Content Cash Magazine: Issue Two

CONTENT CASH HOME BASED INCOME WITH PUBLISHING, CONTENT, AND MORE! EDITION 2, JUNE 1ST 2019

What are low content Books? pg-5 Tips For Publishing your Low Content Book pg-7

People LOVE Printables pg-1116

Journal Creation Checklist pg-18

Grow Your Business With Journal Publishing

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Editor’s Notes Welcome Content “FaketoPlastic TrueCash Magazine!

That Loptisum Policy” Content Cash magazine focuses on revealing the many, many ways to profit from content. We will be sharing many different strategies and profit models you can use to make money online from writing, printables, publishing, and much, much more!

I’ve been consistently making an income from content-based models for nearly 10 years now, and I strongly believe it’s one of the best opportunities available. I’m excited to share with you the many tips, strategies and secrets I use to make a full-time income from content.

This issue focuses on new and exciting ‘low-content’ publishing opportunities. There are many different profitable low-content models available, such as printable, journals, planners, workbooks, and more. In this issue, I focus on sharing some great tips and strategies for publishing these popular types of products.

Once you’ve had a chance to check out Content Cash, feel free to let me know what you think or request additional topics. You can contact me at http://amyharrop.zendesk.com also, feel free to check out my blog at http://AmyHarrop.com.

Content What are Low Content books

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Grow your Business with Journal Publishing

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Tips for Publishing Your Low Content Book

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Journal Creation Checklist

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People Love Printables

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What Are Low and No Content Books?

Low and no content books refer to books that have little or repetitive content. Believe it or not, these types of books are quite popular with customers, because they function as tools for a variety of processes, procedures, and events. Blank books are ideal for: • Journals

While it may not seem like it, especially since so little work is involved, this is a thriving industry. Why do you think bookstores are always putting out new blank books and why do you think that every year they rush to make new planners and journals? Because, these books sell. Whether as something useful or just as an impulse buy, blank books can become indispensable to publishers, especially if they are made correctly.

• Planners •

Event books

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Coloring books

Advantages

There are massive opportunities for publishers with low or no content books. What is great about these is that even though they have zero, little, or repetitive content they can easily be customized to fit a huge variety of niches and needs.

They fall into one of two broad categories: truly blank books or those with very repetitive content.

For example, look at a journal. You may get a few words here and there, but the book is largely blank so that you can fill it with your own writing. There are also books with little content that are not truly blank, but certainly are not as complex as a novel, such as a coloring book or a planning book. Aside from some formatting and pictures, all of these books are essentially blank.

Some of the advantages of publishing these books include: • Very low investment of time or money in terms of creating content.

• Ability to target a wide variety of demographics and niches.

• Versatility: can easily sell these types of books, both as a book and as a physical product.

• Ability to scale: you can easily repurpose your book into other niches and categories that are popular. In addition, you can create more books easily.

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Categories One of the most important aspects of understanding how to be successful with publishing low/no content books is picking the best categories for your books on Amazon.

You can find journals in many different book categories. Let us take a look at the top 5 types of blank books we have been covering in this training and see what the best categories are.

To really find the best book categories, I also recommend the Bestseller Ranking Pro tool here: http://dna56.com/go/brpro.html

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Tips for Publishing Your Low Content Book

Writing is hard. And writing well is a skill that you’re either blessed with naturally or you spend years honing.

Ask any very successful published author earning a great living from their work and they’ll likely tell you it wasn’t an easy road to get to where they are.

Many spend years battling their way to the top and would say it takes blood sweat and tears to move a potential hit manuscript from the corners of their minds into the hands of an eager audience.

But who has the time or inclination to wait years for inspiration and subsequent success? What about mere mortals who most likely will only be able to dream about writing a best-selling novel? And furthermore, what options do you have if one of your major goals is to be a successful self-published author, but the reality is that you’re really not that great at writing?

here are seven simple tips to help you get started.

1. Start with what you know.

Creating your first low content book is a fairly simple process once you resist the urge to overthink things. It’s best to start with what you know.

