How To Get Started On Academic Writing

 How to get started:

You register at the writing website

Pass the grammar test (normally made up of 15 multiple choice questions), the formatting styles test, and write a sample essay on a given topic.

Upload your essay and educational certification 

Wait to for an account approval, given you have passed the tests 

How it works 

Select Writing Project (From your work dashboard)

Upload the work 

Get Paid

Here are three ‘legitimate’ Academic Writing websites you can sign up on and start working as soon as possible

Website Payment Methods    

Writerbay Payoneer, Credit Cards    

Writing Creek Credit Cards    

Writers Department Credit Cards  

Writerbay 

Freelance Writing Jobs for professional authors.

Looking for authors who are proficient in their respective fields and who can deliver high-quality papers

Registration form: Writerbay.

Writing Creek 

Offers online writing jobs for freelance writers. Experts wanted!

Register: Writing Creek 

Writersdepartment

At Writers-department the usual pay is $10 – 15 per written double spaced page

Register: Writersdepartment

Writers Work

Writers Work connects anyone interested in writing, with the companies that need them desperately. There are thousands of writing jobs that are available on Writers Work, and available also are, training, tools, and support you need to the best writing jobs. 

Sign up: Writers Work Here

Essay or Article – Bidding Websites

The other kinds of websites you can check out if you would like to pursue web-writing as a way of earning an extra income are what I can call Essay bidding sites. 

 On Essay Bidding website a person who would like to have an essay or article written posts their request with the full details concerning the work,  

For example: “I would like someone to write me an essay about my dog,” the person sets their budget, which is money that they would like to pay you, and the bidders, who are the writers, at any level, submit their bids.

For example: You would respond to the post bid proposal saying, “I would like to work on your essay, and you give reasons why they should choose you over other bidders to work on their essay, and you can negotiate expect them to pay when you’re done with the work”.

For your own safety, to avoid getting scammed, recommended or legitimate, websites often have clients deposit their money into their account on the website to make sure the writer gets paid once the process of submitting the work to the client is completed. And once you are granted a project by the person, the project is taken away from the list of jobs that are available. 

My tips when working with these sites for good results;

Academic Writing?

 Academic Writing here refers to, quite, formal writing, that involves the different aspects involved in writing research-work in the varying intellectual fields.

The requirements to start working on opportunities on academic writing sites is usually passing a series of simple tests which you take to complete signing up on the websites.

Although there are so many websites that require academic writers, most will require personnel from specific countries, usually western, and unfortunately in most cases, at the time of writing, third-world countries are not usually to open to most of the opportunities.

And if you think you could somehow workaround the requirements on these websites, if I were you, I wouldn’t risk it, considering the work involved in finishing acceptable papers.

If you can workaround the sign-up process on those websites, at the end of the day,  there’s still the issue of receiving the money that you’ve worked for. And trust me, you won’t get it.

So I have compiled a list of academic writing sites that will pay you in ways that get your money to you despite your geographical location.  

But before I give you the Golden-List, let me just share with you a breakdown of how Academic Writing sites work in the following steps below;

1). You get Writing Work on a website (listed on the website)

2). You complete and upload the work to the website

3). You get paid on your account

Here’s why you should go with Academic Writing Websites

The internet is filled with various writing opportunities, but the competition to get work is even double.

Why you should go with Academic Writing websites that test you?

These are some of the reasons;

You have your own writing opportunities set aside for you, whereas in the other ways of getting writing opportunities you will have to compete with other writers from around the world to get a gig. On freelancing websites for most work is awarded on a bid-system.

Trust me, you might spend a month or so on a bidding site for writing opportunities on a non-test website without getting a response from a single client, that will be bad for you, sometimes financially. 

On a website dedicated for writing jobs, you have your gigs set aside for you, there might be a cap on the amount of writing tasks you can complete for per month, but you’re guaranteed a certain amount of work each month.

Find out how you can get started in the next post

Blog Advertising As A Way Of Making Money Online

 Much of the blogs that advertise, (do so with other) companies, people or group products or services. The company pays you directly or indirectly (will discuss this later on) to have you place their products or services on your blog.

The products or services that you’ll advertise on your blog do not necessarily have to be yours, but if you have your own products or services, I recommend that you serve your advertisements on your blog.

To make money with showing advertisements you have work hard, being strategical (just in almost anything in life, if you work without strategy, you’re going to find yourself worn & attain very little results), and lastly being patient. 

Showing advertisements on your blog, usually does not mean you’ll earn anything during maybe the first six months or two years or so, blog advertising is a congested area and the earnings have become too low. 

I’m not saying this to discourage you, but to let you know that you have to dive into the attempt with a clear strategy, and a strong focus in order to get a particular audience, also having learnt the best lessons about blogging for money. 

Four Major Types of Advertisements

Sponsored Posts

Text (Links)

Banner

Video 

Your Own Products

Other Media

Sponsored Posts 

Sponsored Posts are articles that a Blogger is paid by a service provider or person selling a product to have posted on blog.

A whole lot of hard-work and taking the right steps is needed for your blog to start getting sponsored posts.

