LifeTips
I have to admit I was initially fascinated when I looked into LifeTips. LifeTips hires writers to share tips on their chosen niche topic. One writer or guru per niche.
You earn from LifeTips in a variety of ways, from ads on your tips site and from sales of your book. After you have written 101 tips, LifeTips sells a made to order book at Amazon. You collect $2.00 for each $9.99 book sold. You can also apply for paid writing assignments.
Not having written for LifeTips I am not sure what type of revenue you can generate but my guess is not a lot for a few reasons. The first is LifeTips shares how you can take over a LifeTips niche someone else had, which indicates there may be rapid turn over.
Secondly LifeTips home page has a google ranking of 2/10, not very high for a supposedly busy site.
And after checking the sales of LifeTips books at Amazon I doubt there is much revenue with the book sales. The no.1 selling Lifetips book is in position #780,323.
It is also bothersome that LifeTips retains ownership of all content created. So you can bust your butt creating tons of tips, realize it is not paying off and you are out time and what you wrote.
I would love to learn of your experiences with LifeTips.
Writer Makes $1,000+ at eHow
Maria O’Brian, aka WriterGig, won eHow’s top writer award. With a bank of several hundred articleas, she consistently earns over a thousand a month from eHow. Maria writes eHow articles that rank high in the Google pages and attract large amount of traffic. I was inspired to join and write for eHow after reading Maria’s posts on a WAHM forum. A short time after I joined, I read Maria’s book and applied the information. My eHow income was close to $100 by my second month. Now I routinely earn several hundred dollars a month and I owe a lot of credit to the information I learned in Maria’s ebook and by writing consistently.
This ebook is very clear and gives step by step directions on exactly what you need to do to maximize your eHow income potential. You will learn how to select topics, how to write each article for the search engines, and more. For the past two months I have been spending most of my time working on my websites and occasionally writing an article or two for eHow. Yet each month, my earnings on eHow have been several hundred dollars. This is the ultimate in passive income.
I highly recommend making the small investment in Maria’s book. If you apply the information, it will pay off month after month. Read more of Maria’s tips on writing for residual income here. Click here to get a copy of Maria’s ebook.
Niche Blogging
NIche blogging is a great way to earn money. Select an area you are interested in, make a blog site for it, post articles and monetize it with Google’s Adsense, affiliate marketing or another method.
Just Add Sweat has some excellent, inexpensive blueprints to get you started;
Start a Review Blog for Fun and Profit
Start a Craft Blog for Fun and Profit
Start a Recipe Blog for Fun and Profit
Bukisa Pays for Viewing, Listening, Writing, Reading and Referring
Bukisa is a revenue sharing site that pays you when people read, view or listen to your content. Bukisa also pays when you read, view, or listen to your friend’s Bukisa content. Payment is based on what is called the “Bukisa Index”. The “Bukisa Index” is based on the revenue Bukisa has earned that month from their revenue streams which includes banner advertising, contextual ad links, email marketing, joint ventures and more.
If the “Bukisa Index” is 3% for example, you would receive $3.00 for every 1,000 unique visitors to your content. You also recieve payment up to 3 levels deep for referrals. So if you refer 10 friends, you will recieve earnings based on the revenue they generate and you can also receive earning for 2nd level and 3rd level friends.
Payout for Bukisa is a mimimum of $50.00 via Paypal.
Bukisa accepts a variety of media. You can submit slides, video, audio and content. Content must be a minimum of 250 words, and informational Bukisa does not allow the use of affilate links or referral links.
Ready to get started? Click to join Bukisa.
Demand Studios
Demand Studios hires freelancers for a variety of media tasks including freelance writing, transcribing, flim making, and more. Owned by Demand Media the same company that owns eHow, Demand Studios content is used on eHow, expert villiage, trails.com, livestrong.com and golflink. The top earner has raked in over $37,000.
Writers for Demand Studios must complete an application with writing samples to be accepted. The application process may take a month. Once added to the roster, writers can choose from a wide variety of freelance writing jobs, that are flat fee or revenue share. Flat fee writing jobs pay in the range of $5.00 to $20.00. Most “How to’s” pay $15.00, “Lists” generally pay $5.00. Recently Demand Studios introduced a revenue share program. With the revenue share program, writers are paid the same way as eHow writers. The exact eHow formula for payment is a secret but many believe it is based on adsense ad clicks. It is important to note that there are several differences in the eHow and Demand Studios revenue share program. On eHow articles go live once published on Demand Studios they must be approved. Another essential difference is the revenue share for eHow does not end (unless they change their program), the revenue share for Demand Studios is for 5 years only.
