Archive for the 'Publishing' Category

According to Dan Poynter, bookstores are lousy places to sell books. At least “niche” books. So where do you sell your highly targeted niche book… where the people are. If you’re selling a book on skydiving, you sell it next to the parachutes. You may also want to check out his book promotion mailing lists. [...]

Alot of us have been told (or at least want to believe) “You should write a book.” We may even tell ourselves that … “Some day I’m going to write a book.” I’ve been writing for a decade and I still having problems cranking out my latest EBOOK! So what’s the secret of getting a [...]

After the spinach and onion scares, people began to wonder… would it be better to buy my food locally? Hmmm. I don’t think these scares started the ball rolling, but they didn’t hurt. Jack Schultz who travels the US helping small towns revitalize noted the trend of local food. Could you build a home business [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 layout as much as $1 or more [...]