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31 Free Online Writing Courses : Freelance Writing Jobs — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:29:19 +0000

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By: Jessie F.

Jessie F. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:49:37 +0000

I think another way to continue it is if you have your own website created with your resume, bio, Picture, a portfolio, etc. Exposing your skills and trade along with marketing yourself through outsourcing sites, like guru.com, Getafreelancer.com, and VOIS.com- oh and we can’t forget Twitter are great tactics to keep your income coming in.

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:04:48 +0000

@Beth – I worked for several blog networks and none of them had as big a monthly payoff as this blog. It’s a matter of a couple of thousand dollars a month vs. a couple of hundred.

Let me explain a few things though. It takes time, months and even years for a blog or website to bring in traffic and enough revenue that you can quit your day job. Blogs rarely ever happen over night. Plus there are so many different types of revenue streams to play around with. You have to know your readers well, and take it from there.

I think a nichey blog does a lot better than a blog with no direction. People are less confused when they know what you’re blogging about. Not choosing an over saturated niche is important though. Right now everyone and his brother are writing about working at home, freelancing, freelance writing, blogging, green living, mommy stuff so if you’re writing about one of these, figure out a good angle that will set you apart from the rest, but will bring in interest.

You gave me some ideas for future blog posts here and at the Blog World Expo blog. Thanks for the inspiration.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:11:14 +0000

Deb, when you first started your FWJ, how did you go about advertising its presence? Anyone else have a blog that’s doing well with any thoughts on this? How do you build up hits, visibility, etc? I have a blog on one of the blog services, but I just don’t know if it’s worth continuing on there or if I should move it somewhere else. Can you do well with a general purpose blog, or do you really need a niche to pull people in? Lots of questions, but I’d appreciate any input any of you can give me.

By: Missy

Missy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:48:41 +0000

I like the idea of an Ebook best. Especially with the advent of the Kindle and the accompanying and successive iPhone app.

It’s a project I want to get done, just need to make the time for it.

On the topic of promo, so you promote your ebook via PPC? If so, how did you learn PPC.

Great tips!

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:05:39 +0000

@Kim – I would recommend first building up traffic to your blog and then going for the gold. You’ll need to know something about your readers’ habits before planning monetization strategies. Some communities are clickers and some are buyers. This blog does better with PPC ads as opposed to product sales. Once you know the ads your readers are likely to respond to, research the different programs available to bloggers and choose the ones that will work best for you.

By: Bruce Pohlmann

Bruce Pohlmann — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:12:50 +0000

I put my ebook online 10 months ago and, while I’m not going to get rich from the income, I do sell 10 books or so a month. It’s nice to see my paypal account go up without me doing anything.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:38:57 +0000

Hi, I have a question and it might seem like a dumb question but I’m really new to this whole writing online thing. How does a blog earn money? If you have a blog about television shows, or fashion, or alternative rock music etc. do you need to sell products like dvds, fashion clothes, or music cds on your site? How does the advertising work? I started a wordpress blog to get a feel for the idea of how blogs work but I have some ideas that I’d like to make specific blogs for.

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:12:33 +0000

@Anne – Last week I spoke as part of the Hot Summer Seminar series and my ebook sales skyrocketed. It was indeed a pleasant surprise.

@Kaarina – I’ll plan the post. It’s really not an exciting story. I think the right idea at the right time? I often wonder if I started this blog now, with so many others doing the same exact thing, if I’d have the same success?

@Janet – As I said above, I think traffic and revenue will go down if we stop blogging here, but I believe this blog will continue to earn. We get huge search traffic on some very old blog posts. Consider certain information websites that also get huge traffic even if new articles aren’t added each day. Sure, this blog will earn more money with daily updates, but it won’t roll over and die if I take a vacation or even a couple of months off.

@Danielle, there is an affiliate program for my ebook and I also do a lot of self promotion. I like e-junkie.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:25:09 +0000

Question for Ann & Deb – with your ebooks do you only promote them yourselves on your own sites or do you use an affiliate program? I’m currently working on an ebook and looking at affiliate program managers (clickbank, paydotcom, etc) to use but haven’t decided which one would be best or if using multiple affiliate program managers might be in my best interest. Would appreciate your input.

Cindy, Janet, Ann – while I haven’t gotten to this point myself I do know webmasters who build blogs, fill them full of content, get good traffic, and then leave them as is and still make decent money off of them. Blogs can be set up so that they are more like websites if you want. And with the right SEO, a nice amount of link exchanges, and good content they can stay in top rank of the search engines for a long time. Like I said, I haven’t tried it yet but I know several people who have and it works for them. Their earnings are lower per blog but they keep building and move on. Just my two cents.