They are just afraid of writing…
November 30, 2008 on 1:38 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments OffSometimes, students as well as scholars are afraid of designing and completing new project, one of the most difficult in their turbulent student life, one of the longest during their short period of study, and one of the most important as well. Why are so many people afraid of the writing assignment? Why so many students afraid of dissertations? Apparently, they have too many questions and too few answers.
Let us, answer some of them.
First, remember that it is not always necessary to make your own research. Certainly, when you are assigned to undertake some research in your instructions than you should perform it. In the majority of cases, however, you can use available statistical data.
Second, the data mentioned can be found relatively easily.
There are plethoras of publishing sources that contain the data you are interested in. Even, if you do not have data on some specific problem (for example media coverage of the war in Iraq), you have the possibility to conduct the research and analyze available publishing sources.
Third, there are other sources that can be researched. For example, if you are assigned to complete the assignment on geography, then you should visit library to conduct your research, or visit geographical society, if your research pertains to some regional topic.
Fourth, both quantitative and qualitative data can be used in your research. Certainly, what type of the research should be used depends on the type of your assignment. Needless to say, it is imperative to use quantitative methods in the writing assignments of technical subjects, but even in this case you should indicate why the particular method has been chosen. When you need to back your research up with statistical data, the use of quantitative research is indispensable. Qualitative date is frequently used when you would like to find out the psychological or social reasons of a particular event or trend. You can either use your own date, or use data from other sources.
Fifth, in your dissertation project you are expected to analyze your data, both the one collected by yourself from your own research or from other sources. You should answer such questions as why does this trend continue, what makes it grow or fall, why is it changing? You could explain how particular methods are applicable to the process that you research. One should reveal one’s own understanding of the vital elements of the concept mentioned and their influence on the process that you research.
Fifth, you dissertation can be written on some literature. In this case it would be a literature-based paper. If you are assigned to conduct the research on particular book, you should emphasize some important topics of the book, which in your opinion make this book distinctive. This type of dissertation requires some research on literature criticism; however make sure that you use literature criticism, after you have read a book.
Certainly, we have answered only part of the questions that concern students. Undoubtedly some questions still remain unanswered. If you would like to lean more about dissertations and the steps that should be taken to complete them, you are more than welcome to visit Custom Essay Writing Service.
Why Book Writers Need A Running Mate
November 28, 2008 on 4:22 am | In Uncategorized | Comments OffBy far, I have found that the lack of discipline is the biggest hindrance for most people, when it comes to writing a book of any kind. Although I urge you as a would-be writer to develop a theme because once you are clear on “why” you want to write a book, your motivational level will shift into a higher gear, I also urge you to get an accountability partner. This person will be the most important asset you can have as a writer.
However, choose carefully, because the role of the accountability partner is to make sure that you are following your commitment on a daily basis. The partner is responsible for calling, e-mailing you or talking to you by phone or in person every day to check the progress of your book. This person should be gentle enough to keep you encouraged, but forceful enough to not be afraid to chastise you.
In other words, your accountability partner will “hold your feet to the fire” to make sure you keep moving forward. Believe me; this person is worth his or her weight in gold. Why?
Although I promise you that writing a manuscript is easier than you might thinkyou don’t need to be a seasoned writerit is not the easiest thing in the world to do. There will be plenty of times when you will want to scratch the whole idea. Your accountability partner is your cheerleader, telling you, “We have spirit, yes we do!” and exhorting you on to “V.I.C.T.O.R.Y.,” even when it seems like you are in the waning minutes of the game and your team is losing 42-0.
Games are played, one at a time. If you lose today, unless something tragically happens, there will be another one tomorrow. Television’s Dr. Phil said, “Everyone wants to be a hero on Saturday. The big difference between winners and losers is that the winners work hard every day to do what it takes to win.”
If you fail your writing task today, you can start again tomorrow. However, losing seasons occur when in the end, you have lost more than you have won. Most new writers and seasoned ones as well, don’t write as much as they can on a daily basis.
Even writing part-time, two pages per day is a good start, and more can easily be done if the effort is put forth. However, most of us need that extra push from someone who genuinely cares about us and our project, to keep us in the game. Although it is good to find a like-minded individual, in some ways, your accountability partner’s character should be diametrically opposed to your character.
