Freelance writing opportunities are on a rapid rise these days and one may think that is a crazy statement since newspapers and magazines are going out of business in record numbers.
The reason I say that freelance writing opportunities are on the rise is due to the sheer amoutn of content on the internet.
Think about the billions of websites and blogs online that require a constant feed of written content to keep visitors coming on a daily basis. This actually presents more opportunities in freelance writing than were ever available in the off line print world.
The key is finding legitimate opportunities that require writing work from freelance writers. There is actually more work out there than most people realize and the reason you cannot find it is because you have to weed through the maze of scams and junk.
Many online business owners and even bloggers these days rely on the skills of freelance writers to provide a daily stream of content to their sites and blogs.
The reason for this of course is because we have become and "instant society". The second a news story breaks or anything happens anywhere we want to know right now.
We also turn to the internet for information about a wide range of things we are interested in or want to learn.
Writers have to create all this content. Now maybe you can start to see there are an incredible amount of opportunities for freelance writing and beyond writing for others you can use your skill or passion for writing to make money in tons of other ways.
A great way to start taking advantage of freelance writing opportunities is to find a group of online business owners or site designers that simply do not have the time or skill to write their site content.
You can simply perform the topic research and craft article content for those business owners on a pay per submission basis. This approach alone could keep a writer busy on a full time basis while earning a very nice income.
Blogging about any topics you desire and adding in some paid advertisments can bring in a nice part time income and even grow into a six figure business as has been the case for many who started out freelance writing.
You have to be careful because there are a ton of "online informercial" type programs that target those who are looking to get paid as writers with opportunities that are not so great.
Either they pay pennies and you will literally have to write 10-12 hours a day to equal even a low paying hourly wage or they are simply a waste of time.
Just remember there is an entire world of website and blogs out there. Someone has to provide the content that visitors come to read. This means an incredible amount fo real and legitimate freelance writing oppotunities for skilled writers as well as those who simply have a passion for writing.
It can be a awesome way to make a living.
About the Author:
Steve Phipps is an online business man that got his start as an online freelance writer. He has put together a nice video site and free newsletter for anyone interested in real legitimate freelance writing opportunities. You can visit his site at: http://www.authorsnook.com
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
The Easy Way to Promote a Product by Writing Articles
Writing articles is a skill that everybody can learn. Article marketing is a skill that everybody can learn. Put the two together and you have a powerful tool to promote a product.
Your objectives in online marketing are promoting your website and selling your products. By 'website' I mean any web presence: a regular website, your Facebook page profile, your Squidoo lens, your YouTube video, your Blog, and any other way in which you use the internet to make money.
You Must Connect!
Without promotion you will be failing to connect with most of your potential customers. Even with promotion, you will fail to connect with most of them, but you will do better than if you do not.
Writing articles on a topic that interests people who might be interested in your product is sure-fire way of getting your products in front of your prospects. Who are your prospects? People who are interested in your niche or the topic of your article enough to buy your product.
Marketing is easy in theory, and involves these steps:
1. Find a product to market - yours or somebody else's on commission.
2. Bring the product to the attention of interested people
3. Persuade them to buy.
So where does writing articles fit in to this simplified process? At stages 2 and 3!
Catch their Eye!
The title of your article must catch your prospective customer's eye. It must interest them - perhaps offer the promise to solve a problem they have, offer to make them money or save them time, or offer some new information on the subject. Anything to start them reading!
Keep them Interested
Then you have to interest them. Don't lose them after the first couple of sentences. Expand on the title: if your title is 'How to Breed Championship-Winning Dogs', don't begin with a sentence or two on dog food. It might be relevant to the breeding process, but it will seem like an advert, and the reader will stop reading.
Expand on the title: "By using a new technique it easier now to breed championship-winning dogs than it ever has been". I know nothing about breeding dogs, but that would work better than "The food you feed your dog is important. . ."
Once you have them reading, then you can propose the main problem and present your solution, full details of which can be found by clicking on the link in your resource. You can't say that of course, but you can infer it in the final summing up paragraph of your article, and leave the reader with nothing more to do than either leave the page or click on the link.
Persuasion is Key
The third action - persuading them to buy - is done on your website, once they have made that all-important click. So the simplified marketing process above can work if you know how to write articles properly, by baiting the hook with a good title, retaining interest with your first couple of sentences and then offering no option at the end but to click to your website to find out more information.
As I wrote in the first sentence, 'writing articles is a skill', but one that can be taught, so if you want to learn how to market a product the easy way, you should learn how to write articles and how to use article marketing the way the professionals do.
