How to Make Money Writing!
I’ve long been a paid, registered Adobe Acrobat user — the PDF file format is the only way to do “universal” ebooks as far as I’m concerned — but unless it’s an illegal copy, “cheap software” is never used to describe it. Last I checked, for example, the Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Standard (the least expensive current version) full product is around $290 at bargain sources like TigerDirect!
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For what it’s worth, if asked and I had to guess on the three quickest ways to make money writing today (in other words, I’m too lazy to dig up or even make up actual data, and basing this purely on personal experience, observation, anecdotal evidence and good old gut feel), those three would be:
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FYI for those of you with websites/blogs… Google has a fairly new free service to help you manage your advertising inventory and sales: the Google Ad Manager.
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Just an FYI post of a few articles on the e-Factory blog that you may find helpful and informative:
Blogging for a Living — “Blogging is a cheap and simple way to make money on the Internet. But, you have to know what you are doing or you’ll make very little money, or worse, you won’t make any money at all. If you’re like most people, you want to start making money and profits as soon as you can.” More »
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I collect websites.
Actually, I don’t, but considering how practically inexpensive a dot-com domain name costs nowadays and budget website hosting being so gosh-darned cheap, it’s no wonder that whenever folks look at my “portfolio” of Web properties, they think that’s what I do: collect websites.
Nope. If there’s anything I could be accused of “collecting,” it’d be dot-com domains. When a good name comes to me and it’s available, off I go to GoDaddy and register it… even if I don’t need it now, or maybe ever.
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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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I was chatting with a pal who happens to be an editor (lots of those in the DC area) who was thinking of starting his own site providing information on vintage cars, his reason for living (outside of his wife, kids, and 9-to-5 of course).
I pointed him to The Editor’s Introductory Guide to Blogging Profits, an easy, cheap and potentially lucrative way to get him started and going, I thought. Strangely enough, it intimidated him. “Seems like hard work,” he said.
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You’ve got a main sales site, pushing your ebook, infoproduct, or whatever it is you’re selling. Maybe not even just a single product, but a number of related products/services (because, if they’re not related, what are you thinking?).
You no doubt want to drive traffic to your sales site. Lots of ways to do that, of course. Here’s one relatively free/low-cost strategy, however, that you may have overlooked:
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Check out this report by 24/7 Wall St. (a financial news and information blog for investors). They put an actual dollar $$$ figure to what a blog is worth, which is tough considering that these babies are all privately-held.
But they calc’d it up, and here’s 24/7’s list.
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PREVIOUSLY: Who’s Running the Show?
Test #3: How Many Other Affiliates are There?
Assuming the affiliate program you’re interested isn’t brand spanking new, then it should have a track record. And if it does, I wouldn’t be interested as much in total sales but in how many different affiliates there are actually promoting the program.
Sales figures you really can’t verify — practically-speaking the merchant can pretty much give you any number it pulls out of a hat.
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