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After some waiting, my first Cheap Hotels in X article has sold twice today. I got an offer of $5.15 on AC and a rewritten one on CC has sold for usage rights only at $15. I have plenty more done just waiting to be approved on both sites. Those of you following this, it looks like a good sy...

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I know my readers range in age from 18-65 but if you work at home, boredom is going to be something you have to deal with very frequently. It's difficult to approach something like article writing as a normal job because we have a TV across the room, might still be in our pajamas, and there is ...

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I won't lie, the old Orble was extremely slow and frustrating and sometimes something as simple as adding an image seemed to take a couple minutes which is years in Internet time. I have some new posts coming very soon! I'm trying out some different sites and ideas so when I post about them, you...

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(I realize it's an offensive picture. I'm an offensive kind of guy.) So, today I got my first rejection ever, from any site (including constant content grammar nazis). It was for a "list" on Demand Studios. What list Atlanta Dinner Cruises. Let's think about the initial problem. Atlant...

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Self Motivation 101 Motivating yourself as a freelance writer or any other work at home person can be very difficult. You wake up, sit in your PJ's until Noon doing nothing, and before you know it, the entire day has been wasted and you've made jack squat. Remember the goal when working a...

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I've been working full-time as a freelance writerweb guy now since 06. (I did work weekends in a deli for a while for free foodstore discounts). I did get some negative feedback from my last top 5 list by saying pure English speakers were usually better than those who have English as a sec...

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Some of you may have worked for ChaCha once upon a time or maybe got rejected when applying. KGB works pretty much the same way. People text questions, you claim them, and answer them. Pretty straightforward really. This is a great secondary job for writers because we are sitting here an...

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About 12 the people I know who work at home simply aren't making a living with it or are skating that fine line between paying bills and sacrificing their cable or other wanted amenities. I'll be honest here, there's no reason for that. Let me tell you the top 5 reasons you aren't making enou...

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lta Really Long Link Really Long Link border"0px" alt"Blog Advertising - Advertise on blogs with SponsoredReviews.com"gtltagt While doing some research this morning I came across a site called Sponsored Reviews. This site pays bloggers (like a lot of people reading this blog) for revi...

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I realized my old link for Lightspeed didn't work. If you don't know, it's a survey site that gives you points for doing surveys. I don't particularly like surveys but after writing 10 articles about blood pressure, it's a nice little diversion. I always cash out around 2500 points (surveys wor...

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So, my site was way to vague and there was really no way I could have ranked "buy ebooks" very well and if I did, I couldn't compete with others. SO I narrowed it down to "Relationship" and "Romance" Ebooks instead! www.ebookauthority.org I added a touch of color, changed my "feature...

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Have You Tried Forums??	Continuing From Last Post	We have Liftoff!!
The challenge. Let's bring our A game.	Overcoming Boredom	When Boredom Attacks!
Wow Orble is working Great!!	Handling Rejection Productively	Self-Motivation 101
5 Steps To Help You Make A Full-Time Income Now!	Become a KGB Agent	Top 5 Reasons You Aren't Making A Full Time Income At Home
Sponsored Reviews!	New Link for Lightspeed Panel!	Site Narrowed down and improved!!

Have You Tried Forums??

August 18th 2010 16:23

It's kind of funny that probably 85% of the writers I know will work exclusively doing one type of work for one type of site until that site goes under or they simply get sick of working there. Associated Content is the easiest example. People will write there for a while, be happy, then all of a sudden be plagued by something about that site that leads them to abandon it. It could be something like not getting their $10 page view bonus on time or fighting in the general forums over there.

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Now that I think about that, it's not funny at all. It's sad.

Anyway, I'm here to share with you some of my favorite forums where you can find a few different resources. There's writing job forums that offer leads in print and online and there's forums to improve your skills. Both of these are very important as long as you use them fruitfully. It's tempting to become part of the "community" but over time it can become counterproductive as you can actually get hurt and even become depressed over your interactions on those boards.

My advice is to offer tips, advice and critiques if you feel like it but stay out of personal drama (every forum has it).

Here's my list of places to look for viable work:

Accentuate Forum

Digital Point

(content creation area)

Warrior Forums

Writers Weekly

WAHM

Absolute Write

Another one you should check out if Facebook4Freelancers I think it's called? You must be logged in to find it and I'm too lazy to do that right now.

Will these forums provide you with a never ending supply of work? I don't know. I've found many private clients from forums and worked with them for 1-3 years so there's a good chance you'll find someone or some company and hit pay dirt.

