Guide to Freelance Writing
I started off my online marketing career as a freelance writer. Although that was more than 3 years ago, my freelance writer gigs helped me quit my full time job and launch my Internet marketing business as well. You should try freelance writing as a way to get cash flow.
Although there a really good freelance writing available, in this article let me give you and idea of what you can do:
- Gost write for other people’s books and ebooks
- Write posts for website / blog owners
- Become a regular writer for offline / online media in various topics
- Become a paid blogger using sponsored blogging like PayPerPost
- Become an editor / proofreader and help edit someone else’s work
- Become a web copywriter and charge for every web copy written
Being an editor requires more of a critical eye and amazing grasp of grammar and writing styles. This is a skill not everyone, even world-class writers, possess. Due to the fact that copywriting is a very technical skill, it tend to be out of reach for most people. If you can write a proper sentence in English, most other types of writing is good for you.
Ghost writing, paid blogging and content writing are what any ordinary joe should focus on.
Ghost writing can help you make a pretty amazing sum of money, but the flip side to this is that no one will ever know who you are or appreciate the work you’ve done. A big market of ebook publishers are looking for ghost writing services.
Writing for blogs or other online media is a good idea since you usually get credit for your work. If you write for blogs, chances are you get a link back to your own site. This gets you more exposure than you can dream of, especially if the blog gets a lot of traffic. For the sake of a career, blog writing is actually much better.
Another way of making money from freelance writing is get paid to blog. Basically, you setup a blog and start writing from “paid blogging” opportunities. Advertisers want to get the word out about their products, and they are willing to pay bloggers to write about them on their blogs. How much you can demand per article written depends a lot on the popularity and traffic of your blogs.
The plus side to this is that technically you own the content you have written, which means you can always make income using your growing blog with Google Adsense or even affiliate offers.
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