For example, if you know you need a lot of hand-holding, your accountability partner should definitely be a self-starter. If you are a pessimist, your partner should be an optimist. However, if you are an optimist, it is usually better for you not to pick a pessimist for your partner.
About The Author
Marvin D. Cloud, founder of mybestseller.com and author of “Get Off The Pot: How to Stop Procrastinating and Write Your Personal Bestseller in 90 Days.” Visit http://www.mybestseller.com and grab a free copy of the “Get Off The Pot” newsletter, dedicated to motivating ordinary people with extraordinary stories to write, publish and sell their books faster, efficient, and cheaper.
When Is A Niche Market Over-crowded?
November 27, 2008 on 7:29 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments OffWhen investigating starting a business on the Internet, the
advice you’ll very frequently get is to build a business in a
very targeted niche. You’ll even be advised to find a niche
within a niche in some cases.
By focusing on a very tight niche, and offering only
products, services, and information within that niche, the
market naturally gravitates to you. The world will begin
recognizing you as the expert.
When someone is searching for information on that topic
in the search engines, since your site is so focused, it
naturally ranks higher. Since you’ve spent a lot of time
really researching the topic and related keywords, you
should naturally perform better in the pay-per-click search
engines too. Your focus will enable you to uncover
advantages that others miss.
As you initially choose a niche and begin to do your
research, you may notice that there are already a LOT of
people in that niche. There are already a lot of established
competitors. So you begin to doubt whether or not to get
into that market. How can you be sure that you’re not
wasting your time by getting into an already saturated
market?
My rather bold statement to clients who ask me this
questions is that as long as you differentiate yourself
sufficiently, you have NO competition.
If you enter a market where there are already a lot of
sellers, that’s a good sign. It means that people are
interested in that product category.
If you check at the pay-per-clicks and there are already
500 bidders, that’s a good sign. Usually, that means that
the demand is so high that it attracted all of those
bidders.
Your challenge, again, become to find a unique, unfilled
need in that crowded market and fill it. How do you do
this? You begin with research. Keyword research is the
easiest way to do it.
Here’s how I begin, and how I often have clients begin…
Brainstorm, every term that you can think of related to
your anticipated niche. Then use a keyword research tool
to look for related terms. As you compile a list of more
and more terms related to your topic, you’re doing two
things. You’re searching for an under-served segment, and
you’re looking for terms that you’ll target in your search
engine marketing efforts later.
Absolutely the best tool that I’ve found for assessing the
competition in a given niche is a piece of software called
Ad Word Analyzer. With this tool you enter a single word
or phrase. The software then queries the Overture
(pay-per-click) search engine database. It finds all of the
related terms that people did searches on in the past
month.
Next, Ad Word Analyzer queries both the Google
AdWords and Overture databases to see how many
pay-per-click campaigns are already active. This gives
you a very powerful snapshot of:
– How many searches were done for each term last month
– How many webpages there are targeting each term
– The ratio of searches to webpages targeting the searched
term
– How many pay-per-click campaigns there are at Overture
targeting a term
– How many pay-per-click campaigns there are at Google
AdWords targeting a term
That is very powerful information! If you see that a lot of
people are searching on a term for example, but that there
aren’t many merchants targeting this market, it may be a
good market for you. It may also not be a good market. It
is entirely possible that the reason no one is targeting the
market is because people interested in that topic are
largely unwilling to spend money on things pertaining to
the topic.
So a good place to start is with Ad Word Analyzer. It was
created by my friend, and fellow Floridian, Jeff Alderson.
You can get a copy of this essential tool at:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/adword-analyzer.html
This is the place to start in researching your market. Your
focus should be on doing keyword research and spending
a LOT of time investigating the market before you start
building a website or promoting a product.
Marty Foley and I have done two recent tele-seminars
centered around choosing keywords, using pay-per-clicks,
generating traffic, and increasing website conversions.
Altogether these two tele-seminars are more than 4 hour of
discussion and insights into building a finely-tuned
marketing machine. I encourage you to check these out.
