An interview with author Jake Needham
Best selling author Jake Needham talks about the brave new world of independent publishing.
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eBook excerpt: Make money online as a writer
[From the book WWWordsmith: Forging a living from online writing]
Writing as a job
Online businesses need website content to keep their pages engaging and interesting so that they can attract more people, or “traffic”. This is where you as an aspiring online writer come in.
When it comes to written content for websites, demand far outstrips supply.
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Sell your products online with Gumroad
In my earlier blog posting, I wrote about how artists can use Gumroad to make money online. But it’s not just useful for artists, it can be used by all sorts of people to sell all sorts of things.
Read articleGumroad is for independent writers, designers, game developers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, and anyone in-between. Simply, if you’re a creator — Gumroad is for you.
WWWordsmith: Forging a living from online writing
Everyone’s supposed to have a book in them, aren’t they? That piece of folk wisdom underlies the dream that many people have of making a living online through writing. WWWordsmith: Forging a living from online writing is here to explain how, if they’re good enough, they can make that dream a reality.
Authors Kay McMahon and Theodore Koukouvitis have teamed up again to write about the ins and outs of making money online from writing. Each of them brings their own particular perspective to bear on the online writing industry.
The result is a book that covers all aspects of earning a living online through writing. First, a brief introduction looks at the practical benefits of an online writing career, and sets the scene for the discussion of the two basic ways of making a living online through writing: writing as a job (freelancing), and writing as a business (self-publishing). There follows a look at what makes people willing to pay for writing – the needs that the writer must satisfy in order to succeed.
Read articleHow to write “must-read” articles
Creating great content can help to build traffic because it can lead people wanting to link to your site, and to them wanting to share your…
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What is article marketing? In a nutshell, it’s writing articles and making them available to others to reproduce free of charge on their websites, with whatever…
Read articleIs content curation theft?
I recently suggested content curation as a way to build website traffic. I’ve since discovered that some people argue that curation is theft.
According to the Actulligence blog, it’s all theft and curation is shit. I wouldn’t go that far, but given they feel so strongly about it you can read their views on their site and I won’t even quote a teensy sentence of theirs on here. Their argument is that curation is all about copying and pasting other people’s content, with no value added. Therefore, content curators are layabouts and thieves.
Quite a bold statement, isn’t it? Nevertheless, I have some sympathy with it.
Read articleUsing content curation as a way to build website traffic
Content curation isn’t new to the Internet. In fact, it’s not even new in the offline world – it’s what the Reader’s Digest has been doing since…
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