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 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 web content for website / blog owners
- Become a regular colun writer 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 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. Copywriting is not really a skill that everyone has, or can develop. 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 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. 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 articles and web content for blogs / websites is another great opportunity, plus in most cases you also get a “byline” for your work. If you write for blogs, chances are you get a link back to your own site. This helps others identify with you and know who you are. 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 blogging. Basically, you setup a blog and start writing from “paid blogging” opportunities. Your job is to write about the advertisers products and create some sort of buzz for them. How much you can demand per article written depends a lot on the popularity and traffic of your blogs.
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.