But even writers who are prepared to make their money from volumes required online to make good money, are having problems securing writting assignments. This should not be case. All you need to do is set up a system for attracting clients who will gladly and regularly pay for your online writing.

I have a system in place myself that gives me loads of writting assignments from many different clients. There is no reason why you should not do same. One of key tools I use is a blog.

Here are 5 key things you need to do to generate online writing assignments from clients.

1) Specialize in a certain area The web is a colossal jungle where it is very easy for a general writer specioalizing in everything and nothing, yo get lost and forgotten. The mopst powerfulk thing you can do online today is to specialize ina specific area. The smaller niche, better. Do not feel that you will be limiting your market. Remember that one of wonderful things about net is that you can profit from a tiny niche because your market on net includes whole planet. In fact specialization has always been a very powerful startegy for busioness success whose importance has been magnified by net. Look at it this way, powerful sun, because it spreads its’ powerful rays everywhere reaches earth as a warm pleasant and mostly harmless source of heat and light. But when you concentrate rays of a sun to one particular point, using a magnifying glass, you can craete fire that can burn down acres of forest and bring damage worth billions, if not zillions of dollars.

How do you select your specialization? It is useful to look for an area where you have lots of interest in. Your hobby would be an ideal place to start because you are already an expert of sorts in that area.

Now let us see how poor, desperate $5 per article writer is doing trying to earn extra money. If they can write fast, they will be doing 10-15 articles per day. (some writers do 20 comfortably). All research is done online for articles ranging from 300 to 500 words. No delays in their efforts to earn extra money or make a living from their online writing. 15 articles per day will give a writer an income of about $2,250 in 30 days. That’s very good extra money. And thanks to services like Paypal, many keyword writing programs pay shortly after article has been delivered via email.

Granted, this may not be a lot of money, but it is excellent extra money, earned easily by a writer doing what they enjoy most - writing. And what a great way to launch a writing career even as you earn lots of extra money. From reputation you build up over time, you can at same time be targeting bigger writing jobs.

I started with $2.50cts articles. Mostly out of curiosity, I wanted to see if I could really get paid and earn some extra money. Gradually I realized that a four-figure monthly income was easy to achieve. Later I was able to land $500 assignments (mainly from offline magazines, but everything was done online). Still $2.50cts online writing assignments remained my bread and butter for a long time. The rest is history.

You could be ignoring your big opportunity to earn easy extra money online from your writing, even as you find your feet as a writer. It’s easy extra money if nothing else.