Follow Other Online Successes

It's amazing what you can learn and teach yourself online. Of course you are not always teaching
yourself you are just doing some online long- distance learning from people all over the internet who are successful at what you want to be doing yourself.

There are loads of people out there on the internet making a successful passive income for themselves and an awful lot of them are willing to share their success stories and their tips on how they became successful.

If you come across such people it makes sense to follow them- follow their blogs, websites, accounts on Twitter, Google +, HubPages and any groups they are in or run on Facebook. You can learn an awful lot from these people and it's all for free.

The internet is a massive place and there will be many such people who I have never come across but here are some people and resources that I have come across and used on my some journey into online writing. These are all real, everyday people using the internet to make money- they are not multi-millionaires who have got lucky but the fact that they are normal people, not computer whizz kids is more inspiring to me. I hope they can inspire and help you.

• Michelle Cesare - Michelle has gradually built up an online presence over the years and is now in a position where she makes a good passive income online.                                                               Her website http://webmastersultimateresources.com/ is jam packed with useful advice, tutorials and resources. She also has some great tutorial videos on YouTube for any visual learners out there.

• William Holland- William is great for general writing advice and also advice on making money through writing. He won All-Round Best Hubber this year (2013) and if you are on HubPages you should definitely follow him and learn from him. On HubPages he goes by the name of BillyBuc

• Danielle McGaw- Danielle is a blogger and freelance writer. She has been working online for over 15 years and knows her stuff. Her website http://daniellemcgaw.com has lots of useful information you can learn from. She has also published several e-books on writing online.

• Lisa Kroulik - Another Hubber. Lisa is so successful she even has a hub written about her. One of her Hubs in particular is worth a read "How I earned $2003.68 Writing Online This Month".

I will keep this page updated if I come across any other online success stories to help and inspire!

Using Facebook to Increase Your Traffic

Facebook is a great tool to use to get people reading and sharing your content.                                            


Many people nowadays are on Facebook and it is a way to connect with people all over the world.
There are a few things you can do with Facebook.

Joining Facebook Groups

There are many groups you can join on Facebook that will give you an opportunity to share your work.

Join Writers Groups- these are groups of like-minded people who are trying to make a living through writing. There are quite a few of these groups on Facebook and they offer a community in which you can share your work, meet contacts, get great advice and do some mutual sharing. I am a member of a few of these groups but here are three I really like

• Online Article Writers- You can post links to any of your online writing here except from Bubblews stuff as the owner of the group has had problems with them. It is a great group of writers and good for getting tips and advice
• Post & Share on Pinterest, Twitter or G+- This is a good group for sharing and promoting your work- every time you post your own work you have to share at least one other person's.
• Bubblews This is a place for specifically Bubblews posts. Anyone who links to their work is encouraged to like and share another's.

Join Groups related to your content. If you write Gluten Free Recipes join Gluten free recipe sharing groups etc. You then have the perfect audience for your work. Become an active member of the group and don't just spam it with links to your work all the time- answer questions, give advice and get involved as well.

Make a Facebook Page

If you think you write about something interesting enough to have followers you can make your own page on Facebook for people to follow you. Here you can post all your links to work your and presumably your followers have chosen to follow you so they will be interested. Don't just post links- ask questions, share interesting, related news articles and interact with your followers. You can also advertise your page through Facebook- it will cost you but it is away to gain a larger following. I have never tried paying for advertising on my Facebook page but one day I might consider it. Creating a Facebook page will work well if you write about a certain niche that people will be interested in enough to follow a page on it.

Ensure Your Work Has Facebook Like Buttons

As well as sharing your work yourself on Facebook you want your readers to have the option to share your work if they have enjoyed reading it or found it useful. With the revenue sharing websites this is all taken care of for you. With a Weebly website you can copy HTML codes and embed them into your pages and posts using the "embed code" capsule. In blogger the Facebook like button appears automatically at the bottom of each post, along with other buttons.

How to Upload Photographs to Instagram Straight from Your Computer

Why Would I Want to Upload Photos from my Computer?

If you use Instagram to share and promote your online writing you need to be using good quality, attractive photographs to catch people's eye. The basic idea of Instagram is that it is a phone app. So you take a picture with your phone and then upload it straight to Instagram from your phone. This is great if you have a good camera on your phone but not great if your phone camera is pants and takes awful photos.
Another problem this creates is what if you want to upload images with text or quotes- they seem to be quite popular on the Fitspo accounts for instance.

