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. 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 articles for website / blog owners
- Become a regular columnist for offline / online media in various topics
- Become a paid blogger using get paid to blog like Review Me
- Become an editor / proofreader and help brush up 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 that even some world class writers don’t have. 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 ghostwriting, paid blogging and content writing is what you have to work with.
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.
Writing on blogs and other online media is a great idea as well. 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 your freelance writing career, writing on blogs is actually much better than ghostwriting.
Another way of making money from freelance writing is get paid to blog. Basically, you setup a blog and start writing from “paid blogging” opportunities. 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 good thing about this is that technically you own the blog posts you have written, which means you can always make money from your growing blog with Google Adsense or even affiliate offers.