Residual Income: eHow, InfoBarrel, and Suite 101

Making Money through Residual Income

Building up enough residual income to live comfortably with minimum work is the Holy Grail of online freelance writing. Having money coming in every day, whether you are working or not, is an awesome feeling, I’m sure. I’m not quite there yet, but I am working on it.

I started at eHow in December, but I didn’t post anything until the holiday rush finished up, in January. I currently have 12 articles posted, not as many as I would like. My goal is 1oo by the end of the year. Not many by most people’s standards, but I keep really busy with writing for companies that pay weekly per article. When you need the money now, it’s hard to spend a lot of time working on articles that will pay eventually.

I signed up for Infobarrel a month or so ago, and I only just got my first article up, Why Does Ginger Ale Make You Feel Better?, but I can already tell that I am going to like this site. Your first 10 articles are approved before they are posted, but after that, I believe they go right through. I haven’t spent a lot of time on this company yet, but I like what I’ve seen so far. You can earn 75% of the AdSense and eBay impressions on your articles, which requires you to have both AdSense and eBay partnership campaign ID.There is currently a contest that will increase your percentages up to 95% if you post a lot of articles in May.

Suite 101 is the third residual income site that I have signed up for. I haven’t submitted anything quite yet, though. There seems to be a bit of a learning curve. Some of the hardest writing I’ve done since starting my career as a writer was coming up with a profile for this site. It took me a while. I don’t have the same qualifications and previous accomplishments as many of the other writers on this site. I looked through some profiles, and almost all of them were college graduates, with several years of experience in their field, and a few years (at least!) of writing experience. I have been at this six or seven months. I was one credit shy of graduation when I left college to become a mom. All I have going for me is (presumably) decent writing skills and a lot of knowledge about a lot of things. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be when I “grew up,” so I have studied everything from culinary arts to education, criminology, and psychology. I used this as part of my Suite 101 profile, and I think I now have one that works. I’ll be honest, though. Seeing everyone else’s profiles just about scared me off.

Obviously I have a lot of work to do before I am bringing in any real residual income. But I am working on it. The nice thing about Infobarrel and Suite 101 is that there is no limit to what you can write. It’s not just how-to articles. There are so many topics to write about, and the sites are ran very well, from what I’ve seen. Suite 101 even has celebrity posters.

My only problem is that, especially on Suite 101, I spend too much time checking out everyone elses articles, and not enough time writing my own.

What residual income sites are you using? Which ones have you had the most success with?

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