How to Make Money on the Freelance Job Boards
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It's Not Easy but It Is Possible
Two years ago I made my first $5 writing at www.helium.com by winning 3rd place in one of their contests, and ever since that day I've been hooked on writing for the web.
Since that first $5, I've tried lots of different things, most of them dead ends. But a few venues have consistently worked out for me.
I spend a lot of time here at Hub Pages (obviously!), and over the course of a year and a half or so here I've seen my ad revenue increase steadily. That's nice, because I basically write whatever I feel like writing for Hub Pages, and then Google pays me for it--about once a month now. I also take on a lot of work through www.elance.com, a freelance job board that posts work in a variety of different fields (writing is only one of them).
Recently a fellow hubber asked me how to use those job boards. I've had other people mention to me that they find them overwhelming and confusing, so I said I would put together a hub about how I use them. It's not hard. You just have to take the time to do it.
I'm not saying that the tips in this hub will work for you, and I'm not saying that you'll get rich if you use them either, but I am saying that, over time, this approach has worked well enough for me.
The first year I picked up freelance work at Elance I made a couple hundred dollars. The second year I made a couple thousand dollars. This year I am on track to make about what I made at my last half-time job, and next year I hope to double that. It's the kind of thing that builds over time if you keep it up, just like Google revenue here at HP.
Please also understand that, although I've achieved what I wanted to achieve on the job boards (semi-steady work at home on a flexible schedule), I'm hardly an authority on how to make money online by writing or doing anything else for that matter. Mark Knowles, Misha, Sufidreamer, Christoph Reilly, Mighty Mom, Lita Sorensen, Lissie, and any number of other talented hubbers know w-a-a-a-y more about making money online than I do, and they also make way more money writing for a living than I do.
So don't take my advice as gospel. It won't make you rich. It doesn't even make me rich.
But so far, this is what I've found to be effective.
- First, establish an online presence. It doesn't really matter where. I started out writing for www.helium.com but switched to Hub Pages when I discovered it was a lot more fun over here and that here I retain the rights to all my stuff (as opposed to Helium, where not only do you forfeit your rights, you can't take your stuff down once it's up even if you want to). What you are really doing at first is establishing an online portfolio. Try to have at least ten or twenty decent articles posted before you bid on a freelance project, and then refer your prospective client to your work at the community site.
- Create a serious profile. This means no avatars and no self-deprecating or juvenile humor. Think of your profile as a slightly friendlier version of a resume. You want to seem like a real, approachable human being, but you also want to appear competent and adult. If you come off as too professional and aggressive people will think they can't afford you, but if you come off as too amateurish they won't consider your bid.
- Pick one job board at first and stick with it. I get almost all my freelance work from www.elance.com but many people here at Hub Pages do well with www.guru.com or www.odesk.com. Craig's List does offer some freelance work but you really have no protection there. The person who hires you may or may not pay you. I've known people who were stung pretty bad at Craig's List, and people who found great clients there.
- Bid often at first, and bid low. After two years at Elance I still only get 30% of the projects I bid on. They have a point system for bids over there. I buy 25 points every month (in addition to the 3 or 4 or whatever they give you for free). Most projects 'cost' you one or two points to place a bid. I pick subjects I know about and enjoy and bid between 1 and 3 cents a word (usually $10-$30 for a 500 word article) depending on the level of expertise required. In the beginning I had to take a lot of junky work at 1 cent per word or less. Now I get better stuff at better pay but I'm hardly raking it in. Still, if you bid on 25 projects and are awarded three projects for ten articles at $10 an article, that's $300, and you can finish that in a couple days. Can you use $300? I usually can.
- Explain why you are special. Don't create a generic bid template and then just copy and paste the thing into as many jobs as you can. That really honks clients off. Instead, target projects for which you have some genuine expertise, then tell the person who posted the project why you are uniquely qualified to complete it.
