It’s one of the hottest topics online, and it’s true, "articles are an easy way to make money online"
Some folks feel intimidated about the thought of putting pen to paper, but I’m going to tell you about some easy ways to write quality articles. You’ll be cranking them out in no time. What good are articles?
Well, with them you can…
- generate free traffic to your website (when selling something)
- send traffic to your sites (via your affiliate link of course!)
- provide quality content on a basic adsense site
- use them to quickly create your own e-books
- sell them on their own mini sites
- or even sell resell rights to these e-books.
So get down and "write articles to make money online"
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Saturday, 15 November 2008
Other Ways To Profit From Articles
Being an affiliate is a hard enough job at the best of times, but have you ever tried to get your article published in a large ezine publication? It can be a nightmare sometimes. It's even harder if you try and work your affiliate link into the article.
Articles are a great way to get free exposure for your web site and your affiliate program. Hopefully your web sites goal will be to get Opt-In email addresses and you have some sort of free report system working.
However, I have been testing an idea for quite awhile now that I think really works and I guarantee you that you will get your article published 100% more than you do now. This works especially well if you're running an Opt-In mailing list which I recommend you do.
Ezine publishers receive hundreds of articles for publishing a week, so why should they publish yours? You might think you have the best article ever written, and you might, but ezine publishers have to make money too you know. My idea not only will increase your chances of getting published but you will also be helping ezine publishers make more money, which in the long run they will remember and will be more receptive to your articles in the future.
Here's the idea.
When you write your article, try and work an affiliate link into it. Make sure it's in context and not just a blatant advertisement as that's why most ezine publishers refuse to publish affiliate members articles.
As I was saying, write your article and in that article put a link to an affiliate program you're promoting in context in your article. It helps when doing this that you
can say that you honestly use that product or service. I guarantee you a personal endorsement in your article will double the sales you would get with out an endorsement.
The twist here is that the affiliate link you put in will be changed by the ezine publisher. You will be letting the ezine publisher change your affiliate link in your article so they can earn commissions from your article and therefore increasing the chances of getting your article published.
This has never failed for me and I'm sure it won't fail for you. So how do you make money from this? Well if you have your own autoresponder free report series set up, you can use that in your article by-line. You would make more sales from this than from commissions from the article.
Your goal in any affiliate exercise is to get as many Opt-In email addresses as possible and as cheaply and quickly as possible.
Articles are a great way to get free exposure for your web site and your affiliate program. Hopefully your web sites goal will be to get Opt-In email addresses and you have some sort of free report system working.
However, I have been testing an idea for quite awhile now that I think really works and I guarantee you that you will get your article published 100% more than you do now. This works especially well if you're running an Opt-In mailing list which I recommend you do.
Ezine publishers receive hundreds of articles for publishing a week, so why should they publish yours? You might think you have the best article ever written, and you might, but ezine publishers have to make money too you know. My idea not only will increase your chances of getting published but you will also be helping ezine publishers make more money, which in the long run they will remember and will be more receptive to your articles in the future.
Here's the idea.
When you write your article, try and work an affiliate link into it. Make sure it's in context and not just a blatant advertisement as that's why most ezine publishers refuse to publish affiliate members articles.
As I was saying, write your article and in that article put a link to an affiliate program you're promoting in context in your article. It helps when doing this that you
can say that you honestly use that product or service. I guarantee you a personal endorsement in your article will double the sales you would get with out an endorsement.
The twist here is that the affiliate link you put in will be changed by the ezine publisher. You will be letting the ezine publisher change your affiliate link in your article so they can earn commissions from your article and therefore increasing the chances of getting your article published.
This has never failed for me and I'm sure it won't fail for you. So how do you make money from this? Well if you have your own autoresponder free report series set up, you can use that in your article by-line. You would make more sales from this than from commissions from the article.
Your goal in any affiliate exercise is to get as many Opt-In email addresses as possible and as cheaply and quickly as possible.
