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To my readers,
I have had very positive feedback on this site and that has been more encouraging than you could possibly realize. Many of you have followed along with me since I first started this blog with the goal of helping other work at home moms and dads as well as freelance writers of all experience levels.
Everyone seems very happy with me and all of my posts even though some may be outdated and a few of those sites don't work anymore or simply shut down.
Well, the reason for this post is to let everyone know what I'm going to be up to over the next few months. I was doing some keyword research and came across a local hotel site. This site was terrible. This made me wonder what other sites covered the same areas and what they had to offer. Basically, most of the sites on the first page of Google with the words "Hotel (local cities near me) were crap. They are almost all outdated, are using very old pictures, and don't offer people who visit any useful information about the area.
This was just the extra push I needed to set my plan in motion.
The Plan
To create a hotel affiliate website that will annihilate any and all competition and actually contain information that potential tourists or business people will love.
What I Need To Do
First step is to join a hotel affiliate website. I'm about 1/2 way though with this process right now.
Create engaging content that showcases not just hotels, but local hot spots that other sites don't have. Hot springs, events, things to do and see, etc.. I have a giant list made but no articles just yet.
What This Means For You
I will be updating this blog very regularly. I'm going to show you exactly what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. I'm doing this to hopefully show everyone how to make extra money. I think I have a great thing here and want to share it with you.
I probably won't update it every day but any time I do something significant, it'll be on here right away.
I really want to give this my best and see what happens. If I'm successful, odds are you can do something very similar with just about anything. By showing you what I'm doing, hopefully many of you will try the same thing. Assuming it works well that is 
Feel free to check back or subscribe to this blog so you can watch someone just like you jump into the world of Affiliate Marketing (which is what this is). We are writers so remember, we have a significant advantage over others because we can write everything ourselves. We can relate our experiences with others so it's more personal for the visitors to the site.
Wish me luck!!
Robert
Maybe I'm just lucky but since last summer, I've turned two small writing gigs into two permanent sources of monthly income.
One of these jobs was a simple grammar check of an e-book. I had no idea who the guy was but the e-book was on "How to make money online" and was about 60 pages long. I don't know if he wrote it himself or not but it was almost good to go. I touched things up a bit, got paid, then was asked if I wanted to help him out with some customer support.
The term "customer support" scared me. I don't want to call anyone and don't want anyone calling me because I have 4 kids in a fairly small place. I can't even watch a movie unless I have headphones and at least 2 kids aren't home.
Anyway, he offered me $100 every two weeks to provide download links to people who lost them and stuff like that. I was happy. This was about 15 minutes worth of work each day. After about a month, he kicked that up to $250. I'm still doing this and get $500/month plus I have all his 20 money making e-books for free. I should implement that stuff some day.....it's REALLY good.
Another one was this Czech guy. I barely knew what he was talking about. He wanted me to do rewrites and I typically don't like to do those. It takes me less time to create an original article so I actually charge MORE for rewrites many times. He kept asking and asking. I stalled and stalled. Finally, I said fine. I'll do it for $600. I figured he'd go away. To my surprise, they sent me $600. Crap, I was stuck now! I got the work done and they kept very accurate counts of my words and sent me an extra $600 when I was done. Now, I do the same type of customer support for them for $250/week.
Yep, I'm making $1500/month now doing a whole lot of nothing.
You will be asking, what does this mean for me?
Well, when you do a writing job for a client, make sure to add a friendly closing e-mail. This not only gets you repeat business but other offers as well. A typical closing e-mail is something like:
"Thanks for using my writing services! You were a great client, paid on time, and I left you positive feedback on website X. If you're interested, I also offer various other services such as proofreading websites, web page formatting, link checking, blog creation, SEO backlinking, and virtual assistant/customer support services.
Thanks and if you ever need anything in the future, let me know and we can probably work out a "repeat business" discount!"
Those couple paragraphs make a huge impact on a client. You never know who the client is. Is it some kid in a basement or the marketing director of a Fortune 500 company?
Always assume it's a professional unless they are sending you breast jokes and using IM speak throughout your contract. Always declare where you have been born and raised. When working online, this is a major factor. People in the US and Europe who want quality web content won't hire Sanjay Pagalamesh from India because they really need a writer who can deliver in English. No offense to my Indian friends, they definitely have a place in this market and many are better than US based writers I know.