- Be very specific about what you will do. I always repeat exactly what I understand the buyer to be requesting of me, so that if I'm wrong that gets cleared up immediately, and if I'm not wrong then I have a written record of what was contracted that I can go back to if problems arise. So, for instance, I'll say, "I'd love to write ten 500 word articles for you on pink toe fungus and have them delivered in Word.doc form no later than the evening of July 7th." Then I deliver them on July 6th and everybody is usually happy. That also prevents the buyer from coming back with a demand for longer articles, photos, charts, or other extras at no charge. I can say, "I'd love to include some charts and extra text, but we didn't factor that into the cost. How about..." and they can say yes or no, but they get the clear message I still am to be paid for what we did agree to.
- Steer clear of long projects at first. It's amazing how many misunderstandings can arise when you are working virtually. The potential for problems increases with the scope of the project. Elance gets lots of requests for ghostwriters for various autobiographical novels--with a budget of $500 or less. Come on! After awhile you develop a 'nose' for which projects are trouble on a stick and just avoid them. Neat, sweet, complete, that's what I like. Ten is a nice number. Forty not so much. 500 words is better than 1000. You get my drift.
- Ask to be paid in escrow if possible. At Elance, you can set up a protective feature whereby the buyer places your payment in an account at Elance and leaves it there until you complete the work. When the work is delivered and the buyer is satisfied, the funds are released to you and deposited in your bank account or mailed to you as a check. I only bid on escrowed projects at this point. Once burned, twice shy.
- Narrow your focus. The job boards have lots of different kinds of work in lots of different fields. In addition to writing, there is virtual assistant work, clerical work, financial work, web design, programming, and just about anything else you can think of that can be done over the internet. Over time I've developed a portfolio composed of mostly financial writing, gardening and landscape writing, and writing about new age and health topics, so those are pretty much the only kinds of projects I bid on. I know I can write quickly and easily on these topics. I don't have to research them as heavily as something I don't know anything about.
- Be thorough but work quickly. I'm not going to lie to you. You aren't going to get rich at this. Yes the pay is outrageously low and you will come across LOTS of requests for fifty cent or dollar articles in bulk. I just don't bid on those. I choose projects I know I can whip out fast and well, and then be done with them. You will be relinquishing all rights to whatever material you provide your client 99.9% of the time, so you don't want to reinvent the wheel here. If you have a great idea for a great piece of writing, for godsakes don't sell it to some stranger on the job boards!
- Consider your deadlines as sacred. Nothing will get you panned as a freelancer like delivering late or just disappearing. Always under-promise and over-deliver. You'll get more repeat clients that way, and repeat clients mean less bidding. It's always nice when the work comes to you instead of vice versa.
So that's it, that's how it works. It's not really that complicated once you do it a couple of times, and it's not that glamorous either, but it means 1) no cubicle, 2) no uniform, 3) no hair net, 4) no funny hats or name tags.
For me, that makes online freelancing worth it.
Plus, I live in MICHIGAN. How many jobs do you think are available up here right now?
Yeah, it's like, I don't know, a negative number. -150,000 jobs. Or worse.
To tell you the truth, I'm not at all certain freelancing online is the best use of my time as a writer, and the longer I do it, the more I think freelancing at the job boards is possibly the least productive use of my time as a writer, but I have learned a lot from the boards about discipline, human nature, and business, and I've also learned lots of interesting facts about the topics I've researched for clients. I've met some icky clients and some fabulous clients. I've written for some nice people and some not so nice people.
One final caveat:
With the recession in full swing you'll find that you are in competition with TONS of people from all over the planet, so don't get discouraged. The down side of a global economy is that someone in Pakistan will bid .50 for your $10. The upside is you can find clients from all over the globe, and not all of them want a .50 article written in broken English. Some do, some don't. There's room for everybody.
Still, you can easily bid for weeks before getting your first project. Once you get a few projects under your belt, it does get much easier to get more.
Just keep at it, and eventually you'll be working fairly steady.
Good luck.