You will find marketing your product a lot easier by doing so.
About the Author:
Pete is a professional article ghost writer. For a free course on how to write articles, visit http://www.articleczar.com/gift.html where Pete will give you a free gift just for looking. Visit his website at http://www.article-services.com
Keyword tags: Writing articles, article marketing, article writing, online marketing, promote a product, how to wr
Your objectives in online marketing are promoting your website and selling your products. By 'website' I mean any web presence: a regular website, your Facebook page profile, your Squidoo lens, your YouTube video, your Blog, and any other way in which you use the internet to make money.
You Must Connect!
Without promotion you will be failing to connect with most of your potential customers. Even with promotion, you will fail to connect with most of them, but you will do better than if you do not.
Writing articles on a topic that interests people who might be interested in your product is sure-fire way of getting your products in front of your prospects. Who are your prospects? People who are interested in your niche or the topic of your article enough to buy your product.
Marketing is easy in theory, and involves these steps:
1. Find a product to market - yours or somebody else's on commission.
2. Bring the product to the attention of interested people
3. Persuade them to buy.
So where does writing articles fit in to this simplified process? At stages 2 and 3!
Catch their Eye!
The title of your article must catch your prospective customer's eye. It must interest them - perhaps offer the promise to solve a problem they have, offer to make them money or save them time, or offer some new information on the subject. Anything to start them reading!
Keep them Interested
Then you have to interest them. Don't lose them after the first couple of sentences. Expand on the title: if your title is 'How to Breed Championship-Winning Dogs', don't begin with a sentence or two on dog food. It might be relevant to the breeding process, but it will seem like an advert, and the reader will stop reading.
Expand on the title: "By using a new technique it easier now to breed championship-winning dogs than it ever has been". I know nothing about breeding dogs, but that would work better than "The food you feed your dog is important. . ."
Once you have them reading, then you can propose the main problem and present your solution, full details of which can be found by clicking on the link in your resource. You can't say that of course, but you can infer it in the final summing up paragraph of your article, and leave the reader with nothing more to do than either leave the page or click on the link.
Persuasion is Key
The third action - persuading them to buy - is done on your website, once they have made that all-important click. So the simplified marketing process above can work if you know how to write articles properly, by baiting the hook with a good title, retaining interest with your first couple of sentences and then offering no option at the end but to click to your website to find out more information.
As I wrote in the first sentence, 'writing articles is a skill', but one that can be taught, so if you want to learn how to market a product the easy way, you should learn how to write articles and how to use article marketing the way the professionals do.
You will find marketing your product a lot easier by doing so.
About the Author:
Pete is a professional article ghost writer. For a free course on how to write articles, visit http://www.articleczar.com/gift.html where Pete will give you a free gift just for looking. Visit his website at http://www.article-services.com
Keyword tags: Writing articles, article marketing, article writing, online marketing, promote a product, how to wr
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Make Money by Writing Articles and Generating Traffic With Article Marketing
Generating traffic by writing articles might seem a good way of using article marketing to your advantage, but it takes just a little knowledge and a smattering of ability to do it properly. By properly, I mean by actually getting traffic through article writing and using the articles wisely.
Most people believe writing articles to be easy - and reading many of those currently accepted by article directories, I am beginning to agree with them. The standard accepted these days is very poor, and perhaps some directories should review their acceptance criteria. However, that is another subject.
You can make money by writing articles if you know how to write them properly, and know how to use them to generate traffic. Article marketing is one of the big three internet marketing promotional techniques, the others being search engine marketing and list building. It can also be argued that article marketing forms an element of both these other two, and can also be used to build lists and get your website promoted online. Here is why.
1. Your article can be listed on Google and other search engines. Once accepted by an article directory, your article will be published on its own web page, with that page optimized for your keywords, particularly your main keyword that will be included in your title and in the first few words of your article. It is then liable to be spidered just like any other web page, and listed in the search engine index for your keyword.
2. When writing articles, you should include a link to your website in the 'author's resource' section. Why not make that a link to a squeeze page, designed to collect the name and address of readers? You could offer something free in exchange for the details, such as a free course or even a free report or eBook. That's a great way of building a list, and every article you write could lead first to your squeeze page, and after that, another page offering content useful to the reader.
In doing that, you are using article marketing in its own right, and also as a means of search engine marketing and list building. It helps f you know how to write articles in such a way as keep your readers interested, mainly by offering them useful, free information. If you can tell them something about their niche that they didn't know, then will respect you and perhaps want to read more of your work.
If you persuade your readers that you can help them make money, then they will continue to read. I sure would. It is beyond the scope of this article to teach you how to write articles, but I can give you some tips on how to make best of use of the articles that you do write.
