Blogging needs some hard earned money to cover the internet connection, domain and hosting bills. Serious bloggers will even have to pay more for autoresponder, link building and other internet marketing related services, but unfortunately some of you are probably still waiting to make your first dollar online and have no idea about milking money out of the internet. If this is your case, I can tell you that making 100 to 150 bucks a month is really achievable and you don’t have to worry about getting lots of traffic or trying to please Google in order to be seen in the crowd because what I’m sharing with you has nothing to do with SEO. I know that 100 bucks is not a good amount of money to brag off, but at least it can cover your monthly expenses for hosting plus getting you some new domains, enough to start your blogging empire.
OK, enough preaching I guess. A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Brad Callen, promoting his iWriter service. iWriter is a good place for both writers who want to earn some cash and web owners seeking for cheap articles to feed their sites. You can join iWriter on both sides but I prefer writing only so I didn’t join as their client.
I wrote for iWriter in October 2011 for two weeks during my spare time and received 85 USD on 5th November, sent directly to my Paypal account. If you are interested in writing for iWriter there are some points you need to consider:
- Writers are expected to rate the clients they work for and viceversa. Writers with good rating (4 stars and above) can get better payment and more request whilst clients with good rating will attract more writers to write for them, a win-win situation.
- Always look for clients with good rating AND reasonably good approval rate. Whilst most of the clients are honest you may work for a bad guy looking for free articles only. The system allows clients to review your articles and decide to approve or reject them which can be abused by people looking to steal your hard works. I’ve seen people complaining about a client rejecting their articles without clear reasons and instead giving silly excuses like “Sorry, I don’t have money to pay your article”. Sad but true.
- Some clients may seem picky and request lot of stuff to be loaded in your articles, including H1, H2 tagging, no grammar errors whatsoever, native English speaker – either UK or USA, etc. I normally skip them as there are tons of other requests you can fulfill.
- Always look for the requirement and stick with it. If your clients request 3% keyword density give them what they want. Avoid working for somebody with too generic requirement such as “friendly tone” only without giving more detailed description as you might write something totally different from what he/she expected.
- Write subjects you are familiar with and have passion about.
- Do walk an extra mile. I found that over delivering and good research are keys to get a happy customer place a special request for you. Submitting spun articles is not acceptable at all. So far I have written 26 articles with zero rejection rate, and most of my orders come from returning happy clients.
I have to admit here that I don’t write for living by joining iWriter because I have better works to do. I by no means am an affiliate either – as far as I know iWriter has no affiliate program. I just want to share with you my experience with iWriter, in case you need some extra cash to cover your bills.
Here’s a screenshot of my iWriter account. You don’t need to be a native English speaker to be a writer. If your articles are rejected just write for other people. Start with short articles first to gain your confidence and write longer ones for better income. I prefer writing long articles as the time needed to research the article sources is same.
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