Is article writing the quickest way to make cash online?

Hi Again,

I guess I and Razvan read your post differently. I'm talking about ghostwriting and or PLR and Razvan is talking about bum/article marketing.

One way you could get the $225 immediately or at least soon is to take on a project that would take you a week or two for $500. Find an IMer who trusts you and ask $225 now, then write your fingers to the bone to deliver ASAP. Using my low figures again, $500 / $4 an article = 125 articles. Write 10 to 15 or more a day and deliver them in packages of 10 every day until you complete the project. 10 articles a day should leave you plenty of time to do other things during the day while still reaching your goal of $225 now and at the end of the assignment having another $275 coming in.

George Wright

I really don't believe you have to start as low as $4 or $5 an article (assuming you can write well).

My first writing assignment netted me $300 over the course of a few days.

It definitely can be done.

Hang in there!

Okay, here's the 2 cent tour of article writing from somebody who has been
doing it for a pretty long time both as a freelancer and a marketer.

Let's start with freelancing first.

Freelancing

This is where you write articles and sell them for a profit. This is a very
quick way to make cash. Just head on over to Elance.com or some other
site where people are bidding on article jobs and you can literally make money
that day.

Here's the problem, and the reason I got out of this business a long time
ago.

There is TONS of competition and people out there willing to write articles
for less than lunch money. So getting anything near a decent rate,
especially when you're first starting out with no reputation at all, is next
to impossible. Expect to be writing for $3 to $5 per article max. So to
make $225, you're talking about writing between 45 and 75 articles.

Have fun.

As I got a reputation for writing quality articles, more people started
coming to me for work. I could afford to raise my prices because I was
overbooked. Suddenly, nobody wanted to pay them.

The answer why?

"Yeah, your articles are great, but for my purposes, I don't need Pulitzer
Prize winning stuff, not when I'm just sticking a few articles on my blog,
so thanks but no thanks. I can get $5 articles that while maybe not as
good are all I need."

I paraphrased the common responses I got. But I wasn't going to cave in.
I said, screw it. Somebody wants my services, they're going to pay for them.

Fortunately, I was already a successful marketer and didn't need the work
anymore.

Point is, good luck making a living as a freelancer with the mindset of
most people today. For the most part, they think a $5 article writer is all
they need.

Marketing

Writing articles for the purpose of marketing products and services is a
whole different ballgame. Depending on the niche, this money can come in
fast or very slow. And even at that, most affiliate programs aren't going
to pay you for 30 to 60 days after you start making the sales anyway, and
with some, there are pretty high minimums.

So in general, at least in comparison to freelancing, article writing done for
the purpose of marketing is very slow.

Sure, you could create your own product and sell it through PayPal, but
now you're into an area beyond just article writing. Now you're into
product creation.

Article writing, for the purpose of pure marketing, is just a part of the
marketing puzzle and should not be counted on as the only source of
income. As many articles as I write, it still only accounts for about 67%
of my income...and I've been writing articles for several years now.

Bottom line is this...there is no real quick money on the Internet unless
you have a lot of money to invest in things like dropshipping for Ebay
sales or a massive Adwords campaign for your own product where the
money goes into your PayPal account right away and you can start
transferring it to your bank account.

Anyway, hope this helps.