In edition to our excellent editing and proofreading services, Paper Perfect Editing has also put a couple packages together for affordable, professional book cover design and book cover formatting services, as well as marketing services for self-published authors.
Get your own professional, personalized book cover for the unbeatable price of $149!
Get your unique and stunning book cover design today!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
$350 Full Service Cover Design, Book Promotion and Marketing Materials for Authors
Paper Perfect Editing has gone mad; we're offering a full service package for authors which includes a stunning cover design, two hours personal marketing consultation, editing of all your book promotional materials (Press Release, Query Letter, Author Bio, Book Proposal, Web Copy or Sales Page, Back Cover Copy, Synopsis or Summary, etc.) an extra 15% off of our already extremely low professional editing and proofreading services, an exclusive list of publishing industry contacts (publishers, small market bookstores, book reviews sites and newspapers) plus a few extra goodies - a $1495 value, for $350. But we're only giving away 5 of these ultra-cheap book publishing packages away (in fact they might already be gone)! After that the price goes up to a still very reasonable $550.
So go check it out, maybe you're not too late!
Full Service Book and eBook Publishing Package for Authors: Cover, Marketing, Promotion and Consulting to Launch Your Book Right and Start Making Money
Don't forget to also check out our book editing, proofreading, manuscript formatting and book layout services.
So go check it out, maybe you're not too late!
Full Service Book and eBook Publishing Package for Authors: Cover, Marketing, Promotion and Consulting to Launch Your Book Right and Start Making Money
Don't forget to also check out our book editing, proofreading, manuscript formatting and book layout services.
Monday, March 15, 2010
How to make money winning essay contests
First of all - forget just about everything you know about essay writing. Of course there's a 'right' way to do it - the way that will get you a good grade, the way that's expected in class even through grad school.
Clear Thesis Statement, Clear Outline, Each Chapter has one Topic Supporting the Main Claim and Introduced by a Topic Sentence, etc.
In school, you also need to have good ideas, be logical and organized... and stay within 'acceptable' thought. In my experience as a judge for essay writing contests, they winners usually break those rules. So if you want to win big money entering essay contests, here are a few steps:
1) Be OUTSIDE the box. Charm, surprise, shock. Everybody else is going to be writing about the topic - "Global Warming" for example. Saying boring (yet true) stuff about how global warming is bad. You need to stand out from all this boring stuff by taking a novel and unprecedented approach. Talk about something specific, funny, that has little to do with global warming.
2) Make it PERSONAL. Make it about you, yourself - not 'some kids out there somewhere'. Talk about your real life and experiences, things you've actually dealt with.
3) Direct it at the reader. "You" is the most powerful world. Talk about 'I' and "You", as if you're having a conversation with the reader. "You don't want the world to end, do you? Of course not."
4) Be funny, and informal. Formal = boring. You can (and should) be informal, use common speech and slang.
5) Write Well. Good writing is about painting a picture. Use a lot of very specific examples and set the scene; uses descriptive words and adjectives, don't talk about concepts, talk about your bathtub, the green scales of a lizard, or a single drop of sweat; people can see and feel images in a way that they can't feel words.
Above all, have CONFIDENCE and have FUN. Enjoy what you're writing - don't be worried about what the judges think or whether or not you'll win. Like Hitch says -- the objective is to shock and awe.
Clear Thesis Statement, Clear Outline, Each Chapter has one Topic Supporting the Main Claim and Introduced by a Topic Sentence, etc.
In school, you also need to have good ideas, be logical and organized... and stay within 'acceptable' thought. In my experience as a judge for essay writing contests, they winners usually break those rules. So if you want to win big money entering essay contests, here are a few steps:
1) Be OUTSIDE the box. Charm, surprise, shock. Everybody else is going to be writing about the topic - "Global Warming" for example. Saying boring (yet true) stuff about how global warming is bad. You need to stand out from all this boring stuff by taking a novel and unprecedented approach. Talk about something specific, funny, that has little to do with global warming.
2) Make it PERSONAL. Make it about you, yourself - not 'some kids out there somewhere'. Talk about your real life and experiences, things you've actually dealt with.
3) Direct it at the reader. "You" is the most powerful world. Talk about 'I' and "You", as if you're having a conversation with the reader. "You don't want the world to end, do you? Of course not."
4) Be funny, and informal. Formal = boring. You can (and should) be informal, use common speech and slang.
5) Write Well. Good writing is about painting a picture. Use a lot of very specific examples and set the scene; uses descriptive words and adjectives, don't talk about concepts, talk about your bathtub, the green scales of a lizard, or a single drop of sweat; people can see and feel images in a way that they can't feel words.
