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Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: Re: Tossing around local biz ideas.... (and one I just found if you like making things).... (Mike Jolley)
Monday, 18 July 2005, at 6:08 a.m.
> I sense that you're a proud woman, but even some of the highest earning
> blogs on the Internet accept donations through PayPal. I think the service
> you're doing by running this site is more than worthy of such a thing.
Ditto. Agreed.
> If you like something and are good at it, do it. It sounds like you can
> get in a position where your price determines how many people use your
> limited amount of time, like a good lawyer.
Actually, I had a (possibly) more productive idea: why don't you do freelance writing? I can help you get started here since I do some myself. It's not the fast way to wealth and riches, but you've got this site and you've got opinions. No, I'm not talking about writing for ezines.
I'm talking about writing for Redbook and Readers' Digest (okay, you probably won't be able to crack those at first) and thousands of other magazines that pay $20-$500 per article for nonfiction. You can even get $20 for some of your individual dieting tips.
Then compile them and sell them as a Real Book. No ebooks... real paper, on Amazon.
Lest I sound like I've lost my mind, this is what I'm doing this fall...dusting off some short stories I sold about 20 years ago and running a reprint of the collection as a bound book (going to add a few new stories as well) and will be selling that to my target market.
The only "selling" you have to do to editiors is "Hi. I'm a writer. Here's my article. If it doesn't grab you by the goohoolies, please send it back in the SASE." Period.
It beats dragging yourself around to offices at HolyHannaWhatAmIDoingUpAtThisHour hours.
IMHO, of course. If you need advice or mentoring on this one, lemme know.
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