Writing articles for a living

EXACTLY, and even then, how many times can you find clients who are willingly to pay that amount consistently? People who bulk up their orders always pay less, so I suspect that it would be rare to actually find a long term (and profitable) client who would even pay that much.


I am getting into copy writing soon, as that pays far more, especially for a GOOD QUALITY copywriter.


What I would suggest is that this person offers good deals for bulk orders, that way it encourages a vast amount of interest in more long-term work, but also allows the OP to at least get paid decent.


OP, you may want to also try distinguishing yourself from others, so that people will want to hire you for more. Lots of people write, but few people actually deliver quickly, product valuable content, and also make the content so captivating that the CTR's are through the roof.


Be more than juts general, people will recognize that, and will definitely consider you to be a HUGE asset. People don't mind forking out for the assets. It's the liabilities which they pay pennies for.


You can try getting hired on this forum, by offering deals that your competition is NOT offering. I have previously given away articles for free, and not just your regular one article per person...I have given away 5 articles and even more sometimes.


It just depends. BUT, article writing in this manner is highly tedious, so therefore I would strongly urge you to eventually work on getting an outsourcing team of your own.


You can make money this way as long as you use your head, but you will have to closely monitor this team, to make sure that they are delivering exactly what is needed.

Great lead johnmags, thank you very much, I'm heading over there now.

I've been paid more than $2000 for a single article.

So yes, clients will most certainly pay more than $50 for an article.

But you have to write well and understand which kinds of clients to go after.

Marcia Yudkin

WOW Monika,

I use "Submit Your Article" to send out my articles on the web for promotional reasons only, i never realised you could possibly create a six figure business out of writng them, having said that how do you go about charging for them, and how and where do you advertise your services?

What a great thread....John.

I love writing articles, but to my knowledge they only bring in the bacon, long term after months of submiting them, surely to achieve that kind of income from articles, is some mean feat?

John.

My experience is that the best way to make serious money from article writing is to make sure that you don't do all the writing yourself. I make very good money from article writing but these days do little writing personally.

Yeh, thats another great idea, when you think about it theres so many ways to utilise Article marketing as income streams?

John.

Exactly.

Don't compete on price, compete on quality if you want to reach 6 figures. You will get fewer clients and fewer work but you will make more.

If you want to compete on price then you are going to get in trouble...

Horrible advice...How long do you think a person can keep cranking out 500 word articles at $2.50 a piece before they lose their mind?

Not to mention the quality of these articles would be crap. You cannot write 20-500 word articles in 3 hours and expect them to be of any value.

The Internet is changing and I have a feeling that the days of content for content's sake are just about over.

Quality is where its at and any "real" writer would not sell his soul for $2.50 a pop.

At that rate, I'd rather submit those 500 word articles for lifetime residuals....jmho

Plain and simple; articles work. Here is my 2 cents about writing articles.

1. You have to use long tail keywords with low competition. You can do your keyword research with the free Google keyword tool or any other software you can find.

2. Write articles daily. In order to be affective, you have to plaster the internet with good content and a lot of it for that matter. If you don't like writing you can get really cheap 250 word articles for $2 an article. So I would suggest that you pay for some as well as learn how to write your own.

3. Submit your articles to ezinearticles and place them on your blog.

Articles want bring you instant traffic, but they are a great way to set yourself up with long-term consistent traffic.

Thanks,

Jon

Sounds like an idealic life, and how it goes to show that you really can succeed bigtime in article marketing as a business model in its own right!

John.

I do still write for magazines and I've written 27 books (not e books)
That's what i meant. You shouldn't JUST look at one area of income to successfully generate writing income