One topic I'm getting into a lot in this blogs is different online venues that allow writers to post and promote their own work with the potential of making money. Again, each of these places do things a little differently. On Associated Content you have several publication options, which includes upfront payment under some circumstances. On Hub Pages, the writer's earnings come entirely from ad revenue, and to make a little money you will have to sign up for those different services and activate them on your Hub pages account after you have posted several good hubs. AC is more journalistic, but hub pages can also get a lot of traffic and has a fun and artistically appealing interface for creating your 'Hubs'. Helium is another website that allows people who like to write to earn money from sharing their work.
It is possible to write for all three of these places, and several others, at the same time. It should be noted that to do it well you're not going to be able to focus on three or more at once unless you have time to treat it like a full time job. Over time, if you experiment with several and link some of your work together, you will up your traffic and earn more. If you are not already doing this and want to try one to begin with, I'd suggest that you join Associated Content first , look through the notes here, and then start experimenting with the other options. There are a lot of options, but AC is one good place you can start that I can verify payment from.
Showing posts with label article writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label article writing. Show all posts
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Creating Links to You Blogs With Articles
If you start writing and submitting freelance articles, you may have opportunities to add links to related information. If you are also a blogger or run a website, you can use this to increase the traffic to your outside work with visitors you already know will be interested in the subject matter you are talking about. If your blog has business aspects, this could increase interest in your skills and products. If you do affiliate work, it will also increase the number of people who may take an interest in those other aspects of your pages.
When adding links to articles that you submit to various services, be careful to pay attention to the guidelines. They will differ from publisher to publisher. You should try to make sure that your links in general are related to the subject matter of your article. Many publisher's and clients don't want articles that sound like a sales pitch, but don't mind you sharing other content if it is relevant.
For instance, I play piano and write songs, and have developed a blog of notes for musicians and music lovers. You can find it at http://nicolettesmusicnotes.blogspot.com . When I write articles about piano, songwriting or music theory, I take it as an opportunity to lead people back to my personal work outside the sites I submit articles to.
When adding links to articles that you submit to various services, be careful to pay attention to the guidelines. They will differ from publisher to publisher. You should try to make sure that your links in general are related to the subject matter of your article. Many publisher's and clients don't want articles that sound like a sales pitch, but don't mind you sharing other content if it is relevant.
For instance, I play piano and write songs, and have developed a blog of notes for musicians and music lovers. You can find it at http://nicolettesmusicnotes.blogspot.com . When I write articles about piano, songwriting or music theory, I take it as an opportunity to lead people back to my personal work outside the sites I submit articles to.
Associated Content: Writer's Market for Articles
Associated Content is another writer's market for articles that is worth checking out. You can earn money writing articles for Associated Content in a variety of ways. Some of the revenue for authors is performance based, and as more people take interest and read the articles you submit your earnings increase. They also offer assignments targeted to the writer's skills which pay specific amounts. If your writing is very good, they may select your work for up front payment rather than performance based payment. Like with Constant Content, you can make choices about weather you are sharing specific articles exclusively, or whether you'd like to retain the right to republish wherever you want.
To try it out for yourself, go to Associated content, create a profile, and start sharing your writing.
As I explore Associated Content, Constant Content, Ezine Articles and other organizations that help writer's promote their work I'll be reviewing the pro's and con's of each here. If you stumble through and have exeriences and ideas you'd like to share, feel free to comment.
To try it out for yourself, go to Associated content, create a profile, and start sharing your writing.
As I explore Associated Content, Constant Content, Ezine Articles and other organizations that help writer's promote their work I'll be reviewing the pro's and con's of each here. If you stumble through and have exeriences and ideas you'd like to share, feel free to comment.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Promoting Yourself with Ezine Articles
For a budding freelance writer, getting involved with Ezine articles may be another good idea. Ezine does not pay you for your work, but sharing some of your work through Ezine gets a lot of exposure for some people. Authors post articles on whatever they would like, and a team of editors reviews the material to determine that it's quality work and follows their guidelines.
