Article Writing Vs Online Swindles - You Can Earn Money As a Content Writer

If you are thinking about earning money as a free lance writer you need to be aware that there are plenty of scams on the internet ready to steal your work or your money or both.
Content writing is a legitimate business and there are many thousands of web site owners willing to pay for fresh content.
However, if you spend any time at all on the internet, you'll run into various scams over and over and some of them sound better each time you encounter them.
Beware of these: Pyramid schemes - watch out for the guy who shows you huge earnings, pictures of checks, etc.
and promises to help you do what he's doing for a fee.
If he is selling a system to make money, he's probably going to tell you to sell that same system to others.
Guess what? Eventually everyone in the world is trying to sell that same system to one another.
Well, maybe not everyone but you get the idea.
A good rule of thumb is, don't get involved if the seller won't tell you exactly what you'll be doing until after he gets your money.
Making crafts at home - This can be anything from clothes to toys to ornaments.
The company sends you the materials and you don't even pay for them.
Sounds fine so far.
You assemble the toys or whatever and send them back only to have the company tell you they don't meet the company standards so you won't be paid for all of your work.
They send you some money and more materials and you go to work again only to have the company say some of the toys didn't meet the standard.
Except the company is selling them, even the "substandard" ones and you're working for a pittance.
Home medical billing - In this scam the company will have you typing medical billing forms or something.
They say you need to have certain software for your computer in order to do it and they even have a special deal to sell it to you at a discount.
The fact is, all they are doing is selling you software.
Once they have your money, they might say they don't have enough work for you.
You can make money on line as a brochure writer, and article writer, a content writer, etc.
but you have to keep your eyes open.
There are legitimate copywriting jobs and you can earn as much as ten or twenty dollars for an article it took you twenty or thirty minutes to write.
I do it myself.
Just remember, if it sounds took good to be true, lots of money without working, it probably is.