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I love working with my Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) students.

They’re earning while they learn, and I get great comments every day, telling me that the training has helped them more than any other other class they’ve ever taken.

Now, whether you’re a SYWON subscriber or not, here’s a tip which will help you with everything you write: make money while you learn.

When you’re a beginner, you have a lot of information to share. You can be a beginning student, parent, photographer, writer - as a beginner you have a big advantage over someone who already knows what you’re learning when it comes to writing about it. You know exactly what it’s like to be a beginner.

As you become an expert, you can’t get that beginning mind state back, no matter how much you want to.

So I urge you to USE whatever you’re learning, and write about it.

“THE JULIE/JULIA PROJECT” was a great example of this. Julie Powell wrote about learning to cook with Julia Child on a blog, which became a bestselling book -

she attempted to cook her way through Child’s landmark 1961 cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1.”

Powell was blogging about the experience when she was plucked from obscurity and given a book deal for “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.” The name is sort of misleading, because Powell’s 9-by-12 kitchen is rather large — by New York standards.

So what are you learning? Why not write about it?

Start a blog - a blog is a commitment, and as you get readers, they’ll inspire you and motivate you.

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Article marketing offers not only a great way to market your freelance writing, but it also offers you unlimited writing jobs. So I urge you to become well acquainted with it, and make the most of it.

If you’re new to the concept of article marketing Chris Knight offers a new free audio program and PDF transcript to help you to get started.

I’ve read the transcript, and it’s great: Attracting More Prospects and Clients: “‘Article Marketing: Attract More Prospects & Clients To Your Business. An Interview With Chris Knight, Hosted By Jeanna Pool’”.

Worth quoting:

So today, I think we often say that 25 articles is where you should begin before you begin to evaluate and 250 articles might be a goal over the next year or two. And somewhere in the next coming year, 250 to 1,000 articles might begin the floor…

Many writers have built an entire lucrative writing career around articles. It’s a technique I use not only for my writing sites, but for all of my other sites as well. Article marketing gives you more impact that anything else; I love it because it’s more or less forever. Your articles will keep working for you for many years to come. No other form of advertising offers this.

For me, it’s the perfect advertising solution. I love writing, and article marketing rewards my passion.

The Perfect Article Writing System - the perfect way to make money writing - even for beginners

I’m always looking for fun, easy ways to make money writing, and this is one of the easiest ever. When I found this ebook I knew I had to pass it on to you. You’ll love it, especially if you’ve heard all the talk about writers making six-figure incomes and wondered… how do they do that?

Some of them do it very easily, by writing simple articles, as you’ll find out in this excellent ebook, Turn Content Into Cash: Article Success Secrets. If you’re a writer who’s been dreaming of a way to make money writing quickly, then this ebook I’ve dubbed the “Perfect Article Writing System” is for you.

Here’s the Perfect Article Writing System.

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From my work with my writing students, I know that crafting effective calls to action is something that freelance writers often overlook.

Basically a “call to action” is telling people what to do.

Calls to action are vital in all your writing. Writers overlook them because they know what they want people to do… it seems obvious. But remember that what’s obvious to you is far from obvious to someone else.

Two common areas where writers tend to forget calls to action are in article proposals to magazines and in Web pages.

Article Queries to Magazines - Get to the Point

Tell the editor what to do as a result of reading your proposal. Say “I’ve been a yoga student for five years. My article includes interviews with top yoga teachers, and the estimated length is 1500 words. Please contact me if you feel this article would benefit your readers.”

I’ve had students say to me: “Yes, but the editor KNOWS what to do - it’s a query letter.”

That may well be so, but the call to action is as much for you as it is for the editor. Writing a call to action stops you waffling. I’ve read query letters from both new and experienced writers where you’d need a crystal ball to figure out what the writer wanted.

Your call to action ensures you get to the point - fast. Editors skim - they’ve got hundreds of queries to read. Make yours stand out.

All Web Pages Need a Call to Action

All Web pages need a call to action. When you’re writing Web pages for others, always ask “What do you want the site visitor to do when they visit this page?” When you’re writing your own sites, ask the same question.
I see many writers’ sites where there’s a jumble of information on every page. Jumbled pages are confusing; once again, it’s a crystal ball situation, and confused site visitors take a simple action - they click away from your site.

So for every page you write, unless the page is an obvious “table of contents” page, as some home pages are, focus on just a couple of points, and write a clear and direct call to action. Examples include “Contact me” or “Contact Fred Bloggs to discover how you can remortgage your home fast”.

Calls to action are easy to overlook, but they’re vital.

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There’s great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.

Join the Web writing gold rush with Angela Booth’s comprehensive training: “Sell Your Writing Online Now”.

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