Writer To Writerpreneur And Your Competitive Edge

Is your passion writing? If it is, you have a gift that many are green with envy over. You see you can participate in the Information Revolution like no other. The demand for good information has been increasing over the last decade and longer. Many have jumped in the river of cashing their knowledge and feeding the beast pacing on information highway. But they lack one important ability (for many the key to their success) that they either have to outsource or hire someone to do for them. Many new infopreneurs and writerpreneurs have an inability to produce clear, compelling copy for books, e-books, reports, web sites, newsletters, magazines, blogs, email marketing messages, ad copy.

You know all the stuff you could easily do or learn to write for your writing business as a writerpreneur. You already know or can easily learn to write marketing copy, ebooks, bonus reports, eblasts, words for websites, online ads and more. As a writer, you don’t have a problem with writing – and that’s why you are the envy of some groups.

All that ability, gives YOU the competitive advantage over non-writers in the information business. So how do you start taking advantage of your passion and writing abilities in the information revolution? So, glad you asked. It all starts with your mindset, your knowledge and your writing ability. You can turn your research and writing skills into a profitable part-time or full-time business selling information on the Internet.

And not just any information, you can use your information. You know the stuff already in your files from other projects, your existing body of information repurposed for information products and even new services. Or you can consider commercial writing as Bob Bly calls it. I vote you deserve a share of the millions being made online every day in the information marketing field. You could become the next success story of a writer becoming a writerpreneur, infopreneur or even authorpreneur.

If you are a writer already, here are five good reasons to become a writerpreneur

1. Ability. Most likely, you can write what’s needed, and write it whenever you need it. Non-writers have to depend on pricey freelance writers for all their writing, causing delays in product launches, client fulfillment and marketing campaigns.

2. Savings. You can save a bank roll of money because you can write your own marketing copy. Professional copywriters charge thousands of dollars to write mini-sites and landing pages to sell information products. They usually charge thousands more for online ads and e-mail campaigns. With all that expense many pop-up writerpreneurs and Internet marketers never get their business off the ground.

3. Save time. As a writer, you don’t have to commission or research content for your information products from scratch. Again as a writer, you very likely have an existing body of knowledge and even content you already own – your speeches, workshops, your published and unpublished writings – you can easily and quickly repurpose, repackage and sell this information online as information products.

4. Heightens chance of success. The information business marketing requires all kinds of written materials and documents. A writerpreneur needs everything from ad copy, press releases and articles for your e-newsletter, to e-mail message marketing and auto-responder messages. But it’s easy for you to take on these writing tasks. But for many non-writers, it’s the biggest reason they don’t succeed in the information business!

5. Cut production costs. Information productions are easy on the pockets. They cost very little to nothing to create. Especially, if you are only spending the time it takes to repackage and repurpose your existing body of information. Even if you have to come up with something new, you have limitless ideas at your disposal with a writer’s creative mind.

All that ability, gives YOU the competitive advantage over non-writers in the information business. So how do you start taking advantage of your passion and writing abilities in the information revolution? So, glad you asked. It all starts with your mindset, your knowledge and your writing ability. You can turn your research and writing skills into a profitable part-time or full-time business selling information on the Internet.

And not just any information, you can use your information. You know the stuff already in your files from other projects, your existing body of information repurposed for information products and even new services. Or you can consider commercial writing as Bob Bly calls it. I vote you deserve a share of the millions being made online every day in the information marketing field. You could become the next success story of a writer becoming a writerpreneur, infopreneur or even authorpreneur. Here are four tips to get started:

Write a business plan. Realize your writing is a business now. Whether it’s a part-time business or full time is up to you, the time and money you can afford to invest.

Set your income goals. If your goal is to earn $50,000 a year starting out, as a part-time business or to supplement your existing income. You know you need to earn $1000 a week for 50 weeks of the year. If you work five days a week, you should make $200 day.

Decide what you will do in your writing business. Will you create signature products from your existing body of knowledge? Or will you pursue commercial writing for organizations that pay well? Either way, do your best to pinpoint your specific area of existing expertise as a writer. Perhaps, your hobby is owning and caring for animals. You’ve been attending events, writing papers, thinking, eating and drinking your passion for animals. You could easily create a line of products using your existing knowledge and information centered around your passion. Or pursue commercial writing for veterinary organizations and more.

Take it one step at a time. Allow yourself time to build. There’s an old proverb that says, “Don’t despise small beginnings..” Even though writers can be the supplier of huge amounts of information. They still encounter information overload or overwhelm. So, be willing to take it one step at a time to build your information business as writerpreneur.

Hook up with someone that knows the way. Use the knowledge you already have but be willing to learn new things. Open your mind to the possibilities ahead. Get a proven process for taking what you know, have, and can do as a writer – repackaging it as information products – and selling thousands of copies of your material at huge profit margins online.

So, why not…

Take advantage of your competitive edge – your writing skills, your marketing knowledge, the content you’ve already written, your editing expertise – you could become the next successful writerpreneur making money selling information online yet?

But before I give you the wrong impression and you blow me off, like anything else becoming a writerpreneur is not a bed of freshly picked roses. There will be work involved and things you’ll probably have to learn or outsource. My point is you can do it; for once the ball is in the court of the writer. So, jump in and join the Information Revolution! Then get ready to learn, innovate and create as you progress from writer to writerpreneur in 2013. Enjoy the journey and life gets easier.

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