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I would suggest that you write articles for fellow Warriors or provide a service. I'm sure you will make that amount in no time by doing this. Never give up. Great headline by the way.

Hey,

I just sent you a pm i think you will be interested in what i have to say

Eric

Here's an answer I posted to a similar question a couple of weeks ago, and then to someone else a few days ago. I probably should just make a post or article of it and link to it, the question seems to get asked every so often.

A couple of things are specific to the original question-asked, like the 2 hour writing time. But the plan itself should work for anyone who's willing to work it and is a competent writer.

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Here is a mini-business plan that might suit you.

First, write 3-5 samples. I would say make at least one of them a how-to, and one of them a tips or benefits article. Make one of them about a problem that people face (more on that below), and make sure and hit an emotional button with it. (Do this with every one you write, if you can.)

Unless you want to specialize (not a bad idea, but not always the best idea for beginners), cover at least three niches. Pets (be specific) and bad credit /credit repair/ bad credit loans/ anything financial, esp. concerning people in desperate straits, are two good ones.

Anything health-related is good, too. Exercise-related, weight loss, acne, natural medicine, erectile dysfunction, etc.

Also dating/seduction isn't a bad one either. Lots of people doing stuff with these markets and their niches.

Make sure each one is focused around a keyword or key phrase in the niche. Put the keyword in your title, in the first paragraph, a couple of times in the body and in your closer.

Probably you already know about that but I'm mentioning it just to be safe. A safe keyword % is under 3% and many marketers don't worry much about it anymore. If they do then they will tell you. You can check your percentage at textalyser dot net. Always a good idea just to make sure you haven't accidentally overused it. Don't want to be guilty of keyword spam!

If you don't have the money for a WSO then you possibly don't have enough for a domain name and hosting. But I think .info domains are 2 or 3 bucks at NameCheap.com. Hostgator can host you for ten bucks a month if you pay monthly. Seriously consider this, it will help. However I'll talk about free stuff in just a minute.

----> Addition: you can also make a few bucks over at Textbroker.com not everybody's favorite place to work but it will do the job.<------

If you get hosting and a domain name, I'd recommend the WordPress install on Fantastico. With wordpress you can choose to create blog posts or web pages and it's the easiest way I've ever built a site. In fact it's the only way I've ever built a site that was worth looking at.

If you absolutely can't afford a domain name and hosting right now, you can use a free service like WordPress.com or Clearblogs.com. Make pages or posts with your samples.

Make an "about" page or post that has your email. It will help people feel safer with you if you can list a phone number and street address, or at least some sort of mailing address. You are an unknown quantity at this point and this can help people feel more sure about you.

Okay, now you want a page where you introduce yourself. It should say that you are available for content writing. List your price. I started out at $.02/word. Some people won't like to pay that but some people think it's a deal. If your samples are decent then you can get it. If you are professional and always make your deadlines, and provide good content, you can charge more in the near future.

You can also offer packages: 5-article, 10-article, etc. Give a bit of a discount for bulk, if you want.

Since you are as yet unknown, here is a suggestion: offer to write ONE free article per potential client. It doesn't have to be long, 300-350 words is fine. Say that you will do it on whatever keyword or subject they want, although you might want to list exceptions i.e. heavily technical stuff if you're not up on tech, adult stuff if you'd rather not do that, etc.

Now it's time for the forum. Create a signature line that links back to your website. Your text can be something like "Need good content at a reasonable price? Click here and get a FREE test-drive!"

Or any such phrase that lets people know you are available, and giving out free samples.

If for some reason you don't have paypal, get it.

I started out asking for half payment up-front from my clients. This was as a new and unknown quantity. I like to think they gave it because I came across as at least somewhat of a professional.

It's not unusual to ask for this and personally I wouldn't work for a client who wasn't willing to pay half up-front. By the same token, it might smell fishy if you ask for everything up-front as well (though I've seen writers do this when they post a WSO).

Set a realistic turnaround time for yourself. If you're taking 2 hours per article then take that into account when you tell clients your turnaround time.

And if you're taking two hours...get faster! I have found that outlining helps quite a bit with this. Also, when you get $47, google the term "7 minute article". It's worth it.

Seriously, if you don't at least cut your time in half, you're going to have problems making money with this. If you can't get to at least one article per hour then you're likely to end up frustrated and feeling overworked or worn out.

