Ways to Make Money through Writing

1.

Bring home the bacon writing for home businesses. Someone starts a new home

business every 11 seconds. Home business owners need letters, press releases,

marketing brochures, website verbiage, ad copy and more. While you are

making money doing that…

2

Write practical articles about owning and operating home-based businesses (of

which freelance writing is one).

3

Write book reviews. Nonfiction book reviews state the book's objective,

summarize the main concepts, include the author's credentials, cite a sample

sentence or passage, and suggest what readers can expect. Reviews of novels,

somewhat similar, delve into character development and other fiction

techniques. Send two or three samples to an editor who's likely to request,

"More, please!"

4

Ghostwrite articles and books for people with something to say, but who lack

writerly skills or time. Candidates to ghost for include psychologists for selfhelp

books, entrepreneurs for business books, and disaster survivors for humaninterest stories. Negotiate for "as told to Your Name" or "Jane Doe with Your Name" in preference to receiving no credit. "Ghost" has creepy connotations, so offer "professional editing assistance."

5

Sling ink freelancing for newspapers. Sniff out educational, governmental and

business news. Extract facts from cagey sources and your byline will land on

page one. Journalists use the "inverted pyramid" structure, strong leads, accurate

quotations and facts, keep themselves out of the story and provide high-impact

photos. Build a reputation for accuracy, honesty and integrity and the editor

might offer a regular slot.

6

Critique manuscripts by providing 20-30 pages on how the writer can improve

readability, plot, conflict, transitions, characterization and so on. Your sales tool

includes sample excerpts of writers' works and your responses, pricing structure,

testimonials, your publishing history, credentials, and estimated time to critique

a 200-250-page ms. If that goes well…

7

Profile a personality. After interviewing the celebrity…. Uh oh. Don't know any

celebrities? No matter. Interview ordinary people with extraordinary stories.

After interviewing the person and collecting researched information, begin the

article with a succinct hook capturing the person's attitude, explain who the

person is, quantify his or her efforts ("painted four portraits for the Bill Gates

family"), include feelings, gestures and props. Obey fiction writers'

watchwords: Show, don't tell. Appeal to the senses. Convey motion and

emotion. Alternate more narration with lively quotes. End on an upbeat note.

Enclose a separate page with names, street addresses, email addresses and

phone numbers of interviewees, and sources of quoted facts. Sell the profile and

photos to features editors of papers and mags. Compose a stack of profiles and

you've got a book!

8

Snatch funny money sketching original cartoons or write cartoon captions only.

Have more jokes up your pen? Write one-liners, gags and routines for

comedians. Write funny material for established humor writers

9

Rake in entry fees for writing competitions. Collaborate with a newspaper, radio

station, magazine or moneyed group. (Persuade the horticultural club to spend

some lettuce on a garden-related writing contest.) Specify word count, genre,

topic, terms and conditions. Enlist respected, unbiased judges. Ensure entrants'

anonymity during judging. Publish or air winning entries.

10

Train employees who are employed by employers to write better during

employment. A third of the executives from America's 1,000 largest companies

told Office Team surveyors that the scarcest skill among job applicants is

writing. And almost 80% of companies surveyed by Dartnel's "Management

Focus" said they would like to see employee writing skills improved. Salarypeople bury messages in mammoth paragraphs, shroud ideas in prepositional phrases, and dig up dinosaurs like heretofore. Give the program  a face-saving, head-turning title like "Write to the Top."

11

Earn legal tender writing about how to transact business on your patch of the

planet for business, inflight, and travel magazines. Office protocol, business

ethics, and dress codes vary from Maine to Spain. Pick businesspeople's brains,

search the 'net, and dip into classics like Lonely Planet's culture shock series.

After frightening the pinstripes off readers with real-life flub ups, offer hope.

"When all else fails," you might conclude, "a smile is a smile the world over."

Do/Don't lists are fantastic sidebars.

12

Click through the guidelines at Writing for DOLLARS! for paying markets.

Order sample copies. Submit well-written, well-targeted mss. When you score,

develop a relationship with the person who okayed the "buy" on your byline. Do

so by submitting another manuscript right after the editor accepted one. This

way, the editor might remember your name and view you as a steady source of

articles. Specialize. Meet the editor face-to-face. View the world through

editors' bifocals: Would you rather work with professionals who write brief

query letters, follow guidelines to a T, and meet every need, or with amateurs

too lax to follow simple instructions? Make editors' jobs easier, not harder.