You can grab both transcripts at:
http://MasterThePayPerClicks.com
Getting back to the very basic question of when is a market
overcrowded – it’s overcrowded when you can’t make a
satisfactory return on investment in that niche. What you
consider a satisfactory ROI is a personal judgement. It
depends upon what you could get if you invested your
resources in an alternative investment.
Frank, I don’t see why you’d want to enter an arena where
the competition is already very fierce… such as Internet
Marketing. I’ve already shared with you (in earlier articles)
that there are people quietly making six or even
seven-figure incomes off in fairly obscure niches. My friend
John Evans wrote about nine such people in his book
Success Alert. This book is required reading for anyone I
mentor or coach and is available at:
http://Success-Alert.com
One final opinion on over-crowded niches…. Many people
get excited about a potential product until they start their
research. Then when they see that there IS competition,
they use that as an excuse not to go through with the project.
They then move on to another potential niche, and repeat the
process. After they’ve checked out 20 different niches, and
concluded that they’re all too competitive, it’s really time for
them to take a serious look at their thought process.
Hopefully you do thorough research, but don’t let a little
competition stop you from entering a market. If there is no
competition in a market, it’s often because others have already
investigated that niche and determined it to be a total waste of
time. Sometimes it’s good to follow the crowd… Just figure out
a way to stand out in that crowd.
About the author:
Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author, seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host, retired military officer, karate black belt, master network marketing trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He shows people how to actually generate substantial income on-line using very simple, easily modeled systems. An example of such a system that you can study and duplicate is at:
http://ProfitMagician.com
Wholesale Women Shoes China: 100% Verified Wholesale Worldwide Suppliers
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Online Writing and Beyond: Writers Will Lead the Content Rev
November 25, 2008 on 8:02 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments OffIntroduction
It is often thrown around loosely on the web that “Content is king.”
If content is king, then what is a content writer?
Unfortunately, we are not yet royalty. We’re never paid as well or
considered as skilled as a web designer or our more technical
counterparts. This is changing, however, with an influx of writing
for the web courses and the frenzy of corporate training in writing
for the web. Training an already overworked, understaffed web team to
write specifically for the web is costly and distracts technical
workers from updating their ever-changing, ever-evolving techie
skills. And then there is the whole left-brain, right-brain trap.
Technical workers usually work from the left side of their brain,
programming ASP and javascript. Designers use the right side of their
brain to apply design elements to the technical aspects, such as
forms and web sites.
Good writers are already gifted in using a voice that reaches their
audience clearly and effectively. Content writers work behind the
scenes to help websites retain and expand their readership, sales,
and visits by offering articles, sales copy, email outreach, and
other types of writing to enhance a web site’s overall “stickiness”.
The basic premise behind content writing is that without content, a
website creates no reason for a customer to return. And it’s much
easier to get a customer to return than to visit the site in the
first place. The web is still referred to as the “information
superhighway”, and millions of users expect their information for
free.
Where Writers Fit In
Ultimately, it is not “Content is King.” As readers adapt and change
their uses and needs on the web, it is clear that really, the users
are king and queen. Providing fresh and interactive content is simply
the role content writers undertake. This is similar to the role of
jesters, caterers, tutors, and playhouses to our royal readers.
(Online books have failed thus far primarily for this reason; much of
the content isn’t uniquely informing and the format doesn’t make an
enjoyable read. How can somebody enjoy reading over 50 pages of
boring, painful-to-read Adobe- Acrobat text?)
Content writers entertain, refresh, inform, educate and expand the
world of their readers through writing. Those of us who write and
love writing understand that the essence of writing is invoke
emotion, take your reader “another world”, inform them or prompt them
to action. Combine the passion for writing with the need for content
on the web, and a writer can have it all. Not only can a writer
fulfill these needs, but also the web writer can achieve a coveted,
long-lasting goal for every website; compel the reader to interact.
Writers Engaging Readers
As more forms of entertainment move online, more unique ways of
fulfilling their goals will surface. Some of the most popular
websites today begin with a little content and build a community.
Community-based websites not only have online writers, but also
provide a forum for their users to interact to the content. Building
conflict and community can engage your readers in such a way that
they no longer feel like readers, but an audience. Members of an
audience can applaud, converse, heckle and cheer when appropriate. By
encouraging the use of a message board or other interactive media,
readers return to see what the next day, week, or month will bring.
