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.
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Unedited Guest Article by Steve Manning
A lot of people don’t like the idea of self publishing or publishing on demand because they feel their book wasn’t really ‘published,’ didn’t undergo the scrutiny they suspect any manuscript would have to endure and surpass if it was purchased and produced by a ‘traditional’ publisher, and that it wouldn’t be looked upon favorably by distributors and bookstores around the world as a viable product worthy of promotion and marketing efforts.
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Unedited Guest Article by Althea Marie Tan
Everyday, we are just deluged by copies of all kind. Often we are not conscious of it, but I guess in our little ways we subconsciously filter what copies work and what doesn’t. Personally, the ultimate test of whether a copy (as in advertising in print, radio, television or online) succeeds is if I ultimately decide to buy a product, try a service, or even pique my interest that I end up inquiring about something.
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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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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.
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I guess I’m just old school, but in most cases I prefer receiving blog news and updates by email rather than through an RSS newsreader.
Scratch that… it has less to do with being “old school” than it does with the fact that email is still my main direct communications channel. Simply put, I spend a lot of time daily using my email client software. First thing I look at in the morning, and more often than not, the last thing I check before signing off for the day.
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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.
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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.
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Unedited Guest Article by Althea Marie Tan
Most online instructions on how to write effective copy for the Web revolve around details and tips regarding key words, page titles, META descriptions, and other similarly technical things. These materials will tell you, for instance, to mind your page title or soak up your copy with key words, all in an effort to jack up the chances of your site landing on the top results of search engines. These pointers, of course, are grounded on the assumption that people who go online to perform searches on engines hardly have any time to spare to click where the links go. They think that people are so pressed for time that they just look at the list of results and pick the links that appear to suit their inquiry best.
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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.
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