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even get noticed for your work. Consequently, you will require sales from several titles to get to an amount that resembles full-time income.</p><h2 id="b7ef">Create collateral for businesses after content</h2><p id="625e">Of late, content marketing has gone mainstream; this is the idea of developing valuable content that attracts customers and establishes credibility and trust. What are the results? Numerous businesses are daily jumping into the content game. A few of them have well thought out strategies while others just hop into the bandwagon hoping it eventually pays off. This scenario creates a market for the smart writers that write for a target audience; such content-hungry businesses need a lot from white papers, articles, case studies, and many more. The best part of it is the businesses expect to pay them.</p><p id="eb6c">A writer has to have a few contacts to break into this market but it’s possible. The first stages may require you to jostle around for some attention with hundreds to thousands of other freelancers eagerly vying for similar jobs on marketplaces.</p><p id="bd9e">Establishing a track record in the freelance marketplace needs hard work coupled with patience to break away from the category that is low-earning. Have more than passion and a laptop to be an impressive writer that will move crowds; be persuasive and let them know that you get the bigger picture. Boost your writing portfolio with some content-related skills like SEO and understanding marketing fundamentals.</p><h2 id="2ee1">Become a conversion-focused copywriter</h2><p id="5272">Make money online as a conversion-focused copywriter. Copywriting has the primary objective of writing to make readers take a certain action; video scripts, sales letters, and product descriptions need someone to write them and they either pass or fail to depend on the outcome they produce. There isn’t much of a difference between copywriting and the other forms of writing but you will find out it is a unique discipline.</p><p id="92cb">A skilled copywriter understands the principles of persuasion. Even if more people are moving further away from the hyped ‘hard-sell’ towards the more empathetic, conversational copywriting, you need a solid copywriting background. Eventually, it saves you the time and money to invest trying to learn the fundamentals. The cash you earn from copywriting can be significant; you can earn as much as 203 in just in the month of June. In all 8 months, from Jan to August, I have made over $1100 on Medium. I know this isn’t a big amount of money but we have to start from somewhere.</p><p id="02b9">Writing on Medium and making money was always my wet dream and I am thankful that I found this platform. In the modern age, you have a platform that gives you the ability to write and make money and collect emails that could help you generate more audience.</p><p id="a0e9"><b>How to make money writing on Medium?</b></p><ol><li>Go to Medium.com, and make your profile. The process is simple, you just have to sign-up as you do it on Facebook or YouTube.</li><li>Click on your profile and on the drop-down menu, click Medium Partner Program.</li><li>Enter all the required information. Remember, you just have to add Stripe information. This isn’t equivalent to having a stripe account.</li><li>After joining the Medium partner program you have to enter the Tax Information and you are set to make money and receive it on your attached bank account.</li><li>Boom, start writing from today, and make money.</li></ol><p id="3052">Making money writing on Medium is easy but getting to$ 100 is very difficult but as I told you before, “Only 5% of the writers on Medium make more than 100 a month writing on Medium?</li></ul><div id="6596" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-make-100-a-month-writing-on-medium-3ef3d12674cb"> <div> <div> <h2>How To Make $100 A Month Writing On Medium?</h2> <div><h3>Can You Make Money Without getting curated in a topic or getting published in Popular publication?</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*kK1vo4mQQd-CPgA9)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><ul><li>Blogging on WordPress Vs Blogging on Medium</li></ul><div id="5196" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/blogging-on-wordpress-vs-blogging-on-medium-b47b87d27486"> <div> <div> <h2>Blogging On WordPress Vs. Blogging On Medium</h2> <div><h3>A Subtle guide for writers who are confused about writing on WordPress Vs. Medium.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*eGHNw1fYJd0qgTcG)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><ul><li>You are a writer on Medium, you should publish content on these 3 platforms too!</li></ul><div id="82dd" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/if-you-are-a-writer-on-medium-you-should-publish-content-on-these-3-platforms-too-22b799fa7448"> <div> <div> <h2>If You are a Writer On Medium, You Should Publish Content on These 3 Platforms Too!</h2> <div><h3>These platforms will help you promote your Medium articles.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*tbKwGRwn9YqvQf4h)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="b7f1">4. Starting your own Quora Space</h1><p id="3385">Quora Space is like a Facebook group but on steroids. You can build yourself a community that has a similar interest and *You* or *Anyone* could generate content on your Space and can make money through Ads running beside your content.</p><figure id="c584"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*0IwNJHlARv_scIPQkM_GKA.png"><figcaption>The money I have made writing on a Quora Space \ Screenshot by the author</figcaption></figure><p id="919b">Yes, that isn’t a very big amount of money but if you get more views then you will make more money. The ad-rates are higher during the holiday season. But, only running ads isn’t the solution to make money writing on your Quora Space but you can run sponsored post, I have run two sponsors post that generates me over$ 100 from this Quora Space.</p><p id="64ae">If a platform could give you the opportunity to write and make money then why not using this opportunity to make a side income.</p><p id="1cb7"><b>What can you add to your Quora Space?</b></p><ol><li>You can add Questions and request people to answer them.</li><li>You can add answers to your own questions.</li><li>You can add links to your blog post or relevant to your Quora Space niche.</li><li>You can add posts as you do on Facebook.</li></ol><p id="c44b"><b>How to make more money from your Quora space?</b></p><p id="84ec">In general, On the Internet, creators make more money when they create more content. The same thing applied to those writers who are creating content on Quora Spaces. Quora Space is more revolutionary as they could be index by search engines and you can generate a massive amount of content by requesting other writers who could a history of writings about those topics.</p><ol><li>Add more questions to your Quora Spaces. You can add unlimited questions but can request 25 writers per question. You can request over 1,000 people by asking questions.</li><li>Add more Interesting stuff to your Quora space to increase the engagement rate.</li><li>Long-form content. Again, a general Internet Phenomenon. The longer the content, the more the algorithm will promote your content.</li></ol><p id="13ce">Creating a Quora Space is easier and you just need to make an account on Quora and open your profile. Create a Quora Space and clicking on the “+” sign and you need to add a name and a short description of your Space, then you had to add three topics that are the most important part of the Quora space marketing. They use Stripe and PayPal as a payment method, so if you are living in any country, you can connect your stripe and start getting paid from them.</p><p id="0abc"><b>You can read stories about Quora Spaces:</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-grow-your-quora-space-five-tips-to-get-more-followers-8cf912de1a7c?source=false---------1">How to grow your Quora Space?</a> and <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-create-a-quora-space-4e2cba292195?source=false---------4">How to create your Quora Space?</a></li></ul><h1 id="3b80">5. Writing on Substack and get paid readers</h1><p id="860a">Writing on Substack is a more revolutionary way to make money. Did you ever think of getting paid readers? readers that could pay you to read your stuff. The idea is seeming

