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New PayPal Scams: How to Keep the Money You’ve Earned Safe
Internet News With the worsening economy, there are a lot of aggressive scammers out there. Following are two to be aware of, with concrete suggestions on how to keep your money safe online -- 100% of the time.
Continue readingFreelance Writers: How to Immediately Make More Money
Blogging A long-time client asked me to call him this week to talk about social media marketing. It’s a service I offer that he’s interested in, but doesn’t know very much about. It was one of those, “I know I need to be doing this, but what’s it all about and how can it benefit my business” conversations. So, I called. I realized very early on in the conversation that what he really wanted was to simply outsource his social media ...
Continue readingHow to Use Traditional Media Tactics to Make Your Blog Stand Out, Get More Traffic and Increase Sales
Promote your blog I read an interesting article this morning entitled Bloggers Erase Lines Between Traditional and New Media. The gist of it was two bloggers who had repeatedly been denied press passes by the NYPD (the police department is in charge of handing out press passes) finally obtained them. This got me to thinking, what really makes an authority blog – ie, one people go to first for their information on a particular subject. As there are hundreds of ...
Continue readingATTN Writers & Bloggers: 3 More Reasons to Start Freelancing – Now!
Making Money In yesterday’s post here entitled Freelance Writers: How to Make Money from the Competition, I talked about why freelance writers (bloggers too), should embrace competition. Well, last night as I was getting ready for bed, my head was spinning with more reasons you shouldn’t worry about the market being too competitive if you’re a freelance writer or blogger. So, following are three more reasons to dive on in. 1. 100,000 New Prospects a ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: How to Make Money from the Competition
Blogging I received the following question from a buyer of my ebook on SEO copywriting. He wrote: I have read the ebook and am planning on starting my marketing outreach, per your recommendations in the ebook, this week. . . . The only question I have is this: with the sale of your ebook, do you legitimately think there won’t be any over saturation? Following are three reasons you want competition as a freelance writer and how they can make you more ...
Continue readingHow I Lost $26,000-$39,000 in Online Income Last Year
Making Money My New Years blogging resolution is to make more money online. Simple concept? Sure. Easy? Not so much. But, one simple thing I’m changing in my quest to make more money online this year is time management. With all that I do (writing and promoting my own ebooks, blogging, updating several websites, running an SEO writing and internet marketing firm, affiliate marketing (a new income stream)), time is more important than money to me, in many ...
Continue reading10 Blogging Tips for 2009 to Make It Your Most Successful Blogging Year Ever
Blogging With all the new internet marketing methods available, blogging has become a little bit “old hat” in the eyes of many. I mean, it’s not sexy like Facebook; it’s not as easy as Twitter and it certainly is not as glamorous as having a MySpace page. In spite of all of this, blogging remains one of the most effective ways to brand your business online. So for this last day of 2008, I’m going to get back to basics, so to speak. Following ...
Continue readingBlogging Jobs: 3 Ways to Land More Blogging Gigs in 2009
Making Money With the New Year upon us, many who want to make money online will turn those wants into a reality. The beginning of the year is a perfect time to start marketing for blogging jobs. Following are three tips on how to make this an attractive service for potential clients. 1. Offer Blog Packs: Selling your posts in packs will make them a much more attractive option. This is advantageous for you and potential clients. Why Selling Blog Posts in ...
Continue readingThe #1 Dark Secret Many Online Entrepreneurs Have
Personal One of the things that I find the hardest about my career as an online entrepreneur is motivation. I think it’s because many assume that if you’re an online entrepreneur, you’re automatically motivated. Well, to be honest – I’m not — at least half the time. This is a huge chunk when you consider that I make my living completely online (I’m a freelance writer). Before I go on let me say, I was a little hesitant to write this ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: How to Gear Up for Work in 2009 (Part III)
Writing This is the last part of the series. Now that you’ve chosen your target market and selected a list of services, as discussed in Parts I and II of preparing for more freelance writing jobs in 2009, it’s time to set your rates. How to Set Your Freelance Writing Rates to Make a Real Living There are probably as many ways to set freelance writing rates as there are freelance writers, so I’m going to simply share with you how I do it, for it is ...
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