Back to Basics: Revenue Share
Sharing is good. Even cooties.
In the second post of this Back to Basics series, we looked at the advantages and disadvantages of direct sales. For this third post, we’ll do the same thing for revenue share.
Revenue share is any kind of work where you write for a site and earn a share of their revenue (whether from advertising, distribution or some other means) depending on the popularity of your content and/or ad clicks when your work is displayed.
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Coming Soon: Half A Pig
Anyone who’s been keeping an eye on the Book Project gauge over on the right will have noticed that it’s moving along. The final few thousand words are all that’s needed for completion.
If you’ve checked out the info page, you’ll have seen that it’s about being a freelance writer without doing any marketing.
If all goes to plan, in a couple of days I’ll reveal a lot more – the title, what’s in it, who it’s for… and I’ll also start looking for proofers to get an opinion from the fledgeling freelancer public. Stay tuned and make sure you don’t miss it!
Back to Basics: Direct Sales
Gimme da munny!
In the first post of this Back to Basics series, we looked at the three main categories of work. The first of these – direct sales – covers any kind of work that is done for or sold to a client for a specific, one-off payment.
Let’s look at the advantages and disadvantages of direct sales:
Back to Basics: Ways to Earn
You don't have to be a (USB) pole dancer to earn!
This first post in the Back to Basics series defines the different ways to make money with words. While I’m sure some professionals will disagree with my simplification, it’s intended as a basic summary, not a detailed analysis.
You might also like to read the Ways to Work post for a “helicopter view” of the freelancing market.
As a freelance writer, there are three basic categories of online earning:
- Direct sales
- Revenue share
- Work for yourself
Just like any kind of work, each has advantages and disadvantages.
Let’s start by looking at how each of the different earning styles can be defined:
Freelance Writing: Back to Basics
- Spectrum Basic. Rubber keys. Awesome.
Every day, on forums across the Internet, the same question is asked: “How can I make money online by writing?”
Almost every day, I answer that question for someone. So I figured I’d post a short series of “Back to Basics” entries here at ScrawlBug for reference.
Virtually all of this content will be in the upcoming book (keep an eye on that widget over there on the right) but you can – as always – get it here for free. You’ll just have to click around a bit more!
Here’s how the “Back to Basics” series will look (they’ll be links once they’re posted):
- Ways to earn
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Direct Sales
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Revenue Share
- Direct Sales vs. Revenue Share
- Ways to Work for Yourself
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Working for Yourself
- Resources
Don’t forget to subscribe today to make sure you don’t miss them – tell your newbie writer friends to get their butts over here… oh, and let me know if you want more subjects covered!
Breakthrough In Cure For Cancer Search
This is completely unrelated to freelancing, writing or anything else normally covered on this blog… but I have to post it because I lost both my parents to cancer.
Yahoo news has an article today about an amazing therapy that has wiped out leukemia in two of three test subjects and greatly improved the condition in the third. This could be a big step forward in the search for a cancer cure.
Of course, it still needs extensive testing and the long-term effects must be evaluated (it’s only a year in at the moment but the patients remain in remission) but it’s great news.
Something to brighten your day and bring hope to millions of cancer sufferers around the globe.
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