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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.
Bukisa Experiment: 1 Month Update
If you’re looking for extra ways to make passive income, sites that offer revenue sharing for articles can be very lucrative. An article you write once in a span of fifteen payments could pay you dividends monthly for an indefinite period of time. Instead of selling an article once, you could earn a more money this way!
Last month I started submitting articles to Bukisa. Here is my one month Bukisa earning update.
Why, How and Where To Find Forum Posting Jobs
Forum posting jobs are a great way to make some spare cash. If you get popular or find a great company, you could even become a paid moderator or forum administrator and earn a decent income. When I got started in 2006 in freelance writing, my first decent paying gig was to manage online community forums.
Here are several places you could find these types of jobs:
- Digital Point Forums
- Site Point Forums
- Craigslist
- Odesk
- Freelance bidding sites like Guru or eLance
Job duties might include: keeping conversations going, starting new threads, moderating forum discussions, moving spam out of the forum, resetting passwords, managing contests.
Pricing for posting generally starts at pennies a post and many companies pay via PayPal. Forum management jobs will often pay hourly, weekly or monthly salaries.
If you’re looking to get into this area, you might start posting in communities and being helpful and articulate. Choose communities that you’re interested in and once you become an established poster, PM (private message) the administrator and suggest you’d like to be considered for a management posting if one comes up.
