If you want to work from home doing a call centre job, you can often work your own hours on a part-time basis. Cloud 10 is hiring work at home reps. Check out their website for FAQ’s and minimum requirements.
Passive Writing Income Alternatives to the eHow WCP
Sadly for many, the eHow writer’s compensation program still won’t let anyone from outside the US in. So, Canadians, those in the UK/Europe, Australia, NZ, etc don’t get to put up our articles for passive income. We can participate in eHow for article marketing or to create samples but that’s about it. Hearing about how some US writers are making $900+ a month passively on their eHow articles leaves non-Americans drooling. So, here are some alternatives for you:
Askables
Askables offers a writer’s compensation program where writers earn a % of their Google Adsense earnings and they can also earn additional money by being a regular contributor. The site has a great look/feel. Here’s more info about the Askables experts program: passive writing @ Askables.
Check out Askables on Twitter or the Askables Facebook group (join before end of October and you could win an iPhone. Askables will take original content and will also take re-prints. Originals are preferable and could result in more earnings.
InfoBarrel
InfoBarrel’s passive article writing program shares Google Adsense revenue. If you sign others up under your account, you’ll also earn a % of their page views which could translate to earnings. InfoBarrel wants unique content.
HubPages
HubPages is a site that gets great traffic and that has a good reputation for solid Google Adsense income. The site has a great community as well. Hubs should be original and links should be kept to a minimum. Hubs look professional with various features such as video and RSS feeds ( I’m a writer and even offer a HubPages writing service as a professional service for my clients so there’s another income stream!).
Why not just put articles on your own site?
You should definitely look at creating your own sites rich with content and information. They can earn you 100% of page views instead of a smaller percent and you have more creative freedom. But participating in passive article writing programs allows you to diversify and benefit from the traffic that these larger and more established sites get. It can take a while to build up your own traffic. Why not do both? Many who want article writing income will do a combination of the above and see where they get the most return on their time investment. My next post will look at ways to come up with ideas for your passive article writing efforts.
Happy Writing!
Profitable and Popular Passive Article Writing – Ideas
If you want to make money writing articles, it’s a great idea to do it on passive income sites. By posting your articles on revenue share sites you not only make money once but you could make money indefinitely . A lot of people that work at home write a few articles a week and watch their passive income streams grow. Dig through The Work at Home Blog for plenty of sources and resources related to getting paid to write. Today, let’s talk about how to find ideas for those articles.
The #1 way to ensure your passive income writing efforts pay off is to figure out what’s profitable. How do you know? Research.
Tips for researching profitable article ideas:
- Popular page 1 results on eHow. (Want to make money on eHow too? Check out this ehow wcp post.. Outside of the US? Here are alternatives to the ehow wcp.)
- Twitter hash tags (look at trending topics on Twitter)
- Technorati. See what’s popular on Technorati
- Google Trends. Look at the trends to see what people are searching for.
- Clickbank market place. Look at the top ten Clickbank products and decide to write articles based on those subjects. Not only are they popular but because advertisers are paying top dollar for ads, you’ll make more income. (—>>> info on how I make money on Clickbank<<<—)
There are some hot topics, hot keywords, and solid techniques for maximising your passive income earning potential. By figuring out what people want to read about and figuring out how to optimise your articles for high search engine placement, you’ll increase your chances of making more money by writing. I’ll continue to write tips about these methods in the future so please feel free to subscribe and get work at home tips and leads sent directly to your mailbox.
Cheers,
Dana Prince
Passive Income Find of the Week – Orato
I joined Orato a few months ago but didn’t do anything with the site. This morning I saw it mentioned on a work at home forum so checked to see if I was already a member and sure enough, I already joined. How much can you earn at Orato? Here’s info on the Orato writer’s compensation model.
