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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