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Writing Content: Should You Hire Someone or Write It Yourself

Paula Atwell — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:32:25 +0000

There comes a point in time for any online business owner where they have to decide how much of their business they can run themselves, and how much they need to delegate. I found myself in that position last year, and as an adjunct to that, with a limited supply of funds to pay another [...]

Should I Answer The Comments?

Bev Owens — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:17 +0000

It might take a little while before you start to get comments on your beginners blog. Are you wondering, “Should I answer the comments?” The short answer is yes but it can get a little more involved sometimes because it depends on the comment you have received. Obviously, you want to build a rapport with [...]

Niche Marketing – How To Start Choosing Your Niche

AJ — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:18:51 +0000

In my last post about Niche Marketing, How To Come Up With Ideas For A Niche, we discussed how establishing authority is crucial in order to establish trust. Simply – people have to trust what you are saying, in order to believe what you are saying and then they may just buy through your recommendations. [...]

Image Credit

Bev Owens — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:00:42 +0000

Today in the series on a beginners blog, I want to revisit a topic that we lightly touched on earlier in the series. Image credit has always been the correct thing to do but it has not always been done properly. There has been a huge push, of late, with different platforms insisting that all [...]

Niche Marketing – How to Come Up With Ideas For A Niche

AJ — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:18:20 +0000

In my first post about Niche Marketing, Introduction to Niche Marketing, I discussed how I started writing online and that in order to find a good niche, ideally you need to write about topics with which you have personal experience AND those where you can develop a reputation as an authority on that topic. Today [...]

Getting New Readers To Your Blog

Bev Owens — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:00:31 +0000

Continuing in the series on a Beginners Blog, I wanted to talk to you today about one way of getting new readers to your blog. It is difficult when you first start out to get a following. Even when you have studiously done your keyword research and written some down right awesome content. It takes [...]

Introduction to Niche Marketing – a New Series

AJ — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:05:07 +0000

Introducing a new series of posts on Writing Online about Niche Marketing. If you are like me you arrived online wanting to try to make some money through writing. Various circumstances will have helped us to arrive at that decision. Perhaps loss of a job through redundancy or illhealth? Needing to make extra income, in [...]

How I Use Google+

Bev Owens — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:00:59 +0000

You can ask a hundred people how best to utilize a social network and you will probably get 100 different answers. I wanted to share with you how I use Google+ as a social networking venue and hopefully help you to find your own method that will work best for your online writing promotions. It [...]

Assessing My Goals For 2012

Bev Owens — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:00:11 +0000

Last week I took some time to assess my progress in the goals that I set for myself and writing for 2012. Some might think that it is a little early to be doing that, but I like to really study my progress each quarter. I keep an eye on things on a daily, weekly, [...]

What Amazon Have Said To Me About Pinterest

AJ — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:34:53 +0000

A few weeks back I wrote about Why I am not Pinterested. Since then Pinterest have altered their Terms and Conditions and addressed some of the issues that many people had about the use of our images. But personally, I think they have a long way to go to deal with the Copyright issues. And [...]