A Hawaii writer's resource: Hawaii Publishers Association

For everyone living here in Hawaii, one of the things we're experts at is what it's like to live in Hawaii. We are experts about where the best place is to buy groceries, to get gas, to watch movies, to go for a hike. Name it, we're Hawaii experts of one sort or another.

Just think if we all had the gumption to write about our experiences. What stories we would tell.

And if at this moment you have a hankering to write about your Hawaii experience and perhaps make a buck or three for it, there are potential markets for your work.

A nice collection of links to Hawaii-based, Hawaii-centered publications has been provided by the Hawaii Publishers Association. I counted three dozen links to Hawaii-based magazines, 11 newspapers, 2 book publishers, and 9 "multi-title publishers."

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PTR email for bucks--Do Your Homework First

If you grew up in Hawaii and are old enough, you might remember the TV show "Checkers and Pogo." Well, I grew up in Hawaii and am old enough, so not only do I remember C&P, I was even on their show.

One of my favorite parts of the Checkers and Pogo show was when they celebrated the birthday of one of the kids on the show. And one of my favorite parts of a birthday celebration was when the kid had a chance to reach into the penny jar to grab as many pennies as he or she could. Man, did I dream of having a chance to stick my big mitts into that jar to grab a whole bunch of pennies. Well, I never did have that chance when I was on the show but I did win a game that I entered, but that is another story.

Anyway, the point of this as it ties into to work-at-home is that those paid-to-read (PTR) email companies on the web are just like those pennies in the penny jar: there are so many PTR companies out there, many more than I imagined.

Currently, I am enrolled in three, and have earned about $70 from the three combined in about a month of occasional email reading for bucks. What gets me is that after checking this blog, the three PTR sites I have chosen are not even in the top 20 of the most favored sites.

What this tells me is that if I had done my homework beforehand, I might have made much more than $70.

So what I recommend is that you do your homework before sticking your hand into the PTR email penny jar. If you do, you stand to make some bucks, potentially a lot.

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