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Interesting post: Mahalo Updates: Now a Research Engine, Want Pay? Write More Words, SEO Critical | CenterNetworks

“In an email to his greenhouse workers last week, he changed his tune. ‘No guide notes, no google/yahoo rankings, and no traffic. No traffic, no money. No money, we all go home.’ With nearly 75% of Mahalo traffic coming from Google, this guide note change is important. It would be interesting to learn what percentage of traffic must leave via advert or affiliate link for Mahalo to be profitable.”

If you want to become a “guide” at Mahalo, you need to join the greenhouse, and write a search results page.

Of course, if you’re competent at doing that, you might as well create your own site, and monetize the content yourself.

I don’t know what’s happening with Mahalo, because when they first got funding it was supposed to be enough to last them five years.

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Have YOU made the jump yet?

If you’re selling your writing, the time is coming, it it hasn’t come already, for you to make the jump from print to the Web.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog: Goodbye Dead Trees! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD reports:

“First, after almost eight months of daily blogging for this site, I think it is safe to say that I will probably never write another thing professionally for a print publication and will spend the rest of my career–such that it will be–publishing online only.”

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“I think that ability to keep at it, doing original reporting, and then be quickly informed of more by other bloggers and, most importantly, readers, gives this media a kind of living nature that is almost impossible in print form.”

The operative word in the last paragraph is “living”. The Web is alive, and the instant-response nature of Web writing is what grabs me. I’m an instant gratification kind of person. And so is everyone else these days.

I’m sad when I visit the magazine stand and see that some old favorite magazines have vanished, never to return. I still write for several print magazines, but I can see the writing on the wall for them too.

As advertisers move to the Web, publishers follow. That’s the way it is.

If you haven’t created a Web site and blog, and started writing for Web sites and blogs, you’re not paying attention to what’s happening.

I LOVE print. I can remember the very first magazines I read when I first learned to read. I remember the magazines I read in high school… It’s very sad, but the Web is the future.

If you haven’t made the jump yet - make plans to do so.

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The 80/20 rule applies to freelance writing as it does to everything else. Twenty per cent of freelance writers are making double and triple what they made in their former day jobs, but eighty per cent languish in low-writing-income hell.

If you’re not making a GREAT income as a freelance writer, realize that it’s well within your reach, and faster than you imagine possible, if you avoid common pitfalls.

In this article, we’ll look at the three most common pitfalls. Not only do new writers stumble into them, but so do writers who are selling, but aren’t selling enough.

The world of writing is changing. These days, anyone with a pulse can be a “writer”. If you want to know how to get into the top 20 per cent of writers, read on.

Here are the three most common pitfalls of freelance writing:

1. Lack of planning and follow through

PLAN! I wish I could speak with you so I could drum the importance of planning into you. Planning is vital. Planning is usually all that’s standing between you and an income which will make your friends and relatives envious.

By planning, I mean planning everything.

Plan for your overall writing career. You should have a five year plan, a three year plan, and a plan for the next 12 months.

You also need to plan on a micro level. You must know what you’re writing this month, this week, and today.

Every piece of writing needs to be planned too. Create a simple list outline for every article, report, news release and book you write.

Plan, and follow your plan. Without plans, you’ll procrastinate.

Think about how much your time is worth. If your time is worth $100 an hour, then every hour you procrastinate costs you $100. Every two hours you watch TV instead of writing costs you $200.

2. Not treating your writing like a business and marketing it

Every business needs to market itself. No marketing, no business. This applies to your writing too. You need to find ways to get yourself known as a writer, so that people can hire you directly.

Scouring the Web for “writing jobs” is a waste of time on many levels.

Here are just two reasons you waste time when hunting for writing jobs: the best jobs are never advertised, and remembering the 80/20 rule, only 20 per cent of the jobs which are advertised are worth getting.

Market your writing services every day. You can market your writing services INSTANTLY with a blog - if you don’t have a blog, you’re throwing away money and time .

3. Timidity - a lack of innovation and creativity

The final major fatal pitfall of freelance writing is failing to tap into your own creativity because you’re scared.

Many writers are filled with self-doubt. This is corroding, both on your writing ability and on your spirit. Self-doubt KILLS creativity.

The only way to eliminate self-doubt is to write and to publish what you write. That’s all. If you want to be assured that you can write BEFORE you write, then you’re bound to fail. All writing is discovery. You’ll know what and how you write after you write it, not before. And as for selling what you write, thousands of Web sites are happy to pay you for words… so write.

You can only tap into your creativity when you write and give yourself the freedom to write whatever it turns out that you do write. Only you can write. So stop getting in your own way, and simply… write.

Now you know what the three fatal pitfalls of freelance writing are, you can avoid them, and build a great freelance career.

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Did you know that most business people struggle with their writing? It’s true. If you enjoy writing and find it easy, you can write for money, for business. In short, you can become a copywriter.

Copywriting is writing for business: promotional writing. Copywriters write material like advertisements and compared to most writers, they’re VERY highly paid.

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