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Make Money From The Internet
Adsense is definitely the impetus behind automatic website generators and portal sites galore, with which one can "make money from the internet".
Right now, many marketers are leaning in the direction of providing valuable content (your articles) on their adsense pages. The thought is, no search engine in their right mind would ban or delete a valuable content site.
Put your adsense boxes on every page of your content site.
When it comes to Adsense, you have to think like your website visitor. What is it they are looking to buy? Don’t stick something on your site about “making money with your gardening passion” because the advertisers with Adsense are selling garden tools and equipment, not money making opportunities.
You need to make your content fit into the Adsense ads for the best results.
Now, write articles! 10, 20, 50 – keep writing and promoting your content site. Advertise your website in the resource box.
By following this format, you should make money from Google Adsense fairly quickly. Plus you’re building tons of quality content over time and you will have hundreds of articles all over the Internet working for you around the clock! That means your site will do better in the search engines due to all the incoming links!
This is one of those money machines that will "make money from the Internet"
Right now, many marketers are leaning in the direction of providing valuable content (your articles) on their adsense pages. The thought is, no search engine in their right mind would ban or delete a valuable content site.
Put your adsense boxes on every page of your content site.
When it comes to Adsense, you have to think like your website visitor. What is it they are looking to buy? Don’t stick something on your site about “making money with your gardening passion” because the advertisers with Adsense are selling garden tools and equipment, not money making opportunities.
You need to make your content fit into the Adsense ads for the best results.
Now, write articles! 10, 20, 50 – keep writing and promoting your content site. Advertise your website in the resource box.
By following this format, you should make money from Google Adsense fairly quickly. Plus you’re building tons of quality content over time and you will have hundreds of articles all over the Internet working for you around the clock! That means your site will do better in the search engines due to all the incoming links!
This is one of those money machines that will "make money from the Internet"
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs
The diversity of opportunities that are opening up for bloggers to "make money from blogging" is just amazing
When bloggers seeking to "make money from blogging" spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.
The wonderful thing is that this is becoming easier and easier to do and many options opening up.
The best way to explain this would be to read the source of this article on "how to make money from blogging" by Darren Rowse
How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs "
When bloggers seeking to "make money from blogging" spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.
The wonderful thing is that this is becoming easier and easier to do and many options opening up.
The best way to explain this would be to read the source of this article on "how to make money from blogging" by Darren Rowse
How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs "
Saturday, 1 November 2008
Freelancing/ Blogging Job Links
In addition to monetizing your own blog with advertising spots, paid reviews, affiliate marketing, freelance jobs etc., there are many opportunities on the Net for getting paid for blogging and other freelance jobs.
Helium - Where publishers and freelancers meet. At Helium’s Marketplace, publishers post the titles they need articles for right now. "Publishers are paying from $20 to $200 for each selected article"
B5 Media
"They normally post their job openings for bloggers at ProBlogger"
ProBlogger
Lists a number of blogging opportunities on it’s site.
Associated Content
Associated Content invites everyone to contribute original video, text, audio and images on any topic to gain exposure and earn cash. AC offers upfront payments for some content submissions as well as a monthly Performance Bonus payment for all of your original content.
WiseOrb
Write articles on any of a vast array of topics, including product reviews, “how to” guides, holiday reviews, essays and much more. If approved by WiseOrb editors, Wise Orb will publish your article on this site, and pay you according to how popular the article is. You can write about whatever you like, as long as the article adheres to WiseOrb terms and conditions.
