Creative Vagabond-Writing & Digital Services

A Senior's Guide to Finding the Right Business Model for Your Content Creativity - Part Six   Earning Money with a Client-Based Ghostwriting Business There are some senior marketers who simply don't want to start a complete business and go to the effort of driving traffic to it and positioning themselves as niche leader. If this best describes you, you can still earn money off of your creative content talent. You can become a ghostwriting freelancer who creates content for individual clients on an ongoing basis. Sometimes, it will be a one-time project. Other times, you will become the voice behind someone else’s brand online on a regular schedule. There are a few drawbacks to working for someone else. For example, you will be on their timetable. You will also not have the freedom to write about things exactly as you want to, because you will have to adhere to their specific instructions. However, this may be the kind of formal arrangement that you prefer if you don...

A Senior's Guide to Finding the Right Business Model for Your Content Creativity - Part Five   Cashing in with a Private Label Rights Business One of the most lucrative ways you can cash in on your creative content talents is to launch your own private label rights business. Many people mistakenly believe there is too much competition in this business model. What you have to consider is how many marketers are out there with niche content needs, and how much content they need on a daily basis. For example, think of how many marketers are in the weight loss niche. Each one of those marketers needs content for their daily blogs, email autoresponders, lead magnets, info products, social media posts, and more. They need content for 365 days of the year. Now think of all of the different niches there are. Even within weight loss, there are drilled down topics such as keto diets, mindful eating, Mediterranean diet, diabetes diets, and more. There are other niche leaders who need cont...

  A Senior's Guide to Finding the Right Business Model for Your Content Creativity - Part Four   Creating Low Content Downloadables There are many senior marketers who would like to get into a content niche, but don't want to commit to a lot of time and effort in their retirement years. Yet they still want to tap into their creativity. If this best describes you, then you may want to look into low content publishing. This is a niche business model where you do little to no writing, yet it's still considered a publication. For example, you might begin publishing journals with a few scattered quotations on lined pages inside. Planners for people to use for their personal or professional schedule are also considered low-content products. There are many people who like to buy things like baby books, coloring books, wedding planners, or even recipe books online. The great thing about being in the low content niche is that it doesn't take much time or effort to succ...

  A Senior's Guide to Finding the Right Business Model for Your Content Creativity - Part Three   Becoming a Published Kindle Author Some people prefer to take the route of becoming a published author as opposed to selling courses, which is what most info products are. You can have your own nonfiction or fiction book placed on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other platforms under your own name or a pen name of your choosing. The great thing for seniors about becoming a published author on Amazon Kindle is that it doesn’t cost you anything upfront. As long as you can open Microsoft Word and create your file to upload, you will be on the path to success. You will need to create a cover, but there are free tools and templates that you can use to do that. Or, you can outsource the cover creation to a graphic designer on Fiverr or Upwork . You can also create your own cover on Canva . It does take approximately 60 days from the date of the sale to get paid on any Am...

  A Senior's Guide to Finding the Right Business Model for Your Content Creativity - Part Two Selling Your Own Digital Information Products If you want to become a leader in a niche, and you have a lot of information and insight to share with your audience, then you may want to start out as a vendor who sells info products. Niche: ADJECTIVE 1.       denoting products, services, or interests that appeal to a small, specialized section of the population. "other companies in this space had to adapt to being niche players" · "a niche show that ran on late-night television" · "the video game industry is no longer niche" These can be written or recorded content courses. They can also be a mixture of both if you prefer to go that route. The key to succeeding as a digital info product developer is to take special care in learning about the launch process.   As long as your eBook or video course is filled with good information, you won’t...