You'll probably remember having read someones article about something on Ezine at some point, and that's a good sign if you want people to read and be aware of your work. Ezine stores the articles shared there and makes them available, free of charge, to people who want content for their blogs and websites. People using content from Ezine can select up to 25 articles per year to share in their own projects. They are required to leave the name of the author on the article, publish as written without editing, and include the author's "resource box" with the article. In the resource box you can share links to information about your topic, links to your blog or website, and ways to contact you. Allowing others to share your work in this way gets it out there, and interested readers may find their way to your work elsewhere in this fashion. Whether you are trying to get clients for freelance gigs, or people to check out your web based business, this kind of exposure can ultimately lead to good press and new opportunities.
If you keep a blog or have a website, you may also be able to use good articles you find on Ezine, to add to your own unique pages. Sure, if your readers like what they see, they may go off and check out the writer's other haunts on the web- but that's not always a bad thing. If your site is that useful they'll be back, because they know you have fresh and helpful material. If it's not useful or interesting, well then, maybe you need to improve. *wink* Cross linking such articles can also give you an opportunity to befriend other writer's, -which often leads to link sharing, more traffic, and the joy of having people to chatter back and fourth with once in a while.
To start sharing articles on Ezine, simply go to their site and create a profile. You can link your blogs and website's to your author profile there, as well as share a short biography and other information. When you post your first article you'll learn more about what their rules for posting are. You will save yourself some time by reading and understanding the guidelines. For instance: it's okay to put a link in your author' resource box to a website that sells products and services in your own business. It's not however okay to write an article that is really a sales pitch for your products. You're limited on the number of links you can add, so pick wisely. At first, you can submit up to ten articles. If you're somewhat prolific and good at writing, the powers that be at Ezine will raise that- so make sure you share useful and well written material.
http://ezinearticles.com/
Have fun! If you stumble across this post and have Ezine articles you'd like to share, feel free to leave a link in the comments.
You'll probably remember having read someones article about something on Ezine at some point, and that's a good sign if you want people to read and be aware of your work. Ezine stores the articles shared there and makes them available, free of charge, to people who want content for their blogs and websites. People using content from Ezine can select up to 25 articles per year to share in their own projects. They are required to leave the name of the author on the article, publish as written without editing, and include the author's "resource box" with the article. In the resource box you can share links to information about your topic, links to your blog or website, and ways to contact you. Allowing others to share your work in this way gets it out there, and interested readers may find their way to your work elsewhere in this fashion. Whether you are trying to get clients for freelance gigs, or people to check out your web based business, this kind of exposure can ultimately lead to good press and new opportunities.
If you keep a blog or have a website, you may also be able to use good articles you find on Ezine, to add to your own unique pages. Sure, if your readers like what they see, they may go off and check out the writer's other haunts on the web- but that's not always a bad thing. If your site is that useful they'll be back, because they know you have fresh and helpful material. If it's not useful or interesting, well then, maybe you need to improve. *wink* Cross linking such articles can also give you an opportunity to befriend other writer's, -which often leads to link sharing, more traffic, and the joy of having people to chatter back and fourth with once in a while.
To start sharing articles on Ezine, simply go to their site and create a profile. You can link your blogs and website's to your author profile there, as well as share a short biography and other information. When you post your first article you'll learn more about what their rules for posting are. You will save yourself some time by reading and understanding the guidelines. For instance: it's okay to put a link in your author' resource box to a website that sells products and services in your own business. It's not however okay to write an article that is really a sales pitch for your products. You're limited on the number of links you can add, so pick wisely. At first, you can submit up to ten articles. If you're somewhat prolific and good at writing, the powers that be at Ezine will raise that- so make sure you share useful and well written material.
http://ezinearticles.com/
Have fun! If you stumble across this post and have Ezine articles you'd like to share, feel free to leave a link in the comments.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Constant Content: Writer's Market for Articles
Constant Content is an online resource for writer's and people who need written content to interface with each other. It is possible to buy and sell articles through constant content, and retain much of the control over who buys your work at what price. Options are available to sell licences for specific articles, and you retain the right to publish them elsewhere while making a few bucks by sharing your work. You can also sell unique rights to things you write, at which point the purchasing party can republish in any manner with or without your byline. A higher price can be charged for unique rights, although you'll find that the average amounts offered for good articles are more reasonable in favor of the author than some other services.
