Writers can increase their earnings, it just takes a little time, a lot of Internet friends and loyal followers, and a good sense of humor. The humor is needed when you see how little you have earned while building up a respectable article portfolio, and that could take 2 to 3 years. With at least 500 articles writers should be able to generate at least $50 to $100 per month on royalties alone. This may not sound like a lot, but with most sites paying around $1.50 per 1,000 page views, making a hundred bucks a month all of a sudden seems rather lucrative on 500 articles. Now, bear in mind that not all of your articles are going to be read every month, many of them should be seasonal and only read during the times of year that they are written about.
In order to increase your earnings you need to spread yourself out, advertise your works through social networking sites like LinkedIn and Twitter, and write to timely, popular topics. Writing mainly to news stories may give you decent page view numbers for a short while, but in the long run they will taper off and even dry up. It's always best to write about topics that people will want to read about all year long, and throw in some seasonal material, like spring break destinations, how to save money at Christmas, home maintenance and repair, automotive repairs, home theater and smart phones.
Another great way to increase your earnings is to write and publish your own blogs, again using timely topics, topics that stand the test of time, and topics that are popular all year round. You can add a section to your blog for article sales, and post some of your best articles in .pdf format. Only give a synopsis of your articles, with about 20% of each one shown. Charge about $10 to $25, depending upon how much research went into them.
You can also increase your earnings by joining AdSense, and have Amazon and other retailers advertise on your blogs. When someone who is on your blog clicks on an advertisement and then purchases something from the site that they are linked to, you will earn a percentage of what they spend.
Now, using any one of these methods can help you to make a little extra spending money, but when you combine all of them the earnings can really start to add up. The real question is are you willing to take the time to get a good-sized and well-written article base of at least 1,000 articles?
A lot of writers, and people who write (those who refer to themselves as "professional writers") give up trying to earn money after having only 30 to 50 articles posted at an online writing site like Helium,com or Yahoo!, and most of these people's articles don't make much money anyways, mostly due to being written in the first person, having poor grammar and lots of spelling errors, as well as writing to topics that wouldn't be popular.
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In order to increase your earnings you need to spread yourself out, advertise your works through social networking sites like LinkedIn and Twitter, and write to timely, popular topics. Writing mainly to news stories may give you decent page view numbers for a short while, but in the long run they will taper off and even dry up. It's always best to write about topics that people will want to read about all year long, and throw in some seasonal material, like spring break destinations, how to save money at Christmas, home maintenance and repair, automotive repairs, home theater and smart phones.
Another great way to increase your earnings is to write and publish your own blogs, again using timely topics, topics that stand the test of time, and topics that are popular all year round. You can add a section to your blog for article sales, and post some of your best articles in .pdf format. Only give a synopsis of your articles, with about 20% of each one shown. Charge about $10 to $25, depending upon how much research went into them.
You can also increase your earnings by joining AdSense, and have Amazon and other retailers advertise on your blogs. When someone who is on your blog clicks on an advertisement and then purchases something from the site that they are linked to, you will earn a percentage of what they spend.
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Now, using any one of these methods can help you to make a little extra spending money, but when you combine all of them the earnings can really start to add up. The real question is are you willing to take the time to get a good-sized and well-written article base of at least 1,000 articles?
A lot of writers, and people who write (those who refer to themselves as "professional writers") give up trying to earn money after having only 30 to 50 articles posted at an online writing site like Helium,com or Yahoo!, and most of these people's articles don't make much money anyways, mostly due to being written in the first person, having poor grammar and lots of spelling errors, as well as writing to topics that wouldn't be popular.
It is possible to make money with online RS sites, but it takes as much commitment as any other...job. Disillusioned writers often think what they write should become instantly popular and widely read simply because they put pen to paper (figuratively).
ReplyDeleteJust like any other art, writing appeals to some. Good writing appeals to more. Great writing is hard to find and is sought after by voracious readers.
Historically, writers are not popular with their contemporaries. Perhaps, the internet has not changed writing in this way.
Red.
I am one who thinks that writing is not a job, it is more of a calling to me. Whether what I write intrigues you, makes you chuckle, makes you hate me or love me, as long as it invokes some sort of emotion then I have done my "job"...
ReplyDeleteThanks for your 2 cent's worth, Red!