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Thanks Storytellersrus--Good luck to you. I think life is getting so hard for so many people right now, and the job boards can be a blessing but they can also be really aggravating. You definitely can't take any of what happens there personally. Often the buyers are as inexperienced and overwhelmed as the people bidding on the projects, so it really is kind of a mixed bag and a big crap shoot. Sadly I think this is the way work is trending now. Everyone at home, grubbing for change on the net. But it's not all bad. I'm in my jammies at this very minute! lol! Couldn't do that at the bank!
Hi! This is a great hub! I often find that many websites, and not only those for freelance boards, hard to use and not very userfriendly. Though I haven't checked out elance, I think your hub will better alert people as to what they should expect, and they'll be less likely to be disappointed than they would by only going with the hype that is often put out saying how easy everything is.
Also, a note about Craigslist. You are right about not being protected. I recently started doing very simple generic resumes and put out an ad on Craigslist. I did get some clients. Two never paid me after I sent via e-mail copies of what I'd put together for them. One client stiffed me for $10, paying $20 instead of $30 which is my standard price. The fourth client was a dream. We sent about two e-mails, by which he found everything to his satisfaction, then was very quick to send payment, and communicated to me that he was very satisfied.
So, I've made a point that the next clients will have to pay me half in advance. I don't know if this will work, as clients are fewer right now than for my flyer distribution service, but we'll see. I have certainly taken a few pointers from your hub and will cetainly bookmark it.
Great hub!
Hi myway--Thanks for validating my impressions of Craig's List. It's good though because you did get a good client off of it, so really, that's encouraging. I think the idea of asking for half in advance is a good one when you use them. It seems like so much of this is about building up a base of reliable who need repeat work. I get lots of repeat work but not every client needs stuff on an ongoing basis. Some run out of money, some start websites and abandon them, so just kind of fade away. Thanks for your thoughts!
Pam,
This was an excellent article on ways to make money by freelance writing. I am sure it will help me and many others earn extra money from submitting/publishing articles online.
I actually got some very good news this week. I submitted an application to be a writer on http://www.examiner.com earlier this week. Yesterday they told me they want me to write for them! How cool is that?
Fantastic. I'm glad you wrote a little more about elance. I was under the naive impression that with my 3 free points, I would snatch a job right away and then use that money to buy more. You helped me see that it doesn't go perfect and try try again. Thank you for showcasing the positives and the negatives. I like not wearing a uniform, and that's what I'm aiming for.
Hi John Griggs--Congratulations! That is WAY cool. I'm happy for you. It's a happy day when you land a regular gig. The job boards are good for part of a writing strategy and I've learned a lot from them, but lately I've been thinking about other ways to make money writing online. Some folks at HP actually make a respectable sum here, so I'm looking at ways to change my layouts here and do some commercial hubs. Also looking into blogging. Thanks for sharing your good news and good luck!
Hi Alexander--I thought the same thing when I first checked out Elance, but those 3 free points disappear fast. I spend $14.95 each month for more, and it's worth it to me. Plus, I can take it as a deduction. Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks a lot for the info. I am not confident nor able to write that well. My son roastedpinebark does pretty good, so we may look at these for him. It would be good work as he goes to college and you never know where it may lead to.
Keep on hubbing!
Thanks for all the info in this Hub. I am definitely going to check out your links and see what I can conjure up.
Thanks for being so open and clear, this really helps.
Hi eovery, Ethel, and kya--Good luck! I hope it was helpful. :)
Hi Pam! Did I hear you say that you don't know much about this subject? It's not good to be humble all the time. You are an expert here. Thx for giving a clear picture of how things work with freelancing projects. The problem with such jobs is the money factor. Most of the times they offer a ridiculous amount and one faces a dilemma... whether to take it or leave it.
You're not only a great writer, Pam, you are generous to boot! This is an excellent guide to anyone wanting to try their hand and online freelancing, and by gob, it's for free, outta your generous good will!
