The Elite Writer’s Lab Blog Archive

  • Tips for Creating and Using Swipe Files
    Most creative people like to collect the works of others to cultivate inspiration. In copywriting, this is called a “swipe file.” This is not nefarious. You’re not going to plagiarize or copy someone else. But let’s be clear, most new things start as imitation or improvements on something that already exists. Borrowing ideas from others ...
  • Tips for Improving Your Content Performance
    The truth is, you can publish the best article in the world that is written specifically for the target reader, but you may not get the views that you wanted or expected. Since there is so much information out there, you need to ensure that your content performs well for your needs. Know Your Viewers Intent ...
  • Ideas for Building Your Content Calendar
    A content calendar is an essential element for any business that wants to keep their audience and customers informed. The content calendar, also known as an editorial calendar, helps you plan and schedule content so you can publish it on time. There are different types of content you can include in your content calendar such ...
  • Do You Need to Update Your Pre-Pandemic Content Strategy
    One thing that is becoming clear is that the pandemic is changing everything. The way business has changed, along with home lives, during the pandemic is astounding. Some people say that we’ve boosted digital adaption by more than five years. It makes sense that you may need to update your pre-pandemic content strategy to take ...
  • 15 Careers for People Who Love to Write
    If you want to become a writer, you’re in luck because there are many lucrative careers that anyone who loves to write can do. Let’s get right into the 15 best careers for those who love to write. You never know which one is right for you. Grant Writer – There are many laws in place ...
  • Keep Sales Steady During Hard Times
    Every long-lasting business will go through boom times as well as bust times. Sometimes it’s due to your own bad choices, but sometimes it’s due to things outside of your control. The good news is, regardless of the reasons for the downturn, you can get through hard times with preparation and realism. Prepare for Hard Times ...
  • The #1 Way to Sell More Books
    You’ve spent countless hours and thousands of dollars to get your book written, edited, and ready for publishing. Now you’re ready to make sales from your work. As an author, you want to sell more books. You know some ways are better than others when it comes to marketing. But what is the number one ...
  • The Ups & Downs of Being a Writer
    Every profession has its ups and downs. Being a writer isn’t going to be an exception to that rule-of-thumb. In fact, the life of a writer has many ups and downs, failures, and successes. Like every success, it can be a bumpy ride. Writing the book is only the beginning. There are endless promotions, rejections, sales ...
  • Would Your Marketing Strategy Work on You
    Have you ever thought about your marketing strategy in the way you buy things? Does it work for you? If your marketing strategy includes Facebook add or Retweets, is it something you, as a buyer, buy from? Understanding the way your customers buy is key to building a marketing strategy. You want to sell your ...
  • The Importance of Questioning Everything
    Everyone wants to give advice. Sometimes we ask for it. Sometimes it’s just given. But how do you know what advice works and what doesn’t? It’s important to question everything instead of blindly applying everything you hear or read. For example, if you are looking for advice on the perfect publishing platform. You ask around and ...
  • Should You Join a Writer’s Critique Group
    Every writer needs to have a support system in place during the writing process. They also benefit from having constructive criticism from others. This keeps them on track and makes sure their results will grab the interests of publishers and readers. But there are downsides to joining a critique group as well. Pros of Writer’s Critique ...
  • Restore Your Creativity by Writing Something Different
    When you feel creative you are inspired to write. The words and ideas flow easily from your mind to your hands. But sometimes creativity stagnates. Your creativity and ideas seem to get stuck no matter what you do. You can’t force creativity so don’t push yourself too much. But there are several ways you can ...
  • Publishing Your Content to Kindle Unlimited – Is It Worth It?
     When you are ready to publish your book, you have many options on what type you use. The same is true when it comes to marketing your book. And where you sell your book. Kindle Unlimited is one of those options. Kindle Unlimited is the book subscription service for Amazon. KDP Select is the program authors ...
  • Should You Offer a Pre-Order Option
    You can give your customers the option to pre-order certain products or services before you are ready to launch them. Pre-orders can be used in almost every industry- hand-made products, luxury goods, books or services. Pre-orders allow you to collect money ahead of the release of your book or product. Pre-orders can be a significant part ...
  • Improve Book Sales by Writing More Books
    We all want to sell more books. That’s the goal of writing and publishing, right? Many new authors think now that they’ve written and published their book sales will skyrocket. But the truth is that even if you write a high-quality book, you need more than one to improve book sales. It makes sense that the ...
  • How to Deal with Critics
    Learning how to deal with critiques and critics is a huge part of sharing your work. Criticism comes from many different sources including your editor, other writers, family or friends, or from your readers. It’s important to learn how to deal with critics so their words don’t keep you from doing the work you love. If ...
  • Why Is Your Audience Buying
    Do you know why your audience is buying? This is the first thing you need to understand before you begin marketing to them. You need to know your customers like and what motivates them to buy. That means you need to know as much as possible about your ideal audience, who will become repeat buyers. Getting ...
  • Things Writers Need to Stop Worrying About
    As writers, we often worry about things that aren’t really warranted. This keeps us from never starting or continuing with our writing. Some writers worry about their craft and the writing process. Others worry about the business side of writing. This constant worry hinders you into moving forward. Here are five things you should let ...
  • How Good is ‘Good Enough’ When It Comes to Writing
    “I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not then wonderful. Then you write for who you love, whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.” – Ernest Hemingway Writers are known to be perfectionists. We strive to ...
