Make A Living Writing Blog - To Be Bigger & Better Very Soon

Ola my dear readers!

There cannot be any better feeling than giving your blog all new life. Yes! We are all set to start our Make A Living Writing Blog look extremely bigger ad better. The new blog will definitely be moving to our very own new domain which will be revealed very soon. And this time, it is going to include wider options for all of you to help making money by not even writing but by several other ways.

Make A Living Writing was inactive for almost an year but gone are those days.

We definitely are hungry for some great suggestions which we can incorporate in our new version of the blog. Do email your suggestions/feedback to "MakeALivingBlog@gmail.com" and we shall definitely incorporate all that you suggest to us. Promise!

With a promise to help you in a bigger and better way, we shall see you soon.

Keep Writing! Keep Sharing!

Top 5 Reasons Why Freelancers Need Private Clients (Guest Post)

If you're in freelancing for keeps, you need private clients, period. Every single serious freelancer has to make private clients and direct deals a priority in their business. The truth is, your chances are going to be mighty slim otherwise.

Here's a brief look at the five top reasons why YOU should be grinding it out every day, advertising yourself and making yourself known to potential private clients.

1. Money, Money, Money, Baby

eLance, Fiverr, oDesk, Guru. What do all these freelance sites have in common? They charge you or your client extra.

On most professional freelance sites, like eLance and oDesk, you'll find that the client is charged extra. For example, if you do a job for $100, on eLance the client gets charged $100 + 8.75%.

When you deal directly with clients, and he pays the money upfront straight to your PayPal account (or whatever e-payment system you use), you don't get charged, and he doesn't either. It's a win-win.

Over at Fiverr, they take a 20% cut of whatever job you do. So, in reality, you're earning a measly $4 per gig (provided that no extras were purchased). Again, when you deal directly with clients, you're not losing out, and neither is he.

2. Repeat After Me...

Dealing directly with private clients allows you to build a better relationship. You get to know each other (a little bit), you exchange e-mail addies, maybe even connect via social media; when you use a third-party program, you don't get to do all these things.

When you build a relationship with your client, he/she is more likely to realize that your services are an essential part of his/her business. Thus, they'll always have you at the back of their mind, and there's as much greater chance of them coming back to you, and giving you all their related work. In the long run, it's much more profitable to have ten clients who give you all their work, than a thousand who give you a job once and never come back.

Building relationships is the way to go.

3. Moolah

Yep, moolah is just another word for money.

Private clients are much more likely to pay you more for the same amount of work, for two reasons:

- When clients  use eLance/oDesk, most of the time they'll be going for the lowest-paid Philippino (no offense intended0.

- Since they get to know you better, they don't mind paying more. They know your quality of work, and they will actually pay you exactly what you deserve.

Number one, by the way, is just an inescapable fact. It's just true. Sorry, fellas. Number two is also true. When they get to know you, they're more comfortable giving larger amounts of money since they KNOW that you're gonna do a good job and not rip them off.

4. Ain't Nobody Else Here

When you talk to and give a sales pitch to a client privately, there's no competition. There's nobody else around to spoil your chances.

With freelance sites, there's almost always a bidding process happening (excepting Fiverr). Especially for writing jobs, there will normally be close to 30 people bidding, all on the same project. That works out to approximately 3.3%, but it's more likely closer to 1% if you don't have any reviews.

When you deal directly with clients, you're the only one in the picture. Just you, and nobody else. You can set your prices, explain your work and the rest without having to worry about what others are bidding.

Needless to say, this raises the chances of getting hire pretty significantly.

5. Yes! I Can Make a Living Freelancing!

When you do freelancing the private client way, what you know have is a sustainable business model. Something that is both ensured to work, and something that can be profitable enough for you to make a decent living at it.

Once you find your client, it's just a matter of rinse and repeat. And ultimately, this is gonna allow you to achieve the "work from home, work whenever and wherever" lifestyle you really want.

Summing Up

I would highly recommend that you switch to working for private clients, if you haven't already. Yes, eLance might seem great for now, but ultimately it's not gonna work out. 99% of the guys making a living online deal directly with private clients. It's up to you, now.

From Make A Living Writing : If you think that you have a content which can help many readers here, feel free to share that over email at akhil.khatri@alliancelive.com

About the Author: JR John is a happy-go-lucky freelance writer and red panda lover. He runs a website from which you can purchase his high-quality, professionally written articles. JR’s very grateful for the opportunity Akhil has graciously given him to guest post his meaningless rant on Make a Living Writing. To learn more about JR, contact him, or hire his writing services, visit his website.

50 Best Websites To Earn Money Blogging And Writing - 50 Best Revenue Sharing Websites

The first thing which most of the new writers consider challenging is to create their own blog or website. Though that process is not at all difficult, but still many of them do not do it. No worries at all! You can still make a lot of money even after not having anything of your own.

There are plenty of awesome Revenue Sharing Websites for serious writers and bloggers. All you need to do it to create an account, follow the steps, read the rules, and get started.

Here are some of the most effective and 'the best' revenue sharing websites for you.

1. Squidoo : Squidoo is one of the best in its category with making the word 'lens' common for sharing your write ups or other stuffs. The best thing here is to promote what you have already written for some other website. You can create a lens with the link to your work and just post it. Squidoo will put the relevant ads matching to your content. People visiting your lens will be able to see those ads and whatever Squidoo makes from that, you will get your percentage via Paypal.

2. HubPages : Write whatever you wish to on HubPages, be it reviews, advice, opinions, information, anything. 

3. Yahoo Contributors Network : You can post your fresh contents or already written contents on Yahoo Contributors Network and make money through Adsense. All the advertisements shown on your contents will be generating revenues for you.

