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Writing
- Baby Steps To Writing Success
Take baby steps to writing success. One step after another, and you're a success, right now. - Writer's Rip-Offs
Writers are prime targets for scammers. Here's how to avoid the most common scams. - How I learned to make my writing pay, and you can do it too. Copywriting is easy money
Want to make great money from your writing skills? Become a copywriter (a writer for business). - Beating Perfection Syndrome so you can write
Perfectionism, with its primary symptom of procrastination, can destroy your writing career. Here's how to
beat it. - Write an Article a Day
Want to be a better writer? Write more. Writing an article a day for a week will make you a better writer. Guaranteed. - Structuring Your Ebook
Got a great idea for an ebook but can't get started? You need a structure. - Start Here To Write An Ebook
Want to write an ebook? You can. Start with an idea, build on it, and before you know it, you've got a book. - How To Write A Proposal To Get Freelance Work
Want to get freelance work? Write a proposal. - The Writer's Dilemma: Should You Write For Free?
If you're a professional writer, it goes against the grain to write for free. But it may just be the best move you ever made. - Your article idea must be new — but not too original
If you want your articles to sell, your ideas must be new, but not too original. - Get Your First Sale!
Learn this easy, three step, guaranteed process to make your first sale — and it doesn't matter what you're selling. - Break The (Idiot) Rules!
If you're a professional writer (or want to be), you need to break some rules. - Blast Your Writing Blocks
Writing blocks are usually related to some form of anxiety, or to a lack of information. Here's how to conquer them. - Start To Make Your Creativity Pay
If you're a writer or other creative person and despair of ever getting paid for your work, here's how to start. - Be A Prolific Writer And Sell
The more you write, the better you'll write. And the more you'll sell. Write more. - Write Before You Look
Stuck on a writing project? Or is there something you'd love to write, but you can't get up the nerve to start? Here's how to be the writer you already are. - Five Ways To Write When You've Got No Time To Write
No time to write? Of course you have. Make the commitment, and write your book (or anything else) in five-minute chunks. - Five EASY Ways To Become A Confident Writer
A healthy measure of confidence is vital to your growth and success as a writer. If you feel that you need more confidence, start working on developing your confidence NOW. - Through The Swamp And Around The Forests: Keep Going
If you're stuck, in your writing or in anything else, try the DDT process. - Five Easy Ways To Write And Sell More
When you write more, you can sell more. You need to train yourself to write more: here's how. - Writing Out Of Your Comfort Zone
If you don't learn to write out of your comfort zone, you needlessly restrict your income. - Build Your Writing Inventory
Want a professional writing secret? Build your writing inventory. Unless you have an inventory, you have nothing to sell. - The ONE Big Secret Of Marketing Your Writing
There's a big secret to marketing your writing. It's a secret that many writers never learn. They don’t discover it on their own, and professional writers rarely bother to share it. - Organizing Your Writing Time Organically
When you organize your writing time organically, you get more done and your career develops without stress. - How To Get New Clients In Tough Times
No matter how tough the times, you can get new clients, and steady ongoing work if you take a sensible attitude. - How To Work Out Whether A Business Can Afford To Hire You
Can a business afford to hire you? Get an answer to this question before you start work. - Get Creative With Your Writing Career
If you're a writer, creativity doesn't end with your writing. You need to get creative with your career. - Setting Your Rates and Raising Your Rates
If you own your own business, or work freelance, how do you set your rates? When do you raise your rates? The info in this article will help. - Expect A New Boom In Writing for the Web
All indications point to a new Web boom. This means that writers should gear up and get ready for all the work they can handle. - My Ten Best Writing Tips EVER
Here are the ten best writing tips I've discovered in 25 years of writing. They may work for you, too. - Five Ways Professional Writers Eliminate Rejection
There's no such thing as rejection, there's only writing which has yet to find a home.
Marketing
- Learn To Negotiate And Get Paid More
Here's how to increase your income without working harder: negotiate better deals for yourself. - It's About More Than Money: Are You Charging What You're Worth?