  • Create Seasonal Based Plans and Products
    When you’re blogging, it’s important to make your plans in advance for the content that will appear on your blog. This needs to be based on the season as well as the products and services that you plan to promote or launch. Just like a retail store is planning fall sales in the summer, you ...
  • Seven Tips Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know
    When it comes to being in business for yourself, there are two realities you can testify to be true. It is easier than ever to become an entrepreneur and it is harder than ever to become an entrepreneur. The former is correct because the world is your oyster, thanks to the myriad of platforms, services and tools ...
  • How to Write an Autoresponder Series
    An autoresponder series is one of the best ways to connect with your target audience and build a relationship with them. It can seem a daunting prospect, but here are the essentials for success. 1. The Ethical Bribe One of the best ways to get people onto your email marketing list is to offer them what is ...
  • How to Move Forward When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed
    As a creative, focusing on one niche or genre feels confining. After all, you have interests and ideas for all kinds of writing in every genre from romance to sci-fi to business books. Should you pursue several of them at the same time? Probably not. When you are first starting out, it’s not a good idea ...
  • Choose Your Focus and Stick to It
    As a creative, focusing on one niche or genre feels confining. After all, you have interests and ideas for all kinds of writing in every genre from romance to sci-fi to business books. Should you pursue several of them at the same time? Probably not. When you are first starting out, it’s not a good idea ...
  • How Often Should You Review Your Content Plan and Analytics?
    There are a number of different schools of thought regarding how often a business owner with a website or blog should review their content plan and their analytics. The truth is, you need to do it every time you publish something new. The biggest mistakes new small business owners make are: a) They don’t have a ...
  • How to Encourage Earned Media
    Most bloggers and online business owners miss golden opportunities to promote their brand and business by not having a media outreach program or focusing on earned media. Yet encouraging earned media can be one of the best ways to achieve your goals. What Is Earned Media? Earned media is when discussions about your brand, products and/or services ...
  • How to Build Suspense in Your Content
    A lot of content on the internet just seems to be the same old thing, with nothing new, exciting or noteworthy that deserves being paid attention to. One of the best ways to stand out from this is to create suspense. This can be accomplished in a couple of ways. Journalistic Writing versus Blogging Journalistic writing is ...
  • Why You Should Advertise Your Business Offline
    Despite all the time, attention, and resources that are directed towards internet marketing, are you aware of the evidence that shows offline marketing can also be massively effective? Well in fact it can, and here is why. Without a doubt, the ideal you should aim for is to engage in the right mix of on and ...
  • How to Write Attention-Grabbing Headlines
    More people read the headlines than read what’s inside the headline. Therefore, if you want people to click through to read your content, you need to learn to write headlines that get attention. Your headline matters more than almost anything if you want people to consume your content. Your headline should be original and specific, stress ...
  • How Improving Your Content Can Grow Your List
    If you’re getting a lot of clicks on your content but your list isn’t growing, there are many ways to deal with this. Let’s look at how improving your content can grow your list. Add Multiple CTAs – Don’t just put a box on the right side-bar asking for people to sign up for your newsletter. ...
  • Evoking Emotion That Leads to Taking Action
    One tip for good copywriting and persuasive writing is to use the right words to evoke emotion in your readers. Evoking emotion requires that you know your audience, understand the benefits of your product, and know the right type of words to use to help your readers learn to trust you enough to feel those ...
  • Choosing the Right Brand Image
    One of the first steps in creating an effective advertising strategy is to choose the right brand image for your business. It doesn’t matter if your business is large or small; branding is an important part of advertising and marketing your business effectively. Your brand is the way other people identify your business. It needs ...
  • New Rules of Publishing Frequency
    Blogging was hugely popular when it first started in around 2007. It was a means for people to express themselves online freely, and without the need to know a lot about building websites, HTML and so forth. They could publish whatever they felt like whenever the mood struck them. Some kept it up on a regular ...
  • How to Leverage a Creative Dry Spell
    It probably happens to all creative personality types. One day you wake up and feel as if you cannot think of one more creative thing. Some people call this a “creative dry spell.” Writers may call it “writer’s block.” In any case, it means that you’re having trouble becoming creative when you need to be. ...
  • How to Improve the Readability of Your Content
    There are a number of ways to make your content more readable, for a better customer experience and more chance to convert visitors into buyers. Font Type There are two classes of font – serifed and sans serif. Serifs are the little curls on letters, such as on Times New Roman. Sans serif lacks these curls. Good ...
  • How to Create Better Content for Your Readers
    A great way to become an expert in your niche is to become an author. Writing a book requires that you know something about your topic, and are able to communicate it in a cohesive way that makes sense to your audience. It’s one of the most tried and true ways of building up expertise ...
  • Top Ten Writing Mistakes Most People Make
    Writing mistakes are easy to make. Even the most expert of writers makes them. And even if you proofread religiously, you’re likely to miss something. Everyone gets things wrong – that’s a fact. No one is immune from making writing mistakes. 1. Spelling Errors – Even though most people use spell check within their word processing ...
  • Tell a Story That Is Worth Repeating
    The power of storytelling is all around us. Storytelling informs almost all aspects of our lives – whether it’s the story our religion tells us or the story science tells us, the stories worth repeating have a few things in common. If you can match these features of a great story, you can ensure that ...
  • How to Prep before Writing Your Copy
    If you’re ready to put in the hard work that writing copy needs, you’ll do all right. Persuasive sales copy is the difference between success and failure. Seriously – it really is. Well-written copy can make or break your marketing efforts. While copywriting comes naturally to some people, it’s a foreign landscape to many and they ...
