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No. 10
from jem09
Old Apr 18, 2009, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by beanal View Post
When you first start writing for hire you may only get $10 an article. But if you are writing about a health related topic that you are very familiar with you can write an article in about 15 minutes. If you look for IM forums on google then you can register with them and post in the "for hire" section.

There are many other ways to make money with your nursing knowledge such as:
*writing ebooks
* becoming an affiliate marketer selling other peoples products.
* having a paid health related membership site
* write PLR (private label rights) articles for other membership sites
* write an ebook, submit it to Kindle and get paid each time someone buys your book.
* write a 50 page ebook submit it to a digital marketplace and have other affiliates sell your digital book. (If 1000 IM'rs sold your book you would receive 25K)
(Create multiple digital products and have internet marketers sell your products and you will continue to be paid over and over for your writing.)
* Read your ebook and create an MP3 of it and/or burn it to a CD. The physical copy can be sold on eBay. They no longer allow selling digital downloads of ebooks.

There are many different ways to make money online but you have to be able to focus for long periods of time, have patience and a lightening fast internet connection.

I hope this helps.
Great information, I have become involved in internet marketing and it is great way to make money be it using your nursing knowledge or not. Unfortunately alot of people when told about it view it as 'shady' as has been stated on this forum, however, internet marketing is a very lucrative and legitimate business. Often the people who cannot see the opportunity have an employee mentalilty and not an entrepreneurial mentalilty which is a shame for them. On the other hand, it leaves more work for those who think 'outside the box' and have strong business accumen.

You have provided a wealth of money making opportunity in you dot points above...good luck with your writing and may you have many successful e - books etc..

Best wishes
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No. 11
from llg
Old Apr 18, 2009, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by jem09 View Post
Great information, I have become involved in internet marketing and it is great way to make money be it using your nursing knowledge or not. Unfortunately alot of people when told about it view it as 'shady' as has been stated on this forum, however, internet marketing is a very lucrative and legitimate business. Often the people who cannot see the opportunity have an employee mentalilty and not an entrepreneurial mentalilty which is a shame for them. On the other hand, it leaves more work for those who think 'outside the box' and have strong business accumen.

Best wishes
I never said that there weren't good honest ways to make money online. I simply asked the OP to tell us what kinds of evidence/assurances she could provide that the businesses she was working with were legitimate and not involved in unethical activity. Any smart business-minded person should know enough to ask those questions before getting involved with strangers online -- particularly when working in a field in which there is known to be a lot of unethical online companies who disguise themselves as legitimate ones.
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No. 12
from jem09
Old Apr 19, 2009, 03:03 AM

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When writing articles for money most people use a platform such as E lance - jobs are posted to the site and and then the writers may bid for the work. You can view the writers portfolio of work and the writer can ask questions etc through this platform and you can also view detailed feedback that people have received, so before agreeing to write an article for someone you could verify information via this platform. Unethical behaviour can also be reported using this platform.

Out of curiousity, when you speak of unethical companies, is there a particular practice that you would be most concerned about as being unethical? I ask this as I may have missed the mark with my response..
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No. 13
from llg
Old Apr 19, 2009, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by jem09 View Post
When writing articles for money most people use a platform such as E lance - jobs are posted to the site and and then the writers may bid for the work. You can view the writers portfolio of work and the writer can ask questions etc through this platform and you can also view detailed feedback that people have received, so before agreeing to write an article for someone you could verify information via this platform. Unethical behaviour can also be reported using this platform.

Out of curiousity, when you speak of unethical companies, is there a particular practice that you would be most concerned about as being unethical? I ask this as I may have missed the mark with my response..

As I said in my previous post ... There is a major international business in the writing of papers that are then either taken verbatim or modified by the "customer" to submit as schoolwork. Many students buy their required papers online -- sometimes revising them a bit to tailor them to the particular assignment or simply submitting them "as is." The companies that produce and sell the papers operate in a way much like you describe. The post the "jobs" and writers all over the world accept the assignments that appeal to them. The writers submit their work to the company, which then turns it over to the end-user -- a student who wants an academic degree but who doesn't want to do the work.

So ... how do you know for sure where you work is going and how it will be used? Do you actually see the use of the finished product? How do you know for sure that your products are not being submitted as school assignments (maybe modified first) so that some lazy undeserving student gets a decent grade in a course?
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No. 14
from Freedom42
Old Apr 19, 2009, 12:03 PM

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I think llg raises some good questions. How do you retain control over what you've written? Freelance writers, for example, have standard agreements for North American circulation rights. I want to know explicitly in advance how something with my byline will and will not be used.

