Archive for the 'Publishing' Category

Local entrepreneurial publishers blossom in the most unlikely markets according to Jack Schultz.
In fact there seems to be room for entrepreneurial publishers in almost every small town he visits. Some projects in just one Indiana town are Mooresville Magazine. Others are speciality planning calendars that sell advertising to local business and a montly business journal.
This [...]

Lots of people are publishing articles to market their websites, businesses, or blogs and get web traffic. They usually choose high page rank “authority sites” like Squidoo, EzineArticles.com or a number of others in hopes of getting that elusive traffic. In exchange for traffic they are, of course, giving up Adsense revenue usually and writing [...]

AssociatedContent.com is now about to offer an ongoing Performance Bonus to content producers starting March 15th.
Starting March 15th, AssociatedContent.com will begin paying out performance bonuses.
As you may know AssociatedContent.com writers are paid on a per article basis depending on a variety of factors.
As of the 15th they are testing a program to pay out additional bonuses to writers.
Every [...]

Should you have a newsletter, blog or tips booklet? Paulette Ensign says “yes”. As she points out, these are not mutually exclusive answers.
Do you have a blog? Check out your biggest categories and see which of the gems in the largest categories can be turned into a tips booklet(s) or information product?
Do you have a [...]

WriterLance.com has just posted a call for Health Related Articles!
If you love to write – and get paid to do so, you may want to check this out. Note: WriterLance.com lets you BID on writing projects.
I need 40 articles written for website content. While the subject matter is medical related I need the articles written [...]

Steven Weber has a good review of what he considers to be wasteful advertising dollars: a service offering paid reviews through Amazon.com’s “Book Surge” publishing service.
For $399 you can get a supposedly “big name” author to write a paid, gushing review that’s supposed to make you rich on the royalties. I wonder if you’d be [...]

Bookmark Bucks is a great way to earn extra money with your computer!

Most of the ideas for advertising specialties with the URL on it are products that cost money for the person trying to make a part-time or full time living off of these items. You could [...]

The last few days, I’ve written about the importance of getting amateur reviews (especially 5 star reviews) to help your book sell. You can read those posts here and here.
After yesterday’s post, probably most of you went… sure I’d love to get 5 Star Reviews for the cost of a book and postage! But where [...]

Yesterday I wrote about the growing importance of amateur reviews – especially 5 star reviews – at Amazon.com.
That left the question… well how do you get THOSE? Of course everybody wants them!
Here’s how.
You ask for them.
If you’ve got a book that sells on Amazon (or Barnes and Nobles for that matter) you simply identify people [...]

Steve Weber got me thinking about this and I believe he’s right.
If you’re into publishing these days, the ONE thing that will make or break your book sales will be the amateur reviews at sites like Amazon.com
The publisher is in the business of having a “stable” of well known reviewers who are popular authors themselves [...]