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  • The Top 10 Mistaken Beliefs About Debt Consolidation That Can Hurt Your Financial Future
    Debt consolidation is a highly ethical, reputable way to manage certain kinds of debts, but many people do not know much about it. Worse, many people who might benefit from debt consolidation don't have a clear understanding of how it works and how it can help them. Here are ten commonly believed myths about what debt consolidation is ... and isn't!
  • Crash Course in Two Online Business Models for Writers
    Writers have great opportunities to earn a living or at least a second income online, but only if they first understand the basic business models for online writing. There are really only two, if you take it in broad strokes. And just about any writer can learn to work either model!
  • What Every Writer Has to Know about the Internet and the New Writing Business Model
    Writers can now take advantage of a whole new business model that basically takes the publisher out of the equation. The line between writing and publishing is not just blurred, it's gone. But how many writers today realize their good fortune?
  • Secret Tips for Keeping Business Clients Happy with Your Freelance Writing Services
    Freelance writers who manage to land that elusive (but lucrative) business client often lose the work because of their own faux-pas. Business people and writers may live at different ends of the spectrum, but a smart writer can keep the gig by learning how to take good care of the business client.
  • How to Give Yourself a 20% Raise (Guaranteed!)
    Most people think that the key to ending financial woes is more income. Don't get me wrong, income is very important. But at the end of the day, we don't have as much control over our income as we'd like. The other part of the financial equation is something no one thinks about. It's how much you spend. Control your spending and you can change your overall financial picture--for the better. And the best news: it's totally under your control!
  • Is There Actually Such a Thing as
    If you're in overwhelming debt, all you want to do is be debt free. But did you know that very smart, very financially savvy people sometimes get into debt .. on purpose! That's right. Debt has a real purpose and can give you incredible financial leverage. But chances are, you haven't been using it the right way!
  • Six Ways to Find Clients for Your Freelance Writing Business
    Writing is an unusual profession and one that many feel will never generate full-time wages. So why do some writers--like myself--support themselves as writers and struggle with more than enough work while other writers don't seem to be able to find jobs? For those willing to attack the problem, there really has never been a better time to be a writer.
  • Tips and Tricks from the Depression for Saving Money Today
    Saving is such an alien concept for many consumers, it is no wonder so many of us are faced with overwhelming debt. Frugality was practiced in the Great Depression out of sheer necessity. Today, saving strategies can simplify our lifestyle, improve our relationships, and help us not only get out of debt but save money for the future.
  • What Enterprising Writers Must Know about Information Products Right Now
    Writers who can identify important Internet niches can apply their skills as researchers and writers to become Internet marketers.
  • Mattress Shopping for People Who Hate Shopping
    Buying a mattress can be challenging, but if you break the process down ino smple steps, you ca get a good deal and keep your sanity. First, you need to know the main types of mattresses. Then you must decide the particular make and model you want. Last but not least, you can follow the sales and determine when to pounce based on the time when a good deal is offered. Yes, you can get a good deal on a mattress if you know what a good price is!
  • A Few Secrets to Freelance Writing Success (That Have Nothing to Do With Writing!)
    A good writer does not automatically become a successful freelance writer simply by wanting to become one. Freelance writing requires discipline, consistency, and a few tricks of the trade. If you can think about writing as a business rather than a passion or a calling, and you have the discipline to maintain regular business hours, you may have what it takes to have a successful career as a freelance writer.
  • Writers, Don't Waste Time on the Wrong Niches in Online Writing
    Writers who want to work online often approach niches like writing topics, but that can be misleading! An ink-and-paper writer seeks the scoop, the untold story. But for online projects, it is much better to create a website or information product that taps into a pre-existing online community. In other words, finding a busy niche and a lot of competition can be a good thing for a successful online writing venture!
  • Secrets of Writing for Money: Should You Specialize in One Subject or Be a Writing-Generalist?
    Professional writers can specialize in a narrow field of expertise or they can be generalists, writing about anything and everything. While most writers like to be generalists and think it offers better opportunities, the fact is that it is the specialist writer who stands the better chance of succeeding as a professional writer.
  • Secrets of Earning a Living as a Writer
    Not only is it still possible for a person to earn a good living as a writer, there are opportunities available today for writers that hold unique promise. However, writing is a business and needs to be treated like a business. For those willing to do the right things, there has probably never been a better time to be a writer.
  • The Savvy Writer's Guide to How the World Has Changed in the Last Five Years
    Johannes Gutenberg changed the world with movable type press; the world has been changed in our own lifetime by the Internet. Both events impact writers. For the savvy writer willing to learn new skills and pioneer a whole new way of doing things, online work is a great bonanza. Writers who prefer the ink-and-paper world, be warned. Things are changing!
  • Improve Your Credit Score by Consolidating Your Debt ... It Works!