  • Eight Key Components of an Effective Product Promotion
    No matter what you’re planning to promote, there are certain steps to an effective product promotion plan. It crosses all niches, platforms, and audiences. You have to know who you’re promoting to, where you stand now, what your goals are, how you’ll develop your message and in what form, plus actually do it. 1. Know Your ...
  • Ten Types of Content Every Blog Needs
    If you’re stuck about what type of content you should post on your blog, worry no more. There are so many types of posts you can use to help you come up with just the right content that will engage your audience, and help you convert visitors. Let’s look at some. 1. Video Content – Just ...
  • Persuasive Writing Techniques You Should Know
    One of the most important skills you can learn when trying to improve your copy-writing is the art of persuasion. Using persuasion with words is a skill that you can learn if you understand how to do it. Let’s go over some common persuasive writing techniques used by the pros. Ask Rhetorical Questions – This is ...
  • Nine Ways to Brand Your Small Business
    A great way to become an expert in your niche is to become an author. Writing a book requires that you know something about your topic, and are able to communicate it in a cohesive way that makes sense to your audience. It’s one of the most tried and true ways of building up expertise ...
  • How Often Should You Create a New Product?
    There is no one right answer to how often you should create a new product. It depends on the nature of your business and how long it takes to put together a high-quality new product that will impress your prospective customers. Having said that, regular product creation is important to build your brand and business so ...
  • Statements and Phrases That Help Show Empathy
    There are a number of different phrases and statements that help demonstrate that you have empathy for your target audience. Empathy is important, because it offers the “human touch” in business dealings and marketing. You don’t have to act like a pushy used car salesman to seal the deal if you master these empathetic words ...
  • How to Write About a Problem If You Haven’t Experienced It
    A good copywriter can write effective copy for any type of product or service, without ever having needed it for themselves. Even if they haven’t experienced a problem personally, they can study it enough to develop an understanding of it, to show empathy for the situation so that they relate to the copy on the ...
  • How to Get Clicks without Using Click-baiting Phrases
    You’ve seen click-bait used on many sites including on major news websites. Hyperbolic headlines and titles seem to have become the norm. But, most people express displeasure about it. Due to the high usage of these types of headlines, people are starting to become blind to them. Thankfully, you can get clicks without using click-baiting ...
  • How Becoming an Author Can Increase Your Expert Status
    A great way to become an expert in your niche is to become an author. Writing a book requires that you know something about your topic, and are able to communicate it in a cohesive way that makes sense to your audience. It’s one of the most tried and true ways of building up expertise ...
  • Editing Is Much More Than Spelling and Grammar
    Editing is an important part of the writing process. Often, we think of editing as dealing with punctuation, grammar, and spelling issues. And certainly, you can hire editors that only deal with those things. However, when it comes to editing your writing editing is much more than spelling and grammar. The things you may want to ...
  • Growth Potential for Authors and Freelance Writers
    Despite the concern that artificial intelligence will take over writing for writers, according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States of America Writers are expected to experience growth about as fast as other careers. Plus, the median pay is about 30 bucks an hour with most writers who commit to the career ...
  • Self-Publishing Resources for Writers
    If you’re interested in self-publishing your work these resources will help you get it done. Today there are a variety of resources that can help you realize your self-publishing goals so it’s a good idea to check out what is offered before choosing. Try writing down what you think you need to help you and ...
  • Expand Your Audience with Joint Ventures and Partnerships
    Content marketing takes on so many different forms. You may not have previously considered joint ventures and partnerships as a way to increase the amount and type of content that you produce, but they can be very effective. Joint ventures are short partnerships to work on a small project together such as co-writing a book, or ...
  • Which Content Types Pay Best?
    To get paid well as freelance writer, you want to work with clients who have a budget to pay well. But even with that, business owners needing certain types of content tend to pay more than for other content.  Knowing which types of content pay the best is your first step to reaching your income ...
  • Writer Life: Committing yourself to the profession
    Once you make a choice to become something professionally it’s imperative that you know what it takes to accomplish it, are dedicated to it, and understand that you must live the life if you want to be whatever it is. That is very true with any profession not just writing. If you want to be ...
  • How to Get Media Coverage for Your Book
    When you finish your book, you probably feel good. However, when it comes to becoming a successful author, writing is only part of the process. Now you need to market your book, and part of marketing requires that you obtain as much media coverages as possible as quickly as possible so that you stay at ...
  • Copywriting Strategies That Set You Apart from the Competition
    One of the most important aspects outside of your product or service is the copywriting and content that you use to get more sales. After all, you can have the best product ever created but if no one knows about you, you’ll make no sales. The copywriting strategies you use can set you apart from ...
  • How to Find High-Paying Freelance Writing Jobs
    If you want to be a freelance writer one of the tasks you have before you is to find work. As a freelancer, you’re responsible for finding the work to make bids on so that you can keep your cash flow positive. Locating high-paying freelance writing jobs is possible, but you need first to be ...
  • Free Ways to Boost Your Knowledge in A Given Niche
    When you want to learn information about any topic this information will help you do it. The biggest thing is that you need to open your mind to be a life long learner. No matter the niche things do change with time. These free ways to boost your knowledge in a given niche will make ...
  • Choosing Which Goals to Focus On
    Setting goals for your business each year is an important part of business planning. In fact, studies have shown that people who write down their goals are more likely to achieve them. You already know that goals need to be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-sensitive, also known as “SMART” goals. But, how do you ...
