This Is the Final Post of the Year.
Unfortunately, I won't be posting anything else for the rest of the year, however, there is much more to come in early 2010! Until then, this blog is temporarily suspended while I settle into my new home at SQUIDOO.com
While there won't be any new posts here for a while, there is still plenty of HELPFUL information on the previous posts you find here.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
COMPLETE 5 Part Series: "Write For Pay"
Monday, December 14, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Google AdWords To Reach Frustrated Writers
Google AdWords Promotion
A recent Google promotion has prompted my decision to try Google AdWords. AdWords is yet another great program that Google has created as a way to help writers (and others) promote their online writing activities. It's a way to control your advertising budget easily, on a day-to-day basis. As a promotion to get new AdWords members, they are currently giving $100 coupons to join. I'm wondering just how well this mode of advertising is going to work for me. I have to admit, it's an area that is new for me, since my only mode of advertising so far has been for me to post small classified ads. I've often thought about Google AdWords, but never really looked into the program. Google's popularity is widespread. The Adsense program has swept the nation (actually the world). It is one of the most used contextual advertising opportunities on the internet. Google AdWords is it's counterpart,and is equally as popular, thanks to it's many advertising members who bid and compete for ad words. Soon, I'll see just how the whole thing really works.
Google Adsense for Contextual Advertising
If you write for pay, you can probably credit whatever ad revenue money you receive to Google Adsense. Those cute little ads that are placed strategically on thousands and thousands of pages have become the answer to a lot of freelance writer's prayers. The frustrated writer that once struggled to find a paying gig can now stop waiting around and make something happen themselves. A little creativity and a lot of motivation and stamina online can go a long way. New writers have cropped up everywhere, and they come in every shape, size and genre. Bloggers, Hubbers,content writers and various types of affiliate marketers are all enjoying pieces of the Google pie! With so many millions of dollars changing back and forth through our collective Google hands, why are there still frustrated writers? For every successful article writer online, there are probably 100 more that aren't making a dime. This is a great cause of frustration.
Why Some Writers Continue To Be Frustrated
Some writers continue to be frustrated because although the potential to earn, and even the opportunity to earn, is right there before them, it doesn't usually come easy. It takes a lot of consistent work and a WHOLE lot of focus. The excessive frustration comes in when new writers began to measure their own success by the next writer. Overly focusing on someone else means you're probably not focused on yourself enough! You can't expect to be receiving the same results as the veteran writer that has been diligently at it for some years. You can't realistically expect to make tons of money from doing absolutely nothing. And you really shouldn't expect to be rolling in Google money after a few days or weeks of simply placing ads. Things really don't usually happen that way.
I say it doesn't usually happen that way, because there's always some new writer always ready to say "I knew a friend of a friend of a friend that was an overnight success, thanks to Google." It's true, there have been cases of some new writers who generated a large and regular income stream literally overnight using Google and other contextual advertisers. I'm sure their methods and frequency of marketing and traffic generating had to play a key role. Whatever the case, they are the exception to the rule. Freelance writers set out to write for pay everyday. They turn to Google to earn a residual income. Many of them have a lot of great creative and innovative ideals. Too bad that the first few months, they make very little, if any money through contextual ads. By the time they WOULD have started generating a small but regular income, they've threw up their hands and thrown in the towel!
Frustrated Writers Can Motivate One Another
Frustrated writers need to take the time to network and exchange links with other writers. Leaving your comments and sharing both your ups and your downs with other writers can help. Even though you feel like a frustrated writer, you can motivate another writer. We learn and grow through sharing our personal triumphs and defeats in life. The same thing is true online. I'd say about 90% of the different kind of paid writers who use Google have said the same thing. They didn't see ANY money from Google until about the fourth or fifth month, and then it was barely enough to meet the $50 payout thresh-hold (it's $100 now). When I first began to read those type of statements, at first it depressed me. But then I realized, the slump or lull in my financial success was NORMAL. I started to reason, if the other writers were right about the DOWNSIDE, they're probably right about the UPSIDE! And they were. After one long year of dedicated research and observation on the subject, I also agree with those statements. As the months go by, the few Google drips I used to receive have become full grown drops! LOL
Seriously, I have finally begun to get paid enough to know I couldn't possibly give up now! I'm putting the pieces together more and more, day by day and my Google success is looming (I've written a lot of valuable information on Google and the challenges of writing for pay). So I guess it is about time for me to go to the next phase - Google AdWords.
