Are you a freelance writer or interested in freelance writing? Your best option then would be to start your own blog site to get your work seen. While it is difficult for many freelance writers to think about publishing their writing for free, consider the three different methods you can utilize to profit from with a blog.
One thing you can do is to take care of self publishing all your work (or most of it) to one blog site, or to multiple sites if you have different topics to work on. Once you've created several pages of original, quality content, search engines will start driving traffic to your blog after they're through "slurping" the information. This is what is commonly termed as targeted traffic, and there are several ways to earn from this, including using advertising services like pay-per-click programs, advertising affiliate programs or products or by selling advertising - the choice is all yours depending on your dedication level. If you want to focus simply on your writing and your audience then pay-per-click or affiliate programs is probably the easiest method to choose.
Your blog can also be used as a tool to advertise your products that are already being advertised on your other informative literature, like ezines or newsletters. You can still derive some profit from advertising or affiliate programs if you choose as well, but the additional informational products give you even more venues to profit.
Again, this can be done by offering your ebooks, newsletters, ezines, or other promotional informational products for sale only on your blog, as you use it to attract potential customers and to promote them. You can make a killing with your sales, but even add more to those profits by sticking with the aforementioned affiliate programs or pay-per-click advertising.
Yet another way would be to reserve your best articles for paying customers, although it can also make sense to go whole hog and rely solely on all your written work as a source of income. The days of the "starving writer" are gone, thanks to blogging - now you have an avenue to showcase your talent and make a good amount of money while retaining control over your published work.
It's about time freelance writers gave blogging a try, albeit with a twist - this time, with the goal to make more money through writing.
One thing you can do is to take care of self publishing all your work (or most of it) to one blog site, or to multiple sites if you have different topics to work on. Once you've created several pages of original, quality content, search engines will start driving traffic to your blog after they're through "slurping" the information. This is what is commonly termed as targeted traffic, and there are several ways to earn from this, including using advertising services like pay-per-click programs, advertising affiliate programs or products or by selling advertising - the choice is all yours depending on your dedication level. If you want to focus simply on your writing and your audience then pay-per-click or affiliate programs is probably the easiest method to choose.
Your blog can also be used as a tool to advertise your products that are already being advertised on your other informative literature, like ezines or newsletters. You can still derive some profit from advertising or affiliate programs if you choose as well, but the additional informational products give you even more venues to profit.
Again, this can be done by offering your ebooks, newsletters, ezines, or other promotional informational products for sale only on your blog, as you use it to attract potential customers and to promote them. You can make a killing with your sales, but even add more to those profits by sticking with the aforementioned affiliate programs or pay-per-click advertising.
Yet another way would be to reserve your best articles for paying customers, although it can also make sense to go whole hog and rely solely on all your written work as a source of income. The days of the "starving writer" are gone, thanks to blogging - now you have an avenue to showcase your talent and make a good amount of money while retaining control over your published work.
It's about time freelance writers gave blogging a try, albeit with a twist - this time, with the goal to make more money through writing.
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