Many people are under the impression that one article should be submitted to only one directory, and I am frequently asked what directory that should be. By many, I mean around 10 such questions each month. That is 10 too many that do not understand article marketing, or understand what Google mean by their 'duplicate content penalty'.
You can submit each article to 100 directories: personally, I do so to over 400 directories and ezines, and I do so over a period of 2 - 4 weeks. Not all at once. I will get a gradual increase in traffic over that period, and my websites improve in their listing positions. If I then left that for about two or three months, everything would slow down again, because the duplicate content penalty would be kicking in, and the publications on the lesser ezines and directories would begin to be dropped off by Google.
However, by doing that every week: by writing an article every week, and submitting to over 400 publications over a period of around 4 weeks, not only is there no net slow-down, but everything accelerates: the traffic, the listing positions and the income.
So, you can make money by writing articles, and generating traffic using article marketing is not pie-in-the-sky. Not if you do it right and understand exactly how Google looks on your article submissions, the time periods over which they are made, and after how long they invoke the so-called 'duplicate content penalty', which is not really a penalty at all.
About the Author:
If you are interested in a free article marketing course that shows you how to make money writing articles and using them properly, then visit http://www.articleczar.com/gift.html where you will also finds other free gifts available for you. http://www.article-services.com is useful if you want your article professionally written.
Keyword tags: Article marketing,writing articles,write articles,generating traffic,make money,how to write article
Most people believe writing articles to be easy - and reading many of those currently accepted by article directories, I am beginning to agree with them. The standard accepted these days is very poor, and perhaps some directories should review their acceptance criteria. However, that is another subject.
You can make money by writing articles if you know how to write them properly, and know how to use them to generate traffic. Article marketing is one of the big three internet marketing promotional techniques, the others being search engine marketing and list building. It can also be argued that article marketing forms an element of both these other two, and can also be used to build lists and get your website promoted online. Here is why.
1. Your article can be listed on Google and other search engines. Once accepted by an article directory, your article will be published on its own web page, with that page optimized for your keywords, particularly your main keyword that will be included in your title and in the first few words of your article. It is then liable to be spidered just like any other web page, and listed in the search engine index for your keyword.
2. When writing articles, you should include a link to your website in the 'author's resource' section. Why not make that a link to a squeeze page, designed to collect the name and address of readers? You could offer something free in exchange for the details, such as a free course or even a free report or eBook. That's a great way of building a list, and every article you write could lead first to your squeeze page, and after that, another page offering content useful to the reader.
In doing that, you are using article marketing in its own right, and also as a means of search engine marketing and list building. It helps f you know how to write articles in such a way as keep your readers interested, mainly by offering them useful, free information. If you can tell them something about their niche that they didn't know, then will respect you and perhaps want to read more of your work.
If you persuade your readers that you can help them make money, then they will continue to read. I sure would. It is beyond the scope of this article to teach you how to write articles, but I can give you some tips on how to make best of use of the articles that you do write.
Many people are under the impression that one article should be submitted to only one directory, and I am frequently asked what directory that should be. By many, I mean around 10 such questions each month. That is 10 too many that do not understand article marketing, or understand what Google mean by their 'duplicate content penalty'.
You can submit each article to 100 directories: personally, I do so to over 400 directories and ezines, and I do so over a period of 2 - 4 weeks. Not all at once. I will get a gradual increase in traffic over that period, and my websites improve in their listing positions. If I then left that for about two or three months, everything would slow down again, because the duplicate content penalty would be kicking in, and the publications on the lesser ezines and directories would begin to be dropped off by Google.
However, by doing that every week: by writing an article every week, and submitting to over 400 publications over a period of around 4 weeks, not only is there no net slow-down, but everything accelerates: the traffic, the listing positions and the income.
So, you can make money by writing articles, and generating traffic using article marketing is not pie-in-the-sky. Not if you do it right and understand exactly how Google looks on your article submissions, the time periods over which they are made, and after how long they invoke the so-called 'duplicate content penalty', which is not really a penalty at all.
About the Author:
If you are interested in a free article marketing course that shows you how to make money writing articles and using them properly, then visit http://www.articleczar.com/gift.html where you will also finds other free gifts available for you. http://www.article-services.com is useful if you want your article professionally written.
Keyword tags: Article marketing,writing articles,write articles,generating traffic,make money,how to write article
Monday, May 11, 2009
Making Money With Blog – Why Blog For Money?
