Brainstorming Ideas to Create Your Information Product Empire
October 31, 2008
When you make the decision to market information products on the ‘net, your first step is in conducting some niche research to see which target audience could provide you with a virtual goldmine of profits.
You can’t just come up with a single idea for a narrow niche audience and expect that to be enough to deliver financial security for the long-term. Instead, you want to tap into a niche with endless possibilities, or at least enough to make your product development worthwhile.
Let’s say you decided to create a wedding planning guide in eBook form as your first information product. If you’re new to the business, then you might instantly think of creating a massive info product that covers everything in detail, from A to Z.
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Writing for SEO Without Losing Readability
October 30, 2008
Copywriting is one significant factor when you want to achieve excellent search engine ranking. Yet, a lot of times website owners think that all that they have to do is to incorporate keywords in page tags and include some keyword mentions in their articles. While SEO copywriting not exceedingly hard, writing for search engines is more complex than that.
“Search engine optimization copywriting” or SEO, is a method of writing viewable or easily scanned text on your web page which is very acceptable and readable for the internet user as well as targets certain or exact search terms, having the purpose of ranking high in search engines.
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E-Book Questions
October 29, 2008
Okay - I’m ready! After reading several posts about ebook package sales, I’m going to jump in the boat, too. I have a ton of stuff I used for other purposes, (homeschooling, tutoring, resources, etc.) that I can whip into ebooks in a fairly short amount of time and sell in a package sale format. I already have a couple of my hardcover unit studies that I sell in an ebook format, but if I’m going to do 10-12 more, I have further questions:
What is the ideal length for an ebook?
What is the usual font size for an ebook?
Do color “covers” make them sell better?
What is the best download size for an ebook?
If I sell 10 as part of a package, do I create one massive download file that contains all ten? Or, do they download individually? Read more
How to Make Your Blog More Appealing to Your Readers
October 28, 2008
Every blogger who earns income from their blog knows that the only way you can make money is by getting and keeping the traffic coming. Without your readers, you wouldn’t be making money at all.
There are lots of ways to get them there, but the question is - how do you keep them returning? If a reader isn’t impressed by your blog at all, then they’ll leave your blog, never to return again.
With them goes their blog’s traffic that you could’ve benefited from if they’d linked to you. Here are some tips to make your blog appealing enough to keep the traffic there to earn you some money.
Evaluate Your Design!
The most common mistake some bloggers make is in their blog’s design. Blog readers not only look for interesting and informative content - they also want to come to an inviting space to read it. Read more
Recording Live–Book Cover Design: What You Need to Know with Ginger Marks
October 28, 2008
Make Plans! Recording LIVE for our Writer’s Radio Show!
TOPIC: Book Cover Design: What You Need to Know with Ginger Marks from www.theAuthorsADVANTAGE.com
DATE: Thursday, October 30, 2008
WHEN: 1PM CST
WHERE: Talk-a-Latte Conference Room (Never joined us? Instructions are here: http://talk-a-latte.com/how-to-join-our-conference-room/)
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Keeping on Track with an iPhone…
October 27, 2008
You have talked a lot about your iPhone and that you use it for keeping track of what you should be doing during the day. Do you set these things up in the calendar? How else do you use this to keep you on track?
Thanks,
Christine
5 Ways to Manage Your Time While Working Online
October 27, 2008
Struggling with reaching for your goals? Get started on your projects, but getting distracted and losing time that you have set aside to work on projects? Remember the song lyrics, “Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future…” Feel like your time is slipping away, especially when you sit down and get online to work? Let me help…
There are many ways to manage time while working online. The computer, Internet, and various other types of activities that can be pursued while working may prove to be quite overwhelming when it comes to time restraints or deadlines. If your income is dependent upon the financial success that you achieve online, it is absolutely imperative that you take the time to ensure that you are maximizing each and every minute of your working time. Read more
Avoiding Work at Home Time Stealers
October 26, 2008
Why is it because you have chosen to work from home that your time becomes easy pickings for everybody else? You know that if you had a regular job, people wouldn’t think of interfering.
You know the drill. Can you drop what you’re doing to help out at today’s bake sale at church? Would you mind looking after their sick child for the day because they have a J.O.B. and can’t stay home? While you’re home, pick up the dry cleaning or stop at the post office for that parcel and on and on it goes.
Short of alienating everyone, it’s not easy to say no when they know and you know that you don’t have any firm time commitments. It doesn’t make it any less irritating that no one seems to value your time or what you are doing with your day. Stop and think about it, how much value do you put on what you’re doing?
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Basics of SEO that You Need to Know
October 25, 2008
Today, even the smallest company uses the Internet as their main tool in building a customer base, keeping in contact with their clients and as their most basic means of advertising.
Designing a company web site is cheap and effective, not to mention essential because the world wide web is the only medium that offers instantaneous information access to millions of users around the globe.
Any web developer worth his salt should know about search engine optimization or SEO.
This is the key towards building an effective web site that would get a lot of hits and visitors. A web site that nobody visits is useless so the challenge lies in leading Internet users to visit your web site.
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Have a Purpose!
October 22, 2008
You gotta have a purpose. Something that drives you. Something that is waiting at the end of the journey — at the completion of your project.
One young man started writing as a tribute to his loving parents who through unbelievable challenges had raised him with unconditional love and full support. As a way to thank them, he decided to write a book, hopefully have it published, and present it to them for their 50th wedding anniversary. Not only did he get his book published and completely surprised his loving parents, but he went on to a full-time career in journalism.
He had a purpose, a real purpose that drove him to succeed. Keeping your objective in sight is much easier when you’re excited about your work and strive to succeed at your goals. The great thing is that you’re never too young or too old!
Why not get started tonight? Reach for that purpose!