13

Interview somebody with an unusual talent, hobby or occupation. Write to

entertain and inform. Ask open-ended questions. ("What difficulties do

falconers overcome?" not "Is falconry difficult?") Intersperse quotes,

paraphrasing and researched material with imagery. A retirement magazine

published my article about a fifty-something falconer in its hobby section.

14

Sell "how to write" articles to writers' magazines. Re-slant and resell the article

to publications targeted at home business owners, retirees, stay-at-home

spouses, and professional communicators. Hook readers with irresistible titles

like "Secrets of Successful Freelance Writing," and "Write Winning Sales

Proposals." Include examples to emulate, resources, related books and websites.

15

Make moolah writing brochures for institutions and agencies. Attentiongrabbing

brochures (and other documents) appeal to fear ("Myths about

Automobile Air Bags") and desire ("Are You Destined for Inner Peace?") An

outsider, you ensure the writing is tight yet informative. A writer, you ensure

the brochure is persuasive and reflects your client's image.

Finally

Words are published in articles, brochures, novels, flyers, textbooks, sales

letters, newsletters, advertorials, greeting cards. Words are printed on posters,

T-shirts, book jackets, signs, the 'net. Words are read by speechifiers, film

narrators, radioheads, stage, screen and TV actors. Someone made money writing those words. That someone can be you!

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MAKE MONEY ONLINE FROM ONLINE SURVEY SITES

 If you are looking for ways to make money online and if you can spend 1-2 hours daily then online surveys are the best way to earn Rs.10,000 to Rs.20,000 per month.

There are number of best online survey sites where you can signup & earn upto Rs.100 for completing each & every online survey.

HOW TO EARN MONEY ONLINE FROM SURVEYS

If this is the first time, you heard about online survey jobs, then here are some of the frequently answered questions (FAQs) that will give you better understanding about online surveys & how you can earn money from this.

WHAT IS ONLINE SURVEY?

Many companies want to grow their business by increasing the sale of their products. They can do this if they know what people think about their products, why they buy and don’t buy a product.

By taking the feedback from the people, they can create a new product or improve the existing products.

HOW DO I EARN MONEY FROM ONLINE SURVEYS?

Because giving the feedback and filling this online survey takes time, people do not respond to such surveys when they don't get anything in return.

Companies attract people by giving some returns in terms of cash so that they can spend 10-15 minutes for completing a survey job.

You can earn Rs.20 to Rs.100 for filling 1 survey. It mostly depends on the time it takes to complete a survey.

What they Ask in the Survey?

They ask very general questions in a survey. In reply, you need to either select 'YES' or 'NO' or choose any one option from the list of 4-5 options.

E.g. suppose there is a survey from Samsung for its one of the mobile, say "Samsung Galaxy Note"

Then some of the question may be like

 What is your annual income? (select one of the option)

 Whether you own any house/credit card/car etc.

 Your marital status?

 Do you have kids?

 Do you use Smartphone?

 Which mobile do you use at present?

 Did you use any of the Samsung mobile in the past or at present?

 If yes, choose which of the Samsung mobile you have used? (you will be provided with mobile brands. Select any).

 If No, do you think Samsung mobile are better than other mobiles in the market?

 Which is the best mobile phone according to you?

 Which features do you use most in your mobile?

 How much is your monthly mobile bill?

And many other questions... So don't you think that is easy!

You will get similar surveys from different companies for different products and you will get paid Rs.50 to Rs.250 or even more for giving your time to complete the surveys.

HOW DO I GET THE SURVEYS?

All these big companies don't give the survey jobs directly to the users because neither they have the database of the people who can complete the surveys nor they have any survey management system.

So these companies employ the middleman who are known as Market Research Companies.

These Market Research Companies (or online survey sites) works on behalf of the big companies and they have large number of people who can complete the online surveys.

You need to join these online survey sites. After you join these survey sites, you can login to these sites daily and check if there is any survey job available.

You can complete the survey whenever you find this in your account & make money online from each survey.

WHERE DO I GET THE LIST OF THESE SURVEY SITES?

You can check the list of top 20 survey sites from the list below. Just visit the sites & signup to start earning from online surveys.

1. Star Panel

2. iPanelOnline India

3. SurveyHead

4. Toluna India

5. PanelPlace

6. IndiaSpeaks

7. Brand Institute

8. PermissionResearch

9. Planet Pulse

10. SurveySavvy

11. Spider Metrix

12. GlobalTestMarket

13. ValuedOpinions India

14. The Panel Station

15. YourSay

16. NPDOR

17. PlanetPanel

18. The Harris Poll Online

19. Socratic Forum

20. MixReq

You can see further details about these survey sites on MoneyConnexion so that you can know some important details about these sites before joining.

