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By Andrew G Marshall A supportive and practical guide to coping with adultery and saving your relationship There are few things in life more traumatic than discovering that your partner is having an affair. You are not only coping with the pain and anger but also the sense that your partner is a stranger. How could someone you love, and thought that you knew, treat you in this way? How can you ever trust your partner again? With over 25 years experience as a marital therapist, Marshall draws on hundreds of case studies, and provides sensible, compassionate and practical advice. Visit www.andrewgmarshall.com http

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Nantes is the 1st song from the new Beirut album called the Flying club cup. La Blogothèque filmed each track of this album in Brooklyn, and will publish each of them on a dedicated website. You can see them all at flyingclubcup.com

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This is a video clip of me going through a stack of responses from literary agents. It ends well!

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Un Dernier Verre (pour la route) is the 9th song from the new Beirut album called the Flying club cup. La Blogothèque filmed each track of this album in Brooklyn, and will publish each of them on a dedicated website. You can see them all at flyingclubcup.com

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One thing that every writer wants to know is how to earn more money from writing. This is because being a writer can be a fickle business sometimes and so you need to have as many sources of income as possible.

You also need to use your time wisely to be able to write as much as you can and be as productive as you can. You need to use the phrase “Don’t Get It Right, Get It Written” as often as possible to get you off the starting blocks and writing as much as you can, instead of trying edit your work and be as perfect as possible as you go along. It’s so much easier to just start writing and don’t stop till you’ve finished and THEN go back and edit your work later. Remember that writing and editing and two different jobs and should never be done together.

But what you really want to know is how to earn more money from writing. And below are 10 easy ways for you increase your writing income.

1. Write more. I know it sounds obvious that writers should be writing but you’d be surprised at how many people call themselves writers yet they hardly ever write. To improve your writing, get a book of an author you like (or a writer whose style you admire) and copy their work. Just sit and copy out their writing word-for-word. This will give you a really good understanding of their writing style and how you can incorporate it into your own writing.

2. Read more. Successful writers are avid readers as well as being prolific writers. Reading improves you knowledge, exposes you to different writing styles, and can also help you to come up with great ideas for your own writing.

3. Find more freelance markets. If you want to make more money you need to sell more writing. So spend a bit of time every week surfing online and browsing through magazines looking for new writing markets. You can also sign up for regular writers ezines that contain current writing markets. Always be on the look out for new writing opportunities.

4. Submit more queries. Once you’ve found new markets you then need to make sure that you do actually get your writing published. So make a definite decision to send out at least 5 queries or short stories to different writing markets every week. And then make sure you do it, even if you have to get up early or stay up late.

5. Try different writing projects. Instead of sticking to the same kind of things you write, try branching out into something new. For instance, if you mostly write articles for women’s magazines, trying writing jokes, verse, puzzles or children’s stories and find new places to submit them.

6. Write and publish eBooks. EBooks are a great way to earn a passive income. You can write an eBook in as little as 24 hours and publish it online in only a few minutes. And because there’s no cost involved in selling eBooks you can write as many as you want for as long as you want.

7. Write and publish books. There’s nothing more wonderful for a writer than to feel the first copy of your book in your own hands. It’s so easy now to publish your own books that there’s nothing to stop you from becoming a prolific author and publish several books a year.

8. Learn new writing. There may be areas of writing that you don’t feel proficient in. Maybe you’ve never really tried writing fiction, or, like me, you want to learn copywriting or SEO writing. Choose a area of writing that you’ve never tried before but would like to learn, and then learn to do it.

9. Invest in your writing. Don’t be afraid to spend money to further your writing career. Splash out on some really fancy notebooks and expensive pens or treat yourself to a new computer. Or how about taking a seminar or a writing course or maybe there’s a book about writing that you’ve been thinking about buying. Just open your wallet and buy whatever it takes to help you write more and earn more.

10. Write more. Now you probably notice that this is the same advice in step number one. But it is so important that it needs mentioning more than once. To be a great writer you need to be great at writing and the more you write, the more natural writing will be for you and so the better a writer you’ll become. As you write more and more your words will flow onto the paper (or computer monitor) more easily and so your writing will sound more natural. Never stop writing.

The bottom line is that writers write. They always write. When a writer is not writing, they are thinking about writing. And when they’re not writing nor thinking about writing, they are reading about writing. So if you want to be a writer, be the very best you can and start writing now.

