Want to sell more of your writing? Take photos

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Sending photos with a magazine query can help to sell the query.

The photos don’t have to be outstanding because major magazines will get their own shots.

Smaller magazines aren’t as fussy, and your images may be used as-is, or you may be asked to take fresh photos. You’ll be paid for your photos, so photos can double the payment you get for an article.

Photos can sell your Web articles, too

When you’re writing for the Web, many sites are grateful for images, so photos (or screen shots) can make sales for you here too.

There’s another way you can make money online with photos: by selling stock images.

You can sell “stock” images online

An image I bought from Dreamstime

Sites like Dreamstime and iStockphoto are great venues for everyday images. You receive payment for your photos when people buy them, with the payment varying according to the resolution of the shots.

Of course, you can sell your images from your own site as well.

If I were starting out as a writer today, I’d place just as much importance on photos as I would on my writing. Years ago, when I often wrote for magazines, I did just that. I always ensured that I had photos to sell with articles, and they increased my income without too much effort.

Here’s a set of ebooks which will help you to make money with your camera.

Make money writing Web sites

If you can use a word processor, you can write Web sites.

Many writers shy away from creating Web sites… they imagine it’s too techy, too complex. It’s not. A small simple site can begin earning money for you very quickly. As a rule of thumb, if you’ve created a site in an area in which there are advertisers you can start earning five to ten dollars a day per site. Now $10 a day isn’t much. But what if you had ten sites all earning $10 day? That’s $100 a day, which is $36,500 a year, just from ten simple sites. What if you had 20 such sites, all earning you $10 a day - or even more - in fact, some sites will earn you $100 a day? “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza” shows you how.

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