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How to Get Paid to Blog: Make Money Blogging
Thursday, June 28th, 2007You can get paid to blog. Make money blogging, writing about your interests and things that you enjoy. You can turn your hobbies and interests into cash, simply by blogging. It’s easy to make money with a blogging business, writing a blog about things you are passionate about.
Blogging for Dollars shows you how. In just five minutes a day, five days a week, you can make up to $5,000 a month, blogging. If you want to get paid to blog, this is the ticket.
Finding Web Writing Jobs
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
If you’ve decided that working as WAHM writer is the best work at home job opportunity for you, then you’ll need to figure out how to get paid writing assignments. Fortunately, when you work as a web writer there is no shortage of job opportunities. It all depends on where you look and how much research you are willing to do.
Web writing can break down into several different categories. Before you begin looking for work, you’ll have to decide whether or not you want to get credit for your writing. If you insist on byline, you may have difficulty finding a lot of paying jobs. Byline jobs are out there if you look. However, the most money to be made is from working as a web ghostwriter.
Many WAHMs find success with ghostwriting. When you work as a freelance ghostwriter you provide writing services for clients who will then use the work as their own. Ghostwriting as a work at home business is a lucrative opportunity, especially when you focus on web writing.
For the most part, the Internet is a text and image based platform. Companies and individuals who run websites constantly need text to make their websites attractive to visitors. Since writing is something that a lot of people would rather not do, this leaves plenty of opportunities for people who love to write and want to get paid to write.
Web writing WAHMs need only an Internet connection, an email address, and a word processing program such as Open Office to get started. Your own website is not necessary, but it adds a touch of professionalism to your writing business and is an excellet way to show your credentials. However, when you are first starting out you can get plenty of work without having a website.
There are several different categories of web writing. When you see the term “content writing” you will normally be providing text for an existing or new website. Your writing will have to be engaging and clear for website visitors. Article writers concentrate on providing articles for websites, newsletters and blogs. Generally, articles for the web are between 400 and 800 words each. Any more than that is difficult for readers to sit through while looking at a computer screen. Copywriters are challenged with putting readers in the mood to buy. They write copy for Internet sales letters and marketing sites. Ebook ghostwriters provide clients with full length books on a variety of topics.
WAHMs who write need to be professional in their online presence. This means spell checking all writing, including emails to clients. It is also a good idea to get an email address that is specifically used for your writing or home business. A personal email address with a goofy name will make you appear unprofessional. Your first and last name or a combination thereof is a good choice for your web writing email address.
Writing for the Internet has a few differences from writing essays in school or writing for print magazines. Readers online have short attention spans, and you’ll need to keep your sentences short and your paragraphs clear.
The other difference is the use of “keywords” in certain writing assignments. Keywords are words that have been selected by your client to be used in the article. These words have been selected because they are Internet search terms and your client wants their website to show up for those search terms. Keyword articles will require you to use the word or phrase a certain number of times in the article. Sometimes it can be difficult to use the words without making it sound forced. Experienced web writers have developed ways to make the keywords flow naturally into their articles.
Once you’ve gotten a few web writing assignments under your belt, you can decide what type of web writing suits you best. You can find work on writing message boards, freelance writing job sites and classified ad sites like Craigslist. Whenever you apply for a job, make sure to include your contact information and a few well selected writing samples.
Making Money With Online Auctions Like eBay
Thursday, June 28th, 2007One of the best, and simplest, ways to start a work at home business online is to become a seller on one of the several online auction sites. eBay is the most popular, and most widely recognized. However, sellers are also having success on Yahoo auctions, Overstock auctions and many others. Being an online auction seller has many benefits for a WAHM. You can run your business from your home. You can set up auctions to automatically list at certain times of the day, so you don’t always have to be at the computer. Plus, there is guaranteed traffic to the auction website which makes it simple to get new customers.