  • Making Your Metadata Work for You
    Don’t get scared. Metadata may look like a scary, confusing, and complicated word but it really isn’t. Simply put metadata, according to Dictionary.com is “the information that you use to describe and define other data.” So, for example, if you publish a blog post the metadata surrounding that post is the title, the images used, how ...
  • Are You Making Project Management Harder Than Necessary?
    Project management is a necessary part of running any type of business. Whether you have a service-based or a product-based business, there are inevitably a variety of projects that you will need to plan. But, you don’t have to make it too hard for yourself. In fact, you can make project management easy if you ...
  • Profiting from Free Offers
    Free gifts or “Thank You” gifts entice your audience to join or opt-in to your mailing list. It’s also a very effective marketing strategy. However, it’s only effective if the freebie is useful, valuable and of high quality. Your freebies pull double duty for you. They serve as samples and examples of your products, services, ...
  • How Your Writing Skills Help Others
    If you’re a writer, you have a skill that many people only dream of having. You can use that skill to affect change in so many ways from writing letters to the editor, to writing grants, to simply making your client’s lives easier writing is a wonderful career full of opportunities to help or change ...
  • Locating & Landing Advanced Writing Projects – Tips for Freelancers
    One way to make more money is to work on intermediate and advanced writing projects. These types of projects often earn more money due to specialization and knowledge. You can find intermediate and advanced work online and offline. But if you want to land these projects, you need to be prepared. Create a Portfolio – To ...
  • Cutting Ties with Soul Sucking Clients
    As a business owner, or a freelancer, one thing can send you looking online for jobs fast is a soul-sucking client. A soul-sucking client may come in many varieties from time suckers to overly critical to just outright nasty. Some people think if they are paying you, they can do whatever they want to you. ...
  • How To Jump-Start Your Writing Career
    The first step to starting a writing career is to get started. Don’t just talk about it and think about it. Do it.  Most people claim they want to be writers. They dream about writing a book and perhaps turning it into a screenplay. They dream of helping million-dollar companies create their sales pages and other ...
  • Got Your First Freelance Writing Gig? Now what?
    Transitioning from wanting to be a writer to getting your first writing assignment is an exciting time. Now that you’re going to get paid for your first assignment, you’re a bonafide professional writer. Of course, you must get this first assignment right. Let’s look at the process you should follow to ensure it goes without ...
  • Which Content Types Pay Best?
    To get paid well as freelance writer, you want to work with clients who have a budget to pay well. But even with that, business owners needing certain types of content tend to pay more than for other content.  Knowing which types of content pay the best is your first step to reaching your income ...
  • How to Be More Productive When You Write
    One question many writers have is about improving productivity when writing. If you’ve ever sat down to a blank document and stared at it for an hour you probably have wondered the same thing yourself. Writing productively is an imperative if you want to have a freelance business or you want to become a writer ...
  • What To Do When The Words Don’t Flow
    Most of the time the reason you cannot get the words to flow is that you don’t know enough about the topic, you’re not sure of the direction of the work, or because you are distracted by something else. You can mitigate these issues with practice and by not accepting the idea that anything like ...
  • Freelancers – Are Your Moods Affecting Your Writing?
    We hear a lot of information today about how your mood can affect your life and your health in ways people did not think about before. One thing to remember is that a mood is a “temporary state of mind or feeling” and it can be good or bad. However, most of the time describing ...
  • Want to Be a More Successful Writer?: Meet Other Writers. Here’s How…
    Learning more about your craft, and the business of writing is easier when you network with other writers. After all, who will know best about how to do things, how to find information, and what to do regarding your writing career than other writers who are experienced? If you want to learn more about your ...
  • How to Improve Your Writing Process in 4 Steps
    One thing that will make your writing come easier is if you pay attention to your writing process. Instead of just sitting down and writing without any guidelines or idea of what you want to say, you’re going to want to set up your writing so that you can focus on one thing at a ...
  • How to: Sandwich Technique to Promote Your Book
    There are a lot of ways to promote your book but one of the most popular for not only book promotions but for giving people bad news, for handling critiques, and generally softening the blow about some news the sandwich technique is a winner. You know it’s a winner due to the sheer number of people ...
  • Should You Specialize Your Writing Business? – Tips for Freelancers
    Whenever anyone starts any type of business one thing that is drilled into their heads is niching down. Niche down your services, niche down your audience, niche down to serve a small portion of the entire audience so that you can specialize and make more money with less work. But, is it always a good ...
  • How To Write Quickly When You Are Overbooked – Tips for Freelancers
    Every now and then you may find yourself in a situation where you have no idea how you’ll get all the work done that you need to get done due to overbooking yourself. However, if you set up processes and systems, it will be more difficult to end up overbooked accidentally, and you’ll get done ...
  • Things To Consider When Drafting a Statement of Work – Tips for Freelance Writers
    An SOW is often referred to as a scope of work or statement of work. This is a document that can help you and your clients understand the scope of the work you are doing for them. It can help avoid any misunderstandings about what you will do for them. It is essentially a contract ...
  • How to Manage Effective Client Communication – Tips for Freelance Writers
    If you watch any TV shows or movies at all, what causes the most problems and drama on your favorite shows? It’s a lack of communication. If you’re afraid to speak up to clients (or anyone) about things it will be difficult to deliver to them what they want. As a freelance writer, your job ...
