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The Business of Ghost Writing
March 9th, 2010 | 
Author: Ghostwriting means that you will create forms of written expression such as articles or books, which will be published under the buyer's name. This means that as a ghostwriter you give up any copyright to the content once it has been transferred to the buyer, and you have been paid for your services. There are a number of ways individuals can learn how to make money doing ghost writing, both online and offline.
There are a number of ways to earn a living from ghostwriting. While even popular prior to the explosion of the internet, the need for fresh web content has made the profession even more demanding. Work is available online through a number of different venues including freelancing websites. These types of sites offer abundant access to potential clients.
If you want to look for avenues of promoting yourself and your writing offline, this is possible as well. Networking is pivotal. Get the word out through local paper advertisements, business seminars, and even your friends or associates may have a need for your service. They may know someone else who needs your service; never underestimate the power of networking and casual conversation about what you do for a living.
Much like a portfolio a ghostwriter must have a ready available self promotional kit. What this means is that when an opportunity presents itself you should be ready with the appropriate materials to present to a prospective client. A number of writing samples showcasing your flexible writing skills is a must. You can narrow down the samples to your client’s needs, if needed.
Detail the fees you charge. For instance, do you charge on an hourly rate and if so, how much per hour. Maybe you charge on a per project basis, in this case you may want to indicate how you set up your fees. Mention whether or not your fees are open for negotiation depending on research required for the project.
Also clarify any payment expectations in order to avoid any misunderstandings once you have actually begun the project. Maybe you would like to charge a fee at the start of project. Then, once you reach particular milestone assignments you will expect another payment, and so on. Whenever creating your writer's portfolio, make sure the contact information you are giving your prospective clients is accurate.
There are a number of guidelines that can teach you how to make money doing ghost writing, the bottom line is finding which techniques work for you. You even may have to start small in order to build your clientele. Once you have made connections you will find that one job well done can lead to a string of new ghostwriting jobs.
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The Online Illustrations Of Kenny Kiernan
From the city that is known to never sleep rises one of the most creative illustrators to have walked the face of the planet. Kenny Kiernan like many others had been drawing cartoons from when he was just a child, and from this day, his journey to becoming an artist began, but how things would turn out for him he could never know.
He may have started with a pencil and piece of plain white paper, but quickly Kenny moved onto joining the digital era of design as he first started using a Mac in 1990, who knew Mac’s were even around from this day and age.
Kenny has much experience and expertise in advertising, editorial and pharmaceutical illustration, toy, game and product packaging, so you can see he has a long list of expertise, and as time goes on, it can only truly get longer.
Kenny has stuck to using a slick and urban style of drawing, very clean cleans and strong colours, which he merges together nicely to create the masterpieces that you may see before you.
The style that Kenny has used to date is very independent and distinctive in comparison to other artist you may see around you on a day-to-day basis. The style that Kenny uses will largely appeal to the needs of children as they are all so very cute, fun, colourful bright and cheerful. This is to no surprise as Kenny’s 3 main approaches design are cartoon, flash design and comic book illustration, combining these in the fashion that Kenny has done over the years will give you the fantastic art in which Kenny presents in his work.
Many forms of art such as retro, anime inspire Kenny’s style, using and developing these techniques keeps Kenny way ahead in the game.
Checking out Kenny’s online portfolio is something that you will defiantly want to do before this day times out .
You can It’s best to Check out the great work of this artist or check out many freelance jobs on PNW’s site, it caters for all types of design jobs.
The Design & Illustrations Of Link Creative
Lindsey’s on-line portfolio demonstrates her design talents. This freelancer from Ohio, is a master with Traditional Illustration, Graphic and Web Design.
With her 7+ years of experience with design, Lindsey has started up her own service for public use in 2008. She has called this Link Creative, which provides affordable designs for clients of all kinds.
Lindsey’s experience, coupled with her natural artistic talent brings an edge to her work that is not easily found. With a natural ability to draw custom design elements and lettering, she meets the diverse needs of the clients.
Research is another important factor in Lindsey’s creative methods. She take pride in finding the correct information to include in her designs, just for that specific client.
With this natural ability to draw custom designs and lettering, she can meet the diverse needs of the clients. Her illustration of a Falcon was hand drawn, edited in Illustrator and then Photoshop . The colours and other context mix well with the focus on the Falcon. This illustration not only shows her ability as an illustrator but as someone who can use and merge designs multiple media’s without any trouble and creating such a beautiful outcome.
Lindsey is a talented designer and has a very stylish creative talent. These skills put her into a whole new category, as she is capable of not only designing illustrations and graphic designs, she has the ability to set up type free-hand and incorporate these methods in simply for customers needs. Making them happy is all Lindsey aspires to do with her custom designs.
Having the need to provide for others is a skill not many people require and as a freelancer, that should be one of your main goals if you want to be successful in the design world. Lindsey appreciates inquiries or feedback on any of her designs, so feel free to contact her via the web site for further information that may benefit you and your work.
