The Importance of Consistency.

Once you make the decision to start a website or blog for your business, consistency is the key.  Current, up-to-date information is what your readers crave, and the best way to keep those readers and build new readers is to consistently offer what they want.

If you have ever looked at some of the large popular blogs, you will see one thing that they all have in common.  They update their blogs on a schedule.  This isn’t to say that you need to update your site multiple times every day, after all it is your business and you decide how much time you will devote to it.  However, make sure that you stick to the schedule that you set.  If you promise your readers three posts per week, then that is what they will look for.  If you consistently fail to provide the content, they will most likely find another blog or website to frequent.

Although it may seem a little stressful, it doesn’t have to be.  If you know that you have dedicated readers who look forward to your posts every week, but feel that you no longer have the time to devote to the maintenance of your site, you have the option to outsource.  One of the biggest advantages of hiring someone to maintain your blog or website is the consistency.  You will no longer have to worry if there will be enough time to publish quality content for your readers.  When you outsource your writing to a company like A Writer for Hire, your site becomes our job, and consistency changes from a burden into a constant.

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Imagine If Every Week . . Your Blog Was Done for You

If you’re an online business owner then you definitely know that value of your time and your money. Online business owners must make the most of their time and money, which is why we are offering the following new packages:

As a business owner a blog is a fantastic marketing tool, but the only catch is you have to blog, and you have to maintain the upkeep of a blog. This means not only writing a blog post or two or three weekly, but also approving comments, updating plugins, and checking statistics.

You May Wonder: “Is this blog really making a difference?”

We can help you determine Yes or No.

If you could use a little help with all things blog, you’ve come to the right place. We at A Writer For Hire are not only about “writing” your blog posts, but we also publish your blog posts. We will provide you with

Monthly Fresh Content

This Includes:

* 3 Fresh Original Blog Posts per week (M, W, F) for 4 weeks each month
* Posting or Pre-posting to you Blog
* Inserting of 1 Picture per post
* Inserting of 1 link to a product or service of yours or an affiliate that you want to promote

Here’s What a Blog Can Do For You and Your Business:

  • How to Get Your Audience to Know, Like, And Trust You
  • Stay Up To Date And On The Minds Of Your Readers With FREE Content So They Know You Are REAL
  • Give Your Readers Your Experiences, Opinions, And Ideas - Without Tons Of Barriers

But we only have so many charter spots available. 7 to be exact, and one of them could be yours. We are taking ONLY 7 Blog Maintenance Clients.
These clients will also receive the following BONUSES .
Bonus #1 will include the following services for the length of your blog maintenance agreement. (Valued At $250)

  • Approve/ Deny Comments (at your discretion)
  • Update Plugins
  • Upgrade Wordpress
  • Email you weekly with stats from your blog.

Bonus #2 A 30 min Blog Consultation with Our Head Writer & Blog Manager, Alyssa Avant. (Valued at $50)

Alyssa has 5 years of experience as a blogger and business owner who has used the power of blogging to take her businesses places they could have never gone before. She and her team provide for you, personalized one-on-one consulting to help understand you and where you want your blog to take you. Each blog is written customized to you and your business, never using PLR or any other pre-used content. This allows us to capture your unique voice & style.

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Why Article Marketing?

There are many ways to market ones business, but not all ways are equal, and not all ways are effective.  If you want to market your business and do so effectively you must do so in a variety of ways.  One of the ways that you can market your business, even on a shoestring budget is with article marketing.  The wonderful thing about article marketing is that it literally multiplies your marketing.  It keeps working long after you’ve done the work.

Article marketing works in a variety of ways.  These include:

Spreading Content. Article marketing allows you to write an article once and have it used again and again.  Basically, you write the article, submit it to directories and then watch your content spread all over the internet.

Building Inbound Links. Submitting your articles to directories allows you to spread your content, but it also allows you to spread and gain inbound links to your website. This is done through the most important part of article marketing, your bio, or resource box. This is where you want to put links back to your website.  Then, every time one of your articles is picked up and used, it is also sending people to your site through a link. 

Establishing Yourself as an Expert. The more content you create, distribute and is out there on your niche topic the more you are seen as an expert on that topic.  Article marketing allows you to establish yourself as an expert by simply sharing your knowledge.

That’s it really.  Article marketing in a nutshell and why it works.  Why not make it work for you?  We at A Writer for Hire specialize in article marketing so if you need help click here.

