My Latest E-book Launches Monday - Get Started as a Freelance Web Writer
Summary: I’m launching my latest e-book this Monday - the Web Writer’s Guide to Launching a Successful Freelance Web Writing Career. Check out a preview at WebWritersGuide.com, and find out why I think more freelancers and entrepreneurs should consider creating their own information products.
For anyone not familiar with my work and blogging outside of the business and PR niches, I’m actually probably most active in the freelance writing community (not to mention that I’m a full-time writer now myself). When I work with newer freelancers, one thing I constantly tell them is to “write for yourself” - in other words, when you offer services, you should consider offering some kind of product as well.
Why?
Services rely on your time - that’s a finite resource. Once you’ve used it, it’s gone, and it’s gone for good. You can’t mass produce it. There’s only so much you can earn realistically without having to do things like expand into hiring employees or subcontractors (not an option for freelancers who want to keep enjoying the solopreneur route) or you’d have to completely alter your target market.
Instead, I tell people to invest some of that finite time into themselves - create informational products (books, e-books, blogs, etc.) that they can sell over and over and over again, building a residual income stream. As a matter of fact, those “extra” things are what I aim to make my full-time work by the end of 2009.
While I anticipate most of that income coming from my blogs (I’ve done quite well at monetizing them effectively in the past), I’m also releasing several e-books, including a series targeting freelance Web writers through WebWritersGuide.com (my main freelance writing blog is AllFreelanceWriting.com).
The first in that series (a 100-page e-book I just finished recently) will be released this Monday. If you want a sneak peek, head over to the WWG blog, where you can find links to the TOC, an excerpt, and a free one page business plan template I created for that e-book in a recent post.
If you’re a freelance writer, or thinking about starting a career writing for the Web (and you don’t want to get suckered into those cheap-ass crap jobs you see advertised all over the place), I hope you’ll check it out (or at least stop by the blogs). And more than that - I hope you’ll look into the value of creating e-books and other informational products for your own career.
I was actually interviewed this week by Deb Ng and Jodee Redmond of FWJ Radio on that very subject - check the archived show out below.
Oct 29th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
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