In other instances, she tries to speak Spanish but falters over the past and future tenses. Situations like these embarrass Barrientos and make her feel left out of a community she wants to be part of. Native Guatemalans who are bilingual do not have such problems. Analyzing cause and effect. The following paragraph about air turbulence identifies some of its causes. A variety of factors can cause turbulence, which is essentially a disturbance in the movement of air.
See how two social scientists use classification to explain the ways that various types of social network websites SNSs make user profiles visible. The visibility of a profile varies by site and according to user discretion.
By default, profiles on Friendster and Tribe. Alternatively, LinkedIn controls what a viewer might see based on whether she or he has a paid account. Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other. See how the following paragraph divides the concept of pressure into four kinds. I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and selfinduced pressure.
But there are no villains; only victims. One is to shift back and forth between each item point by point, as in this paragraph contrasting the attention given to a football team and to academic teams. The football players enjoyed the attentions of an enthralled school, complete with banners, assemblies, and even video announcements in their honor, a virtual barrage of praise and downright deification.
As for the three champion academic teams, they received a combined total of around ten minutes of recognition, tacked onto the beginning of a sports assembly. After all, why should they? See how this approach works in the following example, which contrasts photographs of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton on the opening day of the baseball season. The next day photos of the Clintons in action appeared in newspapers around the country. The one of Bill Clinton showed him wearing an Indians cap and warm-up jacket.
The President, throwing lefty, had turned his shoulders sideways to the plate in preparation for delivery. He was bringing the ball forward from behind his head in a clean-looking throwing action as the photo was snapped. In preparation for her throw she was standing directly facing the plate. A right-hander, she had the elbow of her throwing arm pointed out in front of her. Her forearm was tilted back, toward her shoulder.
The ball rested on her upturned palm. As the picture was taken, she was in the middle of an action that can only be described as throwing like a girl. See how one writer uses analogy to explain the way DNA encodes genetic information. Although the complexity of cells, tissues, and whole organisms is breathtaking, the way in which the basic DNA instructions are written is astonishingly simple. Like more familiar instruction systems such as language, numbers, or computer binary code, what matters is not so much the symbols themselves but the order in which they appear.
In exactly the same way the order of the four chemical symbols in DNA embodies the message. The following paragraph provides brief definitions of three tropical fruits. I walked onto a patio speckled with dark stains, as if the heavens had been spitting down on it.
I looked up; there were the two trees responsible. One was a lollipop mango tree. The other was a nispero tree. Beyond the patio, I saw a mammee tree, which bears large, football-shaped fruit. Here a paragraph weaves together details of background, appearance, and speech to create a vivid impression of Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier. His father was a gas driller drilling for natural gas in the coalfields , his older brother was a gas driller, and he would have been a gas driller had he not enlisted in the Army Air Force in at the age of eighteen.
In , at twenty, he became a flight officer, i. Even in the tumult of the war Yeager was somewhat puzzling to a lot of other pilots. What was puzzling was the way Yeager talked. He seemed to talk with some older forms of English elocution, syntax, and conjugation that had been preserved uphollow in the Appalachians. Cookbooks explain many processes step-by-step, as in this explanation of how to pit a mango. The simplest method for pitting a mango is to hold it horizontally, then cut it in two lengthwise, slightly off-center, so the knife just misses the pit.
Repeat the cut on the other side so a thin layer of flesh remains around the flat pit. Holding a half, flesh-side up, in the palm of your hand, slash the flesh into a lattice, cutting down to, but not through, the peel. Carefully push the center of the peel upward with your thumbs to turn it inside out, opening the cuts of the flesh. Then cut the mango cubes from the peel. One such incident that has stayed with me, though I recognize it as a minor offense, happened on the day of my first public poetry reading.
It took place in Miami in a boat-restaurant where we were having lunch before the event. I was nervous and excited as I walked in with my notebook in my hand. An older woman motioned me to her table.
Thinking foolish me that she wanted me to autograph a copy of my brand-new slender volume of verse, I went over. She ordered a cup of coffee from me, assuming that I was the waitress. Easy enough to mistake my poems for menus, I suppose. We shook hands at the end of the reading, and I never saw her again.
She has probably forgotten the whole thing but maybe not. Illustrating a point with one or more examples is a common way to develop a paragraph, like the following one, which uses lyrics as examples to make a point about the similarities between two types of music.