I also question the value of any 500-word article on a disease process that can be written in 15 minutes (and for $10, which is nothing). I gained my knowledge of diabetes, for example, by carefully studying text books and listening to lectures, not by independent research. Attribution must accompany any assertion. Am I to credit those sources appropriately at the end of the article? Research to ensure accuracy would take substantially longer than a quarter of an hour. Something written off the top of someone's head -- regardless of whether that person has "RN" credentials -- is simply not credible.
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No. 15
from llg
Old Apr 19, 2009, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Freedom42 View Post
I also question the value of any 500-word article on a disease process that can be written in 15 minutes (and for $10, which is nothing). I gained my knowledge of diabetes, for example, by carefully studying text books and listening to lectures, not by independent research. Attribution must accompany any assertion. Am I to credit those sources appropriately at the end of the article? Research to ensure accuracy would take substantially longer than a quarter of an hour. Something written off the top of someone's head -- regardless of whether that person has "RN" credentials -- is simply not credible.
Exactly. How does the end-user (or general public) know that the author is a true expert? ... and not just some person who looked it up on Wikipedia ... or even bothered to check their facts at all?
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No. 16
from jem09
Old Apr 19, 2009, 10:42 PM

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Okay, yes I did see that in your previous post about purchasing of papers but I just wanted to see if there was any other unethical activity you were concerned about. The only thing I can say about that is that a student would fail if they purchased papers that are written for the lay person, for a start they are too short and secondly they are not referenced according to 'harvard' style etc..

When you work on E lance, you have no by line, it is ghost writing. If you were to want to keep control of your work then you would not freelance on e - lance. I should say though, that I have not written for elance myself and I am no means an expert but I have placed a tender for work to be done to build a website.

I do agree that it probably would take more than 15mins to write an article but you also have to remember that the articles are not exhaustive and are for the lay person. They might be the equivalent of something you might see in a health information brochure.

As far as the end user knowing if the information is credible, well this is the business of the end user, it is the case with all information on the web.
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No. 17
from Freedom42
Old Apr 20, 2009, 07:56 AM
Updated Apr 20, 2009 at 07:57 AM by Freedom42

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Originally Posted by jem09 View Post
Okay, yes I did see that in your previous post about purchasing of papers but I just wanted to see if there was any other unethical activity you were concerned about. The only thing I can say about that is that a student would fail if they purchased papers that are written for the lay person, for a start they are too short and secondly they are not referenced according to 'harvard' style etc..

When you work on E lance, you have no by line, it is ghost writing. If you were to want to keep control of your work then you would not freelance on e - lance. I should say though, that I have not written for elance myself and I am no means an expert but I have placed a tender for work to be done to build a website.

I do agree that it probably would take more than 15mins to write an article but you also have to remember that the articles are not exhaustive and are for the lay person. They might be the equivalent of something you might see in a health information brochure.

As far as the end user knowing if the information is credible, well this is the business of the end user, it is the case with all information on the web.
If asked, would you tell your patients to put stock in information that has no byline and does not come from a trusted source? Do you tell them to get information on diabetes from the ADA website -- also for the layperson -- or from an e-lance site? 'Nough said.
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No. 18
Old Apr 20, 2009, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by beanal View Post
... There are many other ways to make money with your nursing knowledge such as:
*writing ebooks
* becoming an affiliate marketer selling other peoples products.
* having a paid health related membership site
* write PLR (private label rights) articles for other membership sites
* write an ebook, submit it to Kindle and get paid each time someone buys your book.
* write a 50 page ebook submit it to a digital marketplace and have other affiliates sell your digital book. (If 1000 IM'rs sold your book you would receive 25K)
(Create multiple digital products and have internet marketers sell your products and you will continue to be paid over and over for your writing.)
* Read your ebook and create an MP3 of it and/or burn it to a CD. The physical copy can be sold on eBay. They no longer allow selling digital downloads of ebooks...
Good post, B.

Thanks!
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No. 19
from jem09
Old Apr 21, 2009, 03:52 AM

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Okay, well this is the last thing I am going to say about all this because I do not have the energy to respond again. The truth is that when pepole want to find the negative for something they will.

Did you know that alot of medical information..is not actually written by medical people at all but by journalists? shock horror!!!!!!! and even more shocking...that many of the best seller books are ghost written...I shall never buy another book again.

You obviously do not understand what elance is, it is simply a platform for professionals and experts in their field to contract and tender for work to be written usually by freelance journalists who are categorised by their specialty.. so obviously you would not send anyone to elance to get information because there is no information on there for people. Did you know it is quite possible that information you see on websites, even those for health associations etc is written by journalists, not medical people.

So anyway, that is it from me...I really thought people posting in the 'nurse entrepreuners' thread would be somewhat more open minded, guess I was wrong..
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