Favourite Writer Blogs - GetPaidToWriteOnline

I've decided to start a series of my favourite freelance writer blogs. I don't have a set criteria for choosing which blogs to feature other than the fact that these blogs provide value to me as a writer.

My first feature has got to be Sharon Hurley Hall's Get Paid To Write Online blog.

I met Sharon in 2006 on a blogging community called WritingUp (it's no longer around but was a great place for a wannabe writer like me to absorb vast amounts of information and make some online friends that I'm still friendly with today). I chatted with Sharon and other writers weekly on a Thursday night writer's chat for several months and shortly after she helped me get some big clients through mentoring me, she even took me onto her writing team for a while until I started to mentor a writing team of my own. I was very lucky to have her help getting started as a writer. I had drive and ambition and she was very willing to share information with me. She didn't even seem to get annoyed at the fact that I followed her around like a baby duck for the first six months of my freelance writing career.

Here are some of the most helpful posts for writers on her site:

How I Put My Site On Steroids

Seven Effective Blogging Habits

Website Promotion Strategies for Writers and Bloggers


and here's a post Sharon wrote for Writing White Papers:

Three Ways To Improve Your Time Management

Sharon has some great stuff on her blog and it's one of the best resources for freelance writers you'll find online! One of her specialties is self-promotion so if you're getting started, her advice can really help you to get noticed online.

Bukisa Passive Writing Income Payment Update: Payment Number Two

I have just received a payment from Bukisa for $12.10.

While I haven't been aggressively working on making money with Bukisa since my first month, they are demonstrating to me that they are a good source of passive income because I've done very little since my last payment two months ago to earn this money.

Bukisa Payment

Bukisa paid me $12.10 USD yesterday, bringing my total earnings so far up to $38.40. For the most part, the last $12.10 earned in 2 months was done without much effort. I do have 47 articles on there that have been there for nearly six months so I can say that this is mostly passive income that hasn't required much (if any) action from me after the initial posting.

If I were to put some regular effort into my Bukisa account, I'd probably see more results but what's also great is that because I have a large network, a bit of my income comes from the network instead of just my own content. Many of the people in my network have created accounts and never published anything but a few people in that network have a fair bit of articles in their profile.

If I take time to post more articles and do some linking, I'm sure I could bring more income in through this passive income source. Maybe I'll soon do another 30 day experiment in being aggressive with daily posting and regular linking strategies. I'll let you know!

Bukisa Improvements

What I do like is that the Bukisa folks have listened to members and are updating the site regularly with new features and improvements that they've been asked for. They're also very receptive to feedback when you contact them on social media channels. They've recently added a new Bukisa widget (see below) to help you get more traffic by displaying your articles in your sidebar on your blogs and Web 2.0 pages. They seem to be anxious to make their members happy. Case in point: their original payment amount threshold was $50.00. They've updated it to $10.

Bukisa's Payment Model

If you're interested in trying out Bukisa, here's a link into my network: here. You can post how-to articles and videos and earn for page impressions. For April 2009, the Bukisa index is 3.42 which means you'll earn $3.42 for every 1000 page impressions. That applies to your page impressions but you earn a fraction of the index for page impressions within your network down several tiers.

I should say that beyond getting page impression earnings I'm also seeing traffic come to various blogs through those links and that could mean Adsense earnings, writing jobs, and affiliate marketing sales for me.

I'll post another Bukisa update when I receive another payment.

Gotta love passive income!