Writing blogs has become insanely popular with the passage of time. From simple construction workers to political figures from across the globe, anyone and everyone can express their opinions and be heard for what they have to say.
However, one of the most attractive reasons to keep and maintain a blog is to make money from blogging: advertising, merchandising, affiliating, or even premium subscriptions and donations will help bring some clink to your pocket. Yet there are some good reasons to blog for money even if you have a decent day job supplementing your needs:
More Money to Spend - A little more money is always a good thing to have, and would probably be the primary motivator to blog for money, especially with the financial disaster currently enveloping the world.
Having as many sources of income as possible is also essential in today's stormy financial conditions. Employees are getting laid off left and right, businesses are folding up faster than paper planes, and once-untouchable financial conglomerates are reeling from the crisis. Blogging for money would help alleviate the initial sting, and can tide you through the crisis.
Making Money from Your Experience - When you have just experienced something mind boggling and interesting from work, family or personal revelations, it can be tapped for content on your blog.
When you have got something good, exciting or weird to share to the general public, you can upload it on your blog to make some money off your experiences. You just need to be creative in presenting it, and you can make money by sharing what is going on around you and at the same time gaining some insight from the experiences as well.
Stimulating Creative Thinking - Speaking of creativity, the simple experience of writing up a blog can bring you money in other less obvious ways. One of the most important is the stimulation of creative thinking, which is essential in today's fast-paced world.
When you write up a blog, you dig deep into your pool of creative ability to come up with the words and content to broadcast your thoughts and opinions over the 'net. This process stimulates creative thinking, and helps make you think faster, better and more creative in other areas of your life: work skills, social skills and entrepreneurial skills are just some areas that can greatly benefit from creative thinking.
Therapy that Pays for Itself - While the money that it brings is reward enough, blogging is also therapeutic in nature. The perks you get from it are akin to going to a therapist; except this therapist pays for your bills instead of making them.
Sharing your thoughts and ideas, and squeezing your creative juices helps results in lower risk for heart disease, better problem coping skills, improved stress management and an over-all sense of well being. It is definitely something to help make your life better and more satisfying.
From adding a little clink to your pocket to free reflection and insight therapy, blogging for money has a lot of perks attached to it. That is why it is so lucrative and fun to make, and will continue to do so for a long time to come.
About the Author:
And now I would like to invite you to learn about 3 Mistakes That Kill You Blogging To Make Money Efforts and how you can avoid them: http://www.howtospoter.com/
Keyword tags: blog make money, blogging, blogging to make money, how to make money blog, making money with blog
However, one of the most attractive reasons to keep and maintain a blog is to make money from blogging: advertising, merchandising, affiliating, or even premium subscriptions and donations will help bring some clink to your pocket. Yet there are some good reasons to blog for money even if you have a decent day job supplementing your needs:
More Money to Spend - A little more money is always a good thing to have, and would probably be the primary motivator to blog for money, especially with the financial disaster currently enveloping the world.
Having as many sources of income as possible is also essential in today's stormy financial conditions. Employees are getting laid off left and right, businesses are folding up faster than paper planes, and once-untouchable financial conglomerates are reeling from the crisis. Blogging for money would help alleviate the initial sting, and can tide you through the crisis.
Making Money from Your Experience - When you have just experienced something mind boggling and interesting from work, family or personal revelations, it can be tapped for content on your blog.
When you have got something good, exciting or weird to share to the general public, you can upload it on your blog to make some money off your experiences. You just need to be creative in presenting it, and you can make money by sharing what is going on around you and at the same time gaining some insight from the experiences as well.
Stimulating Creative Thinking - Speaking of creativity, the simple experience of writing up a blog can bring you money in other less obvious ways. One of the most important is the stimulation of creative thinking, which is essential in today's fast-paced world.
When you write up a blog, you dig deep into your pool of creative ability to come up with the words and content to broadcast your thoughts and opinions over the 'net. This process stimulates creative thinking, and helps make you think faster, better and more creative in other areas of your life: work skills, social skills and entrepreneurial skills are just some areas that can greatly benefit from creative thinking.
Therapy that Pays for Itself - While the money that it brings is reward enough, blogging is also therapeutic in nature. The perks you get from it are akin to going to a therapist; except this therapist pays for your bills instead of making them.
Sharing your thoughts and ideas, and squeezing your creative juices helps results in lower risk for heart disease, better problem coping skills, improved stress management and an over-all sense of well being. It is definitely something to help make your life better and more satisfying.
From adding a little clink to your pocket to free reflection and insight therapy, blogging for money has a lot of perks attached to it. That is why it is so lucrative and fun to make, and will continue to do so for a long time to come.