    Debt consolidation is one approach to coping with overwhelming debt, but don't confuse it with debt settlement, debt negotiation, debt management or bankruptcy. It's different. And unlike those other approaches or bankruptcy, debt consolidation--done properly--can actually help rather than hurt your credit score!
  • Are You Guilty of Treating Your Debt Too Emotionally?
    Most people realize they are in over their heads in debt when they have a gut feeling or visceral response to the amount of debt they are carrying. Emotions are no way to run your financial life. Many of us carry far too much debt long before we realize it and by the time we start to hit bottom, we are in serious financial trouble. Find out how to assess how much debt you have and learn what to do about it.
  • How A Writer Can Take Advantage of Internet Commerce
    Writers who sell words for a living often miss out on great business opportunities because they do not understand the Internet. Understanding online business is not that difficult, but it does take some new skills (which can be learned) and a new way of thinking about writing.
  • What Home-Based Business Owners Must Know about Debt
    Many people dream of starting their own business, but the nuts and bolts of running a small business can be easily overlooked. It is not only important for the new business owner to save money to launch the business, it is crucial to minimize expenses to keep living expenses down in the early days of the business. One approach to financial housekeeping is debt consolidation, a way of restructuring and reorganizing debt.
  • Is This Really Any Time to be a Writer?
    Writing is a difficult profession. While it may sound glamorous to some, the truth is that opportunities to write for publications are scarce, pay is low, and most writers suffer under editorial constraints. That has all changed with the Internet. For writers willing to re-invent themselves as "content providers," that is, sellers of content (writers and publishers rolled into one), the opportunities are enormous.
  • Secrets of the Internet for Writers Only
    Writers used to depend on publishers or businesses for their living. Today, writers willing to think outside the box can use Internet business models to construct viable businesses based on content. In order to do this, writers need to learn about the Internet and various business models there and then do what they do best--write.
  • When Writers Become Content Providers
    Writers today struggle as traditional publishing opportunities are more limited than ever and new opportunities to write online (as so-called content providers) pay very little. Despite appearances, it is actually a great time to be a writer providing you have good business skills, a desire to learn, and a willingness to study how the Internet works. Internet businesses are ideal for writers.
  • What Every Good Writer Has to Know about the Internet
    Writers may not know it yet, but they are in big demand on the Internet. But instead of just providing content to existing Internet entrepreneuers, the savvy writer can profit from this new business model by becoming a publisher. Content-rich sites that sell advertising or information product marketing are great ways for writers to self publish and assume the risks and potential rewards once reserved only for publishers.
  • What Patients Must Know
    If youu have ever been a patient, you know how difficult it can be to get an accurate diagnosis and the right treatment. Today's patients need to get information and use physicians as part of the team rather than as the decision-maker. Fortunately, it is easier than ever for an average person (or patient) to get outstanding medical information online.
  • Cure Writer's Block With a Few Sneaky Tricks
    People tasked with important writing projects often seem to succumb to writer's block, that agonizing feeling of not knowing where to begin on a big project. Yet professional writers never seem to get this condition. That's because they know a few secrets that protect them from ever getting stalled in a writing project.
  • The Mom Test for Technical Literature
    When writing very technical or complicated information for a lay audience, such as writing about medical products for prospective patients, it's a good idea to subject the material to the "mom test." Although it may sound silly to use your mom (or other willing relative) as your free focus group, we have had great success and gotten lots of good ideas from "the mom test."
  • How to Create a Medical Advertisement That Works (Finally)
    Medical advertising is highly regulated advertising aimed at an expert audience of avid readers extremely interested in your product or service. Using the same consumer advertising strategies you would use to sell soap or sneakers does not work. They need information. In short, most of what advertising "experts" will tell you is wrong: give them a lot of copy (not a little) and stress features (not benefits). This articles tells you why.
  • Name that Product!
    Naming a produc tis the sort of thing that sounds like fun until you've had to do it. In many industries, the best names are already taken and there are a lot of legal hurdles to overcome in the search for the perfect name. Alas, there may be no perfect name. But here are some tips for your organization to at least find some serviceable names.
  • Patient Education, Revisited
    Today's patient demands more and better quality healthcare information. Hospitals and medical companies, such as device manufacturers and drug companies, have responded by offering patient education material. However, dumbed-down material falls flat: it turns off educated patients and cannot be appreciated by those with minimal reading skills. There is a solution and it's easier than you think.
  • Branding is Most Important Where You Least Expect It
    Many companies rush into branding assuming it is an exercise for promotional literature, advertising, and invitations. It may be far more important to your business to brand your packaging and technical literature for the simple reason that it is the zone where your company connects most directly with your customer.
  • The Customer-Centered Brochure
    Medical companies and hospitals spend a lot of time and money creating brochures, but often they miss the mark. It's not that they're not good--they just are written at the customer instead of to the customer. Good news: it's not hard to fix the writing.
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