Are you thinking of becoming a free lance writer for the internet? You can earn an excellent income and web masters will pay you for your work. Read this before you dive in and stay away from schemes that will do nothing but steal your money.

If you're considering earning money as a free lance writer you'll want to be aware that there are plenty of scams on the net anxious to steal your work or your cash or both. Content writing is a legitimate enterprise and you can find several thousands of web site owners willing to pay for fresh information. Nevertheless, if you spend any time at all on the web, you will run into various scams over and over and a number of them sound much better every time you encounter them. Beware of these:

Pyramid schemes - watch out for the guru who shows you substantial earnings, pictures of checks, etc. and promises to help you do what he's doing for a fee. If he is selling a technique to generate income, he's almost certainly going to tell you to sell that very same program to other people. Guess what? Eventually every person in the world is trying to offer that same process to each other. Well, maybe not everyone but you understand my point. A good rule of thumb is, do not get involved if the seller will not let you know precisely what you'll be doing until after he gets your money.

Producing crafts at home - This is usually anything from clothes to ornaments to toys. The company sends you the components and you never even pay for them. Sounds fine so far. You assemble the knicknacks or whatever and send them back only to have the company tell you the things you made they don't meet the company standards so you won't be paid for all of the work. They send you some income and more resources and you go to work again only to have the company say some of the batch did not meet the standard. Except the company is selling them, even the "substandard" ones and you're working for a pittance.

Home medical billing - In this scam the organization will have you typing medical insurance forms or something like that. They say you have to have certain computer software for your computer so that you can do it and they even have a special deal to sell it to you at a discount. The fact is, all they are doing is promoting you software. As soon as they have your money, they may well say they don't have adequate work for you.

You can generate income on line as a brochure writer, an article writer, a content writer, and so forth, but you need to keep your eyes open. There are legitimate copy writing jobs and you may earn around ten or twenty dollars for a bit of content it took you twenty or thirty minutes to write. I do it myself. Just don't forget, if something sounds too good to be true, like lots of money without working, it very likely is.