Making Cash on the Web

 

The Next Jeff Bezos?

You hear about these success stories all of the time – people who quit their jobs and are making handsome money on the world wide web. Sometimes very big money, as in billions of dollars. Of course, that’s the exception to the rule, but the rule isn’t too bad. If you do [...]

Writing Site Copy: Missed Opportunities

Web writers write a lot of site text. By the metric ton. Optimized with carefully selected keywords strategically placed throughout the body text, embedded text links – you got it all, right?

Wrong-o. Virtually every page of a website is an opportunity to sell, yet how many times have you seen missed opportunities – and perhaps [...]

Twitter: Tell The World What You’re Writing

Twitter has been around about as long as the jar of pickles in my fridge yet, in its short existence, Twitter has evolved into an industry with widgets, gadgets and plugins so the whole world now knows what I had for breakfast.
However, Twitter – described as “IM on steroids” – is a perfect example of [...]

Build a Pushcart Website With the Right Web Host

Most people think it takes $1000s to build a site and get hooked up to the web. The fact is, the world wide web is the last, best chance for the small businessperson to really hit a home run – on a shoestring. You don’t need boxes of cash in cyberspace. Just a really good [...]

Auto-Responders That Really Pull

 
 
 
I like auto-responders.

I’m probably the only person in the world to say that but there’s something very comforting about receiving an auto-responder receipt from Amazon each time I place an order. I have something tangible if there’s a problem. (Never has been).
But there’s a good, bad and ugly side to auto-responder use. It may [...]

Confessions of a Proud Hack

There, I said it.
I’m a hack and proud of it. I can write on any topic. In the past three months I’ve written on hearing aid technology, personal development, micro-cap investing, oil and gas juniors, business consulting, search engine optimization and a bunch of other stuff that I’ve already forgotten.
I’m no genius. (Believe me.) [...]

Six Places to Earn Money for Your Words

 
The need for content, both in print and on the web, is massive even in this tanking economy. If anything, the bad business climate has companies scrambling for new marketing outlets, most on line.
 
And that means work for you. Here are six places that are actually looking for writers and are willing to pay them [...]

Six “Don’ts” For Professional Web Writers

1. Never provide a “free” writing sample. Some potential clients will ask you to do a sample chapter for them to get a sense of your style.
Sure, provide writing samples but avoid writing anything “on spec.” There’s no guarantee that your sample chapter won’t get used and you don’t get paid.
Explain to the client that [...]

Taming the Client from HELL!

 
As a web writer you’ll quickly discover that some clients are easy to work with while others are a royal pain. The way I look at it, if you don’t have final text after one revision, your client isn’t giving you good input. And the last thing you want to do is get in to [...]

Craft The Perfect Landing Page

 
A landing page is the first page a visitor sees upon clicking a link to your site, either from another site, through organic search results or a PPC link. The landing page MAY be the home page, but not necessarily. A visitor can land deep on your site based on the search words that were [...]