By Louise Thornton
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Sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day to fulfill all your commitments. Something has to give before you reach the end of your sanity.
So, what tends to go are the things that are the easiest to ignore and really, is there anything easier to ignore than a file on your computer when you can just pretend it isn’t there?
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By Jim Schakenbach
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Not everyone is comfortable writing. Email, blogs and other digital media have forced many non-writers into the unenviable position of having to crank out prose on a regular basis. If you’d rather have a root canal than face a blank text screen, here are some tips that will have you writing like a pro in no time:
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By Irene Watson
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The other day I was talking to an author who had written a short historical book of about 100 pages. The book was priced at $29.99. I suggested to the author that her book was overpriced. She responded by saying, “What price should I charge for my three years of research and writing?”
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By Julia McCutchen
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As an author, you need to be able to summarize the key features about your book “in a nutshell” so that you have a ready answer for questions such as “what is your book about?” and “what makes it different?”
This is an important step as you prepare to take your work out to the world because people’s attention spans are getting shorter all the time. So unless you can communicate the essence of what your book is all about clearly and concisely to agents, publishers, the media — and your readers — you will lose your opportunity to “catch their eye.”
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By John Fayad
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The role of a literary agent is to represent you and your written works to publishers. Your success is your agent’s success, which means that you are both working toward the same end — to get your book published.
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By Angela Booth
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If you’re writing for the Web, you’ve got lots of competition. It’s a challenge to stand out. However, if you ensure that your content is both useful and unique, you will stand out, and the content you write will get traffic.
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By Ehud J. Furman
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Managing your online reputation can be a difficult task, with it constantly shifting and changing. Thankfully, there are a number of convenient tools — many free, many very affordable — that can make the job much easier. While there are hundreds of useful tools currently available, with more being added every day, these seven tools are some of the most dynamic and robust.
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By Peter Giordano
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What’s the marketing value of becoming an expert? It’s simple: America is celebrity-crazy. Who really knows why? Whole industries have sprung up around the personal lives of actors… athletes get paid impossible salaries… news programs claw and scratch to land the best expert — celebrities in their own right — who can comment on the latest controversies.
We’re suckers for the famous.
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By Lisa A. Mason
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What does your writer’s work area look like? Whether you write full time or part time, you probably have a favorite spot to do it or at least the most common spot to do it. Some of us have offices and others have to squeeze in wherever they can. Some work on the go, in between other responsibilities and a lucky few can sit down and devote as much time as they want to writing.
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By Esther Chan
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Affiliate marketing is fast becoming one of the most popular methods of making money online. It is very easy to join and begin. A person stands to gain a lot of money through affiliate marketing compared to other methods. Every successful promoted sale that you make earns you a profit
Affiliate marketing though, is not as easy as it sounds. Even experienced affiliate marketers are faced with challenges. If you are just starting out in the business then keep in mind that you will face obstacles along your way to success. Some of these problems will be difficult and it may also push you to contemplate giving up. You may make money but then you may lose even more money in the process. To avoid this vicious cycle you must learn how to identify these serious affiliate mistakes. Prevention is always better than a cure; this is also true in affiliate marketing.
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By Irene Watson
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Pre-selling books is a great marketing strategy to build anticipation for books and to get paid while you work rather than after the work is completed. By pre-selling, I mean two things:
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By Earma Brown
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Are you only able to work on your book part-time or on weekends? Most of us have to squeeze writing a book into small blocks of time. Perhaps you have a full-time job or a business to tend to and can’t take off three months or more to write a book. Or maybe you have children or aging parents to look after. Yet, you still dream of writing a book one day.
If any of the above applies to you, there’s good news! You don’t have to become a hermit or trade in your life anymore to write a saleable book. You can use the cumulative effect and still get your book written in record time. Here are some easy tips from a fellow weekend writer to help you in your journey. Discover how to take the short way home to your successful book.
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By Olivia Rader
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Becoming an affiliate marketer is easy. Doing it correctly to generate maximum commissions is simple too. So why do so many fail as online affiliate marketers? They struggle to succeed because they don’t know the clever techniques used by the “big gurus.” The waiting is over. It’s now time to reveal to the world the secret strategies of the affiliate marketing elite.
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By Rob Johnstone
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All good non-fiction titles contain the following characteristics:
Accuracy — There is no point conveying information to the reader if that information is incorrect. At best misleading and at worst libelous or defamatory, poorly checked work can land the author (and the publisher) in a great deal of trouble. Ultimately, the book will have failed to achieve its aim and will have cheated the reader. Please understand that here we are talking about facts. For opinions or conjecture there is no such thing as correct or incorrect. Here an author, as long as the reasoning is explained, has free reign to escape conventional thinking. In fact we positively encourage it.
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By Jorge Bell
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In the realm of book marketing, there are as many opinions as published works. Everyone has a set plot line as to how to market a book in a way that results in sales and, most importantly, demand for additional material. The climax for both scams and legitimate schemes is the same: fame and fortune. This article will help you sort through the overwhelming amount of information and break it down into simple Do’s and Don’ts that will get you headed in the right direction.
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“[T]he growth of the Internet and increasing availability of tools for content production has fueled hopes that citizen journalism — a combination of blogs and news-focused sites run by members of the community they cover — might pick up some of the slack. A survey of citizen journalism sites, however, suggests that we’re a long way from replacing what has been lost, and the legacy news sites have gone a long way towards adopting current technology and practices.”
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“Consumer magazines as a whole enjoy more ad action this year versus 2009.”
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“For the first time since the fourth quarter of 2007, magazines recorded year-over-year growth in ad pages and revenues during the second quarter of 2010, Publishers Information Bureau reports. Rate-card revenue for Q2 was up 5.7% over [the] same period in 2009, to $5.2 Billion. Ad pages gained 0.8% to 43,427.11.”
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For the ebook, Advice from Successful Freelancers: How They Built Their Careers & How You Can Too!, I asked 10 questions of freelancers who were living their dream life. Following are some of their answers. They cover successful marketing techniques, how to get clients and more!
1. Why did you start freelancing?
Yuwanda Black, Writer, Editor, Small Business Columnist
My sister and I worked at the same company. We were freelancing on the side. Once we realized that we were making more as freelancers than as full-time employees, she quit and started Inkwell Editorial. Once the business was able to support two salaries, I joined her, which was one year later (1997).
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