Earning money online.

I think that is probably it. They think that if they can't do it, nobody can. Decent earnings!! I hope to be there some day.

I write web articles for people, either content for their official sites or promotional pieces containing links. Referral sites rely on other people to make money. I've always avoided those. And for survey sites, you can end up losing a lot more than you make. I went against the grain of what my fellow "writers" thought was good business. These wannabe unionized bozos (and I say that with love) outright refused to work for any less than some website said they should be making (20 cent per word or some such nonsense). But they were well behind in the game. This is the Internet. This is about people wanting to make money. Someone wanting to make money isn't going to pay a writer $100+ per article they can 1) write themselves and 2) find an Indian to do it for $1. So while the best writers around the web were holding out for high-dollar work, I started taking jobs rewriting articles and banging out fluff pieces for $3 per 500 words. To the haughty writers who believe there is some great integrity in writing, I'm part of the problem. But I had a plan. And that plan has paid off. I started bidding on every job where I found a "team" of writers were needed. I knew two things: One, most writers would either be fired or quit, because they didn't appreciate the little money for big effort, or because they didn't understand how to integrate tough keywords and phrases into articles. Two, I knew that if I stayed writing with one "team" long enough, I would eventually track down where my articles were going and thus I could step in over my "boss's" head and cut out the middleman. Eventually, I did just that. What started as writing articles for bottom-rung prices helped me get my foot in the door. I found a bunch of sources and contacted them directly, and now I work directly for the website networks needing content and do not have to fork over percentages to useless middlemen playing at this to make money. What started out as $3 per web article is now $10, $20, and sometimes upwards of $50 for one article. I still do hold a client or two I respect and who can find some easy work when I'm on a drought ($7, $10, $15 articles), but other than that I'm in business for myself. I won't fool with these other schemes to make money online. I treated making money via the Internet the same way I would treat making money in the real world. I worked my way up with a plan and some effort. My fellow writers believe their university wallpaper means they should instantly start out making top dollar. And most other work-from-home people assume there's some "easy" way to bang out riches. For the latter, maybe there is. But I never wasted time on it. I went to work. Good luck in your work! I hope everyone is earning out there!

About half of my recipes get rejected due to the pictures. All I do is hope for the best. Sometimes I try the same recipe with different pictures. It is tough, but it is very worth it. You just have to try and get lucky with certain pictures. Good luck.

I never had to much luck with Hubpages of making any money from them yet. But this other thing with the recipes? Do you have to have you're recipes copy written? I have allot of my own over the years that are great! But should I have them copyrighted before doing something like this?

Hello buddy. I think mentioning referrals would make things neutral. Because, once you mention that there is a referral system, people could say "well, oh, I don't want to join because you make money from me", but then they say "Oh, I guess I could do the same with many others though." What I would like is more tiered referral programs. One where you get 25% of your first referrals earnings and 10% of your referrals referrals earnings. It would be cool with stuff like that.

Hmmm. I think that would be good. The only thing that could create a problem is if people would start auctioning off referrals, depending on how it was all set up. Still, great idea.

I see your points on tiered programs. My suggestion is to share the initial referral even if 20/5% that would create teams right from the beginning and the "splits" could be reversed on future referrals :) thoughts? Eric

We really should.. At first I just stuck to the truth and ignored all the lies. But then people were posting saying not to listen to my answer. That's when I got mad and just started telling everyone off on questions. One of my most helpful answers had 5 thumbs down, and it was the ONLY truthful answer on the page.

Have a look at my profile.

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You can earn money online but you have to know where to look. Some people belong to a bunch of sites and some only a few. Also remember you should never have to pay anyone to earn money. Only join sites that are free. All of the ones on my profile page are free. If you would like some more information, feel free to send me a pm.

I have experienced exactly this too.

Check my profile, I have a tonne of ways listed on it.