Make Money The WRITE Way - Getting Your Feet Wet - Where To Start Making Money Online

Writer's Mars

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In many ways your following the same process as NASA going to mars. You can see the planet from a distance but only through a good telescope (resources, people to tell you what to do etc...). It looks so tiny but you know it's big!

Looking through the telescope it looks so "simple" and conquerable, and it is, if you take baby steps and continue to learn and develop your skill-set.

When you get closer to realizing how much work it is to just break out of your current "atmosphere" before you can even take the million mile journey to get to mars, so to speak, and then when you realize when you get there you have a whole new set of skill-sets you'll have to learn- like how to breath on mars- it starts to really get complicated.

Breaking out of the trip to Mars analogy, let's talk about what you can expect in your journey towards freelance writing, writing for sites like Wizzley and Squidoo (web 2.0 sites respectively), and for your own sites. As all types of writing start out on the same path- learning to write with good grammar, third person informative, and learning how to engage the reader in some way, the path is almost universal.

Where it tangents off is in the various types of writing you can do which require different skill set integration paths. Some examples are Press release writing, webpage writing (informative), sales page writing (sales), white paper writing (marketing), and many others. In many ways the path to freelance writing is akin to going to college. You start out with the basic courses then later pick your degree program (what career path you want).

Don't have expectations

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Web 2.0 Writing Properties

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When I started out as a freelance writer I discovered the web 2.0 sites first. These sites allow you to write articles and they force you to write them in the right format for high traffic and google love. Some sites offer more creative control than others I'm finding. The look of the page is every bit as important as the words on it.

Become Addicted To Learning The Realm

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You could say it's a lot like going to college that's free. 

The other trick is to make sure your learning as you go. When you learn a new technique or realize you were doing something inefficiently- you go back and correct the first articles you wrote. As you go keep tweaking your portfolio of work until it's up to date. This raises your potential earnings and keeps your portfolio consistent.

By consistently updating your older work, new lessons now have a playground to form in. Each time you update a series of your articles your practicing. You don't want people to see bad articles. If you tweak these as you go you won't need to go back a year later and overhaul 300 articles.

You want to write a minimum of 1-2 articles a day. It doesn't matter at first what you write about- just write, get into the spirit of it, get used to it- writing is a habit- a skill set- but it must become second nature to really use it effectively.

It will take you at least a year to really become expert- but you can reach the money potential you want if you work at it. It's not so much a work and get paid model as it is a work hard on an article, then later it will bare fruit!

The more you practice writing and learning to improve it- the faster and better your passive income will be.