Income Streams for Writers: Hubpages
Experimenting With Earning
I made enough money writing on Medium last month to support my family. I’ll do it again this month. That’s unbelievably exciting.
In 25 years of professional writing, March 2019 was the first time that a single freelance source has paid me enough to live on. It felt good. Also, it kind of freaked me out.
I don’t want to become too dependent on one source of income that I don’t really have much control over. I thought you might find it interesting if I highlighted some of my income streams.
I’ll start with a brand new one.
Hubpages
This week I read something about Seth Godin, and it mentioned that he started Squidoo (a platform I wrote on a bazillion years ago) and then sold it to Hubpages in 2014.
Hubpages? I hadn’t even thought about Hubpages in eons. So I went to check it out, to see if it’s still a thing.
It is. According to Wikipedia, Hubpages hosts user generated content and has been around since 2006. In 2016 it moved from a single-site model (where all their content is on one site…
