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Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone?! Advice

Aug 17, 2008 5:34 AM

Click to view Ghostwriter's profile Professional Ghostwriter 5 posts since
Aug 16, 2008
Hi, this is my first post here so excuse me if I am a little nervous!

I live in the UK and have been writing Ebook for different companies all over the world, for about a year now. The market seems to have been quite saturated and jobs seem to be more scarce and the competition emmense ie: scriptlance, elance. I have recently purchased 3 websites in the hope to expand my portfolio and eventually write the Ebooks for myself and advertise them on my own website allowing me to earn 100% of the profit.

But here's the catch..... I have no avaliable income at the moment as I sunk everything I had into the websites, getting them designed and hosting etc. I have tried adding google adsence, clickbank, amazon affiliates, bidviser etc to try and recouperate some of the cost but it's no where near enough. I could do with some marketing help and advice please on how to drive traffic to my sites, as there is no point them being good if no one knows they are there!!

Also I could do with finding a few more Ebook jobs for someone else to make some money that I can then invest in paid advertising!! But like I said I only know of Scriptlance and Elance for my type of work. People seem to be employing idiots to do the work with unrealistic bids EG 100 page Ebook, I would bid aprox $500, this would include a sales page if they required it, I have some exceptional examples of my work:
www.voodoocraft.com, www.gothus.com, www.relationshipconflicts.com, www.theyogatreeonline just to name a few, I have plenty more that I can show. But they seem to be accepting the bids that promise the boo in reccord time (5 days) and for $50!!! The quality must be terrible!!! I can't compete with that price or time frame, my Ebooks are thouroghly reserched, gramatically correct, spelling mistake free and 100% origional passing through copy space with a brease. Is there anyone who can point me in the direction of companies that will value my ethics and pay fairly for my time, effort and skills?

Any advice would be 100% be appreciated also if anyone is a cpanell expert I could do with some seperate advice, please contact me.

Thankyou for reading and in advance for any help or advice

Kind Regards

Ghostwriter
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Aug 6, 2007
1. Re: Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone?! Advice Aug 17, 2008 7:40 AM
Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone?? Welcome Ghostwriter

This is a good place to start. You ask " if anyone is a cpanell expert"
Is this what you are talking about?????

cPanel is a graphical web-based web-hosting control panel, designed to simplify administration of websites.
cPanel handles aspects of website administration in its interface. The software, which is proprietary and distributed by cPanel, Inc., is designed for use by commercial web hosting
services, so the company does not offer a reduced-cost personal use
license; however, owners of non-profit organizations such as
educational institutions and charities can request a license at a free
or reduced cost. Reduced prices are frequently available from
dedicated-server companies, who install it along with the operating
system.
Click to view Ghostwriter's profile Professional Ghostwriter 5 posts since
Aug 16, 2008
2. Re: Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone?! Advice Aug 17, 2008 9:17 AM
in response to: LUCKIEST
Thankyou for your reply, yes I presume we are talking about the same thing! I have been given the run around by the web designer who designed my store online and left me with no instructions on how to run cpanell. I am currently creating a full back up, but have been wanting to know where to add code and how to it's not that obvious to me!! I don't know what half of the buttons are for. This was just a side question really but would appreciate any help no matter where it comes from! Thankyou
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3. Re: Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone?! Advice Aug 17, 2008 9:21 AM
in response to: Ghostwriter
Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone

Last Monday August 11, The Wall Street Journal had a article

"How to Create A Successful Web Site For Nothing"

It might help you, LUCKIEST
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Aug 4, 2008
4. Re: Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone?! Advice Aug 17, 2008 9:29 AM
I would suggest writing content for website owners who could benefit from your service. You could learn about search engine optimization or partner with someone already who knows SEO and develop written content for websites containing relevant keywords pertaining to the website owners targeted audience most searched words and phrases.
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Click to view Ghostwriter's profile Professional Ghostwriter 5 posts since
Aug 16, 2008
5. Re: Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone?! Advice Aug 17, 2008 11:12 AM
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Thankyou for your reply, I have requested the call as you have asked and I look forward to speaking to you,
Kind Regards
Ghostwriter
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6. Re: Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone?! Advice Aug 17, 2008 11:14 AM
in response to: LUCKIEST
Thankyou again for your reply, the information you supplied was exceptionally helpful when applied to my websites!! As for the Ebook writing/Article writing any ideas?

Kind regards
Ghostwriter
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Aug 16, 2008
7. Re: Sucsessful Ebook writer wanting to go it alone?! Advice Aug 27, 2008 4:28 AM
in response to: LUCKIEST
Hi Thankyou for your advice it has been very helpful. I am learning SEO and I think I have that side of things cracked. I have also expanded my portfolio to include copywriting and article writing which has helped bring the scope of job opportunities to higher levels.
Cheers