First of many congratulations Arun for taking right step.
I would like to throw my experience as well, though with boddunan. This was with one of the author who used to publish quality articles here which got quick attention of a website owner. And what? He got an immediate offer for handsome price in $$$. Though it is not a book but rather a contract to write series of article on a selected topic.
In my experience, most of such success stories comes when you have good online presence (if you are looking to earn money online). It doesn't come overnight and nobody interested in such people who are not trustworthy. Copycats etc will always gets enough distance from publishers and if found they will get easily notified. So believe in yourself, work smartly as well as honestly. Your efforts will get recognized at some point.
If possible buy a domain and start your own blog. Write only top quality posts in your blog and do not give a chance to content which is found everywhere. My 2c.
Exactly my point.
Can't stress the importance of having an online presence.
I started my online career 2 years back at Hubpages. Wrote a series of business articles (I am a business management graduate so that was easy). A company's manager in UK liked my articles and wanted to use my article in his company's newsletter. He offered me 100 pounds for each article and selected 3 of my articles.
That was when I realized that if I do it correctly, then enormous amount of money can be made.
I became a full time blogger and an online entrepreneur.
Though I would like to point out that it is important that you diversify and branch out as much as possible. Like when I started out, I only used to write articles on revenue sharing sites and clients. Then I started with my own sites and made money from adsense. Then learnt to use Amazon and now I am making more from Amazon than from Adsense. I have also learnt CPA marketing now and now I do SEO/SEM/Online Branding?Reputation Management for clients.
Soon, I will launch my own Media group company offering range of services, right from SEO, SEM,website designing,business card designing to hosting services.
The idea to publish a book came to me last week, when I promoted a friends book. She wrote that book in 7 days and I took care of her promotions. Within 2 days that book had 732 sales and was in Kindle top 5 in her category for paid books.
So this would be my another step towards diversification.
Will keep everyone posted about my progress.
Btw, currently I am making a killing with hosting webinars. I posted about that experiment here:
http://www.boddunan.com/forum/11-general-discussions/236923-my-money-making-experiment-give-clients-what-they-want-for-free-and-earn.html#282100
Yesterday, I had a webinar hosted and the response was so amazing and so many people paid that paypal had to limit my account. So if you have some unique skill, make sure you play to your strengths.