Great Hub, Pam - chocked full of useful information for how to make a start on the boards. It is tough but, if you persevere, it can net a decent living.
BTW - Not sure if I make more money than you, only that I have a much lower cost of living, so can bid a little lower. The joys of outsourcing!
Hi anjali--Thank you! I Everal hubbers have asked me about it so I thought it might be helpful. :)
Hi Elena--I think in most fields there is room for everyone. That goes against the 'dog eat dog' competitive philosophy we are used to but it's been my personal experience that cooperation yields at least as good a result as competition, and that self-employed people tend to settle into a niche fairly quickly and so are rarely in direct competition with each other. When I did landscape work I found this to be especially true. Always more work than people willing to do it, and the trick was finding your right 'match' in clients and getting the pricing right. Thanks for the kind words!
Sufi--I guess I just didn't want to pass myself off as the resident expert. Honestly, I think I probably bid too low on everything, but I'd rather bid low and work more than vice versa. Most of the time I end up taking one or two cents a word. I've a had a few projects that paid better, but not many. The joys of outsourcing indeed! lol!
Pam, another practical and well-written hub chock full of excellent advice. I too have made a fairly steady stream of adsense revenue, but have yet to fully utilize the freelance boards. I'm more than certain that many writers will benefit from your years of experience and learned advice. Great job and the best of luck!
Hi Pam. I've been in Elance for more than 4 months now and I only have 3 projects to date. The competition is really fierce and I have to bid really low (read: the minimum) just to get the projects. Actually, I don't mind the low pay, I just want to build my portfolio and increase my positive feedbacks. Hopefully, I'll also last for 2 years, same as you. Maybe I'll see you there also one day =). Cheers!
Hi Rob--Thanks! Congrats on the ad revenue here! And good luck on the job boards if you decide to give them a try. :)
Hi emievil--Yes I think the pay is atrocious and getting worse, but I like being at home. By the time I left corporate American, I was so sick and miserable I'd have sold apples on the corner to get out of there. I do think work is trending in this direction (independent contractors and self-employed people), and the hard part for those of us living in developed nations is the pay will be lower for us. But there are rewards too--like not working in a cublicle. Good luck to you! Hang in there, it will get better! :)
Hey there, thanks so very much for sharing this Hub with us all. Those are all very good tips and they speak the experience you have in the field. I have been into online writing for the past 8 months but have gained anything monetarily and it is mainly because I have hard time managing my job and writing articles.
I don't want press too hard on anything. I rather prefer to take up only those things that I can manage comfortably. However it is important to know all nook ans corner of the trade so that the day I am ready to take more jobs I will know what I am supposed to do. Thanks again for the info
Thanks for stopping by packerpack! I'm glad you have a job. I probably would write a lot less if I had one too. Good luck in all you do!
Several hubbers have came to me and asked that I write hubs/web articles for them for around five dollars a piece. However, the caveat being they had to decide if they liked my piece, and I was afraid I might be swindled. Mostly I am hesitant to do so because if I write a really good hub I can make that much or more off of it each month, which is a continuous stream of income. However, I am considering trying elance now that several of you have mentioned it, but I am pretty busy with my regular job, Hubpages, and the examiner, so finding the extra time is not always easy.
Hey pgrundy! Great tips on
How to Make Money on the Freelance Job Boards!
Learned a lot and appreciate the tips. I had to bookmark it
Hi Sweetie Pie--I agree with you that writing articles for other hubbers for $5 each is a better deal for them than you. Mostly the job boards are not that well-paid either, but I use them because I need the income. Sometimes I think I would be better off to write twice as many articles here, but it's a tough call. Thanks for you thoughts on it!
Thanks my success guru and Ladybird33--I'm glad you both stopped by.
I want to try the job boards, but I am dubious of the hubbers that email me asking if I would be willing to write an article for them. One guy had articles copied from another site, so I had to wonder about their motivations. Have you tried the examiner.com yet? I really like the site because you can make about ten dollars per one thousand visitors, and fifty dollars for each person you refer. I referred someone and made fifty dollars just because they started writing over there too.
