Making Money with your Online Writings
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I am a full time writer, working at home (indeed!) and my home is (where my heart is) somewhere in Flanders, Belgium. I like online writing, because there are so many new tools and opportunities to it. This is not only a brand new market, it has also some brand new ways to tell your stories and get an audience. As an online writer, you are also something like a "multimedia director", working with text, pictures, audio, video, links, news feeds and so on... In fact, you are a "composer of content". Writing has become... well... exciting again!
Okay, that's great... but can you make a decent living only with this online writing business of yours? Mmm... Still not sure! Now, last year I did some research on this topic... and here are the results!
Okay, that's great... but can you make a decent living only with this online writing business of yours? Mmm... Still not sure! Now, last year I did some research on this topic... and here are the results!
Top 4 of Online Writing Hotspots, in no particular order:
----- 1./ Squidoo ----- 2./ Triond ----- 3./ Bukisa ----- 4./ Hubpages
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Now, dear fellow writers... Here are the goodies!
Must reads on the subject of "Online Writing".
Making Money with your Online Writings...
... at the HubPages...
... with some articles about blogging, internet marketing, Helium and Squidoo too!
- How to make money with your online writings
- A Very Personal Countdown and Top 7 of Get-Paid-With-Your- Online-Writing-Sites...
- Making Money on HubPages
- To be honest I don't remember how I came to HubPages! I started fulltime on the web, trying to earn an income, in September 07 and within a month I found HubPages. At the same time I revamped my existing blog, started a new blog and also later on added a blog to an existing website! I find now that I struggle to keep my own blogs going - mainly because I keep on coming back to HubPages. So what is the appeal of HubPages?
- Making Money Online - Article Writing Sites
- HubPages is an example of a site where writers can join and post their own articles, on subjects of their choice. Sites like this have several advantages over a blog.
- Blogging for Money
- Many Blog Websites advertise that you will make money with your blog. They are referring to Google AdSense Revenue. Some will allow you 100% of the AdSense Profit. Some will allow you a percentage like 50% or more.
- How to Make Money WRITING Online
- Do You Want to Write Spam, or Do You Want to Write? Do you dream of earning your living writing for the internet, but so far all you have earned is $3.62 from Google Adsense through your blog? Would you like to turn that $3.62 into $3,620 in only four weeks? Well guess what?
- Earn at least $500 per month from Just Blogging
- You might dismiss the idea of making money online as an impossible task. If you think making money blogging is tough, then actually it is. That fact explains why millions (or can I even say billions) of bloggers do not make money even if they try hard. Yet, bloggers are making money - they are not professionals - house wives, baby sitting moms in their spare time and most part-time students and workers. How do they make money? Because, they know the tools and methods to make money. I am going to teach them here for you.
- Quit Blogging for just a few cents: Blogging to Bank Review
- At least half of the bloggers who venture into blogging wants to earn plenty of money. 90% of the bloggers who want to earn money fail miserably. I must admit that I was like them once.
- Helium.com: Writing for Fun or Writing for Money?
- Helium.com is a site where you are paid to post articles. The question on most people's lips is - is the money worthwhile? On the face of it, the answer is no - but it depends where you are in your writing career.
- HubPages and Internet Marketing
- Hubpages the New Squidoo? I have seen some comments recently about using Squidoo and increasingly HubPages for Internet Marketing - there is more and more talk about HubPages in the Internet Marketing forums so I thought I would get in first.
- HubPages or Squidoo?
- What's the difference? What's the same? HubPages and Squidoo are alike in that they both allow the user to earn money by creating unique content and sharing that content with the host site. People using both sites are trying to drive more traffic to their own web pages, or make money from home, or have a web presence without their own site.
Other Sites for Online Writers
(Other than Squidoo or HubPages... that is!)
Triond...
... works with a bunch of "associated sites".
