Archive for September, 2008
Writing the “How-To” Book: A Simplified Approach
Of all types of books you may consider writing, the “how-to” guide is the easiest to sell. Matter of fact, I’m willing to guarantee you can find a publisher for your efforts, if your book is written in easy to understand language, and has good illustrations.
Notice I didn’t say anything about subject matter. Just about anything you can think of can, and should, have a book written about it. My favorite approach is to take one of my personal projects and turn that into a book.
For instance, I have built computers as a profitable hobby for years. My latest book, “Building a PC for Beginners” grew out of that. But your book could be about anything.
Perhaps you have a home improvement project in mind. You might be wanting to install a laminate floor, let’s say. Now, you may protest that you are no expert at this, but that doesn’t matter. People enjoy reading about the first time efforts of others. If you make mistakes as you install the floor, tell about them, and tell how you fixed them, because the odds are that other people are making the same error.
Take lots of photos as you put in the floor. Show the different steps of each process to your reader. To keep costs down, I recommend using a digital camera.
Keep a daily journal of what you are doing. Write down all that you have done, at least in the form of notes.
When the project is done, you will have both a photographic record, and a written account of what went on. Take the notes, and flesh them out, using your photos to help remember how things were. Add captions to your pictures, and the first draft of your book is done.
Read through it, clarifying those parts that need further explanation, and cutting those that are redundant. This second draft should be checked for typos and small inconsistancies that can easily slip past. Having a friend help you at this stage is a good idea.
Now, you’re ready to send it to the publishers. Congratulations! You’ve written a “how-to” book!
Michael Quarles wants you to look at his website http://www.monkeyseemonkeydobooks.com
Comments are off for this postGo on a Safari Tour this Winter
For those women that have never tried a walking safari in Southern Africa might often find it hard to imagine the marvellous wildlife you might well come up close with. The folk who come to a wildlife safari are regular people like you and me, some are into photography, some tourists are into African animals but all of them are interested in a new breathtaking experience.
The tremendous thing about a walking safari is the fact it is so different from the usual holiday to France, there are very little families. Each safari operator will supply an English speaking safari guide to take you through the stunning areas of Africa. The most popular animals you might often see are eagles. All of these sensational animals are not tame and of course do not stroke them. If you are interested in taking wildlife photographs of the cheetahs you should make sure you turn off the flash as you do not want to scare the animals. The breathtaking animals in Africa can put a big smile on your face.
If you would enjoy to learn more about outstanding holidays in South Africa you might often use the search engines to get a safari company that offers holidays from the UK, the costs could range from 300 pounds to eight hundred pounds. If you need a holiday try Safari Holidays from Kaingo.
Comments are off for this postDo you have plans to purchase a car and postulate money
It makes no difference if you live in Carlsbad California or in Orland Park Illinois a solid online inspection will allay you often a lot trouble. 15.3 percent rate may look so equitable but will it stay incessant after you have to riposte your loan.
Translated it means: Woon je in Meerlo-Wanssum of Pijnacker-Nootdorp en heeft u BKR. Lenen met een BKR notering is nog nooit zo gemakkelijk geweest. Verwen jezelf met een nieuwe auto met geld lenen zonder bkr registratie, 110660 euro is geen obstakel om te financieren. Van Abcoude tot Medemblik, geld lenen met zonder BKR registratie kan hier altijd.
Be overbold today to investigate if you have a nice special offer or if you don’t with the moneylender that offers you a bank loan. Examine to see if the bank who is willing to give you a loan is honorable. Many of the moneylenders wil show you a rate of interest that is looking fairish but feels severely or so after some time. That’s the reason why now you really need to check into and realize if you can have a money loan at a secure percent loan rate. A merchant bank in Bartlett Tennessee or so can have a total different actual interest rate for a 27500 dollar money loan then a bank in Holyoke Massachusetts and that makes a large clear gap in your monthly costs. Nowadays you can check over interest rates quickly online and run across if there are other conditions you should know about.
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After reading a number of articles of various contents, I have discovered two points that are now and then forgotten by authors and that decrease the efficiency of all articles.
I recommend that you should form the following two habits:
- Quote, offer and refer to your articles/eBooks/sites
- Quote, offer and refer to someone else’s resources only for a certain compensation
Both rules should become habitual and be followed automatically; only then your articles and eBooks will bring maximum benefit to you!
