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Make Money Online with Paid Forum Posting
By Hallelujah Lovelight
Forum posting is fun. It's even more fun when you are paid to do it. This is an enjoyable way to make money online with paid forum posting.
In the days of yore, when surfing was something done with footwork, people gather in coffee shops, or their local equivalent, to socialize. Now that surfing is something done with finger-work, people gather in forum sites to make friends and be merry. A popular forum can have as many as 10,000 users online. With a high population of users, the potential for generating income is tremendous. Such a possibility encourages many people to start their own forums.
However, it takes a lot of work to bring life to a forum. There are very few places as depressing as a forum so quiet that, by comparison, it makes a deserted cemetery seems like a bustling morning market. Some owners try to stimulate activity in their forums by paying people to post. They may recruit directly or use the services of paid forum posting agencies. The payment varies from ten to twenty cents per post of twenty to twenty-five words. In extreme cases, the pay can go as high as fifty cents per post.
Not everyone can make money online with paid forum posting but it does not require rocket science, either, to get the job done. The first requirement is time. Said time must be scheduled and consistent. A person who can make brilliant forum posts will not be paid if he posts indifferently at random times. All paid forum posters have to follow the requirements of the forum owner. They have to post regularly according to an agreed timetable. On top of that, the posts must have the minimum number of words stipulated.
Although paid forum posters are not expected to produce literary masterpieces, they must still be able to write with good English. The linguistic skills for forum posting are lower than that needed to write articles but there is still a minimum level of proficiency. Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors must be avoided. Another deadly fault to avoid is making spam or fluff posts.
Spam or fluff posts are words stringed together to fill up space without saying anything useful or meaningful relevant to the topic at hand. All forums do not allow spamming. A paid forum poster who spams will soon be out of a job. Although a paid forum poster is not expected to be an expert on the topic at hand, he is still required to do some research, so that he can contribute meaningfully to the thread concerned.
With so many constraints, is paid forum posting worth the effort?
Assuming that a fairly proficient forum poster can write about 20 posts per hour, at the rate of, say, twenty cents per post, the hourly wage works out to about four dollars. This is not a lucrative income. However, it is still income, and if done regularly, on a daily basis, can generate about $100 per month. This amount of money, though small, can be handy.
Please note that there are also forums where you can post, and others come to post on your site in return. Free-trade, content-trading, for example.
Where does a person start to get paid forum posting jobs?
Forums focused on web hosting is a good source. The best way to get started is to make posts in such forums like Web Hosting Talk or Digital Point. One, to get practice and, two, to get exposure, while looking for paid forum posting offers. A forum poster who posts regularly with useful, relevant content will soon build up a reputation, which will stand him in good stead when applying for a paid forum posting job.
The proper way to approach paid forum posting is to consider it as training for the next step which is to make money online writing website content. Getting paid, while under training, is a bonus. Aspiring writers can make money online with paid forum posting to hone their writing skills. The fun of forum posting is doubled when you are paid to do it. And as admin it helps you get more content published on your board.
By Hallelujah Lovelight
Forum posting is fun. It's even more fun when you are paid to do it. This is an enjoyable way to make money online with paid forum posting.
In this article we're going to explain what you can do for your site, how to get not just more content, but unique content. And as site admin you can invest in this, if you desire. As end-user you could consider getting something back for the time you spend online.
In the days of yore, when surfing was something done with footwork, people gather in coffee shops, or their local equivalent, to socialize. Now that surfing is something done with finger-work, people gather in forum sites to make friends and be merry. A popular forum can have as many as 10,000 users online. With a high population of users, the potential for generating income is tremendous. Such a possibility encourages many people to start their own forums.
However, it takes a lot of work to bring life to a forum. There are very few places as depressing as a forum so quiet that, by comparison, it makes a deserted cemetery seems like a bustling morning market. Some owners try to stimulate activity in their forums by paying people to post. They may recruit directly or use the services of paid forum posting agencies. The payment varies from ten to twenty cents per post of twenty to twenty-five words. In extreme cases, the pay can go as high as fifty cents per post.
Not everyone can make money online with paid forum posting but it does not require rocket science, either, to get the job done. The first requirement is time. Said time must be scheduled and consistent. A person who can make brilliant forum posts will not be paid if he posts indifferently at random times. All paid forum posters have to follow the requirements of the forum owner. They have to post regularly according to an agreed timetable. On top of that, the posts must have the minimum number of words stipulated.
Although paid forum posters are not expected to produce literary masterpieces, they must still be able to write with good English. The linguistic skills for forum posting are lower than that needed to write articles but there is still a minimum level of proficiency. Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors must be avoided. Another deadly fault to avoid is making spam or fluff posts.
Spam or fluff posts are words stringed together to fill up space without saying anything useful or meaningful relevant to the topic at hand. All forums do not allow spamming. A paid forum poster who spams will soon be out of a job. Although a paid forum poster is not expected to be an expert on the topic at hand, he is still required to do some research, so that he can contribute meaningfully to the thread concerned.
With so many constraints, is paid forum posting worth the effort?
Assuming that a fairly proficient forum poster can write about 20 posts per hour, at the rate of, say, twenty cents per post, the hourly wage works out to about four dollars. This is not a lucrative income. However, it is still income, and if done regularly, on a daily basis, can generate about $100 per month. This amount of money, though small, can be handy.
Please note that there are also forums where you can post, and others come to post on your site in return. Free-trade, content-trading, for example.
Where does a person start to get paid forum posting jobs?
Forums focused on web hosting is a good source. The best way to get started is to make posts in such forums like Web Hosting Talk or Digital Point. One, to get practice and, two, to get exposure, while looking for paid forum posting offers. A forum poster who posts regularly with useful, relevant content will soon build up a reputation, which will stand him in good stead when applying for a paid forum posting job.
The proper way to approach paid forum posting is to consider it as training for the next step which is to make money online writing website content. Getting paid, while under training, is a bonus. Aspiring writers can make money online with paid forum posting to hone their writing skills. The fun of forum posting is doubled when you are paid to do it. And as admin it helps you get more content published on your board.