How to Write and Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit: Your Guide to Writing and Publishing Books, E-Books, Articles, Special Reports, Audio Programs, DVDs, and Other How-To Content

Google search. How-to writers must learn to use Google and other search engines. You can do your own Internet research

Going wider instead of deeper

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By following the plan laid out in this book, you can earn a comfortable six-figure annual income from your writing. And you can do it when and where you want, while writing what interests and pleases you. Plus, you can work at home—no boss, no commute, no suit and tie, no alarm clock.

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How do you acquire the general and specific knowledge needed to be a good how-to writer? The different techniques of knowledge acquisition for the freelance nonfiction writer are listed below:

When in doubt, clip and save material you might want to refer to some day for a writing project. At the same time, don’t be like the famous Collier brothers, who saved every newspaper they ever bought in their Manhattan brownstone until it became a rat-infested fire hazard. When you want to save something, tear it out of the magazine or newspaper,

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competition in your niche is to choose a subject that is somewhat technical. You find dozens of books and information products on goal-setting, because it is a fairly generic topic and not specialized: Anyone can understand it and write about it. But if you teach managing projects using Gantt charts, that’s a little more technical. Fewer writers an