As a writer you probably have a niche that you already focus on.

• Cooking • Business • History • Travel • DIY • Mystery • Adventure • Romance

The answer?

• Science Fiction, etc.

Low and no content books.

This may sound crazy, but the fact is that many individuals are earning good money by creating and selling books that have very little, and in some cases, absolutely no content inside of them.

If that sounds good and you’re interested in trying your hand at publishing your first low or no content book,

You could take any one of these niches and come up with a long list of ideas for low content offers that can be created very quickly.

For example, if you usually write books that help people learn how to do specific DIY tasks, you can break big projects down into smaller tasks and teach them how to

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do each one step-by-step with a series of pictures and captions.

The result is a very valuable visually oriented DIY guidebook that is very low on content but big on selling potential.

2. Laser-target your audience.

One of the most important aspects of creating a successful low content book is niche selection.

It is not enough to say you want to create a coloring book for people who like animals. While it’s a good start, you would likely have much more success by creating an offer for people who like dogs, or even more specifically, those who like Golden Retrievers.

The more specific you can get when you niche down your ideas, the better.

The only caveat is making sure that you don’t niche down so far that you don’t have much of an audience at all. Aim for a group that is specific but that also has a decent level of demand.

3. Simplify your product creation.

Leverage is the name of the game when it comes to low and no content books. All it means is making the most out of whatever offer you decide to create.

One idea is to create a basic template for a specific offer, let’s say a diary, and then leverage that template for different markets.

So for example: • A diary for dieters • A diary for students • A diary for anxiety sufferers • A diary for people who want to quit smoking By building on one idea, you make better use of your time and can make the most out of every segment of any niche you choose to target.

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4. Explore the possibilities.

Starting up with no and low content books opens up a vast world filled with opportunities for you to be creative and reach several cross-sections of people with your work.

Some of the many direction you could take include: • Diaries • Notebooks • Cookbooks •

Children’s Books

• Calendars • Logbooks • Journals •

Picture Guidebooks

But don’t just stop at books. There are many more ideas for low content offers that you could try like playing cards and greeting cards.

Use this short list as a starting point, then do some research to gather more ideas for low content creations and let your imagination run wild with the possibilities.

5. Don’t be afraid to outsource important tasks.

As a self-published author, you’re probably used to doing everything on your own like writing and editing your manuscript, creating layouts and designing simple covers.

However, when you decide to step into the world of no-content books, things aren’t necessarily going to be that simple.

Publishing a low or no content book usually requires kicking things up a few notches in the quality of your graphics. In every case, your audience is literally going to be judging your book by its cover.

People who purchase low content books expect the cover to be a real eye-catcher. So if you’re not the best graphic designer around, it’s best to outsource the task to someone who has a knack for creating the kind of visual impact you’re going for.

Outsourcing is also an important step if you’re interested in creating multiple low- content offers quickly.

6. Use print on demand services.

When you’re just starting out with creating your own low content books, the temptation will always be there to come up with a design and then run out and have a few thousand of them printed up and ready for sale.

The problem is, that if something goes awry and they don’t sell, you are left with a lot of books that you can’t do anything with.

The solution to this problem as well as a way to make self-publishing your low content books a reality, is by using one of the many print-on-demand services available like Lulu or Ingram Spark.

Using any one of these services ensures that you can test your idea out properly without needing to print and hold any books. As an added bonus, if your offer does take off, you never have to worry about running out of stock.

7. Leverage winning ideas.

The key to achieving massive success and growing your low content empire quickly (if you want to) is to leverage ideas that are already doing well.

For example, if you come up with a concept for a diary aimed at women and it does well, keep the momentum going by targeting other groups with a similar offer. You could try a diary for men, a diary for teen girls, a diary for new moms or a diary for the newly divorced.

Drilling down and exploring different segments of a niche is a great way to build out a stable of products without much more effort than it took to come up with the initial idea.

Once you’ve exhausted the niche, move on to another area with several potential subset groups and repeat the process.

