By Franck Silvestre
If you wrote and submitted more than ten articles, then you have what it takes to write a short ebook on your topic and offer it to your list. All you need to do is to download the free open office suite and write in their word processor tool called writer.
With open office, you can create your own pdf for free.
Then, you need to quickly create an outline for your articles and this shouldn’t take you more than thirty minutes. It’s good to work with a timer to boost your productivity and avoid procrastination.
Here is how to do it step by step. Do not over complicate the process. (more…)
I started my writing career on freelance with sites like www.getafreelancer.com. If eBay was the site people went to for cheap stuff, then www.getafreelancer.com is the site people went to for cheap services. That’s how started my career as a freelance writer….producing really cheap writing materials. There was one time I wrote 100-word articles for about less than $1 a pop! No seriously. But the competition on the freelance writing world is tough…being that there are a lot of adequate writers in this world with a little bit of talent, who can whip out a decent article with a decent number of words, laced with keywords (splattered is more the word) in this world. Particularly countries like India where there are, admittedly, more talents than others….really cheap ones.
I’ve long abandoned my account with Getafreelancer because I started to have a client base and I focused more on quality these days. But I got curious, one day, and I went back in and took a look at the kind of projects that were being posted in there. And once again, I was sucked into a black hole….a vortex of cheap writing. It’s a wet market of cheap services….still. You can see it from the way people are focused on speed and cost.
For example;
“I need 50 articles with 500 words with keywords. More work to come. If good, will assign more projects regularly. Budget is $1 each article”
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Article marketing is without a doubt one of the most effective ways to advertise on the Internet. If you don’t know what is article marketing, you really want to get started today because of the numerous advantages of this traffic generation method.
Why is writing articles so critical for your online business? Why is it important that people read your articles even before they see your products?
1. The first concept you are going to discover is that content is king on the Internet. The more articles you can write, the more money you will make. It’s a simple formula. I will go even further and say that you should put an important part of your advertising budget into content instead of simple ads.
Why? Because your content will be “sticky” on the Internet for years to come while your ads are only short lived.
2. Another important aspect of article marketing to consider is that your website will get better search engines. How is this possible? (more…)
If you think it’s easy to get a visitor to search for your website, find it, read it (meticulously) and bookmark it, well - you’re deluded. The majority of web hits these days (they don’t call it visits anymore) occur through search engine crawlers - leaving alone the ones that are referred from somewhere else (usually costs money) or if your friends and family trying their best to promote you through chain mail. The question is - how do you get the attention of the search engines?
Of the several methods purported to work well in garnering web crawler attention, putting up small, snappy articles crafted specifically for the search engines using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques is the most cost-effective and intuitively simple way to do so. Needless to say, your website must convey the impression to the reader that they are actually getting something they need or enjoy out of their time visiting you (an important principle for first dates too)!
SEO “crawlers” can be a website’s best friend, or worst enemy. If your business site contains irrelevant content or hard to digest information, then no matter how well you have optimized your key words for the search engines, your page ranking will drop faster than it rises. After all, its humans who read it, not machines. SEO must go had in hand with good, well-structured content. If you do not write well it is essential that you learn to do so or hire someone to write for you. When the crawler comes across the keywords in the content, and brings up your site, the content on that particular page must be related to the keywords you have filled it with. (more…)
In order to succeed, business owners realize that they have to promote their business. Often times, they need to find creative ways to accomplish this. One way that is being used more and more is blogging. It is a wonderful way to get the word out about your business without spending thousands of dollars on advertising. One of the first things that you should do before you start to blog is determine who is going to be your target audience.
The next thing to remember is that there are certain guidelines that you should follow to be sure you target the audience that your business needs.
Be as clear as possible
What you include in your blog is critical to your business. Be as clear and concise as possible. Do not clutter it with useless facts or blurbs; it will only take away form the subject. You want your readers to focus on the products and services that you provide, not on anything else. (more…)
by Bjorn Brands
There are 4 ways to establish trust with good customer service. If customers know they can trust your sales process, you’ll get more sales.
This is what you need to do:
· Offer free services such as trial periods, free downloads or free lessons. · Have a fair return policy. Make buying your product as risk-free as possible. · Allow customers easy ways to get their questions answered. · Keep customers in the loop. Confirm orders, emails and everything else.
Some of these steps will be covered in extensive detail in other tactics. Here we’ll just cover the basics. (more…)
by Bruce A. Tucker
Google has become the gold standard by which an Internet surfer searches for something on the world wide web. By entering in a few words into their search box, you instantaneously are shown thousands if not hundred of thousands of results for the words entered.
If you have ever wondered how they can return those results so quickly, the answer is very simply the Google algorithm. It is this algorithm in which Google uses to index every webpage on the Internet. This indexing then ranks the pages based on importance on a scale of 0 to 10, with one being the lowest and ten of course being the highest.
This importance is tracked by the number of of other web pages that link back to it. The algorithm goes into more depth than that, but basically that is how it works. Your goal to build up your website or blog should be to increase its rank. (more…)
by Marsha Maung
Look a writer in the eye and ask them if they have ever succeeded in coming up with the perfect piece of writing first off without needing to revise or edit the article…and watch them cringe! Now, if you know an AUTHOR who is established and ask them how much they appreciate their proofreader and editor and watch them gush! That’s how tedious it is to write a nice piece of article or book and how repetitive the chore can become. I sometimes regard writing with a little bit of distaste.
Oh, hang on a minute. Technically, I don’t REALLY hate writing all that much. I still believe I was born to write….because I don’t remember when it was I started writing stuff….on used receipts, on toilet papers, on the table, on artblocks, on those small tiny notebooks. I think my ‘stories’ were amusing to my parents…which probably explains why they found my blocks of scribblings on the back of the refrigerator ‘forgiveable’. BUT here’s the thing, what I hate is not the ‘writing’ itself because I sit down and bang on the keyboard as words, ideas and the story unwinds inside my head and heart. I just keep banging on the keys until either one of my kids scream or when the idea-train stops chugging. That’s the easy part.