Example of A Good 'Web' Article Part 1

posted a three year old article in the last post. I want to post a recent article that www.dabblingmom.com bought off me last spring.

One good thing about writing for the web. You can legally and morally sell and republish the same article a hundred times. But,if you want Google to read it, then change the title and first paragraph. However, I didn't do that here, because I wanted you to see the actual article I wrote.

As you can see, my writing still needed some polishing last year.

So - start writing, don't wait until you are a great writer.

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Host Your Own 'Breakfast With An Author' Event

I hit the "do or die" stage of my writing career three years ago. It was time to turn my hobby into a profession. Over the next few months I talked to everyone, offered to take any job, and learned the golden rule of self-promotion—listen first. In turn, listening revealed a valuable truth. The public loves to meet authors and the public does not care if writers are traditionally published. If the writer wrote it, and the public read it, then it is published.

This revelation spawned several self-promotion ideas, the best being ‘Breakfast With An Author.’ The concept is simple: book a room for two hours, talk to people, deliver a ten-minute speech, and mingle with potential writers and fiction (or non-fiction) fans. For ten dollars, participants enjoy coffee, donuts, and an inspiring chat. The best part is: you have fun while learning to promote yourself.

I started my self-promotion campaign by making a common blunder: attracting the wrong crowd. Instead of marketing to book readers and buyers, I advertised to other writers. After stepping back re-evaluating things, I began to advertise and attract fiction fans. Before I knew it, attendance rose. Soon, I was rewriting my speeches and transforming them into something my audience wanted to hear. I went from How to Create Dynamic Heroes to Where Have All the Heroes Gone?

In the beginning, local libraries sponsored the event free of charge. They supplied the room and the coffee, and paid me a small speaker’s fee. This quickly changed when the library insisted I join its volunteer network as a sign of good will. Volunteering proved to be time consuming and defeated the purpose of the events—to establish myself as a professional speaker and writer.

Over time, I decided it would be more profitable to host the event independently. I would charge $10 per attendee and would make, on average, between $100 and $200 for three hours of work. While I never lost money, it did take a while before I generated a good income.

Setting up an event like this is relatively easy. The first step is to decide whether you want the event sponsored by a group or if you want to host it yourself.