Writers Looking for Markets?

Read this article from the Wall Street Journal Business Section
America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire by Mark Bell with E. Kinney Zalesne

The Information Age has spawned many new professions, but blogging could well be the one with the most profound effect on our culture. If journalists were the Fourth Estate, bloggers are becoming the Fifth Estate.

bloggers who do it for a living successfully are 2% of bloggers overall. It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year. Bloggers can get $75 to $200 for a good post, and some even serve as “spokesbloggers” — paid by advertisers to blog about products. As a job with zero commuting, blogging could be one of the most environmentally friendly jobs around — but it can also be quite profitable. For sites at the top, the returns can be substantial. At some point the value of the Huffington Post will no doubt pass the value of the Washington Post.

Whether you are looking for extra income or a whole new writing gig -
blogging has to be explored. Already blogging? Stay tuned for a series
of extra income tips for writers coming soon on this blog.

Again- America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire

May the muses be kind
But let me remind
It’s still up to you
Twitter’ll help too
And,
I’ll see what I can do.

- Val Spangler, Mister Senior Blogger
@SeniorTweet on Twitter.com
Senior Writer Blog
Senior Tweet Blog
Twitter Search Tools
Business Twitter Uses

Video builds lists!

Video attracts and engages visitors. If you are building your email list (and
you should be), incorporating video into squeeze pages is a no brainer.
However, for many of us, the technical side of video is quite daunting.
Add to that some insecurity about one’s appearance and “stage fright”
and most of us stay away from video (and even audio).

Successful internet marketers use videos alot and much of the time it is
in their squeeze pages as well as on their sales pages. If you want to adopt
their successful strategy and tactics, here is the tool you have been looking
for - Easy Video Producer.With just a web cam and Easy Video Producer
you can have your own personalized video on your squeeze page collecting
names and email addresses of your visitors in no time.

Easy Video Producer is FREE!

About those other concerns, appearance and stage fright - Easy Video
Producer allows you to redo your video until you get it the way you want
it. Plus that flexibility takes alot of the nervousness out of the process.
Believe me your visitors are far more concerned about your message and
your offer than they are about your appearance.

HERE IS THE BEST PART! Easy Video Producer is not only free to you -
it is free for you to give away on your squeeze page. Your visitors give you
their names and email addresses and they get this easy to use free
service as well as the ability to give it away free themselves. Such a deal!
VIRAL VIDEO!!!

How and why is someone giving away something of this value for free???

Well, like many internet marketers, this company has learned that free
products and services are the way TO START BUILDING YOUR MASSIVE
MONEY MAKING LIST!. Using this strategy gives them and you a
better strategy for getting more eyeballs in front of their other products
and services.

Easy Video Producer is in prelaunch. Click on the link below and save
your place in the process and start building your downline down to 10 levels.
You’ve heard it before and I will repeat it again for you here…

THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST!

Even if you are a social marketing wizard and have a lot of followers,
if you are not building your list, you are leaving a lot of money on the
table. People still read their email and it is an additional way to continue
to build a relationship - remember, every email is a selling opportuntiy.
You don’t have to sell every time - in fact, you shouldn’t! If you are
a social media marketer, you know the future is in building relationships.

The use of video creates an impression of authority as well.

I’ll stop here by reminding you- “>Easy Video Producer is FREE!

So get your place in line by watching the prelaunch video and signing up
to get ready to have access to this highly viral, easy to use, “>Easy Video Producer.
Click on this banner below or any of the other EVP links and get started
building your massive email list. It will put money in your pocket.
The Public Launch is Tuesday, March 10. You will get specifics when you sign up.

I will definitely be one to take full advantage of this free service as I grow my
email list while I am also making new friends on Twitter and my other social
network sites. Make sure you take advantage of this no strings free offer -
you’ll be glad you did. Easy Video Producer - public launch on March 10th.
Sign up and get on their notification list and hold your place for your down-line.

Video Builds Lists!