Formats for articles include; Lists, How To’s, Facts, About, Shopping Guide and more. Article topics range but tend to involve research on the writers part. New writers can select up to 10 flat rate topics from a long list in different catergories which include business, home and garden, hobbies and games, weddings, travel etc. In addition up to 15 revenue share topics may be selected. A writer has about a week to complete the article. If it is not completed it will go back into the available article queue. Once written an article must be submitted for an editors approval. This process that may take hours or days.
If editors like your articles, you will be given an increase in the number of articles you are allowed to write. Several writers routinely rake in 3-4 thousand a month from Demand Studios.
Demand Studios pays once a week via paypal.
The Writing Life is Sweet at Suite 101
If you are an accomplished writer and enjoy writing in a 3rd party, i format, the writing life is sweet at Suite 101. Writers at Suite 101 are richly rewarded, with some of the writers earning an income in excess of $2,000+ a month.
Suite 101 is looking for original content in the form of “How To’s”, reviews, essays, interviews and more. Articles should run about 400-600+ words. Writers retain rights but may not publish the article anywhere else for at least a year. Pay out is a share of ad revenues based on quality, quantity search engine ranking and other factors. Skilled writers can work to become featured writers and earn a 20% bonus.
Interested in the sweet life at Suite 101? Start by reading some of the articles to get a feel for what Suite 101 is looking for. You will need to submit writing samples and a brief summary of your background. Keep in mind that Suite 101 only accepts about 20% of applicants. Apply here.
PotPieGirl Makes $154,000+ with Squidoo and Other Sites (UPDATE to UPDATE :)
I just finished making my first Squidoo lens and aside from having some issues updating the bio (appears to be a bug) it was a lot of fun.
Check out my lenses here Squidoo.com/SkinCareForWrinkles and here
Squidoo.com/AntiAgingSkinProducts.
SEE NOTE AT BOTTOM FOR UPDATE and UPDATE to the UPDATE 
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I picked a topic I am passionate about and it will be nice for driving traffic to my website and potentially generating sales on it’s own.
I had looked at Squidoo before but with all the different modules and information it looked like a lot of time would be involved and I was not sure if anyone was making any money with Squidoo. Then I learned about Jennifer Lebetter’s success with it. Jennifer also known as PotPieGirl made $154,819.96 last year from her marketing efforts on line. It is not clear how much of it came directly from sales at Squidoo, but it does seem clear that she drives a lot of traffic to her other online marketing efforts using Squidoo. Squidoo can be used to drive traffic to your blog or business and/or to make some pocket change and potentially more if you really focus on it.
Jennifer has written an extensive ebook called One Week Marketing where she explains step by step how she creates a selects a topic, picks key words, and creates a Squidoo lens. She shares exactly what to do so that you can optimize your lens for the search engines and drive traffic to your lens. With her book you learn the hot spots on a lens, what you absolutely should not do, how to select a great niche, picking key words and more. Essentially the book is a HUGE time save and can potentially help you catch high Google placement and keep it.
WriterGig’s excellent eHow book saved me tons of time and a huge learning curve. Jennifer’s One Week Marketing book is like that. You will save hours of time and be able to monetize your Squidoo lens because you will know what niche to select, keywords to choose and how to use these effectively. Jennifer walks you through step by step exactly what you need to do to get a great marketing plan in place using Squidoo. You follow steps each day so within a few days you have a very smart marketing plan in place that can potentially bring in income for years.
Squidoo can be monetized a number of ways; with affiliate links, ebay, Amazon and more. You can also use it to drive traffic to your other sites. Just adding one or two Squidoo lenses a week can result in huge earnings over time.
Jennifer is offering a free 18 page report. Click here to get the 18 page action plan for One Week Marketing Report free.
UPDATE: Both of my lenses were locked a couple days after making them. Apparently Squidoo has new rules regarding affiliate links etc. Many lenses are getting shut down or locked to be reviewed.
UPDATE to the UPDATE: My lenses were reviewed and unlocked.
I got an email from Squidoo that my lenses had been unlocked. I would recommend using Squidoo to drive traffic to your sites and use the affiliate modules they provide to monetize them. If you opt to use your own affiliate links make sure the ones you are using are allowed by Squidoo (my affiliate links were allowed.) Sign up for Pot Pie Girl’s free report to learn more about Squidoo. Click here to get the 18 page One Week Marketing Report free.
