In a recent blog post, I suggested that one way to make a little quick cash, if you’re a good writer, is to write articles.
But I also emphasized the “little” aspect of it. Unless you luck into writing articles for a really wonderful client, you will not find many people willing to pay well for articles. Why? Two reasons:
1.) Supply and demand. Not only has this economy flooded the market with people desperate to make an extra buck – many of them people who formerly worked as journalists or teachers, so they know how to write – but thanks to the internet, you are competing against people from developing countries who may charge as little as $1 an article.
2.) Many people are seeking affordable articles, not quality articles. A lot of people who seek article writers want to fill up blogs or websites with content, any content, as long as that content is stuffed with keywords. They want to use those articles to make money from adsense or other programs, or they want to use the articles for SEO purposes. They aren’t using the articles to build up their personal brand, so they don’t care less about whether the articles are well written or not; they make their profit by buying content in bulk, basically. It can be really challenging to find people willing to pay more than $5 to write an article or blog post. Which is ridiculous money and not worth the effort.
If you’re trying to make a living writing articles, and you are a good writer…I can just about guarantee that you’re not being paid what you’re worth.
So you should just give up, right? Find some other way to make money?
Well, no. I have used my writing skills to build up a solid online business. I know plenty of people who have done the same. It can be done.
Here are some tips to help you do the same:
- Write a few articles cheaply to get testimonials about your writing skills – and then move on! Writing articles full time is no way to earn a living wage these days.
- Write content that pays well. People pay more for: press releases, ebooks, ghostwriting, memoirs, white papers.
- Use your content to fill up your website and get people to come to your website, by giving away useful information. Then, when you have decent traffic, put adsense, affiliate ads, and banner ads on your site.
- Create info products about what you know and sell multiple short ebooks.
- Always use your writing to generate multiple streams of income. You will have busy months in some areas, and slow months in some areas. Ebooks will be selling well one month, and not the next month. Your affiliate sales will be ebb and flow.
And now, the shameless self promotion part of this blog post. Dawn Abraham is a copywriting genius who’s written articles that generated as much as $9000 in adsense income. That’s more money than most published authors make these days.
And when it comes to finding ways to make money from my writing, I’m not too shabby , if I do say so myself. We are teaming up to teach a teleclass which will take you step by step through how write articles that generate multiple streams of income. And I guarantee you this: If you pay attention in class, and follow the blueprint we lay out for you – you WILL make money with your writing! https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=166403983447910