| September 26, 2006 19:59 - Work at Home 'Freelance Writer' Jobs
Online freelance writing jobs have opened up a global marketplace full of opportunity for writers and 'would-be' writers.
Regarding successful websites, the word is out that 'content is king'- and preferably 'original' content at that. This article looks at how freelance writing could be a great 'work from home opportunity', despite there being a whole range of services out there that seem to suggest freelance writers are becoming redundant.
Examples of online freelance writing jobs include:
- Joining a freelance job site, such as the Freelance Work Exchange with their hugely popular $2.95 trial to see the thousands of 'online freelance writing jobs' available
- Start your own content website and share with others how you become a freelance writer, how to write etc. - and earn money through Google Adsense, affiliate commissions, your own infoproduct sales and coaching programmes
- Advertise yourself by submitting pieces to the article directories, with your details being posted wherever your articles are used (You see, rather than 'unique content' being the kiss of death for free article directories, perhaps it will work like this: the more articles keep being submitted, the less chance of duplication and the happier Webmasters will be!?)
- Use the same 'article churning' software that the Webmasters use to offer your own 'unique' content to the article directories, Webmasters, PLR membership sites, or maybe even your OWN membership site
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September 29, 2006 12:31 - The Importance of Going Local
'Local Search' and geo-locating targeting are going to be big - you know
this because Google and the other big boys are spending a lot of money,
time and energy going after the 'local spend', so we need to sit up and
listen!
50% of local businesses do NOT have a website, but research on
U.S. Internet users by comScore
Networks shows us that:
- 63% performed a local search online last July, nearly twice as
many as the previous year
- 59% were searching for a restaurant or entertainment, such as a
theater, theme park or attraction
- 52% were searching specifically for a business phone number or
address
- 41% were searching for something in their home area, rather than
places they were going to visit
- 41% were looking for information on a local service in their home
area, such as car rental, dry cleaners or lawyers
So, at the
very least, local businesses need to get their contact details online, probably
in a local directory?
The study also found that local search drives
consumers action:
- 47% visited a local merchant as a result of their online search
- 41% made offline contact
- 37% made online contact
One major clue about the
future importance of local search is that Google has teamed up with the
makers of QuickBooks - in the 2007 versions of the software package there are
built in functions to allow small businesses to find and use Google tools
such as Adwords.
The prospect of temping local businesses online is huge,
but it's going to take time to convince many of them to 'get online' - we need
to educate local businesses as to the benefits of being 'local and online' and
research such as that done by comScore Networks should help those of us who are
going to try catch this ride early on.
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