They “get in on a piece of the action”.
More and more websites are creating audiences rather than readers,
and writers are helping them through polls, feedback forms, and
message boards. However, it seems that the web has not completely
transformed the web into a completely interactive medium yet. Content
writers will create a way to force the reader not to be an audience,
but a part of the play. As a writer, I think that we’ll give
audiences more and more room to interact and influence actual events
and mediums.
Where We’ll Take Content Writing
In the future, I see nonfiction e-books allowing readers to pick and
choose chapters based on their skill and knowledge levels. Students
will be able to skip the grammar review in an online textbook if they
feel their skills are up to par or took an online skill test
to “test-out”. Web designers will skip the HTML basics and move
straight to HTML 5.0 new features and XML. Writers will be writing
both for a general audience and a skilled audience, and readers will
participate in the process by choosing the specific information they
need. “Take what you need and leave the rest” will be the new online
writing mantra. Contentville.com already did this (although they are
now defunct) with a huge database of articles, thesis papers, and
other formerly print media that readers pay a small fee to read.
Others are following this pattern. This market will expand and
readers will only pay for what they get.
In the fiction market, readers will be taken to the next level of
participation by finding not only a choice of characters, plots, and
settings through interactive websites and media, but through a Choose-
Your-Own Adventure type of structure. Similar to online games, users
will be able to choose Jane’s physical traits and John’s personality,
and set the story into sequence at a setting of their choice. They
will choose their favorite outcomes in their online soap operas. (No
more, “No! John! You should have married Mary, not left her for
Margaret! She’s evil!”)
As for the writers? We won’t have to choose the perfect beginning,
middle, or end anymore. We won’t have to decide on one specific
audience. We’ll be writing for all cultures, all ages, and all
interest levels. Where content is king, we’ll be the knights in
shining armor, rescuing the reader from the boring, redundant, or
irrelevant web reading and the writing of yesteryear.
Oh, yeah, and we’ll be paid as well as the Duke of Earl.
*This article originally appeared in Web Writing Buzz Newsletter in
April of 2000.
About the Author
Melissa Brewer is a full-time freelance writer and author of The
Writer’s Online Survival Guide, available at
http://www.webwritingbuzz.com. She hosts a website for professional
freelance writers and she publishes a free weekly newsletter, The Web
Writing Buzz, featuring articles on freelancing, writing jobs and
publishing news from around the web.
Maximizing Your Book’s Earning Potential
November 25, 2008 on 7:26 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments OffEverything in life is worth writing about if you have the guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- Sylvia Plath
If you’re going to put out tons of effort writing a book, you should also invest the extra time and energy into creating some strategic components that can really help leverage your promotional options. Building marketing into your book is one way to help maximize your book’s earning potential. If done correctly, you could shave hundreds, if not thousands of dollars off of your marketing and publicity budget.
So, how do you get started? Well, it’s easier than you might think. First you’ll want to do a little brainstorming and really begin to focus on your reader. A good analysis of who will be reading your book will help you determine which components need to be included in this book to enhance its marketability. Through this, you can add those things you might have not otherwise considered. Let’s say, for example, you are writing a book on relationships or great places to meet your significant other. You might decide to include those places to assist your readers in their search and in so doing have now opened the door to the possibility of offering this book to those sites or singles programs. When it works for your topic, incorporating companies, websites, or other helpful resources is a great way to extend the growth of your book beyond the initial reader, turning it into a “one-stop-shop” and thereby enhancing your marketing avenues. If you’re a fiction writer, consider the setting for your book and if possible, why not set it in a real place? This could potentially lead to signings and events where the book is set.
Does your book have a handy resource guide? If it doesn’t you should consider adding one. Then you can also offer this same resource guide (and the updates) on your website as well. From this, you can also consider offering special reports that readers can subscribe to; or even a newsletter or mailing list with periodic updates works well. The key here is: you don’t want your relationship to end after the reader puts the book down. You want to continue to stay on their radar screen as long as you can.