  • Expanding Your Subject and Improve Your Writing Skills: Creating Side Topics That Interest Your Readers
    Creating content in one niche is a good way to start with writing. You can write about one subject for a book, or a blog, or even as a ghost content writer. No matter what your subject is, you can expand on it in numerous ways so that you never run out of topics for ...
  • Creating a Space That Encourages Writing
    Writing is a brave career. It takes a lot for someone to strike out on their own and start creating pages upon pages of text for others to consume. And it can take a lot out of even the best of us. Creatively working takes a toll. With such a finicky career as ours, it’s ...
  • Listen To Me! Writing in An Authoritative Voice Without Being Overbearing
    When you’ve spent time organizing, researching, writing, editing, and rewriting your work, it’s easy to slip into the tone of you being the expert on your book’s subject matter. In fact, you probably are! But mastering that authoritative voice without your writing becoming overbearing on your audience can be difficult – especially for first-time authors. If ...
  • Change Your Life Just By Changing Who You Surround Yourself With
    We love this interview clip with Kristen Laidig, where she explains the impact of surrounding yourself with the right group of people. And keep reading for our thoughts on the subject too. https://youtu.be/_JQglhhqNN8 Kristen offers the advice to surround yourself with people who emulate what you want in your life as the saying goes – you are the ...
  • Reboot Your Book: How to Get Kindle Books Selling Again
    In this interview snippet, Ty Cohen, gives advice on what to do with Kindle books that have already been published and sales start to dwindle. These tricks are what helped one of Ty’s students sell 3oo+ copies of a 3 year old book in one month. https://youtu.be/uDirfMGeCAM If books stop selling or the sales taper off, you ...
  • How to Avoid Shiny Object Syndrome
    As an author or content publisher, it’s easy to get distracted with other ideas, projects and just about anything. Our friend, Ty Cohen, has been extremely successful because he maintains his focus and isn’t distracted by shiny object syndrome. Here is his advice for maintaining that focus. https://youtu.be/ad4vzb-ol8U When Ty first started, he confessed to being “all over ...
  • Instagram 2019 Statistics & Best Practices for Brands
    Over 200 million people sign into their Instagram accounts each and every day…and one billion use it each month, making it a platform worth paying attention to. But online marketers often get frustrated because it’s not a platform that makes it easy to share links. HOWEVER, it’s the perfect platform for growing a loyal following, good ...
  • What are People Looking for on LinkedIn?
    Here’s an excerpt from our interview with Jimena Cortes about getting clients from LinkedIn. In this video, Jimena goes over what people are looking for on LinkedIn and some ideas on how you might leverage it for your business. Watch or read the quick summary below… https://youtu.be/_onhK6VlI4E Here’s what Jimena has to say… Every business needs marketing and there ...
  • LinkedIn Strategies: Know & Locate Your Target Market
    Here’s an excerpt from our interview with Antonio Thornton about getting clients from LinkedIn. In this video, Antonio explains the importance of recognizing your preferred target audience and finding them on LinkedIn. Watch or read the quick summary below. https://youtu.be/0Mh6qgin9pg Here’s what Antonio has to say… With LinkedIn, you will be building one-on-one relationships like you would at any live ...
  • A Quick Tip for Closing the Sale through LinkedIn
    Here’s an excerpt from our interview with Antonio Thornton about getting clients from LinkedIn. He has some smart advice for closing the sale once you get the client on the phone. Watch or read the quick summary below. https://youtu.be/lO-_FIAxHZs Here’s what Antonio has to say… Closing a sale through LinkedIn is pretty much the same as anywhere else and ...
  • How to Create a Facebook Story
    If you’re trying to create a Facebook Story to create your business…good news! It’s easy to do. Let’s run through the basics of getting it done. To create a story, go to your Facebook Page or Group (or do it from your personal profile if you’re uploading to your personal profile) on your mobile device. Just click ...
  • Ideas for Creating Appealing Facebook Stories
    If you’ve got a huge Facebook audience, it’s probably easy to just throw anything into your Facebook Story and it’s sure to gain traction. BUT if you’ve got a small and growing audience, you’re going to have to add a bit more strategy to appealing to your audience and capturing their attention, so they’ll want ...
  • Why Use Facebook Stories to Market Your Business
    Facebook Stories have been around for some time and you’ve probably viewed other people’s and companies stories…and maybe even created some yourself. But have you considered how Facebook Stories can benefit your business? They can engage your audience, grow your list and even sell more products, services and books. Facebook Stories are not quite what we usually ...
  • Freelancers: How to Pitch Your Services Successfully
    If you want to be more successful in your freelance career, it’s important to understand the best practices for pitching new clients that help you win the client. Finding leads and pitching to them is the biggest challenge to having a financially stable and successful freelance writing career. Know Who Your Ideal Client Is It is imperative ...
  • Stop Chasing Work and Start Attracting Clients
    Many freelancers give up eventually. They get tired and find a normal job. The main reason is due to not understanding how to attract clients. Instead, they simply do a few one-off projects that pay low and are not very satisfying or lucrative. Eventually, this weighs on them because of the uncertainty, the inability to create ...
  • How Giving Away Free Stuff Grows Your Business
    A lot of business owners wonder why they should give something away for free when they could charge for it. The reality is, free offers are valuable and they work. Freebies are a great way for people to get to know you. They are perfect for allowing potential customers to try before they buy. While there ...
