As my dad taught me, if someone won't offer you a job, make one for yourself. Certainly you have some skills you can use to supply something someone else needs and will pay you for. If you can figure out how to do some online research and write pretty clearly, read on.

People with web sites need content. Sometimes it is a lot of work to keep generating content for it, so they farm it out and they will pay you to produce that content. Yahoo Associated Content is one of those places that allows you to produce for sites without costing you anything for the opportunity.

When business or individuals intend to pay you to write for them, they will tell you what to write about. Sometimes they have a list of titles from which to choose and you pick one. Sometimes they promise to pay a certain amount and in other places for other types of articles, they promise to share revenue with you if the article brings sales.

With some exceptions, the person or company that offers to pay you for content intends to make money from that content. I am sure you would agree there is nothing wrong with that considering they are paying you for your work so what do you care what they do with it afterward. Think about this, though, if you used your same writing skills to prepare content for your own site, you could be making that money instead.

The way you might make money from your content is by Affiliate Marketing. This is where you bring customers to businesses who have arranged to pay you for that service. Your articles and sites on the Net will continue to bring customers to the businesses long after you have moved on to other sites and articles. They will pay a percentage of the sale of a specific item you sent someone to buy or some like Amazon will pay you a percentage of everything someone buys within 24 hours of your sending the customer there. Most businesses these days have a web presence and most businesses that do have an affiliate program. You can join affiliate programs for free. Learning how specifically to do it is more than I can teach you here, and the money comes slowly at first to most, but it can get really large.

The sites I name here will end in dot com on the net, so just copy the name into your browser, add the dot com and you will get there or use the link I provide. Helium has some direct pay articles and some that pay based on revenue. AssociatedContent from Yahoo! is a pretty good clearinghouse for writing jobs. I use another service that I described that I paid to join and there are also writing jobs where I get affiliate marketing training and web hosting.

I hope this helps you get some good income coming in, both short term and longer term. If it has been helpful to you, please like the article on Facebook and Tweet it. You can also comment on it. Thank you for reading.