If you're a small business person or a professional, the chances are you have or need to build a website. If you're too busy or don't have the writing skills to create your own content, you'll need to hire a content writer.
Looking around at the cost of content writers can be confusing. The fees range from a few dollars per article to a couple of hundred per 500-600 word article. What's the difference? To put it bluntly, writers who are completing articles for $2 are desperate for money and work. Content writers who are charging $250 for an article have more work than they can handle. That would make you suspect that the writers charging a little more have repeat business and that the cheaper writers perhaps do not...
Don't panic however, you'll find content writing services (like my business!) who have a stable of good content writers and charge around $25-100 per article depending on the complexity of the topic, the word count, and the number of articles you need. If you have just one website, start with 10 fresh articles. You'll soon see an improvement in website traffic and you'll be a content addict in no time at all!
If Article Writers Australia can help you, please feel free to drop by! If you're writing your own content you'll find articles containing content writing tips on our site, so feel free to browse.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Dreamweaver is Easy!
Okay, DreamWeaver has been demystified! If you are a bit phobic when it comes to learning new technology, you'll be pleased to hear that DreamWeaver isn't as difficult as some clever techy minded folk would have you believe. I consider myself a bit of a slow learner when it comes to technology and anything involving images and tables - yet I've had no trouble learning to use DreamWeaver. In just 3 two hour lessons I've learned enough to make a basic website.
If you are middle aged and technologically confused, just get out there and give it a go!
There is one more DreamWeaver lesson to go. My next mission is to learn WordPress!
If you are middle aged and technologically confused, just get out there and give it a go!
There is one more DreamWeaver lesson to go. My next mission is to learn WordPress!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Learning Dreamweaver!
Today I attended the first session of a short course on Dreamweaver. As I consider myself to be still a little "technology challenged" I was surprised to realise just how much I have learnt about the Internet by research and experiment over the past two years.
There were several people on the course who are in exactly the same position I was in not so long ago - small business owners who understand the potential benefits of having an Internet presence but don't know where to begin. The problem for we middle aged folk is that computers and the Internet are not second nature to us - yet we stand to benefit the most from using them! There is so much information online that it's overwhelming - particularly when you realise that a percentage of that information is either inaccurate or outdated. Once you begin to get a grip on it however, you progress much faster.
I have to admit to being quite pleased with my progress at this point. Perhaps because I chat to affiliate marketers and successful online business people who know so much more that I do, I still feel like an Internet dummy. So today I'm going to pat myself on the back for having learnt stacks about online marketing, Google Adwords, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, social networking, blogging, Twittering and the importance of website content in general!
And I'm going to completely ignore the fact that there still may be teenages out there who know more than I do!
Learning new skills is exciting. I find it quite incredible that in just a few weeks I'll be able to build my own websites from scratch. I highly recommend putting in the extra time to learn how to do your own online marketing. As a small business owner I have asked the advice of many "experts" over the years and often a little personal research has revealed that those "experts" are trading on very little expertise! Recently an IT chap give me advice about "tricky ways" to optimize my website - and I promptly told him why those techniques didn't work long term and gave him a mini-lecture about "black hat optimization" and the best ways to optimize! He was clearly stunned that a small business owner knew anything at all about search engine optimization.
Learn as much as you can yourself I say! Besides the obvious benefits, it's exciting and challenging.
There were several people on the course who are in exactly the same position I was in not so long ago - small business owners who understand the potential benefits of having an Internet presence but don't know where to begin. The problem for we middle aged folk is that computers and the Internet are not second nature to us - yet we stand to benefit the most from using them! There is so much information online that it's overwhelming - particularly when you realise that a percentage of that information is either inaccurate or outdated. Once you begin to get a grip on it however, you progress much faster.
I have to admit to being quite pleased with my progress at this point. Perhaps because I chat to affiliate marketers and successful online business people who know so much more that I do, I still feel like an Internet dummy. So today I'm going to pat myself on the back for having learnt stacks about online marketing, Google Adwords, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, social networking, blogging, Twittering and the importance of website content in general!
And I'm going to completely ignore the fact that there still may be teenages out there who know more than I do!
Learning new skills is exciting. I find it quite incredible that in just a few weeks I'll be able to build my own websites from scratch. I highly recommend putting in the extra time to learn how to do your own online marketing. As a small business owner I have asked the advice of many "experts" over the years and often a little personal research has revealed that those "experts" are trading on very little expertise! Recently an IT chap give me advice about "tricky ways" to optimize my website - and I promptly told him why those techniques didn't work long term and gave him a mini-lecture about "black hat optimization" and the best ways to optimize! He was clearly stunned that a small business owner knew anything at all about search engine optimization.
Learn as much as you can yourself I say! Besides the obvious benefits, it's exciting and challenging.
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