Everyone in my “real life” doesn’t know what I do for a living. It’s not that I’m secretive, it’s just that people assume a homeschooling mom of six is plenty busy enough, right? In fact, about 6 months into this business, when I was working several hours a day to build up my body of […]
Making Money Online
Dirty Tricks are Not Cool
OK- I have a lot of mom writer friends on my Facebook friends list. I’m here today to talk some well-deserved SMACK about one of them. I don’t have professional contact with this woman, she writes for a few revenue sharing sites. As far as I can tell, it’s a hobby. She posted a status […]
Get Paid to Read Articles
When you’re sick of writing and still need to do SOMETHING online, sign up for Readbud and get paid to read articles online. I was referred to the site through Shanna Banana at wahm.com and she’s done pretty well with the site. You need to get to $50 for the payment threshold. I made 41 […]
Angela Hoy’s Writer’s Weekly Newsletter
Since such a lot of my website’s traffic seems to be for the term “writers weekly” I felt that it was important for me to distance myself professionally from Angela Hoy. She has a vendetta against webwriters. She repeatedly publishes articles calling all internet writing sites “content mills” and declaring, one after another, that they’re […]
How to find new writing sites before anyone else
There are new websites offering opportunities for writers every day. It starts like a wave. One website is formed on the message boards of another website. Discontented or financially inspired contributors (or designers or editors) from one website decide to jump in and create their own. It’s happening a lot right now. Some sites will […]
“Word whore” or cog?
I’m trying to come to peace with the term “content mill.” It always sounds so negative. Mainly, I don’t care. The people who insult Demand Studios writers often don’t tell the whole story. They talk about the “pathetic pay” which, in my experience, is $40-$80 an hour. What’s so pathetic about that, considering I have […]
Another site for bookmarking
Free blogging platforms are great for creating incoming links. I just found another, Salon.com has a blog network that you can use to create incoming links and direct traffic from your other sites. You get 100% of all three google ads on the page, which is nice. You also get a sidebar of links that […]
Philosophical Niche Blogger Battle
And I don’t mean to use the word “battle” in a war-like sense, I just mean that there are two different philosophies niche bloggers should be aware of, and maybe they’re wrong and maybe they’re right, but the speculation is interesting. And I want to add mine so that there’s really three. OK so today […]
Places that Pay Writers Up Front
In online writing, there are a few different pay structures that publishers use. Paying writers up front is one model, whereby a writer gets a set fee for each article, and nothing more. Residual pay is another, whereby a writer is paid percentage of the income that’s generated from the advertising on their pages. PPV […]
Totally not a writing thing, but you can get paid for Xmas Shopping
OK- If you haven’t seen Blastoff Network- here’s what it is (just in time for Xmas shopping) 1- you join 2- you shop online (same places you’d always shop) 3- you get up to 15% cashback How much easier can it be. And it gets better 4- refer your friends and family 5- get back […]