SweetiePie - Don't know if this will help, but you can protect yourself a little. Remember that you automatically own the copyright to your work - keep all correspondance, and proof of the date that you wrote it. If they try to stiff you, you can always put it as your own Hub and slap them with a complaint if they try to use it. I have ghostwritten a few Hubs, and never had a problem with payment :)
Never sign over copyright until the money is in your bank account - hopefully, you will soon be able to charge a little more than $5!
Hi Sweetie Pie--I never neard of examiner.com but I'm going to give it a try now. I've been getting the feeling that I'm all over the map with my writing lately. I mean, as far as monetizing it, I have no focus. I write what I want and pick up some work at the boards, but I feel like if I had more of a business plan I'd be making more money than I am. I'm a hopeless underachiever though. Maybe I should just accept that and enjoy it--I definitely will try examiner though. Thanks for the tip!
Sufi--Good advice! I haven't had a bad experience with a writing client in a long time. I think you get so you can smell trouble, and the best advice I ever got was here--some people (I think you might have been one of them) said, "If you smell trouble, just get out. Don't second guess yourself. The beauty of working for yourself is you don't HAVE to do anything!" Once I started taking that advice, miraculously I seemed to quit running into thieves and scammers! Lol!
I don't know if you've seen Angela England's site, but it may be worth a quick look. She has a profile and a few Hubs here but her own site is better. She writes for people like Examiner.com and Suite101.com. Her url is:
She has quite few "how to make money from writing on the net" type articles that are worth looking at.
Otherwise this is another great Hub. The trouble is your playing havoc with my inferiority complex. Can't you write a few bad ones just to make the rest of us inadequates feel better?
Hi Mike--Oh I've written plenty of stinkers! lol! Poke around a bit and you'll find them. Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out. I'm always trying to pump up my income, but I lack focus. I really do. It's not always a defect, but monetarily I think it is. Thanks again and best of luck to you!
Pam,
Nicely done on this piece. Does Elance tend to have higher paying jobs than freelancejobopenings or guru? I am interested in these types of sites, but I'm not sure elance has a ton of demand for writers in the finance areas.
Hi 02SmithA--I like Elance better than guru just because I think it's cheaper and easier to bid, and the profile interface is feels more user friendly to me. Most of the stuff I do get there is in financial writing, 'green' living, or gardening, so there's definitely regular gigs that come up that you might like. On the down side, the pay is not so hot. You might really do better writing for Hub Pages over the long haul--it takes longer to build up your ad revenue, but you get to keep your content and all the rights. Good luck!
Hi Pam,
Congrats on creating another excellent hub and on creating another source of online revenue.
A lot of marketers are being 'trained' to hire freelancers to write articles on the cheap. But some of us realize it's far better to focus on getting quality articles written for a 'fair' price the article writer & marketer can live with.
I think you would be really good for the examiner since you are very informed about politics, and there is definitely a need for examiners that are well researched. However, you can pick any topic you want there, but I only suggest politics as I know many of those hubs of yours do well here. I am all over the place when it comes to online writing, but it is a hobby that pays a few bills, so I cannot real complain.
I live in SE Asia. After a few months at Hubpages, I earn about an average wage for my street. I work five or six hours a day, my neighbors work 12. Hubpages are great for educated misfits like myself.
Why not forget Michegan? With your income, you could have a house with a pool out here, drive an absurd SUV and pick up a nice young man to run your errands. At night you could drink earnestly with the UNESCO types.
You do have to start on the low side on these boards but once you are established there are many who will only want to use you. Plus they are willing to pay more as you raise your prices. It is slow getting built up to a real income from it, but it can be done.
