Expertise (things like education, your job, location, serious hobby, and established writing ability, etc.) in a subject and consistent quality of writing ability can translate into a very nice additional income for you. About.com has a large list of topics on its wanted list. You can access their information on the link below; there's a lot of information provided to help you decide if you want to apply and compete for the work.
Again, your own personal scrutiny of the offer and company behind the job offer is required. I neither work for them, nor have personal experience with them.
http://guide.about.com/
Showing posts with label Freelance Writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freelance Writers. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Work At Home – Write Articles For Online Earnings
Many online publications will pay for well-written, grammatically and factually correct, interesting, original articles with proper use of keywords. You can create articles based on your own ideas or use topics suggested. Websites accepting articles from many authors for pay do so because they earn revenue from other companies, like Google’s Adsense or other affiliate marketing.
Revenue is generated when someone reads your article and decides to click on an advertisement(s) on the same page (oftentimes the advertising will be right inside your article, and your wording will scroll around it). There are various ways that websites can do this. Some are pay per click and some will receive a share of revenue generated or when others sign up for a service.
Needless to say, if there are matters that you do not want to promote on the web, do not write about it or use alternative words that the search engine can still pick up in lieu of the most common words normally used.
Payment to the author is not usually very much, and not all articles submitted will be accepted. I have seen reports from forums on the net ranging from a dollar or two up to $12 or a little more. Some websites pay only by revenue sharing, so the more you write, the more potential or actual income you should receive. You need to know the terms of the particular site to determine how to earn and how much you might receive.
If you have the talent, ability and interest to produce articles that are accepted for payment, then you can earn some extra cash. It would be a good way to put some extra funds away for something special, but for most people, it will not be the way to earn a living.
Websites will require you to accept their terms if you want your articles to be considered for payment. Some will let you choose between exclusive rights and non-exclusive rights. When you give up exclusive rights in return for payment, that site owns your article.
Your article can then be re‑sold to other sites or used on other sites, and you will not receive anything more. You no longer have any rights to use or republish that article yourself or earn any money from it. Read the terms carefully and make certain you can agree to them before you sign up and begin to submit your articles.
If you are a beginning writer and need online exposure, this could be an opportunity for your particular style to be noticed. In any event, when applying for other writing jobs, you can link to what you have written to provide examples of your work.
Here are a few sources below that you can investigate to determine whether or not you want to try writing for them. There are many, many more on the net. When you search, save the website links you find of interest and then search the internet again for more information on them (try Better Business Bureau also).
http://www.associatedcontent.com - wants a minimum of 400 word articles and will consider articles sent for payment or just for publication if they are rejected for payment.
http://www.constant-content.com - lets you put your own articles up for sale as web content.
If you have your own website and it meets their criteria http://payperpost.com – has ways to be paid by writing articles promoting various companies.
http://www.problogger.net - is an informative site that also helps bloggers find blogging jobs. Currently, 451 Press is listed as looking for writers (they have a lot of websites).
Revenue is generated when someone reads your article and decides to click on an advertisement(s) on the same page (oftentimes the advertising will be right inside your article, and your wording will scroll around it). There are various ways that websites can do this. Some are pay per click and some will receive a share of revenue generated or when others sign up for a service.
Needless to say, if there are matters that you do not want to promote on the web, do not write about it or use alternative words that the search engine can still pick up in lieu of the most common words normally used.
Payment to the author is not usually very much, and not all articles submitted will be accepted. I have seen reports from forums on the net ranging from a dollar or two up to $12 or a little more. Some websites pay only by revenue sharing, so the more you write, the more potential or actual income you should receive. You need to know the terms of the particular site to determine how to earn and how much you might receive.
If you have the talent, ability and interest to produce articles that are accepted for payment, then you can earn some extra cash. It would be a good way to put some extra funds away for something special, but for most people, it will not be the way to earn a living.
Websites will require you to accept their terms if you want your articles to be considered for payment. Some will let you choose between exclusive rights and non-exclusive rights. When you give up exclusive rights in return for payment, that site owns your article.