On a happier note, both rap and [country-and-western] feature strong female voices as well. Repetition, parallelism, and transitions are three strategies for making paragraphs flow. One way to help readers follow your train of thought is to repeat key words and phrases, as well as pronouns referring to those key words. Not that long ago, blogs were one of those annoying buzz words that you could safely get away with ignoring. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts.
Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball, haiku, car repair. There are blogs about blogs. Predictably, the love of cinema has waned. And wonderful films are still being made. The disease was bubonic plague, present in two forms: one that infected the bloodstream, causing the buboes and internal bleeding and was spread by contact; and a second, more virulent pneumonic type that infected the lungs and was spread by respiratory infection.
The presence of both at once caused the high mortality and speed of contagion. Yolanda, the third of the four girls, became a schoolteacher but not on purpose. For years after graduate school, she wrote down poet under profession in questionnaires and income tax forms, and later amended it to writer-slash-teacher. Today the used-book market is exceedingly well organized and efficient.
Campus bookstores buy back not only the books that will be used at their university the next semester but also those that will not. Those that are no longer on their lists of required books they resell to national wholesalers, which in turn sell them to college bookstores on campuses where they will be required.
This means that even if a text is being adopted for the first time at a particular college, there is almost certain to be an ample supply of used copies. But while a brief, one- or two-sentence paragraph can be used to set off an idea you want to emphasize, too many short paragraphs can make your writing choppy.
Opening paragraphs. In the following opening paragraph, the writer begins with a generalization about academic architecture, then ends with a specific thesis stating what the rest of the essay will argue. Academic architecture invariably projects an identity about campus and community to building users and to the world beyond.
Yet in other cases, the architectural language established in surrounding precedents may be more appropriate, even for high-tech facilities. The bottom line is that drastically reducing both crime rates and the number of people behind bars is technically feasible.
Whether it is politically and organizationally feasible to achieve this remains an open question. Sometimes you can rely on established design conventions: in academic writing, there are specific guidelines for headings, margins, and line spacing. No matter what your text includes, its design will influence how your audience responds to it and therefore how well it achieves your purpose.
To keep readers oriented as they browse multipage documents or websites, use design elements consistently. In a print academic essay, choose a single font for your main text and use boldface or italics for headings. In writing for the web, place navigation buttons and other major elements in the same place on every page. Keep it simple. Resist the temptation to fill pages with unnecessary graphics or animations. Aim for balance. Create balance through the use of margins, images, headings, and spacing.
Use color and contrast carefully. Academic readers usually expect black text on a white background, with perhaps one other color for headings. Make sure your audience will be able to distinguish any color variations in your text well enough to grasp your meaning. Use available templates. To save time and simplify design decisions, take advantage of templates.
In Microsoft Word, for example, you can customize font, spacing, indents, and other features that will automatically be applied to your document. Websites that host personal webpages and presentation software also offer templates that you can use or modify.
The following guidelines will help you make those decisions. The fonts you choose will affect how well readers can read your text. Decorative fonts such as should be used sparingly. If you use more than one font, use each one consistently: one for headings, one for captions, one for the main body of your text. Every common font has regular, bold, and italic forms.
Layout is the way text is arranged on a page. An academic essay, for example, will usually have a title centered at the top and one-inch margins all around. Items such as lists, tables, headings, and images should be arranged consistently.
Line spacing. In general, indent paragraphs five spaces when your text is double-spaced; either indent or skip a line between paragraphs that are single-spaced. When preparing a text intended for online use, single-space your document, skip a line between paragraphs, and begin each paragraph flush left no indent.
Use a list format for information that you want to set off and make easily accessible. Number the items when the sequence matters in instructions, for example ; use bullets when the order is not important. Set off lists with an extra line of space above and below, and add extra space between the items on a list if necessary for legibility.
White space and margins. To make your text attractive and readable, use white space to separate its various parts. In general, use one-inch margins for the text of an essay or report.
Headings make the structure of a text easier to follow and help readers find specific information. Whenever you include headings, you need to decide how to phrase them, what fonts to use, and where to position them. Phrase headings consistently. Make your headings succinct and parallel in structure. Whatever form you decide on, use it consistently. Make headings visible. Position headings appropriately. If you are not following a prescribed format, you get to decide where to position the headings: centered, flush with the left margin, or even alongside the text, in a wide lefthand margin.