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very bizarre but yes, a lot of writers are making thousands of dollars writing on Substack and getting paid, recurring revenue, readers.</p><blockquote id="77b2"><p>The process is very simple. All you have to do is to go to Substack, make a publication for free and start writing, and putting content on a weekly basis.</p></blockquote><p id="e303"><b><i>How the process of writing on Substack look like?</i></b></p><ol><li>You make a publication on Substack and start writing articles.</li><li>You promote articles through different mediums as well as search optimized it.</li><li>You get more email subscribers and more loyal readers as time goes by.</li><li>You enroll in Stripe and start uploading 1 post out of 5 as lock for only paid members. You can charge up to $3/month or$ 30/year subscription.</li><li>Some readers think that your information is worth the money and they bought your subscription.</li><li>You make recurring money from those loyal readers and at the same time can grow your email list.</li><li>Whenever you publish a post, Substack will be sent directly to your subscriber's mailbox, for free.</li></ol><p id="7936">That’s how writers who write on Substack make money through getting paid readers.</p><p id="4ea3"><b><i>Pros and cons of writing on Substack:</i></b></p><p id="6e00"><b>Pros of writing on Substack:</b></p><ul><li>The platform is free.</li><li>It gives you the opportunity to get paid readers.</li><li>It gives you the opportunity to get paid through connecting stripe.</li></ul><p id="15ff"><b>Cons of writing and making money on Substack:</b></p><p id="1847">Now, the cons of writing and making money on Substack overpopulated its pros.</p><ul><li>You have to pay 10% of the services charges for every paid reader.</li><li>You can’t make yourself a brand through Substack.</li><li>They give you a sub-domain, a sub-domain isn’t very search engine friendly. So, it is hard to get ranked for competitive keywords.</li><li>You can only monetize your content by getting paid readers.</li><li>You publish content on a third-party platform. Your account might be deleted if you go against their TOS. But, as I said, with every opportunity, there is a risk involved.</li></ul><p id="f64c"><b>Alternative of Substack for making money writing and getting paid readers:</b></p><p id="114c">There is a powerful Substack alternative exist that gives you the opportunity to create your own Membership site like Substack give you but with access to a custom domain, custom site navigation, and banners, you can monetize that publication through any of your favorite methods and you will don’t have to pay 10% commission. In the longer run, you can make more money compared to your Substack publication. I write a complete demonstration comparing both these platforms which you could read in the posts given below;</p><div id="105b" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/ghost-org-vs-substack-which-platform-is-best-for-getting-paid-subscribers-ad6d16a83c6e"> <div> <div> <h2>Ghost.org Vs Substack: Which Platform Is Best For Getting Paid Subscribers?</h2> <div><h3>Ghost gives you the opportunity to get a custom domain and monetize your work by getting paid readers, while Substack…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*ku08OnUvM290hh0TJoP6fQ.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="1ed1">6. Sell your Writing services as a Freelance writer</h1><p id="69ce">Most successful freelance writers are full-time writers or like me, part-time writers who do it as a side job. Full-time freelance writers earn their living or grow their income solely from freelance writing and they have no difficulties whatsoever in getting projects or securing clients. Unfortunately, some freelance writers struggle a lot and it’s hard for them to raise sufficient cash to replace their unsuccessful jobs; they have absolutely zero ideas on how to avoid crappy writing projects.</p><p id="473c">At some point, you might have considered writing to earn money. Initially, I thought of joining a freelancing platform with no idea of what I wanted to follow through or what I was doing but when I discovered the vast world of freelance writers, I found out that there were prolific writers who attracted numerous clients. Such superb writers received gigs almost all the time and had high paying rates; it was then that I realized I had to be among the best writers and learn how to earn additional income as a freelance writer. There are several ways of making money this way; let’s consider some helpful tips</p><h1 id="b3c7">Start with a blog</h1><p id="aefa">To be a wealthy freelance writer, start a blog. Your blog will give you added advantages apart from being a portfolio of getting money as a writer. For any person who wants to set up a business, a blog will do just fine be it in graphic design, coaching business, or writing; it can be a platform that will boost your business.</p><p id="c93a">These days starting a blog is simpler because of the helpful guidelines that are reputable, time-saving, and helpful. In case you have a freelance writing blog, you have the option of setting up your site as a service-based site that consists of some specific pages on your site; this step can help you earn money writing.</p><p id="4621">Suggested tips that will help you out include having the following 5 pages namely the hire me page, portfolio page, about me page, the testimonials page, and the contact page not forgetting a link that leads to your blog roll.</p><p id="381c">With a blog, you can monetize it to make more money like having sponsored posts, ads, or perhaps affiliate marketing. If you are new, you will enjoy making money this way. Pick a specific tool, product, or service which you know about or which you are currently using. Additionally, you can opt to promote courses that offer affiliate programs; to find out whether a specific service or product already has an affiliate program, search on google.</p><h1 id="9b15">Find a profitable writing service or niche</h1><p id="66c3">There are plenty of writing niches available you can choose from that will pay well. Always remember that not any niche will be high-paying, and the same applies to the writing services available. An example of a great niche you can settle for is the parenting niche although it is one of the over-saturated niches; undoubtedly, it can still pay well. You simply need to know where to look for the appropriate niche that will boost your earnings.