More To Writing Than Just Writing

I once knew someone who loved to drive trucks.

All his life he'd dreamed of being a truck driver. And once he got his truck license and started driving trucks for a living, he then decided he wanted to buy is own truck and run his own haulage company.

The problem was though, that he had no idea how to run a business. He only knew how to drive a truck.

So his business failed pretty quickly, but not before he got into heaps of debt trying to keep it afloat.

And I mustn't have learned from his mistake.

Because when I first decided to work as a writer, I naively thought that all I had to do was write.

It was a natural assumption that writers do nothing but sit down and write.

Right?

Wrong.

There's a lot more to being a writer than just knowing how to write.

There's writing books, copywriting, website content writing, understanding HTML, knowing how to use WordPress, understanding some coding basics, self-publishing, SEO... and the list goes on.

Is it all easy to do? Yes.

Does it take a lot of time? Lots.

That's why I believe that it's really important to treat your writing as a business if you want to earn money from it.

And it starts with time and knowledge in several different areas.

Afterall, how can you earn money from the books you write if you don't know how to self-publish them?

And how can you earn money from a blog/website, if all you know is how to write content but not how to monetise it?

And that's just the beginning.

Every business, not just a writing and publishing business, needs you to know how to do more than just one thing.

So take the time to learn it all or you'll never know how to work as a writer.

It's taken me years to get to where I am because the internet and the ways to make money as a writer have been evolving and changing all the time.

And I've had to keep learning and changing with it.

So if you already have a website or blog but don't know how to earn money from it, or you're just not making enough money, try to find more ways.

One of the things I did was join VigLink as an affiliate marketer.

VigLink is affiliated to thousands of companies and you can take advantage of this by signing up for just one free account and accessing them all.

Viglink makes it easy to earn money by automatically transforming already existing content and links on your blog or website into revenue-generating hyperlinks. And that's just one of the ways they make it easy to earn money writing online.

It doesn't get much simpler than that.

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An Ebook Everyone Will Want

There is an ebook that your website visitors will want.

It will get downloaded hundreds of times a month.

And this ebook can make you a lot of money.

What ebook is this?

It's a marketing ebook.

It's a short report that you can write in just 2 hours.

You fill it with great content that's centred around a book or other product you're selling.

The content of this short ebook is so entertaining and so compelling that your readers are eager to click on the link at the end and make a purchase.

This 2-hour short report is what you give away as a free download.

You also allow others to give it away too.

I've written many of these short reports and they really are good at helping drive sales.

Often, websites that give away free ebooks start giving my free ebooks away too.

And before I know it, I have thousands of copies being downloaded all over the world.

2 Hour Short Report Writing is a free bonus ebook that I give away to anyone who buys my 7 Day Ebook Writing and Publishing System at http://cheritonhousepublishing.com/books/7day.html.

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Don't Give It All Away

We all love a freebie.

It's great when you get an email with a link to a free download.

Or you visit a website full of loads of free offers.

And it's also good if you can find a few free things to offer your website visitors and email subscribers.

Just make sure that you don't give away too much. Otherwise your website visitors and email subscribers will come to expect it.

They'll think that everything you offer them is free.

This will make them not only reluctant to pay you money for something, but it can sometimes make them hostile.

I fell for this myself years ago when I was just getting started writing online.

I searched high and low for freebies I could give away on my website to attract more visitors.

But all it attracted was freebie-seekers.

I thought I was doing well getting so much traffic to my site and hundreds of people signing up for my emails.

But I wasn't making much money.

So I removed most of the free stuff and started offering products for sale.

And strangely enough, I found that people valued products they paid for much higher than the free stuff.

And many became repeat customers.

And speaking of freebies (which I don't do often), here's a link to a free 30-day planner to help you start the New Year your most productive and the most profitable.

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Cheap Products Gets You Cheap Customers

Writing articles and other content can be a really profitable way to earn money from your writing.

But you really have to be careful about what you're selling.

And this can also apply to how you price your own books.

And that is, if you keep selling cheap products, you'll end up with cheap customers.

This doesn't mean your customers will be penny-pinchers, but rather, they'll come to only expect cheap prices from you.

So when you raise your prices or try to offer them something that is expensive, they won't be interested.

That's because you've "trained" them to only buy cheap things from you.

And because it takes just as much time and effort to sell both high and low priced products, only getting a few dollars for each sale can end up being a waste of time.

So give your customers what they need, instead of offering them cheap products.


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