Now, make posts here on the forum. Make sure they are intelligent replies about subjects you know. You don't have to know much about internet marketing per se--all kinds of niche topics here.

If you don't feel like you have much to say, then you want to start a WSO just as soon as you get $20. In fact you might want to do that anyway. This is a great investment for your business.

Offer a good rate. Say, you'll do ten 400-word articles for 40 or 50 bucks. Make sure you list your regular rate, so that they can compare with your WSO rate (and know what to expect to pay in the future).

Set a limit on how many clients you'll take. To be safe, I would announce a turnaround time of one week, for everybody. Or one week for your first 5 clients and two weeks for the next 5. Whatever suits your writing pace and lifestyle.

Make sure you include a link to your site. You can even include a link for each individual sample if you want.

DON'T TAKE ON MORE THAN YOU CAN REASONABLY HANDLE. Your reputation is everything, so you want to make sure you can deliver. ALWAYS DELIVER ON TIME!

It feels like I might be leaving something out here, but it IS five o'clock in the morning.

This isn't the only way to do things but it sure ain't the worst.

If you can cut your writing time down some, then you'll really do yourself a favor. Mine started going down after a couple of months but at two hours per article, you might have a hard time just getting started.

See if you can get it down to at least an hour. Of course if you do several articles in the same niche, this may not be such a problem, depending on your research and writing times.

Hope this helps.

Hey Brad!

You seem like you know alot about article writing and providing the service!
I'm going to PM you!

Hi,
Instead of selling services , why not go for an informational product on article writing and other stuff you have expertise in.

I guess you can sell your knowledge and you do have a flair for writing (loved your thread title )

Regards and dont quit.

Freelancing is one of the fastest ways to rack up money pretty quickly. Try writing articles, ebooks, reports, e-course they whole shabang!

Hi Michael,

I haven't read through the whole thread so I appologise if it has been covered, but a quick way to make some cash online is to open up your own ebay account, find some things around the house that you haven't used in god knows how long and that you probably wont use again. Take a few happy snaps, write about them, pop them up and auction them off. You never know you may get hooked on it and find it is something you can get into,

Sean

I just wanted to ask...

How much should I be charging as a new writer?

1) to write 300-500 word articles
2) to write an ebook
3) to re-write an ebook

Your suggestions would be most appreciated!

Thanks

I just wanted to ask...

How much should I be charging as a new writer?

1) to write 300-500 word articles
2) to write an ebook
3) to re-write an ebook

Your suggestions would be most appreciated!

Thanks

Greetings from down under bro. Having read through your explaination about your situation, to be honest bro, it's a bit hard (3 weeks, man) to make some money through writing an article. I'd suggest to start by joining some affiliate programs (find it through clickbank.com) and advertise it through google adwords.

no problem
I probably won't be online again until later tonight (it's 10:26AM here), I'll check my PM's then.

Hey Michael,

Why don't you try cpa like I did at the start?

You are good at designing.

Apply at maxbounty.com, they called me 10 minutes after I submitted my application form. Tell them that you'll be doing landing pages and you are a PPC expert.

You don't need other accounts if you don't do something shady but you do need other accounts because of the different types of offers and just in case you get banned. Make sure you read every company TOS.

Find a gadget related offer. Example free iphone. Register a domain (use your credit card, I believe just from the place you say that you live, a normal resident IS able to afford 10 dollars on a domain). Get some hosting. I use tmzhosting.com and know the owner, they are good.

Do a quick landing page. Place an image of an iphone, place a link to your offer and use a php redirect if you want to and create user sence of urgency. You are going to do that by writing something like - "FREE Iphone (link) - 4 Left Only".

The link points to your offer.

Depending on how much it pays - prefferably 1-2 bucks, you only need 80 people to enter their emails or whatever. Make sure the offer is easy to complete.

Those landing pages can have a conversation rate as high as 30% if done right and they receive targeted visitors.

Then the traffic part comes.

Here's a quick article I found on the warrior forum that's really good about traffic generation - http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...r-traffic.html

By experience forum traffic is the easiest and quickst. Get on a gaming forum, edit your signature and post useful posts. Make sure you act good with the community and not spam. Once you earned the $100 lazy freaking damn bucks throw them into adwords and rinse and repeat.

You'll have a $1000 day in no-time.

I hope you might consider this.

Cheers,
Marko

oh my, i dont even know where to start...

first, yes, IM can be hard, and i do not deny when i myself started out it took a LOOOONG time until i actually saw some decent money.

