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Writing Articles for eHow and other commission friendly websites

My wife and I started writing articles for the website www.ehow.comback in September 2009. We are thrilled so far with the results we’ve seen. eHow is basically a “how to” site that provides guides and instructions for just about everything under the sun. I read about this website over a year ago and learned that the writers receive compensation for the revenue they produce for the site because the site shares it’s profits with it’s contributors. I made a huge mistake however, when I signed up to start writing for them and ….well…didn’t!!

If I had at least wrote one article…one measly 300 word article, I would have changed my hobby interests immediately. No I wouldn’t have walked away from real estate investing by no means but I would have started writing for this website a whole lot sooner. This website is definitely legitimate and pays on time!

By chance, I happened to stumble upon the eHow website again almost a year later to the day. I decided to finally give it a shot and wrote an article. It took all of 15 minutes and I published it. A few days later I revisited the site and noticed I had made a small commission on my article. You do not make anything for just writing articles and publishing them but you do make money if someone comes across your article and clicks on the advertisements that are planted all throughout your article. Obviously, somebody had read my article because I had over 25 views and a few cents deposited into my eHow account.

This got me excited and I researched about the potential this site has and was floored. There are folks who have thousands of articles and are making thousands of dollars every month off of their articles through eHow. That’s CRAZY!! This is passive income at it’s finest people. Imagine having a thousand articles sitting on eHow with your name on them and every month you are making a thousand dollars for doing nothing at all. You write the article once it pays you for the rest of your life!

I started contacting various eHow writers  through the forum this site has and asking them if they would mind giving me some details about the earnings they have experienced and most writers were eager to respond. It seems that the average you can expect on a typical eHowarticle is around $1 per month.  That might not sound like a big deal. I mean to write a decent article you have to devote at least 15 minutes to an hour at the most. Who wants to be paid a buck for that amount of time right? Well think about the long haul. The article will pay you roughly $1 every month for the rest of your life. Over the course of the first year you have made $12 and over the course of 5 years it’s made you $60! Can you get excited over earning $60 for 15 minutes to an hour?!? What about 10, 20, 30 years…that’s $120, $240, and $360 dollars respectively! Wow! That little article will work for you around the clock, night and day to keep bringing home the bacon, meanwhile you’ve actually forgotten how to do exactly what you wrote about doing because it was so long ago.

With this new insight, Heather and I jumped in head first. We haven’t wrote many articles, but so far to date we have wrote 52 articles on eHow (took us a little over a month – and yes we are somewhat lazy and hard to motivate at times). I’ve heard of folks that single-handedly write 150+ articles a month and that’s by themselves! Heather and I tag team one account and we are falling behind the power writers, but that’s ok. We just received our first eHow payment today for the sum of $54.02! Not bad. If we stopped writing today and never visited the website again, our eHow account will probably pay us anywhere from $50-60 a month from now on through our Paypal account. That’s $600 a year folks. Our goal is to continue writing and try to accomplish at least 1-2 articles a day. That’s reasonable and hopefully our laziness won’t get the best of us. As long as eHow keeps sending us the checks I don’t see how we could stop. I can see these checks growing month after month and it’s very exciting!

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009, by Jake and is filed under "Other Passive Income Ideas ". You can leave a response here, or send a Trackback from your own site.