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26Feb/100

The Top 10 Secrets of Successful Authors – Writing

The Top 10 Secrets of Successful Authors
Judy Cullins

If you are not a successful author yet, incorporate the following 10 Secrets:
1. Treat your book as a business.
You spend many hours creating a masterpiece to help your audience. It follows then, you need to set up a regular time schedule to market and promote it.
2. Create a flyer for each book you offer.
Hand out your flyer at business meetings or at any public place. Ask your audience to pass the flyer along to friends and associates. Offer one free report or ezine on the flyer to get new email addresses to send promotion to later.
3. Create a line or two about your book in your signature file that goes on every email you send.
After your name, title, and benefit statements, add something like: eBk: "Write your eBook or Other Book--Fast!" Include your addresses and phone numbers too.
4. Invest some money in book marketing.
Contact a book coach and schedule a low-cost introductory session to see if you are a match and will get what you need. Many authors print too many copies or use an expensive service to get book finished instead of putting aside an equal amount to market it.
5. Take a teleclass on how to market your book.
These low cost and low time investments can make your book the great seller it should be. Discover inexpensive ways to market via the phone and email. How convenient!
6. Dont get fooled by high-cost services.
If its too good to be true, it isnt true. When you hire someone to do it all for you, it can cost over $1000 a month with small results. Check out what services fit your budget, and get a realistic picture of what your results will be.
7. Delegate some of the marketing.
Like me, hire a low-cost computer assistant from your local high school. They know more than many professionals. For under $10 an hour, you can multiply your promotion exponentially via ecommerce your assistant does for you 2-3 times a week.
8. Set a dollar goal for your book each month.
Dont count copies sold. Count each months book sales. Put your goal near your workstation to remind you of what you want. Dont price your book too low, so youll appreciate an easy experience--getting what you deserve for all your work.
9. Learn more about Internet book marketing.
Think about reaching hundreds of thousands of your audience every week. When you give them what they want--free information--they will eventually buy. Many authors go the traditional path of talks, ads or press releases. They dont always pay well for the effort.
10. Dont stop marketing.
Many clients come to me and say they are discouraged their book didnt sell well in four months. Replace doubt with patience for the process. Success takes many months, but once you get it, the Internet keeps it multiplied for you.
Knowing the secrets of successful authors can help you receive the same prestige and become a household word.
Judy Cullins © 2004 All Rights Reserved.

About The Author
Judy Cullins, 20-year book and Internet Marketing Coach works with small business people who want to make a difference in peoples lives, build their credibility and clients, and make a consistent life-long income. Author of 10 eBooks including "Write your eBook Fast" and "How to Market your Business on the Internet," she offers free help through her 2 monthly ezines, The Book Coach Says...and Business Tip of the Month at http://www.bookcoaching.com/opt-in.shtml and 140 free articles.
judy@bookcoaching.com

25Feb/100

Top 7 Small Business Sites for 2005 – Domain Name

Top 7 Small Business Sites for 2005
Jinger Jarrett

If you want to start a business in 2005, and start making money almost immediately, the sites listed below are some of the best I have found. Ive chosen each site because it is absolutely outstanding in providing the tools you need to get started, as well as taking you through the steps you need to get started immediately.
My1stBusiness.com - http://www.my1stbusiness.com - This site is owned by Ben Botes, who is currently working on a doctoral degree in business. Ben will take you through every phase of creating your business, and it doesnt matter how large or small it is. Youll find all of the information you need right here.
Teleclasses are currently free, and youll find a wide variety of top notch business coaches to help you build your business.
This site is scheduled to go to a paid model soon, but it will definitely be worth the price tag. If youre looking for a one stop solution to constantly update your business knowledge, and stay ahead of your competition, this is it.
Ron Olinger - http://ronolinger.ws - Everyone needs a little motivation, and Ron is the guy to help you with that.
He offers a newsletter called "Winning Attitudes" that is absolutely dynamite. Youll find lots of quality tips and information. Definitely a must read if you are struggling to get started.
Not your run of the mill newsletter, it will help you achieve what you want to achieve in both your persona and professional life.
Ultimate Marketing Center - http://www.ultimatemarketingcenter.com - Hands down, this is the best web host on the Internet.
However, the reason I selected this site as a business site is this: it is a complete and total solution for starting your business.
Youll get a complete web hosting account with all of the bells and whistles, as well as 1000s of dollars in software and ebooks to teach you everything you need to know about building a business.
What makes this site better than any other online is that its a complete solution. It includes affiliate program management software, unlimited autoresponders, custom made scripts the owner sells for $35 each on his other sites, unlimited email accounts, and a generous sized web hosting account.
Theres nothing else like it on the Internet, and its the only place where you can run your entire business for only $19.95 per month. The support is excellent.
Website.ws - http://www.website.ws - For the newcomer to the Internet, this is the site you need to start your business.
Youll get a domain name, a generous mult-tier affiliate program to help you build a backend income, and a website builder that is so easy to use, a child can build a web site.
There are also videos to teach you web site building, as well as a nice 20 page ebook to show you how to market this opportunity and make money from it.
Its the easiest solution I know of to starting a business on the Internet, and you dont need to know HTML. You can also use your web site account to build your primary business and generate another source of income.
Coachville.com - http://www.coachville.com - Thinking of starting a service business
Even if you arent interested in starting any type of coaching business, this site is definitely for you.
They offer a wide variety of free and paid courses, and you can even earn your certification as a coach. This site will cut your learning curve dramatically, and youll be up and running in no time.
Alexa - http://www.alexa.com - When it comes to smoking the competition, this is the site you want to use.
Youll get detailed stats, contact information, site rankings, sites that are linked to a particular web site, and a whole lot more.
No other site will offer you more comprehensive information on whats hot and whats not on the Internet. They also offer a toolbar, and its free to use the site.
Automate Internet Marketing - http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/ - Internet marketer Patric Chan offers you a free marketing membership with plenty of excellent information. What blew my mind when I saw this is that Patric is giving it away.
If youre new to the Internet, and new to Internet marketing, start here. Patric knows how to explain marketing in a way that is easy to understand.
Whether youve started a business and want to increase your profits, or you want to start a business, now is the time. These seven resources are not to be overlooked.
Copyright 2005 Jinger Jarrett