Position each level of head consistently. In print documents, you can often use photos, charts, graphs, and diagrams. Online or in spoken presentations, your options expand to include video and printed handouts. A discussion of Google Glass might be clearer when accompanied by this photo.
Tables are useful for displaying numerical information concisely, especially when several items are being compared. Presenting information in columns and rows permits readers to find data and identify relationships among the items. Pie charts can be used to show how a whole is divided into parts or how parts of a whole relate to one another.
Percentages in a pie chart should always add up to Plotting the lines together enables readers to compare the data at different points in time.
Be sure to label the x and y axes and limit the number of lines to four at the most. Some software offers 3-D and other special effects, but simple graphs are often easier to read. Diagrams and flowcharts are ways of showing relationships and processes.
This diagram shows how carbon moves between the Earth and its atmosphere. Flowcharts can be made by using widely available templates; diagrams, on the other hand, can range from simple drawings to works of art.
Avoid clip art. Position images as close as possible to the relevant discussion. Italian Economic Growth Rate, — If you use data to create a graph or chart, include source information directly below. Large files may be hard to upload without altering quality and can clog email inboxes. Linking also allows readers to see the original context. To include your own video, upload it to YouTube; choose the Private setting to limit access.
Be sure to represent the original content accurately, and provide relevant information about the source. Whatever the occasion, you need to make your points clear and memorable. This chapter offers guidelines to help you prepare and deliver effective presentations.
Spoken texts need a clear organization so that your audience can follow you. The beginning needs to engage their interest, make clear what you will talk about, and perhaps forecast the central points of your talk. The ending should leave your audience something to remember, think about, or do. In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln follows a chronological structure. A tone to suit the occasion. In a presentation to a panel of professors, you probably would want to avoid too much slang and speak in complete sentences.
Slides and other media. Organize and draft your presentation. If in drafting you find you have too many points for the time available, leave out the less important ones. Thank your listeners, and offer to take questions and comments if the format allows. Consider whether to use visuals. Remember, though, that visuals should be a means of conveying information, not mere decoration.
You then offer only a brief introduction and answer questions. What visual tools if any you decide to use is partly determined by how your presentation will be delivered: face to face? You may also have to move furniture or the screen to make sure everyone can see your visuals. Finally, have a backup plan. Computers fail; the internet may not work.
Have an alternative in case of problems. Presentation software. Here are some tips for writing and designing slides.
Use slides to emphasize your main points, not to reproduce your talk. A list of brief points, presented one by one, reinforces your words; charts and images can provide additional information that the audience can take in quickly. On slides, sans serif fonts like Arial and Helvetica are easier to read than serif fonts like Times New Roman.
Your text and illustrations need to contrast with the background. Dark content on a light background is easier to see and read than the reverse. Decorative backgrounds, letters that fade in and out or dance across the screen, and sound effects can be more distracting than helpful; use them only if they help to make your point. Indicate in your notes each place where you need to advance to the next slide.
Label handouts with your name and the date and title of the presentation. Practice, practice, and then practice some more. Your audience will respond positively to that confidence. If possible, practice with a small group of friends to get used to having an audience. Speak clearly. Pause for emphasis. In writing, you have white space and punctuation to show readers where an idea or discussion ends.
Stand up or sit up straight, and look at your audience. Use gestures for emphasis. To overcome any nervousness and stiffness, take some deep breaths, try to relax, and move your arms and the rest of your body as you would if you were talking to a friend. To read an example presentation, go to digital. This chapter provides a description of the key elements of an essay that argues a position and tips for writing one. To be arguable, a position must reflect one of at least two points of view, making reasoned argument necessary: file sharing should or should not be considered fair use; selling human organs should be legal or illegal.
Necessary background information. Sometimes, we need to provide some background on a topic so that readers can understand what is being argued. To argue that file sharing should be considered fair use, for example, you might begin by describing the rise in file sharing and explaining fair-use laws. Good reasons. By itself, a position does not make an argument; the argument comes when a writer offers reasons to support the position.
You might base an argument in favor of legalizing the sale of human organs on the fact that transplants save lives and that regulation would protect impoverished people who currently sell their organs on the black market.
