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Web Writing s Evolution The Web Content Market for Writers
by Melissa BrewerWhen It All Began: The First Web Writings While there weren't many online writers in the formative years of the web, if you were around then, you know what it was like. What I remember most about the web back then (the Al Gore days?) was the plain text, 10-point courier font that was consistent with 90% of the websites I encountered. Searching the web was a pain, but reading the web on-screen was impossible. By the end of the day I was completely nuts and half-blind. I...
Finding And Using Free PLR Private Label Rights Products Articles And Ebooks
First of all, it's important to understand what exactly PLR rights are, before you learn how to use them.
Private label rights, in essence, are a license you can buy for cheap and inexpensive content - that allows you to do whatever you choose with it. With those rights, you get the option of adding your own name, breaking it up into chunks, and reselling that information in whatever format you choose. The most common types of resale rights are given to packages of articles, however, some...
Online Writing and Beyond Writers Will Lead the Content Revolution
by Melissa BrewerIntroduction It is often thrown around loosely on the web that Content is king. If content is king, then what is a content writer? Unfortunately, we are not yet royalty. We're never paid as well or considered as skilled as a web designer or our more technical counterparts. This is changing, however, with an influx of writing for the web courses and the frenzy of corporate training in writing for the web. Training an already overworked, understaffed web team to write...
How To Add RSS Feed Content To Your Blog
For those of you who don't know, RSS today stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's a type of web feed that's used to publish updates.
The basics of RSS date back 14 years ago and the concept didn't even barely catch on until 1999 or so when Netscape created their RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9) which lasted only four months until they updated and tweaked it into a: Rich Site Summary. (RSS 0.91) In a bit of oddness, one year later an independent and non-commercial working group updated RSS...
The Truth about Online Content It s Time for Writers to Take Back the Web
by Melissa Brewer Google.com, one of the web's hottest search engines, has indexed over 1,346,966,000 web pages to date. The World Wide Web is officially gigantic, with hundreds of thousands of corporate, small business, and ecommerce websites vying for something more than just the eyeballs that web analysts hailed in the 1990's. In order to create success, websites are now searching for a steady, interactive audience. Why aren't they succeeding? Could it STILL have something to do with the...
Can You Find Success with a Self Published eBook
Can You Find Success with a Self-Published eBook? by Melissa BrewerIntroductionAs a full-time freelance writer, I spend alot of time trying new publishing ideas and learning how tomarket my services. Most of my work is web-centered, so I love thechallenge of innovation in content creation. I also love the factthat when you're a writer on the web, you are more in control of yourmarketing efforts than you will ever be offline. When I made the decision to write aneBook, it really didn't occur...
Make Your eMail Communications Sell Drawing the Line Between Buzz and Hype
by Melissa BrewerEvery day, I cringe at the emails that flood my inbox. There is a good chance, in fact, that I deleted YOUR email today. The influx of spam, opt-in newsletters and sales letters overwhelm me on a daily basis. (80 % of my online mail is sales-junk -- and I know I'm not alone.)Why do so many emails go straight to the Recycle Bin? Besides the fact that hundred of unsolicited emails are sent to me on a daily basis, there's also the often-ignoredfact that most small businesses and...
Advertising Your Virtual Assistant Business On Craig s List
A virtual assistant can easily make use of the free advertising services CraigsList (http://CraigsList.org) has offers. Many Virtual Assistants forget to turn to CraigsList because they don't realize that it's free to advertise their business, and they don't realize that they can reach a very wide audience (i.e., they can focus on one city or more a day if they change up the wording of the ad each day.) In fact, the only charges that CraigsList makes when it comes to advertising is for job...
Building A Blog Audience Through Commenting
Sometimes as bloggers, we overlook some of the most basic tools of the online community. Our commenting behavior can actually make a large impact on our reputation, our traffic, and our audience building.
Make the Most of the Comments You Make
One of the best ways to get others to find your blog is by visiting theirs and leaving comments about their posts and observations. Blogs, especially the popular ones, often form small online communities and fan bases and comments play a huge role in...
Freelancing Basics For Solopreneurs
Freelance work thrives in a suffering economy, and is a great source of income for those of us seeking a little extra money, a full-time income, or new experience to transition to a new line of work. Companies still need their work done, but they can't afford the same amount of in-house staff to get it done, so they hire out on an as-needed basis. As a freelancer, your benefits are often the same you save a lot on the rising costs of eating out, transportation, work clothes, and...
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