Become a travel writer

If you love to travel and can compile your experiences in a beautifully written article, then you can become a travel writer and make money online.

There are travel websites and magazines that regularly need fresh travel articles, and most of them don't even require you to be actively traveling.

Matador Network

Matador Network was started in 2007, and since then they have worked with thousands of photographers, writers, and filmmakers. They're always looking for original travel experiences and photography.

You can join Matador by signing up by clicking the link above, once signed up you can submit your articles to editors. If your article gets accepted, you'll get paid.

You'll also find a variety of other related job opportunities such as photo editing, project collaboration, interview, etc. in the marketplace section.

Payment: $40 USD per article upon acceptance

Travelista Club

Travelista is looking for people all over the world who can work for them as a freelance travel writer.

You can even start by writing travel guides about the place you live, and you do not need to be traveling.

Once you get signed up, you'll also get enrolled in a free professional training course where you'll learn all the essential skills you need to be an expert freelance writer.

Payment: $40 AUD per article (1000 words) upon acceptance

Go World Travel

Go World Travel accepts articles from experienced journalists to first-time writers. They need you to write a unique story and also recommend to visit GoWorldTravel.com and study their writing style and see what they have already covered.

You are required to cover details such as how to reach the destination, local customs, exciting places to visit nearby, food, markets and so on. You are also encouraged to include real photos to make the articles visually appealing.

Payment: $30 to $40 USD per article (Up to 1600 words) upon acceptance

The Expeditioner

The Expeditioner loves unsolicited article submissions from people who have a great travel story and want to share with it with the world.

They love first-person narratives and require your article to be informative, exciting, and inspiring for the future travelers.

Your articles need to be ready for the following stuff to increase its chances of getting accepted.

The article should consist relevant, original photography including links to these photos stored on Flickr.

The article should be written in American English with proofreading.

Payment: $30 USD per article (From 1200 words and up) upon acceptance

Wanderful

Wanderful is looking for articles that are personal, inspiring, engaging, and community oriented. Their audience is primarily women between the age of 25-40 hence they prefer articles related to women and travel.

Before you submit an article to Wanderful make sure your article fits in one of their following categories.

• Destination and itineraries
• Travel tips
• Global issues related to women
• Important women to watch

Payment: $50 USD per article (750 - 2500 words) upon acceptance

Write Poetry

If you love to write poetry, then this is the way for you. You can express your creative side and make quite a lot of money per poem, if yours is one that is selected for publication.

Each site or magazine has it's own style and tone that it likes to promote, so keep that in mind when writing your poetry.





The Sun Magazine
Payment: $100 - $250 per poem

Poetry Foundation
Payment: $10 per line with a minimum payment of $300

Crazy Horse
Payment: $20 - $200 per poem

Rattle
Payment: $50 per poem

Boulevard Magazine
Payment: $25 - $250 per poem

Three Penny Review
Payment: $200 per poem

Alaska Quarterly Review
Payment: $10 - $50 per poem

Chicken Soup For The Soul
Payment: $200 per poem

Arc Poetry Magazine
Payment: $50 per page

Slice Magazine
Payment: $75 per poem

VQR Online
Payment: $200 per poem

New Myths
Payment: $30 Per Poem

Dreams And Nightmares Magazine
Payment: $12 Per Poem

Leading Edge Magazine
Payment : $5 - $20 Per Poem

Answer questions on Quora.com

Quora.com is world's most famous questions and answer platform, it gets around 190 million unique visitors each month.

It's so popular nowadays that if anyone wants to ask a question or find an answer to any problem, Quora is the first website where they visit. Quora is a great place to connect with like-minded people, find some really cool advice and help others with your knowledge.

In the following sections, you'll uncover different strategies you can use to leverage the authority of Quora to make some handsome income online.

Does Quora pay you for answering questions?

No, Quora doesn't pay you for answering questions. But there are other indirect ways in which Quora can help you a lot in making money online.

Suitable For

People who love to read and write
People who like to answer questions

Skills Required

Expertise in any area of interest or domain

Time Required To Get Started

Almost instant, just register on Quora, create your profile and start answering questions.

