Is Freelance Writing Your Cup of Tea?
Freelance writing help me get a start in my online business. Although that was more than 3 years ago, my freelance writing gigs helped me quit my full time job and launch my Internet marketing business as well. I highly recommend everyone who can write, or want to write, to get a few writing gigs as a legitimate and sustainable way to improve your cash flow.
Although there a really good freelance writing available, in this article let me give you and idea of what you can do:
- Become a ghostwriter for other people’s books and ebooks
- Write articles for website / blog owners
- Become a regular columnist for offline / online media in various topics
- Become a paid blogger using sponsored blogging like Review Me
- Become an editor / proofreader and help improve 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. Since copywriting involves a lot of creative thinking, you may not be able to get opportunities easily. Every other type of writing however, is a great opportunity for anyone who can construct a proper sentence in English.
Therefore there are only three types of writing jobs you should focus on.
Ghost writing can help you earn a good amount 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 lot of content publishers and ebook sellers are on the lookout for ghost writers or ghost writing services.
Getting credited (and perhaps a link back to your site) is a great reason to be writing for blogs and other similar online media. If you write for blogs, chances are you get a link back to your own site. This exposure helps you gain a pretty loyal following. For the sake of a career, blog writing is actually much better.
Another way of making money from freelance writing is paid to blog. The basic idea is that you have your own blog, and look for pportunities in paid blogging networks. Your job is to write about the advertisers products and create some sort of buzz for them. 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 blog posts you have written, which means you can always make income using your growing blog with Google Adsense or even affiliate offers.