HOW TO EARN MONEY WHILE WRITING
HOW TO EARN MONEY WHILE WRITING
While there are websites that give you a part of the revenue your article generates, it is often difficult for writers wanting to get paid really well, without having to wait for years for their earnings to accrue, to benefit from these websites.Here are the Five ways you can earn while writing;
1- Writing Blogs
The most obvious one is writing Blogs.But hey they do have benefits;
Writing for blogs typically means:
- Regular work – often writing one or more posts every week
- Flexibility over what you write about – most of the time, I’ve chosen my own topics
- Quick payments, usually via PayPal
- The chance to get your work in front of tens of thousands of people
How Much Does Paid Blogging Make?
I’ve been paid anything from $20 – $300 per post, depending on the length and complexity. Around $50 for a 750 word post is a decent rate.Magazines often pay more per word – but they’ll also have longer turn-arounds, and higher requirements.
These days, when I write paid blog posts, I usually make $70/hour. (Including admin time.) I write fast! This is also my current standard hourly rate for any freelance writing.
2. Website Advertising
Nowadays, most of my advertising income is from people who pay to have a link or banner ad up on my site on my other blogs.Advertising is a long-term strategy. It took me eleven months to get that first Google Adsense cheque – but since then, the time that I invested on writing content has really paid off. If you’re a fast writer, and if you’re willing to put in the work to build a popular website, then you may well be able to make good advertising revenue.
3- Affiliate Promotions
A small proportion of my income comes from affiliate sales. When I write a review of a product, I normally link to it with a special URL that lets me get commission on any sales that I make.
This is one of my smallest revenue streams, largely because I don’t review books and products all that often, and I don’t like to be pushy about them.Whenever I use an affiliate link, it’s for a product that I own and that I like – I’ll only promote things that I’m happy to be associated with.
4. Ebook Sales
If you’re writing business-related ebooks (rather than novels or popular non-fiction) then you can charge almost any amount that your audience will pay. A few years ago, it wasn’t uncommon to find ebooks that cost $97 or even more.
These days, with the rise in popularity of e-readers like the Kindle, people are getting used to cheap ebooks. You can still position yours as a premium product, especially if it contains specialist information and includes bonuses like audio interviews or video tutorials. Anything from $10 – $50 could work, depending on your topic and the length of your ebook.
Alternatively, you could create a much cheaper ebook aimed at a wide audience and sell it through Amazon (and potentially other ebook stores).
As to how many you’ll sell … that depends on how large and responsive your audience is. I sometimes guest post on much bigger blogs (like ProBlogger, Write to Done and The Write Life) to get my ebooks in front of more people.
5. Running E-courses
- Ecourses are a great way to have some small-group interaction with people who don’t want or can’t afford one-to-one coaching.
- They’re incredibly fun – I get to see members cheering one another on, conquering new challenges, and so on.
- When I run courses live, with a group, they take up a lot of energy and time. It’s not just a case of writing the materials – I’m showing up to answer questions, to encourage people and so on. There’s also a lot more admin involved.
- With membership site software (I use Digital Access Pass), it’s easy to set up an ecourse to run automatically when a new member joins: this is what happens for On Track. Members get a new module ever seven days, and can join at any time.
So here are the list hope it helped.
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