  • Why Your Customers Love Interactive Content and How to Provide It
    Have you ever noticed that if you include a printable, a worksheet or some type of interactive content for your customers or to get people on your list, they just eat it right up? They readily opt-in for your freebies AND they’re willing to pay more for your products and training. People LOVE interactive content ...
  • 30 Free Gift Ideas to Get More Email Subscribers
    Free gifts or “Thank You” gifts entice your audience to join or opt-in to your mailing list. It’s also a very effective marketing strategy. However, it’s only effective if the freebie is useful, valuable and of high quality. Your freebies pull double duty for you. They serve as samples and examples of your products, services, ...
  • 6 Ways to Find Unique Topics to Write About
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  • A Question: Should You Follow The “Writing Rules”?
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  • How to Secure Recurring Work as a Freelancer
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  • Great News! Everyone Can Teach
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  • How To Build a Fan Base as a Writer
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  • How to Start Outsourcing
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  • How to Get More Out of Your Time without Working Harder
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  • Do You Have to Make Upsell Offers When You Sell Private Label Rights Content?
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  • Why Building Online Relationship Are Important for Your Business
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  • Use This Writing Strategy to Get Attention from Influencers
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  • How to Get High Profile Writing Clients
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  • Secrets to Buying YouTube Views to Get to Profit
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  • Case Study: Making Money and Grow Your List from Simple YouTube Ads
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  • How to Get Cheaper Ads from YouTube
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  • How Much Do YouTube Ads Cost
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  • How to Use Webinars to Get More Buyers for Your Books
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  • How to Sell Easy to Create Journals for Big Profits (Part 3 – Selling Your Journals)
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  • How to Sell Easy to Create Journals for Big Profits (Part 2 – How to Make Your Journals)
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  • How to Sell Easy to Create Journals for Big Profits (Part 1- What Kind of Journal?)
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  • How to Write & Publish a #1 Best-Selling Children’s Book (in 7 Days or Less…)
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  • How to Make Money with Kid’s Books (Part 2 – Marketing Your Children’s Book)
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  • How to Make Money with Kid’s Books – Creating and Publishing Your Book
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  • Skimping on Keeping in Touch with your Mailing List? Use These Tips…
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  • Why Story Matters in Non-Fiction
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  • The Importance of Connections for Growing Your Writing Business
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  • How to Come Up With Attention-Getting Book Titles (Part 2)
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  • A Smart Way to Get Contact Info for Your Book Buyers
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  • How to Use Research to Add Credibility to Your Writing
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  • Need a Writing Boost? 10 Ways to Boost Your Creativity
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  • 7 Ways to Boost Your Profits as a Private Label Rights Content Seller
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  • Turn Your Writing Skills into a Highly Lucrative Private Label Rights (PLR) Business
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  • How to Boost Your Income from Content You’ve ALREADY Created
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  • 7 Smart and Effective Ways to Repurpose Your Content
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  • Setting Income Goals for 2018
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  • In a Slump? 7 Strategies to Keep Writing When You Don’t Feel Like It
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  • Free Downloadable / Printable Goals Journal
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  • Have Enough Content for a Book?
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  • 9 Ways Short Stories Can Earn You Money
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  • Useful Writing Resources to Help You Achieve Success
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  • Time Management Tips for Writers
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  • Traditional Publishing versus Self-Publishing
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  • It’s Not Just about the Writing When It Comes to Fiction
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  • 12 Fiction Marketing Tips
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  • Fiction Writing Basics
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  • Before You Write Fiction: Ask Yourself These Questions
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  • Top Tips for Connecting With Niche Influencers
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  • Writing for More Social Media Interaction
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  • Building a Strong Online Community – Forget the Numbers
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  • Becoming a Thought Leader on Social Media
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  • Are you limiting your traffic opportunities? Probably…
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  • Working Smart or Just Working Hard?
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  • 35 Things to Make Content Marketing Easier
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  • Why and How to Outline Your Book
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  • How Long Should It Take to Write a Book and Will it Be Any Good?
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  • Do You Have Enough Content to Write a Book?
    Talk to most people and they’ll tell you that they have a great idea for a book. And to be fair, any good book starts with an idea. However, an idea isn’t enough. Sure, when Robert Kiyosaki dreamed up his Rich Dad, Poor Dad book, it probably started as just a simple idea on how ...
  • Stop Working So Hard: Build You Content Marketing Team & Get Things Done!
    Over the past week, we’ve provided a lot of ideas for creating content and using it to grow your business. There are so many possibilities and while you may not take advantage of each and every opportunity and idea, you can probably do a lot more than you think. That’s the beauty of having your own team ...
  • How to Manage Prolific Content Creation without Working Yourself To Death
    One of the secrets to successful content marketing is not only being seen by a lot of people, but also turning those views into prospects and customers for your business. Alice was recently interviewed about being a prolific, results-oriented content publisher WITHOUT working yourself to death and we have a handy summary of that interview for ...
  • 9 Ways to Monetize Your Content Creation Skills
    You work hard create content for your readers, but if you want to grow your business, it needs to serve a purpose for you. With that in mind, we’ve got 12 easy ways to monetize your content. 1. Building Your List: Don’t do anything else until your content is feeding people into your mailing list. ...
  • How Can I Give Away Content without Giving Away the Store?
    by Alice Seba and Annette Elton Here’s a question we recently received from our subscriber, Ed. “How do we keep from ‘giving away the store?’ That is, how do we keep from giving away what we’d normally charge clients to do for them?” This is a very common question amongst our clients and people we’ve worked with over ...