NEW FREE LINK EXCHANGE - CONNECT WITH OTHER WRITERS & RESOURCES
I've recently come up with another solution to the whole matter of traffic generating. If you want to join my FREE Link Exchange for new (or just frustrated) writers, just click over to Real Help For New Writers - Link List and follow the instructions at the top of the page (in yellow). You can add your url address right then. It will be added to the current Link List.
ttfn - Charm
A recent Google promotion has prompted my decision to try Google AdWords. AdWords is yet another great program that Google has created as a way to help writers (and others) promote their online writing activities. It's a way to control your advertising budget easily, on a day-to-day basis. As a promotion to get new AdWords members, they are currently giving $100 coupons to join. I'm wondering just how well this mode of advertising is going to work for me. I have to admit, it's an area that is new for me, since my only mode of advertising so far has been for me to post small classified ads. I've often thought about Google AdWords, but never really looked into the program. Google's popularity is widespread. The Adsense program has swept the nation (actually the world). It is one of the most used contextual advertising opportunities on the internet. Google AdWords is it's counterpart,and is equally as popular, thanks to it's many advertising members who bid and compete for ad words. Soon, I'll see just how the whole thing really works.
Google Adsense for Contextual Advertising
If you write for pay, you can probably credit whatever ad revenue money you receive to Google Adsense. Those cute little ads that are placed strategically on thousands and thousands of pages have become the answer to a lot of freelance writer's prayers. The frustrated writer that once struggled to find a paying gig can now stop waiting around and make something happen themselves. A little creativity and a lot of motivation and stamina online can go a long way. New writers have cropped up everywhere, and they come in every shape, size and genre. Bloggers, Hubbers,content writers and various types of affiliate marketers are all enjoying pieces of the Google pie! With so many millions of dollars changing back and forth through our collective Google hands, why are there still frustrated writers? For every successful article writer online, there are probably 100 more that aren't making a dime. This is a great cause of frustration.
Why Some Writers Continue To Be Frustrated
Some writers continue to be frustrated because although the potential to earn, and even the opportunity to earn, is right there before them, it doesn't usually come easy. It takes a lot of consistent work and a WHOLE lot of focus. The excessive frustration comes in when new writers began to measure their own success by the next writer. Overly focusing on someone else means you're probably not focused on yourself enough! You can't expect to be receiving the same results as the veteran writer that has been diligently at it for some years. You can't realistically expect to make tons of money from doing absolutely nothing. And you really shouldn't expect to be rolling in Google money after a few days or weeks of simply placing ads. Things really don't usually happen that way.
I say it doesn't usually happen that way, because there's always some new writer always ready to say "I knew a friend of a friend of a friend that was an overnight success, thanks to Google." It's true, there have been cases of some new writers who generated a large and regular income stream literally overnight using Google and other contextual advertisers. I'm sure their methods and frequency of marketing and traffic generating had to play a key role. Whatever the case, they are the exception to the rule. Freelance writers set out to write for pay everyday. They turn to Google to earn a residual income. Many of them have a lot of great creative and innovative ideals. Too bad that the first few months, they make very little, if any money through contextual ads. By the time they WOULD have started generating a small but regular income, they've threw up their hands and thrown in the towel!
Frustrated Writers Can Motivate One Another
Frustrated writers need to take the time to network and exchange links with other writers. Leaving your comments and sharing both your ups and your downs with other writers can help. Even though you feel like a frustrated writer, you can motivate another writer. We learn and grow through sharing our personal triumphs and defeats in life. The same thing is true online. I'd say about 90% of the different kind of paid writers who use Google have said the same thing. They didn't see ANY money from Google until about the fourth or fifth month, and then it was barely enough to meet the $50 payout thresh-hold (it's $100 now). When I first began to read those type of statements, at first it depressed me. But then I realized, the slump or lull in my financial success was NORMAL. I started to reason, if the other writers were right about the DOWNSIDE, they're probably right about the UPSIDE! And they were. After one long year of dedicated research and observation on the subject, I also agree with those statements. As the months go by, the few Google drips I used to receive have become full grown drops! LOL
Seriously, I have finally begun to get paid enough to know I couldn't possibly give up now! I'm putting the pieces together more and more, day by day and my Google success is looming (I've written a lot of valuable information on Google and the challenges of writing for pay). So I guess it is about time for me to go to the next phase - Google AdWords.
