If you’d like to make money writing, it’s easier than it’s ever been. There are hundreds of thousands of websites online eager to hire you today. You can set up your own full-time career quickly.
Here’s what you need: the willingness to sit down and write each day, and the willingness to learn. If you’re wondering whether you need writing talent, the answer is that it helps, but all the talent in the world won’t help you if you fail to sit down and write.
My own freelance writing career stretches across three decades. I wish I were starting out today; it used to be frustrating and exhausting to write for years with nothing to show for it.
You’re lucky. You have endless opportunities. All you need to do is get started, and you’ll start to sell your services very quickly.
Here’s how to get started.
1. Start a blog and write about your interests, whatever they may be. To make money freelancing, you need to be able to write at will. A blog focuses your mind, and gets you started writing for others.
Get into the habit of reading blogs which interest you. With millions of blogs online, most bloggers are just like you: they’re learning to write by doing.
2. Comment on others’ blogs. Make your comments interesting and perceptive: spend some time on it. The idea here is to make contacts and get to know other bloggers.
Choose several blogs on which to leave comments over a couple of weeks. This gets you known on these blogs. Contact the bloggers, and ask to guest on their blogs. (You write a guest post.)
3. When you’re ready (you’ll know), offer your blogging services from your blog for a small fee. You’ll be surprised at how quickly you get hired.
Yes, these initial writing jobs are tiny, but they give you gifts which are work more than money. You’ll get comfortable with people who hire you, and you’ll establish yourself.
The above process is straightforward; deliberately so. Please realize that it works, and that it will help you make money online and develop a profitable freelance writing career.
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