If you're following my city article strategy, the PVs are going terribly and I still have 12 articles waiting to be reviewed. It's been more than 2 weeks and I'm getting frustrated so I'm taking a break until school starts for the kids on the 30th. Until then, I'm whipping out web templates and filling them with nonsense that I'll eventually get domains for but that's another story

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Continuing From Last Post

August 2nd 2010 15:43

It's been a couple weeks and I'm updating.

I now have 12 articles sitting in the AC queue with just 2 published. The review times are abysmal but I blame summer for that. Lots of new would be work at homers jump on during summer and give it a shot. Good for them!

I'm patient so hopefully they will review all 12 this week. If not, hopefully next week and I'll have even more ready.

My lowest so far was $5.15 as exclusive as I use a different tone on AC than on CC or other sites. This week I have to try to put more of them on CC as I got behind on that.

Overall, a paltry $11 so far from AC. Let's see how it goes this month!

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We have Liftoff!!

July 7th 2010 17:02

After some waiting, my first Cheap Hotels in X article has sold twice today. I got an offer of $5.15 on AC and a rewritten one on CC has sold for usage rights only at $15. I have plenty more done just waiting to be approved on both sites.

Those of you following this, it looks like a good system if you choose something that's not prolific on those sites and has decent key wording.

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The challenge. Let's bring our A game.

June 28th 2010 20:19

I have a challenge for all you writers who are subscribed to this blog as well as anyone who happens to stumble across it. I have a one article head start as of this post but as you know, I'm fairly lazy and with summer in full swing, odds are I'll spend a few hours a day at the water slides and with all the kids.

This is what I'm doing.

I've chosen a keyword phrase of "cheap motels in X, California". If you put in "cheap motels california" you'll get 7000000 pages or so with Google or Yahoo! but flipping to page 2, you'll immediately see hotel chains. Those sites are too specific and I know when I search for motels I tend to skip sites for a particular franchise like Best Western because those aren't the cheapest.

I'm doing LA first, then San Diego, then maybe San Francisco. This is hundreds of articles I'll be doing plus rewrites. Let's take a look at the strategy here.

Step 1: Submit the article to Associated Content as exclusive.
Step 2: Rewrite that same article 3-5 times. Addresses take up a lot of words so really, there isn't that much to fix up. A paragraph per motel plus intro and closing.
Step 3: Submit rewritten articles to Constant Content and possibly sites like Helium, DailyArticle, Examiner, or whatever you use and prefer. CC is a must though.
Step 4: Move on to next area and repeat.

Here is my first one: Top 5 Cheap Motels in Long Beach California which has about 250k pages of competition. You can do whatever you want and please don't steal what I'm doing and beat me at my own game, that's just not cool. You could do something by region, by demographic, by culture, or whatever you want. "best X for geocaching" is a great niche that should generate massive traffic if you know what you're talking about.

I'm going to keep at this until the end of July and post my results back here. This will be a combo of AC up fronts plus views, anything sold on other sites, packages sold on forums, etc.

Anybody with me?

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Overcoming Boredom

May 17th 2010 16:39

Well, I tried to have this posted the day after my last one but instead I did some experiments to see what actually helped stave off boredom. To my dismay, I didn't find anything worthwhile. Once you become too bored to continue with your work, there's only one real solution and it's an easy one.

Take a break.

By this I mean, get up, away from your computer and simply do something else for a while. Depending on your daily goals, you can take a 1-4 hour break and still be able to make up for that lost time later in the day. That's the joy of working at home. If your goal is $60/day which isn't hard to do at all, you may get very bored at the $30 mark. This is break time. You're halfway done, you've earned a break. Go get some bills paid, some shopping done, some laundry finished, but the important thing is to stay away from a keyboard.

I tried taking a break and sitting here playing games and messing around online and my motivation to write stayed gone. I took the kids to the park for a while, and when I came home, I was refreshed and ready to work again. Get outside if you can, the sun helps improve your mood quite a bit, even if you are just walking the dog.

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When Boredom Attacks!

May 10th 2010 16:15

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Wow Orble is working Great!!

May 2nd 2010 20:48

I won't lie, the old Orble was extremely slow and frustrating and sometimes something as simple as adding an image seemed to take a couple minutes which is years in Internet time.

I have some new posts coming very soon! I'm trying out some different sites and ideas so when I post about them, you're getting a REAL review and not some rehash of other sites

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