This week, I decided to take a step back from blogging like a maniac and get my priorities straight. I was trying to blog on eight blogs at the same time. Obviously this was never going to work. So I’m selling the blogs that I started and have no time to keep updating.

I’m already starting to see some profit because there is clearly a market for setting up start-up blogs. People are often too lazy to start their own blogs. Even for low-traffic, low-income blogs, you can still make a profit.

I decided to concentrate all of my efforts on two or three blogs because by wasting my time on other blogs, I was taking time away from writing for guaranteed payments. I was in the ridiculous position of writing content for myself for nothing and putting off writing content for other people for money.

As of this week, I’m not going to waste my time starting multiple blogs. I was fooling myself into believing that the more blogs I started, the more money I was going to make. It doesn’t work like that unless you can 100% commit to blogging, which I can’t.

The lessons here are obvious: don’t take on more than you can handle and get your priorities in order or you will actually lose money.

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We talk about making money blogging and making money online every day, but there are opportunities out there just waiting to be snapped up – and people are missing them. I’ll give you an example: Large websites need content, and even the most efficient Internet companies often put the content side of their projects on hold while everything else is put into place.

For several months, I worked for a large, International, online travel company. Without wanting to knock my former employer, the content system had a lot of loose ends that needed tidying up.

My former employer actually contacted me recently to write content for them on a freelance basis. The pay is good and could potentially triple the salary I receive from the newspaper I work for. What it comes down to is this: I asked myself, “What’s the difference between writing content for a website and making money blogging?” Ultimately, the difference is that you get paid without having to do any of the real ground work in building a website up.

While this is perhaps not a long-term plan, for steady, regular income, if you can channel it from a number of sources, you don’t need to go through the headaches of setting up blogs, getting link backs, and going through the whole process of taking your blog from something to nothing.

It can be just a matter of finding a website and inquiring about writing content for it. Forget the $4 tasks you see advertised on forums or various “freelance-writing” services for now. If you’re going to get paid to write, you want to be paid well. You’re time is worth more than the cost of a Happy Meal.

There are lots of ways to make money online, and sometimes it pays (literally) to get out of the mindset that the only way to do it is to set up a blog and put hundreds of hours into getting it up to PR5 or PR6.

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We all know that getting paid to write blog posts is possible. How much you earn depends on how strong your blog is, but many bloggers are apprehensive about denting the quality of their own blogs by filling them up with sponsored reviews. If you fall into this category, you may be interested to know that there are other ways of getting paid to blog.

I’ve been doing a little research, and have already found one person on Digital Point who has agreed to pay me to write articles for two high-ranking, authoritative blogs. Finding him was just a matter of trawling through the forums. And how did I sell myself? Easy: I sent him links to blogs I author, this one not included, and showed him that I can write. He was impressed and gave me the job right away. (Check out my post on writing tips for bloggers).

Not only do I get paid to write (actually, it’s just rewriting) articles for two blogs, but I get to use these articles and blogs to link out to my own blogs. There are hundreds of people with blogs who don’t have the time or the ability to write their own content. Admittedly, not all of them will pay you very well, but if you find one that can offer you a decent package, you should take it and leave your own quality content for your flagship blogs until they have matured.

This is the perfect solution for people with new blogs that don’t yet have a Page Rank or a large number of visitors.

As long as there are articles to be written, there will always be a demand for writers, no matter where you are.

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