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Free Images to Bolster Your Blog
Blogging, Making Money A few weeks ago, I blogged about a survey from MarketingSherpa that showed that adding certain things to an ad increases user responsiveness. At the time, I was focused on video; specifically how bloggers can use it to better engage their reader and even increase conversions if they happen to be an affiliate blogger. But video wasn’t the only item on MarketingSherpa’s list. In fact, the top item was images. Images are a great way to ...
Continue readingFreelance Writing Rates: How to Stick to Your Pricing Guns
Making Money One of the things I love about being a freelance writer and blogger is that I get to set my own rates. This means I can be flexible with clients if I want without having to consult with anyone. But, as with most freedoms, this is a double-edged sword. Sometimes it can hurt you. Following is a scenario I had with a long-time client, and how I managed to stick to my pricing guns. Freelance Writing Rates: The Client Who Challenges You I’ve been ...
Continue readingDo You Have the Balls to Be a Freelance Writer or Blogger?
Making Money I’ve been freelancing for so long that maybe I’m a little jaded. About once a week, I’ll receive an email from a wannabe freelance writer in essence saying they’re scared to start; scared to “pull the trigger” as Christine from SelfMadeChick.com says. My response is, “Scared of what?” Scared it might not work out? Scared you won’t be able to pay your bills? Scared you’re not talented enough? Scared clients won’t like your ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers & Bloggers: How to Bill and Get Paid Quickly
Making Money As a freelance writer and blogger, I have all types of clients. Some are individual website owners; others are internet marketing firms and I have a few that are mid- to large corporations. My favorite clients are small business owners (online entrepreneurs, individual website owners, independent graphic design firms, etc.). Why? Because they are the decisionmakers. There’s nothing like having to go through a bunch of red tape to hold up your ...
Continue readingTechnorati Launch Technorati Engage
Making Money I was reading ProBlogger today and was pleased to see that Technorati has launched it’s own ad network. The ad network is called Technorati Engage. It’s currently in a beta stage however sign ups are not being restricted and publishers and advertisers can sign up today. Not surprisingly, Technorati has used it’s influence to sign up some large blogs already including I Can Has Cheezburger, LifeHack and The Inquisitr. As a ...
Continue readingA Unique, Free Marketing Tool for Freelance Writers and Bloggers
Making Money In yesterday’s post here, I talked about an industry report I wrote that helped to increase traffic to my website and blog. Today, I want to piggyback on that topic, but take it in a bit of a different direction. How Special Reports Can Help You to Land More Freelance Writing Jobs As regular readers of my posts know, I’m an SEO writer. I mention this because SEO is still very new to a lot of small to mid-size business owners. This ...
Continue readingBlogging Jobs: How to Turn One Customer into a Repeat Client
Making Money In any business, repeat sales are the name of the game. When you have repeat sales, you don’t have to work as hard to make money. If you apply for blogging jobs, when you land one client, following are some steps to turn them into a repeat client. ATTN Bloggers and Freelance Writers: 3 Ways to Gain Long-term Clients Create Backend Sales: The first thing you have to do is have more than one product offering. How does this apply to freelance ...
Continue readingBe A Magpie : Make Money Through Twitter
Making Money First we had TwittAd and now we also have Be A Magpie, the latest service which aims to help Twitter users make money. Whereas TwittAd allowed advertisers to add a background to your Twitter account, Be A Magpie actually sends out advertisements as Tweets. The default is 5 regular tweets and then one advertisement but you can choose to have 20 tweets to 1 advertisement. If you are going to use the service I would encourage you to use that as it ...
Continue readingMake Money By Recommending A Great Product To Your Readers
Making Money I read an interview with Al Carlton today in the book Blog Blazers, a fantastic book in which Stephane Grenier interviewed 40 high profile bloggers. Al Carlton is the owner of Coolest Gadgets, a gadget blog with over 65,000 RSS subscribers. When asked about his most successful blog post, Al mentioned his post about a Really Cool Portable GPS Tracker. Posted 2 years ago, this post only took 15 minutes to write and has since been viewed over ...
Continue readingTLA InLinks Officially Launched
Making Money MediaWhiz, owners of the text link marketplace Text Link Ads, have just launched InLinks. The InLinks option was first added to TLA last year and started getting promoted heavily on Text Link Ads 2 months ago. They have now went mainstream with it and have launched InLinks properly, and have got a lot of attention by doing so. I did a quick review of InLinks in September so regular readers should have a good idea of how the InLinks system works. ...
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