Unedited Guest Article by Celia Bo

After you have found your niche idea, you can do a test to see whether your niche idea can be profitable. You don’t want to spend a lot of time optimizing your website for search engine and promoting your website only to find out later that there is no demand for your products or services in your niche market. This is how you can use AdWords to test your niche idea.
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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 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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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 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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Another pretty good article to help you sell your newsletter writing and production services. Now, I don’t mean you should print out and show them the article — it’s only fair that if you do that, you include the author’s bio, which kind of defeats the purpose. Instead, use it to help you generate ideas for your own pitches and proposals to prospects. — EES

Unedited Guest Article by David Gruttadaurio

According to the Harvard Business Review, 91% of small businesses do absolutely nothing to retain their existing clients. That means only 9% of small business owners ‘get’ these facts:

• The average American business loses 50% of its customer base every 5 years.
• An existing customer spends an average of 67% more than new customers.
• It costs 7 to 9 times more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain an old one.

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You don’t do booklets? Well, play this game: Every time you see booklet replace it with ebook or whatever infoproduct you happen to be publishing. Heck, you can plug in blog and this article takes on an interesting “how to promote your blogs” angle. — EES

Unedited Guest Article by Kim Hillman

Have you been wondering just how you’ll build your booklet business once your booklet is ready for market? Here’s a little marketing secret for you. Every booklet you create will market all of your other booklets, as well as other products and services you may have to offer.
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Unedited Guest Article by Sally Shields

Being big fan of Deepak Chopra’s, I am always very aware of the law of giving and receiving. I feel this is the best way to get one’s message out on a larger scale.

Many people ask, “How can you make money when you’re giving so much away?” But, believe it or not, the more you give away, the more money that is attracted to you, because the universe gets the message that you have abundance and just helps create more of it!

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