Comments on: Attention Lifetips Writers

By: m

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:01:16 +0000

Thanks for posting this! I have been considering LifeTips.com for a while now. I’m not so sure I want to go for it.

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:59:15 +0000

Erik you are a read for weary eyes! I enjoy your comical ways!

I just stared off into internet space so I have to go to bed now. Cya all later on.

“A man attempting to walk around the world, drowned today.” ~George Carlin

By: Erik Hare

Erik Hare — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:11:48 +0000

I just ventured over to lifetips for the very first time.

Pardon my confusion, but it seems rather .. Confucian. I don’t understand for a second how people are supposed to keep all the various admonitions and loosely jointed ideas straight.

Granted, I’m a person who has trouble remembering what he had for breakfast this morning*. I work in big themes and great flowing metaphors that careen wildly between possibly brilliant and certainly absurd. I don’t handle the details all that well. But how on earth is someone supposed to be able to make sense of so many disjointed aphorisms in the first place?

I dunno. I suppose there are other fairly obvious things in life that have somehow escaped me as well.

* Twinings Prince of Wales tea – I was only joking for effect.

By: Kim Hillman

Kim Hillman — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:12:51 +0000

Instead of writing a book for lifetips and hoping to get paid when it sells, why not write a booklet of your own and sell it yourself? A booklet is fast and easy to write, affordable to produce, and can be sold to quantity buyers by the hundreds or thousands, which can be quite lucrative for you.

I’ve currently got two booklets on the market titled “60 Ways To Make Fast Cash” and “119 Ideas To Save You Money Now.” I don’t even promote them to individuals, although I have had individuals learn about them through other means, usually word of mouth, and purchase copies.

I’ve now got two more booklets in production and due to my earlier success I am the CEO of Up & At ‘Em Publications – a company devoted to publishing, marketing and fundraising with booklets.

A booklet can take your writing to a whole new level, not to mention your finances!

Kim Hillman
CEO of Up & At ‘Em Publications
http://www.upandatempublications.com

By: Christina C.

Christina C. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:58:13 +0000

I wrote a book for them. Is it selling? Yes. It’s hard to say how profitable it is just yet, though. To the person who spent twelve hours on it – I’m amazed you can knock out 101 tips in 12 hours. I couldn’t even type that fast if I wanted to. I must have spent well over 80 hours on the book. That’s including research, interviews, etc. I think for books to do really well in general, you have to do a lot of marketing. No matter what the topic is, they will not sell themselves. I did some rather minimal marketing for mine.

By: Mariella

Mariella — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:33:04 +0000

^errr…I meant I don’t know if that’s a fair rate since I have absolutely no idea.

By: Mariella

Mariella — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:48:41 +0000

Katharine> Thanks a lot for the tip. I’m being offered 15% and since I’m a neophyte, I’m not sure if that’s fair.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:40:16 +0000

I signed up for Life Tips about a year ago and wrote my first 10 tips and then it became a bit confusing to me how and when you actually got paid for writing so I never did it again (but I think I am still on there)I was thinking about going back as I am still finding regular gigs very hard to come by…hmmm, I am not sure

I thought about doing the tip book but it seemed like a lot of work for little money

By: Tina Marie Frawley

Tina Marie Frawley — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:03:16 +0000

I had done the proposal for a 101 book but when the editor mistook me for another writer and became down right nasty to me, I thought twice about doing it. She did say she was sorry and wanted me to write the book, but I decided I was better off doing it on my own. I found another venue for the book through one of my freelance gigs and I am excited about the book coming out soon. Even if it does not hit the best seller list, or land me on Oprah’s couch, I know that I am getting paid fairly for my work and not forking it over to LifeTips.

It is possible for us to successfully publish our own books as writers and reap the rewards. I really feel like LifeTips was all about taking advantage of writers. That is just my own opinion though.

Happy Writing,
Tina

By: Katharine Swan

Katharine Swan — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:10:50 +0000

Mariella -- I don't remember it all off the top of my head, but check out How to Be Your Own Literary Agent by Richard Curtis. He has a pretty thorough explanation -- high, average, and low royalties for different types of books (i.e. hardback, trade, mass market). Very good book.