4. Knoji : Write for them and earn a percentage of revenues as your share.

5. Suite101 : There are articles available to write on various subjects. Choose your interest and start writing. You make money from the advertisements shown on your content.

6. CreateSpace : Great website for all those who write books. You can publish and sell your work here, plus you make money from Adsense.

7. Wikinut : Wikinut shares 50% of the revenue generated through every article. 

8. Shvoong : Write on anything you wish to write and take your share from the generated income through advertisements.

9. WonderHowTo : You can submit your articles here and take 100% of the revenue generated.

10. Triond : You can submit any content you want to and take 50% of the revenue generated.

11. Helium : Another great platform to write and earn a percentage from the advertisement reveneu generation.

12. HowToDoThings : How To Do Things pays you 50% of the revenue generated by your work.

13. BloggerParty : Another website which share 50% of the revenue.

14. BlogBurner : Blog Burner shares 50% of the revenue generated from your published content.

15. Oondi : Oondi shares 100% of the revenue generated by your content.

16. Bukisa : Bukisa is pretty old in the market and is a great platform. They pay you a fixed amount for every 1000 views received on your published content.

17. FireHow : You make a fixed percentage from the total revenue generated from your content.

18. Infobarrel : Infobarrel gives you 70% of the total revenue generated.

19. ArticleIncome : You make anything between 50-75% of the total revenue generated.

20. StoryMash : You make 100% of the revenue generated.

21. BlogHubz: You take 85% of the total revenue.

22. TntPages : 70% is the revenue which is shared with you by TntPages.

23. Xomba : Shares 60% revenue.

24. ReVud : Shares 90% revenue.

25. Evoire : Shares 80% revenue.

26. Free-Tricks : Shares 100% revenue

27. RantRave : Shares 100% revenue

28. Snipsly : Shares 80% revenue

29. Tip Drop : Shares 75% revenue

30. RedGage : Pays as per 1000 views on the article, similar to Bukisa.

31. AllBlogTools : Shares 100% revenue.

32. ShoutMeLoud : Shares 100% revenue

33. Thisisby : Shares 50% revenue

34. Flixya : Shares 100% revenue

35. Launch Tags : Shares 100% revenue

36. Senserely : Shares 100% revenue

37. My Triple Dub : Shares 70% revenue

38. Soul Cast : Shares 100% revenue

39. Vdox : Shares 100% revenue

40. 5050articles : Shares 50% revenue

41. Green Doc : Shares 100% revenue

42. Mesh Plex : Shares 100% revenue

43. Blog Evolve : Shares 100% revenue

44. Journal Home : Shares 100% revenue

45. Writing Campus : Shares 60% revenue

46. Your Blog : Shares 70% revenue

47. Screen Dig : Shares 75% revenue

48. Qassia : Shares 100% revenue

49. Lulu : Shares 100% revenue

50. Make A Living Writing : Get featured by being a Guest Blogger.

The above websites are very effective websites who have proved themselves in the market. If you are a blogger or a writer, start writing for these websites and 'Make A Living Writing'

Do not forget to check other blog post on the blog as they will be very helpful to you.

Do FOLLOW, Do BOOKMARK, Do COMMENT!

Happy 'Making Money'!

11 Best Ways To Increase Your Followers On Your Blog or Website

Hope you have been reading every post on this blog. If not, check all right away as you are surely missing a lot of useful and life-changing information.

To be having maximum number of Followers is something which we all would love. I know good bloggers who have been blogging for last 3 years but have less than 10 Followers. Is it because they have poor content on their website/blog? There can  be multiple reasons behind it. Let's discuss 20 best ways to increase your followers on your blog or website.

1. Install 'Follower' : The first thing you need to start getting followers is to install the 'Follower' widget on your blog/website. If you do not have any widget, you will not be getting any followers even after having a lot of loyal readers.

2. Where To Keep : Good that you are able to get a lot of traffic, but still not able to increase the number of followers? One of the most important things here is to decide on the position of your 'Follower' widget. Having the widget at the footer of the blog may not be effective in any way. Having it somewhere towards the top of the blog is always better as readers get to see that they can follow your blog easily.

3. Done, Because Asked : Promoting anything would need you to be shameless (do not spam). It will not be bad to ask people to follow your blog. Many people will follow if they have been asked to do so. There are three ways to do it. One, email or message your known people and ask them to follow your blog. Two, include a sentence on every post towards the end asking people not to forget following your blog. Three, include your blog link and a message in any comment you post on other websites/blogs.

4. Use(ful)less : If your content is useful, people would want to revisit your blog. When they want to come back, they follow your blog. Indulge yourself in providing quality content.

5. Social Sharing Tools : Allow your readers with multiple options to share your blog. The most common ones are tools like Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Email, Pinterest, etc. If your blog/website do not have one, install it right away. When your blog gets shared with maximum people, you have more chances of getting more followers.

6. Do Not Do Everything : I understand that you are trying to be active on multiple social networking platforms. Do not try doing it everywhere and put yourself in a situation where nothing is working. Focus on four or five platforms and keep working till you make it work.

7. Email Signature : Include your blog link in your email signature. That ways, you will be able to share the information with anyone you are sharing with/replying to an email. 

8. Advertise It : If you do not mind spending some dollars on advertising your blog, you might even get good number of followers with the same. Do not forget to target the right audience for your advertisements.

9. Just Updated : There are plenty of readers who would love to stay connected with a blog which is updated on time with a good post frequency. No one would want to stay connected to some dead blog. Keep posting and stay to the schedule.

10. Blog Community : Join blog communities. This will increase the readers to your blog which will also help in getting increased followers.

11. Last, Not The Least : Keep working on the above mentioned 10 ways to reach a good level. The more you do it, the more followers you will get.

The above ways are surely effective for every single blog/website out there. All you need is to dedicated to it. Happy Blogging :)

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