Reach 15,000 to 100,000 targeted buyers every week Online. That's the best reason I know to write and submit how-to articles to opt-in ezines and top web sites. get more book sales.Now, that's real exposure! And it's totally targeted because these people visit sites and subscribe to ez ...

Whether you market online or offline, you already know the shot-gun approach to marketing brings few results. You will sell more products and services when you step back and set up a strategy to reach your targeted market. Approaches That Set you Up to Pull Customer Orders One: D ...

Have you wondered how you can make a career writing books or articles for various publications Or are you seeking a viable second income opportunity but do not know where to start Well, freelance writing may be the right career for you and it can open a world of lucrative opportunities f ...

A freelance writer’s best resource of finding jobs online are Job boards or sites. While some boards are geared specifically to the freelancer, many others also list other type of jobs. Some job boards allow freelancers to register their profiles and credentials for prospective em ...

To ensure a steady flow of work and income, a writer should promote himself constantly. Not everyone knows you are a writer and the competition for work is very high. Not only do you compete with publications regular staffers and commissioned writers but with more learned and skilled f ...

The decision to publish a book is very exciting! It causes the creative juices to flow and the eyes to light up. But wait before you begin the publishing process, know about the seven most important steps you need to know before publishing your book. Make sure that you take every step i ...

Just about everyone is familiar with this beginning: In the beginning God created the heavens and earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep . . . (Genesis 1: 1-2 RSV) In a sense were playing God when we write a story. We create the charact ...

I've been involved in publishing for over a decade now as an author, editor, and project manager; however, it wasn't until just a few years ago that I decided to move into self-publishing. Indeed, my first few projects involved consulting for others and, now, I am involved in my own, pe ...

If youre a small business owner you definitely need promotion. And, if youre a freelanceryou ARE the productso youll ultimately need self-promotion. Newsletters can not only inform your customers of future events, discounts, and services, but can serve as a helpful source of information ...

What would you like to achieve in your lifetime Author Basil S. Walth once said, "If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there" These are words well spoken, because whether you're working toward freelancing full-time or selling your novels, you need a roadmap. ...

If you are reading this article then you probably have asked yourself at some point in your life, "Do I have what it takes to become an author" I believe that successful authors, those who actually write and finish that novel, or book of poetry, or even that book of short stories, and ...

Freelancing is a competitive business, especially in todays fast-paced, e-focused world. Often there are hundreds of writers competing for the same, limited number of assignments, and the writer who can best showcase his or her abilities is the one who lands the job. Editors, however, ...

You Might Be A Snob-Blogger If According to Jupiter Research, about 2 percent of the online community has created a blog. That works out to millions and millions of blogs, and in turn, millions and millions of snobs who publish them. Thats an awful lot of Snob-Bloggers! You see, in ord ...

Before you even begin writing your novel, you need to know who your characters will be. Minimally, you would want two major characters, the hero and the heroine. They will interact mostly with each other throughout the novel. How they interact with each other will determine the outcome o ...

What is Sense of Place It's the image of a scene's environment evoked by the writing. The author becomes an artist; the book page is the canvas, sentences and phrasing are the brushes; words give color. This element of a story is something most readers look for. They want to feel as if ...

The unwritten reality of letter writing You may wonder why I have chosen this title of this post. Well from my experience is that it is really hard to put the feeling into words about what letter writing means to me. Letter writing is becoming a lost art on many levels. It is fading int ...

The Netherlands is a country known for its religious, ideological and ethnical tolerance. But what is perhaps less known is that it is also a country religiously divided into a northern part dominated by a culture of Calvinism and a southern part, which is predominantly Catholic. Today, ...

Do you have problems finding ideas for articles and speeches I know have had at times, and others tell me the same thing. At my Toastmasters club, for example, I've often heard members say they have difficulty finding topics for speeches. But, I've learned, like others who write and s ...

Day after day, writers tend to sit for hours writing that novel or story, and over time, this can become a potential problem. Their metabolism may slow down and the pounds can inch up. Statistics show all kinds of health problems associated with obesity. If youre an author, you are awa ...

The experts are always telling us that getting paid for what you know is one of the most effective, least time-intensive ways to make a buck. Well, if you know anything about money (and you don't need to be a financial whiz), writing articles for financial websites can be a very lucrativ ...