HOW MANY SURVEYS CAN I RECEIVE FROM THESE SITES?

It depends on number of factors like your country, your education, your marital status & others. You can receive minimum 20-50 surveys in a month, if you join all the 20 sites from the Jobs8Home.com link provided above.

HOW MUCH MONEY I CAN EARN FROM ONLINE SURVEYS?

You can earn Rs.10,000 to Rs.20,000 which depends on your profile, how many survey sites you join & how many surveys you complete every month.

You can also check this list of best PTC sites where you can earn additional Rs.5000-10,000 per month by just viewing the ads.

If you are looking for more better ways to earn money online then you can go back & check the list of online jobs to find more better option.

HOW DO I RECEIVE MY EARNING? Most of the companies send your income in your PayPal account. PayPal.com is free to join where you can add your bank account & receive money from PayPal to any of your bank account in India.

You can see above link of PTC sites where we have provided details on PayPal.

So this way you can earn money online from online surveys. You can click the above link for top 20 survey sites & start earning from paid online surveys.

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How to Make Money Using Facebook

Three Methods: Facebook isn't a secret money pile just waiting to be found, but it can be a reliable source of extra income with some work and a clever approach. Read the steps below to learn how to make money using Facebook.

Method 1 of 3: The Basics

1 Make great posts. The foundation of any successful plan to make money with social media is good content, and lots of it. On Facebook, that means a stream of interesting links, images, and updates every day.

o    Search for a niche and fill it with quality content. It doesn't have to be a niche nobody else is filling, but it should be specific enough that it's clear to the casual observer. For example, maybe you'll post content for cat lovers, mothers, or people with a certain political affiliation. If you plan to market a product with your account, be sure to link the product to your posts in some way.

o    Consider opening up another Facebook account and keeping it separate from your personal account. Use this account for your posts, and link them on your personal Facebook account to let people know about them. Depending on the approaches you use, you might even consider using multiple extra accounts.

o    Give it time. Let your account build up interest over time by continuing to provide fresh and relevant content every day.

2 Make a commitment to earn. The only way to reliably make money using Facebook is through persistent work. Like any job, setting a schedule and sticking to it is the key.

o    Organize. Whatever strategy you plan to pursue, you'll probably have to take care of several things every day to make it work for you. Plan out the order and times you'll do them in advance.

o    Saturate your market. Making money with Facebook is more of a numbers game than anything else. Since marketing on Facebook costs nothing except time, you can market as much as you want – even to a point that would be prohibitively expensive any other way – and let the percentages and statistics work their magic one penny at a time.

o    Add aggressively. One of the best ways to increase the number of people looking at your page is to simply add people as friends as often as you can. Most won't accept, but some will.

Method 2 of 3: Making Money Through Affiliate Advertising

1 Find an affiliate program. Affiliate programs provide you with a unique ID and marketing materials, and then pay you a commission based on how much business you generate.

o    Most websites you've heard of offer such a program. Since there's no cost to the site for letting you do this, practically anybody can become an affiliate for as many sites as they want.

o    Start with well-known brands. Amazon offers a competitive affiliate program that pays a percentage of any purchase a person makes after clicking through from your post, even if it's not anything you advertised. Apple's iTunes program has an affiliate program as well.

o    Add in smaller programs. Though less likely to generate money on a given day, you can diversify and gradually increase your affiliate revenue by offering a wide range of advertising services to many different businesses.

2 Sign up. Once you've decided to market a company as an affiliate, search the company's site and fill out the required forms. This should always be free, and usually only takes a few minutes.

o    Don't ever pay to become an affiliate.

3 Add accounts. Make a Facebook account for each affiliate program or group of programs you sign up for. This allows people to follow your pages based on the things they're interested in, rather than having to sign up for one page full of all different kinds of ads.

o    As mentioned previously, you can use your primary account to repost things from the other accounts periodically, exposing those pages to the audience you've built.

4 Promote your programs. Make posts for each of them daily, and maintain your accounts fastidiously. With luck, and a good central account with a lot of followers, your affiliate accounts will begin to get followers as well. Whenever anyone clicks your posts and buys something from one of your affiliates, you earn money.

