Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Legitimate Sites that pay you to write?

Below is a response that I submitted to Steve Pavlina's forum and I thought this would be helpful to my readers.


Hello,

Presently I am on that writing mission to make money online. I have been at it since the 1st of November, 2007 and I am living proof that it is not all what they hype it up to be. In fact I just received my first rejection yesterday, Monday December 10, 2007. It is just like anything else it is a saturated field and you must be creative, unconventional and a cut above the rest.

It can also become quite depressing since we are in the holidays and I have not generated an income from this yet. I feel like I have been to every writing site out there, but I know that I have not. See I believed the hype that all you have to do is have an acceptable command of the English language and the acceptance and the dollars would roll in. Whatt they don't tell you for those dollars to roll in and get with the better paying gigs you will have to pay a fee. Now for a person like myself living on a shoe string with not many monetary resources it is a strain.

Now with Elance http://elance.com and Guru http://guru.com you have to pay a fee. Now before everyone starts screaming Elance and Guru do have a free sign up but you will get little to no response for jobs you bid on. Ask me how I know because I have been with both companies for one year and have not gotten an assignment from them yet in this status. I did win a bid with Elance in October 2006 of last year but that was as a paid subscriber. When I couldn't pay I couldn't bid with Elance. I am still bidding with Guru and have not won a bid yet in the free status. So I have not been awarded a bid in one year and two months.

Now there are other options but because there are so many of us with the skill of writing it will be competitive. Also note with some of these the pay is not all that great. See my list below.

http://Helium.com

http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/markets_online.htm

http://FreelanceWriting.com

http://hyperlink.to/he

http://Problogger.net

http://Payperpost.com

http://Hubpages.com

http://ehow.com

http://Lovetoknow.com

http://MyParttimepro.com

http://Idealposting.com

http://Tjobs.com

Much success in your endeavors and I hope this is helpful to you.

Webwhiting

http://webwhiting.multiply.com/journal


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