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.
