How To Improve Your Freelance Proofreading Career
May 14, 2008
How To Improve Your Freelance Proofreading Career
by: Niall Cinneide
Did you know that one of the best ways to get the knowledge you need to be an effective proof reader is to take a training course? It will be the best move you ever make. Courses are not mandatory, but it can be very challenging to find work that is available to those who do not have a proofreading training certification.
If you are trying to build your freelance business, it can be difficult to find the time to take a training course. Who has the time to travel back and forth from college to get this degree or certification? We won’t even mention the costs of enrolling into the college either. But proofreading training courses can be done online. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can use a mail based proof reading course as well if you like.
Take classes when you have time. The cost is much less than that of a traditional college. The best part is that if you take the time to find it, you can take the proof reading courses through an accredited college meaning that you are actually getting a college education.
Where Can You Find The Best Resources For Technical Writing
May 14, 2008
Where Can You Find The Best Resources For Technical Writing
by: Niall Cinneide
As a freelance writer, it is important that you have a solid foundation for your skill. In many cases, though, there may be a need to use technical writing resoures to excel. Because there are many fields in which an individual can work in, there are just as many different bits of knowledge that they must have. In order to build a business as a freelance writer, it is important to find and use technical resources as necessary. But, finding these can prove to be difficult for some people.
It is wise to study and research the topic long before beginning the piece of work. This will take time and it will be necessary. There are many options to researching though. There are the traditional encyclopedias and dictionaries that can answer many questions. The problem with these, though, is that they are often outdated especially in the technology fields.
Instead, the researcher can take their quest online. It is quite important to avoid the search engine jumbles though as these can simply point the researcher in the direction of ads that sell. Unfortunately, solid information will need to come from knowing which websites to go to. A little work in this area and there will be no problem though.
Making Money Online With Web Publishing
May 14, 2008
Who doesn’t want to make money online? Internet is here to dominate our lives and spreading its tentacles very fast. Every month millions of pages are added to the web space and more and more people are getting online for almost everything ? from shopping to e-learning. Would you believe there are even online beggars with payment gateways where you can donate through your credit card if you are feeling charitable. If you do not exploit the internet for marketing your services or products you may as well be living in prehistoric times.
While there are many ways to make money, web publishing is one of the most popular online businesses due to its suitability to internet as a least expensive online publication medium. E-publishing is tailor made for internet.
Content is the key to web publishing. If you specialize in anything at all, and I think everyone does specialize in something, you could start your web publishing business and be up and running in hours. Web publishing could include:
E-courses
How Webmasters Can Become Experts and Write Expert Articles!
May 13, 2008
Write articles, be recognized as an expert, drive a surge of traffic to your website, increase your link popularity, create awareness - yes that is what all Internet Marketers are talking about.
Article writing certainly does bring such great results to webmasters but do all articles yield such dividends? Only well written, thought provoking educative articles attain great heights. So let us explore how such articles could be written.
Before proceeding further let us keep this gem of an advice at the back of our minds." Put it before them Briefly so they will Read it, Clearly so they will Appreciate it, Picturesquely so they will Remember it, and above all, Accurately so they will be guided by it.”–Joseph Pulitzer.
Writing articles require Thinking, Planning, Organizing and Researching. So to get started, relax quietly, put your thinking cap on, select a topic that you are most familiar with, say Home Based Business or Internet Marketing and brains storm your thoughts.
Write down everything that comes to your mind. It could be a beautiful sentence, a striking phrase or a technical or marketing jargon. Jot it down before you loose it and let your thinking flow. “Writing is no trouble; you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself-it is the occurring which is difficult.”–Stephen Leeacock.
Tips On Proofreading To Improve Your Freelance Career
May 13, 2008
Tips On Proofreading To Improve Your Freelance Career
by: Niall Cinneide
Proofreading is a career which many people are looking to get into, but often the knowledge of what to do, when to do it, and especially how to do it is hard to come by. For that reason, there are many things that are important to know in order to succeed, as the career path is not simple at all. It is important to have as much information as possible to put you ahead of others in the game! Here are some tips of proofreading here that will help anyone.
Proofreading may seem simple, but the you must be able to read well and also be able to spot spelling mistakes. Simple mistakes can ruin the copy. There are certain words that are often misspelled. Others are typing errors. Some individuals can flip flop word order or even make really grammatical errors. Here are some other common problems to look for.
* Sentence structure is often a problem. Make sure that the proper wording is used to convey the point being made.
* Punctuation errors, especially the use of commas, colons, and semi colons, are often made.
