I’m amazed at the number of small businesses which are moving the bulk of their operations online, as well as by the number of small businesses which are starting up with the sole aim of selling products online — even a year ago this would’ve been looked on as a risky strategy.

With businesses placing such a high emphasis on selling online, it gives great  opportunities for writers. You’re in high demand. Even beginning writers can get writing jobs writing articles.

Can YOU write Web articles?

If you have any writing skills at all, you can write articles. Web articles are very different from articles written for print publications, and they’re much easier to write.

If you read Web articles, you’ll discover that they have certain attributes.  They’re easy to read, they’re relatively short when compared to print articles, and they contain links.

So if you’re in the same position as a lot of people, and need to earn extra money, consider writing web articles.

Get all the information you need to build a wonderful writing career with Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON).

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Here’s how to maximize the value of this listing.

1. Reference your entry in ContentBee (and your SYWON) membership when you apply for writing jobs.

As a new Web writer, you need to show that you’re efficient and trustworthy. (No one wants to hire a "writer" who may skip off into the sunset with their money and confidential company information.)

Your entry in ContentBee shows that you’re serious about your career, and that you’re training in Web writing.

2. Reference your entry in ContentBee on your Web site. Again, your entry in ContentBee shows that you’re a trained Web writer, rather than someone who just calls himself a writer.

Your links on ContentBee and Writing Hacker are valuable; so use them.

If you haven’t yet sent me your link and Contentbee blurb, please do that today. 

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I create marketing plans for different products each month. For example, one of my marketing plans for April is to promote Fab Freelance Writing Ezine.

Why create marketing plans?

1. They’re essential because they work — they make sales

2. They stop procrastination

3. They allow you to track what’s happening with your writing.

For example, Stan’s a new writer and a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscriber.

Stan’s on Lesson 8, and for a beginner, he’s doing brilliantly. He’s written articles for two clients, and has two testimonials. Now’s the time for Stan to spread his wings, and to promote his article writing services by creating a marketing plan for his article writing.

A marketing plan takes a minute or two to create. Then all you need to do is to slot the tasks into your calendar program, and work on each day’s task as the day arrives.

Stan’s still working a day job, so he asked me to help him to create his plan, and to schedule the tasks. He’s now done that. Here’s what he wrote: “I can’t believe it — four days after creating my plan, I’ve got FIVE new clients and projects.”

Yes, of course, marketing works. However, as I wrote to Stan: “That’s great, but do keep doing your marketing tasks, no matter how busy you get. Your marketing is cumulative, and the more marketing you do, the more your income will rise.”

So if you haven’t created a marketing plan yet, start today.

Managing all your SYWON info: make a study plan

Big tip: Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) provides you with HUGE amounts of information because it gives you all the know-how you need to build a fantastic, profitable writing career over years to come.

Everything works together, so read each week’s lesson carefully, and integrate the new information you receive. Go back over previous lessons too — often a nugget of information will leap out at you, and you can incorporate that into what you’re doing immediately.

Devote ten to 15 minutes a day to studying your SYWON material. It will pay off for you in amazing ways.

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”.

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Learn more — Make money writing | Work from home | Writing jobs — Angela Booth’s Fab Freelance Writing Blog:

"Are you setting limits on your success as a writer? Most writers do; they’re setting their sights too low. They may achieve small success, but never achieve their potential, because they aim too low. Want to free yourself from self-imposed limitations? That’s the theme of next week’s issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine."

 You have all the information you need to become a six-figure writer in Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON); just remember to be aware that only you can limit your income.

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The first reason is that press releases will get you known as a writer. Every release you write will get new clients for you and will remind current and previous clients that you’re still in business. The second reason is that once you become familiar with writing press releases, you can write them for others: it’s another writing service you can provide to your clients.

1. What’s a Press Release?

Essentially a press release is simply a document which is released to the media about something which is newsworthy. Did you know that 75 per cent of all newspaper articles are derived from press releases? New stories are often based on press releases and in some smaller newspapers may be used as news stories completely as written, in their entirety.

