Side Hustles Make Sense As more people begin to move on from traditional 8-5 jobs, or find the need to acquire an extra income, a side hustle becomes the perfect option. Side hustles take up less time than a full-time job, and can provide an extra pocket of income that can become a safety net […]
The Power of a Mindset Shift
The Power of a Mindset Shift – How Adopting the Right Mindset Can Benefit Your Business Do you have dreams and goals that you haven’t achieved? Are you frustrated and overwhelmed? If so, you’re not alone. Sometimes, it feels like there are a select few people who reach great heights – and then there’s the […]
Publishing Your First eBook
Publishing Your First eBook Is Easier Than You Think I first knew about eBooks when I started online in 2006. Joe Vitale and Jim Edwards were teaching about how anyone could write a short book and sell it online. That led to my writing and publishing my first eBook, on the topic of real estate […]
Writing the eBook That Changed My Life
Will One Single eBook Change Your Life? Maybe… My statement is a bold one: Writing an eBook That Changed My Life may sound like a headline for a sales letter or the title of an article in Good Housekeeping magazine. But in this case, it’s the true story of how I wrote a sixty-page eBook […]
Your Call to Action – Creating Effective CTAs
Your Call to Action – What Is A CTA? When you are getting started online as an entrepreneur, it is common to be so caught up with creating information products and affiliate marketing that you completely neglect crafting a powerful CTA, So, what is a CTA? CTA is an abbreviation for “call to action”. It’s […]
Everyone Should Know How to Write an eBook
Why Everyone Should Know How to Write an eBook Being an entrepreneur means wearing many hats, including author, publisher, marketer, product creator, copywriter, mentor, and more. As I move into my fifteenth year online I now see that writing and publishing an eBook on a topic I knew well within three months of starting my […]
How to Sell an eBook From a Website
How to Sell an eBook From a Website Did you know that you can be extremely successful selling an eBook from a website, instead of selling it on Amazon as a Kindle book? I did this when I first got started online in 2006, years before Amazon became established as a way for authors to […]
Writing an eBook: First Steps to Creating Passive Income
Writing an eBook Just Makes Sense Learning more about writing an eBook can be the first step in creating information products to build passive and residual income in your online business. You may not be aware that eBooks are more popular than ever, especially after books on Kindle have become all the rage. Readers are […]
Authors and Information Marketers: Sell eBooks Online
How to Sell eBooks Online An eBook is an electronic version of a book in print. Long before Amazon created the Kindle readers, people decided to sell eBooks on the internet. This was so that readers could have a copy in their hands within seconds instead of having to wait until the paperback or hard […]
Online Marketing Strategy: Sell eBooks Online
Sell eBooks Online Have you ever thought about how you could sell eBooks online as a lucrative business strategy? An eBook is simply a book in electronic format. You may be more familiar with books on Kindle being electronic, but that is actually a different method for delivering information written as a book to your […]
Is The Objective for Selling Kindle Books to Make Money or to Build My List?
I thought this was a great question because it shows the difference in mentality between people trying to make money online versus people trying to build a business online. People who want to make money online typically want to pluck the lowest hanging fruit with the least effort. People who want to build a business […]
How Do I Get Past the Fear Of Wasting Time Writing a Book That Doesn’t Sell?
How do I get past the fear of wasting time writing a book that doesn’t sell? – by Jim Edwards One of the primary things that stops many people from writing their own ebook comes down to fear. Fear of writing an ebook that doesn’t sell. This fear can often debilitate even the most competent […]
Building Your Business By Becoming A Writer
Are you struggling with all of the writing that’s required when you have an online business? Don’t despair. You can become a writer if you stick with it and write something every day. For more than thirty years, from the time I was in junior high school until I decided to become an entrepreneur, I […]
How Long Should Your eBook Be?
This is a guest post from my friend and colleague Jim Edwards. How long does an ebook need to be to be considered a “real book”? -by Jim Edwards It used to be that a “real book” (especially a business book) had some very definite characteristics that made it real. It should contain at least […]
How Much Experience is “Enough”?