The purpose of a ‘sponsored post’ is to promote something to an audience, which is a product or service. So your blog needs to have enough value to attract people who would like to sponsor your posts. 

There are mainly two sources of sponsored posts, which I have put into two groups, direct and indirect.

How sponsored posts work

A person wanting to sponsor a post approaches you with an offer 

You make the post on your blog & your blog visitors see the post

They take the required action if they’re interested in the product or service (an event or whatever) 

Where to get Third-Party Sponsored Posts

You can get sponsored third-party services that have readily available merchants or service providers who are looking for blogs with content that relates to their products or services that they would like to have posted on a blog (the sponsored posts).

You can search for these networks and sign up: 

ValuedVoice

BlogHer

SeedingUp

Bloggers also list their inventories on third-party sponsored post providers lists so that their blogs maybe found by people looking for blogs to promote their products or services on. 

Find out more ways to get sponsored posts on ‘Let’s Reach Success’ 

Text Ads/Advertising Links

Text Ads are those that simply used words to describe the company or products that are offered.

A link on internet is simply a doorway from one location to another on the web.

Here’s an example of text advertising links on a football blog:

 Figure : Example Of Link-Text Advertisements  

Links are usually within a section of your blog, usually showing text that leads a user to a location or website on the web with contents of the service or product seller.

Banner Ads or I mage 

A simple photo showing information of products or services or any other promotions. Usually, it links to the stuff that is being advertised.

Banner Ads are the most popular types of ads on the internet.

Video Ads 

Video Advertisements belong to a category of ads known rich media ads, which are interactive, video ads are playable, stoppable ads. Advertisements that are shown within a video media player.

Other Media 

This advertising material that is available on affiliate marketing you will be using.

Examples of where to get ads to display on a blog 

Affiliate Marketing 

Affiliate marketing is when you promote other people’s products or services, and in return you earn a commission when someone buys the service or product. 

Affiliate marketing is usually done through an affiliate network that has products that need promoters, and also tracks details of all activities associated with the promotions. 

Good examples of affiliate networks are Amazon’s Affiliate Network and Gearbest Affiliate Network. 

Advertising services or third party providers 

Examples:

Google Adsense 

Probably the biggest advertising network on the internet that most bloggers make use of, it serves varying types of advertising material that you can find on the website.

You have to find the right 'niche', when using Adsense, and produce good content that draws the right visitors in order for you to earn a good amount of money.

Media

Allows you to monetize your blog, suitable for most blog content, you can make the most of your advertising revenue and take advantage of a huge search market.

On Media You get paid around $2.00+ for one thousand views per advertisement (that's before clicks, and more).

 Propeller Ads

Propeller Ads is another big advertising network that offers different types of advertising material like banners, and

sponsored links.

There are loads of advertising services on the internet, I have only highlighted the most trusted networks, you can always search for more and weigh on your own to find out what would work best for you.

Direct companies or promoters 

You should go with this when starting. This is how most new bloggers earn a steady income in their early years.

If you’re coming up with good, quality, niche content for your blog, another way to earn money on your blog is to get a company, organization with services or products that relate to your topics that wants to reach out to an audience through advertising on your blog. 

For example if you write about baby products on your blog for a targeted audience, you might approach a company that sells baby products to reach out to people who are interested in baby related topics.

E-commerce store or your own products or e-commerce store

I will speak about E-commerce-in-detail in the section where I will be giving you information about Online-Trading as one of the ways to earn income web. 

But in connection to blogging, an e-commerce store is in my view the best way to monetize your blog.

One of the things an e-commerce store in its first days will depend on is Traffic that is generated from posts on your blog before it can generate it’s own audience. 

Freelance Writing

Web-writing means putting information or publishing (usually named content) on internet platforms using the text format. Much of the text that you see on the internet is written by human beings, just like you, (unless you’re one of those bots I will speak of in the next line. And at-least some of the text is generated by bots, which is some software developed by programmers).

If you would like to start a career as a writer on the internet so that you can earn a side income, I have broken down the major ways you can do it below:

You can start a blog 

Blogs have always been the backbone of the internet. Much of the useful information we access on a daily bases on the internet is available through the various blogs that are written by bloggers. A blog is a knowledge website that is published on the internet, usually done through informally written posts.

A Blogger is a person who runs or writes on a blog. And you are a publisher if you own a blog.

Bloggers know of the necessary information to put on their blogs through researching on the subject, knowledge they already posses from ‘learning’ or from their experience. 

There are many types of blogs you can start and earn income. I’ll discuss about that in the segment after the following part.

Here’s how you’ll earn money if you start a blog

There are several ways in which you could start earning money on the web with a blog. But note, the value of your blog, usefulness to users, is largely going to determine how much you’re going to earn from it.

There are so many ways in which you could earn money from your blog. But these are just some of the ways you can do it.

 Here’s how you can earn money while blogging: 

One of the ways to earn money through a blog is serving product or service advertisements 

I will define advertising as only to make something known.

When you make a blog, the people who visit the blog are called visitors, an audience given their interest to keep returning to the blog remains overtime. You can take advantage of your web-space, the blog, to show advertisements in exchange for money.    

 Figure : Example of a monetized blog

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