One of the ways you can really get up a head of steam making money on the Internet is to write about stuff and ship it off to Associated Content or eHow.com or other places like that.  You can do a search for other places that will pay you to write for them.

The key is volume.  Once you learn how to write fast, you can knock out two or three articles in an hour.  They don’t have to be works of genius, just write it out like you talk.  But there’s one thing I should’ve done when I started out writing for websites which would’ve made me a lot more money.  I do it now and you should too.

First off, don’t write about one thing and then another.  Write about the same damn thing four or five times in a row.  Like how you went on vacation to Washington DC  or some such place.  An idea like that has dozens of articles in it that you just need to draw out of it.

• When’s the best time to go,
• Where’s the best restaurants to bring your kids,
• How to ride the metro (subway),
• Which monuments are worth seeing
• Which monuments are worth skipping.

See there?  You could write each one of them out real fast because your not writing about fishing, then cooking, then changing the oil in your truck, then back to your trip.

Here’s the thing that makes it all worth while doing it this way.  After you get your money from Associated Content, get yourself a free blogger blog and use the same articles for a blog on traveling to Washington DC.  You ad some Google AdSense code and you’ll make money off of that.

It’s not paying the rent but it’s like free money.  I could write up five of them articles a day, send them in and then make a blog in about an hour (when I started out – now it’s like 20 minutes).  I’m telling you, in a month, you’ll have thirty or these.  Even if each one of ‘em only make a nickel a day,  that’s $45 extra each month – and another $45 extra next month and each month after that.  You won’t always get the same amount each month but what the hell.  I already got paid for the articles in the first place.

BIG TIP – When you submit your articles to Associate Content, DON’T give them exclusive rights.  Then you can’t do this.  That’s what I screwed up when I started out.