  • 18 Ways to Connect with Influencers
    Having just one relationship with an online influencer in your market can have a huge impact on your business. These influencers often have energetic personalities that command respect from other players in their niche. You should be seeking out relationships with people of influence since they help shape consumer decision by promoting products and ideas across ...
  • Forget About Competition…Make Them Friends Instead
    If you’ve been working hard on writing books, growing your traffic, creating products and services, building your mailing list, participating in social media and doing all those things you know should do to grow your business…you’ll know one thing for certain. It IS hard work. But there’s one thing that multiplies all these efforts faster and ...
  • Establishing Your Expert Status by Taking Clients
    by Alice Seba Do you take clients? Online business is an amazing opportunity for more hands-free and passive income opportunities than most other types of businesses. You can publish content that works for you for years to come, you can build lists of thousands of people who eagerly buy from you over and over again and you can ...
  • Your Ideal Client Free Guide & Worksheet
    When you first start your business, you might feel you should take any client you can get, but nothing can be further from the truth. All that does set you up for way too much work, headaches and likely a string of unsatisfied clients. Take the time to figure out exactly who your ideal client is, ...
  • How to Market Inside Your Kindle Book – Quick Tips
    Everyone is so focused on marketing to get buyers to their books, but your Kindle book is ALSO valuable marketing space. You have a lot of leeway to talk about your business inside your book and always use it to your advantage. Here are some things to include inside your book: * Your author biography: Just because ...
  • Tips for a Winning Kindle Author Bio
    Your book and website need an author page and biography. You might be surprised how many readers, and potential readers, make a buying decision based on your bio. Not to mention the folks that are just curious about who you are and why you’re the authority on your topic. Your bio is an opportunity to ...
  • 4 Smart Ways to Promote Your Kindle Ebook You May Not Have Thought Of
    Writing and publishing a Kindle book is a tremendous accomplishment. Now, let’s talk about getting you some results. As you know, it’s not enough to publish and then sit back and wait for the sales to roll in. You may get some sales right away but you probably won’t get the kind of income and return ...
  • 8 Essentials to Grow Your Mailing List
    If you know the power of the mailing list (and we hope you do), you’re probably always trying to get more people on yours. Of course, you want targeted subscribers, not just numbers. These are people who are interested in your books, products and services. Here are a 8 must-do ways to grow your targeted subscriber ...
  • Free Guide to Creating Book and Product Covers
    We’re back with a handy guide to help you create effective book and product covers! This free guide includes: How to create attention-grabbing book titles 16 fill-in-the-blanks book title templates How to create your book covers, with examples you can learn from Increasing your product’s perceived value with cover graphics…and sell for more. Click here to download it (PDF) Read it and ...
  • Your invite is coming…and more video tips
    A couple of things to update you on before the weekend. We have some great takeaways from our interview with live streaming expert, Monique Johnson. Monique gave some great tips for authors to engage their audience through live video including getting your readers involved as you’re in the process writing your book. You can: Share your progress Give them ...
  • Easy Kindle Publishing Strategies
    Over the past week, we have shared a ton of marketing tips with you. From affiliate marketing to blogging, all the way to growing your list and using social media, we had you covered. And as always, these tips can be used with or without the templates…but why make things harder than they have to be? For ...
  • Smart Strategies – Ever Wanted to Sell from a webinar?
    Here’s a new marketing topic for you today…and of course, we’ve got some templates to make it easier to implement these strategies. And again, whether you use our templates or not, these strategies will get you places. Today’s topic is selling products from a webinar. Webinars a very popular online marketing strategy for selling high-ticket products. They’re ...
  • Tips to Earn More Affiliate Commissions
    Whether you sell your own products or not, affiliate marketing should always be a part of your strategy. That’s why we’ve got those tips and a new template package for you today. And as always, these tips can be used with or without the templates…but it’s much easier with them. 🙂 If you’re not sure what affiliate ...
  • Social Media Made Easy
    New topic and new template package for you. Whether you pick up the templates or not, we’re sure you’ll find these tips helpful. And hey, we’ve even bumped up the special coupon code, so you can save even more this Black Friday weekend. Today’s topic is filling up your social media with a ton of great ...
  • How to fill your blog with AWESOME!
    If you’ve ever struggled to fill your blog with fresh content, you’re certainly not alone. You’ve got plenty to do and sometimes blogging gets left by the wayside. But the good news is if you set aside just a bit of time for planning and utilize effective brainstorming tools, your blog can become the incredible resource ...
  • Ron’s Top Tip for 2017 Success
    2016 was an amazing year for me and my business. It was a year of personal growth where I improved my craft and gained a lot of confidence. In 2017, I plan to narrow my focus and scale up the programs that have the most potential for my business. My two big takeaways that can be a ...
  • Alice’s Top Tip for 2017 Success
    Over the past year and a half, I’ve been shaving off projects and getting more focused in my business. It’s the tendency of many online entrepreneurs to dip their feet into many projects because it’s easy to do. The problem is, when you divide your efforts, you minimize your success. Eliminating projects meant that half way through ...
  • Facebook Ads for Writers:
    27 Ideas and Examples
    With nearly 2 billion active monthly users, it’s almost crazy not to tap into the huge audience of Facebook. Sure, you can do it the old-fashioned way and try to build your following organically, or you can make it much easier on yourself by using the Facebook Ad platform to multiply your profits. Facebook advertising makes ...
