Blogger Week in Review EP22 :: WordPress CDN, Grammarly, Opt-Ins, Topic Clusters, Time Management

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From https://www.buzzandtips.com 2420 days ago

In our blogger roundup EP22 we discuss : WordPress CDN, Grammarly's silent growth, Opt-In ideas, Topic Clusters for branding, and Time Management Hacks.

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Written by lyceum
2410 days ago

Steve: I will publish and sell them through Amazon's service called CreateSpace. Great to hear that you are drinking tea in the afternoon!

All the Best,

Martin

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Written by lyceum
2411 days ago

Steve: Thanks for your tips! I appreciate it very much!

For your information: the books will be short "stories" of about 24 pages, including illustrations. The square format is smallest on CreateSpace. I think it will be a total of circa 6000 words per book. That would come up to around $150 in editing according to Editorr's different word packages.

Btw: Do you drink tea? ;)

All the Best,

Martin

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Written by stevejwilliams
2411 days ago

Hi Martin, good luck with your books. Are you going to sell them on Amazon? Yes, I drink tea in the afternoon. I prefer coffee in the morning.

Cheers,

-steve

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Written by lyceum
2412 days ago

Steve: Thanks for your input. My long-range goal is to write 8 (short and small) books on tea. Think of a book series for children, but for grownups! ;)

The thing is that I don't have a huge budget for the whole book process. I have a crowdfunding campaign for my first forthcoming book on black tea. This campaign is mainly for getting funds for the illustrations of the book.

All the Best,

Martin

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Written by stevejwilliams
2412 days ago

Hi Martin, you could take a look at Fiverr for editors bit.ly/2xpNaUe ; they are low priced. Look at their ratings and number of gigs they've done so far. Also, compare their pricing / service with Editorr.

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Written by lyceum
2412 days ago

Steve: I found about their service through Chris Brogan's site.

URL: www.editorr.com

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Written by stevejwilliams
2412 days ago

If your goal is to write a book, then I would say yes, hire an editor to make sure everything is ok before publishing it. If I was in that position, I would make sure to compare pricing & reputation of at least 3-5 editors.

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Written by lyceum
2412 days ago

Steve: Thanks for your input. I checked Ulysses now on my laptop and it gives suggestions for spelling words. Have you checked out the editing service called Editorr?

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Written by stevejwilliams
2412 days ago

Editorr? Never heard of it ... URL?

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Written by lyceum
2417 days ago

Steve: Thanks for the tip. Have you heard about Ulysses app? I use it for my book writing. It will be interesting to see if Grammarly could work with this tool.

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Written by stevejwilliams
2417 days ago

Hi Martin, never heard of Ulysses app. However, I just checked their website, it's a standalone desktop app. Grammarly offers some integration with MS-Word on Windows only. Besides that, it is a 100% online app. Grammarly also offers a standalone app. You would need to copy from Ulysses to Grammarly app, do the grammar check and copy the corrected text back to Ulysses ... Not ideal. But this also true for all the other desktop apps. I use Scrivener for writing, and no integration is possible with Grammarly.

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Written by lyceum
2418 days ago

Steve: I recently started to use Grammarly. It is checking my comment, right now! ;)

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Written by stevejwilliams
2418 days ago

Hi Martin, cool stuff!

If you use Google Docs for writing, you may want to try "ProWritingAid" to check your grammar. Too bad Grammarly still doesn't work with Gdocs.

-steve

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