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What have I been up to?

September 11th 2009 14:36

I haven't posted as much as I like lately and that's simply because I'm doing very well and have slipped into a bit of a routine. It kind of goes like this:

7AM: torn from sleep by baby smashing me in the face with something.
8AM: Get oldest 2 kids off to school
9AM: Do a little customer service work I've picked up. Takes about 20 mins usually. Feed babies. I keep one customer support app running throughout the day also.
10AM:Write for 1 hour.
11AM: Video Games/watch a movie/nap if possible.

3PM: Get ready for kids home from school. Appointments if there are any.

4PM: Check the usual sites for high paying work only. Go over kids homework/papers. Walk to store or duck pond with them.
5PM: Write some more, make dinner.
6PM: TV/games with kids
7PM: Baths for everyone if needed, get everyone in PJs.
9PM: Everyone should be in bed. Work on a couple websites (they are down and not updated haha. I'll upload tons of pages soon)
10PM: More movies/video games.

Wow, I don't really do much at all do I? It really irks people that this pathetic little routine is making me $2500/month every month with the extra writing and Adsense kicking me up to about $3200-$3500/month.

What that should be is motivation for all the writers out there. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. If you really enjoy writing 10 Demand Studios articles each day (which really, isn't that hard if you compare it to roofing or something) keep it up. If you hate it, cut back to just a couple and find something you LIKE to write about. Write about your favorite thing all day when you have time. You can put those articles on your own site or simply sell them off on Digital Point and similar forums. If anything is rejected, don't forget Constant Content and Daily Article as well as Associated Content which has been overlooked by me for about 6 months.

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Site Flipping For Writers

August 9th 2009 10:54

SITE FLIPPING IS EASIER THAN WHATEVER THE HELL THIS WOMAN IS DOING!!!

Site Flipping....

Many writers know this term but don't realize they can make a killing doing it themselves.

You know those 10-20 article gigs you are doing for people? A lot of those articles go onto some lame site that will never make any sustainable amount of money and those sites will simply die off after the owner gets sick of paying for hosting while making NO sales on whatever crap they are trying to sell.

So, I've done my homework and yes, I've started to flip a site or two just to see what happens and how the process works. The thing is, we already have a leg up on the competition. We don't have to outsource anything at all! We write our own content, write it good, and write it fast.

"Yes, Robert, so what the hell are you trying to say?"

Let me break this down in an easy to follow and easy to repeat formula.

1. Pick a Niche that isn't too competitive. Sounds easy but most people will fail right here. Use the free Google keyword tool Really Long Link on this one. If you want to sell "monkey chow" you probably won't have a lot of competition. That particular term has around 2000 searches per month believe it or not. Choose something with around 20,000 searches in quotes for this method to really pay out.

2. Get a domain that is relevant to your term like www.buymonkeychownow.com or something. Pay for 3 months of hosting to accompany your new domain. Use Godaddy. It's the best for transferring ownership.

3. Write up 10-20 pages of great content on your new niche site. Don't make it a bland review piece of garbage like everyone else does. Have a couple pages of interesting stories to accompany 10-15 pages of thorough reviews with pictures and Amazon links or whatever affiliate thing you prefer.

4. DO NOT ADD ADSENSE YET.

5. For the next 2 months, your ONLY job is to religiously build backlinks to that site. Use every free blog on earth, use every article directory you can find. Create Squidoo lenses, hubpages, wordpress blogs, whatever. Don't link them all to your site directly but instead spread the links around. Link to the blogs, link to the ezinearticles, link the lenses to the blogs, link the blogs to your site. Make it like a gigantic messed up family tree from hell. Post in forums related to your niche. Yes, there are plenty of monkey forums for this example.

6. On day 1 of the third month, it's time for Adsense. Put the Adsense code into your site somewhere not too intrusive but definitely where it's noticeable.

Keep promoting this site. It's been a boring as hell 2 months and you have one more left to go.

THE END- It's been 3 months, with 1 month of Adsense running right? Now what? Now, you should be getting a decent amount of Adsense clicks per day. Maybe as much as $5-10 depending on the linking.

Get your butt directly to any website for sale site and put up an ad for your site. If your site makes $5/day in Adsense at this very moment, that's potentially over $1800/year. WIll it make you this much? No. Should you keep it and try? NO!!!

Sell that site for $1000 or best offer. You'll see how ads are set up on website for sale sites. Copy that format for your own.

I know, it sounds too easy to possibly work doesn't it? Well, it damn well DOES work. The best part is, we write it all ourselves so we have nothing to lose but time. If you know how backlinking and SEO works (and you should), you already have a much better shot than anyone else. Make your site with a free template if you don't like to build sites.

