your Writing Online NOW is complete training in Web writing which opens the door to unlimited opportunities. Subscribers call it "the best thing I've ever done." In addition to discovering blogging, you'll learn how to write and sell articles, ebooks and Web sites  for profit, and much more.

For free weekly writing information sent to your Inbox, subscribe to Angela's Fab Freelance Writing Ezine at  and receive "Write And Sell Your Writing: The Power-Write Report" immediately.

Web writing for money - bootstrap your writing business

Want to build a million-dollar writing business on the Web? If you understand the power of the Web, you know that it's more than possible for anyone - yes, even for you, to bootstrap your business online.

(If you're not familiar with the term "bootstrapping", it basically means building a business from very little, or from nothing.)

Understanding the Web's power is the key.

Here's what a couple of Web writers are doing.

Liz and her blog network - she's aiming for a big payday

Liz R. has created a network of mommy bloggers. They're all friends. They live in a small US city, and discovered each other by networking online.

They're all craftswomen and sell their crafts on sites like eBay and Etsy. They  initially started their blogs to promote their crafts.

I won't go into Liz's business plans here; she asked me not to. However, I agree with Liz that her planned blog network has huge potential; and will be worth millions in three years. This is simply because the market for the information is there, and because Liz is a person who gets things done.

Mark's ebook empire - six figures by 2009

Mark N. is one of my writing students. He's written three ebooks, and is having three others written for him by writers he's hired on the outsourcing sites.

I won't reveal Mark's secret niche, but I will say that this niche is highly profitable, and that Mark's developed a spin on it that is already paying off, and will continue to do so. By the end of 2009, Mark wants to gross in the high six figures with his ebooks, aiming for seven figures in 2010.

Judging by what he's achieved already, Mark's sure to meet his goals.

Bootstrapping your micro business into big money

You can do what Liz and Mark are doing too, if you realize the immense power of the Web, and that YOU CAN DO IT.

On the web, you're not limited by anything at all. No matter what your current income, your experience, sex or age, you can develop your tiny business into a million-dollar business, as long as you understand some of what's possible and get to work.

The primary reason I created Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) was so that you would have all the training and tools to allow you to do this. It's always irked me that creatives are paid so little, when their products make huge profits for others.

Take the reins of your writing business and bootstrap it to success. You CAN do it. :-)

Discover the world of Web writing - make a great income writing from home, or from anywhere

Sell Your Writing Online NOW

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.

Join the Web writing gold rush with Angela Booth's comprehensive training: "Sell Your Writing Online Now".

Writing - How To Make Money As A Web Writer

Want to make money writing? You can - it's never been easier. Here are three tips which will help you to develop a successful writing business from home.

You can start off as a part time writer, and can quickly transition to a full time career.

There's a huge demand for text content on the Web. Every site needs content, and the writers provide it. Even as a new writer, you can set up a writing services business very quickly.

Here are three tips which will help you to get started.

Read the article.

Profit from writing short reports

In this week's issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, our article is "Short Report Secrets - Turn Instant Information Into Dollars".

If you'd love to write and sell ebooks, but just don't have the time, writing short reports may be the answer.

Here's an excerpt:

Ebooks have never been more popular, simply because they offer instant gratification. If I want to know how to lose weight, how to take better photographs or how to re-mortgage my home, there's an ebook which will help me.

For a writer, the only downside to ebooks is that they can take a month or so to write. During this month, if you're a full-time writer, you're also writing other material to keep the wolf from the door.

But did you know that ebooks can be short? Indeed they can. Short ebooks, of five to ten pages, are called short reports. They're fast and easy to write; I can write one in an afternoon, and I'm sure you can too.

Read the complete article in tomorrow's issue.

Web writing for technophobes - you can do it

I don't know why, but writing for the Web is scary for some writers.

If this is you, please realize that if you can use a word processor, you can write for the Web. In fact, writing for Web sites is easier than getting MS Word to behave itself.

Most articles, blog posts and other material you submit to Web sites (or post on those sites yourself) are in simple text format. You can write the material in any word processor you choose (even MS Word if you wish), and then save the material as a plain text file. Don't copy and paste - MS Word and other word processors leave artifacts when you copy and paste.

Or you can write the text in a text editor, such as TextEdit (free with your Mac) or my favorite text editor on the PC - NoteTab Lite, also free.

Once you've got a plain text file, you're golden. You simply copy and paste the text where you want it to go.

Above, you can see this text pasted into the TinyMCE Editor which is part of WordPress. If I wanted to post this article on Writing Hacker, this is exactly how I'd do it. Copy and paste... easy, right?

However, I want to use this article on my Typepad blog (right here), so this is what the article looks like pasted into the TypePad editor:

Copy and paste... as long as you remember that PLAIN text is for the Web, all you need to know is how to copy and paste.

And since you know how to do that already, you know how to "write for the Web.":-)

Welcome to the wonderful and easy, world of writing for the Web. As a writer, you just need the confidence to copy and paste. BTW, that applies to creating your own Web sites too, if you use the freely available tools which were created for technophobes. :-)

Discover the world of Web writing - make a great income writing from home, or from anywhere

Sell Your Writing Online NOW

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.

Join the Web writing gold rush with Angela Booth's comprehensive training: "Sell Your Writing Online Now".

Sell your writing on ContentBee - increase your visibility

Getting started as a Web writer can be confusing. Here's the most important thing you need to know: the more visible you are online, the more income you will make.

What's "visibility"? It's simply references to your name.

When I Google "Angela Booth" (with quotation marks as above) there are around 48,000 references in Google's results pages. It's reasonable visibility, and as a Web writer, this is what you should aim for too.

The benefits of visibility are:

* Clients come to you with writing jobs;

* You can charge more for your writing services because you bring more to the table - someone who is highly visible online has a knowledge of how the Web works. You're perceived as an expert in your field;

* You can sell your own writing products - ebooks, reports, courses and more. Anything and everything online.

Sell your writing on ContentBee - a new site for SYWON subscribers

ContentBee is a place for Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscribers to get visible, and also to sell their writing services. The site went live on May 17, 2008.

ContentBee was created for YOU

I've created ContentBee solely for subscribers.

I'll be promoting the site heavily in 2008 and 2009, and while you complete your SYWON training, and afterwards, ContentBee will help you to get your name visible, and will start sending you writing jobs.

As Web content writing jobs come in, I'll send them out to those SYWON subscribers who are part of ContentBee's writing team. You can pick and choose your jobs - apply for them all, or for none, it's completely up to you.

I intend to ensure that ContentBee is THE destination online for quality Web content. But primarily I created the site for subscribers - as another benefit to their Web writing training.

If you're a Sell Your Writing Online NOW subscriber, look for complete information on how to get listed on ContentBee in your Inbox.

Easy Writing Success - Dominate the Web

If you're a new writer today, the Web has smoothed your path to writing success. Not only can you make some money right away, you no longer have to spend years languishing in obscurity.

There are major benefits in Web writing for new writers, with one major pitfall, so let's get the downside out of the way first. The pitfall is this: when you write for the Web you'll usually get no professional editing, and this can lead you into developing bad habits which are difficult to eradicate.

So what can you write for the Web, as a bright and shining new writing star?

Here are three venues which require no experience: writing Web content in the form of articles, blogging, and the "exposure" write-for-us sites.

Let's look at these three venues in a little more detail.