While the idea of creating a book that either has minimal or no content at all may seem ludicrous at first, the longer you think about and explore the possibilities for creating new in-demand offers quickly the more you will begin to grasp the huge potential of this publishing method and opportunity.

Start brainstorming ideas today and take action! In just a matter of days you too could have your very own low content book published and clocking up sales.

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People Love Printables

Printables come in all shapes and sizes and have a wide variety of uses, many of which can help you streamline processes, make quick work of completing tasks and increase profits.

What are printables? Printables are things designed for the purpose of downloading and printing such as; color pages, art projects, patterns or designs, planners, spreadsheets, journals and calendars. They can also be worksheets, checklists and to-do lists.

Printables can be a single page document or contain several pages like with workbooks. They are detailed and to the point, generally having a very specific purpose. Printables can be anything from a coloring book to a tax preparation sheet. They are a great way to give a business a boost without a lot of extra effort.

A few ways printables can benefit a business: • Increase Subscriber Sign-ups. If an existing optin offer is not performing as well as expected, or it seems to have run its course, adding some printables to the offer can increase interest and boost subscriber conversions. In some cases, printables can be the main opt-in offer.

• Boost Perceived Value. Adding printables to dig-

ital products, courses and coaching programs will instantly boost the perceived value of the product.

People want answers to their questions, but they also want to reach their desired result quickly and easily. If printables will help them achieve that goal, they’ll consider those to be highly valuable, allowing the seller to charge more for the product, program or course.

• Gain More Social Proof. When high-quality information is provided, along with the tools to help readers implement what they’ve learned, loyal customers are created. These loyal customers share their results with others. They provide high-value testimonials and fodder for future case studies. … which in turn, brings in more students or customers.

Let’s look at a few ways printables could be used.

An ebook about organizing a filing system may contain excellent information. But if it also comes with printables such as premade labels, color-coded category dividers and other items to quickly sort and locate information, it makes getting and staying organized even easier.

A 30-day course on small business budgeting might contain printables to track expenses, travel mileage logs,

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customer information and so forth.

A training webinar might have handouts to help attendees take quick action on what they learn during the presentation.

A person searching for advice on being more positive may find a guide with information and a suggestion for journaling daily. However, if the seller includes a printable journal with prompts, it takes the guesswork out of what to write about and gives the buyer the ability to take action immediately.

Printable Objectives Each printable you create should have an objective.

Some common objectives are to: • Help a person take action on what they are learning.

• Challenge oneself. Such as when setting goals.

• Track data or calculate math. Think budget worksheets and tracking spreadsheets.

• Develop a strategy for accomplishing a goal.

• Brainstorm an idea and bring it into existence.

• Plan out something in more detail.

• Plan quarterly or annually with things like calendars.

• Organize information such as research results.

• Organize thoughts and ideas such as rough drafting future products.

• Compare and evaluate two or more things.

• Walk a user through the process of solving a problem.

• Repurpose or reuse something such as content, graphics, audio and video.

• Manage processes or projects.

• To document your day, week or month through journaling and such.

• Do something relaxing to take your mind off stressors.

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Getting ideas for printables One of the best ways to get started with printables is to look at your existing content. Which blog posts are performing well; generating a lot of traffic and/or comments? Do they teach something? If so, you can create printables around the topic. Share them for free, use them for opt-in offers or bundle several together and sell them. If you have an affiliate program, you might want to brand them and give them to your affiliates to use to promote your products or services.

Which opt-in offers and existing products are a natural fit for adding printables? Again, start with the best performing ones as those will turn a profit the quickest.

If you offer training, in person or digitally, consider ways you can help your students better make use of the information you’re teaching. Can you give them how-to guides, summary sheets, action guides, tracking sheets or checklists? What other things would be a good fit?

Google suggested search is another way to find ideas for printables. Take a topic you want to create printables for. Type the term in the Google search box. Look to see what questions come up. Document any that could be used for printables.