Convincing evidence. For example, to support your position that fast food should be taxed, you might cite a nutrition expert who links obesity to fast food, offer facts that demonstrate the health-care costs of widespread obesity, and provide statistics that show how taxation affects behavior. Careful consideration of other positions. No matter how reasonable you are in arguing your position, others may disagree or hold other positions.
Widely debated topics such as animal rights or gun control can be difficult to write on if you have no personal connection to them. Better topics include those that interest you right now, are focused, and have some personal connection to your life.
Identify issues that interest you. Pick a few of the roles you list, and identify the issues that interest or concern you. Try wording each issue as a question starting with should: Should college cost less than it does? Should student achievement be measured by standardized tests? What would be better than standardized tests for measuring student achievement?
This strategy will help you think about the issue and find a clear focus for your essay. Choose one issue to write about. Generating ideas and text. Most essays that successfully argue a position share certain features that make them interesting and persuasive. Consider what interests you about the topic and what more you may need to learn in order to write about it.
It may help to do some preliminary research; start with one general source of information a news magazine or Wikipedia, for example to find out the main questions raised about your issue and to get some ideas about how you might argue it. There are various ways to qualify your thesis: in certain circumstances, under certain conditions, with these limitations, and so on. You need to convince your readers that your thesis is plausible. Start by stating your position and then answering the question why?
This analysis can continue indefinitely as the underlying reasons grow more and more general and abstract. Identify other positions. Think about positions that differ from yours and about the reasons that might be given for those positions. To refute other positions, state them as clearly and as fairly as you can, and then show why you believe they are wrong.
Perhaps the reasoning is faulty or the supporting evidence is inadequate. Acknowledge their merits, if any, but emphasize their shortcomings. Ways of organizing an argument. Alternatively, you might discuss each reason and any counterargument to it together.
And be sure to consider the order in which you discuss your reasons. Usually, what comes last makes the strongest impression on readers, and what comes in the middle makes the weakest impression.
End with Give the a call to second action, a reason, with support. To read an example argument essay, go to digital. This chapter describes the key elements of an essay that analyzes a text and provides tips for writing one. Your readers may not know the text you are analyzing, so you need to include it or tell them about it before you can analyze it.
Attention to the context. All texts are part of ongoing conversations, controversies, or debates, so to understand a text, you need to understand its larger context. To analyze the lyrics of a new hip-hop song, you might need to introduce other artists that the lyrics refer to or explain how the lyrics relate to aspects of hip-hop culture.
A clear interpretation or judgment. When you interpret something, you explain what you think it means. In an analysis of a cologne advertisement, you might explain how the ad encourages consumers to objectify themselves. Reasonable support for your conclusions. You might support your interpretation by quoting passages from a written text or referring to images in a visual text. Most of the time, you will be assigned a text or a type of text to analyze: the work of a political philosopher in a political science class, a speech in a history or communications course, a painting or sculpture in an art class, and so on.
You might also analyze three or four texts by examining elements common to all. In analyzing a text, your goal is to understand what it says, how it works, and what it means. To do so, you may find it helpful to follow a certain sequence for your analysis: read, respond, summarize, analyze, and draw conclusions.
Read to see what the text says. Start by reading carefully, noting the main ideas, key words and phrases, and anything that seems noteworthy or questionable. Do you find the text difficult? Do you agree with what the writer says? Decide what you want to analyze. Think about what you find most interesting about the text and why.
Does the language interest you? You might begin your analysis by exploring what attracted your notice. Think about the larger context. All texts are part of larger conversations, and academic texts include documentation partly to weave in voices from the conversation. Does he or she respond to something others have said?
Is there any terminology that suggests that he or she is allied with a particular intellectual school or academic discipline? Words like false consciousness or hegemony, for instance, would suggest that the text was written by a Marxist scholar.
Consider what you know about the writer or artist. The credentials, other work, reputation, stance, and beliefs of the person who created the text are all useful windows into understanding it. Write a sentence or two summarizing what you know about the creator and how that information affects your understanding of the text. Visual texts might be made up of images, lines, angles, color, light and shadow, and sometimes words.
Look for patterns in the way these elements are used. Write a sentence or two describing the patterns you discover and how they contribute to what the text says. Analyze the argument. What is the main point the writer is trying to make? Are the reasons plausible and sufficient? Are the arguments appropriately qualified? How credible and current are they? After considering these questions, write a sentence or two summarizing the argument and your reactions to it. Come up with a thesis.