Do you want to become even better illustrators or excel in the field of illustration.
An Analysis of QuickBooks Online Basic Compared to QuickBooks Online Plus
QuickBooks Online has three levels of online accounting choices: Free, Basic, and Plus. Before making your decision to use QuickBooks Online, you have to decide between QuickBooks Online Basic and QuickBooks Online Plus. This article will analyze the differences between the two QuickBooks Online choices. Any small business accounting solution should be chosen to match the type of business you operate. There is also a free version called QuickBooks Online Simple Start, however because of it’s limited capabilities it was not considered for this analysis. Hereafter, QuickBooks Online Basic will be referred to as “BASIC” and QuickBooks Online Plus as “PLUS”. Each significant difference and brief comment regarding the functionality is discussed below.
The following discusses the capabilities that work only with Plus:
Importing -Plus allows you to import your Simple Start Edition, QuickBooks Online Basic, QuickBooks Pro or Premier Edition file(s) into PLUS only. Unfortunately this import feature does not work with a Mac.
Estimates – Estimates can be created and then seamlessly imported to an invoice for billing. By using estimates understandings can be mitigated.
Online Banking – With online banking, payments and receipts do not have to be entered into your QB register. Instead of entering your transactions, you only have to review them as they appear after the download in the QuickBooks check register. When you download QuickBooks compares it then compares the bank’s transactions to the transactions in QuickBooks and identifies discrepancies. It assists you in managing your cash flow, because you always know which checks have cleared the bank, which means you know how much money you have in real time. This feature is only available in PLUS.
Exporting – With PLUS you can export transactions and balances to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. This feature is critical for further analysis of your business.In other words, you can derive information otherwise not easily available to you. It’s an important feature, that should not be be overlooked, since it adds greater reporting and after the fact analysis capabilities.
Class tracking – This is similar to business tracking. Classes allow you to categorize transactions in more detail. By using classes, you are able to categorize each detail line on a transaction. For example, you can write one check to the office supply vendor for items bought for two different online business units while being able to track the business unit for those purchases. For example, you have a website development firm and a SEO business, and want to track revenue and expense for each business, you will be able to produce a Profit & Loss by Class report that will inform you if your website development business is more or less profitable than the SEO business. This feature is only offered in PLUS.
Business tracking – This feature is only in PLUS. You can use businesses to categorize data from different locations, offices, regions, or outlets of the same company. By assigning a business to each transaction as you enter it, you can later see businesses on reports. Assigning businesses also lets you efficiently manage groups of transactions.
Time tracking – With Plus you can enter your time into a time sheet when you bill by the hour i.e. consultants, website developers, seo’s, freelancers, sole proprietors, etc. This feature is only offered in PLUS.
Invoicing – Adding fields to track more information on transaction forms is only in PLUS. You can create your own custom fields to include on sales forms.
Reporting and Financial Statements – With BASIC you get 40 standard reports whereas PLUS you get over 65 standard reports. In addition, you also get customization and formatting options. If you want to see a very detailed analysis in a chart format of the reporting differences can be found at Intuits knowledge base for comparison of the QuickBooks Online Products.
Budgeting – You can use a budget to estimate future income and expenses. Moreover, PLUS budgets’ uses a format similar to a spreadsheet, with a horizontal row for each of your income and expense accounts, and vertical columns for each month or quarter. This feature is only in PLUS
1099 Reporting – The IRS requires you to issue a 1099-MISC form to workers for nonemployee compensation if the payer is a trade or business and the payments are to a noncorporate entity were $600 or more for services rendered.This feature is only in PLUS
Number of Users – BASIC provides access for you and your accountant (2 users). Whereas PLUS provides access for 3 users PLUS your accountant(4 users). Plus can be expanded to 25 users for an additional cost.
QuickBooks Support – BASIC includes email support which is provided by Intuit whereas PLUS includes callback and chat support as well as email support also provided by Intuit. Obviously, PLUS support is better, but with BASIC you can resolve your questions by email.
Cost – BASIC costs $9.99 a month whereas PLUS according to the Intuit website is $34.95 per month. However, if you purchase PLUS by utilizing a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor you can buy the product for $21, which is net of a discount 40% discount, which is currently in effect at this time. Discounts and prices may change in the future.
Summary – Generally speaking, BASIC is for smaller companies, whereas PLUS is for small to midsized companies. Before you make your decision, you can test these small business accounting solutions for 30 days for both BASIC and PLUS and decide which is best suited for your company. They are other inherent limitations when comparing BASIC and PLUS to Desktop QuickBooks i.e. Pro, Premier, etc.. By far the most significant limitation is that the Online versions do not provide inventory capabilities, unless you purchase an inventory add on. Finally, its very important to ask you CPA or accountant for help in making this important decision.