Orato looks a bit like Examiner.com where online journalists submit articles and share in revenue. Is this a good idea for your writing career? Of course rev share sites mean that you don’t get all your revenue but when sites are high ranking and get a lot of traffic (like eHow, for instance), it can be well worth your effort. Building your own blog and creating your own streams of passive income will always be a good idea but when you have a greater chance of your work being seen due to high traffic it can be a good idea to do both. Some sites can also be good for your writing career because they have enough clout that you can use them as writing samples.
I haven’t seen any results or discussions regarding how much writers can make from Orato but in my opinion, it’s definitely worth looking into. When eHow first tried recruiting writers for the ehow writers compensation program a lot of people were skeptical but many are now earning 4 figures a month on eHow so Orato might be worth trying out.
Can You be a Freelance Transcriptionist?
What does a transcriptionist do and can you do it at home? Transcriptionists take audio and type it up. There are many reasons people hire transcriptionists. There are medical transcriptionists, legal transcriptionists, and general ones. In order to do this job, it helps to be specialised in a specific field. Medical transcription, for instance, requires an understanding of many medical terms. The same applies to legal transcription.
How are transcriptionists paid?
Most customers will pay you by word or by page. If you work for an individual you’ll make more money than if you work for an agency although transcription agencies will probably be able to offer you more work.
Here’s a useful article that looks more closely at the subject of Becoming a Freelance Transcriptionist.
Passive Income Find of the Week – Askables
I’ve decided to try to do a weekly (or thereabouts) series on specific work at home income opportunities and Askables is the one I’m going to kick off the series with. I love passive income sites. I put an article on one in 2006 and it has been making me money steadily ever since. I’ve probably earned $20+ a month almost every month ever since for one little article. Of course, it’s not always going to work out that well but if your article catches attention of search engines and people help spread the word virally, it could be great.
Take a look at the Askables Writing Plan. You have the opportunity to make passive income through a Google Adsense revenue sharing plan plus if you’re a regular contributor and attain and maintain the listed points, you could earn a payment per article as well.
An eHow WCP Alternative?
I know a writer making over $1,000 a month passively through ehow and many Canadian, UK, Au, and NZ writers are anxious to get in on the action. eHow has yet (despite my contacting them several times) to advise when they’ll open up their passive income program outside their borders. I wonder if Askables could become the international answer to eHow since eHow only pays writers in the USA. Let’s hope! The site isn’t very old but definitely looks to have potential.
How can you make money on Askables?
Start posting articles. Write great articles and then link to them from your blog, from social marketing sites, and web 2.0 pages like HubPages and Squidoo. If you write well and write interesting articles, you could start to see the revenue trickle in. Don’t forget to set up a URL channel on your Adsense reports so you can see how much revenue is coming from Askables. Then you’ll be able to see which niches and keywords are profitable. Happy Earning!
HubPages Challenge – Can You Make 30 Hubs in 30 Days?
While you’ll find many places to post content online, not all of them get loads of traffic and not all of them compensate you for your efforts. HubPages is one of the places that can do both.There are many places to get your work written work online. There are content-hungry directories and places where you can list your articles for sale. Some offer profit-sharing (eg Squidoo) and some don’t (eg EzineArticles). HubPages has some great revenue-earning potential and if you’re doing internet marketing, you can use it as a great SEO tool as well.
HubPages offers multiple ways to make income such as: Google, Yahoo, etc. They’ll allow you to post affiliate links but few and far between, as they want the articles / hubs to be of high value rather than just a link building tool. “Self-serving” links are discouraged and more than 2 per Hub are disallowed.
So what’s so great about HubPages? The income!
If you make your hubs extensive resources of information, they can get a lot of traffic. They rank really well in se’s. Take your article and then spend time to optimise it for high search volume, and for low google pagerank competition and based on high AdSense revenue words (you’ll find plenty of resources to help you learn these things!). My own hubs bring in a monthly income that nets in 4 figures in pounds sterling each year (closer to 5 figures when you convert to US Dollars!). Then there’s the eBay sales, Amazon sales, and link value. After a year, I’m seeing steady income and traffic. Some Hubs do take a while to mature and get good traffic and not all topics will be wildly popular but several of my hubs have been featured and gotten a lot of comments and attention from the community. Ready to go? You can sign up here or continue reading.