Do you want to show that the text has a certain meaning? Your analysis might be structured in at least two ways. You might discuss patterns or themes that run through the text. Alternatively, you might analyze each text or section of text separately. State your thesis. To read an example rhetorical analysis, go to digital.
Newspapers report on local and world events; textbooks give information about biology, history, writing; websites provide information about products jcrew. Very often this kind of writing calls for research: you need to know your subject in order to report on it. This chapter describes the key elements found in most reports and offers tips for writing one.
Accurate, well-researched information. Reports usually require some research. The kind of research depends on the topic. Library research may be necessary for some topics—for a report on migrant laborers during the Great Depression, for example. Most current topics, however, require internet research.
For a report on local farming, for example, you might interview some local farmers. Various writing strategies. For example, a report on the benefits of exercise might require that you classify types of exercise, analyze the effects of each type, and compare the benefits of each. For a report on the financial crisis for a general audience, for example, you might need to define terms such as mortgage-backed security and predatory lending.
Appropriate design. Numerical data, for instance, can be easier to understand in a table than in a paragraph. A photograph can help readers see a subject, such as an image of someone texting while driving in a report on car accidents. If you get to choose your topic, consider what interests you and what you wish you knew more about. They may be academic in nature or reflect your personal interests, or both.
Even if an assignment seems to offer little flexibility, you will need to decide how to research the topic and how to develop your report to appeal to your audience. And sometimes even narrow topics can be shaped to fit your own interests. Start with sources that can give you a general sense of the subject, such as a Wikipedia entry or an interview with an expert. Your goal at this point is to find topics to report on and then to focus on one that you will be able to cover.
Come up with a tentative thesis. Once you narrow your topic, write out a statement saying what you plan to report on or explain. Think about what kinds of information will be most informative for your audience, and be sure to consult multiple sources and perspectives.
Revisit and finalize your thesis in light of your research findings. Ways of organizing a report [Reports on topics that are unfamiliar to readers] Begin Explain by with an anecdote, quote, or other means of interesting comparing, Provide background, and state your thesis.
Describe classifying, your topic, analyzing defining causes or any key effects, terms. Conclude by restating your thesis or referring to your beginning. Conclude by topic; provide any necessary background information; state your Narrate the second event or procedure. Narrate the third event or procedure. Repeat as necessary.
Conclude by restating your Repeat as necessary. To read an example report, go to digital. Parents read their children bedtime stories as an evening ritual. Preachers base their sermons on religious stories to teach lessons about moral behavior. Grandparents tell how things used to be, sometimes telling the same stories year after year. College applicants write about significant moments in their lives. Writing students are often called on to compose narratives to explore their personal experiences.
This chapter describes the key elements of personal narratives and provides tips for writing one. Most narratives set up some sort of situation that needs to be resolved. That need for resolution makes readers want to keep reading. Vivid detail.
Details can bring a narrative to life by giving readers vivid mental images of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures of the world in which your story takes place. To give readers a picture of your childhood home in the country, you might describe the gnarled apple trees in your backyard and the sound of crickets chirping on a spring night.
You may reveal its significance in various ways, but try not to state it too directly, as if it were a kind of moral of the story. Describe the setting. List the places where your story unfolds.
Think about the key people. Narratives include people whose actions play an important role in the story. Try narrating the action using active and specific verbs pondered, shouted, laughed to capture what happened. Consider the significance. You need to make clear why the event you are writing about matters. How did it change or otherwise affect you? What aspects of your life now can you trace to that event? How might your life have been different if this event had not happened?
Ways of organizing a personal narrative. Tell about what happened. Say how Say the conflict something was about the resolved. Fill in details: setting, people, specific actions. Make clear how the situation was resolved. Plus you hope to find someone reliable and then go back and forth to make sure they do it right.
It takes time, patience, and a big budget. PLR content is cost-effective. It is far more affordable to license content compared with hiring a freelancer. It's easily x cheaper to license content. PLR content saves time. You simply download the content, edit it however you please, and then publish it. You get to market faster. No need to write from scratch. No need to wait for expensive freelancers.
