Are you a good writer? Do you have a topic you can write a lot about? How does publishing content that pays you over and over sound? Yes you can make money online writing. This article will lay out the options you have.
Get paid directly for your content
Most writers are used to thinking of the content they produce as the product they are selling. There are ways to make money online writing by selling your content to a publisher. With the mind boggling amount of content being created on the Internet every day there are tons of opportunities to sell your copy.
One place to sell your content is in online article directories that pay. They don't pay a lot for an article, but it's also a good way to advertise your work. If you have a website for your writing business, you can advertise it in the article resource box.
Another place to sell your content is through freelancing websites. There are a number of websites that connect freelancers of various skills with people who need and are willing to pay for their services. People needing to hire out some work will post their projects on the site.
Freelancers have the opportunity to place a bid on the project by submitting a proposal. You can sometimes land high paying writing jobs that way. One challenge you will face is a lot of competition from writers willing to charge less than $5.00 per article.
You can also publish your content on websites that compensate you based on how many clicks the ads around your article get. You can even earn some ad click revenue on your own website if you already get a lot of traffic.
Use your content to generate indirect residual income
This option presents more initial risk because it usually involves publishing your content for free. However, the earning potential is orders of magnitude higher than with direct selling of your content. The way to have your content generating true residual income is to use it for Internet marketing.
Internet marketers are some of the most prolific writers, writing and publishing even more words than the most dedicated novel writers in November!
Internet marketing simply means using the Internet to promote and sell affiliate products where you earn a commission on each sale. Here's how it works and where writing fits in.
First you pick a niche or a topic that you can stand to write hundreds of articles about. Then you choose one or more relevant affiliate products to market. The easiest way to locate affiliate products is to enter your product idea + affiliate in the Google search box and then sort through the results.
Next you build a website full of helpful information about your topic. You target your content to keywords interested visitors are likely to search under.
Finally you publish informative articles that also target relevant keywords and which direct readers to the most relevant page on your site. You publish lots of articles. Each one will generate a bit of traffic to your site, and a certain percentage of that traffic will buy your product.
Once you have your articles out there, they remain and send visitors to your site day after day for a long time. This is how your content generates a residual income.
Internet marketing is not difficult to learn, but it does consist of specific skills you'll need to get trained on and practice.
If this is the way you'd like to make money online writing, your next step is to begin your online marketing education.
By: Fernanda Powers
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Make Money Online Writing
Monday, January 10, 2011
Make Money Online Fast
A lot of people want to know how to make money online fast. Can you? Yes! Will it take some elbow grease on your part? Again, yes.
Here are some great ways that you can make money online quickly.
Like to take pictures? If you do, sell those photos to online photo directories like iStockPhoto.com. When you visit the site, take note of what's selling well first and what category those photos are in so that you know what kinds of pictures are in demand.
Additionally, there is also an area where you can sell not only photos but computer graphics that you've rendered. So if you have a knack for creating fantastic backgrounds or images using just your computer, you can submit and sell those as well.
Write for eHow.com. eHow is a website that allows authors to submit all kinds of "how-to" articles. They even have an "assignments" section where you can apply to write for others and, according to eHow themselves, "...most writers earn $15 and $20 an hour or more writing these assignments."
Install Software. Do you know how to quickly install a WordPress blog or another kind of well-known software? If you do, set up a small website (you can do so for free at Weebly.com), and then offer these services for sale. Many business owners will be more than happy to have someone do all of the technical work for them so that their time is freed-up to work on their businesses.
Transcribe Audio files. Transcription is a HUGE business online. Many businesses who regularly run a podcast (an audio-only format of their content), as well as online businesses who conduct interviews on a regular basis, need that content transcribed into a text or PDF format. Many of these businesses also place the need for this content on sites such as ODesk.com or Elance.com.
Anything Goes. Just about anything goes at Fiverr.com. This website lets you place just about anything at all on their site as a job so long as you're willing to do that job for $5. This can be anything from submitting website URL's to search engines, to creating a watercolor picture out of a photo of you. Take a look around Fiverr.com and try to come up with your own unique idea.
The bottom line is, there are countless ways to make money online fast. You just need to know where to find them and then once you do, get to work on your idea.
By: Kristine Wirth
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