- Elance - Largest online freelance writing site
- Rentacoder - Largest coding freelance site
- Scriptlance - Writing gigs that are focused on programming
- Getafreelancer.com - Another reasonably good freelancing site
- Guru - Large outsourcing site with plenty of writing jobs
- Contracted Work - A medium sized contracting site
- Sologig - A medium sized contracting site
- Freelance.com - Freelance IT jobs
- Freelancers.net - Lists many jobs open to UK freelancers
- Blogger Jobs.biz - Career blogging listings
- Hotgigs
- Freelance Jobsearch
- AllFreelance.com
- Craigslist
- Naukri.com
- Monster.com
- iFreelance.com
- Project4Hire.com
- Freelance Jobs
- GetaFreelancer.com
- Constant Content
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Saturday, 25 October 2008
Freelancing - Planning Ahead
In freelance writing, it is essential that you plan ahead
for example, let us determine how much money you want to make and CAN make in the next 12 months. First, let us assume the salary you are seeking, say $30,000. Now, let's divide that number by 2,080 (based upon 40 hours per week over 1 year) and you will come up with $14.42 per hour (gross).
Every day, you would have to make over $105.00, and for every week you should set a target of $577.00.
Let us say you are unable to find a job for the first month, which means you have lost an estimate of $2,500, which eventually has to be added on to the yearly salary that you are seeking. So to play safe put in a two-month period [that the time tour search might take], which increases your annual salary target to $35,000, your hourly target to $16.80 or a daily target of $.134.40 [8 hours], or a weekly target of $.672.00 [40 hours]
Now make note of this;
1. Your targeted annual salary [12 months] – should be set at $.35,000
2. Your hourly rate that you plan to charge would have to be greater than $.16.80, let us say $.17.0
3. Divide the figure in #1 by your answer in #2 to get the total number of hours you need to work in the next 12 months to reach your goal.
4. Divide the answer in #3 by 2080 [based upon 40 hours per week over 1 year] to estimate the gain you would make and the time you would take to breakeven.
5. Then think about how many hours you would have to be putting in, on a weekly basis, so as to figure out how many clients it’s going to take to reach your goal.
6. The result you get here is how many hours a week you have to work to reach that goal. The only advantage is that you can also work on holidays and get paid on it. This, of course depends on your social life.
If this number seems unreasonable, then you need to go back and reassess your goals. Maybe you need to increase your rates or you need to decrease your goals.
Whatever may be the case, I sincerely hope it works out for you.
If you crack the freelance code and start charging a lot more for your services, you can make it to your goal with far-less hours and fewer clients than you have in mind, and beat out most of the freelancer writers out there who work without a profitable strategy.
Wish you the best in your freelance writing efforts
for example, let us determine how much money you want to make and CAN make in the next 12 months. First, let us assume the salary you are seeking, say $30,000. Now, let's divide that number by 2,080 (based upon 40 hours per week over 1 year) and you will come up with $14.42 per hour (gross).
Every day, you would have to make over $105.00, and for every week you should set a target of $577.00.
Let us say you are unable to find a job for the first month, which means you have lost an estimate of $2,500, which eventually has to be added on to the yearly salary that you are seeking. So to play safe put in a two-month period [that the time tour search might take], which increases your annual salary target to $35,000, your hourly target to $16.80 or a daily target of $.134.40 [8 hours], or a weekly target of $.672.00 [40 hours]
Now make note of this;
1. Your targeted annual salary [12 months] – should be set at $.35,000
2. Your hourly rate that you plan to charge would have to be greater than $.16.80, let us say $.17.0
3. Divide the figure in #1 by your answer in #2 to get the total number of hours you need to work in the next 12 months to reach your goal.
4. Divide the answer in #3 by 2080 [based upon 40 hours per week over 1 year] to estimate the gain you would make and the time you would take to breakeven.
5. Then think about how many hours you would have to be putting in, on a weekly basis, so as to figure out how many clients it’s going to take to reach your goal.
6. The result you get here is how many hours a week you have to work to reach that goal. The only advantage is that you can also work on holidays and get paid on it. This, of course depends on your social life.
If this number seems unreasonable, then you need to go back and reassess your goals. Maybe you need to increase your rates or you need to decrease your goals.
Whatever may be the case, I sincerely hope it works out for you.
If you crack the freelance code and start charging a lot more for your services, you can make it to your goal with far-less hours and fewer clients than you have in mind, and beat out most of the freelancer writers out there who work without a profitable strategy.
Wish you the best in your freelance writing efforts
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