Hi Camping Dan--That's been my experience too. I think it's like any business: the first year is really hard, but if you work at it it gets better. Thanks for your thoughts. :)
Hi Pam, I rather suspect you earn more than me - but you work a lot more too so thats fair! I must admit I got bored with the whole freelance writing thing - turned out to resemble work - you know if you do nothing you don't get paid. I am focussing more and more on Adsense and affiliate income - OK I wrote over 5000 words today - all for me so no pay -yet... On the other hand I made over $25 the other day on Adsense - and I had the day off LOL. It takes a while to get your head around the disconnect - but I am starting to like it :-)
Hi Lissie--I may or may not break five figures this year. If things stay on track I might hit $9K in freelance work plus my Adsense, which isn't enough to keep a teenager in ipods let alone make a significant financial contribution to a family. But I see progress so I keep at it. It's what I want to do, write. I feel like you do about Elance though. It's getting old, and I've been trying to work harder at Ad revenue too--the infamous "passive income" that requires us to work our asses off! lol! But you're right, it's more satisfying somehow. Thanks for your thoughts and good luck!
Thank you SO SO much for this. I've just started with all this stuff, and I have to say, for the most part I pull up these massive websites with all this text and I stare blankly at it until my eyes start watering and I just turn off the computer. I've sent out emails to about 2 dozen places, two of them told me to go to some website that wanted my credit card number!!! Then, I got an email back from someone who wants a 3000 word article with 75 photos for $50. I thought it sounded crazy, but since I'm new at this whole thing...I'm wondering if I should bite the bullet and do it, just to say I've done a job? Any suggestions? Thanks again - you give me hope.
You have a wonderful, honest way of writing. I love your style. Great Hub!
Hi Laura--It's just really, really hard especially at first. If that $50 article will pay you some in advance or at least escrow the money through Elance (let the job board vendor Elance hold the advance until you finish) I'd go ahead, bite the bullet, write the article and ask for a reference. That will help you get more work. But yes, it's crap money, it really is. Hang in there and good luck!
Bundle Boy--Thank yoU! That's very nice of you to say. :)
Wow. I haven't even started, yet, and my head is spinning, but you have really made all of this seem more realistic and attainable. I definately appreciate the advice that you have given, and think that your article will be my foundation to start from. Thank you very much! I wish you the greatest luck in all your endeavors.
Thanks texasdaye--I'm glad you found it useful. :)
You have an experience and realistic voice in your advice/tips. Thank you for sharing the information, and best wishes as you continue to 'grow'!
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Hi pgr,
That is about the most practical, humane and real article I have found written on the subject. It seem to be coming right from the heart and speaking the gospel truth; the truth which is so obvious but so ignored by so many.
Thanks again,
Vijay
This is really great info! Thanks so much for posting this article. Picking one job board and sticking with it is good advice that I'm going to take and hopefully I'll have more luck that way.
Thanks again,
Ker
Hey man fantastic insights into the world of making money online ! :) I m glad that I could read you ! Ofcourse ..here in India ..this is just catching on ..almost infant ! :) keep writing dude ..your words seem very honest and likely to be read
Thanks vjay, kblogs, and Myriad! Good luck to all of you!
Hi I am only new to all this and I found your hub very interesting indeed, mainly because I have never explored this area at all. I have written down a lot of hints that you have carefully explained to me and with a little bit of luck, we will press on . Great hub Regards Brian
Thanks for the info. I have been on elance about 3 months now and have gotten one job. I did get it at a good price. I started out trying to get Writers Market prices. I was high bidding by a factor sometimes of 10. I have stayed away from low bidding but I will give it a try based on your hub.
I'd rather get some work than sit in my lazy boy but I also will continue to try to build a B2B commerical copywriting business that does pay Writer's Market prices.
Like you I have started writing hub pages on what interests me. I will keep doing so although something yesterday on something that both interests me and ranked fairly high in seo keyword search. I immediately got some reads off of it.
Hi Brownlickie--Good luck on all of it. I will say it took me a good year before I saw anything like semi-steady income, so hang in there! Thanks for commenting.