Book Titles that Make Big Bucks
May 13, 2008
Do you know how readers decide to buy a book? 1) They get a referral from a friend. 2) They see an interesting book title on the best-seller list. 3) They look up a topic (generally non-fiction) and look for a book closest to their interest (generally based on titles). 4) They browse in the bookstore looking for an interesting title ? then they read the book jacket copy. 5) They look on an Internet bookseller’s website to find out what other people bought under that title or subject, then they look at book reviews. 6) Finally, generally based on title and book jacket copy or book reviews, they buy your book.
Have you ever bought a book just because of the title? I remember one time when I was browsing in a local bookstore and the book title I was looking at was so provocative; I just had to have it. It turned out to be a humor book, very funny and entertaining. But I never would have purchased the book if it weren’t for the title. I wouldn’t have even noticed it! Many other times I’ve seen ads for business books relating to marketing or sales and found an irresistible title, I simply had to have it!
A Copywriting Lesson from Dr. Seuss
May 12, 2008
Looking for inspiration for your next marketing communication? Try the children’s bookshelf.
Dr. Seuss has entertained young (and old) audiences for nearly 50 years with titles such as “The Cat in the Hat,” “Hop on Pop” and “Green Eggs and Ham.”
The reason why his books remain so popular says something about what makes for good writing (and reading), no matter who the audience is.
Nouns and Verbs
Nothing keeps readers moving like strong noun-verb combinations. If the sentence were a train, nouns and verbs would be the engine. Adjectives, adverbs and the other parts of speech make the train longer and slower. Dr. Seuss’ sentences have strong engines pulling light loads to keep readers moving down the tracks.
Lots of Periods
A byproduct of eliminating the extraneous words is shorter sentence length. Lots of periods. Paradoxically, more sentences of shorter length increase reading speed and comprehension. Dr. Seuss, as are many children’s authors, is a champion of the short sentence.
Imagination
Albert Einstein said, “The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” Were it not for imagination, there would be no Cat in the Hat and no Dr. Seuss. Imagination is the beginning of copywriting because first there must be an idea or concept.
The Importance of A Website Copywriter
May 12, 2008
The Importance of A Website Copywriter
by: Niall Cinneide
A website copywriter has several jobs. They will need to provide the information, the words, and the persuasive text that is used within any site that is visited. For many individuals, this means that they will need to know the products, understand the site owner’s needs, and to be able to draw customers into the site by providing interesting and informative information. Getting into this field takes a true understanding of how the World Wide Web really works. And, it takes diligence, hard work, and perseverance as well. A copywriter has a very important job to do.
A copywriter needs to understand how people get to the site. They need to do copywriting that will encourage others to visit and to eventually purchase the products available at the site. Copywriters have some of the most important jobs online because they help to get traffic to go in the right way. For example, many people open their web browsers and go directly to a search engine to find what they need. Good writing will allow the search engine to get the person to the right site. There, they will find the products or information they need.
Why Ezine Articles Make Me Dance
May 12, 2008
Why Ezine Articles Make Me Dance
by: Timothy Ward
I wrote my first ezine article in December 2001. I titled it ‘The Power of Online Friendship’. It was five paragraphs long and contained 3 typos. I used it to promote ‘The Free Promotion Tips Ezine’, an ezine of mine that has long since faded into the Great Void of Cyberspace. I still think it’s one of my most moving articles.
I danced around the house, riverdance-style, for about 10 minutes when I read the email from Chuck Bowden, the editor of Your Ad Space Ezine, who promised to use my article. That was quite possibly one of the happiest days of my adult life.
I’m aware that most of you have more thrilling lives than me and, therefore, would not find getting an article published online to be a crowning acheivement in your life. I, however, live a life of loneliness and solitude and would thank you not to rub your lives in my face.
How An Online Writer Can Easily Self-publish Their Way To A Fortune
May 11, 2008
Online writing is really self-publishing made easier and potentially much more lucrative with much less cost and investment to be made. But what is self-publishing and what does it have to do with online writing?
Self-publishing is older than America and through the centuries great fortunes have been made by folks who opted to privately produce and market their own writing. Yet all the amazing stories of great success in the past pale when compared to what has happened online already and what is to happen in the days, months and years to come.
The World Wide Web was really made for self-publishing in more ways than one. For example, in the offline days a self-publisher would have to raise hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars to produce their book or special report for sale. Then they would need to look for more money to advertise and market their information aggressively in newspapers and opportunity magazines. Finally they would have to ship their information out, usually using the postal service (snail mail).
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