Real life article arbitage - how I made $200+ a week

[Dr_Ngo]

Here's a method I used to make $200+ a week. I only spent like 10 minutes a week on it and no $ invested.

About a year ago I was in college and started writing articles online for extra money. I met some guy in my city that does SEO work for companies and I told him I write articles. He offered me $15 for 500 words articles since I was an American college student.

Basically I outsourced the articles to Indian firms for $5 each. I tried out about 10 different writers and found 2 that could write as well as me for that price range. Best part is the clients were happy with the articles.

15 articles a week, I'd get paid $225. I'd outsource the same 15 articles, and pay $5 each ($75). Easy $150.

More $$$

I went to a party and started chilling with some people. One guy started bitching about how he had 3 papers due in 2 days and didn't have time to write them cus of work.

I told him I'm pretty good at writing and would do one of his term papers for $. We negotiated at 1,000 words for $75. He emailed me the paper, and my writer wrote it the next day for $20. Easy $55. Word of mouth started to spread and I started getting more "work". If there was a paper that was based off of part in a textbook, I'd just scan the pages and e-mail them.

The amount of work involved was minimal. Whenever someone e-mailed me with work I'd just copy and paste it to my writers. When I got the articles I'd just proof read them to make sure everything was cool.

The clients were happy and my article writers were happy. I pretty much just acted as the middleman and pocketed the difference.

 

[circa]

Pretty good idea... I was wondering if you could possibly PM me (i guess anyone else could too) of someone that can write GOOD articles, $5/500words sounds about what I'd like to pay. I've never outsourced any work but I suck at/hate writing. I'm not looking to re-sell the articles, lately I've been thinking of starting some blogs to promote different affiliate products and would like them to look good.

 

[alexbaldwin07]

so brilliant, now to find some cheap indian labor... craigslist?

 

[krunk]

all kinds of ways

Indeed there are a number of different ways you can utilize articles to your monetary benefit. That's a nice method you used!

 

[LazyD]

Cheap indian labor you say?

Hate to mention it, but DigitalPoint is crawling with cheap indian labor - Heres a few rules that I follow when finding writers...

Dont trust writing samples
Only order 1 or 2 articles up front (for testing purposes)
Make sure you are crystal fucking clear with what you need (Any 'unknown' about a task will end up with undesired results)

 

[hookshot]

At $0.01 per article if you look hard you can find some good Anglophones willing to write at that price on DP.

 

[yoink*gasp*]

At $0.01 per article if you look hard you can find some good Anglophones willing to write at that price on DP.

I've never had a good experience paying that little for content before. It always comes up as mangled gibberish.

Whereas with a premium writer, like trademark or communicatebetter.org, the quality is almost university level. Much better for content sites, but probably not in relation to this method of arbitrage.

 

[subigo]

Good luck finding quality writers for dirt cheap, trust me. Over the past six months I've posted job listings for overseas press release writers and every single person who has replied had the skills of a sixth grader.

You're method might work for people looking to fill empty pages for SEO purposes, but it sucks if you need the article to be good quality. If I tried to pass off an article written by a dirt cheap writer (DP) to one of my clients, they would be asking for a refund the same day.

 

[KHyuga]

Well you can always go for a lower profit margin and offer up to $10 per article for the better writers, which are in abundance out there. The harder part would be looking for that someone who is willing to pay more than $15 for a 500-word article on a consistent basis. Do lemme know if you happe to know of any.

 

[yoink*gasp*]

Good luck finding quality writers for dirt cheap, trust me. Over the past six months I've posted job listings for overseas press release writers and every single person who has replied had the skills of a sixth grader.

You're method might work for people looking to fill empty pages for SEO purposes, but it sucks if you need the article to be good quality. If I tried to pass off an article written by a dirt cheap writer (DP) to one of my clients, they would be asking for a refund the same day.

Do you do website content, or are you just PR creation/distribution? If you do content I'm always looking for new providers. Hit me up and let me know.