Hi gwwood99--I have a friend who started bidding at the going rate for print publication and had the same experience, and finally decided not to write for the boards. I don't fault anyone for making that decision. I'd say 1 to 3 cents a word is my average and for every job I've gotten there were bids FAR below that from India and even a few uber-low bids from within the U.S.
I have definitely noticed Elance getting a lot busier, with more people on both buyer and bidder sides for the first time. It makes it harder to get work. I put bid on ten projects this week and so far have gotten none of them. I spent some time cruising newbie profiles and lots of them were laid off corporate workers, many with tons of good skills, many bidding a penny a word or less. That was horribly depressing. Not like I'm sliced liver, but you get my drift.
I'm reevaluating my own strategy for writing for $$$, trying some new things. I still bid every month, and I have a few regular clients, but the low pay at the boards and the confusion there does get tiring after awhile. Thanks for your thoughts everyone and good luck to all of you. :)
And so I am weighing it. If I have to stay up all night making very little money, am I going to get more satisfaction freelancing or grading papers for a thankless online university with 5-wk grading cycle, 3 weeks of which is murder. So far job security seems more worthwhile. But I am hearing you saying, between the lines, that the satisfaction of seeing yourself in print can outweigh the satisfaction derived from helping the products of the American education system learn where to put periods instead of commas. And so I am thinking....
Hi The Keek--Actually both jobs are really low paid and frustrating at times. I would never advise someone to jump into writing online to make money. The best way to do it is as a supplement. I do confess though that I don't miss my cubicle job at all. Thanks for stopping by.
Nice tips for anyone to follow........I'll try those. Thanks.
hahaha,,i work at odesk and i have completed there 2100 hours. but still thanks for helping others to locate a freelance jobs.
Good stuff here, thanks for sharing..
fascinating hub, and a great guide!
Thanks LG! I appreciate it.
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Great article. Enjoyable read. I also find digitalpoint to be an alright place for making a few (or more) dollars here and there.
good article..really loved the way u explain like u are explaining it to a kid..can see through ur writing skills by this article.. i am a starter at this,, hope i follow ur path
This was an excellent example of a HubPages contributor sharing her knowledge and teaching all of us something new and useful. This hub has dymystified elance.com for and I now know that it's a viable option to make money online thanks to pgrundy. Thanks so much, dawei888
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I enjoyed your article. I am not a writer, nor do I intend to be; however, I am highly interested in this hubpages site and what it is being used for. I am simply fascinated at how many individuals are finding their niche here. So far, in my tour of hubpages, I have found some wonderful written works on interesting subject matters! Thank you so very much for sharing your experience.
Thanks for stopping by cricket. :)
Thanks for the tips. I will be checking elance out for future jobs. This internet work is all new to me. I will need to go slow and figure it out along the way.
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Very helpful, thanks! I recently signed up for an account at Elance, and I'm looking forward to making the most of it. The tips you gave were enlightening, and I appreciate it.
Interesting hub! Thanks for the information. Mike - thanks for the shout out, glad you found my website helpful. I haven't updated it recently because I've been prepping another site for launch soon. :-) Woohoo!
Thanks for the mention - Found this hub via Google Alert of my name. :-)
Blessings,
Angela <
Founder of http://UntrainedHousewife.com
Writing Blog http://angengland.com
Pam, interesting hub, as usual. Your tips are so clear, your writing style so honest, any day now, the big book deal will roll your way and then it'll be time for the built in swimming pool, or back yard ice rink or whatever....
Hi Dolores--Wow, wouldn't that be cool? If I ever made real money I'd buy us a cabin in the UP on Lake Superior and just walk my dog and write novels. But at least for now we're eating regular. (Too regular! lol!)
Great article, and very informative... Just the information I needed! Thanks! :)
Thank you so much for your inspiring pieces, I am new to writing for money but it is something I would love to do!!
Storytellersrus says:
5 months ago
THANK YOU! This gets another thumbs up and a bookmark. And congrats on placing third on Helium right out of the gate!