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My Experience With Real Writing Jobs

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 at 5:24 pm

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I hardly ever post two days in a row, but after yesterdays post, Do You Want To Earn Money Writing? I thought I should make an exception. You see while writing yesterdays post I got so excited that I joined the company I was promoting. As it turns out it was a real disappointment. It seems in my excitement I forgot the golden rule, ‘If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is!’ While their promise that I could make up to $315 a day sounded too good to be true I thought that it was achievable as I’ve written 200 word posts where I was paid $20 so I figured writing 15 articles a day, while tedious, was doable. Now for the facts.

Real Writing Jobs!: I assumed that they were a company that supplied all the jobs, where in essence they don’t, the bulk of their jobs were sourced from other sites, something that Allan Douglas from The Write Stuff mentioned in his comment on that very post. That being the case why would I want to pay $47 per month when most of the jobs were available off site.
Pitiful Pay Rates: As I mentioned earlier I would do a 200 word paid post for $20 which works out to 10 cents a word. Most of the jobs on offer were only paying half a cent a word and only a few offered one cent a word. As most articles requested were to be 500 words in length at one cent per word you would only be paid $5. This means to make the $315 benchmark you would have to pump out 63 articles a day. Sorry, I don’t think that’s doable and if anyone was able to write that many articles a day I reckon they would be pretty shitty ones.

Once I got that far I was so disillusioned that I contacted them and asked to cancel my membership and within hours I got a reply saying that they were sorry to see me go and if I ever changed my mind I could reply and they would reinstate me. At least it’s good to know that they’re professional in that respect.

While I wouldn’t pay the $47 per month to have access to their virtual job board I reckon there are obviously a lot of people out there who don’t mind as it makes things easier for them, seeing all the jobs available in one place without having to search several sites on a daily basis looking for work. There was one good thing that came out of it though and that was it led me to Freelancer. They are free to join and they offer a variety of jobs. The writing part doesn’t pay much but there were other jobs that paid quite well. I noticed some web design jobs that were paying $800 to over $1000 as well as other jobs such as blog installs and blog theme modifications. There were also some eye openers but I think I will leave them for another post.

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Do You Want To Earn Money Writing?

Monday, February 7th, 2011 at 7:26 pm

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As you all know I like to find ways of making money online and then presenting it to my readers for them to look at. You may remember the post I did on Rotating Banner Problem Resolved By Max Banner Ads, if not you should seriously go and check it out. Anyway when choosing ads for Max Banner Ads I chose those that I thought would be most suitable for my readers. As it turns out one of them proved to be very popular and so I thought it would be a great idea for a post.

This is one of those Get Paid To Write From Home! deals and I want to say right up front that I have not actually tried it. The only reason I’m even mentioning it is because those ads have produced sales and so I figured there are those out there who think it’s a good deal. Perhaps they would love to leave a comment telling us of their experience with Real Writing Jobs!

From what I could gather the thing people would find most appealing about this site is that you can work from home doing the thing you like best, writing. As bloggers isn’t the love of writing the one thing that keeps us motivated? So, if you were to take this job opportunity on what could you expect?

Getting paid for doing short blog posts for other bloggers.
Getting paid for writing short articles
Getting paid to proof read websites

It all sounds pretty good doesn’t it, but unlike most things I write about this one is not free.

Now that’s not a real problem if their claim of their claim of earning up to $315 a day is true. Now take careful note that they’re not saying you will earn $315/day, you can earn up to that amount as their FAQ’s suggest it all depends on how hard you want to work. The more you take on the greater the earning potential, as long as there are writing tasks for the taking.

The question you’re probably all asking is exactly how much is it going to cost you and the answer to that is $47 per month. There is a Special Discount For New Members though and that may be worth while for those considering it. From what I can gather it will give you a 10 day trial of their system for only $9.

You know, while writing this post I decided to give it a go, so I’ve joined using that discount voucher and it only cost me $2.95 for the 10 day trial! Expect to get an update in 10 days as to how I’m doing. I was going to tweet every time I made some money but I thought that could become a bit tiresome for my followers so I’ve decided to place something in my sidebar telling you how much I’ve earned thus far.

If anyone is currently using them I would really love a comment, as to the rest of you is this something that you could see yourself doing?

Not even 24 hours later and I’ve done my followup post. Read all about my short lived experience with writing for Real Writing Jobs.

Bloggers Needing A Little Prompt For Their Next Blog Topic

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:42 am

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Have you ever found yourself sitting in front of the computer staring at the monitor with a blank look on your face wondering what your next post is going to be? I remember doing a post not so long ago about what to do when you are running out of topics to write about. Where that post may provide a solution for some people it may not solve the problem for all bloggers. So what do you do.

Enter The Prompt Writer! This blog is run by Christine Senter, a professional freelance writer who is quite happy to share the knowledge she has accumulated over 20 years with all bloggers. Her posts are succinct and easy to read and those who are willing to learn from them are bound to come away with a wealth of knowledge.

Hop on over now and check out her post Creative Ideas For December, or perhaps her post on Finding Ideas For Great Articles is more to your liking. So, if you are searching for a little extra creative juice perhaps it would be a good idea to bookmark her blog for those times when that screen is looking blankly at you.

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