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How Is Your Writing Moving You Forward?
I’d like to ask you a question… How is your writing moving you forward as an entrepreneur?
I will begin by answering this question myself.
I was not a writer when I got started online in 2006. Soon after leaving my job as a classroom teacher and giving away my best real estate clients to those who could better serve them I came online to start a business. Within the first few weeks I realized that writing was going to be a necessary and crucial part of what I was working to achieve. Private label rights (PLR) content was in its infancy, so using other people’s writing was not an option at that time. I was not familiar with curation and didn’t know anyone to ask to write a guest post for me.
During the spring of 2006 I challenged myself to write one hundred posts (these would also be articles) in one hundred days. I did not do this…I wrote and published these hundred articles in just 78 days! And in the process I got into the habit of writing every single day. This was probably the most important result of my challenge.
Publishing blog posts and turning them into articles to submit to the article directories that were active at that time allowed me to lay a foundation for my new business. I have now written and published over two million words on topics ranging from entrepreneurship to authorship to…
