How to Earn a Living from Freelance Writing September 30, 2009
My online adventure began 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. Freelance writing is definitely a good way to earn some stable money.
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 posts 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 finalize 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.
So lets talk about those other types – ghostwriting, paid blogging and content writing.
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 big market of ebook publishers are looking for 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’re writing for blogs, you have your author credits on each blog post. This gets you more exposure than you can dream of, especially if the blog gets a lot of traffic. Writing on blogs or other places where you get credited for your writing is much better in terms of building a long-term career.
The final type of freelance writing you can do is paid to blog. The basic idea is you set-up your own blogs and start accepting writing offers in networks like Pay Per Post, Review Me or Sponsored Reviews. 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 web content you have written, which means you can always monetize your growing blog with Google Adsense or even affiliate offers.