You can take an account with Triond, or you can work with one or more of these sites:
- Writinghood
- Literature/Online Writing/Style/Writing/Writing Business
- Seven Websites to Write Reviews and Make Money Online
- This article was published on Writinghood.
- Bookstove
- Autobiography/Book Talk/Children/Classics/Comedy/Crime/Drama/Fantasy/Historical Fiction/
Manga/Non-fiction/Poetry/Romance/Science Fiction/
Thriller - The Definitive Guido to Making Money Online With Your Writing
- This is a review of the (2008) book, "The Definitive Guide To Making Money Online With Your Writing" by Clark R. Covington, published on Bookstove.
- You Don't Want to Commit an Imperfect Murder, Do You?
- This article was published on Purpeslinky: humor, jokes, offbeat and trivia.
- I Will... Say "Hi!"
- Authspot is the only site I know where you can make real money with your poetry. Here is a poem of mine.
Inside Authspot: Biographies/Fan Fiction/Journals/Letters/Lyrics/Novels/Plays/Poetry/Quotes/Rap/Scripts/Short Stories/Tales/Thoughts - Why is Saint Anthony holding the Child Jesus?
- Publish your photographs, together with the story, on Picable... and get paid for it!
- Vampire Thoughts
- Get your audio drama or Spoken Word on Loudio!
Various sites...
... where you can earn money with your online writings:
- Associated Content
- I'm not that long on Associated Content, to say much about it. They have a very interesting Upfront Payment option, and it's a good site to publish "audio" or "slideshows" on.
- Helium
- "Do you know home remedies to cure a cold, how to home-school a child, or the best places to dine in your hometown? Share your expertise! When you write at Helium, you help inform millions, earn money, get recognized and build your portfolio." - Helium is indeed a "marketplace" for online writers: there are writing contests here, and journalism awards, and a lot of "writer resources"... But again, you have to read - and rate! - all those articles written by other authors... and that isn't always fun! And if you are writing on Helium, there are no nice video-, photo-, news-, links- and other layout toys, no great tools like you have on Squidoo, Triond or the HubPages. And just dull plain text, that isn't really what the web is all about... is it?
- PrintnPost
- I was there some time, but I constantly got lost on this site, so I posted only a few articles and printed none. And again, it's pretty boring if you don't get some interactive and multimedia tools, that make the HubPages, Triond or Squidoo a real playground for online writers.
- Constant Content
- Buy (or Sell) here Unique Articles, Tutorials, and Purchase all types of Content for a Magazine or a Website.
- Ground Report
- You can rate stories, post your news and earn money on GroundReport.
- Writer's Digest
- The Writer's Digest Best 101 Websites! "Whether you're looking for quotes, advice, markets, critiques-or just a place to meet other writers online-we've got you covered. Our annual roundup of websites is here, so grab your computer and start surfing."
Various Blogs on Making Money With Your Online Writings
- I'm a Six Figure Blogger
- Facts and figures!
- John Chow Dot Com
- 2007 Income Report!
- Write and Earn a Living
- By Athlyn Green
- MySpace Patrick Bernauw
- With a lot of "Writer Resources" as "Friends".
Great Writing Stuff on CafePress
RSS: Online Writing Jobs Feed
A Great Market Place for Online Writers!
Be my guest and leave here some feedback!
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dc64
Mar 25, 2009 @ 12:04 pm | delete
- Very good information with many avenues to explore.
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The_Lost_Dutchman Nov 23, 2008 @ 12:16 pm | in reply to SteveWilliams | delete
- HubPages is, together with Triond and Squidoo, an excellent place to be for online writers, Steve! Succes!
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SteveWilliams
Nov 23, 2008 @ 12:08 pm | delete
- This is a really great lens with a lot of information. It's clear you've spent a lot of time on it and it reads really well. Thanks for putting this up here. I'm just signing up for Hubpages so hopefully I'll like it!
All the best,
Steve
http://www.squidoo.com/skinnyvinnydelmonte
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