Method 3 of 3: Making Money With an E-book

1 Write an e-book. E-books are just book-format publications that are distributed electronically, rather than printed on paper. Because there's basically no cost to publish an e-book, pretty much anybody with an idea can do it.

o    Take it easy on yourself. Unlike a paper-and-ink book, your e-book doesn't have to be any particular number of pages. In fact, most e-books that are written to generate income are more like e-pamphlets than whole books.

o    Choose a subject that will generate interest. Nonfiction is almost always a better choice than fiction. Oddly enough, e-books that tell people how to make money selling e-books are a popular option, and they apparently sell enough to at least offset the trouble of writing them.

o    Write in an area where you can claim some kind of authority. It'll add cachet to your book. You don't need to show credentials, but you should write about something you're better at than the average Joe.

2 Pick a publishing option. There are a few free ways to get your e-book published.

o    The most basic option is to save the book as a PDF file, and lock it with a password that you send to people who buy your book. Once the password is out there, anyone with the password can open the book.

o    Createspace is an Amazon.com service that allows you to publish e-books for free on the Amazon website. It offers better usage protection than the PDF method, but can't be directly distributed from anywhere other than Amazon's website. Createspace also has a number of paid services and options available. To maximize your Facebook profit, avoid using them.

o    ReaderWorks is a program that easily formats and published e-books in Microsoft Reader format, one of the most common e-book formats on the web. The Basic version of the program doesn't offer any security, but it's free and easy to learn. There's a paid version of ReaderWorks that adds digital rights management (DRM) protection. Only opt in for the paid version if you're going to be making a lot of books with it.

3 Get your e-book online. Createspace will post your book automatically. If you published it on your own computer, you can sell it a few different ways:

o    Amazon will let you upload and sell your e-book as a Kindle book for free. (Kindle is the brand name of Amazon's popular e-reader product line.) This option is called Kindle Direct Publishing, or KDP.

§  On the plus side, KDP is fast and very flexible. You can publish your book in about 5 minutes, and set sale royalties for yourself as high as 70% (with Amazon taking the other 30%).

§  On the other hand, KDP does not publish your book for download outside of the Kindle marketplace. Readers who don't use Kindle won't be able to browse and purchase your book.

o    eBay will let you list items for sale at a set price. By offering a stock of “copies” of your e-book available for purchase on eBay, you can turn the venerable auction site into a de facto bookselling hub.

§  The advantage of eBay is its simplicity. Anyone with access to the site can potentially purchase a copy of your book – no special gadgets or software required.

§  The downside is the cost. eBay sets fees for just about everything; they only get worse when you set a fixed price point for purchases. Some of the fees are percentages, but others are flat, which can really bite into your profit margin if you're not careful.

4 Sell your e-book on Facebook. If you were wise and wrote a book that caters to the audience you've been building up with your primary account, you've got a receptive, ready-made audience for your sales pitch.

o    Advertise it several times a day, both blatantly and at the end of other posts. Be creative and try to engage your readers. Get them excited about reading your book.

o    If you have other accounts (such as affiliate accounts), advertise your book there, too.

o    Always provide a link for reader to click to visit the page where they can purchase your book.

Tips

• There is a huge demand of social media marketing. If someone is expert on social media, he/she can easily make money out of it.
• E-books aren't the only thing you can sell to your fans, they're just one of the most likely things. Be creative and think about what else you might be able to make for little or no money that you could advertise to your readers.
• There's no substitute for working hard. If you take time to cultivate and maintain a readership, the rest will take care of itself; on the other hand, if you just make a bunch of affiliate pages and sit back to wait for the money to roll in, you'll never succeed.

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How to Make Money from your Facebook Page

Do you know that you can make money from your Facebook page? I will show you how you can go about it in these three easy steps.

Step 1. Apply your Facebook page;

Step 2. Advertise on your Facebook page;

Step 3. Monitor the statistics and get paid!

                                      

To get started, just follow these simple instructions:

      1.      Make sure you have at least 1000 likes on your Facebook page so that you can be accepted.

      2.      go to http://fanshala.com/ and register with your Facebook account. You will need to allow the app to have access to your Facebook pages before you can access the publisher’s dashboard. Also make sure you read Fanshala’s Terms and privacy Policy.

      3.      Search for and add an approved advertisement below your status and get paid. Go to the “Available Ads” section; choose an ad and copy-paste the content below your status.

      4.      The more your followers or likes, the more you get paid as the brand(s) you are promoting reach more people. You will be paid on a CPC (Cost-per-click) basis, the more people open the link attached to your status, and more would be your payout.

      5.      You cannot provide any sort of incentive to your followers to click on the advertisement or click on them yourself (the counts are restricted to unique IPs). Any account found contravening this would be immediately banned.