Next, use search phrases with the topic and the word worksheet, checklist and so forth after the term. “Keto shopping list” and “home budget worksheet” are two examples of search phrases. See what types of printables are available from others and look for ways you could create something similar but improved upon.

Search Amazon. Go to Amazon and search terms such as worksheets, checklists, teaching material, activity books, study guides and so forth to get ideas. There are thousands of ideas there.

Tips for making effective printables 1. Make each printable have a single objective. More than one can create confusion or cause readers to lose focus.

9. If you don’t have the time or skills to create printables, check Fiverr.com. There are loads of talented people there that can do it a rock-bottom price.

2. Identify the right printable for your audience. If you have existing products, you already know your audience so this step should be easy.

10.Create promotional images for your printables.

These can be as simple as screenshots or as complex as 3D images. The choice is yours, just make sure they are high-quality.

3. If you’re unsure what type of printables would be best, ask existing readers or customers what they’d like.

4. Once you know the objective of the printable, ensure every statement and question serves this objective and is practical. You want to present the right information so the reader can reach an informed decision or take the appropriate action.

5. For checklists, the goal is to check things off as things are completed so the statements or questions being presented should essentially require yes or no answers. “Edit the footer details” and “Did you remember to edit the footer details” are two examples. When the footer details are edited, the reader will check it off.

6. Worksheets and some other printables require more in-depth thinking prior to answering. Keep these questions simple to understand, while allowing the reader to share personal experiences. For example, instead of asking “does missed deadlines stress you?” ask readers to reflect back and give personal reference “write about a time when you missed a deadline. What was the situation? why did you miss it? what could you have done differently?”

11.Every part of the printable, from the wording to the design, should be top quality.

12.Use plenty of white-space for easy reading.

13.If you’re using Microsoft Word to create the printable, you can insert tables, shapes, smart art and charts for more visual appeal.

14.Unless there’s a reason not to, always convert your doc printables into PDFs so your design elements cannot be edited.

15.Refine your printables. Create a first draft of printables and set them aside for a few days. Come back and see if they need to be refined or if you left something out.

Printables are easy to make and don’t require a lot of time or money. Yet they can be extremely valuable to your business. Always keep the user in mind when creating your printables ensuring what you are creating will help the user achieve their goal quickly and easily.

7. Structure things logically. If the reader will be going through a set of steps or questions, present them a logical order divided into sections, if necessary.

8. Add references, examples and tips as needed to help the reader understand the concept you’re teaching. Only share reputable sources of information!

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Grow Your Business With Journal Publishing Journaling can help your community improve their businesses and their lives. One reason journals are so helpful is because they provide space to review what happened.

For example, you run a health and fitness website. You sell fitness journals to your readers. A customer is trying to lose weight but she ate a whole pizza by herself.

While journaling, she realizes this isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a pattern—she tends to overeat on day when she gets a phone from her verbally abusive spouse.

Journaling can go beyond reviewing what happened and create space for your customers to look for solutions to their problems. Going with the example above, your customer could brainstorm other activities besides eating to do after those draining phones calls.

She might come up with solutions that help her handle her trigger like calling a supportive friend, going to the gym for an intense workout, or curling up on the couch with her favorite movie.

Another way that journaling can be useful is to help your customers examine their mindset and how it’s affecting them. For example, your customer is journaling about 16

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trying to learn new software so he can launch his online business. He’s discouraged and the entry is filled with negativity.

Once he realizes this, he can flip the script. He might choose to list all of the obstacles he’s already overcome to get where he is. This could encourage him to stay the course and adapt a positive outlook.

He may go on to write down positive affirmations or mantras that inspire him like: •

I can master any obstacle in my path.

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Today, I am one step closer to success.

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I will master this new technology.

3 Easy Ways to Use Journals for Your Marketing

Now that you understand how your website visitors and customers might find journals useful, you’ll want to consider how you can include journals in your own content marketing efforts and products.

