Well in part 1 of this series we discussed affiliate programs for making money online. Today we will shift our focus to something a little different.
If you would like to earn a living online one of the best ways to do so is through article writing. There is a huge demand out there of FREELANCE writers. The main advantage to being a freelance writer is that you can singup with different freelance writer sites for free. and write and publish articles about what you are interested in, as well as about what you are knowledgeable in.
One of the premier sites for beginner writers is http://www.hubpages.com/ This site allows you to write articles about anything that interests you, and as you write articles you are able to watch your article, as well as your profile ratings move up or down. As you get better and better at writing articles your profile rating goes up, This means that your article content is good, as well as the way you present it is improving. Hub pages is also a free site. It costs nothing to sign up and begin to write and post articles. Another nice feature is that they have several affiliate programs that you can join for free and begin to make money with your articles. Some of the affiliate programs they offer are google AdSense and amazon.
The Biggest challenge for beginner writers (myself included) is passion. In order to write articles that will captivate your audience, the writer must have a passion for what they are writing about. Passion is vital for the writer to be able to write knowledgeable, informative articles in a way that brings across their message in a way that is both interesting to the reader as well as showcase the writers ability to inform the reader of what the article is all about.
Another challenge for writers is TIME MANAGEMENT. Ahhhhhhhh i hit upon the very thing that most of us struggle with. As a writer myself i find that it is so easy to become distracted by all of the other things online. I follow some other writers myself, and i find that i can spend allot of time surfing the net reading other writers articles, and before i know it my times up and i have not yet gotten around to writing my own article. If you what to make money online, you must manage your time so that you can post articles regularly. If you do not post articles regularly you will find that any followers that you might have, or any that would like to follow your articles because of the content will fall by the wayside. As these followers begin to fall by the wayside they stop clicking on your adds, and most importantly, they stop telling others about this AWESOME site where they found some very valuable information about said topic.
So while it is very important to follow other writers, so that you can keep up with what others are writing about, as well as to keep on top of what the HOT topics of the day/week are. DO NOT let this take up all your time.
Without writing and posting your own articles regularly, you will not make money online as an article writer.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
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