I have about 40 websites at the moment. I’ve built them all up by myself with no help from anyone else. I did this during a period of productivity lasting 2-3 years, in which I worked my ass purple GTD. For the last year I’ve been looking at these sites as liabilities. They take a [...]
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Where Do You Write From?
Posted on 20 October 2011.
Where are you writing from? For myself, I either need to lock myself in a room to write, or I need to go somewhere spectacular, plop myself down and write until my notebook computer battery dies away. Could you be more inspired writing from somewhere else? When I need to, this is one of the [...]
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Jumping the Amazon eBook Train
Posted on 01 October 2011.
Recently I said, in a comment left at Joe Konrath’s blog… The train just lurched forward. Are you on it? Or are you waiting to see what happens? Up until this point, I’ve seen myself as standing at the train platform and watching various trains go by… thinking, that one isn’t it. That’s [...]
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At What Point Does Writing Deserve a Full-Time Effort?
Posted on 09 August 2011.
This is just another of those questions I’m constantly asking myself. When do I start writing full-time to see what happens? When it’s bringing in $3K per month? Four or five? I’ve just got an ass-ton of projects on my plate that I just can’t see getting rid of until I’m killing it with ebook [...]
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2.4 Cents Per Hour to Write? Shove That Job! Wait a Sec…
Posted on 31 July 2011.
If someone was going to offer to pay you 2.4 cents per hour for the next year of work, would you take it? There’s more to it of course… If you did the job, you’d be working about 10 hours a day max. But, you’d get paid 2.4 cents per hour for all 24 hours [...]
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Write 40 Short Sex Stories and Make $500 More Per Month?
Posted on 25 July 2011.
I did some figuring yesterday. If I sat down and banged out 40 short sex stories, it would come back to us in the form of another $500 per month. That’s pretty damn substantial – isn’t it? $500 per month is like a Lexus payment. Here in Thailand it’s a very decent house payment or [...]
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Focus on Writing New Books, or Focus on Marketing?
Posted on 25 June 2011.
I have two friends that are both telling me that they are not worrying about what Amazon does anymore. Amazon is sort of like Google, but probably much more important to writers as they have the power to sell an Eskimo-ton of your books – or none at all. Nobody knows the secret formula for [...]
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How to Choose a Blog Niche?
Posted on 04 June 2011.
Here’s a really simple way to choose a blog niche that could earn you a living. Follow what About.com is doing, and beat them hands down. First go to About.com and check out what their topics are. See how a topic is structured – see the main points within the niche that they’re writing about. [...]
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Sick and Short – Test 1, Done
Posted on 22 February 2011.
I wrote a 20 page ebook in the Sick and Short genre that I’ll put at $2.99 and see what happens. I chose that price because right now there is nothing in that niche for less than $7.99, so I should be able to grab some attention with the crazy title and cover image. I [...]
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Writers – Supplement Your Income With – Retail
Posted on 05 February 2011.
The first things I started selling online were “FatBurners” in 1997 or 1998 – I forget which. I saw a guy selling them on Ebay and I found a good source for the stuff wholesale – and started selling unreal numbers of bottles at $9.95 per bottle, $19.95 for 3 bottles. I brought my brother [...]
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Reinvest Your Book Profits – Or, Suck It Dry?
Posted on 07 January 2011.
I had an interesting thought just now. For the past 12-13 years I’ve been creating online businesses. When they show a profit I usually just pocket it. I can do that because I’m not spending money – just time – to create the venture. Maybe writing ebooks for a career is different. I haven’t heard [...]
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The Problem with Author Blogs
Posted on 23 November 2010.
I have a sneaky suspicion that a lot of writers are reading this blog, and not many readers of my books. Well, writers and those that happen to look up “vulture eating starving child” – because I do get a lot of visitors from Google on that query. The problem with authors writing blogs is [...]
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