If the reader enjoyed your article or eBook, he or she won’t refuse to read one of your other subject-relevant articles or eBooks. Why don’t you offer the reader to take a look at other works from your collection of ideas and knowledge? If you can’t embed links in the article, you can create a section named “other related resources” in the end of the article and simply list the links there.
When you offer someone else’s sites and products to your readers, you actually bring new visitors and potential customers to the owners of these sites and products. The main point is that if your article was helpful, the visitors have positive feelings towards this product! You have a right to demand compensation from the product’s owner. If they don’t have affiliate programs and don’t offer commission for purchases made after following your link, you should negotiate another form of compensation (for example, links to your resources).
Finally. As an example, I’d like to take our product: eBook Maestro. If you’re writing an article or an eBook about creating electronic books, explain how to compile eBooks using our program and provide a special link to it. All your readers who decide to create an eBook will buy our program, and you’ll get 40% of its cost! Besides, you can get a special edition of the program where your affiliate links are embedded.
About the author.
Alex Kaul is the owner of a lot of projects including http://www.ebookmaestro.com.
Ebay E-book Success Tips: Get Free Ebooks to Resell on eBay!
With the spiraling eBay fees and competitive pricing, the last thing eBay ebook sellers want to worry about is buying new resellable content. However, there are many sources that you may not have thought about which provide you with free resellable ebooks that you can successfully add to your inventory. This article details just a few of them.
1) Ebay:- That’s right eBay is a great source to pick up free ebooks (OK they’re not quite free but very cheap). Many ebook sellers run auctions that start at 1p to attract customers. If nobody bids on these auctions you can pick up a very cheap resellable ebook.
Furthermore, some sellers run 1p ebook listings in their eBay store. That means that you can actually purchase the item as a Buy It Now for 1p and in some cases receive it instantly. Again another way to pick up a very cheap resellable ebook, courtesy of eBay. Do a search on eBay for “ebooks, resell” or something similar, and then list them lowest priced first to see what you find.
2) Newsletters:- When you signed up for this newsletter I gave you two free ebooks. Some newsletters that I am currently a member of give me 5 free ebooks every week. I would recommend joining ebook related newsletters as not only do you receive valuable tips from that ebook seller, you also get free products to add to your eBay store. Have a browse through eBay for the top ebook sellers. If they have a newsletter join it. It costs nothing and you are likely to benefit greatly.
3) Ebooks:- Usually when you buy a new ebook it contains links to many bonus ebooks with resell rights. Although you may have to pay for the first ebook, this is another way to get a plentiful collection of free resellable ebooks.
4) Online Forums:- Many users at online forums will give away free resellable ebooks or give away links that allow you to access free ebooks with resell rights. Just have a browse through the posts and see what you can find.
5) Ebook Websites:- Many websites that sell ebooks have a free download page. From this you can download free ebooks which quite often come with resell rights. Type “resell ebooks” into Google or any other major search engines, and have a browse through these websites. I am sure you will find more than enough ebooks to keep you going for a while.
Although free ebooks with resell rights are likely to be outdated in relation to the ones you pay for they are still a good way to bulk up your inventory at relatively little cost. The larger your store inventory is as an ebook seller, the more chance that you will get a sale. If you bulk up your inventory with free resellable ebooks which you then sell alongside the more expensive, up to date, resellable ebooks you are sure to enjoy increased success. Good Luck with your Ebook Sales!!!
Tom Parker has been selling ebooks and software with resell rights on eBay since 2003 at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/theebookcavern. In 2006 he created http://www.theebookcavern.co.uk/ from which he intends to sell his own ebook. He also opened http://www.theebookcavernreviews.co.uk/ which reviews the best ClickBank products available. You can reprint any of Tom’s articles but please include the bio so that he is credited.
Comments are off for this postFitness Needs: What do you really want?
As we go about our busy lives, our fitness needs do not often come to mind. In fact, probably the only thought that is given to our fitness needs relates to the 15 pounds we think we need to lose. But even when we are fairly fit, we have needs that help us to sustain that fitness. Have you ever given thought to what those needs are?
Meditation, an exercise recommended for everyone, but especially those of us with hectic, stressful lifestyles, is defined as an engagement in contemplation, especially of a spiritual or devotional nature. Meditation has been shown to relieve stress, and promote overall good health, by simply reflecting upon our day, and finding happiness within ourselves.
