Archive for the ‘Biz Freelance’ Category
How to Test Your Niche Idea Using AdWords
Unedited Guest Article by Celia Bo
After you have found your niche idea, you can do a test to see whether your niche idea can be profitable. You don’t want to spend a lot of time optimizing your website for search engine and promoting your website only to find out later that there is no demand for your products or services in your niche market. This is how you can use AdWords to test your niche idea.
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Avoid These Mistakes When Submitting to Editors
Although the piece is aimed at travel writers, the advice is universal. Must read if you’re fairly new to the game. — EES
Travel Writers — Avoid These Mistakes When Submitting to Editors
Unedited Guest Article by Wendy VanHatten
Travel writers, would you like to work with editors? Are you ready to submit your work to various publications? If you are, read these “don’ts” before you submit your work to an editor. Avoiding these mistakes will help improve your chances of being published in your favorite newspaper or magazine.
PPC Advertising – It’s Not Just About Getting Clicks
Unedited Guest Article by James Walston
PPC Advertising is easily one of the most vital, important ways to make extra money online with your website. When you start creating your new potentially profitable website, you need to be sure that you can get traffic and there is no more effective way than with PPC advertising. However, just getting people to click on your ads is not going to immediately convert into profit for new “make money from home” plan. Here are a few ways you can ensure those clicks are valuable and that your new website is making the best use of your PPC advertising funds:
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7 Underground Cash Secrets for Your Online Business
Unedited Guest Article by Jamie Marks
With the economy in a fragile position and unemployment at an all time high, business owners are look for any advantage they can get to keep from going under. Despite the uncertain economy there are historically proven methods for keeping your business profitable which can be applied to the online world as well. Here is a list of 7 underground cash secrets to help keep you in the black.
Freelancers: How to Deal With Slow-Paying Clients
Slow-Paying Clients – Advice and Options for Freelancers
Unedited Guest Article by Brian Bass
It’s the freelance circle of life — you pitch the job, you get the job, you do the job, you bill the job, and you get paid for the job. Right? If only it worked that easily. When any one piece of the circle comes apart, everything after it suffers. But when the last part of the circle, getting paid, comes apart, the rest of your life suffers.
Free Word-of-Mouth Tool for Your Blog or Site
You’ve probably seen those small “Share This”-type links on many blogs and sites (like right here, the green thingie all the way at the bottom) that, when clicked on, let you “tell a friend” about a site, article, blog post, etc. For word-of-mouth marketing, they’re excellent…
…if people use them.
How to Improve Your AdWords Click Through Rate
Unedited Guest Article by Mack M. Michaels
Maintaining a healthy click through rate (CTR) is vital to success with Google AdWords. Your click through rate has a direct influence on your cost per click. Read three tips to improve your AdWords click through rate.
Write Compelling Ads
The fastest way to raise your click through rate is by improving your ad copy writing. Think of clicks as votes for your advertisements. The more clicks you get the more people are voting for your ad copy.
7 Newsletter Writing Secrets That Will Retain More Clients
Another pretty good article to help you sell your newsletter writing and production services. Now, I don’t mean you should print out and show them the article — it’s only fair that if you do that, you include the author’s bio, which kind of defeats the purpose. Instead, use it to help you generate ideas for your own pitches and proposals to prospects. — EES
Unedited Guest Article by David Gruttadaurio
According to the Harvard Business Review, 91% of small businesses do absolutely nothing to retain their existing clients. That means only 9% of small business owners ‘get’ these facts:
- The average American business loses 50% of its customer base every 5 years.
- An existing customer spends an average of 67% more than new customers.
- It costs 7 to 9 times more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain an old one.
How to Sell Booklets the Easy Way for Free
You don’t do booklets? Well, play this game: Every time you see booklet replace it with ebook or whatever infoproduct you happen to be publishing. Heck, you can plug in blog and this article takes on an interesting “how to promote your blogs” angle. — EES
Unedited Guest Article by Kim Hillman
Have you been wondering just how you’ll build your booklet business once your booklet is ready for market? Here’s a little marketing secret for you. Every booklet you create will market all of your other booklets, as well as other products and services you may have to offer.
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Why Donating a Percentage of Your Proceeds to Charity Can Double Your Income
Unedited Guest Article by Sally Shields
Being big fan of Deepak Chopra’s, I am always very aware of the law of giving and receiving. I feel this is the best way to get one’s message out on a larger scale.
Many people ask, “How can you make money when you’re giving so much away?” But, believe it or not, the more you give away, the more money that is attracted to you, because the universe gets the message that you have abundance and just helps create more of it!
4 Tips to Improve Your Pay Per Click (PPC) Campaign
Unedited Guest Article by Mack M. Michaels
Pay per click (PPC) campaigns rarely reach maximum profitability without several rounds of optimizing. Read four tips to improve your pay per click campaign.
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Freelance Jobs 2009 04.06
Freelance Business Journalist — Maktoob, the largest Mid-East portal, wants a freelance business journalist based in the US for continuous website updates covering business and news stories breaking in the Middle East region. Wire experience helpful. Pays about $4K/mo.
The Secret to PPC Success
Unedited Guest Article by Mark Kimathi
In Pay Per Click, just like in life, you need just to know a few things to get it right. However, you need to know those few things very well. As pointed out last week you may be able to avoid the worst mistakes of running a PPC campaign but you may still come up unprofitable.
Become an Authority in Your Field – 14 Ways to Grow Your Business by Publishing a Book
IDEA: Go put together a brochure, white paper, proposal, ebook, website, etc., with some version of this information, then find and show to prospective clients, offering your writing/publishing services. — EES
Unedited Guest Article by Stephanie Chandler
No matter what kind of business you are in, there is no better way to become an instant expert than by publishing a book. Better than any business card, brochure, advertisement, website or blog, a book is a powerful tool that will open doors and lead to tremendous business growth opportunities.
Book Promotion and Book Marketing With Online Book Reviews
Unedited Guest Article by Cathy Goodwin
Book promotion used to be all about book tours and book reviews in print media. These days the reviews that count are not all in the print media. They’re mostly on online bookstores, especially the Amazon bookstore community.
How to Get High Google AdWords Click Through Rates (CTR)
Unedited Guest Article by Matthew Connors
Making money online is based around identifying customer demand and delivering solutions to those customers. Google AdWords is one of he fastest and most effective methods of delivering customers to your solutions so that you can make money online.
Challenge-Response Anti-Spam Tech for Queries? I Don’t Think So
I hate spam as much as the next guy, and of all the anti-spam solutions out there, the ones I like the most (although I don’t use them) and undoubtedly the most effective are the ones that employ “challenge-response” technology. Like Spam Arrest.
Poetic License to Profit
Unedited Guest Article by Serena Lewis
Saying it in rhyme can be a good way to make money writing if you have the knack. Knowing where to sell your verse can put you on the right track.
Freelance Jobs 2009 03.27
Assessment Writers/Editors — Compensation was not specified. New York editorial company that services major educational publishers seeks freelance writers and editors with math/science/reading assessment experience. Work remotely. Only wants applicants with educational publishing experience.
Writing for Profit – Greeting Cards Can Put a Smile in Your Wallet
Unedited Guest Article by Serena Lewis
Writing greeting cards for profit is can be a great way to make money if you are the type of person who loves to write poetry.