NEW FREE LINK EXCHANGE - CONNECT WITH OTHER WRITERS & RESOURCES
I've recently come up with another solution to the whole matter of traffic generating. If you want to join my FREE Link Exchange for new (or just frustrated) writers, just click over to Real Help For New Writers - Link List and follow the instructions at the top of the page (in yellow). You can add your url address right then. It will be added to the current Link List.
ttfn - Charm
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
New Ways To Promote Your Writing
Networking online with other writers provides a great opportunity to find new ways to promote your writing. Just this week alone, I found out about two great websites and I have started using them to promote my blogs, my webpages, and my HubPage articles that I've written.
The name of the two websites are:
"She Told Me" and " Who Hub
Both of them are relatively new and they both have the potential to be a serious promotional vehicle. With "She Told Me", you get an opportunity to promote your blogs, articles, and webpages by witing a brief "scoop" about them, then inserting your url address in order to link directly to the page. This is for you writers that are looking for ways to get the word out about your blogs, articles, webpages, and anything else you may be doing on line. Networking online has never been better!
As for the other site, "Who Hub", they allow you to interview yourself (so to speak), by answering a bunch of questions pertaining to your field of choice. They allow you to add url addresses to promote yourself as well. They even encourage it, as does "She Told Me". I've only just gotten acquainted with these sites, but I plan on writing some in depth information on them soon. Until then, take a moment to pop over and look at the format of these two sites.
Until the next time
ttfn - Charm
The name of the two websites are:
"She Told Me" and " Who Hub
Both of them are relatively new and they both have the potential to be a serious promotional vehicle. With "She Told Me", you get an opportunity to promote your blogs, articles, and webpages by witing a brief "scoop" about them, then inserting your url address in order to link directly to the page. This is for you writers that are looking for ways to get the word out about your blogs, articles, webpages, and anything else you may be doing on line. Networking online has never been better!
As for the other site, "Who Hub", they allow you to interview yourself (so to speak), by answering a bunch of questions pertaining to your field of choice. They allow you to add url addresses to promote yourself as well. They even encourage it, as does "She Told Me". I've only just gotten acquainted with these sites, but I plan on writing some in depth information on them soon. Until then, take a moment to pop over and look at the format of these two sites.
Until the next time
ttfn - Charm
Monday, November 16, 2009
Focus On Writing And The Earnings Will Grow
In my quest for more discipline in writing, I've decided to focus on writing and the earnings will grow. I've just started making a regular salary from getting paid a flat rate for various type of articles. In doing so, I've been having a tough time trying not to get sidetracked with watching my earnings. I work within certain deadlines, therefore the earnings from my writing grows in increments, depending on when they're accepted and paid.
Getting paid a flat rate for your articles is a great way to build writing endurance. There's nothing like having the confidence of writing and knowing your payment is on it's way to the bank. But watching that payment from the moment it is posted to your writer's account, until the moment it is actually paid to your bank, can be counterproductive. I enjoy writing for a living (even when I wasn't making any money), and now that I'm actually writing and getting paid, I want to increase my momentum. This, like everything else, will take discipline.
If you work for Demand Studios, another writer's website, or some other client that consistently pays you to write articles on a flat fee basis, it can end up being very lucrative. Once you establish a good routine, a good source for research and online references, and start focusing on the freedom of writing for pay, the earnings will begin to grow and grow.
Until next time,
ttfn - ta ta for now
Getting paid a flat rate for your articles is a great way to build writing endurance. There's nothing like having the confidence of writing and knowing your payment is on it's way to the bank. But watching that payment from the moment it is posted to your writer's account, until the moment it is actually paid to your bank, can be counterproductive. I enjoy writing for a living (even when I wasn't making any money), and now that I'm actually writing and getting paid, I want to increase my momentum. This, like everything else, will take discipline.
