Is Freelance Writing Your Cup of Tea?

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. 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:

 

 

1. Gost write for other people’s books and ebooks

 

 

2. Write content for website / blog owners

 

 

3. Become a regular columnist for offline / online media in various topics

 

 

4. Become a paid blogger using get paid to blog like PayPerPost

 

 

5. Become an editor / proofreader and help edit someone else’s work

 

 

6. 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. 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 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. In the Internet marketing world, lot of information marketers are constantly looking for someone who can help them write ebooks, instruction manuals and other types of documentation.

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. For the sake of a career, blog writing is actually much better.

The final type of freelance writing you can do is get paid to blog. First, you set-up your blog and then you look for opportunities to write paid blog posts. A lot of advertisers want to generate buzz about their products, and they have money to spend too. How much you can demand per article written depends a lot on the popularity and traffic of your blogs.

The great part of this is that technically you own the articles you have written, which means you can always make money from your growing blog with Google Adsense or even affiliate offers.