I often mention www.inspiredauthor.com. I am a topic editor there and am not only learning from other seasoned writers but am also sharing my experience in this writing journey. We relaunched Inspired Author recently and it looks fabulous. Suzanne James who owns it is also getting ready to open up free public memberships and I'm getting ready to help with a contest to really get the site hopping.
Please stop by the writing forum there if you can. I'm moderating it and it's still got that fresh/new smell and I'm trying to break it in. I'm talking to myself so far as it's THAT new so please come on by and talk to me. Other topic editors will be by as well answering questions about how to get published, how to find freelance work, how to get the creative juices flowing and we've got a great water cooler set up for wahms who want that coffee break to chat with other writers.
Hope to see you there!
thanks!
Dana
Showing posts with label forums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forums. Show all posts
Monday, September 24, 2007
Get Paid for Forum Posting
This week I'm going to tackle the subject of different ways of getting paid to write. This week I'll write about a different way to earn money through your writing skills.
Today's subject is forum posting.
When I first started my delve into working at home, I got my first well paid gig as a forum poster. I helped jump start new communities by posting forum messages and keeping conversations going. It was a fun job and I was well paid for it. It worked so well that a company who owns several forums hired me to manage five forums for them. For six months I worked about 12-25 hours a week managing, moderating and running a forum. I paid some paid posters, ran contests and tried to up the traffic while keeping the tone on point and managing spam and flaming. If you are an online social butterfly, forum posting might be for you.
My first forum posting job was through odesk.com who is a virtual staffing agency. I have also seen many forum posting jobs and agencies listed on webmaster forums like www.sitepoint.com and http://forums.digitalpoint.com. Forums can also be a great way to win prizes in posting contests and seo contests.
Tips to be a great paid poster:
-Figure out what the focus of the site is. If it's a technical forum, brush up on your tech skills. If it's a forum about saltwater aquariums make sure you spend a little time researching the subject so you'll be able to write interesting posts
-Avoid starting controversial discussions that could incite flaming among members
-Paid forum posting jobs are not to be used to do your own self promotion. Most webmasters will request that paid posters refrain from using signature links, etc.
- Start new threads with open ended questions in them to get people responding.
Forum posting can be a full-time, part-time or supplement your income between other gigs kind of job.
Today's subject is forum posting.
When I first started my delve into working at home, I got my first well paid gig as a forum poster. I helped jump start new communities by posting forum messages and keeping conversations going. It was a fun job and I was well paid for it. It worked so well that a company who owns several forums hired me to manage five forums for them. For six months I worked about 12-25 hours a week managing, moderating and running a forum. I paid some paid posters, ran contests and tried to up the traffic while keeping the tone on point and managing spam and flaming. If you are an online social butterfly, forum posting might be for you.
My first forum posting job was through odesk.com who is a virtual staffing agency. I have also seen many forum posting jobs and agencies listed on webmaster forums like www.sitepoint.com and http://forums.digitalpoint.com. Forums can also be a great way to win prizes in posting contests and seo contests.
Tips to be a great paid poster:
-Figure out what the focus of the site is. If it's a technical forum, brush up on your tech skills. If it's a forum about saltwater aquariums make sure you spend a little time researching the subject so you'll be able to write interesting posts
-Avoid starting controversial discussions that could incite flaming among members
-Paid forum posting jobs are not to be used to do your own self promotion. Most webmasters will request that paid posters refrain from using signature links, etc.
- Start new threads with open ended questions in them to get people responding.
Forum posting can be a full-time, part-time or supplement your income between other gigs kind of job.
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