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Don’t Just Strike, Do Something to Stop SOPA!

SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” and PIPA is an acronym for the “Protect IP Act.” (“IP” stands for “intellectual property.”) These bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web [...]

Anyone Can Write a Short Book…and Publish It…Fast!

Did you think I disappeared? Did you think I simply forgot to write a blog post on Monday and possibly today, too? Nope. I’ve been busy. (Again.) As of today, I have sent off three short books to the printer, www.360DigitalBooks.com. I have upgraded my self-publishing activities from a booklet press and will now have [...]

4 Free Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website or Blog

A website or blog goes a long way towards helping an aspiring author build platform. It also helps an author or information marketer sell books and products. However, if that blog or website has no traffic—which means no “visitors”—it’s virtually useless (no pun intended). The key then becomes finding ways to drive traffic to your [...]

How to Break Through Distractions and Get Your Projects Done

Over the last six months–possibly even a year–I’ve felt more than a little frustration over my inability to complete all the projects on my to-do list. I also have  more new ideas than I’ve had in a long time. Additionally, I have writing endeavors I could monetize with a bit of effort spent on creating [...]

What is Information Marketing and Why Should Writers Care?

Readers are reading increasingly more content on the Internet–and turning to Cyberspace whenever they need information on anything at all. That’s why information marketing offers such an interesting business opportunity for writers. If you have information to share and the ability to write and produce products to sell on the Internet–including books and e-books–you can [...]

How to Publish Successful E-Books

In July of this year, Amazon reported to have sold 143 digital books for its e-reader, the Kindle, for every 100 hardback books over the previous three months. Sales continued to accelerate rather than to slow. Not long after that announcement, Amazon said the rate had reached 180 e-books for every 100 hardbacks sold. Of [...]

Copyright Protection and the Internet

Writers—in particular bloggers—repeatedly ask me questions about copyright law. I’m no expert on the law, that’s for sure. I wrote a post on copyright in relation to blogging books; I spoke with a literary lawyer and a copyright attorney to gain the necessary information.  Then I happened to meet Francine Ward, a copyright and trademark [...]

How to Make Money Selling Information Products

On several occasions I have written about information products. Any writer can produce information products and create multiple streams of income–or even just one stream of income. Don’t have any idea what I’m talking about? No worries. Today, Stephanie Chandler, author of from Entrepreneur to Infopreneur, is here to tell you not only what information [...]

Beyond Books: Building Multiple Streams of Income

As a journalist and author, as well as an editor, writing coach and publishing mentor, I am always looking for ways to earn more money with my writing. The publishing world constantly changes–not always for the better when it comes to the ways writers make a living. Newspapers and magazines struggle to stay alive in [...]

Write About What You Know

When I attended journalism school at Syracuse University, my professors always taught me to write about what I know. I remember writing a wonderful piece while I studied abroad in England about a equine-related company. I have always loved horses and for most of my life I’ve been an equestrian. I found it easy to [...]