About The Author

Jinger Jarrett is a small business coach and Internet Marketer living in Alpharetta, Georgia. She teaches small business owners how to build a fulltime passive residual income and how to do it for only $10 per month.

http://www.jingerjarrett.ws

jingerjarrett@smallbusinesshowto.com

24Feb/100

Top 10 Reasons Why I Reject Article Submissions – Diet

Top 10 Reasons Why I Reject Article Submissions
Chris Yates

Each week I receive dozens of article submissions to my websites from aspiring authors, website owners, and entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, I can only use a small fraction of the articles I receive because the writers are making one of the crucial mistakes listed below.
KEY POINT: When you submit articles to a newsletter/ezine publisher or a website owner, you have to remember that we arent going to publish YOUR article for OUR customers and visitors unless it is a high quality article that gives something of value.
If youre writing articles like crazy, but getting very few of them actually published, then you might want to re-evaluate your approach. Are you making one of these crucial mistakes
1. Poor Subject Matter:
If youre going to bother to write an article, write about something that were interested in reading about. In other words, address a problem and provide a solution. Articles that approach an old problem in a new way or with a new twist work well too -- you dont have to necessarily discover a whole new problem that no one else has ever though of before If you discover a whole new problem and have the solution you better be thinking of product creation not just an article!.
2. Write with personality:
No one likes to read text books. Put a little of your own personality into your writing and make it engaging and entertaining as well as informative. If you have a sense of humor, use it. You have a good chance of being published on one of my sites if you make me giggle... Belly laughs are nearly guaranteed to be published.
3. Write for your audience:
Dont send an article about the value of protein in the American diet to a Russian Political website or the publisher of a podiatry newsletter... They dont care.
4. Write a decent sized article:
I would much rather an article be a little bit too long than very short. Four hundred word articles just dont have enough meat in them. Im not suggesting that you ramble, but youve got to give me some details if you want me to publish your piece.
5. Break up your article:
Dont write your article in three long paragraphs. Break it up into smaller paragraphs with a few single lines, bullets, etc. to make it easier and more enjoyable to read. Again -- no one likes to read text books.
6. Spell Check and Grammar:
I dont mind correcting a couple of mixed up letters now and then, but lets be reasonable -- spell check your articles. Grammar is another thing that bugs me. I know that I dont always get it perfect myself, but your grammar has to be reasonable. Some of the people sending me articles need to take a high school English class.
One last point in this category is word usage -- dont use words in your article unless you actually know what they mean. Using big words doesnt necessarily make you look smarter. Did you know that newspapers are aimed at a sixth grade reading level
7. Stop sending sales letters:
No one will publish an article that reads like a sales letter... period.
8. Forget about affiliate links:
Use your head... why would anyone use your article if its full of your affiliate links Ever hear of the "Golden Rule" This is kind of the "Golden Rule" of writing articles -- dont expect someone else to do something that you wouldnt do. Would you publish another writers article if it were full of his affiliate links I doubt it.
9. Create a reasonable resource box:
A resource box should tell me who you are, what you do, and how I can get in touch with you. Its not unlimited advertising space for you to describe every website you run and each product you sell. Dont bother sending an article where the resource box is half as long as the article itself. That "Golden Rule" thing applies to resource boxes too.
10. Only write about what you know:
Even if youre writing an opinion piece, get your facts straight. Dont write an article filled with advice that you have no business giving.
If you take nothing else away from this article, remember that good copy always answers "Whats in it for me" When youre writing articles to send to newsletter and website publishers, you have to answer that question on two fronts...
Whats in it for the publisher Why should they show your article to their customers and visitors Does it give something of value
-- AND --
Whats in it for the people who will ultimately be reading your article when its published
After all, the idea is to provide some worthy content that compels readers to visit your site, subscribe to your newsletter, or buy your product. So next time you send an article, whats in it for me
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© Chris Yates - All Rights reserved.

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