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By James Adams

When customers feel confident about your product, they will buy it. Each word you write for your website should bring your viewers closer to purchasing that product.

Whether it be through stories, list articles or article marketing, that confidence and comfort that you create will carry through to conversion.

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Those are four things that it takes to be a successful writer: passion, creativity, inspiration, and discipline.

I can see you nodding your head until you come to that last word—discipline.

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By Leslie A. Joy

If you’re a writer, you tend to collect information. If you’re niche writer, you tend to collect information that you KNOW you’re going to use a few times. The collecting part is easy—it’s how to organize those collections that’s hard.
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So, you’ve created a blog, you post regularly, you tweet and announce your posts on Facebook–and nobody comes. What could be wrong?

I’ve written several thousand blog posts. Some of those posts received thousands of page views while other posts were never read.

So, what’s the difference?
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Some of you already know that I blog at a few other places besides WritingThoughts. I usually try to concentrate my writing advice here, but over the past few months quite a few of my posts on writing have been published elsewhere.
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Over and over again, I hear about the low barrier to freelance writing. Many folks, it seems, have the opinion that just about anyone can become a freelance writer.

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This question about blogging just keeps coming up. I’ve encountered it at least three times in the last month. I guess that’s a good sign that the topic should be addressed.

A lot of people seem to get blogging wrong. Companies get it wrong when they use their blog to simply publish their press releases. Individuals and companies both get it wrong when they turn off comments or otherwise fail to engage the reader.

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A common way of listing (and paying for) writing jobs is by word count. (For example: $XX.00 for 800 words.) I’ve even bid on writing projects using this method myself.

But, the other day I stopped in mid-bid. Does bidding on writing jobs by word count really make sense?
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You own a business. You have a product or service that you need to sell. Chances are that you need to have some copy written–whether it be for your website, a sales brochure, a press release, or just a good standard follow-up letter that you can use often with prospects.

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Getting started as a professional writer can be difficult.

I know I’ve been asked how I got started as a writer before. I’ve always answered in a very general way that I thought would help the most people. I don’t think I’ve ever shared the full story of how I landed my very first paid writing position, though.

Until today…

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