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There are clearly a lot of people who write articles for helium.com and this is either to just accrue little pennies at a time, adding up to a few dollars a month per 1000 average articles, or entering contests, winning a few hundred here and there, occasionally getting a small freelance job thrown at them by one of the many buyer-readers, or maybe selling an item on the market place.

This is seen as a good way to make the hobby of writing into money. The other day I took a page from my own site, where there were links or articles, and google ads of my own, and I posted my link in a dozen forums, in relation to the content, making sure it fit with the forum sits and was not spam, as far as possible.

I made about 6 dollars very quickly, in a day or so, out of doing that posting. Whereas that same article on helium would have earned me no more than 50 cents, 6 months later. So marketing writing is something that is obviously unrelated to being a writer, and learning how to be a marketeer and indeed, at times, a salesman, is the crucial factor in any kind of money making.

I am not sure why I am writing this article on helium at all. It is just for a contest and at most I can win 60 dollars for it (30 pounds). I suppose it's always nice to get more cash. Moreover, by writing for helium I have exposed my mind to many riches of information, which is why it has played a very big part in helping me get where I am, just like so many things have. So proportionally its part is still quite little, like its revenue. Before I die, I doubt Helium will have paid me more than a few thousand dollars, in total.

Those too blind to see past that would never discover, through it, how many other ways writing can make money for you online. Sometimes the word count per million dollar profit is shockingly small, other times a repertoire of 1000 documents makes no more than 3 dollars a month.

Content is king and since you are here in the content universe, then if marketing is your aim, if marketing anything, then you want to understand everything technical and real about content. Then you won't need to have a marketable skill, you'll just have lots of money. Admittedly, being able to make lots of money is a marketable skill, but it's rarely sold.

To sum up, reading and writing {what YOU are capable of, clearly} are marketable skills but without exhaustive experience of the world out here, where the content lives, you will make nothing and help others exploit you from here to a poverty-stricken end. Work hard, not just in what you write, but in how you try and exploit it for money, and you can find your way to riches. You may not get rich by just doing that, but doing that could well make you rich, or help you get there, by leading you onto the other levels of content money-making - which is when you get really big, and produce phenomena, not just content. Making phenomena is the ONLY way to make money. If you are interested in making money any less profitably than by making phenomena, and therefore billions of dollars, then it is not my business to educate you and you have read this article under false pretenses.

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