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La Banlieue is the 4th song from the new Beirut album called the Flying club cup. La Blogothèque filmed each track of this album in Brooklyn, and will publish each of them on a dedicated website. You can see them all at flyingclubcup.com

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Nowadays, ebooks are gaining widespread popularity and proving to be a great asset to writers. In fact, many of them generate great profits online. The best part about an ebook is the fact that your cost to produce it is negligible, and the whole process is actually pretty simple. Just by writing an ebook and building a sales page, you can generate great profits for a considerable period of time. Although it needs to be promoted; good SEO techniques, an efficient affiliate program, and a good marketing program will bring you plenty profits. Following are a number of tips to generate great profits:  

It’s important that you create ebooks that provide vital information relevant to your market or niche. It’s important to be specific because targeted titles almost always sell better than general ones.

Avoid choosing titles like ‘My Techniques of Making Money.’ Personal experience ebooks like this sell very poorly. A much better title would be; ‘100 New Techniques to Make Money Online.’  This title has a much better chance to generate great profits.

It is an advantage to create and promote your own domain for your ebook. Developing your own domain for your ebook will result in much higher conversions. And, by incorporating efficient SEO and keyword optimization tactics you can greatly increase the amount of search engine traffic to the site.

Advertising your ebook is necessary right from the start. A great way to promote your ebook is through forums and other online communities. Registering with 5 forums and entering 8 to 10 posts everyday on each of them will bring you loads of traffic.

One of the most effective ways of promoting your ebook is through article marketing. By including a link in your resource box that directs traffic to your ebook, you can build lots of traffic.

Always keep an eye open for websites that may endorse your ebook as well as your site. The more sites you have endorsing your products, the better your sales results.

Develop good marketing tactics, send promotional emails and newsletters to your list, and offer free downloadable reports that include links to your ebook. These techniques almost always generate great profits.

Also, get some feedback from readers and try to incorporate this information in your next ebook. So what are you waiting for? Get detailed instructions on all the aspects of writing an ebook and generate great profits!

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Nantes is the 1st song from the new Beirut album called the Flying club cup. La Blogothèque filmed each track of this album in Brooklyn, and will publish each of them on a dedicated website. You can see them all at flyingclubcup.com

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One of the main reasons for failure today for people trying to work from home in an online business, is their lack of knowledge about what works and what doesn’t, and acting on this. But there are ways to help stop this failure cycle.

You see what happens most often is this. A person, let’s call him Jack, decides to work from home and make money with an online business. Some so-called gurus tell him to begin by selling other people’s products to make money. Well, that may bring in some money, for a while. But what often happens is any of the following:

- Competition kicks in gear once others jump on the affiliate bandwagon, leaving little PPC (pay per click) stones unturned that generate good leads.

- Sellers and / or affiliate programs may decide to change the way their cookies function and / or coded links, messing up your affiliate links.

- The Internet itself may evolve, messing up your coded links so that be viewed as pop-ups and hence be blocked / stopped when clicked, or not function for any variety of tech reasons.

- Your seller’s site and / or yours just doesn’t sell that well. Maybe the leads capture form doesn’t work, if there is one. Maybe the autoresponder messages don’t have your coded affiliate links, maybe there is simply no call to action, so no one buys.

- The payment set up doesn’t work right: maybe your commission amount is lessened or the seller doesn’t pay, at least for a long time - like until you sell a quota of $1,000 first.

The bottom line is that you really need your own product and system for marketing and selling it in place. That’s why thousands of people all around the world are learning how to write ebooks as a way to work from home and make a very comfortable living on autopilot.

Then you have control, earn much more profit and know when things are working or not. In short, what you need is to invest in yourself, in your own product and systems.

Invest in Yourself!

What works best for people who successfully make money online while working from home is to take a course that takes them by the hand and shows them what to do.

Timing is important, too, not just a course that leads people on endlessly, but rather a brief, targeted period, say six weeks, walking them through the whole process of successful product creation to setting up a system to marketing and selling the product, to getting an automated money-making machine in motion with it, then moving on to the next product to repeat the process.

What to look for from a work from home tutorial course…

- An easy to copy system.

- Easy to follow steps in each of the lessons

- You can do it attitude: a ‘no experience necessary’ course that welcomes people of all levels from newbies through advanced online entrepreneurs

- Individual support with the facility to contact someone directly for help and advice

Once people develop their own product and establish their own successful automated wealth-generating system with it, multiple streams of income are a result with each new ebook created.

So learning more about a course of action like this and getting started with it is a sound reason to begin investing in yourself right away. Stop making money for others and start making some for yourself, the easy way.

Learning how to create ebooks while working from home can be an enjoyable and very profitable experience.

As the saying goes, “It’s not about working harder. It’s about working smarter!” So take time to wizen up. The next step is up to you!

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Clip from the Movie the Jungle Book.

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