My online adventure began with freelance writing. Although that was more than 3 years ago, my freelance writing 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:
- Become a ghostwriter for other people’s books and ebooks
- Write posts for website / blog owners
- Become a regular colun writer for offline / online media in various topics
- Become a paid blogger using paid blogging services 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. Not everyone has this specific set of skills. 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.
For ordinary joes, focus on the remaining types of writing namely ghostwriting, paid blogging and content writing.
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. 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. By doing so you expose yourself and your name, while building credibility and repertoire. It’s much better for your career if you write on blogs or anywhere else where your name is published.
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 good thing about this is that technically you own the blog posts you have written, which means you can always monetize your growing blog with Google Adsense or even affiliate offers.