Make money online write for us is for people who have run a side hustle, freelance business or small online project and can document it honestly. Pitch one paragraph and get a yes or a no in 2 days, counting business days only.
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Send your topic, a short outline and any links. Choose 'Writing for us' as the enquiry type.
Tell us what you did, for how long and what it cost you in money and hours. Then a working title, the reader it is for, a few bullets, and whether this is an unpaid guest post or a paid placement.
This subject attracts more hype than any other on the site, which is exactly why the bar is set at documented methods. A realistic account of slow progress is worth more to our readers than a big number.
A strong side hustle guest post reads like field notes: what you tried, what it cost, where it stalled and what you would change. That is the standard for everything in this topic.
The rules that apply to every piece are on the main write for us page, the way a draft is edited is set out in our editorial policy, and paid work follows how paid placements work here. This make money online write for us page covers only what is specific to make money online.
I promised myself I was going to give it three full months. And let me tell you, I am glad I did.
The patience a make money online pitch here should describe honestly, rather than a result in a weekend.
Not currently. We are a newer publication and we do not pay contributors. An unpaid guest post here buys you a credited piece on a site with a documented editorial standard, and nothing more than that.
If you need paid writing work, larger publications and client work are the better use of your time, and a published sample here can help with both.
The routes contributors most often describe are freelance client work, content for businesses, and building a site of your own. Each takes months rather than weeks before it is steady.
We publish documented accounts of those routes, costs and slow patches included. We do not publish promises of what a reader will earn.
It can, unevenly, and usually slower than the pitch emails in this subject suggest. The honest answer depends on the route, the niche and the hours, which is why we ask for all three in any piece that mentions earnings.
Freelance writing for clients is the most common route, and the slowest part is usually the first three clients, not the writing. Contributors who document it well show how they found those clients, what they charged at first, and how long it took before the work was steady.
Writing online for your own site is the second route. It pays later, if at all, because a new site earns nothing until it ranks or builds an audience. Honest pieces on this route give the months as well as the result.
Platform work, such as marketplaces that match writers with buyers, is the third. It can be quick to start and hard to make pay well. A useful piece compares the platform fee and the hours with the rate a writer could charge a direct client.
Beginners often assume they have nothing to pitch. A first-month account written while it is still happening is one of the most useful pieces a beginner can offer, because experienced writers have forgotten what that month is like.
Keep it specific: how many applications you sent, how many replies came back, what your writer profile said and what you changed after a week of silence. Numbers like these are more useful to our readers than advice.
We publish documented uses of AI tools inside a real side hustle: drafting faster, researching, or producing first versions that a human then edits. We ask for the hours saved and what the output still needed.
We do not publish claims that a tool will produce income on its own. If a piece rests on that promise, it is declined whatever else it contains.
Almost every method in this topic has a cost that arrives before the first payment. It might be a platform fee, a domain and hosting, a set of templates, sample products, or simply the unpaid hours spent learning. Pieces that leave these out make a method look cheaper and faster than it is.
We ask contributors to list those costs in the order they arrived, even when they were small. A reader deciding whether to start needs to know how much they would spend, and for how long, before they could reasonably expect anything back.
Time is the cost most often left out. If a method took ten hours a week for three months before it paid, say so. That single line is often the most useful sentence in the whole piece, and it is the one readers mention when they write back.
Any earnings figure is checked for its context: the period it covers, the costs beside it and the hours behind it. A figure that cannot carry that context is cut rather than softened.
Language that promises a result is rewritten or removed. Your method, your experience and your conclusion stay as you wrote them.
We also add the date the piece was written near the top. Methods in this topic change quickly as platforms change their fees and rules.
Every published page carries its sources and the date each one was read, contributed or not.
If the edited draft comes back to you heavily marked up, that is the piece being taken seriously, not rejected.
A model can speed up drafting, but it does not replace the part a client or reader pays for: judgement, accuracy and first-hand experience. We decline drafts that read as unedited model output for exactly that reason.
What a side project did in its first three months, including the weeks when nothing happened.
Earnings divided by the real hours spent, including the unpaid ones, so a reader sees what the work actually pays.
Why you quit a side hustle, what it cost you, and what you would tell someone about to start it.
What happened when you raised your rates, lost clients or changed how you charge.
We take a small number of sponsored posts and advertising placements each month, every one of them labelled. Tell us what you are promoting and we reply within two business days with rates and the next open slot. Everything we publish sits on SideIncomeHQ, and the archive is open before you decide.
Rates and formats come back with the reply. Every placement is labelled.