Boost Your Freelance Writing Income through Affiliate Marketing
October 16, 2009 by Working Writers Coach
Filed under E-books, Writing Tips
Most freelance writers who make a substantial income these days rely on affiliate marketing for a significant portion of that income.
Yet, there are many writers who just never get the hang of affiliate marketing. Most of these writers tend to sign up for one or two affiliate programs and post a text link or graphic link to the product or products for those programs, then sit back and wait for the money to start rolling in.
But it doesn’t.
And when it doesn’t, they figure they just don’t have enough traffic to make affiliate marketing worthwhile for them, so they give up on affiliate marketing altogether.
And that’s a BIG mistake.
What they don’t understand is that it takes more than simply posting a link to the affiliate product in order to make affiliate commissions.
There are definite “tricks of the trade” to learn to become a successful affiliate marketer.
A great resource I would recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about affiliate marketing is the Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner.
She reveals all the “tricks of the trade” you’ll need to learn if you want to significantly boost your freelance writing income through affiliate marketing, and she doesn’t charge an arm and a leg for this information either.
See what you think.
Beyond Bookstores: How to Become a Best-Selling Author
September 8, 2009 by Working Writers Coach
Filed under E-books, Freelance Writing
Becoming a best-selling author sounds like a great way to become rich and famous. Yet, most authors won’t write books that become best-sellers. At least, their books won’t be best-sellers in the traditional sense.
The traditional way to become a best-selling author is to write a book that a traditional publisher buys, publishes, promotes, and puts in bookstores all across the country – and maybe even across the planet.
J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, and Danielle Steel all became best-selling authors this way. But there are many other authors who have taken a somewhat different path to writing best-selling books, and you probably have never even heard of most of these authors.
So, what did they do?
Well, there are a couple of possibilities.
First, some of these authors may have written a book that had wide appeal to a particular niche market. But rather than rely on bookstores to sell their book, they sold their book in large quantities to corporations or organizations within their niche market.
Just imagine…you’ve written a book with tips for parenting children with asthma. Wouldn’t it be nice to get booked as a speaker for an educational program provided by the American Lung Association who purchases your book as part of the materials for the program? It wouldn’t take long to sell thousands of copies of your book this way.
Other authors set up launch dates on amazon.com and become best-selling authors strictly on amazon.com. Generally, this requires partnering with other professionals in your field who agree to promote your book on your launch date and offer an e-book or other product of their own as a free bonus when someone purchases your book from amazon.com.
Both of these methods of selling large quantities of books don’t involve bookstores. That doesn’t mean a particular book can’t also be sold in bookstores. It just means an author isn’t dependent on bookstores for the vast majority of sales of his books.
So, as you’re writing YOUR book, think beyond bookstores to become a best-selling author.
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