Your nutritional needs levels are dependent upon your eating habits and whether you use daily supplements of vitamins and minerals in order for you to sustain optimum physical health. Much discussion is centered on this topic right now, because our nation faces obesity problems of epidemic proportions. Our eating habits make up a large portion of our nutritional daily intake. What we consume goes a long way to keeping our bodies fit.
Do we understand what our nutritional requirements are, how to fulfill those requirements, and how to look for real nutritional value in our foods? I’m not sure that nutrition has been successfully addressed in its own right. We hear nutrition in relation to our vitamin intake, our fortified cereals and milk, and in the context that we need “nutritional value” from our food choices. But what really is nutrition when applied to our daily bodily functions? Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to provide the body with all the necessary food, vitamins, and minerals so that we continue to thrive in our daily life processes. Quite often, our vitamin and mineral needs outweigh our caloric needs. In those instances, we turn to manufactured vitamins and minerals to fill the gap.
Alternative medicine options such as chiropractic care, acupuncture, herbal cures, and holistic medicine are all ways we can help to keep ourselves fit. All of these alternative healing approaches offer ways to incorporate their use into staying fit and healthy. Of the examples given here, chiropractic and acupuncture are becoming more widely accepted as complements to the traditional forms of exercise and nutrition. Herbal cleansing and healing are used by many to provide for ways for body keep itself in a state of fitness and optimal health.
What role does exercise play in this process? Well, exercise conditions our body to keep it in optimal shape. To keep muscles functioning correctly and build muscle mass. The more muscle mass we have, the more calories we burn. The more calories we burn, the better our metabolism is at using up the calories we take in through food consumption. Can you begin to see how our body is really a well functioning machine? It’s a continual circle of events, one feeding off the other. When all the events are coming together properly, we are healthy, happy individuals.
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Propertycasting is the commercial application of podcasting for the real estate industry. Propertycasting involves the distribution and publishing of audio and video feeds, that offer medical information delivered over the Internet, for on demand listening.
This is a new step in the evolution of on-demand real-estate information delivery, making it accessible, informative, useful and appealing. This mix presents the real estate industry with a very unique opportunity to reach its target audiences through this new medium.
Here is a sample of a propertycast:
http://whatiwantpodcasting.com/pods/video/PropertyCast_Large_Wind ows.wmv
For years and years, associates and brokers have been sending out property listing updates. These propertycasts can be inserted into your existing listing pages. Most firms have numerous web pages which deliver real estate information in text format and picture format, by providing an audio or video link on that page it gives the user a different and much more effective format for receiving the information. This is also a great way to teach your existing users how to start utilizing propertycasting services.
For more information, read this article on propertycasting by What I Want Podcasting at http://www.motivatedentrepreneur.com/articles/Propertycasting_-_P odcasting_for_the_Real_Estate_Industry.shtml
http://www.WhatIWantPodcasting.com
Comments are off for this postAs Economy Tanks, Poker Ranks Grow
Another reason why gambling and online poker should be legalized everywhere is because it’s a leisure activity that helps people get through tough times.
A recent report issued by an online poker site claimed that Traffic and game-play has spiked 25 percent since the rumors of American financial services giant Lehman Brothers’ collapse began circulating on Saturday, September 12th.
Website traffic is up 25 percent, duration of play is up 16 percent to 2.45 hours per player, and total sums wagered and won are up 20.6 percent reported since the dour news from Wall Street has been widely reported.
American legislation is much more anti-gambling than its European counterparts, as I have noted many times before, but really gambling should be legal and readily available everywhere.
Any gambling laws that remain on the books are antiquated remnants of a time when poker players were shooting each other in saloons and many gambling rings were run by the mafia.
Nowadays, most law abiding citizens just want to play some online poker in their spare time, or not have to potentially drive 5-6 hours to go to a casino.
As poker players, no matter where in the world we live, we must stand up and demand of our elected representatives to vote against ant anti-gambling legislation.
Las Vegas, for example, has gambling legal in virtually every public establishment, including grocery stores, and it’s a boomtown that is the fastest growing city in America.
And has been for some time. So clearly, the majority of people are not anti-gambling. Why can’t we have laws that reflect this?
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The thought of an African safari can often probably stir up the thoughts of bliss and the location of stunning Africa. South African safaris have been well accepted in South Africa for decades and have become famous with the British holiday tourists because of the incredible weather and the excellent wildlife that will probably be explored.
