I started off my online marketing career as a freelance writer. Although that was more than 3 years ago, my freelance 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 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 sponsored blogging like Review Me
- Become an editor / proofreader and help proof 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.
So lets talk about those other types – ghostwriting, paid blogging and content writing.
Ghost writing can potentially add between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars into your bank account every month, 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.
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 helps other people know who you are, and get addicted to your style of writing, ideas, and personality. For the sake of a career, blog writing is actually much better.
The final type of freelance writing you can do is paid blogging. First, you set-up your blog and then you look for opportunities to write paid blog posts. Your job is to write about the advertisers products and create some sort of buzz for them. The popularity of your blog determines how much you earn per post.
The great part of this is that technically you own the web content you have written, which means you can always make money using your growing blog with Google Adsense or even affiliate offers.
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