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Ways to Show Integrity in Business

In a world where crime is a constant and fraud is done everyday, we long to find people that we can trust and opportunities to work together where we do not feel threatened or scared of the outcome possibilities.  As a business owner, we want to put our best foot forward and ensure that our clients see us as being “different from the others” in one way or another.  Having integrity in your business can set you apart from the pack very quickly.

There are many ways to show your customers that you have integrity.  Here are just a few of them:

1.Be passionate about your business. It is important that we are in a business or career that we love in the first place, if you are, it makes it easier to show your passion.  So, do a heart check before going into any given business opportunity and make sure that you can be truly passionate about it, so that the passion you have will shine through to the customers.

2.Be upfront. Share information with your customers or clients from day one.  Do not withhold information from them because you are afraid you’ll loose a sale, or not make as much money in the end.  You need to want more than anything, to do what is right, not only for you but for your client as well.  Withholding the truth will only serve you poorly in the end.

3.Appreciate your clients. Showing appreciation can go a long way in helping your customer to see that you are genuine, and can be trusted.  Give your customers extra to show your appreciation, not to bribe them into doing more for you, or spending more money with you.  Just give back to them to show that you are grateful for their business and loyalty.

4.Be personable and available. You might be the boss, the head honcho, or the CEO, but that does not mean that you should hide away in your office never to be seen by anyone but your employees after all the clients and customers are gone.  You want to be seen by everyone as someone who truly cares, you want to be available to help meet the needs of your clients.  Availability to others also shows your integrity.

5.Take responsibility for your mistakes.
Let’s face it we all mess up.  We are not perfect and we will make mistakes.  When you do take responsibility and try to make things right.  Your clients will appreciate you for it and will be more likely to forgive your mistake than if you tried to cover it up and not tend to it.

These are just a few of the ways that you can show integrity in your business on a daily basis, helping others to trust you with their time and their money.

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Writing Tips & Resources Center

We are excited to announce the launch of our Writing Tips & Resources Center. This center has tips and resources for small business owners that will help you to understand how you can use content to grow your business. From blogging to article marketing, from ebook writing to providing ecourses, we will help you to see how content can be of value to you.

Our first resource a “Top 10 Article Writing Tips Sheet” is now available and  in the resources center. You may gain access to our resources center by subscribing to our mailing list. This will not only give you access to the Tips sheet, but it will also allow you to gain unlimited future access to the resources center that will continuously be updated monthly. We will send alerts as to when the resources center has been updated.

In addition to this, you will also receive specials and discounts for our services available only to our subscribers. Don’t miss out, subscribe today in the right sidebar.

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Finding Good Content

Business owners may find content for their website and blog hard to come by at times. This can happen for any business owner no matter what you do or what your website is all about.

For Christian business owners finding content online can be difficult to find. There are very few places to go to find content and articles that are good quality. PLR articles are a good way to go, but finding Christian ones is even harder because they are just not there.

Have you ever wanted to place Christian content on your site, but didn’t know how to write it or what avenue you wanted to take? This can be difficult for young Christians or for a person that just became a Christian. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have the ability to have this content, but you may find it hard to write.

This is one of the major reasons why you would want to use PLR for your website or blog. PLR articles make it easy to have good quality content and you won’t have to spend too much time rewriting it so it’s yours and you won’t have to worry about duplicate content.

Search engines do not like duplicate content and if your site is hit with that tag, you will rank low in the search engines. This is why it’s very important that you rewrite each PLR article you are given or you purchase. You will need to change the article by at least 40% so it’s not considered a duplicate.

PLR articles give you the basis and the initial start to your content or article. They will make it easier for you to come up with your own thoughts and ideas. You can also take these articles and add your own thoughts, opinions, and Bible verses to make it your own.

When you run a Christian business, you want to make sure your visitors understand that your site is Christian and you want to offer them valuable information. Your target market is Christian people and you want them to feel comfortable while they are visiting your site.

It doesn’t matter if you offer products or services for other business owners, families, married couples, or children, you can find content for your site that is Christian based.

As a Christian business owner, you might stress over the content on your site or blog. You many have problems finding the right words to use or the right topics to cover. You might also find it hard to write what you are trying to say or have enough words to make it the length you want. Consider hiring a Christian ghostwriter or using PLR specifically for Christians.