</p><p id="daf4">Making money as a freelance writer takes time. You have to think critically about which products out there match the niche you are talking about. Some topics like religious studies are difficult to establish a successful business with products and services but it doesn’t mean that you won’t manage writing for educational institutions that center around religious studies. When you are thinking of what to consider for your niche, don’t think only about your passions, hobby, or what you enjoy writing but also find out if it can be quick to make money.</p><h1 id="82d1">The ideal writing client</h1><p id="6617">It all depends on your niche; if it is a profitable one, then writing clients will determine if your niche is high-paying or not. Ensure that you understand why the blogs are important so that it gets easy to layout an inbound marketing strategy. Some writing clients will pay more money because of the quality of the content. Understand your ideal client and find out whether you want to work with actors, authors, doctors, tech companies, online businesses, start-ups, small businesses, B2B companies, lawyers, brands, non-profits, magazines, etc. most prefer sticking with the B2B market that offers brands that are digitally native.</p><h1 id="d2e8">Start writing around your niche subjects</h1><p id="59bc">For newbies, you can still land writing gigs even when your writing samples don’t relate to your niche topics. It could be acceptable this way but more quality writing jobs nowadays only pick freelance writers with adequate experience in a niche topic.</p><p id="6f18">New writers can pick niche topics that generate money like digital marketing, parenting, and health; enjoy learning about the topics you pick for your freelance writing business and get hooked. A word of caution however is trying to find out the topics sooner rather than later so that you start getting money writing earlier.</p><h2 id="7587">Pitch to the appropriate companies and writing jobs</h2><p id="90a4">You have to discover which jobs are appropriate for pitching so that you learn how to make money as a freelance writer. Do your research on the company or look at the presented ad and determine if it is a good gig; some helpful pointers include checking the timeline given for you to present content. When a gig wants you to deliver a lot and fast like within a week, it will be low-paying; high-paying clients mostly give out more than one week to a month for big posts.</p><p id="76c9">Cold pitching is suitable only after you figure out which right companies you are going to pitch to; you can search for jobs that are based on your niche. First, create your profile that revolves around your social media profile and make sure to have the keywords. Spend most of your time to find writing gigs from companies and places to pitch to.</p><h2 id="abba">Expand your presence on social media</h2><p id="a005">Some people stay away from social media for several reasons. But as a freelance writer, social media is a powerful tool that exposes you to plenty of opportunities form future clients so, be online most of the time if you can. Your presence on social media can help you grow your income because some may check out your Linked profile or see what you post on twitter or; these two platforms yield noteworthy results.</p><h1 id="b9f4">7. Write on HubPages and Vocal. Media</h1><p id="95f5">Hubpages and Vocal. Media is other platforms where you could make money writing. Hubpages is a platform where you have to make an account, add your Paypal address, and start writing articles. They run ads beside your content so you make more money when you get more traffic on your blog posts published on Hubpages. They also have run affiliate products besides your content so you can also make money when someone bought anything through that link. Not my favorite platform but good for writers who don’t have any money and want to make some without investing.</p><p id="614b">As you can see my earnings of three articles i have posted on Vocal.</p><figure id="efbe"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*9_wUgUL_b7s8xjn-xOV-XA.png"><figcaption>Earnings from writing on Vocal / Screenshot by the author</figcaption></figure><p id="405a">As you can see with 448 reads, I have made over $1.7 which means that I will make over$ 3.9 with 1,000 reads. Industry-wise, this is a very good CPM and you could reach $6.8/1,000 reads with getting a Vocal+ subscription.</p><p id="7d80">Vocal Media is another platform where people are making$ 500+ a month just writing articles. They have some of the best content monetization model, they pay you on per reading. They have even fixed rate for 1,000 views. If you are not a Vocal+ then you will make $3.8 per 1,000 views but if you have bought Vocal+ member then for the very similar reads you will make$ 6.8 per 1,000 reads.</p><p id="5094">Vocal Media doesn’t run ads or anything besides your content. You just need reads.</p><p id="38ca">If you want to know more about Vocal and want to write for the platform then you need a complete guide which you can read in the article given below;</p><div id="86bc" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/what-is-vocal-media-make-money-writing-on-vocal-media-bdadb841762f"> <div> <div> <h2>What Is Vocal.Media? Make Money Writing on Vocal. Media?</h2> <div><h3>You can make $100 a day through Writing on Vocal with literally every view can make you money.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*QEJfvT_oTpX5C876OsfIdw.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="5dc7">The Verdict about Making Money writing Online:</h1><p id="0dfe">As you can see there are countless ways to make money writing online, we have discussed creating your own blog, making money from selling your ebooks, writing on third-party platforms like Quora, Medium, Vocal, and HubPages. All these platforms give you the opportunity to write and make more money as your readership grows.</p><p id="a070" type="7">Writing online is a privilege.</p><p id="ba5c">You will make more money as time goes by through your writing. When you create a blog post or anything that we could call <b><i>“Content”</i></b> that piece will always be there and you will make money through that content, forever. That’s the compounding effect of making money writing online. This is why the more content you create, the better.</p><p id="4176">I hope this guide helps you start your online writing career.</p><p id="fe27">For more such posts, <a href="https://aamir.substack.com/p/welcome-to-my-newsletter">subscribe to my email list</a> to receive such insightful posts straight into your mailbox.</p></article></body>