But here we have the problem:

You are asking here on the forum about how to make money - means: You are basically CLUELESS. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with it, either being new to IM and asking for advice!

But you should maybe think this over, and i doubt you have any plan of whatever sort, otherwise you would not need to ask how to make GBP100!!

Getting good in IM is a long process, it can take years to find "your spot", to find whats profitable and what to focus on and what not.

I also see you wasted already 7 weeks (of the 10)...why? Now you have it 100x harder, especially in an area where you want planning.

For a "quick" buck...yes i also recommend offering a service like articles, bookmarking, squidoo lens building and things like that. Here and on DP forum and on BHW forum.

Depending on your budget, you can also look into outsourcing. You could as well pay someone else for whatever work..then your job would be to get prospects for whatever service you want to sell..and get some people from DB/BHW doing the job for you.

There are people who build complete websites for $150. So...imagine you put an ad on craigslist and email to some webmasters, and you can make them an offer to make a website for them for, say, $500-$1000-$X. Sub the $150 you paid the one making the site, the rest is YOUR profit

Keep it simple. Stick with what you know. You know the Warrior Forum and you know graphics . . . use them to jumpstart your new life ;-)

I'd bet it wouldn't take you long to put together an awesome graphics package and sell it as a WSO, with resell rights. Make it an irresistible offer, show examples of your work, and you'll have plenty of sales within 48 hours. You'll have impressed your girlfriend, and be on your way with your new internet business.

You can also offer your services as a WSO. Plenty of warriors would jump at the chance to get a header, footer, ebook and CD cover for $69 - they'd consider it an awesome deal and you'd build your credibility for future projects, when you can charge more. You'd only need a couple of clients to show your girlfriend it can be done.

Another thought . . .get some plr products in a niche, bundle them together with great graphics, and offer your WSO with resell rights. Rinse and repeat.

Best of success to you!

LOL. Good Lord you're not even married yet. Stop taking orders from your blooming girlfriend and tell her if she's not looking tanned and sexy then she's getting dumped.

what kind of gf would do that...

it takes some TIME to make money...sounds like she's trying to
control u...tell her she needs to understand it is business...and like
a relationship, a business is for long term...if she can't support u for
ur internet business goals, she's got to go

The answer is simple... very simple.

So simple in fact you probably already know what I'm going to say but yet will you follow it? Who knows but I'll tell you anyway.

Are you ready?

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Take action...

I mean, you said it yourself, you have a few ebooks you bought but really didn't do anything with them because you wee concentrating on your job.

Buying the information won't do jack unless you are willing to use that information and work at it.

So do it... don't wait, get a simple plan together and work hard at it. Give it an honest shot and see what happens... Don't go and try to conquer the biggest niche out there, no need for that. You need to get the skills to do that. So in the mean time, find smaller niches that have been neglected and take over.

Mike Hill

Hey Michael,

what I see is that you have pretty strong copywriting skills, even if you don't know it yet.

You understood what many people don't for writing titles.

Franck

Good morning bro, you can also try to do some blogging. This is also one way to attract traffic to your site. But please make sure you write some quality content where you can put some of your affiliate link inside. All the best bro.

Hi Michael, how's things going?

Hi Michael,

While I empathize with your predicament, it seems to me this thread will result in more of the same for you - information overload, analysis paralysis, procrastination and you know the rest.

You need to take a stand! (This is that other kick up the backside you've been anticipating)

Start by turning inward and seriously assessing your talents, skills, experience, passions, goals and so on. Get a pad and pencil and write these things down, in any random order, without judging or critiquing them.

Then look them over one by one and ask how you could possibly incorporate it into a money earning venture. Let your intuition and all that you know guide you. You may be able to combine different elements and come up with something feasible.

The point I'm trying to make is this: Begin somewhere and DO something. Then let that action take you to the next step. When you get to the next step, you'll have a new perspective and be in a better position to see where you ought to go next.

In the meanwhile, don't be pressured by the countdown to your girlfriend's return. Spend the necessary time sharpening your axe so that when it comes time to cut down the tree you'll be prepared to go to work.

Good luck my friend.

Hermas

yikes, 3 weeks is a pretty limited amount of time.

i agree with those telling you to offer a service of some sort. just do it

Write articles and flip sites. In that order.

Yeah I definitely agree Scott!

The Warrior Forum IS the place to be!

I'm having a whale of a time!