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Over the last three days of this marketing bootcamp you should have completed the main content area of your larger e-book (which you’ll sell as a new income stream as well as using it as a part of your writer platform). Today we’re simply going to pick up where we left off, and it’s how we’ll spend the rest of our bootcamp. Exercises Write the introduction to your e-book. Now that you’ve written the content you know exactly what you’re introducing (why we don’t want to write the introduction first). This should be about a page. Write the conclusion of …

Rather than giving you separate bootcamp posts for the same thing for these three days, this post will carry you through them. You’ll remember that we recently got you started on an information product (e-book) which you’ll be selling, and which will still serve as a piece of your writer platform. You set up your file. You outlined the content. You started writing it. For these three days you have only one exercise to focus on: Exercises Continue writing the main body content of your e-book, using your previous outline as a guide. Do not write the introduction or conclusion …

We’re working on your last big platform-building project of this marketing bootcamp for freelance writers this week. You’re in the process of creating another information product — a longer one this time, and one that you’ll sell rather than give away as an authority-building tool. Let’s get on with it. Exercises In your last set of exercises you outlined your e-book idea and you setup the basic document. Today take that outline and break it into a workable table of contents. Get drafting. This is what you’ll be working on for the next several days, so don’t feel like you …

It’s time for round two of your blog promotions (virtual blog tour plus commenting). I won’t get too much into the background since these are exercises you’ve already done in the marketing bootcamp. They’re simply things you have to keep on doing if you want to maximize results like visibility. Exercises Identify five new blogs in your niche (“new” as in not ones you pitched guest posts to previously). Remember to look through their archives to get a decent feel for their views, what they blog about, and whether or not they have any history of accepting guest posts. Brainstorm …

Today we’re going to move on to another element of building your writer platform — making yourself available to the media and niche sites or publications. If you began creating new freebies yesterday, you should continue with those daily as well until they’re ready to be released on your site or blog. Background Previously we talked about blog tours and guest posts and how exposure on niche sites can be good for business as a freelance writer. It helps build your authority status. That, in turn, can make you a go-to source for prospective clients. You can do the same …