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On-demand Transcription and Captioning Services. Design Portfolio's. Remote Design Work. How to Earn $1,500 a Year from ONE Blog Post. Meaningful relationships create effortless rewards.

How to Earn $1,500 a Year from ONE Blog Post

So effortless you forget how miraculous they seem to others. In your freelance blogging business — in any business — a seemingly insignificant effort may blossom into something grand, much like the growth of a garden. I’m going to show you how to step up a level in your freelancing business using complementary skills and relationship-building. Here’s how one guest blog post landed me $1,500 per year. Step 1: Plant the Seed Going over a few listings in Sophie’s Ultimate List of Better-Paid Blogging Gigs, I came across one I could dig deeply into: Read. As many great blogging gurus will tell you, the first step in landing a gig is to wow them with an unusual or controversial topic. Many people just don’t read anymore.

[To read the exact query from this story and others that landed my first $1,000 in writing assignments, check out my new (and free!) The blog’s creator, Brandon Monk, replied with an acceptance within hours. I felt honored. Write & Get Paid. Get Paid $100 Do you want to earn money online?

Write & Get Paid

Listverse was built on the efforts of readers just like you. Readers who didn’t have any experience as writers but decided to put a list together and send it in. So here is the deal: We will pay you $100 for your efforts. You don’t need to be an expert—you just need to have English equal to that of a native speaker, a sense of humor, and a love for things unusual or interesting. It works like this: You write your list (10 items per list minimum), you send it in, we reply and say “Great—we’ll publish it” and send you $100 by PayPal (don’t have an account?

Either way you win—your list will be read by us and reviewed, and if it’s amazing it will appear on the front page of Listverse to be read by millions of people a month! We can not accept lists from writers who do not have a PayPal account; this is non-negotiable. The Rules The rules are really pretty simple. Pictures and Video Please note that we publish original articles.

How to Get Paid $50 to Write a Guest Post. There's been plenty written on the web, including this blog, about websites like Associated Content and Demand Media.

How to Get Paid $50 to Write a Guest Post

The problem with these sites is that they use a revenue sharing model which means most people will never earn more than a buck or two for their article. We know your time is more valuable than that, so we've put together a list of blogs that will pay you $50 or more for every article that you write for them.

Freelance Proofreading: This Work-From-Home Job Pays $17 an Hour. Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are from our sponsors.

Freelance Proofreading: This Work-From-Home Job Pays $17 an Hour

We're letting you know because it's what Honest Abe would do. After all, he is on our favorite coin. Sometimes, it takes getting fired from your day job to realize the perfect business is staring right at you. That’s how it happened for Caitlin Pyle, the proofreading powerhouse behind ProofreadAnywhere.com. Pyle wasn’t yet convinced proofreading was going to be her best source of income. Start a Pet-Sitting Business: Make Money Caring for Cats and Dogs.

On-demand Transcription and Captioning Services. Transcription Application - Tigerfish. Freelance Transcription Jobs - Learn more. Transcribers. Thank you for your interest in typing and analyzing files for Quicktate and iDictate!

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Who we are Quicktate transcribes voicemail messages, memos, letters, legal files, medical files, recordings of phone calls, conference calls and other audio files. Quicktate also audits, summarizes, evaluates and analyzes audio recordings and phone conversations. Some audio files, like voicemail messages, may average just 2-3 minutes in length, while other recordings may be significantly longer, perhaps several hours. IDictate transcribes all types of files, except for voicemail messages. What we require of our contractors Accurate spelling and punctuation.

As an Independent Contractor, you can select your own hours that you want to work. How to get started to determine if you qualify to receive typing and/or analyst assignments The following must be done in order. Review and follow all procedures and requirements outlined in our Help Desk. Each file that I am offered is considered one assignment.

Register. Home - Transcribe Anywhere. The Ultimate TaskRabbit Review: These Two Taskers' Actual Experience. TaskRabbit and other gig sites that match eager workers with people who need odd jobs performed are often criticized as a difficult way for people to earn a decent living.

The Ultimate TaskRabbit Review: These Two Taskers' Actual Experience

Many of the independent contractors who complete tasks through these sites end up racing between different low-paying gigs, with long, unpaid commutes in between. But that doesn’t have to be the case. If you’re strategic, you can use these gig sites to make a full-time living. In fact, some people make up to $2,000 a week on TaskRabbit.