Make Money Writing

How To Make Money Writing: A Subtle Guide

Make Money Writing is very easy if you do it the right way.

**Make money writing Online and be a brand in a topic of your Interest** Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash

Writing online is a blessing. If you had an opportunity to write online then you are probably very lucky because this is a privilege in my view. I never thought of making money writing online but now, as more and more time passes by, I am sure that I can make money writing. I will share my writing journey with you guys too and at the same time will share some platforms where you could start writing and can make money through those platforms as well as make yourself a brand.

I was very poor, still, em, starting writing on free Blogspot blog with the attention of generating a side income, make a few hundred bucks that were enough to buy a new domain, start writing on my WordPress blog with a custom domain, and made over $5,500 in a single year writing on my blog. Then, I heard about another writing platform and started writing on that platform.

Is it is hard to make money online?

Yes and No.

Yes, it is hard to make money online if you aren’t consistent on the platform or on your blog. No, it is not hard if you are writing and publishing consistently on any of the writing platforms.

I have taught a lot of my friends how to blog? or how to make money writing? almost 22 people. But, just one did a good job and the rest failed, why? because they think they will make money writing in just one night. Which isn’t possible in any way.

Before you start learning about some of the platform and techniques to make money writing online, I want to introduce you to some points that might help you in the long run;

It takes time to make money writing. This is very honest advice for anyone who wants to make money.
Through some writing platforms, you can make thousands of dollars without investing anything, while for some platforms, you need to invest money to make money from those writing platforms.
Writing is a very competitive field. You need to be consistent and put a lot of words on those platforms to make some real money.

There are Bloggers who are making thousands of dollars every month from Medium. It will take you some time but believe me, writing online is one of the best things you could do to promote your brand and make money.

How writers online make money?

There isn’t just a single way to make money online. When you start writing about something, your reader demand quality. The more experience are you in something, the better the quality writings you will produce. The more readers you have the more opportunities will knock at your door.

There are literally hundreds of ways through which you could make money writing. Some of the ways through which you could make money as a writer online are; through selling your books, getting paid readers, monetizing our content through ads, writing for other platforms that pay, and selling your own stuff …

7 Ways To Make Money Writing Online

Starting writing on your Blog
Selling your Books through KDP
Writing and making money through Medium
Starting your own Quora Space
Writing on Substack and get paid readers
Sell your Writing services as a Freelance writer
Write on HubPages and Vocal. Media

Let discuss one by one of all these 7 methods to make money writing online.

1. Starting writing on your blog:

Starting your blog can be tougher contrary to common opinion; it seems like a frustrating task at the beginning. With plenty of vital information to take in and strategies to analyze, you may wonder how it can be possible for an individual to get the time and the means of becoming an accomplished blogger at the same time driving adequate amounts of traffic.

Blogging isn’t as tough as portrayed most of the time; numerous people prefer their words to be shared and seen extensively his is especially so because they are after the respect of the masses and they want to advance their authority in their respective fields of work or niche. Notably, it is challenging to drive traffic to a blog and monetize the traffic you receive too.

The major problem lies in overlooking the fundamentals of online marketing when trying to earn some income from blogs. When you ignore helpful tips on how to monetize your blog, you will find it extremely difficult to earn but when you do it the right way, what will stop you from earning profits eventually? This section of the article will discuss how you can monetize your blog.

Be focused

Almost any other blog requires focus. Have a specific domain in mind or a topic which you want to write about constantly and don’t be all over the map. Hoping from one subject to another will make you lose touch with your target audience. When a person first visits a blog, they want to continue revisiting it because it tackles a need. That will only happen when you become and remain focused on that one topic.

Quality over quantity

People think it’s all about quantity and they try to push out an extra amount of content. However, it won’t work if it is thin content because you have to prioritize quality. Your blog must be well-written, thorough, and also cite all the sources and in case there is a reference to a study, it should be linked to. Quality is therefore paramount if you are after earning money from your blog.

