In this big bad economy there are few ways easier to make money than by blogging. If you have an opinion a dozen hours a week and a few weeks to learn the ins and outs you can start making money online. I am going to detail a few steps that will earn you more money in a month than most other bloggers will earn ever.
The fact is most bloggers never make money with their blog because they never put any effort into making money. At most bloggers slap up a few adsense banners and call it good. That is not good enough for me, and it shouldn’t be good enough for you either. The average blogger is doing good to get their $100.00 adsense payout in 18 months, most never get paid before they give up. Adsense however is not the only way to make money online, and surely not the best.
The other options include CPC advertisers where you get paid each time someone clicks on an ad. CPA advertisers where a person has to click on an add and do something on the page that loads. CPS ads where a person has to make buy something for the blogger to make money. Then there is the fine are of writing for profits which can be done two ways.
The first and easiest way to get started in when it comes to writing for money are with pay per post programs. You sign up with the pay per post company, like the ones I list at the bottom of the page and then you look for opportunities to sign up for. If you are accepted into the pay per post offer, you write your post following all the guidelines and submit it within the given time limit. In one to seven days depending on which company you wrote the post for they will either accept or reject the post based on their standards. If they accept it you can expect payment somewhere between seven and thirty days depending on their pay out schedules. It is that easy. Read the rest of the Fabulous Article
That Editing Thing
By Tom Howe
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
~ Justice Brandeis
I’ve been a writer for many years, since I’m so old and everything, so have spent many and many an hour editing. A lot more hours editing than writing, actually, so it’s well into the thousands of hours by now. I had become as good at it as any non-objective person could be, I thought. Not that I figured I could make something of mine perfect at all. But I did think I had mastered most of the tricks of the trade, at least, and knew my own mind well enough to realize it when I felt something needed to be changed from the original words.
I was wrong, again. Learnage ho.
You see there’s this thing, this feeling. It’s very subtle, at least in me, and hardly even there at all, unless you know to look for it. It’s the kind of thing you only learn after countless similar experiences, because you can’t even see it unless you’ve been looking in that direction so long you are almost blind and have to use your ears to see.
It’s a way to tell when something is wrong. Read the rest of the Fabulous Article
Writers - Getting Your Writing Edited - Resources and Reasons
By Meggin McIntosh
Small business owners, entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, speakers, and of course, authors, know that we need to get our writing out on the internet and in print where people can find us. It’s possible that you have had questions similar to these:
“I’ve been doing more writing lately and I would like to have articles published in magazines and on the internet. However, I worry sometimes that my grammar, punctuation, and other “mechanics of writing” knowledge is lacking in some areas. Should I be overly concerned about this? Before something gets published, I’ll need to have an editor look at it anyway. Isn’t that what editors are for? Correcting grammar and punctuation? I’ve heard about using college students who are English majors to edit our work. They will probably be a lot cheaper than a professional. Any advice on this?
Regardless of whether you are writing as an English teacher, professor, or professional writer, we all need to have someone else edit our work. We are too close to what we’ve written and we always need (at least) a second pair of eyes to take a look at what we’ve written.
Part of why we need to be concerned about additional editing ‘eyes’ is because if there are words misspelled in our articles or on our websites, there are people who can’t focus on anything else except our mistakes! I work with super smart people so I know this to be true! So before you send an article into a publisher, you need to have someone else read it and find/fix any typos, misspellings, incorrect grammar, etc. If you are sending something to a refereed journal or to a book publisher, they will clean it up even further if the article/manuscript is accepted, but we always want to put our best foot forward to make a good impression.
There are a number of places where you can get assistance on this:
- A good friend (who is also a great editor) who is happy to do this for you for free.
- A good friend or colleague that is happy to do this - and will be happy to have you do something for him/her. Just a trade/barter situation.
- Someone you hire (top notch high school student, college student, stay-at-home mom/dad who wants to earn a little extra money and will do proofing & editing for you, elance.com or some other service where you can find copy editors, etc.) Just search the internet and you’ll find a multitude of folks who can help you. I would recommend making sure that they are native speakers of whatever language you are writing in, however.
So see if you can find someone to take a look at your work before you post it on your website or submit it to a publishing house, magazine, journal, etc. It’s worth the effort and the minimum expense it may involve.
And if you want additional ideas for moving your small business forward, be sure to consult the Life of E’s blog:
http://meggin.com/lifeofes/wordpress/
Topics ranging from money to productivity to speaking to writing to coaching to business set-up and more are featured there.
And, to make sure you are productive in your personal and professional life, you’ll want to access the resources at
**http://www.TopTenProductivityTips.com
(c) 2009 by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D., “The Ph.D. of Productivity”(tm)
Through her company, Emphasis on Excellence, Inc., Meggin McIntosh changes what people know, feel, dream, and do via seminars, workshops, writing, coaching, & consulting.
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5 Things to Do When You’re Experiencing Writer’s Burnout
By Bobbi Linkemer
The word burnout was not even in my vocabulary when I first started writing. I knew I would never tire of it, never want to do anything else, never stop. I wrote at every opportunity. Looking back, I don’t know how I did it, except that I was young and obsessed. I ran on adrenaline and addiction to writing, I suppose. All I wanted in life was to write full time.
Strangely, that addiction has never wavered. I have been writing for 40 years and can’t think of anything I would rather do. Yet, having said that, I must admit that I have been worn out, exhausted, and blocked more than a few times over the years. Being a full-time writer means you write all the time. That’s pretty much all you do, except for gathering the information you will write about.
For the first 20 years, I had a series of great writing jobs, ranging from managing a city magazine to managing a marketing communications department. If I was burned out at that point, it was more with the vicissitudes of corporate life than with writing. But, to be sure, I was burned out.
For the second half my work life, I have been a business owner - a one-woman band who, in addition to writing, does everything else. When frustration has reared its head, it has been caused by the need to create some sort of balance among work, life, and the unbelievable number of administrative and financial tasks that come with the job.
The writing has been challenging, comprising virtually every industry, every subject, and every genre. The variety has stretched me, educated me, and stimulated me. What has driven me crazy is the uncertainty of finding work when there is too little, doing the work when there is too much, holding on to the work in the midst of a chaotic business environment, and continuing to love the work, no matter what it entails. Keeping all of those balls in the air all the time sometimes seems impossible. It is certainly a recipe for burning out. Read the rest of the Fabulous Article
Article Writing: Writing For The Internet by Roberto Bell
Here are the most pertinent instructions for selecting right approach for writing extremely good pieces of writing on Internet. You have to put up your articles on sale in case you write for money. You must understand your business better than others who are not required to sell their writings. Our focus here will be on skills needed for writing articles instead of qualities required for selling them.
The Foremost Rule You should write according to the taste of your intended reader, not according to your own personal taste. This means that you need to explore, identify, and target your message towards specific readers with specific interests. For instance, in an article on the financial market you can’t target grandmothers looking for designs of knitting. You need to write your message according to the comprehension of target readers. No one will understand even correct stuff until and unless it is presented properly.
Keep in mind that people who browse the Internet are impatient. They click off the material once they read something that is not pertinent to their cause, and they only linger on an article that they consider important and pleasing. Read the rest of the Fabulous Article
