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Got An Ebook In You?
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualitySo everybody’s writing an ebook, and you want to get in on the action, too! But you don’t know where to start and if you did, you wouldn’t know what to do when.
Here are a few tips to help you get your thinking cap to working…
Think about your title
You’ll want to make it catchy enough to attract the “fast and curious”–those who speed read titles. Your title should be such that it helps your readers to find answers to their questions.
Who are your writing for?
Choose your audience before you start to write your e-book. Decide which type of audience will benefit from your subject. And also think about demographics like the age, culture, social background and education of the audience you want to attract.
Get going on your document
Once you have a “foundation” for your e-book you can start writing. One of the best options to maintain your document is to write in MS Word.
By writing in Ms Word (Open Source) or some similar format, you can easily make changes to your document when you need to. You can also check for spelling errors as you go along.–although MS Word is not exactly the be all and end all of spell check!
Also, select a font size that can be easy to read for people of all age groups. And, avoid using too many fonts as this may annoy your readers.
Once you have all these tips at play together, your ebook will come to life!
This little book Make Money Online: Write & Sell Ebooks Guide by Scott Boyd has some tips that you might find useful, as well.
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read comments (0)The Eyes Have It!
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityIt`s a well-known fact that large blocks of copy in email letters, sales copy and web content, can intimidate, and may often send people running for the hills–or at least looking for the Delete or back button!
The solution?
Break your paragraphs into two to four sentences. Use several subheadings throughout your email letter and web copy.
And use asterisks, dashes, and ellipses (…) to give your copy more rhythm.
Bullet points are also excellent eye-catchers and breaker-uppers!
Email Marketing” An Hour A Day by Jeanniey Mullen, David Daniels and David Gilmour is a step-by-step guide to introduce you to the basics of email marketing that you might offer some helpful insight to you.
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Need Ideas for Tweets?
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityWho says you don’t know what to tweet about?
If you’re looking for things to tweet about for your business, consider some of these ideas to help you get started using Twitter in your strategy to promote your business:
Tweet if you’re:
Now, for as many ideas as there are here, you can probably come up with many other reasons to tweet. These ideas ought to help you get started with your creativity. Jewels of Life: Believe, Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA, Righting Your Writing, Writing
Creating Your Blog with Passion
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityIs a blog in your future? Or a “blog makeover?”
There are many ways to write and maintain a blog, one of them is to have a passion for having it in the first place!
In fact, your subject must really speak to you in order for you to be able to write, and often, about it.
You want your visitors to know they can depend upon you to have excellent, informative posts on a regular basis that they can set their clocks by. If you’re sporadic with your postings, they may lose interest. Or, they may just forget to return.
As a result, you may be leaving money on the table.
So be disciplined with your blogging efforts. If necessary, schedule your posts ahead of time for “distribution” over a specific period of time.
If you don’t have the passion for your subject, it’s hard to expect your visitors to have it, too.
Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett have a really neat book:
ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
that you might want to take a look at; it has a comprehensive “set of secrets” to getting you on your way to earning while blogging.
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Articles – the Workhorse for Your Business
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityNot so long ago, over the course of several days, I shared numerous tips you might use to help you get a little extra oomph with your Internet marketing by using articles.
I’ve found a couple more to share with you:
1. Publish an ebook, using some the articles you’ve already written
Since we’re already discussed writing articles as a means to market your business and then submitting them to article directories, take some of those, group them together in “like topics” and then convert them into an ebook.
2. Use your articles as an add on bonus when people purchase your product
In the meantime, have you seen Robert Bly’s ebook, How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit? It’s full of additional tips for content writers like you.
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The Long Arm of Your Email
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityWhen you’re sending an email to a lot of recipients, ask yourself if every person on your “To” list really needs to know what you’re about to share.
If the recipients you’re targeting have no use for the information or if they are most likely to not even know what you’re talking about, don’t bother to send your email to them.
Especially, if there’s a chance they won’t remember signing up for email from you in the first place; they may think of you as spam and report you as such.
And then, of course, think about what you’re actually saying before you hit send. Particularly if there is a “heat of the moment” time when you write something you really don’t want anyone to see.
But in haste you go ahead and hit send. And much like that ice cream sundae, which is forever on your hips, it’s too late to take back what you said in your email…
’cause once you “let go”, it’s on the Internet forever!
This little gem, E-Mail: A Write It Well Guide, by Janis Fisher Chan, has some additional tips to help you craft some killer email messages.
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Making Your Articles Work for You Even More
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityLast week over several days I popped inwith some ideas you can use to get a little extra oomph for your business by using articles.
So now, let’s add these three to those other tips:
1. Give permission on your web site for others to republish your articles, if they include your full bio.
2.Contact editors of ezines, especially those with ezines in your niche, to see if they would be willing to put your article in their ezine.
3.Post your article to directories that are specifically “content driven”.
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Curbside Appeal: Your Web Site Affect
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityGot a sec?
When you get a chance, take a look at your Web site with a critical eye.
In particular, pay special attention to your “curbside appeal”–things like any graphics you might have; how distracting are they? If they are.
What about underlined words; bolding and italics?
While I like to “underline”, “bold” and “italic” with the best of them, I know it’s especially important to keep those “features” to a minimum on a Web site.
And sometimes I fail miserably!
So look here, Website Traffic Secrets, a Guide to Traffic Generation, has some additional tips to help you go over your Web site’s effectiveness.
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Increase Your Business Visibility with Articles
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityYesterday I began a multi-point post on how you might use articles to increase the PR for your business.
Since I have several points to make, I decided to post the article in “bite-size” bits over a number of days.
So, then, here are a few more “points to ponder” toward using articles to up your business anty:
1. Offer an article as a free gift when people refer others to you.
This is quite easy and so simple; you’ve got your article in hand already so all you’d need to do is to send your referrals a link to the download of your article.
2. Provide an article as a free gift to those who subscribe to your opt-in list.
Visitors to your site like to have a “take-away” of something that shows you know your stuff; an article will also increase your knowledge stature to your readers.
3. Contact local colleges, seminar or workshop presenters, and other training organizations to see if your article would make a nice addition to their training materials packet.
This item is one you might not consider. Nevertheless, it would be a good way to get your business acumen in front of a local market.
Stop back tomorrow to pick up a few more ways to use your articles to get killer PR for your business!
In the meantime, have you seen Robert Bly’s ebook, How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit? It’s full of additional tips for content writers like you.
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Using Articles To “Up the PR” For Your Business
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityThere’s more than one way to skin a cat and, so too, writing articles has more than one way to promote your business–for free!
Since indirectly articles are a news source, they are much more credible than a paid advertisement. In fact, writing articles is a super way to get your message in front of thousands of eyes. Sharing your knowledge in articles can establish your credibility in your Industry; in addition to promoting name recognition for you.
You can also introduce a new product to the world using your article writing! That is, as long as your article doesn’t just sit; you’ve got to put it to work!
In view of this, I have a number of ways to help you “get more bang for your buck” with your articles! Which I will share with you over the next few days.
Here are two, though, to “whet your appetite”:
1. Offer an article as a FREE REPORT to your customers.
2. Write your articles and put them in your autoresponder. Then drip them to your list.
Stop back tomorrow to pick up a few more ways to use your articles to get killer PR for your business!
In the meantime, take a peek at Robert Bly’s ebook, How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit. It’s full of additional tips for content writers like you.
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