Deliver value

As a blogger, your blog should deliver value. Ask yourself questions such as what are you good or an expert at? And what can you teach others about? Have sufficient time to create content that delivers value. For instance, create informative posts and well-explained tutorials that incorporate interesting things like videos or other media that truly assist people to make their way around something. In almost all industries, value determines the income that’s is including blogging.

Content engagement

Find out how engaging your content is; rate yourself with others to check whether your blog incites people to spend most of their time watching videos, reading articles, or messaging on a platform for example. When your content engages more people, there is a high probability that they will make purchases from you. Without engagement, however, you lower your chances of monetizing your blog successfully.

Leverage your authority

What is the extent of the authority you have from others? Are you well-known in your field? The more authority you assert translates to increased chances of quickly monetizing your blog. It works if you have significant social media followers since when you decide to launch a blog, it drives traffic quickly. For most experts or best-selling authors that already established authority, all that is important is leveraging it for money form blogs.

Leverage affiliate marketing

Among the most popular methods of monetizing your blog is to capitalize on affiliate marketing. This move is useful at the beginning when you just started and don’t have the services or products to sell. What you need to do is create content that will ultimately blend in smoothly with any affiliate offers you consider to push out. For instance, when your blog is about fitness, it becomes easy to sell affiliate health, bodybuilding, or weight loss supplements. Since what you offer in your blog attracts those who are into fitness, it won’t be difficult to sell products that will help you develop an almost-automated means of passive income.

Include advertisements

Most people think that including several pay-per-click ads will be an astounding way to make more and more money with their blogs. It is only until you have more than 10,000 visitors every day or more and that is when you qualify to get massive amounts of traffic although the income will be marginal. When speaking of real income, it starts when you go beyond 100,000 visitors every day.

Alternatively, you can negotiate with advertisers directly for terms by using display ads and not the pay-per-click ads. Keep in mind that the ads should be within a specific niche or industry so that you land better terms after negotiation; you can settle for a much more competitive amount than the income you get from the normal pay-per-click ads.

Utilize email marketing

Email marketing is among the most viable ways of monetizing your blog. First, start with building a list to be successful in this method then, regardless of what you are promoting be it developing a lead magnet or promoting blog updates, use one of the most widely used email marketing platforms like InfusionSoft, Convert Kit or Aweber to use the required systems that will enable you to start marketing via email.

Creating a strong bond and a connection with readers can help you to effectively come up with a significant amount of money through marketing the products and services you own plus affiliate offers directly via mail. Expect to earn approximately $1 with each subscriber every month.

Sell your eBooks

A somewhat quick way of monetizing your blog is by selling eBooks. Create an eBook that complements the content of your blog; for example, it is simpler to create non-fiction eBooks besides, in case you are teaching a skill which most people struggle with, your eBook will more likely produce a healthy profit.

How can you promote your eBook? Use your blog directly by creating catchy content which will bring more people in and they won’t miss checking out your eBook. Additionally, build a sales funnel; this is an online marketing term that refers to an automated multi-step sales machine. You can sell your book on autopilot.

How to make money writing

Earning money through writing has lots of disadvantages because you get to pick the time and the place convenient for your work and with whom. Many people lean towards writing since it offers personal and creating freedom, but they do so as a side-hustle and not full-time. There are some highlighted tips mentioned which will help make more money out of writing.

Write articles for magazines, journals, and blogs

Many major popular publications have to publish content or else they will be out of business. This applies to both offline and online content and that is why job boards are becoming increasingly plenty. Regardless of all that talk about global ‘content fatigue’, the most renowned WordPress magazines, journals, and blogs are always hungry for quality content writers; most are willing and ready to pay too. you have to hustle to get the best writing opportunities since success doesn’t come overnight; writing for such publications is a very smart way of earning money online as a writer.

The secret to making more money online writing is being tenacious when it comes to looking for opportunities be it the regular freelance type of writing or ghostwriting; be efficient at what you do once you land the job. Be quick to crank out quality writing and don’t get too indulged in any one project; for instance trade articles constantly need quality articles that focus on their narrow topic subjects and most people are currently waking up to engaging and more controversial styles of writing to match the web demands.

Most talented bloggers with outstanding knowledge in a particular subject mostly skip the ladder-climbing stage and break-in at the appropriate pitch.

2. Selling your Books through KDP

Make it big as an author and get on the route of becoming a full-time writer. Earning money as a full-time writer has its benefits for one, it’s a life of freedom and it is getting more realistic than it used to be. A decade ago, it was a distant dream for many interested ones to write a best-selling book; in fact, just to self-publish on kindle was regarded by most a futile exercise.

Thanks to Kindle and Amazon today we have the self-published book market which is ever-growing and it has made it possible to make more money writing books. This entire process isn’t an easy one however; in case you are thinking of publishing a single book then retire on the profits, you will be extremely disappointed.

A successful writer should have a commercial mindset and aim at an existing market that records demand from the readers. That is not to mean you can’t follow your passion but always be ready to validate your work; be prolific and persistent and chances are you will publish numerous books before you even get noticed for your work. Consequently, you will require sales from several titles to get to an amount that resembles full-time income.

