Dana Prince on June 19th, 2009

Vinefire is a website that promises to pay you if it gets bought up by a bigger company. So, it’s a gamble. You could spend hours every day promoting on the site and it could land you nowhere. It could flop.  So, since Vinefire is being very up front and honest about this, why are so many people giving it a whirl? What if Vinefire is a scam? It can’t really be  scam if they’re not making any promises, right?

Vinefire Marketing

What is Vinefire? It’s a simple page filled with links. People visit to promote their links and they read the other links present. Others who offer money making advice are posting plenty of links on this page so while you play and see if you’ll earn money,  you could be presented with other online money making opportunities and other interesting articles to read.  Could some of them be scams? Sure, they could. Let the buyer be ware!

How much money could you make at Vinefire?

  • You can earn up to $25 a day plus earn for referrals.
  • Click on links and you could earn: $0.23 per link
  • Vote on a link and you’ll earn $0.08 (either for a vote up or down.) The most popular links stay on the home page so there’s a cream rising to the top mentality (although some could cheat the system by signing up for multiple accounts for the purpose of voting or setting up GPT schemes and having their email list vote up their own links for points per click)
  • Clicking on Sponsor links earns you $0.90
  • And if you sign other people up you’ll earn 50% referral rates plus a $10 signup bonus.

Sounds like Vinefire has come up with a great idea. They’ll make money from their sponsored links guaranteed…and you aren’t guaranteed to get paid unless they sell the company.  If they do sell the company, you could do well and in the meantime, you’ll get to promote your links and you could learn about other potentially lucrative opportunities.  Sure, it’s a gamble but I’m curious enough to visit occasionally and participate so I can see how this plays out. If you’re interested, check out Vinefire.

It could be disheartening to see your account sitting at hundreds of dollars so try to think of it as participation in a fun experiment that isn’t likely to pay and then if Vinefire does pay, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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Dana Prince on April 29th, 2009

There are a lot of people who blog today to supplement their income. Some make money and some do not. Some even replace their day jobs! Here’s a look at several ways you can make money by blogging:

  • Google Adsense ads. Contextual advertisements can help you get paid
  • Banner advertising. You may get paid a fee for placing banners on your site
  • Contextual links. Some sites pay bloggers for inserting anchored text links that point to their client’s site
  • Affiliate marketing. You can add ads to your site that point to online shops, information products, and more. The advertiser will pay you a commission rate for every piece you sell.
  • Add an online store to your sidebar
  • Do ghostblogging for companies on their corporate blogs

There are blog networks like Today.com that will pay you a fee per # of page impressions because they run their own revenue earning programs, and blog networks that pay you a percentage of earnings as well.

If you want to get started, a great way to go is to open a Today, WordPress, or Blogger blog and get acquainted with how easy it is to blog. Then read up on various monetization strategies (a popular guide is Atomic Blogging 3.0 )  and  then consider buying your own domain and then registering your own blog.

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Dana Prince on April 20th, 2009

If you’re in search of places you can get paid to write, so you can become a 6 Figure Freelancer (or five figures, or heck, even 4 figures to start!), Daily Article is another source to remember. Some writers write articles specifically for this site and others use it when they’re unable to sell an article to a magazine, to a client, or when a sample article is not purchased by a potential client.

Membership fee? No, but Daily Article takes 20% of your fee.
Payout minimum? None. Daily Article pays as soon as they get paid.
Payment Method? PayPal
How much can you get paid? You set your own price.

Sell Your Freelance Articles

You can set your own price in the system and list the word count and topic. It’s a good idea to browse the site to see what prices others are charging so you can determine what the median price is for articles selling on the site.

The DailyArticle.com marketplace allows freelance writers to list their unique articles for sale and you get paid your 80% when the buyer purchases the article. They see a sample or an article scramble from the inquiry page and choose to place an order. The website staff verifies originality and quality before approving it to their customer base which includes existing customers and random site visitors.

Tip: Getting an up front fee for your writing can be great! But, If you want to make more from an article than a few dollars by selling it just once, consider learning about some passive writing income programs.

Update:

The day I wrote this blog post  on April 20, I posted my first article. I chose an article I’d been hanging onto for about 6 months that a client couldn’t use on the Daily Article site. I posted it in the marketplace for $16 and on April 24 I had a PayPal payment of $12.80 for the article. While a lot of factors will dictate how quickly you sell an article, I did want to post this update to show that I have been able to successfully use this site.

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