GANG,

You may have heard by now that I am taking the law into my own hands! I’m in the middle of creating a vagabond band of renegade writers who will help me to hijack the traditional Stonehenge Media giant’s slice of the money pie.

As you know, I’m furiously working on my first large-scale seminar product entitled “Fast Newsletter Cash”. I’ll be blogging about it from time-to-time as it develops. The gist of it is, I discovered a way (very crafty, sneaky way) that you can write newsletters and monetize them with ease. I tested this out years ago using a simple internet site that had a golf game, and now I have ressurected the method but with a better vehicle to the money-making portion.

Local businesses are the target market. Right now, they use newspapers, glossy over-priced magazines, radio spots, and television commercials to promote their products. That’s the old stone-age way of doing things, hence the term “Stonehenge Media” that I have just coined.

To advertise via Stonehenge Media, or SHM sources, it does cost quite a bit of cash. But with my Fast Newsletter Cash method, you will be able to crank out a hot newsletter that will snatch local advertisers away from the SHM giants. You can ask any local business owner and they will tell you that they prefer to invest their hard-earned money on other local businesses and consultants isntead of the big media giants (SHM giants, rather… please forgive me).

HOWEVER, before I even get close to launching my Fast Newsletter Cash seminar project, I am going to teach every average “Joe Freelancer” how to become an effective writer. I want you to know how to write with style, emotion, action, and relevancy, so that once the seminar product is available, you will be able to take it to the streets immediately and turn it into a decent respectable income in the quickest manner possible.

Therefore, I now present to you, my esteemed freelance writers, my free writing series. When it is ready, I will send out one lesson per week. They will not be verbose. They will not be 100 pages long. They will more than likely be ONE PAGE LONG (2, tops). My goal is to make brief, straight-to-the-point hard-hitting lessons that give you the firepower you need to be an effective writer.

So stay tuned, and jump to the Newsletter Cash page and sign up for the mailing list to start receiving your free lessons!

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Let’s face it folks… I love to write. It started in college. I went to Mizzou (home of the Tigers) from 1985 to 1990 to major in Civil Engineering. For those of you who do not know, Civil Engineers are responsible for designing and maintaining your infrastructure. Think of me the next time you are driving through a highway interchange, a structural steel bridge, that multi-level parking garage, or when you wonder where your water comes from and ends up. These things and many more come from Civil Engineering.

I thought Civil Engineering would be all about math, science, physics, and crunching out calculations. I found out that a big part of Civil Engineering is honing your ability to communicate. You can design the greatest highway on earth. But if you can’t communicate why it should cut through the back yard of several retired citizens, then your project may never be built. This was an actual experience of mine. It was either cut through the yards of several houses on one street, or continue forcing the fire department and ambulance service to have to respond through a school zone when needing to race out for emergencies.

Being swift with the calculator and geometric highway design software wasn’t good enough. Writing a convincing summary of the project to be presented at a public meeting and sent out to the local newspapers was the only way this project was going to gain approval. It’s for reasons such as this that Civil Engineering invovles several writing-intensive courses.

This is what gave me the burn to write. I graduated and went on to work 8 years for the highway and transportation department, and 10 years at the Department of Natural Resources, where I continue to work and utilize my writing skills.

I think the reason I truly love to write is that I love to talk, relate to people, and teach others. I’ve been a training seminar speaker now for 15 years, and I write the majority of my materials. When you get a chance to use your writing in a face-to-face manner, it is even more enjoyable. But either way, whether it is writing a technical letter to a regulated manufacturer telling them how to comply with certain EPA regulations or writing a speech or training session for my job, I just love to write.

Something that many people don’t know is the fact that I truly love writing humorous or flat-out silly pieces. What I have noticed is that you have a better chance of getting your point across and affecting peoples’ lives when you tickle their funny bone. This winter, I hope to launch a new newsletter called “Cube Life” which will help employees deal with living in cramped quarters 8 hours a day and 52 weeks a year by writing satirisitic and humorous stories that make an underlying point.

You can look for it soon. I’ll be blogging about it here once it is ready to roll out. It will be sent out in PDF format to state agencies in Missouri, and a few of our high-population corporate employers. I plan on having a lot of fun with this project, and I have a feeling that the readers might enjoy it even more than I do!

Let me encourage you to write. It doesn’t have to be professionally done. Just write something. You can write about your life experiences, things that you are passionate about, or even the history of your life and family. Go to a free blog site like Blogspot (www.blogspot.com) and start expressing yourself with words. Just think… somebody’s life might be changed because you were willing to share experiences of your own!

That’s all for now. I’m putting down my pen and turning off the calculator for the night.

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