What? Write Content For Money?
I can be accused of many things: A poor editor, a poor writer, a bad communicator, but a poor teacher of content for money? I suppose they have a point. Except for one problem, I agree with the first three points, these can be argued for a long while, but the last one? I have to think about that one.
Not to say that this is a bad thing, but I am not sure what a teacher of content for money is. If I pressed my mind hard enough I suppose you could say that it is about writing “content” which makes a person money. Frankly, I am a big on the idea that your content needs to be of quality.
Before we go on to this rant of mine: Content in my mind is what you are trying to/attempting to/actually communicate to your readers. Content is not about money. It is about communication.
Which means that to me teaching about writing quality content means that if you write in such a way that a person actually comes out and find your work useful in some way (this being a good thing) than at some point you are going to make something called “money.” That is something to write but it is not something that one can really teach.
There is no way you can teach a person to write content for money. No way. I could argue I can teach a person how to write better, improve the “beauty” aspect of their work, but I can not in any way teach them to communicate better to make them money. I can say this because as I’ve put it best I am someone who wishes I knew what PageRank was… until I got help on that one.
Yes, some people have this gift of saying your write content, and then link it, and then (blah, blah, blah) you will make money, but that is not teaching them how to write content, at least not in my mind. I can lose my mind on edits and improving my writing, but I think that if I focused on making money from teaching I’d lose my mind more.
So, long story short, I am not a “guru” nor am I someone who is a poor teacher of content for money since I am not even sure what that means.
Can anybody help me out with that one?
2 Comments
Damaria Senne
Hi Rebecca
Not sure what kind of help you need. I expect that a blog that aims to teach people how to write content for money would look at the various ways you can do that:
1. Blogs focussing on very specific topics, building and putting Adsense, Chikita and other type of money earning ads to them. Typically, you you'd build lots of these suckers ( maybe even 100, buy cheap content or spin content you have and get free content from article directories. Then you just focus on getting traffic to it.
2. Writing content for clients – I do some of that, I guess. You get hired by clients and you write web content for them.
3. Building a web site up to have decent membership and then putting adverts up. This works especially well if your web site or blog is on a niche topic. Offhand, I can think of http://www.problogger.net
If your asking for help is actually about what we think, as far as I understood, your blog is called Living The Life Of Writing, which means to me that you, in no way, promised to teach anyone how to write content for money.
We talk about various aspects of The Writing Life, and obviously, the issue of earning money through content came up and you shared some of your ideas and experiences, your readers shared some theirs.
But I don't feel like you promised me something that you didn't deliver. Nor do I think that you positioned yourself as a guru or even as a teacher. And what criteria is being used to judge whether you are a lousy teacher of content writing for money anyway?
john
ha ha too funny, but great point I don't think there is such a person who can teach content… at least this way.