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Sydney, Australia, May 11, 2008 - Top blogger and writing coach Angela Booth has just released a new blogging and coaching ebook package to help anyone who wants to turn blogging into a successful home business. Called “Blogging for Dollars: How to become a career blogger - in your PJs, if you want”, the package includes several ebooks and coaching from Angela.

Blogs are a phenomenon. Although they started as online journals, in recent years they’ve been adopted by businesses and individuals as a major promotional tool. This means that “blog jobs” are widely available, creating a new business, that of the professional blogger.

Blogging since 2001, Angela says that blogging has gone mainstream with a vengeance in the past two years: “Newspapers have bloggers now. Blogs have major advantages for any business online. They provide great visibility. Compared with other forms of advertising, blogging provides great returns on investment for businesses.”

Angela Booth says: “Most professional bloggers blog for a stable of blogs. Several colleagues blog for ten to 20 blogs. One friend blogs for many businesses. At last count, he was blogging for 30 blogs, and making an extraordinary income.”

The “Blogging for Dollars: How to become a career blogger” package is comprehensive, Angela says, based on her many years as a professional blogger. She believes that blogging offers great opportunities for many people who prefer to work from home. She says: “Blogging makes a great home business. All a blogger needs is a computer and an Internet connection. And since businesses need bloggers, blog jobs are easy to find.”

Angela Booth is a top blogger, copywriter and writing teacher. She wrote a book for publisher Allen & Unwin about making money online in the early days of the Web, and loves writing for, and about, the Web. Contact her for more information on blogging.

Imagine… $1,000 A Week For Just Ten Hours

You can get paid to blog. The current rate for experienced bloggers is around $1,000 to $1500 a week for from two to five posts a day - VERY nice writing income.

Find out how to blog with the blogging best-seller “Blogging For Dollars: How to become a career blogger — in your PJs, if you want”. It’s my complete new ebook package, with free coaching/ consultations as well.

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Even if you’re completely new to the concept of blogs, you can make money blogging. This is because blogging has now gone mainstream. Every business which has a Web site either has a blog too, or feels guilty because they don’t. So bloggers are in high demand.

Not only are bloggers in high demand, experienced bloggers are very busy. They’re reluctant to take on new clients, and when they do, they charge like wounded rhino for their blogging skills. This means that even as a total newbie, you can get hired.

Let’s look at three steps which will take you from blogging beginner to blogging professional. (By “professional” I mean someone who gets hired to blog.)

1. Think about your skills and interests and make a list

Make a list of your skills. Even if you’re a college student, you have skills. If you’re a retiree, you have a lifetime of skills.

Also, list subjects you know well enough to write about.

Although blogs can be about anything at all, the companies which hire you operate in a particular industry. The more you know about the area in which a company operates, the greater the chance they will hire you to blog for them.

Chances are your most marketable skills stem from your working life.

For example, if you’re a nurse, you have lots of skills in health topics. If you work for a realtor, you’re golden - you know the property market, and can blog about it.

Once you’ve made a list, choose a topic. You could choose: travel, health, business, technology, computer gaming - anything which ties in with your skills and interests.

Once you’ve done that, go to Google Blog Search and search for blogs about that topic. Read them.

2. Set up your own blog, making it appealing to people in your chosen market

Next go to the Blogger Web site, and set up a free blog about the topic you’ve chosen. This blog is a sample of your blogging skills.

Write four or five blog posts. From reading other blogs in your chosen topic, you know what interests people in that area.

In the sidebar of your blog, place a link which says “Blogger for Hire” or “Hire Me”, with your email address. Your blog is very new, so it won’t get major traffic for a while, but people need to know that you’re available to blog for them.

3. Now let your fingers do the walking - contact businesses in your state and country which don’t have blogs

Now you’ve created your sample blog, you’re all set to get hired. The easiest way is to make lots of phone calls. Yes, you’re cold calling - but don’t be fazed by this. Getting on the phone is the fastest way to get hired, so do it.

Use Google to find businesses in your state and country, in the subject you’ve chosen to blog about, which have Web sites, but which don’t have blogs. You’re looking for local businesses, because calling them is easier.

Of course, as a blogger, you can blog for companies all over the world, but when you’re starting out, calling companies is the fastest way to get hired, and calling local companies is cheaper.

So there you have it: three steps which will take you from blogging beginner to blogging pro.

Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income - much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth’s blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars - blogging is fun, and profitable.

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I’ve just written an article for Blogging Tips about getting blogging gigs once you’ve built up some experience on your own blog. (The post will be published on February 27, 2008.)

One thing I didn’t mention in the post, was RIGHTS - as in, copyright. What rights are you selling when you blog for a company?

Don’t Sign Away Your Rights : The Blog Herald offers some great information:

“However, the excitement of being offered a new writing position often causes bloggers, as well as other writers, to make serious mistakes. When they receive their first contract, they either do not read the document carefully or, in a desperate bid to please their new employers, sign the contract with little regard to the rights that they surrender.”

“Work done for hire” - means you lose all rights

When you get a blogging job, you’re paid, so you’ll usually find that you’re in a “work done for hire” situation. This means that all rights transfer to your employer as soon as you’re paid. In most cases, if you’re paid well, this is fine.

However, remember that when you’re in a “work for hire” situation, you lose all rights; you can’t use what you wrote in a book or anywhere else.

Read the fine print when you sign blogging contracts.

Discover Blogging, the Freelancers’ Nirvana

What’s a blog? A blog is a fantastic way to make BIG money as a freelance writer.

How much money? Several bloggers I know are making between $15,000 and $20,000 dollars A MONTH. Not bad pocket change.

Find out how to blog with the blogging best-seller “Blogging for Dollars: How to become a career blogger — in your PJs, if you want”. It’s my complete new ebook package, with free coaching/ consultations as well.

Discover blogging today.

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