Archive for the 'Writing' Category

According to USA Today best selling author Karen Kingsbury just wanted to work at home. That’s why she got into writing in the first place.
Her first book deal tripled her reporter’s salary.
Read the whole article at USA Today
Image Courtesy USA Today

Did it take Seth Godin to tell you that? (You must be slower than I am if it did!)
Seth Godin via Plug Your Book
There are more than 100,000 published authors in the US. Most of them have publishing houses (and at least a tenuous connection to a publicist). What a great marketing problem. The long […]

Tiffany Dow used to work at a bank. Now she’s a work at home mom. How’d she make the transition? More importantly in her case - WHAT motivated the transition?
In her own words…
It was late 1999 and my son was diagnosed with RSV - an infant respiratory illness. At the time I worked […]

If you fancy yourself a free lance writer, you might want to check out Suite 101. You’re paid through sharing the advertising from your pages.
Suite101.com’s  door is open to the curious novice looking for a “101″ intro to any of our 2,000 topics, but it’s also a meeting place for 4.5 million readers and 500,000 […]

I was doing some research on what bloggers are making to post placements on their blogs and here’s something interesting I ran across.
At PayPerPost.com they listed the following blogs as their top earners for the month of August I presume:

Karen
$1,804.91
Laurie
$1,605.08
Lisa
$1,588.43

I’m sure most bloggers would be happy to generate that kind of revenue […]

I think writing articles to make money is a great idea.
But I see lots of people suggesting you write articles and insert affiliate links in the article or resource box.
As I hang around this business longer I think that’s insane.
You at least need to buy a domain name and “cloak” an affiliate link. Even if […]

Writing articles lets you work once and get paid multiple times in a variety of ways.
Here are some comments by Georganne on these benefits.
Question: Let’s say I have an article that I’ve written and had published in a certain market. I’ve now discovered a new market for which I could potentially pitch the same […]

Bill Plat runs an excellent article distribution service at ThePhantomWriters.com I’ve used it myself in the past and will be using it again soon for a project I’ve taken on.
He makes a very good point, the thing I failed to do in my last project (some programming glitches I made ultimately deep sixed that one […]

Associated Content will be providing a collection of home improvement advice and tutorials for a major website. This is a great opportunity to get syndicated and increase your exposure.
If you have direct remodeling, design and DIY experience and an interest in writing 10-20 articles for this project, please join Associated Content today and follow the […]

It’s easy to publish an ebook, but some people are worried about hackers, download thefts, credit card fees, etc.
So if you’d like to publish your ebook and have someone else do all the work (except the marketing which you’ll have to do), consider Lulu.com. Here’s their page about publishing your ebook.
Basically, it’s free.
You upload your […]