Can You Really Make Money Writing Articles
April 24, 2009 by Stacy42
No matter where you go online, you’ll find content. More specifically, you will find articles.
So where do these articles come from? Sure, some of them are written by the webmasters who publish them on their websites, but where do the rest come from?
Well there is a band of people who spend their time writing articles to order for people who either don’t have the time or don’t have the skill to do it themselves. They are content writers for hire, and many of them have more than enough work to earn a decent full time living from it.
So in answer to the question in the title, yes you can earn money doing this. You just have to know how to go about it.
So where do you start? There are lots of places you can find work online – freelance job boards, freelance bidding sites and classified ad sites like Craigslist. There are even some blogs run by freelance writers which share any good prospects they have found for finding jobs.
It’s clear that you cannot sit back and wait for people to come and find you for work. You need to have a plan – you need to consciously make the effort to go out and find article writing jobs that pay. You must also accept that you won’t succeed in getting every job you apply for. It pays therefore to apply for more than you actually want, in order to get the income you’d like to earn.
You will see some article writing gigs advertised very cheaply, paying only a dollar or so for each article. Don’t go for these – even if you are a beginner you should not accept such low prices. Work on making your writing as good as you possibly can and people will gladly pay you decent fees to buy your work.
To begin with you might want to concentrate on one or two specialties that you have plenty of knowledge about. Once you get your feet under the table you can extend your range. It’s obvious to say that the more subjects you can write about, the more money you can earn, since there will be more jobs that will appeal to you.
One other good tip for making sure people know about your skills for hire as an article writer is to create your own blog and/or website – preferably both. Not only will people find you through the search engines, but you can also demonstrate your writing skills by adding posts and articles to your own
Some people will tell you that you cannot make any real money by writing articles for online publication. But it IS possible – and you can earn a good income at it too, if you put the effort into it.
You can also join with various revenue sharing website and submit articles to these sites in exchange for a share of the ad revenue they generate.
But you won’t earn the money if you are unwilling to keep on trying, or you give up after a couple of gos. It’s up to you just how successful you want to be.

Thanks for the help! I’m 16 and this seems a great alternative to working in a shop all day, plus I look towards becoming a journalist in future.:)
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What kind of image are you trying to achieve as a company.
For example if your trying to have an image of a company who is trying to help the earth you might to name it "Green Media".
Or if your trying to have a high class image you might want to name it something like Diamond Publications.
Think about what image goal you are trying to achieve and go from there.