Make Money on HubPages via Affiliate Marketing and Other Income Streams

Hubber Danielle Woerner from the Hudson Valley of New York writes in with a question. She is expanding her online presence and wants to know about the potential for positive results and successes in affiliate marketing on HubPages and how HP community networking might lead to new income streams.

I have two links already to HubPages entries that can explain some of these desired outcomes and how to achieve them, but there is certainly more! Additional information is found following the links below, illustrating how the various programs at HubPages have helped in my successes.

• Patty Inglish, MS on the HubPages Ad Program and Building an Online Presence

Some of us Hubbers are offered work when visitors to HubPages see our Hubs on certain topics and are struck by the content quality and writing style. Many of these visits have results in writers this community accepting short gigs and long-term writing jobs. Some are creating posts for successful blogs that have a large readership and online magazine articles for various publication, while others are writing research and even advertising materials for people that have read something they liked on HubPages. Other Hubbers probably have been offered work through accepting interviews that followed contact through a reader of HubPages. This can start by a link from Twitter or Facebook, so social networking comes in useful.

I have done several book and film reviews that fit in well with topics of interest on HubPages and these have led to some additional writing assignments as well as Amazon and eBay sales of the books and related items. Travel writing, some medical research, employment trending (USA/Canada), and severel pieces of substantive editing work have also come my way. You may find that other Hubbers request your services or ask you about a partnership in additional projects. All of these can be beneficial.

Hubbers have been asked to write or edit movie scripts and TV shows, ghost write books, and participate in a great many types of projects, so HubPages is definitely a gateway to earning income in more than one way. Have a look in the HubPages Forums to find several cases of work awarded to Hubbers from other sources. This is exciting news each time it occurs!

A HubPages presence can result in great offers of additional work, yet it can also result in false work offers. This is par for the Internetand is found frequently via craigslist and some online freelance writing sites as well. Since it is part of the package, take care when accepting job offers and check out the person and company on the other end. Decidedly, if you are led to a website that lists no street address and telephone contact information, but only an online contact form, then you have discovered either 1) a scam operation or 2) an Identity Theft Operation. Avoid these sites and do not correspond with their owners or representatives.

Further, if an address is listed, run it through GOOGLE to determine whether it is only a PO box at a UPS Store. Some legitimate businesses use UPS Stores, but many that have contacted me, I have discovered are not legitimate. I once was contacted by a physician with a book to review; the doctor that had created a website with his "clinic" pictured. The address given was a UPS Store and the picture was of the mall frontage enclosing it. I called the mall and discovered that no health services of any kind were available in that mall. Finally, I contacted the relevant Medical Board and found the person's license had terminated.

Another red flag is the proverbial post to one of your Hub Comments threads that seems to offer you a writing job. You visit the website, find it's legitimate, and reply to the representative to ask about the employment offer ...only to find that there is no offer and the comment was a spam link to build the company's (small) business.

A final red flag is an offer for ghost writing or editing work that turns out to be non-paid work, and those appear all over the Internet. Usual care taken in checking these offers out should suffice. In relation to this, if anyone asks you to purchase a book, film, text manuscript, or product to read or use and review, then it is an illegitimate offer - a racket, if you will. Reviewers do not purchase these materials and in fact, they charge for a review, from $10.00 the blurb up to 25 cents a word or more, depending on their experience and reputations. This is how the renowned Saul Bellow made a living while he was writing and publishing his first books.