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I've been reading through the forums for a couple months now. I thought about starting last summer but things came up and I had to postpone beginning.
Now I am interested in starting and have the time. I do not have the money. I have read posts referring to people starting out with nothing however never found sites or ideas on how to. But I could be a noob and not searching in the right places.
Also I currently have a site that I update rather infrequently about my random thoughts.
My question is does anyone have a link to a blog or posts that deal with entering this business with very little to no capital?
 


Pancho Lefty said:
why not get a job?


really, and put away a % as an investment into starting out.
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That's the problem. I am currently in the process of job hunting, not going too well. Not many people hiring.
The hope/goal is to get started making even as little as $10 a day making it $70 a week I currently am not getting waiting for potential employers to get in contact with me or getting information on my application process when I call them.
Eventually when I get a job, the income off this would be lumped on top of the wage/salary that I would start earning so I could put even more into this adventure.

@MDSandB: I guess I'll have to broaden my searches here on WF
 
Your writing is better than a lot of the content I've seen end-clients pay $15-$20/article for. Don't know if that's the best price to start out at but you can get on the buy/sell forum, offer two or three 5-packs of articles and then if you get good reviews, charge 2-3 cents per word.

Just make sure you do solid research on whatever subject, and ask your clients how they want you to keyword. And perhaps pay more attention to short sentences, commas, punctuation in general than you do in the above reply. But that is the easy part; the hard part is flowing well (actually, punctuation and grammar are hard for a lot of people apparently...but that's another rant).

But overall, just going on this thread, your writing flows well enough that you might make out ok. Just a thought.
 
Or for that matter, pretty much any service you can provide online will likely bring you at least a little bit of dough. I know things are bad in a lot of local job markets right now. As far as I can tell, though, anyone who's willing to learn a little and put in the effort can make serviceable money online.

I've got several friends who support themselves as content writers, editors, and online assistants (doing customer service, scrub work, etc.). That's not where the big money is at but it can pay the bills if you work enough and don't spend too much. It'll also give you a little bit of an education.

Look on the buy/sell forum and check out the services being offered. Chances are you can be good at & stand to do at least one of them for a few hours--maybe a whole damn lotta hours--each day. Just put yourself out there and *get to work*.
 
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