I'll be back on here in a few months, I should imagine, as things settle down over on WWP. In the meantime, I'm posting my AllVoices new feed here as a way to at least keep this site in the loop.
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Focusing on WritePublishPromote.com
I won't be posting on the Paying Hobby blog for a while. What with writing for clients, building the WritePublishPromote.com website up and everything else, there just isn't time.
I'll be back on here in a few months, I should imagine, as things settle down over on WWP. In the meantime, I'm posting my AllVoices new feed here as a way to at least keep this site in the loop.
I'll be back on here in a few months, I should imagine, as things settle down over on WWP. In the meantime, I'm posting my AllVoices new feed here as a way to at least keep this site in the loop.
Out of the Dark
Ok, so this blog has been dark for a while. Now it's not. Let me give you a quick explanation of why on both counts:
The blog went dark for two main reasons:
1) Having got half way through the planning of a business blueprint, I realised after a conversation one day between other bloggers who were trying to work their way to early retirement that that's not what I want. The four hour work week is all well and good, but I'd only want to retire to write, and I do that for a living now anyway, so what's the point?
2) My main client, the University of Phoenix, upped my workload by a factor of three, leaving very little time for anything else. While that meant good money, it also meant no blogging or even any other article writing for a while because I was in the final prep stages for release of my first novel, Moroaica.
It's now not dark because the novel is finally out and available on Amazon.com, and we all know that means getting back out there if only to plug the book. My non-fiction article writing schedule is still pretty demanding, but I have the research-write-rest-edit cycle sorted now so that I can get two articles a day done in around four hours, leaving some time for all that other stuff; promotion, blogging, writing the next novel etc.
And that's the way I like my life.
The blog went dark for two main reasons:
1) Having got half way through the planning of a business blueprint, I realised after a conversation one day between other bloggers who were trying to work their way to early retirement that that's not what I want. The four hour work week is all well and good, but I'd only want to retire to write, and I do that for a living now anyway, so what's the point?
2) My main client, the University of Phoenix, upped my workload by a factor of three, leaving very little time for anything else. While that meant good money, it also meant no blogging or even any other article writing for a while because I was in the final prep stages for release of my first novel, Moroaica.
It's now not dark because the novel is finally out and available on Amazon.com, and we all know that means getting back out there if only to plug the book. My non-fiction article writing schedule is still pretty demanding, but I have the research-write-rest-edit cycle sorted now so that I can get two articles a day done in around four hours, leaving some time for all that other stuff; promotion, blogging, writing the next novel etc.
And that's the way I like my life.
7 day information products - you name the price
You'll have to move fast on this one if you want to get the new 7 Day Information Products training course and set your own price for it, as the deadline is tomorrow. Just go to http://7dayinfoproducts.com/ and make a donation and it's yours.
Just a shoutout for the SteveScottSite
I'm having a bit of a 'none day' today, so I thought I'd take some time out of my writing schedule and instead of posting more about the process of working through my business blueprint, just give a shout out to one of the most helpful blogs I've found.
Steve is currently travelling around Europe on the strength of his online passive income, built through affiliate marketing and the sales of information products, but his SteveSocttSite Blog offers a boat load of useful posts. At the moment he's running a competition for one user to receive a critique of any online business.
Considering Steve only has around 15 hours a week to spend in his business during his travels, bagging his time will be a huge value to one lucky reader, so why not vitit now and post your entry in his http://www.stevescottsite.com/the-my-first-real-guinness-contest.
Steve is currently travelling around Europe on the strength of his online passive income, built through affiliate marketing and the sales of information products, but his SteveSocttSite Blog offers a boat load of useful posts. At the moment he's running a competition for one user to receive a critique of any online business.
Considering Steve only has around 15 hours a week to spend in his business during his travels, bagging his time will be a huge value to one lucky reader, so why not vitit now and post your entry in his http://www.stevescottsite.com/the-my-first-real-guinness-contest.
Down to three
I'm basically down to three ideas to work with now.
As I said yesterday, though, that's looking purely at visitor stats benchmarking, not at the profit potential of each idea. So I'm going to use some ideas from Steve Scott, courtesy of his Info income coaching class
Clickbank marketplace isn't great for the flowers or gardening. There are products, but they have very low gravity and affiliate referrals, so they are not popular with affiliates for promotion. Things look a lot healthier for the negotiation idea, with paying hobby falling somewhere between the two.
I'm off now to check out some forums,43 Things and Yahoo Answers and
Ezine Articles to see how each idea fares. I'll let you know tomorrow.
- Continue with the paying hobby theme, with a few changes, and produce informationproducts designed to answer the general questions people moving from an amateur to professional in any hobby will need to consider, such as
- setting up a small business
- self employment and tax issues for the hobbyist
- promoting and marketing a hobby business
- preventing your hobby business from losing it's fun factor
- Go with the 'Hostage Negotiator' series and produce information products on relationships and attitudes, using interviews with professionals and relating it to hostage negotiation techniques.
- Flowers, flower arranging and floristry. Focusing on 'how to' materials for basic designs, home decor ideas, florists garden plans for a cuttings garden etc.
As I said yesterday, though, that's looking purely at visitor stats benchmarking, not at the profit potential of each idea. So I'm going to use some ideas from Steve Scott, courtesy of his Info income coaching class
Clickbank marketplace isn't great for the flowers or gardening. There are products, but they have very low gravity and affiliate referrals, so they are not popular with affiliates for promotion. Things look a lot healthier for the negotiation idea, with paying hobby falling somewhere between the two.
I'm off now to check out some forums,43 Things and Yahoo Answers and
Ezine Articles to see how each idea fares. I'll let you know tomorrow.
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