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Make money with your listing on ContentBee
As a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) member, you receive a free listing on ContentBee.
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.
Web publishing: one Squidoo account or many?
If you’re a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscriber, you know that I recommend that you get comfortable with Squidoo, and use it in your writing campaigns.
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.
Get all the writing jobs you want
I’ve just posted a new article at the Fab Freelance Writing Blog which will help you to get writing jobs.
Here’s an excerpt:
Are you a new freelance writer who’s worrying about the competition? Relax. To all intents and purposes, your only competition is with yourself. You’re unique, and so are your clients: you just need to find the perfect clients for YOU.
Here are four steps to boosting your freelance writing income, and beating your “competition.”
Enjoy.
“3. Develop Your Writing Skills: Spend Time Learning Every Day” is especially applicable to your work with Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) — at the end of your Web writing training, you’ll have great writing skills, and these translate to money.
Setting up your first website
In Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) you discover how to set up websites and monetize them quickly. As a writer, you’ve got endless opportunities for making money online, once you know how to set up websites.
I’m often asked by subscribers: “What kind of site should I set up first?”
I always advise them to set up their “name” site first. Your name site is the site which has your own name as the domain. For example, my name site is angelabooth.com.
Once you’ve set up your name site, you can set up other sites to make money.
Many of my sites, especially many writing-niche sites (like this site), tend to have lots of content. I also have lots of review sites, in many niches.
Here’s what “Choosing A Topic For A Website” says about review sites:
Review Sites – Review sites are great because all you have to do is review different products and/or services. You can review anything and still make money. You could review cell phones, credit cards, insurance companies, digital cameras, baby products, home and/or garden products, office supplies, books, movies, bedding, clothes, food, or virtually anything else that someone would have an opinion on.
Review sites have many benefits:
* They’re small — usually from three to six pages;
* Because they’re small, they’re fast to set up (think minutes, rather than days)
* They can be highly profitable.
So, get started — set up your first site, and then set up another one. Every site you create is another way for you to boost your income. Enjoy the process: I love creating sites, and once you get into the swing of it, you will too.
Web sites: if you can write, you can create Web sites
A site I set up on Weebly in about ten minutes
Runners Yoga, a site I set up on Weebly in about ten minutes for the first page.
One of the most common questions I’m asked by new Web writers before they join Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) is: “Do I really have to create my own Web sites?”
Here’s the short answer: no, you don’t. You can always hire it done. Just go to getafreelancer.com or another out-sourcing forum, and someone will do it for you for less than $50.
However, you just might want to do it yourself, because there are many free services online that let you create a website in minutes.
For example:
* Squidoo.com
* Blogger.com
* Weebly.com
Weebly has become my own personal favorite: I’ve just paid for a Pro account so I can have more sites (you get two sites in the free version.)
(Basically, I intend to use Weebly to set up sites fast. Weebly sites are incredibly easy and fast to set up. Once I get them making some money, I’ll sell them.)
If you’re just starting to make money writing online, free Weebly is all you need for the first few months — you can set up your online portfolio, can create a blog and in general just get yourself set to really make great money writing.
Discover how to set up your own sites, and make money writing with SYWON.
Web writing: fail your way to success
No one likes to talk about failure. Writers are especially failure-shy. I understand. I’ve been there. In the 1980s, when I started to write for magazines, I’d burst into tears whenever I completed an article query and stuck it in an envelope.
I wish I’d learned sooner that your failures don’t count. What counts is your successes. Any successful writing career is built on your failures: you fail your way to success.
I love this comment in Court’s article "5 Places You Can Look For New Keywords":
Before we get started I should probably make something very clear – I have had tons of sites that didn’t work out very well. I have always been willing to fall on my face. The honest truth guys is that you have to be willing to fail a few dozen times. You’ll find some winners, gain some experience, and you’ll also find some losers. The losers still have value because they can make some money and they can still be used to build some links. In that light, there is no such thing as a ‘loser’.
The article resonates with me because it’s happened to me too — I’ve started way too many writing blogs, for example. BUT… all my writing blogs are still online, and they get traffic and make money. Failures? Not really, not unless I’m suffering from a bad case of the "shoulds" and am being really hard on myself.
If you’re scared of failing, relax. It’s a writer’s disease. Sooner or later, you’ll be eager to fail, because you realize the more times you "fail" the more times you succeed.
The only real way to fail is to let the idea of failure paralyze you.
Here’s how I got over being scared of rejections and failing in any project: I made up my mind that I would only write what was FUN for me. If I was having fun, and the writing was its own reward, I could become cavalier about failures. So what? It’s the end result that counts, not how you get there.
Fail on!
Selling writing products: sell Squidoo lenses
In Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON), you discover not only how and what to write, but how to sell what you write too.
In early lessons, you learn how to build Squidoo lenses, and as with everything else you learn in SYWON, you can put your new skill to work to make money.
Why not create some “for sale” lenses, as others do?
Create lenses and sell them
I’ve been paying more attention to my Squidoo lenses lately because they’re a great source of backlinks and therefore traffic to my other Web sites and blogs.
I don’t sell lenses, but if I were looking for an additional income stream, I certainly would do. A lens with six or seven modules takes me around half an hour to create, and since lenses sell anywhere from $40 to $200, it’s worth doing.
Enter “buy Squidoo lens” into Google, and you’ll find others who are crafting and selling lenses, which shows that there’s a demand. Many people would like to use Squidoo and fit lenses into their overall marketing, but they don’t want to take the time to build lenses from scratch. This is where you come in.
Transfer a Squidoo lens
Once you’ve sold the lens, you click a button, as above, and transfer the lens to the new owner. Very easy and simple.
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