One of the ways to ensure you maximise your HubPage potential is to learn (if you don’t already know) how to publicise your work with social media tools, and backlink building. But, the best bit of all is that they’ve created a new program to get people signed up, helped along the way, and off to a flying start in the potential earning stakes.
HubChallenge
The “HubChallenge” was the brainchild of The Keyword Academy’s Courtney Tuttle. They endorse HubPages and can (for a fee) teach how to maximize earning potential. So HubPages have set up a small team of very experienced Hubbers (me included), to get people participating and creating the target of 30 Hubs in 30 Days. It’s simply that figures run by HubPages show that many Hubs will give you the critical mass to have a good income potential to build on.
Thirty hubs in a month is a committment and many Hubbers find the discipline to producing a piece of work every day is a great motivator.Some write for days (or even weeks!) then publish them all together. You might have unsold work lying around that can make a great Hub. The HubChallenge team will help and support both individually and via the Forum for the challenge.
As a passive income stream, you should definitely consider Signing up here – . By using this link you’ll get tagged to inform me of your signup via the system and then I will be in touch to help, as part of the HubChallenge team. I’m happy to get you started and productive within the HubPages system so you don’t have to work through the learning curve.
Beyond writing hubs for fun, and for profit (it is a lot of fun, by the way!) I write and publish a LOT of client Hubs, so part of my writing business now consist of making Hubs on a paid basis for clients. That’s a little like having your cake AND eating it. Yum!
Guest post by Julie-Ann Amos
Use Free Blogs to Make Money Online
Can you make money with free blogs? You betcha! Here are some ways and blogs that you can use:
Blogger
A blogspot blog is almost as useful as a blog on your own domain. It’s easily customizable and you can add widgets and monetization tools as well as ads and banners that can make you money through: ad displays, ad networks, paid links, affiliate links, and paid to blog posts. You can even make it look like an online store.
WordPress
While WordPress.com doesn’t let you put ads, you can use it like a link building tool as well as to showcase your professional services. Many use WordPress.com blogs to direct traffic elsewhere and as an online resume / portfolio
Blog Networks
There are blog networks like Today.com that are free to join and pay you $2.00 per 1000 page views as well as commission on revenue-sharing programs.
A blog like the one at the Inspired Author community lets you monetize your blog individually plus promotes your blog and your articles for you on your main page. This is a great spot for writers and those who want to get paid to write articles.
(Check out this article on why you should blog at Inspired Author)
While starting your own blog is inexpensive and easy (and very effective as a monetization and SEO tool) there’s no reason why you shouldn’t also take advantage of the many free blog platforms and networks that are out there. Making money online is something that can be done by many methods and the more streams of income you can develop, the better you’ll be able to do!
Make Money at WebAnswers
If you like doling out advice and enjoy sites like Yahoo Answers but would like to make some cash for your efforts, WebAnswers could be a great place to supplement your income. The site is filled with questions and answers. You can ask questions and get help or you could answer questions and make money.
How WebAnswers Pays
Once you’ve either had 2 answers chosen as ‘best’, or answered 10 questions, the system will prompt you to either add a Google Adsense ID or sign up for a Google Adsense account.
WebAnswers pays you a percentage of the Google Adsense revenue for the pages in which your answer was chosen as best answer. When you’ve got the earnings on a page, it makes good sense to promote that page! Anyone who is on the page and who clicks a Google Ad could earn you money. Learn more by joining WebAnswers.
How does Google Adsense work?
You get paid per click and in some cases, per impression. Google pays you via check or direct deposit when your account exceeds $100.00. Google pays monthly. Reaching $100 in July would get you paid by the end of August.
Making Money at Vinefire – Is it a Gamble?
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.