Making Money on Your Articles

I promised to write about making money on the articles that you write. I believe the good article writing could produce a nice passive income. For each quality article, you will generate about an average of $20 per month.

Let’s run the numbers
If you write 1 article per day for one month, that equals 30 articles in the first month. At $20 per article, you score a passive income of $600 in the first month. For each month that you repeat this performance, you double your money.

Sound’s great, doesn’t it?

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Three models of income generating online magazines

1. Upfront Payment & Paid for Performance
2. Purchased
3. AdSense model

Upfront Payment & Paid for Performance

These websites either pay you upfront for the article or pay according to the number of page views.

Associated Content – They are quickly becoming one of my favorite online publishers. They pay upfront for a quality articles between $3-20 per article. You also get a performance payment of $1.50 for 1000 page views. If you target a popular topics, I can see the possibility of hitting 1000 pages quickly

Helium – Helium pays for page views. The pay rate depends on your articles ratings, the amount advertisers will pay for that category, and number of page views.

Purchased Articles

Constant Content – They let you place your articles up for sale and take a finders fee. I have not used their service yet so I can’t tell you about their performance, but it may be worth a shot.

AdSense Model

The AdSense Model gives you some or the entire AdSense dollar your article earns. These sites require you to enter your AdSense Id number.

InfoSweet – Shares 50% of AdSense Revenues
Articlecodex.com - Shares 50% of AdSense Revenues
Articletrader.com - Shares 50% of AdSense Revenues
Articlewise.com - share 100% of AdSense Revenues
Earnticle.com - Shares 50% of AdSense Revenues
Ezinearticles.com - Shares 50% of AdSense Revenues
Hotwebtools.com - Shares 100% of AdSense Revenues
Oocuz.com - Shares 100% of AdSense Revenues
Savvify.com - Shares 100% of AdSense Revenues
Xomba.com - 50% of AdSense Revenues
VDOX.com - Shares 100% of AdSense Revenues
Freeblogarticles.com - Looks like it shares AdSense money. Could not find documentation but it lets you add your AdSense ID.

Let me know if I missed any good ones by adding a comment below.

Doing the right things

To grow our business to the million dollar level, we must do the right things. I know what the right things are – calling prospects, enrolling new student, upgrading students into higher value programs, selling retail, follow up on calls, etc. I know all the right buzz words but the power is in the execution.

Execution is the key!

I need to work on the perfect execution of my business systems. Discipline myself to constantly and consistently target the correct activities every day. My List of 5 keeps me focused on these activities.

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Article Marketing

The last few weeks, I worked on article marketing. I wrote 5 articles last week. I posted 3 articles and I am waiting for Associated Content to approve for more 2 articles. The results are profound. I have three websites that I am promoting - this blog, my personal blog, and my business website. My goal is to create at 5 articles for each website.

Since posting my first articles, I noticed my visits per day almost doubled. That’s from only one article! Also, I am generating some additional revenues from Adsense. Although my main purpose of this blog is to grow my business, I see great potential in creating a passive source of revenues from writing. How much of an increase in Adsense have I experienced? From three articles in one week, I generated about $5 each in additional revenues.

The internet is a wonderful thing. Any writers looking for additional revenues or possibly a full time career should consider article marketing. The next few days, I will write how to make it a possibility.

Looking for help write articles fast? Check out my post on Article Speed Writing.

Do you have a Financial Offense and Defense?

Fans, from all over, swarm to watch their favorite teams play NFL football. It’s amazing to watch high level competitors take the field and battle for the win. For a professional football team to remain a top contender on the field, they require a strong offense and defense to win. Our financial security has two sides also and without both sides we will lose in the end.

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Financial Offense

What is your money earning potential? That’s your financial offense. Most people display a pretty good offense. That means constantly achieving a higher and higher income level. Any awesome football team creates a winning strategy for their offense. With our financial offense, we need strategies too.

