Sunday, September 28, 2008

A Look on the Pros and Cons of Publishing Your own eZine

By Gibson Maseko

With ezine publishing, other than writing your own content, you can get your own unique content the quick and easy way by organizing an interview with an expert or leader in the topic.

If you want information to publish on your ezine, you can always make an interview. Very often, this can be done for free and since the interviewee is writing out most of the content, there is nothing else for you to do other than giving the interviewee something valuable in exchange (maybe a meal!).

Some information to publish as well can be found by previous work. This includes ALL works published before 1923 and, under certain conditions, works published up to 1978. And in this case, we are referring "works" to written materials such as reports, articles and books.

The pros and cons of publishing

The most obvious reason publishing an eZine can be the most ideal business to you is that it is so easy to start that any individual can do. There is no need to invest in starting a brick and mortar business or even staff and heavy machines for that matter.

In spite of the low start up cost and monthly fees, you can make money from several profit centers within the spaces of your eZine issues. You can make money from selling advertising space, just to name one.

One good way of writing out good quality articles to publish on your ezine is to learn from other authors work. You should check out their style of writing, like the title, body and resource box.

When you want to create your content in advice, a way of taking care of this problem is you can compile 30 days worth of content in one day, for example. If you are not blessed with writing skills, you can broker the writing task to capable freelance writers which you can find at places such as http://www.elance.com/ or http://www.rentacoder.com/. While you need to pay for such services, you are at liberty to take the credit for written articles.

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