The best time to visit Africa for a lovely walking safari is around March as the weather is beautiful. The number of British tourists who travel over to South Africa for a safari has risen in the last ten years due to the strong pound and also due to the increased attention of South Africa. Try Africa safari holidays from Kaingo and explore your wild side.
The wildlife that you might happen upon is huge, you might well see tigers and zebras all up close. South Africa is ideal for folk who want to come and visit the wildlife and also wish for a romantic vacation. The safaris are not too strenuous that you can’t possibly go back to your tremendous hotel in the evening for a romantic evening. That is why walking safaris in Zambia will probably be perfect for a honeymoon. Zambia has some of the best privately owned hotels and safaris in the world and should be experienced by all at least once.
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Everybody dreams about finding an easy way to get rich quickly and stay rich indefinitely with minimal effort. So logically, pretty much every Ebook out there about online moneymaking promises just that. As many of us have come to realize, though, it just isn’t that easy. Especially if you are developing a business or producing commissions from sales online, you need persistence, dedication, and the appropriate information to manifest any kind of success. Well, the persistence and dedication parts are going to have to be left up to you. Leave it to The Rich Jerk, though, for the appropriate information.
Yeah it is a gimmick. And yeah, maybe his cocky attitude is a little off-putting, but the information he provides is worth it. The first thing I noticed after purchasing this product is that it’s only 64 pages long. Most Ebooks of this type are hundreds of pages. As I came to find, though, those terse 64 pages are much more valuable than the long-winded volumes of other Ebooks. Simply put, this Ebook covers everything you need to know to make money online.
It covers:
• How to set up an affiliate website to create online commissions
• Pay Per Click advertising strategies to maximize your ad dollar
• Search Engine Optimization strategies to drive more traffic to your site
• Black hat strategies, such as cloaking
• Creating and selling your own informational product online
• How to set up an Ebay store to sell wholesale products (you don’t even need to carry or ship your own inventory)
• Examples of websites that made the Rich Jerk rich… and a jerk
• Other online ventures like E-gold and High Yield Investment
Programs
There is also a section with additional info for beginners and ways to set up a website even if you have no idea what you are doing. Also, I found that one of the most helpful sections was the “Ebay wholesale” section. In it, the Rich Jerk lays out 5 scams to watch out for, as well as rules for the wholesale game.
Basically, The Rich Jerk is an expert genius at this stuff. I’m not joking. It’s obvious from this book that he’s been in the game for a long time and made a lot of money online. I see this Ebook as being the sum of the knowledge he has gained from his experience. You’re basically getting expert info from someone who has been there, done it all, and figured out how to do it right. This isn’t a fluff Ebook with a lot of useless, general information. It really is a stream-lined and highly valuable resource for online moneymaking. Like I said, it has everything you need to know… and pretty much nothing you don’t. It is condensed, succinct, and indispensable. This isn’t the Bible for online money making, but I’d say it’s pretty close.
Overall, I’d say that this Ebook may be more geared toward people who have atleast a little bit of experience online. Remember how I said the author doesn’t baby you? Well the info can be a little overwhelming on the first read to someone who doesn’t understand the basic concepts being discussed. At the same time, though, it is presented in such a way that after 2 or 3 reads, anyone will start to get it.
The section on “other online ventures” is a little brief. I would have preferred more specific info about investing in E-gold. The Rich Jerk directs you to a website that has offers an informational product about it, but it would have been nice to have a little more insight into that whole scene. My only other (minor) complaint is that the author promotes a couple of products like XSite Pro and Plug in Profits atleast 3 times. I know he’s making commissions off those sales and everybody’s gotta make a profit. But maybe twice would have been enough.
Nevertheless, I really can’t say enough positive stuff about this Ebook. It basically provides you with insider info and really presents a lot of very valuable information. He has lists of free online directories, for example, that you can submit your site to. I don’t know how long it would take me to find all of those directories on my own, but I guarantee it wouldn’t be fun. He also lays out examples of how to make your online advertising stand out. I would have never thought of these techniques, and you definitely aren’t going to find it in any other Ebook. It really is great stuff.
Of all the Ebooks I’ve ever purchased, I’ve only written a review of one. This one. There’s a reason for that… this really is a great product! It’s $49, and if you want to give it a try The Rich Jerk offers a money-back guarantee of satisfaction. Take my word that you’ll definitely be satisfied.
Cam Ashwood is a Senior Reviewer and Associate Partner at Madison and Monroe. Visit http://www.MadisonandMonroe.org for further online money making information and reviews.
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