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You can make it your own, change the format, and sell it or give it away. Sure others are using the content, but it's easier to edit and tweak the content to make it your own, than having to write it all yourself. Another concern some people have is about duplicate content. In reality, there's a lot of confusion about how duplicate content works. Every day, thousands of local news organizations license stories from AP or Reuters. They put these stories directly onto their websites and into their broadcasts, without changing a single word.
See, licensed content isn't new. It's been a standard tactic used by news organizations for years. Licensing is what makes it possible for smaller news organizations to get breaking news from around the world.
There's no way these organizations could afford to hire thousands of journalists around the world. Instead, they license the stories from AP and Reuters, who have the ability to have journalists positioned around the globe. See, here's how the search rankings work. Google doesn't "penalize" duplicate content. Rather, if Google finds two pieces of content that match, they simply work to determine which one was published first and which one is most relevant to the search.
Your site won't get removed from Google or anything extreme like that. Google simply selects the content that is most relevant to the search. And here's the thing. The moment you begin editing and tweaking the content, it's no longer duplicate.
The more you edit, the more unique a piece of content becomes and the more valuable it is in Google's eyes. This is why we encourage people to make the content their own in as many ways as possible. Transform the PLR content from text to audio, video, infographics, and so on. Take the licensed content, which is already professionally written and edited, and make it your own.
The more relevant you make it to your clients, the more relevant it will be in Google search results and the higher it will show up in the rankings. Not at all. In fact, nearly all brick and mortar stores, such as Walmart and Costco utilize private label products. Walmart doesn't actually make Great Value granola bars. Walmart strikes a deal with the best manufacturer, then brands them and sells as their own. Using PLR content allows you to serve your clients much more effectively. You can get to market significantly faster, create more products, and generate new content that helps you expand your reach and secure new clients.
The reality is that you can't help your clients if you don't have valuable content and products available. And we both know that there's simply not enough time to do it all solo. PLR content solves this problem by allowing you to constantly give high-value content to your clients. And one way in PLR. The unfortunate fact is that many PLR content companies use non-native English speakers to write their content. They also don't make the effort to properly format or design the content that they create.
The result is poorly written, poorly designed content that is neither attractive nor professional. Plus, every piece of PLR content is professionally edited, formatted, and designed.
We've been around for over a decade and have created thousands of done-for-you coaching resources for you, so you don't have to. If you've ever sat down to create a new piece of content, you know how challenging it can be. First, you need to research it to ensure that it's all factually correct. Depending on the subject, this can take anywhere from 30 minutes to many hours. Then you need to craft a compelling introduction, followed by a thorough explanation of the topic.
Finally, you need a conclusion that brings everything together in a nice, neat manner. When you're staring at a blank screen with that blinking cursor taunting you, you realize that this is no small task. Finally, you need to format and design it so that it's easy to read and aesthetically pleasing.
Unless you're a professional designer, you'll need to hire someone to do this, which requires both time and money. It's so much easier and faster to tweak something that's already thoroughly researched and well-written than to try to to create something new from scratch.
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You can white label the content under your own brand, sell it as your own or give it away. You can print it and sell physical copies. No royalties or any extra fees. The only thing you can't do is let your clients brand it and sell it as their own. Put another way, you cannot transfer the resale or private label rights to others. It's really not complicated. Whenever you're selling or sharing PLR.
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No, it's not required to rewrite PLR content. However, we recommend that you customize the content so it fits your style, brand, and personality. After all, it's a lot easier to take something that's already written and inject yourself into it.
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If you have a social media account such as Instagram or Facebook you will see which one of your artworks is more popular than the others. What you can then do is sell digital downloads of your art that can then be downloaded and colored in at home. This is great for artists selling fan art but be careful not to fall foul of the law, read here if you wish to learn more.
Artists working in the fan art domain can do quite well selling black and white outlines of their works that can then be purchased by fans and colored in at home. Coloring in for adults is now a very popular past time, have a look at this site to get an idea of what you can do. You can either scan existing artworks and then convert them to grayscale using Gimp or you can create a fresh outlined drawing and then scan them. Alternatively, if you are now a master at Procreate on the iPad then you can create your digital art electronically.
Depending on which eCommerce solution you have selected, ensure that the file size you are making available to download does not exceed 1mb as it can make it too slow to download. Not everyone has super fast broadband so think of those customers. Ensure you label your digital file with your website name and name of artwork eg.