This is the second post in a series on eBook writing by my friend and colleague Jim Edwards. Ebooks are more popular than ever, and Jim is the ‘go-to’ person on this topic. Be sure to leave a comment if you have questions for him on how to write an ebook. One of the […]
10 Reasons Why Every Affiliate Needs Their Own eBook
This is a guest post from my friend and colleague Jim Edwards. Be sure to leave a comment to let him know what you’ve learned from him about eBooks and affiliate marketing. I hear this all the time. “I’m an affiliate marketer, why do I need an ebook?” I think that’s a great question, because […]
Article Marketing Challenge: 100 Articles In 100 Days 2012
During the spring of 2007 I made the conscious decision to become a writer. I had been blogging and writing articles during the previous year or so, but needed to make a commitment that would change the way I conducted my online business. I strongly believed the way to do this was with article marketing. […]
100 Articles in 100 Days Challenge Update
You may know that I have once again challenged myself to write one hundred articles over a one hundred day time span. I first did this in the spring of 2007 as a way to turn myself into a writer. That time it only took me 78 days to complete my challenge back then, and […]
Article Marketing – 100 Articles In 100 Days
Exactly five years ago I challenged myself to write one hundred articles in one hundred days. I did this because I had come online the year before and soon realized that I would need to do lots of writing in order to be successful with my new business venture. I had been writing during that […]
Who Is Your Mentor?
A mentor is described as a trusted guide or advisor who is sometimes older but always more experienced, and is willing to help another individual develop his or her knowledge and skills. The history of this dates back to the days of Homer’s Odyssey. Odysseus’ friend was named Mentor, and he went to Troy to […]
How To Sell Your eBook
So much has been written about how to write an eBook, but not nearly as much on how to market and sell your eBook once you have finished writing it. After you have completed your writing, you need to think about monetizing your efforts online. There are three primary ways to do this in the […]
How To Use Article Marketing To Get Targeted Traffic To Your Niche Website
This is a guest post from Susanne Myers. Her site is www.DailyAffiliateTasks.com Article marketing is a great way to get targeted traffic to your website and establish yourself as an expert. And if you do things right, you can resuse these articles in a few different ways, getting even more traffic. Strategic Planning Of Your […]
Article Marketing To Build Your Marketing Funnel
Are you using article marketing to build your marketing funnel? Article marketing is one of the best long-term methods for getting your information and message out to the world. Once you discover how powerful this marketing method can be in driving highly targeted traffic to your blog and other sites you will want to know […]
Let’s Meet In Person During 2011
I attend many events each year, and I’d love to meet you in person. I find that connecting with people at live events is the very best way to get to know them, and I’m sure you would agree. If you want to meet Connie Ragen Green during 2011, here are some of the places […]
Article Marketing Tips – Writing Articles To Turn Your Knowledge Into Profits
I seem to answer questions regularly on the topic of article marketing tips for building a profitable business. My students want to know if things have changed since I came online in 2006, and if it’s still important for them to write articles on a regular basis. Their basic question is whether I would do […]
The New Rules of Article Marketing
Article marketing helped me to build my business on the Internet, but this marketing strategy has changed quite a bit since it was first introduced to me in 2006. Back then we all wrote 250 word articles, and typically made a list of 10 tips to share in the article. This always seemed unprofessional to […]
More Profits From Selling Your eBook Online
It used to be that everyone talked about writing eBooks, but you don’t hear as much about that these days. Are people still writing them, or have we all moved on to something new and different to get started online and build our online business? The answer is that eBooks are just as important as […]
Online Writing to Build Your Internet Business
Posting to my blog and writing articles to submit to the article directories has been the mainstay of building my Internet business since coming online in 2006. In fact, I just celebrated a milestone this week when my articles reached six hundred thousand page views. Take a look at Articles by Connie Ragen Green to […]