I wish I had a dollar for every time I hear someone say, “I can’t create an online business because I can’t/hate to write.” Even I thought this for a while. But is this true? Do you have to be a writer to be an UnWorkaholic?

I will admit that it helps. If you love writing, you can produce blog posts and informational products easily and enjoyably. And since information products and blogging have a pretty high rate of return, writing can indeed help you succeed in an UnWork lifestyle.

But the answer to the question is no. You don’t have to be an writer to make it online. You will have to write some, even if it’s just getting your thoughts on paper for someone else to polish, but there are ways to minimize the writing. Here are my tips for doing so:

  1. Pick a non-writing business – If you hate to write, sell something besides information. If you are selling a doodad or something physical like that, you won’t have to write in order to produce it. A similar option is selling software, either that you coded or you hired someone to code for you.
  2. Use alternate media – Hate to write but love to talk? How about delivering your information through audio or video? A successful video blog can be just as powerful an online tool as a regular blog. And plus, audio products have a higher perceived value when packaged into a product, which means your audio information product may sell for more then an ebook anyway.
  3. Hire a transcriptionist – If you still want to have a blog, you can record your entries and hire someone to type them up for you. You may have to try a few people before you find a good fit, but this is definitely doable. Some of them may even be able to post your entries to your blog for you.
  4. Hire a writer – You come up with the outline for your post or ebook and then work with someone else to actually get it written. This works great for information products where you supply the ideas and someone else actually writes it. This is called ghostwriting.
  5. Create a group blog / community – This is where you have a team of people all writing on your blog. Your audience knows about the team and can see who posts what, but you hare still running the show. You provide direction to the team by setting the goals for the site and benefit from the group success.

Those are my ways to still be successful online even if you don’t like to or can’t write. If you try something and keep hitting road blocks, that may be a sign that you need to look into alternate paths. I hope these can provide you with a starting point.

What other ways can you think of to get around a writing road block?