In a brick and mortar media, most people that makes a living writing are the journalists or book authors. With the emergence of the internet, making money writing has never been easier. Almost anyone who is an avid writer can make extra money writing online via a blog or a website. If you want to write but you don’t want to establish your blog or website, one of the ways to write and make money is to write to one of the publishers that pays a share of its revenues such as the company called Helium.

Helium is a community where a person can read, write, and rate articles on a broad topics. The company is on a quest to build the best user-created reference information.  The members write articles of a particular topic and the articles are normally grouped with other articles depending on the subject matter. The members can rate the articles written by other members as well.

A big advantage of Helium is that it rewards its members in a variety of ways. There is a revenue sharing wherein the writer will generate income based on the exposure of the article he/she wrote. Also, the writer can invite fellow writers and also generate a percentage of their income as well. However, the inviting writer is limited to only 50 writers that they can refer.

Another way to reward the writers is by running a contest each week! Writers can win as much as $300 for first prize, $200 for second prize, $100 for third prize and so on.

Helium also has an affiliate program where it pays the affiliate $8.00 for every person who writes their first article at helium!!

So if you don’t have a blog but you love writing, then Helium is perfect for your to make money online. Also, if you do have a blog, not only that you will be making money with Helium but you are also adding web exposure to your blog by creating links on your profie via “my favorites.”