Tips

• Start with the mindset of helping others Start answering questions on Quora with the aim of genuinely helping others; it will help you to bring out true natural answers.
  
   
• Whenever you see a question try to interpret what the question-asker really needs then ensure that your answer provides it.
   
• Only answer questions regarding your domain of expertise; this is the prerequisite for writing any good answer on Quora. If you have expertise in your domain, then you can easily provide best answers based your education, training, experience or insights.
   
• Write neatly and make it easy to digest When you'll write an answer not only it will be read by the asker but also by thousands of other people who are finding the answer to the same question.
   
• Hence write your answer in standard grammar, use proper punctuation, avoid spelling mistakes and ensure that it is readable by users with different levels of reading proficiency.
   
• Avoid unnecessary long answers; keep your answers compact and precise, try to answer any question within 2-3 paragraphs, use professional writer's rule of including 20-25 words per sentence and 2-4 sentences per paragraph.
    
• Provide references; try to include images, videos, and links to external references in your answer when necessary.

• Images and videos help to prove your point clearly, and external references help to improve the credibility of your answer.

How To Monetize

Drive traffic and do affiliate or email marketing

• If you have your blog or niche website, then Quora can help you get massive high quality targeted traffic to your blog.
• To do this find questions in your niche which you can answer, then write high-quality and valuable answers.
• High-quality answers will gain you more upvotes, views and get you more traffic to your blog.
• At the end of your answers add a reference link to the relevant posts on your blog to get traffic, also add the URL of your blog in your profile bio.
• You can use affiliate marketing to monetize Quora traffic. Promote niche affiliate products on your blog when someone buys that product from your link you'll earn money.
• You can also build a targeted email list from Quora traffic and then promote affiliate offers via email marketing to generate a recurring income.

Sell eBooks/online courses

• The traffic you get from Quora is highly targeted, if you can write a niche specific eBook or create an online course which provides the solution to the problems people face into a niche, then you can earn handsome amount of money by selling it.
• For example, if you are a skincare expert, you can write a helpful eBook explaining various methods to make skin look young and glowing and sell it on your blog.

Sell your services

• If you offer any services like freelance content writing, web development, SEO, photo editing, etc. Then Quora can help you land in great clients and make some serious money.
• I have personally seen many people who get regularly hired from Quora and are making big money.
• People from various backgrounds read your answers on Quora, if they found your answer really valuable and helpful, they will contact you and hire you for their projects.

Giving away things?

I'm sure you must be a little confused after reading the title of this money making method.

You might be thinking, how can somebody make money by giving away something? But today you'll learn a brilliant marketing strategy that very few marketers are using to make loads of money without investing lots of funds.

Now, let's dive into the strategy.

This strategy consists of organizing a Giveaway of high valued physical products, software, eBooks, live event passes, online services and so on.

Then promoting the giveaway to a specific interested audience and asking them to participate in the giveaway by registering via their email id and sharing the giveaway with their friends thus building a niche specific targeted email list.

Next, choosing random winners from the pool of registered people and giving them the promised products or services for free.

Further, monetize the email list by promoting affiliate offers via email marketing.

Giveaway strategy works like a charm and helps you to build a targeted email list for free or at a low advertising cost which you can later on use to promote affiliate offers and make money.

Suitable For

People who love to talk, write, explain and have the ability to persuade.

Skills Required

Ability to write promotional emails.

How to get started

• Before you can start a giveaway campaign, you need to research and skillfully decide upon what are you going to offer in your giveaway.
• Following are some tips which will guide you to conduct research and select the right product/offer for your giveaway.
• Find out what are the most prominent pain points people have in your niche and how your giveaway can provide a solution to it.
  
  Use the following points to dig out pain points in your niche.
   