Before you start an online auction business you should decide whether or not you have the skills or willingness to do so. Although there is a lot of money to be made in auctions, there are also a lot of challenges. As a successful auction WAHM, you need to have the tenacity to try different things to increase you sales. You must also have knowledge of what the market wants so you can provide in demand products that will sell. Money management is a must, since selling on an auction is typically a home-based business. You will be in charge of the finances of the business and need to be responsible for keeping your business and personal finances separate.
Online auction businesses are very simple to start. To start an eBay business, for example, all you need is a registered account with eBay, and a PayPal account. The eBay account will allow you to perform transactions on their website. The PayPal account will allow you to accept payment for items that you sell, as well as pay for the eBay fees. Although you can technically take payments through check or money order, using PayPal makes the process a whole lot faster and more enjoyable for your customers.
The fees involved with running an eBay work at home business are minimal compared to having your own store on a separate website. While hosting for a website can cost upwards of $20 per month, eBay only charges you a small percentage of the items that you sell. There are also some other minimal fees involved, and most sellers work those fees into their listing price.
Before you decide to sell on an auction site as a work at home business, try a buying from the auction site first. Understand the process from the buyer’s point of view. Take note of how you are treated by the seller and ask yourself what you would do differently. Buying before selling is also a good method because you can build feedback in the auction site system. Feedback is left whether you buy or sell, so building some feedback as a buyer is a good idea. A positive feedback record will make you more appealing as a seller.
Finding items to sell is the biggest perceived problem with selling on auction sites. However, you can start with items from around your home. Look in your closets and in your garage for items that can be sold on the auction sites. You will be surprised by what people will buy. Selling from around your home will give you experience with the selling process and will build positive selling feedback.
Familiarize yourself with the auction process before you begin selling. Remember to start your work at home business small and let it develop as you become more confident in your auction selling abilities.
How to Make Money Working Online
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Building a Niche Opt-in Mailing List of Subscribers
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007When deciding on what your newsletter will be about, it’s important to hone in on a niche topic or area of expertise. Picking a niche will help to ensure that subscribers are getting the information and resources they are looking for about a particular topic.It allows you to focus on one niche area rather than trying to cover an entire area.
An opt-in mailing list is a mailing list that a person subscribes to and has to verify that they did indeed subscribe. An opt-in mailing list is preferable because it cuts down on the possibility of spam in that the subscriber asked to get your newsletters.
Before beginning the niche newsletter, do some research and find out how many, if any, other newsletters there are out there that focus on your desired niche. Generally speaking, the fewer the better. Having fewer newsletters already on your topic means that when someone is searching for said topic, they will find you much easier. Having a niche area that’s rather obscure will mean it might be slower building your opt-in mailing list, but at the same time, you might gain more simply because there aren’t many newsletters on your chosen topic.
When making your website on your niche, use a lot of keywords and use them often. You might consider archiving your newsletter on the site to help draw in readers. The keywords will help to generate more traffic and thereby boost your mailing list subscribers. If your niche happens to deal with any brand names, use those brand names often through your site and in your newsletter. The key is to not only drive traffic to your site and gain subscribers but to make sales.
If your desired niche for your newsletter is special needs kids, consider focusing in on that idea. Rather than trying to cover all things about special needs kids, think about a tighter niche such as autism. Special needs kids with autism is still a big area, so focus even tighter. You might consider a niche about an autism diet for special needs kids, the Gluten Free Casein Free Diet, or GFCF Diet.
So instead of publishing on a wide topic area of autism in special needs kids, your niche topic would be about the GCFC autism diet. This would mean that readers who are not interested in information and resources about the GCFC autism diet wouldn’t subscribe to your opt-in mailing list, but those readers who are wanting resources would sign up to your mailing list. You might tighten the niche even more by offering only particular products for sale that deal with this topic.
Building an opt-in niche mailing list will result in having subscribers who want only what you are offering, thereby increasing the number of subscribers and sales.