If you work for Demand Studios, another writer's website, or some other client that consistently pays you to write articles on a flat fee basis, it can end up being very lucrative. Once you establish a good routine, a good source for research and online references, and start focusing on the freedom of writing for pay, the earnings will begin to grow and grow.
Until next time,
ttfn - ta ta for now
Sunday, November 15, 2009
A New Source Of Online Income
Blogging For Pay
Recently I found a new source of online income, and it took me away from my blogs. Blog writing can be time consuming for some writers. You first start out with a plan to write everyday, sometimes all day, but that plan is short lived. One thing or another ends up crowding into your blogging time. If you blog for fun, it won't make too big a difference when you resume posting (though you may lose a little of your fan base). But if you're blogging for pay, lapses in posting can be a problem. When your blog (or blogs) is a source of income for you, adjustments must be made. posts. I found it frustrating, bouncing around trying to stretch my time in order to generate income blogging, while writing in other ways, for pay. A frustrated writer means a less productive writer.
The Demand For Discipline
I am now writing consistently for a website that pays me a flat fee per article. I have a great demand for discipline in my writing life, more than ever before. My blogs that had been making me a small amount of regular income in the past have begun to suffer. A good writing schedule demands that you take time to prioritize so you can get all the necessary writing done. Once again, I am readjusting my writing schedule to accommodate all my "write for pay" activities. Exercising more discipline means making time to write my blogs (at least those that are generating an income) and to get my "daily article writing" done and published.
My new source of online income is a great website called: DEMAND STUDIOS and I absolutely love them! I feel the same way as I did when I first discovered Constant Content as a legitimate source of writing income. I had cooled off on Constant Content, because the writing is all done on spec. That means you write, you submit and you hold your breath, hoping your article gets selected for purchase. Demand Studios is NOT spec writing. Unlike Constant Content, once you "claim" an assignment, you're the only one writing it, and if you write a quality article, per the format and guidelines that are specified, you can count on getting paid!
I'll be posting more about the Demand Studios website and how it works, later. I plan to take a few moments and write a breif article about the site, so be sure to return for details.
ttfn - ta ta for now
Recently I found a new source of online income, and it took me away from my blogs. Blog writing can be time consuming for some writers. You first start out with a plan to write everyday, sometimes all day, but that plan is short lived. One thing or another ends up crowding into your blogging time. If you blog for fun, it won't make too big a difference when you resume posting (though you may lose a little of your fan base). But if you're blogging for pay, lapses in posting can be a problem. When your blog (or blogs) is a source of income for you, adjustments must be made. posts. I found it frustrating, bouncing around trying to stretch my time in order to generate income blogging, while writing in other ways, for pay. A frustrated writer means a less productive writer.
The Demand For Discipline
I am now writing consistently for a website that pays me a flat fee per article. I have a great demand for discipline in my writing life, more than ever before. My blogs that had been making me a small amount of regular income in the past have begun to suffer. A good writing schedule demands that you take time to prioritize so you can get all the necessary writing done. Once again, I am readjusting my writing schedule to accommodate all my "write for pay" activities. Exercising more discipline means making time to write my blogs (at least those that are generating an income) and to get my "daily article writing" done and published.
My new source of online income is a great website called: DEMAND STUDIOS and I absolutely love them! I feel the same way as I did when I first discovered Constant Content as a legitimate source of writing income. I had cooled off on Constant Content, because the writing is all done on spec. That means you write, you submit and you hold your breath, hoping your article gets selected for purchase. Demand Studios is NOT spec writing. Unlike Constant Content, once you "claim" an assignment, you're the only one writing it, and if you write a quality article, per the format and guidelines that are specified, you can count on getting paid!
I'll be posting more about the Demand Studios website and how it works, later. I plan to take a few moments and write a breif article about the site, so be sure to return for details.
ttfn - ta ta for now
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Holiday Season - A Good Reason to Start Writing! For Pay
If you're the kind of person that tends to put things off, you will probably find yourself in bad shape this holiday season. The high price of Christmas shopping will only be higher this year, thanks to our poor economy. There are a number of ways you can get paid for writing articles and it's a great way to earn extra Xmas money this holiday season.
