Sure, I created sites around the methodology of TKA1.0 but my heart wasn’t in it. But hey, it worked. Fortunately I have a hobby that I can both be passionate about and sell products in so it’s the best of both worlds and this new approach is going to teach us how to create and monetize a site we can enjoy creating.

I’m still going to use the old method to create back links to my current TKA1.0 sites as those sorts of product sites aren’t the type to get them naturally. They still make a little bit of money so while they are doing that I’ll keep ‘em. One interesting thing that came up in the last webinar is the imminent death of the Niche Refinery. Apparently we don’t need it as we are now going to completely disregard competition and instead create long, valuable and insightful posts littered with long tail phrases. And lots of ‘em. Don’t worry though as there is proof that this method works.

I hope they keep Post Runner as it is currently giving both my product sites and my passion site a real boost in the rankings. Can’t see them getting rid of that any time soon as we’ll probably always need a little bit of back linking if only to get the initial interest in the site going. It’s also a good way of getting fresh content to your site everyday if it’s plugged in.

There is currently a debate raging over at The Keyword Academy about whether it’s right or wrong to concentrate on only one website. There are pros and cons for each method of course. I like the idea of only having one site and 1 domain registration to not only cost less every year but also to receive all of your focus. Oops, I currently have thirty domains and to be honest I’m rather sick of most of them. I’m always trying to keep them fresh and stress about where they are in the rankings. There just isn’t enough hours in the day.

I’ve noticed that I always tend to gravitate towards the sites I enjoy researching and writing about anyway. It’s also easier to write about the subject matter as it’s all in my head so I don’t have to research it so much. Not having to worry about back linking so much is kind of foreign to my Internet Marketing upbringing but a little bit can’t hurt can it? Anyway I can’t wait for the new lessons and implementing them for my main passion site.

One excellent method I think people can use when deciding on a passion site is to pick something that they’ve always wanted to learn but just never got around to it. Well,  now here’ s your excuse to finally get amongst it. You can learn your new hobby and write about it as you go. When your significant other half gives you dirty looks about the money your spending you can tell ‘em it’s just for business. Let people know how it all works, whatever it is, and possibly get the audience involved with blog comments and forum participation.

Currently I’m attaching a blog to my main passion site and also have just installed a forum. Now I just need to figure out how to work it all. Running a forum is a whole new world to me and I don’t have a clue how to run one. Good thing I like muckin’ about with all this stuff.

Ms. Dow used to be an independent ghostwriter for gurus. She labored for years to provide website text for online merchants via a site called E-lance. She had a substantial amount of success through the slow, steady development of clientele. Eventually she was earning roughly 60,000 per year.

Like the majority of freelance authors, however, she began to realize that this was her zenith. After all, there is a finite number of hours available to write any given quantity of words. Consequently, she stopped ghostwriting altogether. She is currently teaching fellow writers who have talent that literary projects are undesirable chores and to avoid such jobs completely.

Dow recently stated, for instance that she could realize a maximum profit of only $1,000 or so from the average project of 50 pages in length. This was due to time constraints involved, as she had to continue soliciting customers in order to maintain overall revenues. By contrast, she says that a PLR pack that is fifty pages long yields about ten thousand dollars. What’s more, is that Ms. Dow says that’s just for starters!

For freelance writers who are unfamiliar with what PLR is, the following explanation should throw some light on the subject. First, PLR is an acronym which denotes “Private Label Rights.” In essence, PLR is content that is sold very cheaply to numerous clients. They may subsequently edit it as they wish, publish it under their own names, and use it as though they were its original author.

As a result, your typical fee may only be around $1/page. However, you stand to realize a much larger return than with conventional writing assignments, as there are multiple buyers for a single piece of work. A specific example that Dow cited recounted how she prepared a report that was 20 pages long. Normally, it would have yielded no more than 400 dollars via traditional ghostwriting channels.

The system is geared toward web-based marketers who need quality site content but possess insufficient time or literary skill. After reducing the price of the package by $5, Dow sold a total of 72 copies. At $15 apiece, she cleared $1,080. This represented about $680 more than what her standard ghostwriting fee would have brought in. And, she is still earning income from that very same package as of today!

Freelance writers will leave the profession in droves when they realize the vastly increased income potential of selling their content at rock bottom rates to a plethora of purchasers. It’s going to get harder for a marketer to hire a ghostwriter to write their book for them.

In the Tiffany’s PLR ATM Course, freelancers will find out how to select popular subject matter that generates large profit; identifying niche writing topics; the types of things about which to write (and what types of package to prepare); the proper way to set things up to facilitate easier subsequent sales; and, how to generate maximum return on investment.

If a freelancer is “living on a shoestring,” he or she would still not want to miss out on this course. It provides all the information needed to do precisely as Tiffany did. That is, beginning a business with absolutely no initial investment, yet proceed to generate an average monthly income in excess of $4,000 through marketing PLR packages. At a little over twenty bucks it’s excellent value for money.

I don’t mind writing an original article here or there if it’s something I’m interested in but when it comes to getting back links with re-writes on the same topic over and over I can’t stand it.  I’m starting to make a  bit of money now so that’s why I’ve decided to outsource a lot of my writing to someone else who probably needs the money more than I do. I figure if I can get to making $300 or $400 dollars a month with the teeny tiny bit of writing I’ve actually managed to do myself this year then I can get even further by outsourcing my writing while I do all the fun stuff.

I’ve decided on a fellow Keyword Academy members project over at The Content Authority for all my writing and so far I’m pretty happy with what they put out.  There are various levels you can purchase for the quality of articles that you need. A basic article at 300 words will cost you $3.00 and from there you go up to good and then excellent. There’s another level above that when you might require in depth research which I think is 5 cents a word which can start to get pretty pricey.

So far I’ve used good quality which gave me fairly decent articles that I just had to touch up and the excellent quality at 2 cents a word. I didn’t have to do anything to this article so that was pretty good. Re-writes are cheaper at about 1 cent a word but I have had to modify a couple of those as some of the sentences were a bit rough. Still quicker and easier than writing them myself though. It usually takes me an hour or two to write a decent 400 word article because of the interruptions from the kids so this service is actually allowing me to get things done to my websites that I normally wouldn’t be able to do.

I’ve also just bought Tiffany Dow’s PLR ATM (big fat affiliate link) course and I enjoyed a bit of that yesterday. She assumes the buyer knows nothing about Internet Marketing and shows you step by step everything you need to do in all the interfaces you come across when setting up your own PLR store. She takes through buying a domain, setting up wordpress, using the warrior forum, how to promote your store and your PLR and how to set up a shopping cart on your blog once you have one. I knew a lot of it but it was only 20 bucks and she has a bonus list of PLR requests from all of her customers which should get me started.

The reason I bought the course is so I can learn how to set up and promote a PLR store and get The Content Authority to write all of my material. I’ll probably need to find a writer I like and stick with them so it all has the same feel to it. All in all I’ve been pretty busy. Someone else is writing my stuff while I pretty my sites up as per the new TKA 2.0 guidelines which makes me feel like I’m making some real progress this year.

 

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