Lots of extra money waiting to be made from $5 articles

Lots of extra money waiting to be made from $5
articles

By Christopher Kyalo
There is probably no easier way of earning extra money
online. Yet many people ignore online writing and lose
all that extra money, mainly because they get put off
by those single digit dollar rates. $5 is a common
one.

But even as you read this, more and more writers are
making lots of extra money online and some are even
making a living writing articles. Yes, they're doing
it writing $5 articles and even $3 articles.

Writers were never meant to be good in math so let us
make a brief comparison here between online writers
earning lots of extra money with $5 articles and
offline writers writing $500 articles to earn their
extra money.

The $500 article writer starts off sending queries to
several magazines. If they are really good at this
marketing side of freelance writing (most writers are
not), they will probably end up with about two
assignments by the end of the week. That's $1,000,
which is not bad, but hold your horses a while. The
article is not yet written, some research will be
required. Usually this will take two to three days per
article, and only if the writer is lucky and is able
to find sources and the information he needs quickly.
So let us say that they will probably take a week to
research and write the two $500 articles. The truth is
that only very good and experienced writers can
accomplish this.

The writer seeking to earn extra money from his
writing (or worse still to make a living) will need
another two weeks or so, sometimes much longer, for an
editor to make a decision on the article and
communicate this information to them. If they are
extremely lucky, by the end of the month they'll have
their $2,000 in extra money or income in their
account. But as any experienced writer will tell you,
it rarely happens quite like that. Inevitably there
will be delays. Maybe the article will be sent back
for a re-write or the editor will have a bad or really
hectic week (happens all the time) and it will take
longer. The list of usual and possible problems is too
long to go into here.

Now let us see how the poor, desperate $5 per article
writer is doing trying to earn extra money. If they
can write fast, they will be doing 10-15 articles per
day. (some writers do 20 comfortably). All the
research is done online for articles ranging from 300
to 500 words. No delays in their efforts to earn extra
money or make a living from their online writing. 15
articles per day will give a writer an income of about
$2,250 in 30 days. That's very good extra money. And
thanks to services like Paypal, many keyword writing
programs pay shortly after the article has been
delivered via email.

Granted, this may not be a lot of money, but it is
excellent extra money, earned easily by a writer doing
what they enjoy most - writing. And what a great way
to launch a writing career even as you earn lots of
extra money. From the reputation you build up over
time, you can at the same time be targeting bigger
writing jobs.

I started with $2.50cts articles. Mostly out of
curiosity, I wanted to see if I could really get paid
and earn some extra money. Gradually I realized that a four-figure monthly income was easy to achieve. Later I was able to land $500 assignments (mainly from offline magazines, but everything was done online). Still $2.50cts online writing assignments remained my bread and butter for a long time. The rest is history.

You could be ignoring your big opportunity to earn
easy extra money online from your writing, even as you
find your feet as a writer. It's easy extra money if
nothing else.

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Christopher Kyalo earns a living writing online. Visit
his writing blog at
http://100grandonlinewriters.blogspot.com and join his
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