Create collateral for businesses after content

Of late, content marketing has gone mainstream; this is the idea of developing valuable content that attracts customers and establishes credibility and trust. What are the results? Numerous businesses are daily jumping into the content game. A few of them have well thought out strategies while others just hop into the bandwagon hoping it eventually pays off. This scenario creates a market for the smart writers that write for a target audience; such content-hungry businesses need a lot from white papers, articles, case studies, and many more. The best part of it is the businesses expect to pay them.

A writer has to have a few contacts to break into this market but it’s possible. The first stages may require you to jostle around for some attention with hundreds to thousands of other freelancers eagerly vying for similar jobs on marketplaces.

Establishing a track record in the freelance marketplace needs hard work coupled with patience to break away from the category that is low-earning. Have more than passion and a laptop to be an impressive writer that will move crowds; be persuasive and let them know that you get the bigger picture. Boost your writing portfolio with some content-related skills like SEO and understanding marketing fundamentals.

Become a conversion-focused copywriter

Make money online as a conversion-focused copywriter. Copywriting has the primary objective of writing to make readers take a certain action; video scripts, sales letters, and product descriptions need someone to write them and they either pass or fail to depend on the outcome they produce. There isn’t much of a difference between copywriting and the other forms of writing but you will find out it is a unique discipline.

A skilled copywriter understands the principles of persuasion. Even if more people are moving further away from the hyped ‘hard-sell’ towards the more empathetic, conversational copywriting, you need a solid copywriting background. Eventually, it saves you the time and money to invest trying to learn the fundamentals. The cash you earn from copywriting can be significant; you can earn as much as $2,000 including a portion of the revenue from a high converting sales page.

Establish a niche blog and support third party products

Creating a blog is tough. As soon as you manage to scale your blog at a certain level, you will discover that you take less time writing blogs and you will be more engaged in the activity. Before you start on your path of making money from blogs, choose a blog niche where you will be spending a considerable amount of time writing; you can target a large and passionate crowd that already exists. This is a crucial step because you can find popular products from trusted brands to sell.

Instead of creating your products why not consider promoting other affiliate products to earn money from your blog; most affiliate products can pay high commissions of up to 50 percent or more since the rising production cost of several digital products is not significant.

3. Writing and making money through Medium

You might probably know about Medium but this site gives you the opportunity to make money writing online without doing any investment. You just have to signup like YouTube and start writing. Medium is an online publishing website where you could make money writing articles by getting reads from those people who are part of the Medium membership program.

To make money from Medium, you need to join the Medium Partner Program, if you are living in a country where Stripe is not available then you can use this guide to join the Medium partner program from almost any country. Through this method, you can join MPP and can start making money writing on Medium.

Medium earnings while writing on Medium / Screenshot by the author

As you can see with just writing passionately for over 6 months on Medium, I have made over $203 in just in the month of June. In all 8 months, from Jan to August, I have made over $1100 on Medium. I know this isn’t a big amount of money but we have to start from somewhere.

Writing on Medium and making money was always my wet dream and I am thankful that I found this platform. In the modern age, you have a platform that gives you the ability to write and make money and collect emails that could help you generate more audience.

How to make money writing on Medium?

Go to Medium.com, and make your profile. The process is simple, you just have to sign-up as you do it on Facebook or YouTube.
Click on your profile and on the drop-down menu, click Medium Partner Program.
Enter all the required information. Remember, you just have to add Stripe information. This isn’t equivalent to having a stripe account.
After joining the Medium partner program you have to enter the Tax Information and you are set to make money and receive it on your attached bank account.
Boom, start writing from today, and make money.

Making money writing on Medium is easy but getting to $100 is very difficult but as I told you before, “Only 5% of the writers on Medium make more than $100 a month” and as more writers join Medium, this percentage might go down.

I was in college, living in an underdeveloped country, and have no money to buy food. And, unlucky me, don’t know about a platform where I could write and make money. In the same way, you are reading about this platform and might love to write on this platform.

Ways to make money writing on Medium:

You can make money by Joining the Medium Partner Program. This is an official way to make money writing on Medium.
Through affiliate marketing: Affiliate marketing and sponsored posts are allowed on Medium but you have to disclose it somewhere in your Medium stories about affiliate links and you are fine.

These two are the official ways to make money from Medium but through writing on Medium, you could write about a single topic and be an expert figure in that topic. So, if you have no money to invest and want to make money writing then the best choice is to go for a platform like Medium where you could make money without worrying about anything.

Pros and cons of writing on Medium:

Pros of writing on Medium:

You don’t have to pay anything to write and make money.
You can build a solid portfolio.
Because of the high domain authority of Medium, you can easily capture the audience.
Built-in audience.
An emerging platform.
Where you will upload videos? the answer is YouTube. But YouTube can terminate your account? Follow the rules of that platform and you will be always there.

Cons of writing on Medium:

On Medium, you own your content. But, you can’t monetize your content through any method you want. You have to think twice before doing so. Two of the acceptable ways to make money through writing on Medium is Just Medium Partner Program and Affiliate marketing.
Your account can be deleted at any time but with every opportunity, there is a risk involved.

You can read all the stories related to Writing on Medium:

How to make $100 a month writing on Medium?

How To Make $100 A Month Writing On Medium?

Can You Make Money Without getting curated in a topic or getting published in Popular publication?

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Blogging on WordPress Vs Blogging on Medium

Blogging On WordPress Vs. Blogging On Medium

A Subtle guide for writers who are confused about writing on WordPress Vs. Medium.