Take myself for instance. I have an instagram account to help promote by Baby-Led Weaning Site - that I run for free via Weebly. So I am uploading mainly recipe pictures to Instagram- they have to look good or who would want to see the recipe? My food photography is gradually getting better and I use a DSLR camera to take all my shots, if I used my phone camera they would look shocking. I had to find a way to upload my nice DSLR photos on to my Instagram account and you'll be pleased to know I did.

Uploading Photographs to Instagram From Your Computer Using Gramblr

In order to upload your photographs to Instagram from your computer you need to download the free uploader software called Gramblr. It is really easy to do- just click here . They have a version for PCs and Macs too.

Once you have downloaded Gramblr an icon like the Instagram icon will appear on your desktop. When you need to upload a photograph to Instagram just click on the Gramblr Desktop Icon and follow these simple steps:

1. Log in on the Gramblr pop up using your Instagram username and password
2. Choose a file from your computer- a picture file obviously
3. Upload the file by clicking on the upload button
4. Write a caption when directed to- this will appear on Instagram alongside your photograph so don't forget to include any relevant hashtags. The actual display is small so you cannot easily see what you have typed. If you are likely to make typos it might be an idea to have already written your caption in Word and then cut and paste it into the Gramblr caption box.
5. That is it- your image and caption will be uploaded to Instagram straight from your computer

There is only one thing you will need to fiddle around with and that is the size and dimensions of your photograph to upload. Instagram only takes square images of 650px by 650px. I use Pixlr.com to resize my images. Again Pixlr is another great free resource and I have written about it, and how to use it for Instagram here.

Welcome to Write Online to Make Money

This is a small blog designed to share with you how
I make money online using free resources.
HubPages I cannot and will not claim to know the secret to any get rich quick schemes- I can't even guarantee that the advice I give you will give you a full time modest income but I can promise you this- If you have a passion for writing, you are half decent at it and willing to put in some work you CAN make yourself a regular amount of largely passive income by writing online. How much you earn depends on many factors but I would say the main factor is how hard you are able and willing to work.

How I write Online to Make Money

I gave up my regular job as a teacher when I had my third child. It soon became clear that the humble wage of a classroom teacher would not cover the costs of putting three children into full time childcare. So that was that I left my job to stay at home and be a full time mum. I looked into online writing for two reasons:

1. To occupy my mind and find "something for me" 
2. To maybe earn a bit of spending money

We are in a fortunate situation that I don't need to earn money to survive but if I can earn money then all the better as it affords me more freedom to do what I want, buy I want and it is nice to not be completely financially dependent on someone else.

The first place I began writing was Hubpages. I can't even remember how I found it but I did and I have never looked back. I love the layout and feel of Hubpages- it looks professional, it is easy to navigate and my writing gets regular hits there.

My second online writing was through the free website builder and hosting service Weebly. Again I really like working with Weebly- it is so easy to use and the finished result looks good. I have a website with Weebly that I update about 4 times a week and all the time I am learning new tricks to make my site look more professional.

The next place I experimented with was here on blogger. I have tried out various blogs but this is the only one I still run. Over the last two years I have learnt lots about using blogger and I think it is a great place for a beginner to start a blog. It is so easy to use- you can add loads of features and make your blog look very professional. I tried Wordpress and I couldn't get my head round it- I think Wordpress blogs look great but it was a bit too advanced for me. 

The next place I began writing for was Bubblews. This is a great site for writers of any kind and the rate at which you earn is quite fast. The good thing about Bubblews is posts only have to be 400 characters long meaning you can knock quite a lot of posts out at once.

How Much Money Do I Make Writing Online?

This is probably what you all want to know- so bearing in mind that I currently write in four separate areas- 1 blog, 1 website and 2 revenue sharing websites I make about $125 per month. I'm in the UK but I get paid mainly in dollars. The revenue sharing websites make me the most money at the moment but eventually if I keep going with my blog and website I hope they might one day make more. We shall see. 

If you would like to make a bit of extra money in your spare time, or if you would like to make a serious income from writing online follow my guide here.