Content, especially original content is gold on the Internet, however, if you don’t know what to do with that content, you won’t be able to use it to generate additional revenue streams for your business. There are many traditional writers out there who are very frustrated with how the Internet has changed their livelyhood. They are now competing with writers who are willing to write for free and are slowly seeing their means of getting paid to do writing (especially providing content for online media sources such as blogs and other online publications) quickly diminishing. That way of making a living is going the way of the dinosaur in most cases. Sure, there are still some opportunities available for the traditional paid writing gigs, but they are not as prevalent as they used to be, and the pay isn’t what it used to be either.
So what is a writer to do? A writer (a good writer especially) doesn’t realize that they are a walking gold mine unto themselves, and even though their original means of making a living are disappearing, new ways of making a living have sprung up that actually provide much greater potential in revenue. There is one major reason for this increase in potential. That reason is due to the fact that as a writer, you no longer have to exchange hours of your writing for dollars. Let’s face it, with the traditional methods, you would get paid per job. You can only do so many jobs because there are only so many hours in a day. An enterprising writer could use interns to expand their job capacity, however if you are your brand, you put that at risk by […]