Bribe subscribers. Journals can make a great opt-in of-

fer. They allow your visitors to take the information you share on your site and implement it. As soon as they see the results they achieve, they’ll come back to you and be eager to soak in your expertise.

prompts. It’s about the journey your customer is taking.

All of the best journal creators understand this concept and they work hard to make sure their journals are not only beautiful but functional too.

If you’ll be using a journal as an opt-in, be sure to center it around a topic that’s important to your community.

If your blog is about rock climbing and your journal is about starting a fish aquarium, then your visitors aren’t likely to download it.

Research other journals. Before you begin working on your own journal, do some market research to see what journals already exist. Most niches have a variety of journals already available. You need to study these journals so you can create one that truly stands out to your customers.

Look for a pain point that your customers could use guidance on. For example, if your blog is about yoga, then you might have a 10 Day Introduction to Yoga journal. Visitors can journal their thoughts about adding yoga into their lives.

Start by going to Amazon. Type in your niche and the phrase “guided journal” or “journal”. For example, if your blog is in the health and fitness niche, you might search for “weight loss guided journal” (without quotations).

Add to info products. Journals are also great bonuses to add to your products. You can create guided journals that take your customers through the process of accomplishing a difficult task.

Make notes. As you research journals, you’ll probably notice things that the authors left out that would have made the journal better. You’ll want to capture these thoughts as soon as possible so you can incorporate them into your own journal.

For example, if you have a course on WordPress, then you might include a website journal as a bonus item.

You could start your journal by encouraging customers to consider why they want to start a website, provide space to brainstorm domain name ideas, and more.

Sell them on Amazon. You can grow your own platform by creating a journal and selling it through Amazon. Not only will your reach expand, but you’ll also have customers who enjoy your journals that will go onto your website and subscribe to your mailing list.

The great thing about launching a journal on Amazon is that you don’t have to worry about production. You can sign up for Amazon’s Kindle Publishing program.

As you’re creating the digital book, Amazon will present you with the offer to publish your book through CreateSpace. Since CreateSpace is a print on-demand company, you won’t have to pay inventory or printing costs. All you need to do is drive traffic to your journal and let Amazon take it from there.

Decide on your topic. Regardless of your niche, you’ll probably come across a variety of journals on just about every topic. While it might be tempting to do a general journal like “weight loss journal”, it will be hard to get traction on that topic.

Instead, try to get a bit more specific. For example, a weight loss journal for binge eaters is specific. A weight loss journal for women over 40 is also a narrow idea that you could use.

Begin gathering prompts. Now that you have an idea of what the market is expecting and what’s been left out of other journals, it’s time to get started on creating yours. The first thing you’ll want to do is create a list of prompts. Don’t worry about organizing this list quite yet.

Your prompts can include quotations about your topic, questions that challenge your customers, and ideas that invite further exploration. If you have some ideas, you’ll want to write them down.

How to Create Beautiful Journals

If you’re fresh out of ideas, try doing a Google image search or visiting Pinterest. Type a topic like “Weight Loss + Inspirational Images”.

A journal is so much more than a collection of pages and

A variety of memes, quotes, and thoughts will come

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up. While you can’t steal anyone’s exact words, you can rephrase an idea into your own words. For example, you see an inspirational image that reads: “3 Months From Now, You Will Thank Yourself”.

Change this into a journal prompt by rephrasing it. For example: Write a letter to your body that you’ll read 90 days from now. What emotions does writing about your body bring up? What thoughts are triggering these emotions?

You can also create prompts by encouraging users to make a list. You prompt might be: List 10 Moments When You Were Really Proud of Yourself or List 5 Things that Comfort You Besides Food.

Sort your prompts. Depending on how many prompts you have, you may need to sort them by subheadings.

For example, a journal about emotional eating could be sorted by emotion. This makes it easy for customers to flip to a specific section when they’re experiencing an emotion that makes them hungry.

Put your journal together. Some journals will have a natural beginning and ending point. A 90-Day journal makes it pretty easy to tell when you’re done. Most customers who order a physical copy of your journal want a minimum of 100 pages. But if you have more material that will help your community, go ahead and make it longer.

