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Ooops, almost forgot to do this amid all the little details and TO DO’s I’ve been picking away at. Silly me, since this should have been at the very top of the list: tell you about it.

My new site, FreelanceSweat has gone live, ready for you to check out, read, enjoy, and submit to. FreelanceSweat is a growing blog repository of your (and my) “real world tales from the freelance trenches.” Horror stories, funny ones, or even just simple head-shakers, let’s make FreelanceSweat the place for all of that.

Check it out. Read. Share. Laugh. Maybe even learn. If you’re a freelance anything, FreelanceSweat is your site.

The Teachpreneur project has released its latest free ebook: The Teachpreneur Guide to Article Bucks, an Adobe Acrobat PDF ebook on “How to Make Money Writing Online Articles in Your Spare Time.”

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More Wordpreneur originals “reprinted” over at Teachpreneur that you may benefit from being reminded of:

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The Teachpreneur project has released its latest free ebook: Ka-ching!³, an Adobe Acrobat PDF ebook that quickly details three legit and consistent ways to make money online.

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The Teachpreneur project has just released its second free ebook title: Insider Internet Copywriting, a collection of “real world professional tips & techniques” from some of the top copywriters on the Net today.

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The first Teachpreneur project free ebook has now been released: Part-Time Ezine Publising Profits. Yup, free. I’ve decided to make all ebooks released at Teachpreneur absolutely free. If you know any teachers, tell them about it (heck, nothing’s really stopping you from getting and using the info in the ebook yourself!).

I’m hoping to release a couple more titles by this weekend. Stay tuned!

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I’m just getting started converting a few PDFs (with the Word source files) to the Amazon Kindle ebook format. Translation: No idea what I’m doing just yet.

I did, however, find a few “tutorials” online that I’ll need to pore through, probably over the Thanksgiving break. Here they are in case you want to do the same. (Comment please if you know of any others I should check out.)

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Final installment!

I revealed in the previous post that I went with ClickBank for the Teachpreneur project

I’m not exactly new to ClickBank. It’s been around for, like, forever, and I used the service for years when Will Bontrager and I partnered to sell the ProLinkz CGI script (now free). ClickBank was one of the few available digital download e-commerce options available then, and if memory serves, the only affordable one. That alone would have cinched the deal for the typical bootstrapping online tech startup, but it had one other feature that made it a no-brainer: an affiliate program.

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And now, finally, I reveal the solution I decided to go with.

But first things first… why’d it take so long to get from part 3 to 4? Well, I was being too cute — I wasn’t planning to ever write a fourth part. Sorry about that.

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Things are brewing a bit over at Teachpreneur.com. OK, more than just “a bit” — I’m doing something akin to a philosophical overhaul. You’ll soon read about those changes here.

But that’s not the reason for this post; just thought you’d be interested in checking out an interesting WordPress plugin I’ve got on duty over there right now.

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If you’re like me, you’ve got lots of little “website/blog projects” in various states of completion. Here, from Line25, are a few excellent tips on how to design truly useful (not to mention cool) “Coming Soon” pages for those projects.

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Finally bit the bullet and got myself an Amazon Kindle ebook reader.  Technically, Amazon calls it a “wireless reading device,” which is actually quite accurate — besides ebooks, it does newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc.

I like it. Lots. And yes, I still think they’re asking too much for it. Current pricing puts it at $279, which has actually got me miffed, since I got mine just a few weeks before for $20 more, but c’est la vie. It’s still a luxury for me at the lower price point.

Well, since on paper I can’t really afford luxury, let me call my Kindle “research.” Better than even likelihood that you’ll be seeing “how to create/market Kindle infoproducts”-type posts here soon.

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To recap: I was looking into various low-cost automated e-commerce solutions for my Teachpreneur project, specifically those that could do the basic automated ebook sales process and satisfy the simple must-have features I described. I took a look at three and described two of them in my previous post: $7 Secrets Scripts and Rapid Action Profits. Here, now, I’ll tell you why I decided not to use them.
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After at least a decade of evolution, finding and implementing an e-commerce solution that satisfies the basic and fairly straightforward — not to mention short — list of “specs” and requirements I wrote about should now be easy and cheap.

Uh huh.

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I just realized it’s been over a decade since I first looked into “automated e-commerce solutions” for technically independent ebook publishing operations. That’s a lot of years. Especially for the Net, where 10 years is something like three or four, maybe even five, lifetimes.

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Continuing on with my notes on getting Teachpreneur up and running…

As I mentioned at the end of my previous post, there’s a third product development software category ebook publishers will probably need to think about: graphics software. Tools like Adobe Photoshop. At this stage, for designing ebook covers.

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Now we get to the juicy stuff: my on-going “notes” on whatever publishing projects I happen to be working.

Let’s start with this one: Teachpreneur.com.

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