Offensive Strategy

Increase your income – If you have a salaried or hourly job, one of the best offense strategies is to constantly increasing your salary. For business owners, your offensive strategy is to increase and maximize the value of your time. David Bach, one of my favorite finance authors, in his book, Start Late, Finish Rich outlines a Four Week Action Plan to Get a Raise. David takes you through the steps to get a 10% raise. It works because I used it to get a raise at my customer service job. I received a 13% raise in 6 weeks by receiving a promotion. David Bach also outlines steps to increase your business by 10%. I took his advice and raise my student tuition by over 10% with almost no negative repercussions.

Create Multiple Streams of Income – Living with one source of income is a dangerous game. I set up numerous streams of revenue within my business. At one time, I relied on only student tuition as my only source of income. If tuition was down that month, I sat on the verge of financial ruin. Now, I operate with many streams. Some examples of streams of revenue for my business are tuition, retail, special events, birthday parties, drink machine. In addition, I have other ventures online through affiliate marketing, article marketing, online store sales and Adsense.

Passive Income – Any activity that you do once and profit from for a long time is Passive Income. Passive income ranges from stock and mutual fund investments, to writing articles online, and online store sales. Anything you can do once and enjoy a constant drip of income is passive.

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Financial Defense

I find that defensive money strategies are often ignored or non-existent. Defensive money strategies entail not spending everything you have so you can fund more offensive strategies. What’s the use of earning a million dollars, if you spend a million and half? This mindset results in you becoming broke the same as if you make $30,000 and spend $35,000. Wealth is not how much you make, it how much you have leftover.

Defensive Strategy

Simple Living - Make simple living your strategy for life. The fact of the matter is that the less you spend the less stress you have. These days because of the excessive impact of marketing, I find it hard to separate between needs and necessity. For necessity, we only need food, water, and shelter and everything else is fluff.

24 hour Purchase Rule - Before you buy anything ask yourself “Do I really need this?” “Would I cease to exist without this item?” If you answer No, place the item back on the shelf and wait 24 hours to think it over. Most items, you will not return to buy.

I try hard to develop both an offensive and defensive strategy. I always had a great offense but the defense took me time to develop.

Helium – Write and earn Cash

Catch the wave of writers writing articles and earn money … Try www.helium.com now.

It is a great way to get you, your business, or website noticed. At the same time, you can generate a passive income from your articles. Click on the banner below for more information.

After signing up, Helium will send you a confirmation e-mail make sure you read it completely and activate your account.

Helium uses PayPal to submit payment so you need an active PayPal account. All you need to do is enter your PayPal e-mail address. Helium pays out once you earn $25. You can click on the Earnings & Payment button to watch your earning grow. Once you reach the $25 minimum, hit the Request Payment button to receive your cash.

I like the competitive nature of Helium because articles are rated by other writers. The five best rated articles get the most exposure in each category. This means articles ranked higher by members earn more money.

Three factors affect the amount paid-out:
1. Quality – Higher rated articles earn more than lower ranked articles
2. Reader Draw – Some topics draw a larger number of reader than others
3. Advertisers – Advertisers pay more for certain topics than others

Are you having trouble writing articles? Read my blog on Article Speed Writing.

Article Speed Writing

Okay, I started my article marketing campaign. I submitted two articles last week. Then, Wham! I was hit with writer’s block. I started researching different books and I wanted to tell you about a book that really helped me call Article Speed Writing.

Article Speed Writing teaches you how to write content quick, about 500-600 word article in a half hour. By using the secret formula, I jumpstarted my writing and back on track writing articles to submit online.

Here’s some great things I learned through the program:

* How to do lighting fast research on any topic and learn enough to write an article in minutes…
* How to target keyword to drive more search engine traffic to your article.
* How to use the Golden Formula to step by step create a high quality article in less than 30 minutes.
* How to stimulate more ideas when you can’t think of how to start your article.
* How to write multiple unique articles using the same keywords.
* And much, much more.

I high recommend the article speed writing program and wanted to help my readers get started writing articles. I am sure that this program will help other writers like myself and make more money with the added benefit of save time.

You can read more about Article Speed Writing here. Read over the information and see for yourself how it can help you.