Price takers and price makers. Are you charging what you're worth, or does pricing your small business services and products make you nervous? - How To Write A Perfect, Selling Ad: Five Easy Tips
Stop wasting money on ads which don't work. Here's a fun and easy way to write perfect, selling ads, every time. - Creating news releases: easy and free publicity for your business
If you're not sending out news releases every month, you're missing out on free publicity for your business. - DDT: Do, Don't Think. Just market
Your marketing supports your business. Stop marketing, and your business bleeds to death. it doesn't matter what marketing you do, just market. - Shaking The Money Tree: Managing Slow Payers
Slow payers affect every business. Because they can seriously affect cash flow, it's vital that small businesses have a system in place to manage them. - Five Easy Ways To Add Punch To Your Words
Writing is hard, even for writers. These five techniques will make your writing chores easier, and your writing livelier. - Getting Ideas That Sell
If you want to sell your writing, you need to get ideas that sell. - Mini-Persuaders — Six Steps To Successful Classified Ads
In spite of their size, classifieds pack a powerful advertising punch. Here's how to make yours more effective. - Follow Up And Turn Prospects Into Clients
Diligent follow up will turn your prospects into clients. - A NEWS RELEASE IS NOT AN AD
If you're sending out news releases and journalists aren't biting, you may writing them like an ad. - Get Viral For Painless Marketing
Permission and viral marketing promise simple and effective ways to market your business painlessly. - Get Googled And Build Credibility
Google.com gives you a simple and effective way to promote your business painlessly. - Making Valuable Contacts Online
It's not what you know, it's who you know, and you need to network online. - How To Get Your Email Messages Read
Want to get your email messages read? Think before writing, and follow a few simple rules. - Maximizing The Effect Of Your Freelancer's Bio
If you want to be a successful freelancer, you need to learn the art of the bio. - Your Super-fast, Super-easy, No-cost Web Site
Want a really fast Web site — one that you can put up in a few minutes, as fast as you can type? Here's how. - Powerful Presentations Build Your Business
Take the time to create presentations for your meetings, and sign up more business. - Five Lazy Ways To Market Your Business
Marketing tasks for your small business needn't take forever when you choose the lazy way. Market your small business in just minutes a day. - Your Online Brand Is YOU
You're a small business, or a microbiz. Do you need a brand? Yes you do, and it's easy to create, because your brand is YOU. - Help — My Writing's Not Selling!
To sell your writing you simply need to write and market your work. - Market Your Writing The EEASY Way
Marketing your writing is a skill. The great news is that anyone can learn how to do it — yes, you can. Here's how to market your writing the EEASY way. - The Art Of Easy Self-Promotion (Part One)
Can't get a handle on self-promotion? This article will help you to create an enthusasic, motivated attitude. - Set Marketing Goals To Build Your Confidence
If the idea of setting goals makes you wince, relax and read on. You'll discover a new way of setting goals which will inspire you. - Your Creative Web Site
Setting up your own Web site can be intimidating. What do you put on the site? How do you do it? - Create A Marketing Plan (For Your Writing)
Writers, like all business people, need a marketing plan. But how do you create one? Just answer the questions in this article. - How To Price Your Creative Work
In your creative small business, pricing issues will come up again and again. I struggled with them for years, until I managed to get them straight in my own mind.
Motivation
- Ten ways to take control of your time
As a small business owner, you need to manage your time efficiently. Here are ten ways to help you do it. - Beware The Difficult Client
The business jungle is full of dangerous clients; here's how to spot them so you can run a mile. - Start Your New Business TODAY
What's stopping you starting your new business? Whatever it is, you CAN start your business right now, today. - Work Your Small Business Dream
To grow your small business, you need to take action, and keep taking action every day. - You CAN Create Your Own Job If —
Sick of working for someone else and believe you've got what it takes to create your own job? - Baby Steps To Business Success
You can do, be and have, anything you want. As long as you get started. Take baby steps: one tiny step after another, even when you have no real idea of how you're going to get to your destination, beyond the next step. - Use Your GPS (Goal Positioning System) To Achieve Your Goals
The no-hassle, easy way to set and achieve goals, and motivate yourself. - Beat Procrastination With Your GPS (Goal Positioning System)
You can end procrastination forever, and move confidently towards your goals. - Five Easy, Pain-free Ways To Boost Your Productivity FAST (and make more money)
Commit to following these five strategies for a month, and you'll be more productive — that's a promise. - Five Ways To Boost Your Initiative FAST!
Are you a self-starter? Discover how you can increase your self-confidence (and change your life) by boosting your initiative. - Keep The Cash Flowing
Without a steady cash flow, your business dies. Here's how to keep the cash flowing when it's not. - Manage Your Self-Esteem
To make a HUGE success of your creative small business, you need to get good at marketing. And to get good at marketing, you must develop HIGH self-esteem.
Creativity
- Sixty seconds to a more creative you: Ways to get creative fast
Get creative fast. - Creativity as a treasure hunt
Discover your creativity by asking questions, and answering them. - Training Your Creative Self: Five Tips for Ultra-Creativity
Want to be able to turn on your creativity like a tap? You can. Follow these simple tips for ultra-creativity. - Expand Your Creativity: Stop Thinking!
Want a fast way to get creative? Stop thinking! This article outlines a process by which you can be creative on demand. - Overcoming Artistic Fear And Recovering Your Creativity
Fear… that icy cold sinking sensation in the pit of your stomach when you think about starting work on your next project. Or working on your current project. Writer's block. No inspiration. How do writers and artists overcome fear?
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