If you start writing and submitting freelance articles, you may have opportunities to add links to related information. If you are also a blogger or run a website, you can use this to increase the traffic to your outside work with visitors you already know will be interested in the subject matter you are talking about. If your blog has business aspects, this could increase interest in your skills and products. If you do affiliate work, it will also increase the number of people who may take an interest in those other aspects of your pages.
When adding links to articles that you submit to various services, be careful to pay attention to the guidelines. They will differ from publisher to publisher. You should try to make sure that your links in general are related to the subject matter of your article. Many publisher's and clients don't want articles that sound like a sales pitch, but don't mind you sharing other content if it is relevant.
For instance, I play piano and write songs, and have developed a blog of notes for musicians and music lovers. You can find it at http://nicolettesmusicnotes.blogspot.com . When I write articles about piano, songwriting or music theory, I take it as an opportunity to lead people back to my personal work outside the sites I submit articles to.
Showing posts with label web building tutorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web building tutorials. Show all posts
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
How to Start an Online Store for Free with No Sales Fees
About eCrater : the Free Online Marketplace
Many people use Amazon and eBay to set up their ability to sell online; weather it's items from a commercial business that they want to resell, services, handmade goods, or things from personal collections. Dolls; toys, trains, books- whatever you have, there's probably someone online whose willing to pay for it. While those services can be profitable and relatively simple to use, there are a couple of other services I'd like to highlight.
The first I'd like to mention here is eCrater. It's a lot, like a more user friendly version of Amazon and eBay combined, that runs for free. I said the magic word, FREE. I'm trying it out as an alternative way to sell a large collection of toys and books, and really am just in the set up process. Already I'm kind of amazed. It's very easy to set up an online storefront particular to your goods, break it down into easy categories, and create multiple ways for potential customers to pay you. You of course are responsible for sending the goods once paid for, eCrater is simply an interface for people who want to make sales online and customer's who are interested in what they have.
Like on Amazon and eBay, seller's receive a rating from customer's based on if they were happy with their purchase. Over time, having a good ranking increases the shopper's sense that they are doing business with someone they can trust. You can set your sales to be at a fixed price like on Amazon, or you can take place in auction type sales as done on eBay. The difference between using eCrate and Amazon or eBay is that there are no fees. No listing fee, unlimited items, you manage your eStore yourself. No closing fees, or special weird requirements to use there services.
Like with Webs, which will allow you to build a website for free, eCrater does offer paid options with special features. However, it seems set up well enough that you can functionally set up a professional looking online store and expect to make some money from it. Like with other things, how well you do will probably largely have something to do with how much you put into it. If you are willing to maintain the storefront with regular updates, and can do some self-promotion of your web store, you may find that this is a useful service to know about.
I'll post more as I evaluate how effectively eCrate works, but for now have a look yourself:
http://www.ecrater.com/
Many people use Amazon and eBay to set up their ability to sell online; weather it's items from a commercial business that they want to resell, services, handmade goods, or things from personal collections. Dolls; toys, trains, books- whatever you have, there's probably someone online whose willing to pay for it. While those services can be profitable and relatively simple to use, there are a couple of other services I'd like to highlight.
The first I'd like to mention here is eCrater. It's a lot, like a more user friendly version of Amazon and eBay combined, that runs for free. I said the magic word, FREE. I'm trying it out as an alternative way to sell a large collection of toys and books, and really am just in the set up process. Already I'm kind of amazed. It's very easy to set up an online storefront particular to your goods, break it down into easy categories, and create multiple ways for potential customers to pay you. You of course are responsible for sending the goods once paid for, eCrater is simply an interface for people who want to make sales online and customer's who are interested in what they have.
Like on Amazon and eBay, seller's receive a rating from customer's based on if they were happy with their purchase. Over time, having a good ranking increases the shopper's sense that they are doing business with someone they can trust. You can set your sales to be at a fixed price like on Amazon, or you can take place in auction type sales as done on eBay. The difference between using eCrate and Amazon or eBay is that there are no fees. No listing fee, unlimited items, you manage your eStore yourself. No closing fees, or special weird requirements to use there services.
Like with Webs, which will allow you to build a website for free, eCrater does offer paid options with special features. However, it seems set up well enough that you can functionally set up a professional looking online store and expect to make some money from it. Like with other things, how well you do will probably largely have something to do with how much you put into it. If you are willing to maintain the storefront with regular updates, and can do some self-promotion of your web store, you may find that this is a useful service to know about.
I'll post more as I evaluate how effectively eCrate works, but for now have a look yourself:
http://www.ecrater.com/
Friday, May 14, 2010
How to build a Website for Free
You can very easily build a nice, professional quality website on your own with a little time and effort. As well as blogging, I build and maintain my own websites, and have discovered that some providers make it really easy and fun. After trying several, I am mostly using the Webs free website building service.
I like webs because it is very versatile. You can create a website for free, and they also have a variety of paid options that you can choose from as well. If you begin by setting up a free website, you can choose to convert it at any time to upgrade the options and features you have. Your website can have multiple pages of your choosing, and you can use it in a professional or personal context. It's easy to add a blog, a links page, forums, photo's and other things that will be relevant to what you want to create. It includes free site building tools that will make the process easy if you are not familiar with doing your own coding, and if you happen to be skilled in that department, you can also build what you want without their tools but get hosting through their service. There are a lot of rich, nice looking themes available that are simple to put together. They also offer tools and tutorials that will help you with promoting your website, search engine optimization, and other aspects of creating your home on the web. I think it's a very good place for both people who really know what they are doing, and beginner's who would like to learn to do this well with a hands on approach.
Check it out:
Get a Free Website at Webs.com!
I like webs because it is very versatile. You can create a website for free, and they also have a variety of paid options that you can choose from as well. If you begin by setting up a free website, you can choose to convert it at any time to upgrade the options and features you have. Your website can have multiple pages of your choosing, and you can use it in a professional or personal context. It's easy to add a blog, a links page, forums, photo's and other things that will be relevant to what you want to create. It includes free site building tools that will make the process easy if you are not familiar with doing your own coding, and if you happen to be skilled in that department, you can also build what you want without their tools but get hosting through their service. There are a lot of rich, nice looking themes available that are simple to put together. They also offer tools and tutorials that will help you with promoting your website, search engine optimization, and other aspects of creating your home on the web. I think it's a very good place for both people who really know what they are doing, and beginner's who would like to learn to do this well with a hands on approach.
Check it out:
Get a Free Website at Webs.com!
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