Category Archives: E-books

Is 2011 Your Year? Let My Web Writer’s Guide Help You Earn More as a Freelance Writer – Save $10 Now!

By on November 22nd, 2010

We’ve been talking about professional goals a lot lately. And if your goal is to earn more money as a freelance writer on the Web, my e-book might be just the guide you need. Whether you want to be a full-time Web writer, part-time Web writer, or just use freelance writing for the Web to fill in the holes in your print writing schedule, my e-book can help you do it without bowing down to low rate offers. If you order today you can get a special holiday discount — the last on this version of The Web Writer’s Guide …

Review of Anne Wayman’s “You CAN Make Money Writing eBooks”

By on October 19th, 2010

This is a review of an e-book from fellow freelance writer Anne Wayman — You CAN Make Money Writing eBooks ($15.95). As always, any affiliate products mentioned here are ones I can wholeheartedly recommend as per our affiliate link policy linked from the disclaimer above. Also, as always, I hope you find the review to be fair and balanced. Summary Anne Wayman is one of those colleagues I have overall confidence in. Agree with her about everything or not, if she puts out a product I know it’s not going to be utter crap, even before I’ve had a chance …

How Writing E-books Can Save You From a Low Pay Rut

By on September 25th, 2010

We’ve talked a lot about using e-books as platform pieces for freelance writers. And we’ve looked at how they can be used as residual income streams to complement your freelance writing work. But they can do more than supplement your writing income. If  you find yourself stuck in a low pay rut, e-books might even be your ticket out. Let’s look at a somewhat extreme example of someone trying to make content mill writing their full-time income. Let’s say you’re a freelance writer working for a mill where you earn $15 per article on average. You need to earn at …

My Web Writer’s Guide E-book is Temporarily Unavailable

By on August 18th, 2010

I just received an email about the Web Writer’s Guide e-book, and I wanted to update everyone. If you wanted to order a copy, please hold off. WebWritersGuide.com is on my list of sites that still has to be moved to the new server, so it isn’t working at the moment. Between now and the end of the day Friday I hope to have all of my sites fully moved. I’ll update you when it’s functioning properly again. If you come across issues with freebie downloads that might have been lost in the move, please let me know and I’ll …

Free E-book Sales Conversion Calculator Launched

By on May 7th, 2010

Have you been following our growing collection of awesome and exclusive free stuff for writers? No? Well then let’s get you caught up with our latest free online too for writers — a simple dual-mode e-book sales conversion calculator. Why an e-book sales conversion calculator? I don’t know. Because we just finished a 14 day e-book writing challenge here perhaps. Really, you can use the calculator for any type of product you want. Go check out the tool. There are two versions (click the button at the top of the calculator to switch modes). The first version lets you enter …

14 Day E-book Writing Challenge 2010 – Day 14

By on April 28th, 2010

It’s the last day of our e-book writing challenge! Hurray! Just one more thing to do, so let’s get to it. If you missed the earlier parts of the challenge, be sure to download a free copy of How to Write an E-book in Just 14 Days — it will give you the more detailed instructions for the challenge, and let you follow along at your own pace, on your own schedule. Here’s a summary of today’s goals (both groups’ goals are the same today): Announce your e-book launch! That’s it. That’s all you have to do. Tell people about …

14 Day E-book Writing Challenge 2010 – Day 13

By on April 27th, 2010

Let me start off by apologizing to those who were following the challenge from day one. I thought I’d written and scheduled the posts for this weekend to close out the challenge, but I forgot. And with a major home project going on, blogging was nearly the last thought on my mind. If you had the e-book to give you instructions, you did have access to the day’s tasks and could have moved forward anyway. But for those who took a break in my absence, let’s continue those last two days now. If you missed the earlier parts of the …

14 Day E-book Writing Challenge 2010 – Day 12

By on April 23rd, 2010

Day 12. We’re down to the weekend now! You’ve written an e-book. You’ve edited your e-book. And you’ve created a sales page or landing page for your e-book. Congratulations! But don’t rest easy just yet. You’re not finished. It’s time to “pretty it up” and prepare for your e-book launch. If you missed the first half of the challenge, be sure to download a free copy of How to Write an E-book in Just 14 Days — it will give you the more detailed instructions for the challenge, and let you follow along at your own pace, on your own …

14 Day E-book Writing Challenge 2010 – Day 11

By on April 22nd, 2010

Alright. Day 11, only three more days today after today. You’re getting there! By now you should have written and edited your e-book. We’re just working on the distribution side of things for the next few days. Or, if you’re like me and you got behind earlier, it’s time to haul ass and get things finished up. If you missed the first half of the challenge, be sure to download a free copy of How to Write an E-book in Just 14 Days — it will give you the more detailed instructions for the challenge, and let you follow along …

14 Day E-book Writing Challenge 2010 – Day 10

By on April 21st, 2010

We’re on the 10th day of our e-book writing challenge today, and it’s time to start preparing your new e-book for distribution! If you missed the first half of the challenge, be sure to download a free copy of How to Write an E-book in Just 14 Days — it will give you the more detailed instructions for the challenge, and let you follow along at your own pace, on your own schedule Here’s a summary of today’s goals. Today’s Goal (new e-books): If you didn’t finish editing your e-book yesterday, get that finished up today. If you decided early …