Add Value To Your Writing: Add Pictures

Snap Some Pix, Land More Jobs

If you own a digital camera, or want to invest in one, you can land more writing gigs. And you don’t have to be a great photographer. If you can take a few, decent product shots to go along with your product description copy, you can charge for [...]

Yes You Can Earn Money Writing From Home. It Just Ain’t Pretty.

Lots of people do it and great writers they ain’t.
We’re not talking about flowing prose or seductive poetry. We’re talking long-form (22-page) sales letters hawking some webinar, seminar or sermon somewhere. It ain’t pretty. But it pays the bills if you want to do the leg work to build your reputation and display your wares.
Start [...]

Create Link Bait For Your Web-Based Clients

 
In-bound links of the non-reciprocal kind continue to fascinate SEO and SEM professionals. Many site owners, newbies and long-timers, have followed the axiomatic tactics for link building – from hosted content to outright begging. (PLEASE link to my site.) “Desperation does not a connection build.” I think Calvin Coolidge said that or maybe I read [...]

Selling to the Rich: Reach The Elite

 
There are fewer than there used to be but there are still a lot of consumers for whom money is no object.
 
As a successful web writer, you need to reach this demographic for certain products and services. So, how DO you sell to the rich?
There was a time when the world wide web was NOT [...]

Stay In Touch With Your Regulars

 
As you start to build your web writing business, stay in touch with past clients. It doesn’t have to be anything elaborate like a newsletter, though newsletters certainly show initiative. No, a simple e-mail now and then can bring a long-lost client back into the fold, or court a new repeat buyer to become a [...]

Expand Your Writing Menu: Writing Scripts

 
Writing words that people read is very different from writing words that people hear. When reading, the reader can go back and re-read a section. Not so with words that are heard (at least not without a rewind button).
 
But there are plenty of writing opportunities that’ll change your style to one people hear instead of [...]

READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!Writing Newsletters That Get Read

A lot of site owners use newsletters for a lot of different reasons:
– They make good bait for opt-ins.
- They contribute to the “value-added” equation of a suite of products.
- They keep you and your site before the eyes of consumers.
- They encourage repeat visits to the site.
- They deliver current, up-to-date, utile information.
If [...]

Once You’ve Landed The Gig: Now What?

Stay In Close Touch With Clients

You finally get an assignment. All of your marketing has finally paid off with a paying assignment. Most excellent, and good for you. But now what?
How do you engage the client, define the project parameters and discuss the difficult topic of payment – something even the best client hates to [...]

Build Your Authority As A Web Writer

You may have a sleek-looking site design for your web writing business and wonder why you don’t see better conversion ratios – even if you are the best content provider looking for some business via the world wide web.
The issue may not be your site, its design, navigation accessibility or content. The issue may be [...]

Writing For The Latino Market: Hablamos Inglés

 
 
 
 
On the web, whether you’re Amazon or Fred’s Hub Cap Center, every sale counts and while we may spend endless hours and countless thousands of dollars on optimizing our web sites for search engines and improved conversion ratios, how many web site owners have overlooked the fastest growing segment of the American marketplace – Latinos.
Latinos [...]