You will get paid via checks which will be delivered to your permanent address. Initial address verification would be done to ensure that you get your checks duly. Payments to the publishers are made monthly. Once you reach the minimum payout value of $200, the amount shall be converted to your local currency and a check will be dispatched to your permanent address.

To get started, you would have to divulge your phone number, address and email ID. The basic connecting of your Facebook account would also be done. Your details won’t be sold or shared with a third-party but you cab delete your account afterwards if you don’t like this anymore.

Hope you find this interesting, feel free to become my friend on Facebook, follow me on Twitter  so at to get more useful and effective posts/articles from me.

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How to Earn Money on YouTube

You’ve probably heard stories about regular people earning money on YouTube and thought, “Hey, I can do this too!” While earning thousands of dollars probably isn’t realistic, you can start earning money quickly, especially if you have a strong subscriber base. Follow this guide to get your videos monetized and start earning revenue off of those YouTube ads.

Steps

1. Set up and build your YouTube channel. Your channel is your personal presence on YouTube. Each YouTube account has one channel attached to it. A YouTube account is the same as a Google account, and creating a YouTube account will grant you access to other Google products, such as Gmail and Drive.

• Create your account or use your existing one. Add keywords to help people find your channel. You can add keywords by navigating to the Advanced section of your Channel Settings. Make sure that your keywords are relevant to your content.
• Your user name can also work for or against you. If it’s short, easy to remember, and original, people will be more apt to remember you. However if you are using an existing account, just stay with it. It doesn't help if you keep changing accounts.

2. Add content. Try to upload content that is high quality, and isn't super long. (This option can vary depending on what type of content you decide to upload) Also try to upload regularly and stay consistent with your uploads.

• Even if your content isn't great at first, keep at it. Practice makes perfect. Try to make each video better than the last. You will often learn as you go.
• Improve your content by either using a better camera or trying better editing software or techniques. Also try to improve the way things are filmed. Use a tripod, have a friend help you or light your scenes better. It all helps for a better end product which in turn helps you get a better audience.
• By uploading regularly you can help hold an audience. People are more likely to subscribe if you add content on regular schedule, and maintain that schedule as much as possible.
• Make sure to tag your videos with key words that describe the content, as well as an eye-catching description. These will help drive people to your video from YouTube searches.

3. Gain an audience. Building an audience is key to increasing your monetization. You need people to watch your ads in order to make any money off of them. There is no one secret to getting more subscribers, just make the best content that you can and they will come to you.

• Keep uploading content and try to get people hooked. Send your video out on Twitter and Facebook. Share it with people. Distribute it elsewhere on the internet. Subscribers are essential to becoming a partner.
• Interact with your viewers by responding to comments and making occasional videos directly related to viewer comments and questions. Connecting with your community will bring more members into that community.

4. Monetize your videos. In order to start earning money on your videos, you’ll need to enable monetization. This means you are allowing YouTube to place ads in your video. This also means that you acknowledge that there is no copyrighted material in your video.

• You can monetize a video as it uploads by clicking the Monetization tab and checking the “Monetize with Ads” box.
• To monetize a video after it has been uploaded, open your Video Manager and click the “$” sign next to the video that you want to monetize. Check the “Monetize with Ads” box.

5. Setup Google AdSense. You can setup Google AdSense for free at the AdSense website. Click the Sign Up Now button to begin creating your account. You must be 18 years or older to create your own account. If you are younger than that, you will need an adult to help you.

• You need either PayPal or a bank account and a valid mailing address as well as other information so AdSense can verify who you are and who to send the money to. You only gain money per ad click and a smaller amount per view but it adds up over time. This is why having an audience is key.

6. Check your analytics. Once you have some videos online, monetized, and being viewed, you can check out the analytics on them to see how they are performing. Click the Analytics option in your Channel menu. Here you can view estimated earnings, ad performance, video views, demographics and more.

• Use these tools to see how your content is resonating with your audience. You can change your content or your marketing if you’re finding that you aren’t attracting the users that you want to.

7. Market your videos elsewhere. Don't put your videos just on YouTube! Start a blog, make a website or post them on other video or social media sites. The more views it gets, the better. By sharing the link or embedding the video on the internet, you are increasing the chance of it getting noticed and of you making money.

8. Become a YouTube partner. YouTube Partners are YouTube members who have monetized videos with a large number of viewers. Partners gain access to more content creation tools, and can win prizes for the number of viewers they have. Partners also get access to much more community support and tips.

• You can apply for YouTube partnership at any time through the YouTube Partner page. In order to gain access to the most powerful Partner programs, you need to have 15,000 cumulative watch hours for your channel over the last 90 days.

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