Your article can then be re‑sold to other sites or used on other sites, and you will not receive anything more. You no longer have any rights to use or republish that article yourself or earn any money from it. Read the terms carefully and make certain you can agree to them before you sign up and begin to submit your articles.
If you are a beginning writer and need online exposure, this could be an opportunity for your particular style to be noticed. In any event, when applying for other writing jobs, you can link to what you have written to provide examples of your work.
Here are a few sources below that you can investigate to determine whether or not you want to try writing for them. There are many, many more on the net. When you search, save the website links you find of interest and then search the internet again for more information on them (try Better Business Bureau also).
http://www.associatedcontent.com - wants a minimum of 400 word articles and will consider articles sent for payment or just for publication if they are rejected for payment.
http://www.constant-content.com - lets you put your own articles up for sale as web content.
If you have your own website and it meets their criteria http://payperpost.com – has ways to be paid by writing articles promoting various companies.
http://www.problogger.net - is an informative site that also helps bloggers find blogging jobs. Currently, 451 Press is listed as looking for writers (they have a lot of websites).
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Got Talent and Creativity? Try Freelancing Your Work To Greeting Card Companies Or Start Your Own Business
Freelancing for card companies is highly competitive. Submitted work must convey a unique, innovative manner of personal expression with regard to particular occasions. They want fresh ideas that people will readily purchase.
It might be difficult for a newbie to obtain work, but not impossible. There are always “occasions” for which sending a card is appropriate – birthdays, holidays, weddings, graduations, get well and so many more. Cards are on sale everywhere. Good taste and great humor sells. Insulting humor, however funny, probably will not sell well, if at all, although it might be read just for the laughs.
Whether you use a directory like Writer’s Market, or trade magazines or research writer’s groups and job market listings on the internet, make certain to read and fully understand all the specific guidelines and other information each company provides. You might have to request guidelines by mail if not posted online or otherwise readily available.
Keep properly categorized files and records of everything you create, submit or sell, and all papers, correspondence, copyright issues, contracts, etc. so you always know where you are in the process or what has transpired. Rejection of submission is always an opportunity to revise, send the batch to another company for review or just realize you need to update your efforts, research the current market trends and go on from there.
On the brighter side, this might be a good time to create your own line of greetings, copyright your work, and sell it yourself to retail markets, via the internet or promote as fundraisers. Churches, schools, and groups everywhere are always using fundraisers.
There is opportunity for those who can create special niche products, and are capable with designs (photographs or artwork) and have a way with words to fit the occasion. If you are truly capable, there are a great many ways you can promote it yourself. If you are just the artist or person who has a way with words, find a family member or friend with that talent you do not have and go work on plans and ideas.
Starting your own business and holding the copyrights could open up other market ideas for you, T-shirts and clothing, buttons, bumper stickers, coffee mugs, writing paper, decals, or designing for others. The opportunities are only limited by your abilities (and legalities). It is not necessary to start this as a full-time major business. If you want to test your abilities in the marketplace, part-time is always an option while you keep your day job to see how it works out for you.
Use resources such as Café Press (you send them the design and wording) and they take care of sales if you can refer customers. There is also Etsy, Ebay, many others and just tons of free advertising sites available to you on the net. Join groups both online and offline, and put on some demonstration of your work. Get and promote a website (or start with a blogspot.com) to bring in customers. Put your web address on your car (do something readable and removable) and do not be afraid to pass out your business cards.
Write and film a humorous infomercial clip and post it on your website, use sound. Team up with other merchandisers such as those who offer gift baskets to include your work where appropriate. If you cannot find a company that wants to participate, offer your own work in a gift basket with other theme items, preferably ones you have done.
Offer personalized greeting cards created from pictures sent to you with many choices of greetings outside and inside, or use the ones sent if requested. Those would also make great holiday cards and birthday greetings from a group. Find out what holidays and occasions or situations that are not well represented (and especially the kind that people cannot just create themselves at a photo kiosk); perhaps you can find your niche there as well.
Once you are publishing, selling, and have created a demand for your work, you might reconsider submitting some of your creations to greeting card companies, especially if you have created a demand for your products and your talent is recognized in the marketplace.