As you begin to focus on your reader, take a moment to consider what they’d really love to see in your book – as opposed to what you’d like to see in it. There is a big difference. When I was putting together my most recent book: From Book to Bestseller (due out this fall), I realized that timelines and check-off lists were big deals to my readers, so I incorporated them. These lists now can also be offered on my website as a downloadable product.
In an ideal marketing world, your book should be its own marketing machine, offering not only the potential for spin-off products (as discussed in our last issue) but also a means to market, market, market and maximize its earning potential. Ideally, you want to capitalize on your book for as long as you can, and turning it into a marketing machine will go a long way toward extending the life and reach of your book, increasing your bottom line and getting you that Chateau in France you always dreamed of.
About the author:
Penny C. Sansevieri
The Cliffhanger was published in June of 2000. After a strategic marketing campaign it quickly climbed
the ranks at Amazon.com to the ##1 best selling book in San Diego. Her most recent book: From Book to Bestseller was released in 2005 to rave reviews and is being called the “roadmap to publishing success.” Penny is a book marketing and media relations specialist. She also coaches authors on projects, manuscripts and marketing plans and instructs a variety of coursing on publishing and promotion. To learn more about her books or her promotional services, you can visit her web site at www.amarketingexpert.comTo subscribe to her free ezine, send a blank email to: mailto:subscribe@booksbypen.com
Copyright 2005 Penny C. Sansevieri
Rakeback
November 25, 2008 on 12:25 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments OffOnline, many sites let you sign up via a third party to enter a rakeback program. Rake is the amount the site takes out of each poker game you play. In tournaments you will often see something like $10+$1. The tournament costs you $11, but only $10 is entered into the prize pool. The other dollar goes straight to the house. In cash games, a certain percentage (usually 5%) of the pot is taken out at the end of every hand. You’ll see it collecting in a side pot on most sites.
There are other companies that work with the poker sites, which offer a portion of this rake to be returned to the players. This is basically a partnership to drum up new players for the websites, and in exchange, the players get a little kickback.
The rake is returned to you at the end of every month, and depending on how much you play, and at what stakes, can be very sizable. Let’s say you play 4 $10+1 sit and go’s every day. That’s $28 in rake a week, which accumulates to $112 a month. If your rakeback program gives you even 10% of that back, you’re getting a free game a month. I pretty sure you get more than that, however.
The point is, sometimes you don’t keep track of how much money is coming out of your account that is going straight to the house. These online poker websites make tons of money based on this principle. A rakeback program is a great way to get a portion of the money you’re throwing away, back in your account.
The unfortunate thing about these programs, is that they are only for new users. Current users already play on the site and don’t need further incentive to do so. However, a bunch of existing players have started to show disappointment in this, and certain measures are being taken to change this in the future. Some direct inquiries have been resolved already.
Inspiration Has Job Security
November 24, 2008 on 3:07 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments OffThe deadline for your ezine was yesterday. You have nothing to say. The last week you have spent preparing for a vacation, working overtime at your day job, fighting with your girlfriend. Just fill in the blank. Oh wait, you don’t have to. Somehow there is always an excuse to fill that blank. So, what do you do now?
You can choose one of the easiest ways out. Send out an e-mail that you are sick and the ezine will be out next week at the normal time. But this doesn’t feel right, because you are lying to yourself. You could grab the first free article on the net you find to throw in there and just use the same links you did last week and have the thing out in less than an hour. No, you pride yourself on writing at least a part of your newsletter every week and putting together a well-rounded issue, one that readers save. There are plenty of examples of junk ezines on the net and you don’t want yours to rank with those. After all, you worked hard for your subscribers and disappointing them is not an option.
What we are talking about here is writer’s block. Something you think is reserved for poets and other “literary artists.” An internet marketer can’t have writer’s block. But somehow, after those few months or days of flow, the ideas you have carefully saved and knew were great when you wrote them down have deteriorated in your notebook. Who could have known that they had a shelf life? And why is it that the more free time you have, the easier it is to put off writing that new article?
