Get paid to write articles, by seizing your career with your own hands - By: Edward Haycock

Want to get paid to write articles on topics that interest you? One single mistake keeps most writers from earning a living: relying on other people to give them their big break. That might mean relying on an online employer, clients paying for freelance work, publishers or agents.

If you send your work to a publisher, you'll end up in a slush pile with thousands of other writers – and it's a running joke in the industry that the slush pile consists of two kinds of submissions: those to be rejected straight away, and those to be rejected later.

Agents have so many writers on their books that they're unlikely to put in the legwork to promote you. And while there are plenty of places on the web where you can find freelance work (writing copy or promotional materials, for example), the pay-to-workload ratio is so low that, to be honest, it's not worth the time.

How to actually get paid to write articles

The problem in all of the examples above is that writers are looking for someone else to give them a break in the industry or provide their fee for them. You need to realise that you don't need to try and jump this hurdle – you can take control of your writing for yourself, and start earning money straight away.

How? The internet provides you with the ability to reach millions of readers. Nobody ever became wealthy by working for somebody else, and nobody will ever care about your career as much as you do, but you already have a way to publish your own work and turn it into a source of income, right at your fingertips.

A simple step-by-step system

You can get paid to write articles by following a simple system. First, find a niche topic and target your writing towards traffic with good conversion rates (i.e., people searching for keywords that suggest they're interested in buying something). It's easy to publish your writing on a website or a blog, but if you don't want to do that you can just submit articles to directories.

Monetise your writing by promoting affiliate products related to your chosen topic. Basically, affiliate marketing is where you sign up to promote a product, and in return the seller agrees to pay you a percentage of each sale they get from your articles (often between 50 and 75%). Sites like ClickBank allow you to promote affiliate products at no cost to you.

By following this method – covered in much more detail in my free online writing course – you'll seize control of the writing/publishing/earning cycle that's crucial if you want to get paid to write articles.

About the Author

Copyright © Edward Haycock 2010 Do you want to learn more about how you can get paid to write articles online? Sign up for my free online writing course at http://www.FreeOnlineWritingCourse.co.uk, and I'll guide you through the whole process.

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