The links below were located via a search of the net to help you begin gathering information and determining whether or not this could be of interest to you. These looked like good places to start, but it is up to you to make the determination if they are worthwhile or not.
In the meantime, start creating your ideas and putting them on paper so you have something to work on and develop.
http://www.recycledpapergreetings.com
http://www.psgreetings.com
http://www.designergreetings.com
www.etsy.com – and an interesting article from Business Week -http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jun2007/sb20070611_488723.htm
http://www.cafepress.com
It might be difficult for a newbie to obtain work, but not impossible. There are always “occasions” for which sending a card is appropriate – birthdays, holidays, weddings, graduations, get well and so many more. Cards are on sale everywhere. Good taste and great humor sells. Insulting humor, however funny, probably will not sell well, if at all, although it might be read just for the laughs.
Whether you use a directory like Writer’s Market, or trade magazines or research writer’s groups and job market listings on the internet, make certain to read and fully understand all the specific guidelines and other information each company provides. You might have to request guidelines by mail if not posted online or otherwise readily available.
Keep properly categorized files and records of everything you create, submit or sell, and all papers, correspondence, copyright issues, contracts, etc. so you always know where you are in the process or what has transpired. Rejection of submission is always an opportunity to revise, send the batch to another company for review or just realize you need to update your efforts, research the current market trends and go on from there.
On the brighter side, this might be a good time to create your own line of greetings, copyright your work, and sell it yourself to retail markets, via the internet or promote as fundraisers. Churches, schools, and groups everywhere are always using fundraisers.
There is opportunity for those who can create special niche products, and are capable with designs (photographs or artwork) and have a way with words to fit the occasion. If you are truly capable, there are a great many ways you can promote it yourself. If you are just the artist or person who has a way with words, find a family member or friend with that talent you do not have and go work on plans and ideas.
Starting your own business and holding the copyrights could open up other market ideas for you, T-shirts and clothing, buttons, bumper stickers, coffee mugs, writing paper, decals, or designing for others. The opportunities are only limited by your abilities (and legalities). It is not necessary to start this as a full-time major business. If you want to test your abilities in the marketplace, part-time is always an option while you keep your day job to see how it works out for you.
Use resources such as Café Press (you send them the design and wording) and they take care of sales if you can refer customers. There is also Etsy, Ebay, many others and just tons of free advertising sites available to you on the net. Join groups both online and offline, and put on some demonstration of your work. Get and promote a website (or start with a blogspot.com) to bring in customers. Put your web address on your car (do something readable and removable) and do not be afraid to pass out your business cards.
Write and film a humorous infomercial clip and post it on your website, use sound. Team up with other merchandisers such as those who offer gift baskets to include your work where appropriate. If you cannot find a company that wants to participate, offer your own work in a gift basket with other theme items, preferably ones you have done.
Offer personalized greeting cards created from pictures sent to you with many choices of greetings outside and inside, or use the ones sent if requested. Those would also make great holiday cards and birthday greetings from a group. Find out what holidays and occasions or situations that are not well represented (and especially the kind that people cannot just create themselves at a photo kiosk); perhaps you can find your niche there as well.
Once you are publishing, selling, and have created a demand for your work, you might reconsider submitting some of your creations to greeting card companies, especially if you have created a demand for your products and your talent is recognized in the marketplace.
The links below were located via a search of the net to help you begin gathering information and determining whether or not this could be of interest to you. These looked like good places to start, but it is up to you to make the determination if they are worthwhile or not.
In the meantime, start creating your ideas and putting them on paper so you have something to work on and develop.
http://www.recycledpapergreetings.com
http://www.psgreetings.com
http://www.designergreetings.com
www.etsy.com – and an interesting article from Business Week -http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jun2007/sb20070611_488723.htm
http://www.cafepress.com
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Do You Suffer From Nostalgia And Like To Write? You Might Get Paid For It!
The link below takes you to a web page looking for content writers who can create interesting articles on the 50’s and 60’s and explains how you can get paid for it. Looks interesting! Check out the articles on the main website http://www.loti.com/ so you can see what might be acceptable.
http://www.loti.com/writers_wanted.htm
http://www.loti.com/writers_wanted.htm
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