Knowledge Should Be Shared Through Teaching And Writing

After a busy summer and fall, I am ready to get back into writing again. Writing my blogs takes time if I want to write meaningful posts. I have too many, I know, but there isn't one of them that I would choose to delete. So how do I keep up with them? As you can see, I don't. I haven't posted on this one since April, though I did keep the others current as much as possible.

Not only the blog writing, but I am working on eBooks as well. So writing is what I do, whenever I can squeeze it in. The problem for me is the computer time. I am not able to use my computer whenever I choose. The power is the thing. It is the one thing I don't like about living off the grid. Now if I could find a way to use my battery on my laptop to write, I definitely would. But it won't last longer than an hour, if that.

Writing quality meaningful posts is what gives me pleasure. I like to know I am helping someone, even if it is only one person who comes to my blog or reads one of my books. I try to share my knowledge the best way I can. I don't proclaim to know it all, but I have lived a long life so far, and I have learned many things. I hope I can share it all with my readers.

Copyright © 2013 Kathleen G. Lupole

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Others Creating Your Content

Photo Credit: Public Domain Photos

One of the ways that money is generated on the computer is by websites that have others who create their own content. When an author writes a book all their content is in their own book. But now things have changed. The content is all over the internet on many different websites. Like eBay did when they started out with sellers creating their own listings. Then other sites, such as Amazon and others followed suit. They just operate the site and the sellers create the listings, add their own photos and the site collects the fees from the sellers and the sellers interact with the buyers. That is nice way to do business.

Look at the way the blogging software sites do the same thing. Bloggers write the text and promote their own blogs and the people who read the blogs keep the bloggers fired up to write more. The blogging software sites such as Google and WordPress make money off the ads on the sites. What a great way to do business. No writing, just have a site that can operate fairly easy and let the people who use it generate all the content for it. I like that concept pretty much.

On the internet there are new rules and new ways of doing business, writing, selling or just interacting with friends. Everything is about content. Writing text. Writing ads. Writing copy for the products you sell. You need to know how to write for whatever audience or market you are trying to reach. But if you have a platform that means others are doing that for you....wow, then you are onto something!

Whatever you decide to do to create your many streams of income, one of them should be an online presence for sure. The internet is creating many multi-millionaires every day. Maybe you don't want to be a millionaire, but just be comfortable and not stressed over bills. I can understand that. That is what I want too. I hope I have given you some ideas of where to start or things to at least think about. The potential is within all of us. We just have to find it and develop it.

Copyright © 2010  Kathleen G. Lupole

Write Your Content Properly

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I read with interest on forums when people write about wanting to make money by writing a blog. What I find the most interesting is that they will write a whole paragraph with no punctuation, misspellings through out, and very bad grammar. How can that person be serious about writing for money or even for having others come to their blog and want to follow it? Sure we make a typing error or misspell a word........but not every time! Not through out our whole blog! If I did that I'd be embarrassed to publish it or especially for other people to read it.

Spelling should be a "no brainer" with all the computer writing programs having spell check. I can see immediately that I have misspelled a word. In fact, some words stand out to me if they are not correct. How many emails do you receive with someone wanting to sell you something but is full of misspelling and very bad grammar? If you want to sell me something, I don't care what country you are from...........you better learn to write in English properly or you will not get my business!

If you picked up a book and it was full of misspelled words and had no sentences or paragraphs, wouldn't you find it hard to read? I always pick out the misspellings in any book or any website. It just comes to me. I worked a job once in Clearwater, FL that was proofreading telephone books. I loved it! The designers dreaded me getting their ads. To this day, I pride myself on finding those mistakes.

Remember if you are trying to write a blog or a website or even emails, you want to make an impression with what you put down in text. If you make it hard to read, your readers will click away or they will delete your email. I know. I do it all the time. If you write your text with no paragraphs or make them real long and boring and hard to read.............no one is going to read them through! I look at notes on Face Book for example and they write them with no breaks or paragraphs between sentences. So I find them hard to read and cannot finish them. I might skim them at the most. Maybe it is my eyes as I have gotten older.

Then again, I know some people who have trouble with fonts that are too small or they are colored. I loved using the different colors for my writing until I met someone who could not read what I wrote due to her eye problems with colored font. So how many other people online have those same problems? She could not be the only one. I stick with black most of the time now.

The most important part of writing online is getting people to come to your site or blog and staying there to read it. To click to other pages or posts. To click the links you have set up for them. To spend some time with you. But if you make it hard for them they will leave in less than a second. That is not much time to make a good impression. So brush up on your writing skills. One other thing is that the more you write the better you will become. So spend some time on it and make it worth reading by your visitors. Good luck!

Copyright © 2010  Kathleen G. Lupole