Above all, have CONFIDENCE and have FUN. Enjoy what you're writing - don't be worried about what the judges think or whether or not you'll win. Like Hitch says -- the objective is to shock and awe.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Editing and proofreading for thesis and dissertation
Hurry up! It's almost the end of the semester - after that only a few more months until the end of the school year. Get your thesis or dissertation edited professionally to make sure you can wrap up your education on time. Professional editors can edit your thesis or proofread your dissertation quickly - and the price can be very affordable (at least compared to your tuition costs.
Professional editing will clean up typos and spelling mistakes, fine-tune grammar, sentence structure, and even comment on the presentation of ideas. We're pretty swamped already - send your thesis or dissertation to us soon so we can get it done in time.
Professional editing will clean up typos and spelling mistakes, fine-tune grammar, sentence structure, and even comment on the presentation of ideas. We're pretty swamped already - send your thesis or dissertation to us soon so we can get it done in time.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Should I advertise my website?
PaperPerfect has had a facelift; it now looks more corporate and beautiful. As far as editing websites go (some of them are stylistically pretty ugly) I like it. I've been waiting since the redesign for the business to explode, but it hasn't; I'm guessing because Google is unsure about all the site changes.
Meanwhile other proofreading and editing websites or online editing services are advertising aggressively on Google, which must mean they're doing well. Editage.com for example, looks very robust, but has spelling errors on the home page. Nevertheless - their 'premium' service (which is about as good as my regular everyday editing costs $16/page, 3x more than mine. No wonder they can afford to advertise.
It's a vicious cycle; charge much more, advertise much more... I'd rather change less and not advertise but the problem is your site gets buried.
Keep in mind, that if you're paying for editing and proofreading, you're probably paying for their advertising as well.
Save money at www.paper-perfect-editing.com
Meanwhile other proofreading and editing websites or online editing services are advertising aggressively on Google, which must mean they're doing well. Editage.com for example, looks very robust, but has spelling errors on the home page. Nevertheless - their 'premium' service (which is about as good as my regular everyday editing costs $16/page, 3x more than mine. No wonder they can afford to advertise.
It's a vicious cycle; charge much more, advertise much more... I'd rather change less and not advertise but the problem is your site gets buried.
Keep in mind, that if you're paying for editing and proofreading, you're probably paying for their advertising as well.
Save money at www.paper-perfect-editing.com
Friday, November 27, 2009
Avoid these common mistakes and double your website traffic in 3 days
I've been self-employed for over a year, and most days are pretty good. However, when my online editing business goes through a slump, my financial situation can quickly become dire. I was getting about 40 people a day to my site - not a lot, I know, but because my blog has very little extra content and focuses exclusively on offering online proofreading services, most of my traffic was targeted and I could usually get enough business.
Of course I knew that getting more traffic was a good idea. Even if people find and explore my site for other reasons (ie informational articles about writing and editing), the overall page rank would probably go up, meaning more natural search traffic for my targeted keywords.
Getting more traffic, however, is not always so easy... but I did discover that I'd been doing some things very wrong, things that were crippling my site's traffic. Fixing these things took a couple of days, was free, and has already produced double the traffic.
1) If you're using Wordpress or another blogging system, change your url format! I'd seen this advice before, many times, but didn't listen. I was afraid of screwing up all my links and making my site ineffective. Finally, I just went ahead and changed the default Wordpress url format to a 'blog post/month' format. This way the titles of your posts are in the url - which dramatically helps search engine results. I don't fully understand 'redirects' - and I've heard that doing this can mess up your site's ranking. I don't know. For me, after changing url format all my links automatically work, my site is still PR2 in Google, and I'm getting double the traffic. I can only assume that with time, the improved url's will generate even more traffic.
2) Use 'All in one SEO' or similar to change the meta title tags of your posts. Every post needs to have a catchy title that grabs readers attentions; but it also needs to have a different meta/html title full of keywords that people will search for. The way to get both on Wordpress is with the "All in one SEO" plugin. Take the time to do this for every post.
3) Make a specific page for anything related that people might search for. I run an online proofreading and editing site. Who are my potential clients? Students, academics or authors writing things in English. What are they going to be searching for? People don't search for general stuff like 'writing tips and tutorials'. People search for very specific things, like "How to write X". Knowing that, I've put up a series of articles, like "How to write a thesis statement for your dissertation". This is an article that is likely to be found and read, by people finishing their dissertation; and presto - they're already familiar with my site and services.
