Archive for the ‘Ideas’ Category
Sunday, April 20th, 2008 |
Although this vintage Wordpreneur article is parenting market-centric, the tips on creatively generating even more potentially lucrative article ideas from a seed concept are universal and make this a must re-read. — EES
By Terri Pilcher
The key to selling reprints to parenting publications is the creation of dynamite ideas followed through with professional writing. Here, I’m focusing only on finding those lucrative topics.
Most topics in regional parenting publications are straightforward: finance, parenting tips, health, sports, and education. The trick is to twist them in an unusual way.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008 |
This is totally unscientific, but I figure after looking at an endless stream of ebooks being sold since the 90s, one just notices things. Like answers to the question, “If I had a couple of weeks to write an ebook (or “report” — same difference) and have it ready for sale, what topics would give me the best chances of actually making a buck?”
Assuming that my motivation is absolutely, positively, nothing but totally mercenary.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008 |
Found another one for you… and again, although you may find it for sale elsewhere, here it is for free. No strings!
By Joanne Mason, 21 Income Streams: Multiple Ways to Make Money Online is a good and handy reference ebook with “21 proven ways that anyone can quickly begin making money online even with a very limited start-up budget.”
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 |
I was going to write a totally new post on the idea of publishing your own Advice Q&A blog, then I remembered Wordpreneur ran a decent article on the topic (well, on advice columns) once upon a time. Here it is. Better than good enough for our purposes — just stick blog where you see column, and all will be right with the world. — EES
How Your Advice Column Can Build Loyal Readers
By Rix Quinn
Last year while researching a book on memorable speeches and essays, I stumbled across an ageless writing technique that continues to captivate readers.
Advice articles first appeared several hundred years ago. Some were submitted to papers and magazines anonymously. The question-and-answer format probably appeared a little bit later.
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 |
Are you more of an editor than a writer? Or maybe you’re a self-publisher, but are looking for a potentially profitable publishing project you could bring to market fairly quickly.
At least quicker maybe than if you had to write a whole book yourself.
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008 |
Stuck? Don’t know what to write about? Today’s vintage Wordpreneur article reprint may help you get unstuck very quickly by revisiting work you’ve already done! — EES
By Cathy Stucker
Today’s phrase that pays is “repurposing content.” That means taking intellectual property you have created and using it in another way. For example, turning a book into an audio program, or excerpting parts of the book into articles.
Repurposing content can help you reach a brand new audience with your ideas. One advantage of transferring your existing information into new formats is that you can meet the needs of people with different learning styles. This can help you to reach a larger audience with your message, as well as increasing your profits.
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 |
IDEA: Publish a blog or site of product reviews specific to a “niche” special interest audience.
I know, I know, there’s nothing groundbreaking or fresh about this idea. But my sense is that the typical consumer online can’t get enough of good feedback from real world users reviewing the exact product the consumer’s interested in.
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 |
IDEA: Site Devoted to Unusual Theme “Hacking”
Hacking or being a hacker isn’t really a bad thing, regardless of what the geniuses in the movie industry and general media have mucked it up to be. But still, over the years, hacking has come to mean many different things (usually black hat); for our purposes, however, we’re sticking with its original, pure definition — hacking is figuring out new and ingenious ways to use something.
And not just computers. Anything.
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008 |
Nick Daws is the author of the very helpful Quick Cash Writing. From this article Wordpreneur ran a few years back, you can see why. — EES
Article by Nick Daws
So you want to write a book, but can’t think of an idea? No problem! Here are just a few suggestions to set you on the road to your first bestseller!
Start by thinking about your job (and if you’re a student, a caregiver, a homemaker, a full-time parent or an unpaid volunteer worker, that counts as well). Think about whether there are there aspects of this which would be of interest to ordinary people, or people who do similar jobs to you (or would like to).
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008 |
Lots of information being bandied about on how to improve your site’s or blog’s rankings on the search engines… on Google in particular. People write tips about it and discuss the subject at length on forums; heck, there’s no shortage of commercial products and services built around that specific topic.
Interesting. Even more interesting is that one of the clearest and most helpful “guides” on the subject is free, direct from the horse’s mouth! And not even all that long, in case you’re wondering.
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