I'm not kidding here folks. This method is tested, proven, and will absolutely make you $1000 or more every 3 months. Try it once. You'll like it. If you feel like you have the time to do more than 1 site every 3 months, the sky's the limit. If you can promote 10 sites simultaneously, that's a nice $10000 every 3 months or so. Space them out right and you could make thousands each month forever.

"But Robert, wouldn't I make a fortune keeping all those sites?"

No. You can NOT keep up with them. To keep them ranking high on Google you have to keep adding content, and promoting them. I can barely do that with 2 sites so imagine how terrible it would be for say, 30 sites.

Build em, promote em, flip em.

Take a look at any website that buys/sells websites and see what those guys are doing. You don't have to get too fancy but that's what a lot of people do.

Make a plan, stick with it, and I guarantee in 3 months, you have $1000 in your account with about $60 to start it up and a bit of time.

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Turn Your Writing Gig Into Much More!!

June 29th 2009 14:36

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!

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Surveys Are An Asset You Shouldn't Overlook.

June 27th 2009 02:31

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.

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Ebooks and Clickbank. Where the Big Bucks Are!!

June 24th 2009 16:40

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.

What does this mean for you?

I'm going to assume you are a freelance writer or other online worker at this time so let's get to it.

On Clickbank, you can sell a virtual product for whatever you like. Research suggests that prices ending in "7" are very appealing right now. 7 is the new 99 cents. Why? I don't know.

What you do is create a useful e-book that is relevant to what you know. I don't recommend the "make money online" niche as that's done to death. If you love fly fishing, a fly fishing e-book may be your thing. If you know the secrets to getting grants for school you don't have to repay, you will make a fortune!

Here are the steps needed to succeed with this method.

1. Brainstorm ideas for your very own e-book (or program if you're able)
2. Narrow it down to one particular thing you will write about
3. Read other e-books (there are tons of free ones) to see how people format them.
4. Write your e-book (or outsource it to someone and clean it up)
5. Register with Clickbank. Do it yourself or use my link : <a Really Long Link
target=_blank>here</a>
6. Pay the one time $49.95 clickbank fee.
7. Wait for the checks.

You may need to create a landing page where people can read about your product, sign up for newsletters, and actually pay you for your e-book and get the download. This is very easy to do and clickbank will show you how to do a lot of that. You can outsource all of this easily for about $30 for a working template. You just write the information in and you're done.

Sounds too easy right? It's not. Clickbank is swarmed daily by thousands and thousands of people who want to sell products from there. They get a cut for selling it, you get a cut for making it. Everybody wins!

There is a catch. Sometimes, people want a refund. Don't spend all your money at once or you may be in trouble.

I'm dead serious though, it's THAT easy. The hardest part is the e-book itself. I have one now that's at 100 pages which is WAY too long. I'm not sure what to do with it and may break it up. The niche isn't too competitive but I'm researching over the summer to check things out.

Good luck. It's really not hard at all. Half of your competition has e-books that are barely in English or promote something stupid like "clear your skin with grapefruit skins in 2 days!". Use your brain and create something superior.

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Newsvine!

April 30th 2009 19:26

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WickedFire

April 18th 2009 01:18

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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FlexJobs

February 15th 2009 17:33

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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NEW WEBSITE UP!!!!

January 19th 2009 18:37

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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A Tried And True Method To Make Money Writing

December 21st 2008 23:19

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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Gomez Peer. Make a little money for nothing!

October 26th 2008 22:37

Well, I've been using Gomez Peer for some time now and it just activated me so I thought I'd pass it on.

Gomez Peer is a tiny program that runs in the background of your PC. It processes information about websites (Not websites you visit personally) and does something with that information

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Proof for the Non-believers.

September 15th 2008 04:52

I realize the Internet is full of "Make money at home" garbage. Here is some proof from my PayPal account now that I've been paid a bit from each place.

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Helium

September 11th 2008 01:43

Helium is a place where writers can write about pretty much anything. This is similar to Associated Content but there is one catch. You don't actually make any money. You get page views which many Helium veterans can make add up to a few dollars a month

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How much can I make in 1 day!!!

August 19th 2008 04:51

Ok, by popular demand, well, for my own greedy benefit, I'm going to attempt to see how much I can possibly make tomorrow (August 19th) just writing for various sites listed here.

You will probably think I'm insane or a liar but I swear to you I will only post the absolute truth. I do work for a private company that pays well so I might have a leg up on this already. I will write and submit as much stuff as possible though to multiple places so everyone can see exactly how I do it. I won' t be paid immediately so you will have to check back but I WILL post screenshots from my PayPal account that proves what I am doing

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