In the past, I’ve written for ehow as a ghostwriter working for a copywriting company and made good money at a flat rate an article. The thing about ehow earnings though, is that they can bring residual passive income month after month if you write for them directly. Why don’t I write for them directly and make passive income? The eHow writer compensation program is currently only open to U.S. residents and I am a Canuck. Drats.
eHow’s writer compensation program doesn’t give you a spefic pay per click commission structure. Much like Google Adsense, it’s a mystery. High paying keywords and great SEO will help you make more money from it.
If you write one ehow “how-to” article a day, within a few months you could be getting a very decent amount of money on a monthly basis. My writer friend Maria has been getting pretty monthly checks lately and just had her biggest cheque yet with almost $900 in September 2008 from her 202 articles which have been added regularly for the last several months. Even though she only wrote 11 new articles recently she’s earning from the last several months of work. Maria wrote a book about her strategy which is selling like hotcakes! I love freelance writing but when you sell it once, that’s it; your buyer gets to make all the future residuals. The eHow compensation plan lets you make passive income indefinitely!
Write one a day in your spare time and see what happens! Want to read a copy of Maria’s ehow book?
Tags: ehow writing, freelance writing, Passive Income, wah writing, wahm writer, writergig
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I also like ehow. When I started, I was surprised at how fast the money adds up.
One little comment, though:
You wrote, “I love freelance writing but when you sell it once, that’s it; your buyer gets to make all the future residuals.”
Of course, that’s only true if you sell all rights. If you do that,
the price should be worth it and you can invest that money into your own sites or other income-earning projects that will ultimately get a better ROI than waiting months for the eventual $250 or whatever the ehow article would make. Just sell one-time rights to a piece and while the immediate income will be lower, you can still sell reprint rights indefinitely.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Very good point, Sveta. Thanks.
April 4th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I enjoyed your post about writing for eHow. Like you, I also got a lot out of reading Maria’s ebook about how to write for eHow.
April 4th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Thanks RachelB, for stopping by.
Hey,
Great strategy, using blog comments to get backlinks to your ehow profile
Cheers,
Dana