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Want to make a six-figure income as a writer? The days when writers starved in garrets are long gone; online, content is king, and as a writer, you have the keys to the kingdom. Just do what works.

As a writer, you have a skill which is immensely valuable and desirable online - you can write. You can make as much income as you wish, just by writing. Let’s look at a simple process.

Here’s the process of making fast money writing in a nutshell: create a small Web site, and write five articles on topics which interest you. These articles are your portfolio.

Next, promote yourself as an article writer.

You can promote yourself in many ways. Your aim is to get your name in front of people who want articles written. You can try free online classifieds, forums postings in Web developer forums, and the out-sourcing sites.

Your first five buyers are your guinea pigs. Just take whatever article writing jobs you can get - you’re new, so you’re in no position to haggle over fees. You need testimonials and satisfied buyers. Write your article commissions as fast as you can and deliver on time. Then ask for a testimonial from each of your buyers and post your testimonials on your site.

Once you’ve completed five commissions, increase your rates. Since you’re now a known quantity, people will pay you more for your writing because they know you deliver. Keep up your marketing activities exactly as before, using exactly the same venues: forums, classifieds - whatever you used before.

By now, you have a process. You know what works for you. Just keep doing what works - promoting and writing. Over time, you’ll rates will go up. It’s a question of supply and demand. Your promotions increase the demand, and since there’s a limited supply (there’s only one of you), you raise your rates.

When you do what works, it’s possible to make more money than you make at your day job. Many article writers make five figures a month - the demand is there. Fill the demand, and you’re golden.

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The Web has opened up unlimited markets for writers, both new and established.

But if you’re completely new, the Web can seem like chaos. How do you find the Web sites which pay you just to write? These sites never advertise, because they don’t need to. So how do you find them?

I’ve got the solution for you. Imagine being paid to write: $10 to $50 and more per article, as a NEW writer.

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Words and writers go together. If you love words, and are writing for the Web, consider building a domain name portfolio.

02/06/2008 Expired Domains | Domain Name News | Domain News | Expired Domains offers a list of recently expired domains:

“List of 158 expired domain names sent to newsletter subscribers on 02 June 2008.”

I couldn’t see anything on the list I was enthused about. That said, good one word and two word domains are becoming very rare.

Why invest in domains?

Registering and keeping a domain costs around $10 year, so it’s an investment, and a domain can become very valuable if it’s exactly the right name for a project.

Whenever I begin a new project, whatever it may be, I always register a domain name, and often more than one name, with a view to keeping the names for at least five years. As stated, good one and two word domains are becoming scarce, so I look on them as prime investments.

If you’re writing an ebook, or developing a Web site, register a suitable domain name asap. The domain is an essential part of your project, and an investment in it.

Become a copywriter and get paid to write

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.

The explosion of the influence of the Web means that copywriters are flooded with offers of work. Even new copywriters find it easy to get copywriting gigs and to build their copywriting services business.

If copywriting intrigues you, join me in my Copywriting Master Class. I’ll take you from copywriting novice to pro.

“Copywriting Master Class - Ten Weeks to Copywriting Genius” gives you a comprehensive copywriting course, as it helps you to set up your copywriting services business.

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Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) has one purpose - to help you to make money writing on the Web.

One idea you may not have thought of is to repurpose blog posts and articles you’ve written for the Web, and sell them to print publications.

That’s what “Lesson 26: From the Web to print - selling your articles to print publications” of SYWON teaches you.

Here’s a brief excerpt from the lesson:

Why publish your articles in magazines? More traffic

The whole idea of selling articles which started out on the Web to a print publication is so that you get your byline published, with a link to your Web site. This helps you to get traffic to your site; traffic you could get in no other way. And traffic always translates into money - either because you have AdSense or other advertising on your site, or because you’re selling your own products.

Of course, you also get paid for the article by the print publication, but the traffic you get - and the boost your reputation gets - is worth more than money.

In the lesson itself, you’re shown EXACTLY how to do this.

Every lesson is packed with ideas you can use right away. Yesterday I published an article on my writing blog about recognizing your Web writing opportunities. SYWON helps you to recognize great opportunities in every lesson.

Discover the world of Web writing - make a great income writing from home, or from anywhere

Sell Your Writing Online NOW

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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