Make Money for Free

One mistake that many people make when starting their freelance career is taking money out of their own pocket to get started. There are many legitimate freelance sites that charge, but why pay for what you can get for free. This is especially true for the beginning freelancer.

Everyone knows the saying. "You have to have money to make money." While you can pay to make money, you don't have to. The better alternative for a beginning freelancer is to start off writing for free content sites that share revenues. They don't charge you for submissions because they will make money off of your work.

So, how can these sites publish your work for free? When you publish articles with these sites, they will place ads along with your content. There are many companies out there with products they wish to sell. They will place ads through programs like adsense. Every time someone reads your article, they are a potential customer for the companies who have ads placed along with your content. When the readers of your articles click on these ads, the site makes money. Then the site shares their profits with you.

Some sites call this revenue sharing, some call it royalties, some call it performance payments. It all boils down to the same thing. They make money off ads placed with your content. Then they share this money with you. Without you and other content producers, they would not have a way to place ads. So, basically, everybody wins. You provide the content they need and they pay you part of what your content earns through the ads.

Eventually, you will probably realize that you can cut out the middle man. You can write content for yourself and start your own web page. Then you can use programs like adsense or find your own affiliates and not share your earnings.

Free content sites give you the opportunity to see what works for you. What do you enjoy writing about? What can you write about continuously? What articles earn the most money? Through experimentation, all of these things can be learned by starting off with these free content sites.

I would suggest starting off with free sites like Associated Content and Helium. Both of these sites not only share revenues but they offer upfront payments for your work. You will never have to pay anyone to produce content on these sites.

Once you start making money through sites like these, then you can begin looking into starting your own websites or blogs and you can actually finance your venture with money you have already made with your freelance writing.

Of course, nothing in life is completely free. You will have to put some time and efforts into your work. But if you're looking for ways to make money without spending money, they are out there. You just have to be willing to invest your time.