4) Make an event. I started a $100 writing contest. In just a few days, that post has attracted about 100 backlinks and lots of traffic. Of course these are not necessarily visitors who will need my editing and proofreading services.
However, the traffic (and backlinks) will help my site seem more relevant and thus rank better.
5) Give them something to do. I added a typing game on my site. It's relevant ("test your typing skills") to my site's content and, because people love tests and challenges, will probably get some people to stay on my site a little longer. This increases my site's 'stickiness' and thus I'll rank better.
6) I redid my site's theme/look. You shouldn't change your theme or look that often - and it's true people are looking for content and generally ignore the style of your webpage - but if it looks old, home-made, or outdated, people will probably click off it fast. I liked my old site; but it had a lot of content and different colors. It had a few small people pictures. My new site has a simple homepage with big pictures of smiling people (people like people...) see it at http://www.paper-perfect-editing.com.
7) A secondary blog. It's difficult to really explode my traffic because my site is just a 'services' site; it can never have mass appeal for lots of people. Therefore, I'm starting another blog full of writing tips, which will be easier to promote and get backlinks to; of course everypage of this new blog will point to the website I want to promote. Although it will take time to build up traffic, the project is worth doing.
Of course I knew that getting more traffic was a good idea. Even if people find and explore my site for other reasons (ie informational articles about writing and editing), the overall page rank would probably go up, meaning more natural search traffic for my targeted keywords.
Getting more traffic, however, is not always so easy... but I did discover that I'd been doing some things very wrong, things that were crippling my site's traffic. Fixing these things took a couple of days, was free, and has already produced double the traffic.
1) If you're using Wordpress or another blogging system, change your url format! I'd seen this advice before, many times, but didn't listen. I was afraid of screwing up all my links and making my site ineffective. Finally, I just went ahead and changed the default Wordpress url format to a 'blog post/month' format. This way the titles of your posts are in the url - which dramatically helps search engine results. I don't fully understand 'redirects' - and I've heard that doing this can mess up your site's ranking. I don't know. For me, after changing url format all my links automatically work, my site is still PR2 in Google, and I'm getting double the traffic. I can only assume that with time, the improved url's will generate even more traffic.
2) Use 'All in one SEO' or similar to change the meta title tags of your posts. Every post needs to have a catchy title that grabs readers attentions; but it also needs to have a different meta/html title full of keywords that people will search for. The way to get both on Wordpress is with the "All in one SEO" plugin. Take the time to do this for every post.
3) Make a specific page for anything related that people might search for. I run an online proofreading and editing site. Who are my potential clients? Students, academics or authors writing things in English. What are they going to be searching for? People don't search for general stuff like 'writing tips and tutorials'. People search for very specific things, like "How to write X". Knowing that, I've put up a series of articles, like "How to write a thesis statement for your dissertation". This is an article that is likely to be found and read, by people finishing their dissertation; and presto - they're already familiar with my site and services.
4) Make an event. I started a $100 writing contest. In just a few days, that post has attracted about 100 backlinks and lots of traffic. Of course these are not necessarily visitors who will need my editing and proofreading services.
However, the traffic (and backlinks) will help my site seem more relevant and thus rank better.
5) Give them something to do. I added a typing game on my site. It's relevant ("test your typing skills") to my site's content and, because people love tests and challenges, will probably get some people to stay on my site a little longer. This increases my site's 'stickiness' and thus I'll rank better.
6) I redid my site's theme/look. You shouldn't change your theme or look that often - and it's true people are looking for content and generally ignore the style of your webpage - but if it looks old, home-made, or outdated, people will probably click off it fast. I liked my old site; but it had a lot of content and different colors. It had a few small people pictures. My new site has a simple homepage with big pictures of smiling people (people like people...) see it at http://www.paper-perfect-editing.com.
7) A secondary blog. It's difficult to really explode my traffic because my site is just a 'services' site; it can never have mass appeal for lots of people. Therefore, I'm starting another blog full of writing tips, which will be easier to promote and get backlinks to; of course everypage of this new blog will point to the website I want to promote. Although it will take time to build up traffic, the project is worth doing.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Free online editing and proofreading services
Paper Perfect has a slick new website! In order to drum up new visitors, we're expanding our 'free editing program' - take advantage now! For a testimonial and link from your blog or website, or the right to use your paper as a sample on our site, we'll give you 1000 words free editing. Check out the offer here:
Free online editing and proofreading for papers, essays, English documents.
Free online editing and proofreading for papers, essays, English documents.
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