Val Spangler
Mister Senior Blogger
@SeniorTweet on Twitter.com
Senior Writer Blog (You are here.)
Comics Cartoons and Creativity
Business Twitter Uses

The elite meet in the Twitterverse!

Combine your traditional list building with a social network marketing strategy. Sign up with Twitter. You will find new friends from around the country and around the world - people you’d never meet otherwise - expand your universe - follow tweeters of your own choosing - great fun! But! keep the discipline to manage your time to write. Let Twitter add to your writing - not be a distraction.

I just watched a video of Jon Stewart interviewing Jeff Bezos about Kindle 2Kindle 2.
My refer came from reading, Book Lovers: Stop Whining about the Wonderful “Feel of Paper” written by Chris Dannon for the Fast Company Blog.

Please wait to read that until after you finish reading this post, you’ll be glad you waited.

Book lovers how do you feel about Kindle 2, the digital book device from Amazon?

Before we go on, as a lifelong bibliophile, I have a confession to make. I haven’t read a
paper based non-fiction book in over a year. Mea culpa, mea culpa!

Come on give a guy a break. I’m computerized and IM’d. Where I used to feel guilty
reading a book when I thought I should be doing something else, now, I feel guilty
because I’m not reading books. No excuses. I live in Mountain View, CA, a city with
an outstanding library and it’s not far from my home.

However, I stray ..how are YOU doing on the book reading front? Better than me I hope. My wife, who was raised in a book starved home environment, now reads
several times as many books as I. Mysteries mostly - good- hard cover books -
not paperbacks, but hard cover ones out of the library.

Kindle 2? Not for her. Not likely for me. For different reasons we are not likely to pay
for a device that enables you to have access to thousands of books (at $9.95 each)
after paying the $395.00 for the Kindle 2. She’s not a techy and we both like to hold
books to read.

I may be an “early adopter” for some business things but not for pleasure, if you can
callreading a book off a Kindle - pleasure. The convenience I can see and appreciate.
However, I would miss moving all of my hundreds of books one more time. Being a
mobile pack rat bibliophile is a curse with its own punishment.

For those of you who have your own Kindle, what do you miss, if anything, using
the device and what particularly do you like about it ?

For those of you who have not had your Kindle fire lit, what, besides the price, is
keeping you from digitizing a bigger slice of your world?

Have you written about these digital developments affecting the publishing world?
Should you write about them? Can you afford to ignore them? If you are well
established perhaps not. Otherwise,…??

Let’s hear your views - comment or let us know where you have written on this
subject. At least get your feelings out and deal with them by writing.

Me? I’m going to reminisce about doing research in the special collections of the
top floors of the U. of Michigan libraries and remember vividly the smell, that
special smell, of old books. I may even get out a couple history books that were
first published in the 1860’s or 1870’s on the life Sen. James G. Blaine (Who?) I’ll
show Bezos and Kindle2.

Well, by now, I am sure you have a strong sense of my feelings about Kindle 1 or 2.
And, even more so, about the continuing loss of independent booksellers in the face
of the chains, the internet and Kindle. I hereby solemnly swear that I shall never
purchase a Kindle. And, if given one, I shall donate it to the library because I know
it has voice delivery as one of its features and those who are sight challenged may
enjoy its use.

This turned out kind of ranty didn’t it? There I go again with cause for another
“mea culpa”.

Now, I hope you turn off your computer and go read a book.

Me? I’ve got a couple of more posts to write ..

- Val Spangler, Mister Senior Blogger
@SeniorTweet on Twitter.com
Senior Writer Blog (you are here)
Comics Cartoons and Creativity
Business Twitter Uses(coming March 1st)

Tweet! It may be good for your writing.

Whether Twitter will improve your writing or not - it’s up to you.. I think it may have an effect. However, I can be sure that you will make new friends and renew acquaintences from around the country and around the world - some you’d never meet otherwise - expand your universe - it’s great fun! One caution: keep the discipline to manage your time to write. Let Twitter add to your writing - not detract from it.