It’s extremely tempting to treat revenue shares sites like a hobby. After all, they’re designed to allow you to write whenever you want. You get a little money for your work and you can write content that will passively bring in money over time.

Stop right there!

Something you need to do is treat the revenue share sites like a business. If you want to be successful on them, you need to write like it’s your work. After all, for many, this is the job that you want to do.

I’m going to keep this short today. Here’s why your revenue share writing needs to be a business.

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Consistency is the best plan

Revenue share sites only work well when you’re consistent on them. Like your blogs, you need a plan of attack. It’s important to have an idea of a posting schedule.

The more consistent you are, the easier it will be to build an audience. People will start to recognize your name, even if you switch between residual income sites. You gain more money because of your consistency.

This doesn’t mean you have to work harder. You’re just working smarter. There’s a big difference; a difference that is definitely worth it.

Revenue share sites need social media work

For hobby writers, once the content is up, that’s it. There’s no work afterward. That’s not the case when you want to make money online.

You need to make sure you do the promotion work afterward. And this is more than just quickly getting your piece up on social media the once. You need to get a plan together for your evergreen or semi-evergreen content. It’s essential that you constantly push it out.

It’s possible to do this with software like Buffer, but you still need to put in the hours. You need to make sure you have the schedule set up if you want to be successful.

You’ll find the best sites for you

There are so many writing sites out there. How do you know which ones are going to work for you? This is where treating your writing like a business is going to become useful.

You’ll spend time on a specific writing site or two. This gives you a chance to create a portfolio of content, of setting up a schedule to see how well a website will work. If you see your income growing, you know that the site and the niche are worth your while. The more you write, the more income you make.

When you treat your writing as a hobby and just drop a post now and then, you don’t get to see if the site is worthwhile. You don’t see if the niche you’re writing in is the most profitable for you. The money you trickle is in coffee money but it’s not going to pay the bills. And the right revenue share sites (and enough of them) can certainly pay the bills as long as you’re willing to work on them!

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Make your revenue share sites part of your business plan. You’ll make more money writing, and you certainly won’t regret it.

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