This is a presentation that I gave professional writers at Alabama Media Professionals luncheon on July 12, 2012 on how to use their writing skill to make money online.

1. Making Money Online
Presented by Mitzi Eaker of Mitzi Jane Media for Alabama Media Professionals
July 12, 2012

2. What it takes.
Time
Hard work
Persistence
Volunteer Work (it may seem like it)
Good writing skills
Good technical skills
Patience

3. How can professional writers
make money online?

4. 1. Create a Platform
for People to Hire You
or Buy From You.

6. Blog to Create Your Platform
A blog is the new resume.
A blog demonstrates your writing ability.
A blog shows your work ethic.
A blog tells people about who they are hiring.
Your competition has a blog.

7. 2. Blog for Profit

9. How to Make Money
Passions Skills
Opportunity

10. What to blog about?
Passion...What is your heart’s desire? Let that be your focus
area.
Skills...List 100 articles you could write. What do you know
best? Which themes develop and rise to the top?
Opportunities...Search online. If the Internet is already
saturated in your area, then focus your writing on a niche
with in that area.

11. Best Advice:
Start a blog to start
blogging.

12. Personal Recommendation:
Self hosted WordPress

14. 3. Write For Others

15. Freelance Writing

16. Virtual Assistant

17. Social Media
Manager

18. Ghost Blogging

19. Traditional vs. Blog
Writing

21. A we! put together and planned out dinner party.
Professiona!y created with the intent of sharing good conversation
of knowledge &/or experiences.

22. A paradigm shift from
being the expert to
facilitating learning.

23. A paradigm shift from
selling a product to
creating a lifestyle.

25. The Anchor
Does anyone but the engineers and the Captain care about the
details of the anchor?
No, we care about the experience that we are going to have on
the cruise ship.
Focus on the experience and share the value.

27. Thank you for your time.
Connect with Mitzi Eaker
All websites mentioned in
www.mitzijanemedia.com
presentation have been pinned in the
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mitzijanemedia along with other
twitter.com/mitzijanemedia
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All photos used in presentation are
pinterest.com/mitzijanemedia from www.stockvault.com except for
the cover of Martha’s Entertaining and
the veen diagram by Bud Caddell
(flickr).