About the Author:
And now I would like to invite you to learn about 3 Mistakes That Kill You Blogging To Make Money Efforts and how you can avoid them: http://www.howtospoter.com/
Keyword tags: blog make money, blogging, blogging to make money, how to make money blog, making money with blog
Monday, May 4, 2009
Tips In Writing A Eulogy For A Friend
You want to express how fortunate you are for having him. His body may not be able to hear all your thoughts about the things that drew you closer to him but his spirit will. And nothing can best express the feelings, love, respect and grief over the loss of a good friend but only through a superbly written eulogy.
In writing a eulogy for a friend especially if it is mean for a younger generation, generally you start off by introducing yourself and how you came to know the deceased. If there are funny instances that you have shared with that friend, you limit your narration of it to those only which would be appropriate to the occasion. This means if you have to tell a story about your friend, make sure that it remains wholesome so as not to offend the members of the family present. There is a practical purpose why it is advised that you start off in a jovial story. This is because to enable you to keep your composure and to gradually boost your confidence in public speaking.
Members of the family listening would also like to hear how their son and daughter as a friend. Hence, it is only proper at this point that you describe the departed in how he dealt with things when you were together, the things that you admired most of him, the things that make him unique with others. You can also state the problems and success you shared together. If there are things that he told you which the other people should know, include that in a eulogy.
There are several ways in how people deliver their eulogy. It maybe expressed in the form of poetry, narration, dance, song or a combination of those things. In making your choice, you must bear in mind the venue of the place and of course, the time allotted to each speakers. Usually, if you are a friend of the deceased, you maybe given a shorter time to speak or nobody expects you to speak lengthily. Hence, it is not necessary to prepare a long eulogy for a friend. Focus on the times you shared with him and leave those parts that although you know, or taken part with him and his family, to the family members to prevent redundancy.
Stating the life lessons you learned from the friend who died will not only honor his memory but will also make the family members proud. They may even be grateful for you for having him as a friend. But always remember not to exaggerate the compliments for the friend. It will appear insincere to those people listening.
If you feel intense grief for the loss of the friend, have someone ready to finish the remaining parts of your speech in case you break down. It will give you relief knowing that you have expressed how sorry you are or how much you will miss him despite the fact that you were not able to finish the eulogy for friend.
About the Author:
Margaret Marquisi is a retired novelist and fulltime grandmother. For tips on http://www.besteulogyspeeches.com/ eulogy for a friend, please visit her http://www.besteulogyspeeches.com/ funeral speech for a friend website.
Keyword tags: eulogy for a friend, funeral speech for a friend
In writing a eulogy for a friend especially if it is mean for a younger generation, generally you start off by introducing yourself and how you came to know the deceased. If there are funny instances that you have shared with that friend, you limit your narration of it to those only which would be appropriate to the occasion. This means if you have to tell a story about your friend, make sure that it remains wholesome so as not to offend the members of the family present. There is a practical purpose why it is advised that you start off in a jovial story. This is because to enable you to keep your composure and to gradually boost your confidence in public speaking.
Members of the family listening would also like to hear how their son and daughter as a friend. Hence, it is only proper at this point that you describe the departed in how he dealt with things when you were together, the things that you admired most of him, the things that make him unique with others. You can also state the problems and success you shared together. If there are things that he told you which the other people should know, include that in a eulogy.
There are several ways in how people deliver their eulogy. It maybe expressed in the form of poetry, narration, dance, song or a combination of those things. In making your choice, you must bear in mind the venue of the place and of course, the time allotted to each speakers. Usually, if you are a friend of the deceased, you maybe given a shorter time to speak or nobody expects you to speak lengthily. Hence, it is not necessary to prepare a long eulogy for a friend. Focus on the times you shared with him and leave those parts that although you know, or taken part with him and his family, to the family members to prevent redundancy.
Stating the life lessons you learned from the friend who died will not only honor his memory but will also make the family members proud. They may even be grateful for you for having him as a friend. But always remember not to exaggerate the compliments for the friend. It will appear insincere to those people listening.
If you feel intense grief for the loss of the friend, have someone ready to finish the remaining parts of your speech in case you break down. It will give you relief knowing that you have expressed how sorry you are or how much you will miss him despite the fact that you were not able to finish the eulogy for friend.
About the Author:
Margaret Marquisi is a retired novelist and fulltime grandmother. For tips on http://www.besteulogyspeeches.com/ eulogy for a friend, please visit her http://www.besteulogyspeeches.com/ funeral speech for a friend website.
Keyword tags: eulogy for a friend, funeral speech for a friend
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