2. Topics for Press Releases

Although the terms “news release” and “press release” can be used interchangeably I usually use “news release” because it reminds me that a press release must contain something newsworthy.

Here’s a list of the elements of a news release. Your news releases should contain at least one of the following elements: timeliness, public interest, conflict, tragedy, humor, sex, money, human interest, the future, or animals.

As a writer this gives you a wide field for topics for your news releases. As a marketing tool for your writing, almost anything can provide a topic for a press release.

For example, if you’re adding a new writing service (such as a news release writing service for example) to the services you provide, this is a great topic for a press release.

Winning a new contract, a client’s success, business tips, and expanding your writing business are all great topics for press releases too.

Almost anything can make a topic for a press release.

Get a press release template so you know the format for your releases, and remember that all press releases are written in the third person — “Jenny Smith, a local writer says_______”.

3. Distributing Your Press Release

Your press releases should always be sent to your local media: that is to local newspapers,radio stations, and TV networks.

The web has opened a whole new arena for press releases. Nowadays many press releases are simply written as an online marketing strategy. They’re written to attract a business’s customers, and provide high-quality links, rather than being directed at the media.

Press releases get credibility, publicity and clients for your writing business. If the media pick up on any of your releases you’ll get a story in your local paper. This happens often.

So write a press release today; it’s an easy and powerful way to market your writing services business.

Discover the secrets to marketing your writing services with Angela Booth’s video series and marketing ebook. Give your writing business a marketing boost today – you’ll be thrilled with the results.

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I don’t use Squidoo as much as I should, and that’s only because I don’t have enough time; I always seem to be working on one of my sites, or creating a new product.

One of the debating points in the Squidoo community is: should you have one account, or many?

I’m in the one account camp, chiefly because I don’t have hundreds of lenses. If you do get around 200 or more lenses, I can see where additional accounts would make sense.

Captain Squid, in “When Are Multiple Squidoo Accounts Useful?” says:

…you are seriously diluting a lot of the power you can get from having a unified account.

From the dashboard, lens labels are spectacular for handling different sections of lenses or groups. I have labels for both verticals or themes as well as by aff. network or marketing strategy. Multiple accounts make tracking this stuff a total pain.

I agree. Unless you spend all your time in Squidoo, there’s no point in having more than one account. However, to each his/ her own. It may work for you.

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I’ve got several hundred sites and I know writers who have 1000 sites. This perhaps seems incredible. If you’re a new writer, or you’re not used to Web writing, you’re thinking “why would anybody want that many sites”?

There are a couple of reasons. The first reason is the creating websites is FUN. If you enjoy writing, creating websites gives you an open canvas. You can create a site on any topic at all. You don’t need anybody’s permission, there’s nobody who can reject you, and with any luck at all each and every one of your sites will make money.

How much money?

That depends on the site. Isabel, a writer friend, creates very small sites. Each site has around 10 pages. She’s not looking for a big payday from these small sites, she’s looking for a small amount of money: anywhere from $5-$10 a day from each site. No, that’s not very much money, but on the other hand since she has 200 sites all making five dollars a day, that’s $365,000 a year. This is more money than she could make at a day job, and it’s way more money than she was making writing for magazines.

The point is that there’re no limits to how much money you can make as a writer online when you create websites.

Some writers making thousands of dollars a day. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s very doable for anyone who wants to do it.

YOU could do it, when you understand how the online world works and how the sites you create make money. Approximately 50% of making money by writing websites is knowing how to write, and the other 50% is knowing how to make money from your sites.

One of the major reasons I created Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) was to give writers opportunities to which they were previously blind. In SYWON, we devote several weeks to learning how, when, where and why to create mini sites.

Making money writing mini sites is completely practical. Each and every site you create is an online property, so you can sell a site if you wish.

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Here are four essentials for profitable marketing.

1. The More Marketing You Do, the Better: Everything Is Cumulative

Marketing your writing services business isn’t a “do it once and forget it” thing. It needs to be constant. There’s a reason companies big and small advertise — it’s to get and keep clients.

Once you’ve completed a project for a client, even if the client loves the work you did, there’s no guarantee that he will recall your name six months or two years from now when he’s looking for a writer.