I am very new to trying Constant Content, and can already see a variety of great things about it, and a few potential pitfalls. I'll evaluate it further here as I experiment with it more. If you'd like to check the service out, here's a link:
Constant Content
I am very new to trying Constant Content, and can already see a variety of great things about it, and a few potential pitfalls. I'll evaluate it further here as I experiment with it more. If you'd like to check the service out, here's a link:
Constant Content
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Blogging Basics #1 – Content Specific Writing
Different services provide many types of opportunities for people who like to write. Social networks such as LiveJournal, Facebook and MySpace provide places for people to share their daily stories and link up with one another.
The next step for many people that get into that is to write content specific blogs, which can provide useful information and endless hours of fun for web surfers. Most internet traffic goes to sites that center on specific topics. This is probably because the average surfer does searches that are interest based, which lead them to material about the particular interest they have in mind. This can lead to a lot of traffic on a content centered blog, much more than one might expect from a generalized journal on a social network. For those who are interested in making money with their writing, Content specific blogs are eligible for advertising from affiliates and other options which may generate some pocket change.
Affiliate advertising has it's pro's and con's. For one, if you are trying to run any kind of business that is related to a blog you write, it may not be in your best interest to use outside advertising on your page. If you have a product or service of your own to sell, you don't want to pull your potential customers off your page and send them somewhere else. At the same time, the potential audience you have on the Internet is very broad. Sometimes getting involved in social networks that are related to your business may draw you more positive attention. A balanced common sense approach should help you figure out weather or not advertising would be advantageous for you, and in which ways.
Blogging has another positive result for freelance writers. It puts your work out there and allows others to see informal examples of your capabilities. If you want to get into writing on a professional level, using blogging to increase your visibility as a writer is a good move.
By default, blogging is great practice for other writing projects. If you start blogging, or keep going with developing things you have already put together, other kinds of writing projects are very natural. Unlike 20 years ago, this technopalloza opens up a lot of doors for people who are talented at writing. It is not difficult to self publish your own books, or to get into writing articles professionally. It has a great appeal to many people- what other job can you do while still in your pajamas's and drinking copious amounts of coffee?
The next step for many people that get into that is to write content specific blogs, which can provide useful information and endless hours of fun for web surfers. Most internet traffic goes to sites that center on specific topics. This is probably because the average surfer does searches that are interest based, which lead them to material about the particular interest they have in mind. This can lead to a lot of traffic on a content centered blog, much more than one might expect from a generalized journal on a social network. For those who are interested in making money with their writing, Content specific blogs are eligible for advertising from affiliates and other options which may generate some pocket change.
Affiliate advertising has it's pro's and con's. For one, if you are trying to run any kind of business that is related to a blog you write, it may not be in your best interest to use outside advertising on your page. If you have a product or service of your own to sell, you don't want to pull your potential customers off your page and send them somewhere else. At the same time, the potential audience you have on the Internet is very broad. Sometimes getting involved in social networks that are related to your business may draw you more positive attention. A balanced common sense approach should help you figure out weather or not advertising would be advantageous for you, and in which ways.
Blogging has another positive result for freelance writers. It puts your work out there and allows others to see informal examples of your capabilities. If you want to get into writing on a professional level, using blogging to increase your visibility as a writer is a good move.
By default, blogging is great practice for other writing projects. If you start blogging, or keep going with developing things you have already put together, other kinds of writing projects are very natural. Unlike 20 years ago, this technopalloza opens up a lot of doors for people who are talented at writing. It is not difficult to self publish your own books, or to get into writing articles professionally. It has a great appeal to many people- what other job can you do while still in your pajamas's and drinking copious amounts of coffee?
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