Remember that your journal doesn’t have to be everything to everybody. Pick your niche and your audience intentionally. You’ll see more sales and your customers will be happier if you do that way.

Enjoy creating your brand-new journals!

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Journal Creation Checklist For Journal Sellers: Before you create a journal, you need to know your audience. o Who are they? o What problems do they have? o Which problems can be solved through journaling? o What types of journals do you like (you should be part of your target audience) What software will you use? o Canva.com o Adobe InDesign o Microsoft Word o Journal Software Tools o Blurb o Other: ___________

□Make your journal attractive. o The colors you use are important because they’ll give your audience a certain feeling.

Learn about the psychology of color which will help you choose the right colors to help you lead your audience in the direction you want them to go for their journal. o Know that the size you’re making your journal is correct for your audience and for the POD platform. That way every line shows up looking correct and prints out perfectly. Read the instructions on your choice of POD before even getting started to avoid issues, especially if someone is making your graphics. o Use the Right Images – Don’t cheap out on the images you choose to put into your print journal. First, ensure that you pay for the legal right to use the image commercially, then make sure you use the sizes and resolution required for printing which should be listed on the POD company you chose.

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o Don’t get overly concerned about empty pages. It’s a journal. It needs space to write the information down in. Also, don’t feel as if every single page must have a quote on it or art work on it. The important thing is that the cover, design, and purpose of your journal is clear so that your buyer knows how to use it.

Will you be selling physical copies? If so how will you do that? o Blurb.com o Cafepres.com o Zazzle.com o Other: ___________

Introduce topic and share some encouraging words. □Create topic prompts that encourage users to: o Reflect on their past experiences o Think about and write about the importance of the prompt topic o Discuss their thoughts and feelings at the time the event happened and since then they reflect on it. What happened? What were they thinking? What were they feeling? What were they hoping to get from it? What did they get from it? o Use all their senses and document what they saw, smelled, tasted, felt, heard, etc. Include as much detail as possible. o Share observations that ended on a positive note. There’s usually at least one or two positives in most situations. o Include any follow-up tasks they may need to complete that relates to the journal entry. o Include inspirational quotes □ 20

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Add fun designs or graphics that inspire users to write daily.

• Add inspirational and encouraging quotes.

• Encourage them to be honest with themselves and to protect their privacy by keeping their journal in a safe, protected place.

• Suggest they write daily for 5-20 minutes.

• Some people can focus better with soft music playing. You can suggest your favorites to them. The same for using other meditation type techniques to help them calm their thoughts and focus.

Where will you sell your journals? o If you have a Facebook Group for almost any topic that is a good place to sell your journals.

Let’s say you have a Facebook Group that is about email marketing. You could create a journal that helps people to stick to their email marketing goals, have a challenge and offer the journal as a companion offering for the challenge. Hint: You can sell the journal POD or you can sell it in a PDF file and let them print it themselves.

o You can sell any type of product on your website whether it’s digital or physical. You just need to connect the technology if you’re using Print on Demand. Many POD services can do that with plugins and by grabbing the code to put the shopping cart on your site.

o Do you ever go to live events? If they allow you to set up a table you call sell your journals there just like you would any other book. If you host live events, including your journal in the ticket price, is a great way to get people using your journals. Be sure to get them to take selfies with it.

o Do you offer workshops for your clients? If so journals are a perfect companion piece or even an add on sale for the workshop. You can offer everything to add on to the workshop in your check out. You can also offer the journal to the participants of the workshop after they’ve attended to help them keep up the good work.

o On your blog, and as a guest on other blogs with similar audience members, blog about journaling and even the creative process of creating the journal. Blog about how journaling helps you reach goals, make decisions and keep records.

o If you’re a coach, offering journals designed especially for your clients and their needs is that little extra step that will make a huge difference. Even if you send them to Amazon to buy them rather than directly on your site you’re going to make a lot of sales.

o Whether you have an in-person event or an online event it’s always a good time to let people know about your journal. If you remember that you’re simply offering them something they need because it helps them and the design is good they’re going to want it.

o You can simply list them on Amazon. Also Burb. com, and Bookbaby.com, and others have an option to sell on Amazon and other sites and even get them printed to sell in bookstores.

o Facebook Ads are hot right now. They’re not because they work very well. If you get some great pictures of your journal and can explain who the journal is for, and how much it will help them you can run an advertisement on Facebook.

o If you make your journals yourself you can sell them on Etsy.com as well. For this to work you’ll need to get them printed first so you have inventory that you can sell to your customers.

