If you are like most freelancers, you always welcome new opportunities to promote your own work. RedGage is a relatively new social networking website where you can post links to articles, blogs, documents, and even upload photographs.
Like most social networking sites, RedGage does require you to be involved in the community. Once you open your account, you should review the overall look and feel of the site to get an idea of how people are using RedGage. Once you begin uploading content, make sure that you take every opportunity to review other people’s work, comment on it, and if you really like it, mark it as a favorite.
If you write for article sites like Helium, you can break your articles out into collections to make them easier to find. For instance, if you have a large block of articles about health and beauty issues you can create a collection and upload links to those articles there. Make sure you include a good description as well as relevant tags.
Making money with RedGage
Like many other sites, RedGage pays based on advertisements, and page views. Unlike many sites, RedGage does not pay via PayPal but instead issues their own branded Visa card. The payout threshold is $25, and this is paid after validating that you are not clicking through your own links.
RedGage also offers contests on a fairly regular basis, which provide additional opportunities to earn more money.
Combining RedGage with other opportunities
As mentioned earlier, if you are using an article sites such as Helium to submit work, you can boost your earnings oath that RedGage as well as at Helium, due to increased page hits. For those who have their own blog, you have various opportunities for linking. One option is to post a link to the main page of your blog, while another option is to link to specific blog posts. Making sure you write a solid description, as well as using relevant keywords can help drive readers to your content.
If you are also active on Twitter, you can use the RSS feed to your RedGage content to “tweet” as you post new content to the RedGage site. Once again, this has the potential of increasing your earnings on RedGage.
RedGage for freelancing
As we have stressed numerous times before, one of the most valuable tools that you have a freelancer is a portfolio. Because RedGage allowed to to break your content into collections, you have an opportunity to highlight specific work in specific categories. The benefit this provides is that if the client is looking for samples that are specific, they are readily available in your RedGage portfolio.
Summary
The most successful freelancers may find themselves without a lot of extra time. However, it only takes a moment or two to post a link to your most recent work in RedGage. While RedGage probably will not come close to replacing a part-time income, it can provide you with additional revenue between your freelancing jobs.
About Doreen Martel
Well-rounded freelance writer who contributes to various blogs, paid to write sites and revenue sharing sites. Doreen is legally blind and has worked at home for more than 10 years. She uses the lessons learned from this experience to enhance her writing and share information with others.
Contently Portfolio
[...] blog and others that I’m active with, you have no doubt seen where I have explained “How to Use RedGage“, why I think RedGage is useful for maximizing freelance earnings, where I suggested that [...]
Seems like they’re having problems – had a hard time logging on, and then they seem to have crashed while I was trying to open an account.
I’ll try again tomorrow.
Excellent job.
Social comments and analytics for this post…
This post was mentioned on Twitter by doreenmartel: New Blog Post: Freelancing and Use of RedGage http://freelancingandmore.com/2010/03/10/freelancing-and-use-of-redgage/…
[...] Freelancing and Use of RedGage | Freelancing and More! [...]