• Visit Q&A sites such as Quora, Yahoo Answers, etc. to find out which are the most asked questions in your niche.
• Visit niche specific forums and find which are the most discussed topics.
• Visit niche specific blogs to find out the most popular articles and note down the topics on which the article is written.
• Visit social media platforms to find out infiuencers in your niche, then study what they share on their pages.
• Visit YouTube and find out which are the most viewed videos in your niche and which topics are discussed in them.
• Study comments on blog posts, YouTube videos, and social pages and try to understand what do people really want.
• Find out where on the internet your audience is active and engaging. Is it on social media platforms, forums, YouTube or blogs. If you know this, you will know where you should promote your giveaways.

Understand how your audience wants the solution, whether they want a physical product, software, service, online course, eBook, video, etc. It will help you to select the right giveaway which will appeal your audience.

You can join niche related groups and post about your giveaway.

How to Monetize

Once you start promoting your giveaway, people will start participating, and your email list will grow.

Once you have an email list of reasonable size (250 - 500 subscribers), you can regularly start promoting relevant affiliate offers and products to your list via email.

People will buy products and offers via your affiliate link thus making you money through affiliate commissions.

Always remember that in the email marketing business the bigger the size of your targeted email list the bigger your commissions.

Hence always try to add new targeted subscribers to your list via running multiple giveaway campaigns.

Become a copy writer

What is Copywriting?

Copywriting is writing copy for the purpose of advertising or marketing. The copy is meant to persuade someone to buy a product or influence their beliefs.

Suitable For

 People who have the passion for writing.

Skills Required

Ability to write a sales copy in order to maximize product sales.
Time Required For Starting Copy-writing
You will have to learn the concepts and psychology behind successful copy-writing which might take time according to your learning speed.

How To Monetize

Good copywriters are paid a handsome amount of money for writing a single copy. In the beginning, you might not earn much, but once you will become an expert then no one can stop you from earning hundreds and thousands of dollars just by writing few hundred copies.

You can start by creating a sales copy for the product you are promoting. See the results and try to improve as much as possible.

You can also earn money by freelancing your Copywriting skills. Just register on the following websites as a copywriter:

• iwriter.com
• Textbroker.com
• Writeraccess.com

Become a Facebook Marketer

What is Facebook Marketing?

Facebook Marketing is another form of affiliate marketing in which marketers promote products on Facebook.

Suitable For

People who like to use Facebook.

Skills Required

• Ability to create appealing facebook posts and images.
• Ability to promote your page on Facebook.
• Ability to persuade people with proper reasoning.
• Time Required For Starting Facebook Marketing
• You can easily start Facebook marketing by creating promotional posts and create a Facebook page promoting a product. This can be done within minutes.

How To Monetize

• Get more people to visit on your Facebook page.
• Start promoting any affiliate product relevant to the Facebook page's topic.
• If possible, use Facebook ads to promote your posts and pages in a wider range of audience.
• More people buy products from through affiliate link more money you make.

Promote affiliate marketing products

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards a certain percentage of commission for each product bought by the customers who are brought by the affi|iate's own marketing efforts.

Suitable For

People who love to talk, write, explain and have the ability to persuade.

Skills Required

Ability to promote a product online using social media, videos, ads, etc.

Time Required For Starting Affiliate Marketing

Virtually within an hour. You just need to select an online product that pays a commission when you promote and sell it using your affiliate link.

Tips

• Select an online product from the domain in which you are well conversant with. For example, if you are a dietician then select a product related to diet.
• There are lots of products available in every domain you just need to focus on which domain is suitable for you.
• Places to find products: Clickbank.com, Shareasale.com, Jvzoo.com. These  websites have thousands of products listed from multiple domains.
• Choose a product that pays you at least 50% commission on each sale.
• Most product websites handle affiliate link generation and payouts so you don't need to worry about how you'll get your commissions. Just get your custom affiliate link created by the vendor and start promoting it.
• If you want to earn instant money from affiliate marketing try to promote your affiliate link on social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit.

How To Monetize

Monetization is simple, just make more people buy the product through your affiliate link. Create a Facebook page or Banner ads about the product.

Tell people how the product will help them to solve their problems.

Improve people's knowledge about the domain and help them to solve other related problems.