Lots of extra money waiting to be made from $5 articles
by Christopher Kyalo
Published on this site: July 27th, 2005 - See
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There is probably no easier way of earning extra money online.
Yet many people ignore online writing and lose all that extra
money, mainly because they get put off by those single digit
dollar rates. $5 is a common one.
But even as you read this, more and more writers are making
lots of extra money online and some are even making a living
writing articles. Yes, they're doing it writing $5 articles
and even $3 articles.
Writers were never meant to be good in math so let us make
a brief comparison here between online writers earning lots
of extra money with $5 articles and offline writers writing $500 articles to earn their extra
money.
The $500 article writer starts off sending queries to several
magazines. If they are really good at this marketing side
of freelance writing (most writers are not), they will probably
end up with about two assignments by the end of the week.
That's $1,000, which is not bad, but hold your horses a while.
The article is not yet written, some research will be required.
Usually this will take two to three days per article, and
only if the writer is lucky and is able to find sources and
the information he needs quickly. So let us say that they
will probably take a week to research and write the two $500 articles. The truth is that
only very good and experienced writers can accomplish this.
The writer seeking to earn extra money from his writing (or
worse still to make a living) will need another two weeks
or so, sometimes much longer, for an editor to make a decision
on the article and communicate this information to them. If
they are extremely lucky, by the end of the month they'll
have their $2,000 in extra money or income in their account.
But as any experienced writer will tell you, it rarely happens
quite like that. Inevitably there will be delays. Maybe the
article will be sent back for a re-write or the editor will
have a bad or really hectic week (happens all the time) and
it will take longer. The list of usual and possible problems
is too long to go into here.
Now let us see how the poor, desperate $5 per article writer
is doing trying to earn extra money. If they can write fast,
they will be doing 10-15 articles per day. (some writers do 20 comfortably). All the research is
done online for articles ranging from 300 to 500 words. No
delays in their efforts to earn extra money or make a living
from their online writing. 15 articles per day will give a
writer an income of about $2,250 in 30 days. That's very good
extra money. And thanks to services like Paypal, many keyword
writing programs pay shortly after the article has been delivered
via email.
Granted, this may not be a lot of money, but it is excellent
extra money, earned easily by a writer doing what they enjoy
most - writing. And what a great way to launch a writing career even as you earn lots of extra
money. From the reputation you build up over time, you can
at the same time be targeting bigger writing jobs.
I started with $2.50cts articles. Mostly out of curiosity,
I wanted to see if I could really get paid and earn some extra
money. Gradually I realized that a four-figure monthly income
was easy to achieve. Later I was able to land $500 assignments
(mainly from offline magazines, but everything was done online).
Still $2.50cts online writing assignments remained my bread
and butter for a long time. The rest is history.
You could be ignoring your big opportunity to earn easy extra
money online from your writing, even as you find your feet
as a writer. It's easy extra money if nothing else.
Christopher Kyalo earns a living writing online. Visit
his writing blog at http://100grandonlinewriters.blogspot.com
and join his free e-course on how to make money from online
writing by sending a blank email NOW to writertips at freeautobot.com
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not making
a living at doing what they most enjoy." - Malcolm S.
Forbes (1919-1990)
Live this dream, send a blank email NOW to:- [email protected]
Or visit http://www.big-online-story.blogspot.com
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