There is a cure for writer’s block. It is simple and you can start today. It happens to be the latest breakthrough in science and 9 out of 10 medical doctors now recommend it. First, take a piece of paper. Second get yourself a pen, a disposable will do. Now, start writing. With that first dark line on the white paper, you have been miraculously cured. All you have to do now is to keep that pen moving down the paper. If you have to be Jack Nicholson in “The Shining” and write “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” over and over, do it. At least you are cured and eventually your mind will become bored and you will reach that spot again. You know that spot. It’s the spot where you wish ViaVoice actually worked, because your fingers can’t keep up with your mind.
Inspiration is for wannabes. Inspiration has job security. It can pick and choose it’s opportunities. With millions of hobbyist writers waiting for it to fill out an application, do you really think inspiration will answer your small classified ad that reads, “Inspiration needed to write next article for my newsletter.” If you started all of this as a hobby, go ahead and wait. You have time. For those of us who take this seriously, we have to take a more active approach.
That starts by writing every single day. Going to your computer or getting out your notebook every day and writing something, anything and seeing it through to the end. You have no boss to tell you to do this. You have no reason except to put words on paper and improve slowly day by day and eventually make it habit. In order to teach your mind that you aren’t playing here, that this isn’t a game, that you are not going to tease yourself. You want results. Eventually, if not every day, at least a great majority of them, you will reach that magic spot where you don’t want to stop, where you know you have an idea on the run and it is not going to get away from you this time.
About the Author
Stephan Miller
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I Will Come Back You’ll See
November 24, 2008 on 3:19 am | In Uncategorized | Comments OffThe clock is ticking
Yes, I know
The doorbell’s ringing
It’s time to go
Before I leave
I want you to know
That I love you
Yes, I love you so
I will come back
And I’ll take you with me
We’ll get married
And we’ll have a family
Just wait for me
And you’ll see
One day I’ll come back
And I’ll never go away again
We’ll be together
It’ll be for forever
I’ll make you happy
We both will be
Together with our family
We’ll always be filled with glee
And until the rest of our days
I will never leave you
Just wait for me
And you’ll see
About the Author: hi! i’m a high school student in de le salle zobel school. I enjoy writting poems and i would like to publish them… hopefully, someday, i would like to have a book containning all poems published… hope you like my poems
Source: www.isnare.com
How to Write a Children’s Book in 30 Days or Less!
November 23, 2008 on 10:59 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments OffHow to Write a Childrens Book in 30 Days or Less!
The first time I attempted to write a children’s book it took me
three months and several years of promising myself I would do
it “one day.” In that time I managed to wash the dog a
million times, rearrange my closet, get my apartment so clean
that they should have done a commercial about it and
procrastinate in ways that gave the word a new name.
When I actually sat down to write the book it took me two days
and that was with editing. That is the longest that it has taken
me to write a children’s book since then and in reality, unless
you are writing an epic it will not take you more than that
period of time to write yours either, after you read this article.
Why then the title, ” How to Write a Children’s book in 30 days
or less?” So that you will have time to wash the dog, clean the
closets and get Mr. Clean to personally come in and interview
you, in addition to writing a children’s book that you will
treasure forever.
The Six Keys to Getting Past Procrastination
-Visualize- Visualize your goal. Visualize your Story. Visualize
your life the way you want it to be.
-Prepare- Prepare your work space. Prepare your family for your
writing schedule. Prepare yourself for all the possiblities that
will open up to you.
-Create- Create an environment that you can work in. Create
characters that you will enjoy spending time with. Create an
entire world for them to come to life in.
-Announce- Announce out loud to yourself every morning what your
goal is. Announce to those supportive of you that you are
finally going to put pen to paper. Announce your need for their
support and cooperation.
-Collaborate- Collaborate with other writers for ideas.
Collaborate with your children and find out what kids actually
want to hear about. Collaborate with librarians in your area to
see what types of stories are selling.
-Procceed- Proceed with your plan every day. Proceed to add
pictures and ideas to your treasure map. Proceed toward the
future that you deserve.
If you follow these six steps diligently, you should have
more than enough time to write your book, give Fido his bathand make sure that your summer clothes are at the front of your
closet. Good luck and have fun.
Caterina Christakos
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About the Author
Caterina Christakos is a published children’s book and how to author, as well as a freelance travel writer. Her work has been viewed both nationally and internationally.

