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Ebook Profits Made Easy (Ezine)

This week, Fab Freelance Writing Ezine helps you to write and sell ebooks.

Here's a brief except:

Being comfortable writing ebooks not only helps you to create and sell your own information products, it's also a highly lucrative skill. You can write for others, as well as for yourself.

BTW, if you're writing for others, you should be charging around $2000 to $5000 per ebook, as a rule of thumb. I recommend that you get comfortable writing ebooks for yourself, then use these as your "portfolio" -- your buyers want to know that you can actually complete the project for which they hire you.

The issue will be out tomorrow, delivered straight to your Inbox.

Enjoy. :-)

Get Top Writing Jobs: the Simple Rules (Ezine)

Here we are, in 2011. Hard to believe isn't it?

We're starting the new year off with a bang with this week's issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine.

Our theme is getting top writing jobs.

Here's an excerpt:

Why do some writers get great, easy-to-please, well-paying clients, and others get stuck with stingy, demanding and impossible-to-please clients?

Yes, there are secrets to getting great clients, and the key to success is... YOU.

Yes, you. 

In our article: "Get Top Writing Jobs: the Simple Rules", I discuss a couple of simple, simple, SIMPLE rules. 

Did you get the "simple" part? I hope you did.

I'm fond of saying that if you follow these two simple rules, you can be laziest writer ever born, and still make a top income... you just have to know what these rules are, and take them seriously.

As you may know, I coach writers. Often writers say: "I tried Elance (Or Craigslist, or whatever), and people just don't want to pay writers." They tell me that they just can't make money at these venues.

Read more in the issue, it contains a couple of articles you shouldn't mess.

The issue lands in your Inbox tomorrow.

Enjoy: it will help to make 2011 your best-ever year as a writer. :-)

Merry Christmas, Dear Writer

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At this joyous time of the year, I wish you everything you wish for yourself. Stay safe, have a wonderful, relaxing time... and don't forget to write.

Bless you. I've treasured your company this year, and I look forward to helping you to make 2011 spectacular.

In the immortal words of Charles Dickens:

"And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!"

On a writing note, remember, it's the final 24 hours for:

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Fab Freelance Writing Ezine: How to Create Money-Making Websites

In our next issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine we discuss creating money-making websites.

Here's an excerpt from the article: Web Writing: How to Create a Money-Making Website.

As a Web writer, your opportunities are unlimited. To take advantage of those opportunities, you need the ability to create money-making websites. Once you learn how it's done, you can develop multiple revenue streams, and put yourself in line for big paydays.

I've been creating websites for years. I look on them as investments. These sites all make money, and as they continue to generate income, their value increases. 

Today, it's laughably easy to create a site. All you need is an idea, a domain name, and WordPress. 

Let's look at how you can create a site which makes money -- in half an hour or less.

Subscribe today. The ezine comes to you completely free each week, and the new issue is out tomorrow. Enjoy. :-)

Writing and Getting Paid: $5 Articles and $500 Articles

There's never been a better time to be a writer. You can charge what you please, and will get paid what your writing is worth.

This brings up the vexed topic of $5 articles.

These gigs are easy to win, and the articles are easy to write.

Of course, unless you live somewhere the living is cheap, you can't survive on $5 articles... and there's no need to.

I created Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) to show writers how to make real money from their writing. There are things you need to know, and you won't learn them scooting around the Web, writing for content factories.

This coming week, in Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, we'll discuss the difference between $5 and $500 articles. It's very simple. There IS a difference, and there's no conspiracy forcing you to write for less than you're worth. :-)

What you choose to write is up to you, no one else. But you do need to know that you have a choice.

When you know the difference between a $5 article, and a $500 one, you'll be well on the way to a great writing career.

Writers: Cash for the Holidays

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A few days ago, I wrote a message to Fab Freelance Writing Ezine subscribers:

The holidays are coming... How does that sit with you? If you're like most writers, around this time of the year you're wishing that you'd been a little more proactive earlier -- say from last January onward.

It's not too late. If you get busy now, you and your family can have a great Christmas.

In this coming week's issue of the ezine, out tomorrow, you'll find some excellent ideas to help you to make cash for the holidays. You've got your writing skills, and they're all you need.

So, read the issue, and start tapping the keyboard. :-)

Of course, the ezine's content is exclusive, so you must subscribe, if you're not subscribed already. 

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,
Please to put a penny in an old man's hat;
If you haven't got a penny a ha'penny will do,
If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you.
- - - Mother Goose
(Thanks to this page)

100 Day Writing Challenge: Day 1 -- Get Started

Our 100 Day Writing Challenge has started. If you haven't enrolled, please be aware that enrollments close on September 25.

Here's a little taste of the challenge, an excerpt from today's message:

Please write this down: "a task is something which takes no longer than 10, 20 or 30 minutes." 

If a task takes longer than that, it's a project. In other words, you're chunking everything right down, into slivers of time.

Think of it this way:

Intention => Goal => Projects => Tasks

When you chunk every down into slivers of time, it stops you procrastinating. If you only have 20 minutes to do a task, you'll do it. :-)

To help you to chunk, get a timer utility. Search Google for "timer utility". You'll find little software applications for both the Mac and PC. Pick one, and install it, and USE IT.

I have one on my Mac, called oddly enough (smile) Timer Utility. I use it all day, every day, to time my tasks. Once the timer ends, that task is DONE. If it's incomplete, it becomes another task for later today, or for tomorrow.

If you're not familiar with chunking, the way I use it is similar to the Pomodoro Technique.

Happy Challenge to you. Enjoy your 100 days. 

100 Day Writing Challenge: Starts Tomorrow

Are you ready for the 100 Day Writing Challenge?

The challenge kicks off tomorrow, so clear space in your writing schedule. Aim to spend an hour a day on it, if you can.

Here's the basic information:

* The Challenge's primary aim is to ensure that you're making at least $200 a day more from your writing than you're making now, and that you'll be well on the way to making at least $70 an hour from your writing;

* The program's conducted via email, you'll receive one or two messages a week;

* Budget at least an hour a day to work with the program and your writing;

* The program is helpful for writers at varying levels of experience, so whether you're a newbie or a pro, the program will help you to take your writing career to a whole new level;

* You can use the program to write anything at all -- develop a copywriting career, write a book, write for the Web... anything you choose.

Be accountable: blog your challenge

Several writers are blogging their challenge; it's a great way to be accountable. You can blog your challenge-experiences on your own blog, and /or on Fab Freelance Writing Blog too (contact me if you're up for the latter.)

I'm excited, and I hope you're getting excited too.

I've had several questions about your Challenge goal. Don't worry if you haven't set a goal yet. You'll set your goal in the first few days of the challenge.

More tomorrow -- enroll to join us.