Ideally, you’ll want your own website/blog “working” for you and your book publishing promotions/sales. The expense isn’t a killer. Cheap, even (as I mentioned a number of times previously, I get my domains from GoDaddy and use Site5 budget Web hosting).
But, I got to thinking, what if you don’t really want to hassle with one?
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Here’s a really interesting promotional idea worth trying online — something the author calls the Used Book Effect. And it’s not limited to romance novels, or even fiction (say, you’ve written and are selling a series of related instructional ebooks). This is a particularly good way for you to put an old title of yours that may already be out-of-print (or maybe just not selling that well anymore) back to work, helping generate even more sales of your current work.
Software publishers have been doing this sort of thing for the longest time (shareware, freeware, donorware, etc.). But I can see now how the model works far, far better for “serial” writers. Very, very interesting. — EES
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I’m sure you don’t know that I used to design fonts as a hobby. Man, that was over a decade ago when I last futzed around with it, using a program called Fontographer. A cousin turned me on to it; she worked for Monotype then, part of the team that converted typefaces to “TrueType” for bundling with the launch of Windows 3.1. Now she’s a freelance type designer.
And that’s just the tip of my involvement in the graphic arts. Seriously, I think that’s what I should have gone to school for, instead of for the Info Systems degree I ended up with (was interested and good at that too, but already knew it and didn’t learn squat). Lucky me, “publishing” brought all my skills and interests together into a single field.
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Addendum to Is There Really Money in Blogging? I decided to go digging around to see if anyone did indeed have a list of “Top AdSense Earners.” Not much luck; at least I found nothing current. But a whole bunch of posts did pop up dated 2006 to early 2007 covering some of the impressive results a few online publishers have reported.
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This an opportunity if I ever smelled one. Thing is, it’s quite a difficult problem to solve. But boy, jackpot for anyone who does!
Christopher Dawson, a teacher and school IT administrator who writes for ZDNet Education, in his When will textbook publishers get a clue? post, is quite right pointing out that
“K-12 book prices are outlandish; college textbooks border on criminal and publishers are moving slower than molasses in January when it comes to moving towards any sort of electronic publishing model.”
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Let this quote sink in and take root, and you’ll probably never want for a good story — or even article — idea ever again!
“The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.” – JOHN le CARRÉ
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25 Ways to Write for Money. Open your eyes to a variety of ways to make money with your writing skills, many probably previously unknown to you!
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Trying something new beginning with this post: embedding my own notes/comments in pieces I decide to reprint here on Wordpreneur. This’ll be interesting. — EES
Article by Valencia Higuera
A freelance writing career is perfect for individuals with good writing skills, and for individuals who enjoy the idea of a flexible schedule and unlimited income. Before starting a career as a freelance writer, it is important to know the “ins and outs” of being a freelance writer. For starters, it can take weeks to find that perfect opportunity, and sometimes you’ll have to deal with non-paying clients. Even so, a freelance writing career is exciting and the benefits are enormous.Here are three great freelance writing tips.
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There’s no shortage of articles and resources “out there” covering the relatively simple concept of generating traffic (and preferably, lots of it) to your blog and/or website. Maybe even way too much? Thing is, spend just a bit of time doing the research rounds online, and it won’t take very long at all for you to start getting the deja vus with each succeeding article you read, or even site you visit.
No wonder: There really isn’t very much in the way of focus area variety when it comes to the subject of generating major traffic to your blog or website. There are five. They are:
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Uh, yeah, there is. The question is, “How much?”
Here’s a post on Income Diary you’ll want to check out:
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