On Etsy, you can sell physical and digital products.

How will you market your journal? o Create emails to send to your list about journaling and how it can help them. Teach them as you’re creating the journal about the importance of journaling and how it helps you. Give them examples that make the idea easier for them to grasp and understand.

o A lot of times we get stuck on trying to market everything online instead of looking at offline possibilities. If you can get published in a magazine your bio box can lead them to your website just as well as a bio box as a guest blogger.

o It can be harder to get your journal into mass market bookstores because of the fact you’re self-published but if you can prove that your journals are selling well, and they’re attractive and different you still have a chance. Try locally owned and operated book stores first.

o In social groups online, yours and others if it’s not against the rules of the group, let them know about the journal you made. Tell them how it’s different from other journals and make them want it because it’s designed so incredibly well just for them.

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Tips you can include for journal users: • Set aside 5-20 minutes every day or week to write in your journal. Try to make it the same time each day/week to help establish a routine.

• Before you close your journal for the day, reread the entry. Add additional thoughts you might have.

• Choose a quiet place without distractions to write so you can think back and focus.

• Date your entries so you have a point of reference when you need to look back through it later.

• While writing prompts are nice, it’s okay to just let the words flow about whatever comes to mind. The best thoughts come when you are writing naturally. Just open your mind and start writing.

• When reflecting on a past event, close your eyes and think about all the senses you used during the event. Write about them all. The sights, smells, sounds, feelings, etc. as well as your feelings during the time.

• Ask yourself questions such as What happened? How did it make you feel? Why did you feel that way? Could you have done something different?

• Add photos to your entries. Not only are they inspirational but you can talk about all kinds of things related to the photo.

• The more you write, the easier it will become.

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• Title your entries. This can come before you start writing or after you’ve written for the day.

Again, it’s another point of reference for you.

• Be honest with yourself. Nobody else needs to see your journals so be candid about your feelings and opinions.

• Don’t stick to just unhappy or happy times. Try to include all areas of your life (health, family, home, work, spiritual, emotional, etc.)

• Remember, you are writing for you. It doesn’t need to be a bestseller. Don’t let yourself feel overwhelmed. When you can’t think of something, turn to a writing prompt to get the ideas flowing.

• Write on paper instead of electronic screens.

You’ll likely be more inspired, more creative and have a bigger sense of accomplishment afterwards.

Writing Prompts & Tips • What happened today?

• Is there a secret you’ve kept for a long time?

• W hat plans do you have for tomorrow, next week, next month?

• How about a time when you were scared, mad, hungry, excited?

• Have you made a new friend, started a new relationship, accepted a new person into the family recently?

• Right now, I feel….

• Did a holiday or special occasion happen recently or is one coming up?

• Did you purchase something new that you’re excited about?

• What’s your favorite childhood memory?

• Did you have a pet when growing up?

• What was your favorite subject in school?

• Talk about a past relationship • Tell about a memorable boss, co-worker, teacher. What made them memorable?

• Write about someone who has been an inspiration to you or has made an impact on you.

• I overheard….

• I remember when….

• Spend 5 minutes making a list of…. (things that make you smile, pet peeves, etc.)

• Use the alphabet to think up ideas. Write about something that starts with the letter A today, B tomorrow, and so forth.

• Grab a photo and write about it. What happened before, during and after the photo was taken.

• Write from a different point of view. Instead of writing about how you felt, write about how the other person felt, what they thought, observed, etc.

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