Make Money Online
Make Money Online
I liked the idea of making a living through writing. For the first two years, I looked for assignments from newspapers and magazines. But I hated sending out article pitches. I wanted editors to start approaching me, rather than me pitching them.I stopped sending my work to editors. I was tired of writing to their agendas and wondering if my articles would make the cut. I wanted to write what I wanted, when I wanted, without having to worry about getting approval.So I started writing about topics that interest me. I wrote about managing money, designing your ideal lifestyle, and traveling the globe. Then, I put my articles online for people to read.Instead of having to try to get the attention of magazine and newspaper editors, they began to come looking for me. Unsolicited emails would appear in my Inbox saying, “Hi, I’m the editor of Example.com. Would you be interested in writing two articles per week for our website? The pay is $X per article.”Then came the advertisers. I placed Google and Amazon ads around my articles—and deposited checks in my bank account in return. In the beginning, these were small sums: $100 every three or four months from Google, and perhaps $20 a month from Amazon.These days, 100 percent of my income comes from opportunities that sprung from my online writing. Advertising, writing, consulting and speaking. Every single dime of my income stems directly from my decision to stop chasing editors, and to write my own way.In 2011 alone, I visited New Orleans five times .make money went to Florida twice. I lived in New York for a month. I spent 10 days in Nevada and another 10 days on San Maarten in the Caribbean.In 2012 I visited San Francisco, Tampa, Savannah, Denver and the desert in Nevada, and began making plans for some major trips in 2013, when I’ll head to Jamaica and Eastern Europe.