Another Way to Find Me

Apparently if you do a search for Jennifer Shakeel, my writer resume will pop up.

Just thought I would add that for you as well. :)

My Professional Blog

I have been asked how someone can go and find my work on the web. My husband has been trying, which I think is great.

So this is how you will find me on the web. Do a search for jen shak. That is my pen name. If you do that the first three or four pages that will pop up are mine. Going to these sites you can then link to my other work.

My professional blog, where there are samples of articles that I have written for clients can be found at http://soitwillbe.blogdrive.com (my pen name on that site is WillowSpeaks)

My blog where I write my own articles for my self can be found at http://timeswellspent.blogspot.com.

There is also a link to all my blogs on this page.

I wanted to make sure everyone knew how to find me!

PLR for Content

I've been doing a lot of reading lately about Private Label Rights (PLR) content. I used to think that it was only for lazy people who didn't want to do their own writing. But as I learn more, I've come up with lots of great ways I can use PLR in my own business.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, PLR is content that you get from the original author along with their permission to use it as your own. So you can get a great report, put your name on it and have your own product to sell or give away!

The first couple of products I created using PLR only took me about half an hour. There have been a few sales so far from them so that was definitely time well spent.

When searching for PLR content to use, I found there were a lot of different types of sites available. Some offered monthly memberships and others offered just one time purchases. So be sure to look around before you decide where to buy.

The site I found that was by far the best was PLRWholesaler. Not only do they have an unbelievable amount of content, but it's completely FREE. Most sites charge an arm and a leg for the amount of content that this guy is giving away.

And although I haven't been through everything yet, what I have read is very good quality. It's stuff you would actually want to use as your own.

Since it's free, I highly recommend that you check out PLRWholesaler and see if they have anything that you can use in your business. There just may be an ebook or audio recording that you could quickly brand with your information and start selling to your list.


Check it out and let me know what you think...
http://plrwholesaler.com/download/clk.php?pid=2&a=7351

My Girlie Girl

My daughter has just returned from her very first cross country travels alone. She has come back a different person. Which is good and bad. She isn't the same little twelve year old I put on the plane, she came back a more grown up, and more of her own person. It is a beautiful thing to see, but also sad because she is my baby girl.

The point of this, is that she came back with a book idea and she really wants to write. That is a part of her that wants to take after me :), so I have set up another blog specifically for her.

It is called Book Train and you will be able to check it out for book reviews that she has written, as well as her own creations. She is a very talented artist and her writing has really improved. So I am proud to be able to help her get her writings out there.

Please view her blog!

Time Away for Doing What I Love

I must apologize for my time away. I have been very busy writing and making money at it.
It has been a very liberating experience to be able to do what I love and make money at it consistently.

There are plenty of places on the internet, that if you enjoy writing you can write and get paid for it. Granted you may not always being doing the most creative writing on the planet, half the time you are writing various forms of research articles but it pays.

I would recommend to anyone that wants to make a living at writing to check a couple freelance sites. Two of them that are really good, and free are online-writing-jobs.com and freelancer.com. Both of these sites post jobs daily for freelancers to bid on. Project range from data entry, transcribing, web page design and so on. Really it is worth you spending ten minutes to sign up and check out what they have to offer because you never know where it will lead.

That is actually how I ended up with both of my paying writing jobs that are consistent. There were two different projects posted asking for writers and if you were a good writer and reliable and could perform consistently it may lead to full time work. That was what I was looking for. I don't mind having to bid on jobs and wait for the job to close and the posting client decide what bid to accept and then you find out if you got. You can make more money that way, but it isn't consistent and it takes time. So I recommend finding the ones that offer steady work while you are bidding on the rest.

There are some sites that you can go to and apply to be a writer such as www.letterRep.com, www.suite101.com, www.PreschoolRock.com. I am in the process of checking these out now and I will update you on what I found.

You can check out Need-An-Article.com, they are very good, reliable and helpful. You have to submit a writing sample and follow thier guidelines and then they decide whether or not to put you on staff. They don't pay "big money" but they offer consistent money. You set what you make based on how much you write.

Check back tomorrow to see what I have to say about those three sites.