My online marketing career started off with freelance writing. 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. 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 guide 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 content for website / blog owners
- Become a regular conributor for offline / online media in various topics
- Become a paid blogger using paid blogging services like Review Me
- 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. Copywriting is another highly paid skill that requires creative thinking and therefore it not really in the reach of most people. If you can write a proper sentence in English, most other types of writing is good for you.
For ordinary joes, focus on the remaining types of writing namely ghostwriting, paid blogging and content writing.
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 lot of content publishers and ebook sellers are on the lookout for ghost writers or ghost writing services.
Writing on blogs and other online media is a great idea as well. If you’re writing for blogs, you have your author credits on each blog post. By doing so you expose yourself and your name, while building credibility and repertoire. It’s much better for your career if you write on blogs or anywhere else where your name is published.
Another way of making money from freelance writing is paid blogging. The basic idea is that you have your own blog, and look for pportunities in paid blogging networks. Advertisers want to get the word out about their products, and they are willing to pay bloggers to write about them on their blogs. Your blog’s popularity and reach determines how much you can charge.
The plus side to this is that technically you own the blog articles you have written, which means you can always make money using your growing blog with Google Adsense or even affiliate offers.