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Saturday, July 4, 2009

How to Make Money Online as a Brand New Freelance Writer

People who are new to freelance writing have a hard time finding new writing gigs. Unless the new writer knows a lot of people personally who can benefit from her writing services, brand new writers have to spend lots of time seeking assignments. Fortunately, online writing assignments are plentiful and help new writers get exposure, experience and confidence. Here are a few tips on how to make money as a new freelance writer.

Instructions
  1. Step 1

    Research paying web content sites. Start by researching sites that accept freelance content in exchange for revenue sharing. Sites such as eHow, Suite 101, HubHow, and Associated Content, to name a few, will pay writers for their work. There are bidding sites such as Elance and Odesk, but brand new writers usually don’t have the confidence to bid for assignments. If you do, however, go ahead and use bidding sites.

  2. Step 2

    Review the writer's agreement for each site. Some sites allow you to retain the rights to your article and some don't. Make sure you read the writers agreements for each of the sites to ensure you that you do not violate the terms of service before you begin writing for them.

  3. Step 3

    Understand the payment structure. Some sites will pay upfront for your work and other sites pay on a residual basis after your work is published and generated traffic and ad revenue. Most sites don't share how they dole out the ad revenue so it’s difficult to make a determination as to which site pays better until you actually have experience with them. Or, you can visit online writing forums to get feedback from other more experience writers about the sites you’re thinking of writing for.

  4. Step 4

    Sign up with several web content writing sites. The way freelance writers make lucrative incomes writing online is through diversification. Sign up for several content sites to avoid placing all your eggs in one basket.

  5. Step 5

    Write, write, write. Once you sign up for several sites, write articles and submit them to each. Some sites offer editorial feedback. This is good because editor critique is a good way to help improve your writing. Don’t take it personally. The editor generally is there to help you improve your writing and improve your traffic.

  6. Step 6

    Build a large base of articles on each site. The way to truly understand how well these sites pay their writers is to develop a large reservoir of articles. Over time the residual income will continually increase. Weed out the ones that aren’t producing as well as the others.

  7. Step 7

    Look for off-line opportunities. Once you have several articles published online, it's a little easier to seek and land off-line writing gigs. Many editors want to see samples of your work. With having so many articles published online, it's easier to print out and share your samples.

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