  • 11 Ideas for Writers Using Facebook Live
    Okay, as a writer, you might be weary…or let’s face it, possibly deathly afraid…of doing live video. But Facebook Live is an amazing platform to create a connection with your audience and get them to take action. If you’re not sure what you could do with Facebook Live as a writer, here are a few ideas ...
  • Content Shortcuts – How to Use PLR
    Marketing your books or products in the online world takes a lot of content. Whether it’s content to inform or entertain, it makes the web go ’round. It doesn’t matter if you market through social media, advertising, your blog, email marketing or YouTube…you NEED content. And as a solo entrepreneur, it’s not always easy to keep up. ...
  • Building a Loyal, Buying Audience
    Last month’s Elite Writer’s Lab case study was with one of our favorite bloggers and super affiliates, Lynn Terry. We talked to her about building a loyal audience who loves to buy…even if you hate selling. Lynn is a lifestyle blogger and offered some very smart advice on: Where you need to put your focus to build ...
  • Download: Top Ten Things to Blog About Worksheet (for Any Niche)
    If you ever struggle with knowing what to blog about, here’s a handy tips sheet and brainstorming worksheet for you. The best part is it works for any niche and it will have you blogging in no time. Use the worksheet to brainstorm your topics and you’ll have tons of ideas for a long time to come. Click ...
  • Free Download: Tips Worksheet to Get People Promoting You
    Here’s a little something that will come in handy if you’re interested in starting your own affiliate program or growing your existing one. EVEN if you sell on Amazon, you can take these tips and run your own program. See, that’s the mistake a lot of Kindle and Amazon sellers make. They rely on Amazon to ...
  • How NOT to Make $500 / Hour
    Wow…we’re beat. What an action-packed week at the Best Sellers Summit. It’s been such a whirlwind of amazing speakers and information, we’re probably going to have to hibernate for the weekend. Now, before we go take a well-deserved break, we wanted to share something Jim Edwards say today. He said: “You can’t make $500 per hour if you’re ...
  • How to Get Top Reviewers to Review Your Book on Amazon
    Hey, here’s a cool tip from the Best Sellers Summit today. By the way, we have one full day of the summit left and you can still join us. Plus, you’ll have access to all the recordings from previous days. Do note, the price of the basic event ticket went up a little, but we kept the ...
  • Day 2 Best Sellers Summit – Key Takeaways
    Another great day at Best Sellers Summit. We talked children’s books, books series, a #1 best selling book case study and creating book promos through Facebook. Our heads are filled with so many great ideas too! We hope you’ll be able to join us for Day 3. You can still get a discounted ticket here, but only until ...
  • Top Tips from Smart Online Publishers
    What a fantastic first day at the Best Sellers Summit. We hope you’ll be able to join us for Day 2. You can still get a discounted ticket here, if you hurry. But the reason we’re writing is to share some of the key takeaways from today. We had four amazing experts, each who shared incredible wisdom. Here are ...
  • Why Every Writer Needs an Online Presence
    Do you have a website? As a writer your website may be your most important business tools. If you don’t have a website, consider a getting one here’s why: Your Customers Search Online The internet has grown to become a huge reference tools. You use it to find information on products. You also use it to find ...
  • Don’t Just Blog…Monetize!
    Blogging is a part of most online business strategies, but sometimes we get into the routine of blogging and we forget that this content is the perfect opportunity to earn more income for our businesses. So here’s your reminder to monetize your blog posts. And yes, you can even go back and monetize posts you’ve already ...
  • What You Need to Get Started As a Paid Writer
    Are you interested in becoming a paid writer? There are a number of opportunities for writers. It’s a lifestyle that offers many freedoms and joys. The good news is that it’s also pretty easy to get started as a paid writer. Here’s what you need: #1 You need a computer. Even if you’re not writing for online clients, ...
  • 5 Lessons Learned After Selling 1.4 Million Books and Ebooks
    It’s Alice here. Ron is off vacationing in Grenada with his lovely wife…but me, I’m still here toiling away. Sadly, my suntan is slowly fading, but after spending a lot of summer on the road and now that the kids are back at school, it’s great to just dig in and immerse myself in some ...
  • Free Download to Publish Content Faster
    A little while ago, we shared some tips with you on how to get better results with your content, but there’s always one thing that makes that process cumbersome. Yeah…CREATING the content. One of the easiest ways to get content done quickly is with PLR or private label rights content. You purchase a license to use content ...
  • Link to the Free Checklist
    As you know, over the past few days we’ve been talking a lot about content. We gave you tips on how to: • Turn free content into loyal customers • Think outside of the box when it comes to content types • Keep and grab attention with your content…and get your audience to take action on your offers If ...
  • Mistake #3 (the most importance piece)
    As promised, we’ve got content marketing mistake #3 here for you. If you missed any of the past two days, our online archives are here. Today, we promised to talk about getting your visitor’s attention, keeping it AND get them to take action on your offers. This is a BIG one. So here we go… Mistake #3: ...
  • Content Marketing Mistake #2
    Let’s keep this going, so you’ll be an expert content marketer in no time. If you missed yesterday’s first tip, it’s right here. Yesterday’s mistake was an important one, so be sure to catch up on that first. Mistake #2: Thinking Content is All Blog Posts, Email and Social Media A lot of people get trapped into ...
  • The Mistakes People Make with Content…
    Over the next few days, we thought we’d highlight some key things you should know about publishing online content…and the mistakes you should avoid. Mistake #1: Only Using Content as a Traffic Generator Most people know that content is a great traffic generator. You make a blog post, publish a report and bam…people to come visit your ...