Just by saying "US based" or "Australia based" in your ads on forums will automatically discourage those guys who want to pay a penny per word and will attract more professional clients because they've been around the block and know you have too. New writers will just put "English writer" but that could mean anything.
Good Luck out there!
Surveys,
These are usually people's first attempt at "making money online" and 99% of them go horribly wrong. Right? You get flooded e-mails full of garbage and you don't make a cent.
Well, I've done the research for you and if you are looking for something to do while not writing or working from home, surveys honestly kick ass. Here's a list of the ones I use:
Lightspeed Panel: This place sends you e-mails all the time. You earn points for doing the surveys. Each survey is between 75-2000 points. The last one I did, they sent me a palm pilot and Visa prepaid card for $10. I filled out some junk each day for two weeks and when I send it in Monday, they send me another card for $60. Not bad!
You will accumulate Lightspeed points quickly if you stick with it. What I do is save them all up until around October-November then buy stuff for Christmas or simply cash out to PayPal. Yes, you can turn those points directly into PayPal cash!! I like this site the best.
E-rewards- This place mostly deals in shorter surveys geared for business people if you want good money. I technically am the CEO of my writing business right? I take the business surveys and many are worth as much as $12-$25 e-bucks. I like to get gift cards from this place. They show up in about 2-3 weeks for me. I cash out the $50 e-bucks and get gift cards for Gamestop because that's my thing.
Zoompanel- My wife uses this one and I really don't know much about it so won't go into it. She DOES get cool stuff in the mail from them so if you enjoy these surveys, give it a shot.
Here's a quick breakdown of JUST lightspeed panel.
Say you do 1 survey a day M-F. Average survey is 150 points.
If you do this from Jan-November, you are looking at 3000 points per month. You'll probably get much more than this. That means 33000 points by November. The highest priced items are in the 6000 point range and include things like:
$50 Crate & Barrel E-Certificate
Smoked Seasoned Turkey Breasts (Honey Sage) Smoked Seasoned Turkey Breasts (Peppered)
It's a dream come true for kitchen items, dvds, video games, and gift cards.
Or you can cash out each 1150 points for $10 PayPal!
This is great for people who don't even write. My Grandma does these regularly and has an enormous DVD collection from these guys.
Yes, that's correct. Clickbank is where the big players on the Internet make their fortunes. I'm not talking about a couple hundred bucks here either. I know a couple people personally who have topped $100,000 in just a couple of months.
How in the hell is that possible? Well, you may wonder why it takes me so very long to update this blog. I'm researching, hardcore. Some of you know I have been working with one of the biggest names in Affiliate Marketing. I don't have permission to name him but he averages oer $50K per month with his small network of websites and a couple clickbank products
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Many of you have seen my post about Digital Point which is a forum where you can buy/sell content, get website advice, and other stuff.
It is highly populated with every demographic of people you can think of. This leads to very low prices, and some jobs are just plain terrible. I still recommend just selling blocks of pre-written articles there like 5 articles about Botox. List the topics, keywords used, and word length and set your price. You WILL sell them
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Well, with the economy the way it is, many of us writers have lost our steady paychecks it seems. My great job dwindled a bit but is still fairly functional and luckily I have a steady secondary job working with an affiliate marketing guy. I answer questions for him on his forum. It pays well and the work is fairly fun.
Anyway, I came across this site the other day and already landed a $300 job from it. It's a single job that's just a handful of articles and probably won't be long term but that's ok
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YES!
I've finally made the commitment to launch my own "Online Job" website. I've had much success with this one and many people have found steady work from this blog. That makes me very happy because that's its goal
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I think I stumbled upon my first tower defense game about three years ago while screwing around on Kontraband.com. It was love at first play. I never thought such a simple premise for a game would keep me up for hours upon hours trying to make sure little beasts didn't get from point A to point B
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No Bullcrap in this post. Sorry for neglecting this blog for so long!
Ok, everyone knows you can submit articles here and there at places like Associated Content, Constant Content, Helium, Daily Article, etc.. If you are lucky, you will either get an up-front payment along with piddly residuals or someone will buy it flat out. Let me show you an easy way to make a killing
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