Whether you start writing for pay by generating income with Google or other contextual and affiliate advertising, or whether you register for the "ghost writing" website I refer you to, you can begin to earn money starting right now.
Look around at the information you find on this page. It provides a number of LEGITIMATE ways to start getting paid by writing. All my articles that I direct you to gives FREE step-by-step information on EXACTLY how to get the most from writing for pay jobs, resources and opportunities.
If you've been thinking about writing for pay - don't put if off another day! The holiday season is the best reason to START getting paid to write!
TTFN - ta ta for now!
Charm
Whether you start writing for pay by generating income with Google or other contextual and affiliate advertising, or whether you register for the "ghost writing" website I refer you to, you can begin to earn money starting right now.
Look around at the information you find on this page. It provides a number of LEGITIMATE ways to start getting paid by writing. All my articles that I direct you to gives FREE step-by-step information on EXACTLY how to get the most from writing for pay jobs, resources and opportunities.
If you've been thinking about writing for pay - don't put if off another day! The holiday season is the best reason to START getting paid to write!
TTFN - ta ta for now!
Charm
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Affiliate Marketing - Hopping On And Off The Tracks
When we use the term affiliate marketing, to some people, it conjures up images of used car salesmen trying to sell us a bunch of junk. Yes, affiliate marketing is the stepchild of online writing. Her other children (writers) don't look too kindly on their step sibling.
That is the overall feeling about affiliate marketing. No one seems to like the ideal of someone selling them something, no matter how much they may love, or need to buy! Maybe that's why I always try to shy away from the kind of writing that I am constantly drawn to doing. I keep hopping on and off the track when it comes to affiliate marketing. I see a lot of great products that I think about advertising, and in a number of ways. But if things don't work out like I want, and when I want, I get discouraged, and move on.
Yet, I love this kind of writing and I end up returning! I am a freelance writer, first and foremost, but when it comes to the things I like to write about, making money online happens to be top of the list. If that puts me in the category of step child, so be it.
Why the conversation about this topic today? I've gone back to one of my previous blogs that I started, and began posting on it again. The title of the blog: Motivating Marketing Newbies(MMN). I loved creating and writing it, because, like the Motivating Constant Content Writers blog, I felt that I was sincerely helping new writers. This getting paid online business is not an easy thing. It can and probably will, wear your spirit down if you're not taking some kind of safeguard to stay plugged in to like minded people and stay motivated.
Those who do a little marketing on the side (and that should really be ALL of us, even if it's only self-promotion - remember the last thing I posted here?, I encourage you to pop over to my Motivating Marketing Newbies blog and check it out. I plan to provide some really great resources, specifically for those who do affiliate marketing for other people's products, so stay tuned.
ttfn - ta ta for now
Charm
That is the overall feeling about affiliate marketing. No one seems to like the ideal of someone selling them something, no matter how much they may love, or need to buy! Maybe that's why I always try to shy away from the kind of writing that I am constantly drawn to doing. I keep hopping on and off the track when it comes to affiliate marketing. I see a lot of great products that I think about advertising, and in a number of ways. But if things don't work out like I want, and when I want, I get discouraged, and move on.
Yet, I love this kind of writing and I end up returning! I am a freelance writer, first and foremost, but when it comes to the things I like to write about, making money online happens to be top of the list. If that puts me in the category of step child, so be it.
Why the conversation about this topic today? I've gone back to one of my previous blogs that I started, and began posting on it again. The title of the blog: Motivating Marketing Newbies(MMN). I loved creating and writing it, because, like the Motivating Constant Content Writers blog, I felt that I was sincerely helping new writers. This getting paid online business is not an easy thing. It can and probably will, wear your spirit down if you're not taking some kind of safeguard to stay plugged in to like minded people and stay motivated.
Those who do a little marketing on the side (and that should really be ALL of us, even if it's only self-promotion - remember the last thing I posted here?, I encourage you to pop over to my Motivating Marketing Newbies blog and check it out. I plan to provide some really great resources, specifically for those who do affiliate marketing for other people's products, so stay tuned.
ttfn - ta ta for now
Charm
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