Digital downloads of images are usually aimed at customers who do not have much to spend. If they had money to spend they would be buying your original works. And these will go on to sell forever.
I did this and sold a lot of car prints when I was selling digital copies of my Muscle Cars series of drawings. For each one I added a small watermark and I did not bother too much with trying to restrict copying as the time and effort exceeded the money saved.
If you do not wish to physically print copies of your works, you can create a nice watermarked scan in high resolution though not too big to make downloading it too slow and you can sell a digital copy of it for your customers to take to Staples to print or print at home.
I would list the image in a mocked up picture frame and add the disclaimer that they item being sold is a digital image to be printed at home and the framing is to show what it can look like framed. These tend to have a more dedicated buyer and someone who views the print at home print more like an artwork they are willing to get framed and hang on the wall. Depending on your following you can charge more.
List the items for a few months, gauge what the market is doing. If they are not selling then try lowering the price or marketing the product more. I have also linked to my own Redbubble page so you can see that I have my art available to be sold on a variety of products. Each image is available to be sold as prints, cards, t-shirts, mugs, framed art etc. My biggest seller is a Maradona Napoli iPhone case which took me 15 min to make using Gimp.
Those 15 minutes have made me hundreds of dollars in passive income. I tend to use these services more these days as I am time poor and with POD Print on demand services I can set and forget. These are produced the same was as the print and color at home prints and digital print at home prints. The great thing about a POD Print on Demand service is that you do not need to do anything except list the item on their site. They will produce the artwork the buyer has selected and they will process the payment and ship the item to your customers directly.
You will not even need to do any customer support. Any issues with quality is managed by the company and not you. These services usually have a fixed price or a general price range for the products they sell.
What varies is the percentage of commission you will earn for each item sold. So lets say they sell a T-Shirt with your artwork printed. So customers may shop around for the cheaper shirt unless you have a cult following. I have had items listed on Redbubble for years and yes I am a huge fan as it has been a good source of passive income since I used to think these did not sell well but after 10 years of seeing various online marketers and artists selling guides and detailed instructions I have to say I have been proven wrong.
An eBook is basically a detailed guide on how to do anything specific. The more specific and hard to find the information the more likely you will sell copies of the eBook. As an example, if I wanted to I could have written an eBook on each one of these topics and made some good money. One common question I hear is how long does the eBook need to be?
The answer is as long as it takes to adequately address the solution. That said, most eBooks are between 30, to 50, words long. They can be in point form, they can be step by step instructions and they can be detailed information. Many eBooks range from 20 pages to pages. Give your customers value, answer their questions in advance. If you are producing fiction as your art then you are most likely also a reader of books.
Plan your eBook to read like one you would like to read. Try to add as many images and photos showing how you are doing each step, think what questions would be asked if your customer was sitting with you and watching you do the work your eBook is trying to teach. Use Canva to create a professional looking front cover, back cover and and images you wish to package.
Ensure you proof read and grammer check your writing and then get someone else to read your eBook to see if they have any questions. Some things you think are easy to understand may not be so for someone who is not skilled in that topic. Ensure the headers and footers contain links back to your website and your name and that you add any copyright information.
I created a folder on my Dropbox account as it was free. I also created an auto-responder email that was configured in Paypal to be sent to every customer who made a payment using Paypal.
That auto-responder email contained a link to the dropbox folder so customers could click on it and download the file. I would recommend using one of the eCommerce platforms these days as they incorporate more security.
The majority of customers will most likely use your high resolution photos as stock images to be used in marketing documents or blogs. Examples of digital photos for sale are Shutterstock , Adobe Stock and free sites such as Unsplash. Like everything else, find your best work and upload to a site such as Shutterstock, Adobe Stock or even sell digital photos on Etsy.
Just like POD Print on Demand services, you do not need to do anything except list the item on these sites and market the links to them.
Ensure you add lots of detail in your image description so they will appear in searches on the sites. Each site will either send the digital image to the buyer or produce the artwork the buyer has selected and they will process the payment and ship the item to your customers directly. Prices vary for digital photos. The less competition a photo has the more it will be worth.
Search for similar digital photos for sale and see what the competition is selling theirs for. When I first saw tattoo designs for sale my jaw dropped. I was not aware this market even existed. This is a highly specialized area so look at what the competition is out there before you devote your time and energy making designs.