Therefore, you need to market consistently, not only to attract new clients, but also to stay in touch with current and former clients.

I market every day, and so does every other professional writer who’s booked solid. Marketing is a must, and it’s cumulative.

2. Enjoying Marketing: Make It Fun

I hated marketing my writing services for many years, until I realized that if I could market for others, I could do it for myself. The key was ensuring that I only did the kinds of marketing I enjoyed.

You can do this too. Choose one marketing method a month, and do it for the entire month, but make it something that’s fun for you. Blogging and social media marketing are fun for me, so I often choose these forms of marketing. You may prefer advertising or creating press campaigns.

3. The Four Ps of Marketing, Applied to Your Business

When you say “marketing” many writers assume that that means “promotion.” While that’s true, there’s more to marketing than promotion. Use all the basics of the marketing mix, the “4Ps” of Product, Price, Promotion and Place, in your marketing.

That is, think about the products you provide (offer services your buyers need and want), assess your pricing periodically, and target different locations with your products.

4. Be Your Own R&D Department

Large companies have Research and Development (R&D) departments, and you should too. Don’t get stuck in a rut. Study new forms of writing, and develop new writing services you can offer.

When you spend time researching what buyers of your writing need, and then develop services and products to meet those needs, you’ll never run out of marketing opportunities.

Discover the secrets to marketing your writing services with Angela Booth’s video series and marketing ebook. Give your writing business a marketing boost today – you’ll be thrilled with the results.

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But how do you get started?

1. Get Involved in Blogging — Start Your Own Blog

Get started on your new career by creating your own blog. This blog doesn’t need to be a major enterprise: you can just create a small blog on a free blogging site and write several posts.

Your blog is basically an advertisement for your services.

Big tip: don’t blog about yourself. The businesses which hire you want to see what your writing style is like, so your blog’s topic should reflect that. For example, if you want to be hired by business blogs, then write about business topics. If you want to be hired by tech blogs, then write about technology.

2. Get Blog Jobs by Letting People Know They Can Hire You

Next you’ll need to promote Your blog so that people know that you’re available to blog for them. The fastest way to promote your blog is to use advertising. There are many ways in which you can advertise online — including buying ads on websites and blogs, and by using Pay Per Click advertising.

Before you start advertising, ensure that you’ve added a “hire me” page to your blog. This is a vital. People won’t know that you’re a freelance blogger unless you tell them.

Add your contact details to your blog too. Include your cell phone number.

3. Start Small and Get Testimonials

Your aim with your first a few blog jobs is just to get testimonials. The first job you get is always the hardest to get. This is because people don’t know you. As you become well-known, and people hire and give you feedback, you’ll get more blog jobs.

Get started freelance blogging today.

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.

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Your new service will make money because it’s needed.

In a Recession, Businesses Are Looking for Cheaper Advertising

With the economic slow down all over the globe, businesses are looking to trim their advertising budgets. Since they can’t stop advertising completely, they’re looking for cheaper alternatives. Article marketing is a cost-effective solution.

Here’s how to start your article writing service.

1. Visit the Outsourcing Sites to Get Quick Jobs and Testimonials

Your first aim is to get credibility, and this means getting testimonials from people who’ve already hired you, and love the service you provide.

Here’s how to get testimonials when your business is completely new: get some article writing jobs at the outsourcing sites. You can bid low, with the understanding that clients will give you a testimonial if they’re pleased with the quality and customer service you provide.

2. Set up Your Own Web Site

Once you’ve got your testimonials, set up a small Web site. A free service is fine at the start.

Post several sample articles on your new site, as well as some information on who you are, and the article writing service you provide.

3. Offer Article Packages

Consider providing articles in packages, of ten, 20, or even 50. Businesses who are looking for content want more than one or two articles.

You’ll find that initially, your new clients will choose your small packages, until they get to know you, and the quality of your articles.

4. Advertise Your Article Writing Service

Finally, you’ll need to promote your new service until you become known. How will you promote? That’s easy — write articles. As people read your articles, and realize that you’re available to write for them, you’ll get clients.

“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.

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