The Importance And Use Of A Huge Fan Base

I've mentioned quite a few times in my previous posts that having a huge fan base/lots of readership is important for a writer. In today's article, I'll go on to explain the various reasons why this is so and what you can do with your readership.

One of the first things readership does is give your writing a purpose. After all, if you write over and over and no one sees your work, what's the point of it? Although on the internet, this isn't the case. No matter what remote website you publish your articles on, there are always people who will find them.

The next thing is that your followers and fans like to create conversations whenever your working on something big. Conversations like this usually draw in people who've never heard of you before and once they get in, many of them will stay there, joining your followers. So in other words, your fans do your advertising for you, without you asking them.

Basically, followers are there to: read and appreciate your hard work, spread the news around and buy your eBooks (provided that they're good!). Now that that's out of the way, let's see how you can direct them. It's not really such a hard thing to do, in fact you don't have to say much; just a gentle nudge in the right direction will do quite well. An example:

I write for two articles websites and I had accumulated a reasonably-sized fan base on each. Now, to direct my fans (as well as people reading my articles who weren't my fans) to my new blog, I began going through my articles and at the end of each one I put a link at the bottom to my blog and said things along the lines of "for more helpful articles visit *blog*". If that's what brought you to my articles, don't feel like your the victim of some trick that I employed - I wasn't joking when I said you can go to my blog for more helpful articles!

The point is that fans of online writers are hounds of information - if you promise them more and better information, they'll go where they have to! You'll have to hold up your end of the deal too, so I hope you keep some high-quality articles in reserve before you make promises like this!

 The more places you write, the more you can multiply this effect. It's a simple matter of adding more links at the end of your articles.

Finally, you need to make sure that you repay your fans in one way or the other. The place I like to do this is my blog because your blog will the place where people to truly want to hear from you will go. The way I repay my fans for their readership is by giving them extra content and articles on my blog. Of course, in the future I'll have more things for them like discount codes for eBooks that I've published, etc.

That should be everything you need to know about your fan base, how to make use of them and how to maintain them. Remember to maintain a frequent amount of article posting and if you're planning to leave your blog for vacation, write up a whole bunch of articles and either take a minute every day of your vacation to post them or make an account for someone back at home (someone you trust!) and ask them to post one of your articles every day - give them a list if you want the articles posted in any specific order.

Article Writing Websites For Writers

Starting out in the online writing world, one of the basic things you'll want to get into is article writing because it's a great way to start learning the ropes of online writing and it's a great way to build up a fan base. In a future article I will tell you the advantages a large fan base gives you but until then, think of it as one of the greatest advantages you'll have in the online writing world. After all, writers thrive on readership!

So, starting out with article writing, you'll first need to pick a website to write for. Now, you could write for someone's blog if you'd like but just starting out, it's not much of a good idea at the moment. So, let's list and compare some article writing websites. Some popular ones are:

• Helium
• Triond
• Expertscolumn

The first one, Helium is a combination of revenue sharing and article purchasing. Basically, you can write articles and you can keep your rights over them and get a cut of the revenue that your article generates or you can write an article and sell all your rights over it to the Helium website in exchange for a solid couple of dollars which go into the 10s and 20s. Personally, I have no real love for Helium and have gotten bored of it quite fast but don't let my opinion obstruct this opportunity for you!

The next is Triond. It's a fairly popular article writing website with a lot of audience from the US and UK. Lots of people write for Triond and with the fan/follower system it has, Triond's a great place to start buiding up your readership and fan base so long as you don't mind having to struggle to make a couple of cents. If there's one thing about Triond it's that your first two or three months won't meet much success unless you constantly work on it. The good news is that after you get over the dreaded beginner months, you just need to write frequently (an article or two a day) to start making dollars. All in all, a good place to start for your fan base and since that's a necessity for a writer, go for it.

The next one is Expertscolumn which is gaining popularity every day with writer's thanks to it's more lenient policy which allows you to re-post your articles from other websites under the condition that you wrote it and 85% of the article is your own writing. Because of this, Expertscolumn is frequently used as a base to re-post your already-published articles in an attempt to 'double' your monthly revenue. In my opinion, it's a great website and I get lots of traffic towards my articles. My only qualm about this website is that no matter how many people read my articles, I never seem to make more than 1 - 5 cents per day. Not much in terms of making money but the plus side is that I can use my articles to direct my traffic to my blog, the final destination for all my writing. So in other words, this is where you go to make a crowd and direct it where you need it.

For now, those are all the websites I'm going to be covering. If you want to look into more you can hop on Google and see what you can do at eHow or Associated Content. I'm a little too stuck to my ways to explore them but I definitely encourage writers to do so - if you don't explore an opportunity, you can lose a lot more than you thought of it.

This information should prove useful to you - but in the end it's not the information that counts but how you use it. Good luck, writers!

Why A Writer Should Have A Blog

As a writer, your blog is your home base for all your writing. No matter how many different websites you write articles on, the place you want to ultimately lead people to is your blog because your blog is the point where all your different writer profiles connect and merge as one. Imagine it like this: each article writing website is a base full of people and your blog is your own base where you want to direct people. When you create an account on an article writing website, you've basically created a bridge between that base and your base. At first you have no content in that bridge; it looks ugly and boring. As your put more high quality content in that bridge, it starts looking cleaner and more grand until finally people think it might be a great idea to stop looking at the bridge (reading the articles) and cross over it (go to your main base). The way you do this is by putting your blog link in your article writing profile and at the end of each article, put a link to your blog.

Extra Content For Blog Readers!

If you've been reading the blog since the start (which was about a day or two ago), you'll notice that my earlier blog posts were just links to my Expertscolumn profile where I wrote and published all my articles. Well, to add a bit of a change, as well as a reason to even look at my blog instead of following my Expertscolumn profile, I've decided to put up extra content on the blog solely for those who visit it.

Why? Well, so that my blog isn't moot! There's going to be much more happening around my blog as time passes and I don't want any of my viewers to miss out on it because they think there's no real point to visiting the blog page.

That's all for now!

Later in the week...

You can expect more articles releasing to the readers and I'll see what I can do regarding building a community. I'm thinking, "Forums". Comments containing ideas and helpful advice are appreciated!

Why Freelance Writers Need A Website

Freelance writing in itself is a business. If you've seen companies that manufacture goods then you'll know that they have stuff like ads, websites, etc. set up for their company. Why? To promote them! Unless and until you promote your business in one way or another it will NEVER be a success. So that brings us down to today's question: Why do freelance writers need a website?

What Is Niche Blogging And Why It's Ideal

If you're a writer and you're thinking of getting into the blogging world, I'd recommend you aim for niche blogging - the best, most favourable type of blogging in my opinion. It shows you as an expert in a certain area (although only your content will reveal just how much of an expert you are) and it's more favourable in terms of traffic and monetization. This is because, due to the fact that your blog is about one subject, people interested in that subject can find your blog and stick to it. In terms of monetization, this is also great because advertisements placed on your blog can be related to the main idea of your blog, unlike general blogs which have articles varying over many different subjects.

Anyways, here's the link to the full article: http://expertscolumn.com/content/what-niche-blogging-and-why-its-ideal

As always, I hope the information it provides you proves valuable.

Pros and Cons Of Writing eBooks For Profit

Nowadays, with freelance writing becoming a rather popular method of earning money online from your house, lot's of freelancers have taken into consideration the idea of becoming authors to eBook series. The idea is a good one but like most ideas it will have its sacrifices/bad points as well. If you want to make your decision a smart one by looking into both the pros and cons rather than blindly going with a decision then you can rely on this article to help you make the decision.