How to Start Freelance Writing?

Please join one of the following Freelance platforms to start working from home:-

Elance.com, Freelancer.com or Guru.com etc.

Above mentioned Freelance websites are best for online work. All the details are mentioned in the websites for guidance.

One of the best teachers on making money writing is Angela Booth. You can start at her blog and will find all kinds of useful tips: Angela Booth's Writing Blog

John Coutts is the Authority here.

You can also check out my previous thread:

Freelance Writing - How Much To Charge?

This is just a quick startup list.

• Create a pay pal account.
• Create 20 new gig writing ideas.
• Create 20 gigs on fiverr.com.
• Sign up for https://www.textbroker.com/ -TEXTBROKER
• Sign up for Writers - ZERYS
• Sign up for https://scripted.com/ - SCRIPTED
• Sign up for Application to Write | The Content Authority - CONTENT AUTHORITY
• Sign up for https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome - THE TURK
• Create your own site with samples.
• Start sending 20 or more eMails a day - SUBJECT: I'm Giving My Service Away For Testimonials.
• Write some articles and sell PLR rights.

The last part is practice writing every spare moment that you have.

Carol Tice has a lot of advice and how-to information on her blog, Make A Living Writing - Practical Help for Hungry Writers.

She also advises those who want to earn a decent freelance income to stay away from the content mills.

Copywriting isn't a bad one, either.

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The guest posting idea is very valid and likely to result in leads as you are actually showcasing your writing quality on other sites which will already have a built in audience of potential buyers (depending on how well you target the sites your content is published on).

So when are you going to follow your own advice?

You've got an ebook offer that you're writing for $0.0185/word. It says "80% off for Warriors", but there is nothing I can find on your website or otherwise that suggests you're charging the still small $0.0925/word somewhere else. I'd love to be proven wrong of course, so present evidence proving otherwise.

Then there's your article writing offer that's being sold at eight tenths of a cent per word. No word of a discount here, and again no evidence that you're selling articles for a higher price somewhere else. I'm starting to get the feeling that you're not really offering a discount at all: you're just playing the often used game by newb Warrior writers of fabricating prices you're not really willing to charge to make people feel like they've "gotten a deal".

By the way:

You might want to correct that bit in your sample article, lest your clients come asking for that additional $3.50 back. Let's see proof of your work being sold at $40/1000, too.

But let's get to why I'm crapping all over your post now. Telling new writers to offer VERY LOW PRICES at first is so highly misguided and incorrect that I had to make sure that it was shut down. The fact that you haven't followed your own advice by any evidence available is just the start though. The "methodology" itself is flawed as well. Your $.01/word client base is not going to pay you more for your work. There's no reason to!

1. It never made them a dime, and this is often the case with content written at this price range. If you don't live in a third world country, then you can't make enough at these rates to survive. Forget about putting the time and effort into a piece that will actually cause the purchaser to profit.

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2. You're just crazy enough to forgo sleep (and a home) to put a $.25/word+ effort into a $.01/word article. It makes the owner money. You decide it is time to raise your rates. The owner drops you more often than not. They've already made money with a writer only getting paid $.01 per word: why drop their "profit margin". There's literally a thousand other writers at any given second ready and willing to beg for your spot. No, most will not see the "business sense" in keeping you. The ones with a brain big enough to understand that never shopped in the bargain basement to begin with (why take the risk), or go to pay these prices because they want SEO fodder, and they don't need to pay more than basement prices to you for the reasons already given.

Writers (and Warriors in general really), let the post this guy just wrote serve as a lesson and a warning to you. When someone wants to throw out a piece of advice to you do at least a rudimentary amount of research to see if they have any reason to be doing so. Just a surface level check (like I did, through the very signature link being pimped), usually tells you all you need to know for better or worse.

Christ almighty .