If you are looking to make some extra income then this is the post for you. It is possible for you to earn $1,000 a month right from the comforts of your own home. There is no limit on how much you could earn depending on how quickly you can turn out content. You may not get rich writing for all of these sites but you can pad your bank account.
Here are 5 sites that can help you on your money making journey.
1. Write for eHow.
You can bring in almost $1000 a month by just writing 2 eHow articles a day for a month. Demand studios pays authors to write “How to” articles for its eHow website. The company pays $15 per article to writers. A writer that writes 3 articles per day for 30 days a week could net himself $900 per month in income. That’s a pretty sizeable chump of income for writing a few articles a day.
2. Become a consultant for Elance.
Elance is like a brokerage site for freelance writers. You can apply for writing jobs on Elance and earn anywhere from $5 to $100 depending on the writing assignment. The lower paying jobs are normally very short assignments and are much easier to get done. You could either take on 100 lower paying jobs or just take a couple higher paying gigs. If writing is your passion, you can find plenty of jobs on Elance. There are over 36,000 jobs on the Elance website. That’s more than enough to keep you writing day after day.
3. Write for Helium.
Helium pays the lowest fixed rate of any site but the site does offer writers a share of potential revenue. Pay rates average 50 cents to $3.50 on the main Helium site and ad revenue depends on page views. There is no use bothering with writing for the traditional Helium site. You can make a lot more money writing for Helium’s Marketplace section. At Helium’s Marketplace, you are given a title, subject, and guidelines as to the topic to write on. The pay for this section ranges from $20 to $200 per article.
4. Become a Delegate2/Pure Content Writer
Delegate2 provides content for a number of sites on the net. The company has writers with varying backgrounds from new college grads to experienced writers. You can apply online at the Delegate 2 website. The lowest pay rate runs about $3 per 250 words. Most new writers will earn at least $4. If you write just over 8 short 250 word articles a day, you could make an extra $1,000 a month. Many assignments pay more than the $4 minimum rate.
5. Work for Yovia.
Yovia is different in that you actually set up a blog on the company’s site. On Yovia’s site, you choose your niche and start contributing content to the site. It is then your job to promote your blog and draw traffic to the site via social media. Your pay depends upon how large a following you can generate using email, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms. If you can draw a lot of followers, your pay rate could be rather high. There are currently over 5,500 Yovia bloggers hosting 11,450 blogs on the Yovia site.
I have written for a few of the sites myself when I first started blogging. Have you ever written for any of these sites? What was your experience?
I’ve tried eLance before, and let me tell you, it’s nothing short of frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, their system is great, it’s the writing that kills me. Every job I got was for insanely SEO’d short short articles, that had to be re-written about a million different ways. I wanted to shoot myself in the foot just to get out of there.
There are plenty of *real* writing opportunities there, but you have to keep in mind that as a low level member, you can only bid on a limited number of contracts, and you’re competing against writing mills, who have a ton of resources at their disposal (including people), as well as the ability to bid on a ridiculous number of contracts at the same time.
Thanks for the tips on the others, though. I’ll definitely be checking a few of them out.
Thanks for the tips Jake. I have never written for Elance before. I figured that you would have to start out with the lower level jobs and work your way up to the higher level ones. A writer could join a writer mill and try to secure the bigger contracts.
This is really interesting. I have considered starting a second blog, but not sure I want to full maintenance of it all. I wonder if Yovia would be worthwhile. I will have to look into it- thank you!
Well, it’s not really that you *have* to start out with lower level jobs, it’s that eLance uses an internal currency system, called “Connections,” that you spend to place bids/proposals on work. Bigger, more lucrative jobs tend to cost more Connections than a free member has access to. They can be purchased directly, or you can upgrade your account and get a certain number more per month.
So really, ya gotta spend money to make money, unless you can write one hell of a bid proposal for a big job, or you just want to stick with the small, annoying stuff.
Great tips! I am always looking for ways to make money so that I can pay off my debts more quickly! I’ll have to look into these suggestions soon!
Thanks!
What about for those of us who are bloggers and not writers, per se? Yovia is a good idea but are there any other freelance opps?
Yes, I wrote this post a few months ago for freelancers.
http://buylikebuffett.com/index.php/2010/09/3-great-sites-for-earning-freelancing-income/
Nice! Or, join the Yakezie Network and have a lot of fun! We will get to an INCREMENTAL $1,000 a month by this time next year for the majority of Members who stick with it I believe.
You didn’t mention oDesk with eLance. I prefer oDesk much more, and have worked on several freelance job there.
Very interesting. I have all the writing work I can handle right now but nice to know these options are out there.
Anyway you can show me how to get there. I am an excellent writer, especially politics, and I want like $1000 a month. Would you be king enough to just give me a general blue print. You have no idea how much that would help.
Thank you!
Brad
Never written for any of those sites. I’m usually the one hiring the writers, still a good list to know. oDesk is probably my favorite source to use.
On which link can I make money with eHow?