There’s no better way to do that than to line up dozens of public speaking engagements at small business association meetings and other group events in your area.

But first, you need to WRITE the materials you will use for these presentations.

True, you could hire someone else to write these items for you.

Yet, if you write the materials yourself, you’ll discover that you can also create several marketable products to take with you when you make these live presentations.

Next month, in my Working Writer’s Summer Bootcamp, participants will learn to write materials for speeches and other presentations. They’ll also create some actual “products” to boost their business (whether that business be freelance writing, coaching, real estate, etc.).

This bootcamp starts Monday, June 2, 2008.

Sign up here HERE TODAY if you’re ready to boost YOUR business!

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And, many times, there are dozens of small mistakes within these manuscripts that could have been corrected so so sooooooo easily if the work had been read by a professional editor before it was published.

A case in point is this. Recently, I read a statement that said something like this: As a baby the author had to sleep in a chester drawers.

Huh?

Chester drawers?

Is that something I don’t know about, or did the person writing this mean chest of drawers?

Another manuscript I read recently had some dialogue between a man and his wife. The husband was trying to be cute and speak to his wife in French. He said something like this: “Well, mademoiselle, how are you?”

Okay. So maybe he WAS trying to make his wife feel young and attractive by referring to her as a SINGLE woman.

But, to me, this entire book would have been much more credible if the main character had referred to his wife as the married woman that she apparently was by saying it this way: “Well, madame, how are you?”

No big deal. This didn’t affect the story very much, if at all. Still, a professional editor would have easily changed this before the book ever made it to publication.

So here is the point of all my finger-pointing today.

It is well worth it to PAY to have a professional edit your manuscript if you are going to self-publish.

Don’t even think about it.

Just do it! Hire a professional editor.

Writer Rita Milios tells you everything you need to know to get started in this special teleclass:

Submitting to Educational and Test Assessment Publishers: Finding the Markets and Landing Assignments

• Where do you go to find work in the test assessment and education writing niche? What websites and job boards are the most likely to list such opportunities?

• Which publishers consistently need new writers? How do you approach them?

• What should you include in your letter of introduction? What kind of samples should you send?

• What happens next…after you’ve sent your introductory letter and samples?

All these questions and more will be answered during the next class in the education writing series with Rita Milios. Join Rita Thursday May 8th at 8 pm Eastern DAYLIGHT time for this informative and interactive class. Be sure to review the class Handouts, as these will list important websites that we will be exploring together, and will also contain a sample introductory assignment letter.

This is called reslanting because you create a different angle or slant for each article you propose to different publications.

Here are a few tips for reslanting articles:

1) Before you contact your sources, brainstorm a few possible article slants or angles. Also, determine which publications would be best for each slant. Choose magazines that don’t compete with each other. You wouldn’t want to sell an article to Family Circle, for example, and then a similar piece to Woman’s Day because these two publications have many of the same readers and these readers don’t want to see the same information in both magazines.

2) Before you contact your sources, figure out a variety of questions that will allow you to reslant the topic in many ways. This way, your sources will give you a variety of quotes so each article will include fresh quotes. You won’t merely be “recyling” the same quotes from article to article.

3) If you have trouble coming up with a variety of slants around one article topic, brainstorm ideas with another writer. You’ll probably be suprised at all the different slants you start coming up with once another writer has helped you see a few possibilities.

Practice these tips for reslanting articles and soon you’ll be making the most of your research - and your time, too.