Busy first few days of the month.
Marginal Boundaries launched yesterday, with some small fanfare. Couple hundred hits on the site, and a few submissions already. Not bad for a first day.
Writing contest over at Complete Writing Solutions is on-going. Submissions end this Friday.
I have a personal content writing project going. So far I'm averaging over 60 USD per hour. The goal is to keep this up for the month of January, and post a pros/cons list at the end of the month. I'm tracking all the relevant data...how long it takes me to keyword search for articles in my niche, how long I have to deal with style sheets, and how long it takes me to write the physical articles. Also included is any rewrites. Yesterday, for example, I worked for 2 hours and made 120 USD. My ultimate goal with this project is to show people how lucrative content writing can be, and how easy it is to simply take 2 hours a day out of your schedule and walk away with 2k a month...24k a year. Think about how much time you spend on Facebook, Twitter, watching shows like Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, or whatever.
I continually boggle at people who say they "can't afford" something because they "don't have time" to spend a couple hours a day working on a hobby project. I'm writing about topics I know, topics I enjoy. It isn't work. It's a hobby I'm getting paid for. Every single solitary person I know "wastes" 4-5 hours a day of their time on "entertainment"; that is, TV shows, Facebook applications, video games, or otherwise. And while entertainment is absolutely vital to our well-being, there is also the fact that if you need income...the only person standing between you and success is you. Everyone has two hours a day of spare time that they could spend writing content. Imagine an extra 24 grand in your bank account at the end of the year, above and beyond your normal salary. That's a car. A down payment on a house. Your mortgage payments for the entire year. A first-class all-inclusive 5+ star resort vacation for you and your spouse. The possibilities are endless.
Just a small update from my world. Staying busy!
About Me
- T. W. Anderson
- Cancun, Mexico
- I'm a location independent expat who treats the entire world as my home. I teach people how to live like the locals in destinations around the world via Marginal Boundaries.
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4 comments:
I'll follow along to see what you mean by "keyword search for articles in my niche."
Steve:
Most content sites offer a form of job queue. You take keywords related to your expertise, and you plug them into the search box. That brings up a list of articles related to your keywords, or articles that you are qualified to write on, or things you might want to write on.
It's like a Google search, only specific to the particular content site you happen to be doing the work for.
This morning was round 2. I kept the same average as yesterday. As long as I stay to my niche (articles that require no research), I top out at just over 60 dollars an hour, writing normally, typing.
Keep in mind that I normally use Dragon NaturallySpeaking (speech to text program) for my freelance work, because it doubles my productivity, but I wanted to do this particular project by hand, just like every other person would who isn't a professional writer.
Basically, I'm writing 9 articles in 2 hours, averaging around 400 words each. 3 of those articles are for a client, 6 are for a content site. 2 hours of work for 120 dollars.
Day 2 of the project went well. I'm going to change things up a bit after this week and force myself to write articles NOT in my niche, just to show what it's like to write about passion projects that require research and citations. It's one thing to use your own experience as a reference, and quite another if you have to research something.
i do have 2 hours, i like to write and i have had this and that published.
so how to i get the money generating machine going?
Hit up the main site for more information on the content writing stuff, Nicole...can find the link on the right hand side of blog...Complete Writing Solutions.
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