It’s way easier to write to earn a nice income from home when your clients are doing well financially. One of the key systems that’s got to function effectively for any business is marketing. Do it right, and the business thrives – fail at marketing, and the doors close soon. So, back to helping ...…
Back to our discussion of how you can write to earn by offering to provide help creating a marketing calendar… You know those little calendars banks used to give out when you went through the drive-through? (Oh wow, did I just date myself a bit?? See, it used to be you had to GO to ...…
Trick question – you can definitely charge for marketing calendars as you write to earn – but it’s also a service you could offer FREE as a value-add for your existing clients… sort of a loss leader, like eggs. Get them in the store and give them something “extra” that’s super-helpful, and you’ll set yourself ...…
When your clients have a marketing plan in hand, life gets easy for them and you can write to earn as much as you want. Plus, you’ll spend less time marketing your services and more time providing them. Nearly every day there’s some sort of crazy holiday – everything from National Apple Pie Day (on ...…
There are hundreds of projects you can write to earn money – but this one is less about writing and more about planning… for and with your clients. Help your clients create a marketing calendar, and you’ll make all of 2012 easier for them, and busier for you. What’s a marketing calendar? Your clients may ...…
Don’t get me wrong, working as a writer has been the perfect match for my skills and talents, and I’m incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to have this business, working when and where I want to, and getting paid for my words. But it does have its moments sometimes! There are times when it’s ...…
When I started working as a writer, I figured the bulk of the challenge was actually doing the writing. Wrong!! Sometimes the writing is the easy part. What’s challenging is keeping your project load balanced, moving forward, and not letting anything fall between the cracks. On Thanksgiving, I cook like a fiend: green bean casserole, ...…
One job hazard when you get paid to write articles is that it’s easy to become sedentary. After all, you make money by writing – and it’s pretty hard to write while you’re at the gym, taking a walk, or lifting weights. Today, I’m marking a year of having dropped 30+ pounds of “baby” fat ...…
Listening to Pandora reminded me to answer this question I get a lot from people who want to get paid to write articles: How can I write something new about topics that have already been written on a lot? See, my husband’s manning the controls on Pandora on the days he works from home. (It’s ...…
As a kid, I never in a million years dreamed I’d be teaching people how to make money writing. Maybe writing bestselling novels… or maybe slalom ski racing… or perhaps as a hand model (yeah, weird kid!) – but not this. Although maybe there was a strange sort of clue along the way. I just ...…