Click here for quality Christian articles for your business at PLR for Christians.com

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Repurposing Your Content

As an online business owner when it comes to spending time writing you know that it is time that is spent well, but you worry that you will be able to truly make the most of the content you are creating.  Am I right?

Article writing can be hard work, blog writing can be hard work,  let’s face it writing in general can be hard work, so if you are a business owner who has actually found the time to do so then you want to be sure to be able to make the most of the content you’ve created.  You can do so by re-purposing your content. 

We all know that content is king and truly a valuable part of your business.  Therefore once you have created that content you want to make the most of it by re-purposing it in a variety of ways.  Let’s say it begins as a blog post.  A blog post is normally kept under 450 words.  Then, you can turn it into an article to use for article marketing.  This needs to be stretched to approximately 600 words.  Next you will want to repeat the process, by doing you are creating another way that you can use your content, an ebook.  Using a series of articles you can put them together to create an ebook.

An ebook can then be used either to give away on your blog or website as a way of collecting contact information for your potential clients through a mailing list sign up or you can sell the ebook for profits.  Once you have the ebook, you can repeat the process again and create a series of ebooks.  The process can truly be done again and again with even great results each time.

Another great way to re-purpose the content that you create is by turning it into audios.  You can either do this yourself and use the articles reading them and recording yourself doing so to create a podcast or even an audio series that you can sell or make available on your blog or website.  Or, if you would rather you can outsource this task to a virtual assistant.  Either way you are creating yet another way to use the content that began as a simple blog post.

You can probably see now how valuable the time that you use to create that simple blog post is.  It truly can multiply if you use your efforts creatively and re-purpose the content again and again.

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Topics that we offer.

“A Writer For Hire” is a team of dedicated writers who only deliver the best to you.  Some of the topics that we cover include:

  • Parenting
  • Babies
  • Bible Studies
  • Ministry
  • Frugal Living
  • Household Tip
  • and many more.

When we accept an assignment from you, our writers research the topic and write an informed and accurate article.  Once the article is complete the client is sent a copy and can request edits on the article within two days.

The average turn around time at “A Writer for Hire” is one week.  However, if you have an urgent need for the post or article, we do offer a “rush” option.

The writers on our team have experience in a wide range of topics, and can offer you the assistance you need to grow your business and site.  Making the decision to invest in your business can be difficult at times, but it is one that will pay off.  By allowing our company to create the content you need, you (the business owner) have more time to focus on other areas  of your company.  You can tell by the feedback from our previous clients, that we take pride in our work and take great care to meet all deadlines.  Your satisfaction is a top priority on our list, so stop by and take a look at how we can help you today.

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How important is your content?

Starting a blog or website is relatively easy, gaining an audience is an entirely different challenge.  You will be better able to capture an audience if you have quality content.  In order for you to grab a reader, you must have content on your site that the reader finds helpful in some way.  It should give them instructions of some sort, encouragement, advise, or support.

For example, if you have a blog about cooking, you need to have content about cooking.  You would not post articles about car maintenance on your cooking blog.  Readers would not know what to expect, and would probably not visit your site regularly.  Although you do not want your content to be boring, your readers should be able to predict what the general subject will be.  Parenting blogs may blog on several different issues, but they have one thing in common.  All of the topics are related to parenting in some way.

Creating new and fresh content can be a challenge sometimes.  It is all to easy to develop a case of “writers block”.  Having writers block is terrible, you have the desire to write but you can not think of any new content.  There are problems other than writers block, you may just need a break so your mind can rejuvenate.  In times like this, it is great to hire a ghost writer.  Someone who can look at your blog and get the general theme, but who can add fresh ideas and new content for your readers.  A Writer for Hire can do this for you, and the rates are very reasonable.

So, if you need a break, or just need some fresh new content, check out the services that we offer.

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Quick Help To Find Your Way Through The Ebook Writing Process

Writing an book is tough and the process is long and there are many decisions you have to make along the way. But writing is just half the job. If you’re self publishing, after you’re done writing, you have to promote and market it too.

One of the best tools to use when working on a project as large like writing an ebook, is a checklist.  It helps you figure out what you should be doing, where you’re heading and how far along in the  process you are.

Here’s a checklist I found, created by people who are experienced in ebook writing and marketing.  They’ve allowed me to share it with you. To download the checklist, click the following link. Download ebook writing & marketing checklist

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