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You are a writer on Medium, you should publish content on these 3 platforms too!

If You are a Writer On Medium, You Should Publish Content on These 3 Platforms Too!

These platforms will help you promote your Medium articles.

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4. Starting your own Quora Space

Quora Space is like a Facebook group but on steroids. You can build yourself a community that has a similar interest and *You* or *Anyone* could generate content on your Space and can make money through Ads running beside your content.

The money I have made writing on a Quora Space \ Screenshot by the author

Yes, that isn’t a very big amount of money but if you get more views then you will make more money. The ad-rates are higher during the holiday season. But, only running ads isn’t the solution to make money writing on your Quora Space but you can run sponsored post, I have run two sponsors post that generates me over $100 from this Quora Space.

If a platform could give you the opportunity to write and make money then why not using this opportunity to make a side income.

What can you add to your Quora Space?

You can add Questions and request people to answer them.
You can add answers to your own questions.
You can add links to your blog post or relevant to your Quora Space niche.
You can add posts as you do on Facebook.

How to make more money from your Quora space?

In general, On the Internet, creators make more money when they create more content. The same thing applied to those writers who are creating content on Quora Spaces. Quora Space is more revolutionary as they could be index by search engines and you can generate a massive amount of content by requesting other writers who could a history of writings about those topics.

Add more questions to your Quora Spaces. You can add unlimited questions but can request 25 writers per question. You can request over 1,000 people by asking questions.
Add more Interesting stuff to your Quora space to increase the engagement rate.
Long-form content. Again, a general Internet Phenomenon. The longer the content, the more the algorithm will promote your content.

Creating a Quora Space is easier and you just need to make an account on Quora and open your profile. Create a Quora Space and clicking on the “+” sign and you need to add a name and a short description of your Space, then you had to add three topics that are the most important part of the Quora space marketing. They use Stripe and PayPal as a payment method, so if you are living in any country, you can connect your stripe and start getting paid from them.

You can read stories about Quora Spaces:

How to grow your Quora Space? and How to create your Quora Space?

5. Writing on Substack and get paid readers

Writing on Substack is a more revolutionary way to make money. Did you ever think of getting paid readers? readers that could pay you to read your stuff. The idea is seeming very bizarre but yes, a lot of writers are making thousands of dollars writing on Substack and getting paid, recurring revenue, readers.

The process is very simple. All you have to do is to go to Substack, make a publication for free and start writing, and putting content on a weekly basis.

How the process of writing on Substack look like?

You make a publication on Substack and start writing articles.
You promote articles through different mediums as well as search optimized it.
You get more email subscribers and more loyal readers as time goes by.
You enroll in Stripe and start uploading 1 post out of 5 as lock for only paid members. You can charge up to $3/month or $30/year subscription.
Some readers think that your information is worth the money and they bought your subscription.
You make recurring money from those loyal readers and at the same time can grow your email list.
Whenever you publish a post, Substack will be sent directly to your subscriber's mailbox, for free.

That’s how writers who write on Substack make money through getting paid readers.

Pros and cons of writing on Substack:

Pros of writing on Substack:

The platform is free.
It gives you the opportunity to get paid readers.
It gives you the opportunity to get paid through connecting stripe.

Cons of writing and making money on Substack:

Now, the cons of writing and making money on Substack overpopulated its pros.

You have to pay 10% of the services charges for every paid reader.
You can’t make yourself a brand through Substack.
They give you a sub-domain, a sub-domain isn’t very search engine friendly. So, it is hard to get ranked for competitive keywords.
You can only monetize your content by getting paid readers.
You publish content on a third-party platform. Your account might be deleted if you go against their TOS. But, as I said, with every opportunity, there is a risk involved.

Alternative of Substack for making money writing and getting paid readers:

There is a powerful Substack alternative exist that gives you the opportunity to create your own Membership site like Substack give you but with access to a custom domain, custom site navigation, and banners, you can monetize that publication through any of your favorite methods and you will don’t have to pay 10% commission. In the longer run, you can make more money compared to your Substack publication. I write a complete demonstration comparing both these platforms which you could read in the posts given below;

Ghost.org Vs Substack: Which Platform Is Best For Getting Paid Subscribers?

Ghost gives you the opportunity to get a custom domain and monetize your work by getting paid readers, while Substack…

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6. Sell your Writing services as a Freelance writer

Most successful freelance writers are full-time writers or like me, part-time writers who do it as a side job. Full-time freelance writers earn their living or grow their income solely from freelance writing and they have no difficulties whatsoever in getting projects or securing clients. Unfortunately, some freelance writers struggle a lot and it’s hard for them to raise sufficient cash to replace their unsuccessful jobs; they have absolutely zero ideas on how to avoid crappy writing projects.

At some point, you might have considered writing to earn money. Initially, I thought of joining a freelancing platform with no idea of what I wanted to follow through or what I was doing but when I discovered the vast world of freelance writers, I found out that there were prolific writers who attracted numerous clients. Such superb writers received gigs almost all the time and had high paying rates; it was then that I realized I had to be among the best writers and learn how to earn additional income as a freelance writer. There are several ways of making money this way; let’s consider some helpful tips

Start with a blog

To be a wealthy freelance writer, start a blog. Your blog will give you added advantages apart from being a portfolio of getting money as a writer. For any person who wants to set up a business, a blog will do just fine be it in graphic design, coaching business, or writing; it can be a platform that will boost your business.

These days starting a blog is simpler because of the helpful guidelines that are reputable, time-saving, and helpful. In case you have a freelance writing blog, you have the option of setting up your site as a service-based site that consists of some specific pages on your site; this step can help you earn money writing.

Suggested tips that will help you out include having the following 5 pages namely the hire me page, portfolio page, about me page, the testimonials page, and the contact page not forgetting a link that leads to your blog roll.

With a blog, you can monetize it to make more money like having sponsored posts, ads, or perhaps affiliate marketing. If you are new, you will enjoy making money this way. Pick a specific tool, product, or service which you know about or which you are currently using. Additionally, you can opt to promote courses that offer affiliate programs; to find out whether a specific service or product already has an affiliate program, search on google.

Find a profitable writing service or niche

There are plenty of writing niches available you can choose from that will pay well. Always remember that not any niche will be high-paying, and the same applies to the writing services available. An example of a great niche you can settle for is the parenting niche although it is one of the over-saturated niches; undoubtedly, it can still pay well. You simply need to know where to look for the appropriate niche that will boost your earnings.

Making money as a freelance writer takes time. You have to think critically about which products out there match the niche you are talking about. Some topics like religious studies are difficult to establish a successful business with products and services but it doesn’t mean that you won’t manage writing for educational institutions that center around religious studies. When you are thinking of what to consider for your niche, don’t think only about your passions, hobby, or what you enjoy writing but also find out if it can be quick to make money.

The ideal writing client

It all depends on your niche; if it is a profitable one, then writing clients will determine if your niche is high-paying or not. Ensure that you understand why the blogs are important so that it gets easy to layout an inbound marketing strategy. Some writing clients will pay more money because of the quality of the content. Understand your ideal client and find out whether you want to work with actors, authors, doctors, tech companies, online businesses, start-ups, small businesses, B2B companies, lawyers, brands, non-profits, magazines, etc. most prefer sticking with the B2B market that offers brands that are digitally native.

Start writing around your niche subjects

For newbies, you can still land writing gigs even when your writing samples don’t relate to your niche topics. It could be acceptable this way but more quality writing jobs nowadays only pick freelance writers with adequate experience in a niche topic.

New writers can pick niche topics that generate money like digital marketing, parenting, and health; enjoy learning about the topics you pick for your freelance writing business and get hooked. A word of caution however is trying to find out the topics sooner rather than later so that you start getting money writing earlier.

Pitch to the appropriate companies and writing jobs

You have to discover which jobs are appropriate for pitching so that you learn how to make money as a freelance writer. Do your research on the company or look at the presented ad and determine if it is a good gig; some helpful pointers include checking the timeline given for you to present content. When a gig wants you to deliver a lot and fast like within a week, it will be low-paying; high-paying clients mostly give out more than one week to a month for big posts.

Cold pitching is suitable only after you figure out which right companies you are going to pitch to; you can search for jobs that are based on your niche. First, create your profile that revolves around your social media profile and make sure to have the keywords. Spend most of your time to find writing gigs from companies and places to pitch to.

Expand your presence on social media

Some people stay away from social media for several reasons. But as a freelance writer, social media is a powerful tool that exposes you to plenty of opportunities form future clients so, be online most of the time if you can. Your presence on social media can help you grow your income because some may check out your Linked profile or see what you post on twitter or; these two platforms yield noteworthy results.

7. Write on HubPages and Vocal. Media

Hubpages and Vocal. Media is other platforms where you could make money writing. Hubpages is a platform where you have to make an account, add your Paypal address, and start writing articles. They run ads beside your content so you make more money when you get more traffic on your blog posts published on Hubpages. They also have run affiliate products besides your content so you can also make money when someone bought anything through that link. Not my favorite platform but good for writers who don’t have any money and want to make some without investing.

As you can see my earnings of three articles i have posted on Vocal.

Earnings from writing on Vocal / Screenshot by the author

As you can see with 448 reads, I have made over $1.7 which means that I will make over $3.9 with 1,000 reads. Industry-wise, this is a very good CPM and you could reach $6.8/1,000 reads with getting a Vocal+ subscription.

Vocal Media is another platform where people are making $500+ a month just writing articles. They have some of the best content monetization model, they pay you on per reading. They have even fixed rate for 1,000 views. If you are not a Vocal+ then you will make $3.8 per 1,000 views but if you have bought Vocal+ member then for the very similar reads you will make $6.8 per 1,000 reads.

Vocal Media doesn’t run ads or anything besides your content. You just need reads.

If you want to know more about Vocal and want to write for the platform then you need a complete guide which you can read in the article given below;

What Is Vocal.Media? Make Money Writing on Vocal. Media?

You can make $100 a day through Writing on Vocal with literally every view can make you money.

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The Verdict about Making Money writing Online:

As you can see there are countless ways to make money writing online, we have discussed creating your own blog, making money from selling your ebooks, writing on third-party platforms like Quora, Medium, Vocal, and HubPages. All these platforms give you the opportunity to write and make more money as your readership grows.

Writing online is a privilege.

You will make more money as time goes by through your writing. When you create a blog post or anything that we could call “Content” that piece will always be there and you will make money through that content, forever. That’s the compounding effect of making money writing online. This is why the more content you create, the better.

I hope this guide helps you start your online writing career.

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