How To Make A Fortune From Online Freelance Writing
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Online freelance writing is a very attractive business model for infopreneurs. While it does require some effort to get started and attracting your first clients, it is easy to sustain your business for as long as you enjoy writing.
Online freelance writing can be very lucrative. I have written short articles and been paid $10 to $25 for work that took me around 30 minutes. I have also authored longer reports of 3,000 words, and been paid $350 for it.
As long as you are willing and able to do careful research and compile your articles in an attractive, unique and valuable way, you can survive and thrive as an online freelance writer.
But if you want to take this up a notch and make a fortune from your online freelance writing, then you must follow a strategy.
Build a Brand
Top columnists, authors and talk show hosts have their branding consistent over time. Readers and viewers identify with the brand, and watch out for it. As a freelance writer, online and off, you are likely to be turned into a commodity, or rendered anonymous.
Resist this and establish your unique position so you are recognized as a brand. This guarantees repeat business and recognition allowing you to charge premium prices.
Offer Top Quality
If you consistently deliver the absolute highest standards of quality work, you will get more repeat writing contracts as well as referral business. Once you are known for delivering high quality results, you will be flooded with business - and can leverage it into a fortune.
Be Timely and Professional
Freelancers sometimes bother editors because the editors feel a lack of confidence or control when they deal with freelancers. By being on time and presenting a professional image, you will stand out from the crowd of online freelance writers, and attract many more projects to yourself.
Specialize In The Right Market
All writing is not equal. Go after more lucrative niches. After all, you wouldn't expect an article about growing tomatoes in your backyard to outsell an ebook teaching investment strategy, or building a business or even winning at poker.
As an online freelance writer, you must carefully pick and choose a field where writers normally get paid well. For example, if you can write for niches like golf or financial investment newsletters, your professionally written work would be worth a few hundred dollars. No so if you'll write about Aunt May's sciatica.
Get Syndication or Repeat Business
If you can negotiate a deal to run a syndicated column, or a weekly article in a widely read newsletter, then you are far better off than a freelancer making once-off sales.
An editor or publisher who has once bought your writing is more likely to be giving you more work, is often happier with the result of your efforts, and is more likely to refer you to other editors or people needing your skills.
Implement a strategy for your online freelance writing that includes all these above mentioned points. You will be easily building your fortune from online freelance writing.
Online freelance writing can be very lucrative. I have written short articles and been paid $10 to $25 for work that took me around 30 minutes. I have also authored longer reports of 3,000 words, and been paid $350 for it.
As long as you are willing and able to do careful research and compile your articles in an attractive, unique and valuable way, you can survive and thrive as an online freelance writer.
But if you want to take this up a notch and make a fortune from your online freelance writing, then you must follow a strategy.
Build a Brand
Top columnists, authors and talk show hosts have their branding consistent over time. Readers and viewers identify with the brand, and watch out for it. As a freelance writer, online and off, you are likely to be turned into a commodity, or rendered anonymous.
Resist this and establish your unique position so you are recognized as a brand. This guarantees repeat business and recognition allowing you to charge premium prices.
Offer Top Quality
If you consistently deliver the absolute highest standards of quality work, you will get more repeat writing contracts as well as referral business. Once you are known for delivering high quality results, you will be flooded with business - and can leverage it into a fortune.
Be Timely and Professional
Freelancers sometimes bother editors because the editors feel a lack of confidence or control when they deal with freelancers. By being on time and presenting a professional image, you will stand out from the crowd of online freelance writers, and attract many more projects to yourself.
Specialize In The Right Market
All writing is not equal. Go after more lucrative niches. After all, you wouldn't expect an article about growing tomatoes in your backyard to outsell an ebook teaching investment strategy, or building a business or even winning at poker.
As an online freelance writer, you must carefully pick and choose a field where writers normally get paid well. For example, if you can write for niches like golf or financial investment newsletters, your professionally written work would be worth a few hundred dollars. No so if you'll write about Aunt May's sciatica.
Get Syndication or Repeat Business
If you can negotiate a deal to run a syndicated column, or a weekly article in a widely read newsletter, then you are far better off than a freelancer making once-off sales.
An editor or publisher who has once bought your writing is more likely to be giving you more work, is often happier with the result of your efforts, and is more likely to refer you to other editors or people needing your skills.
Implement a strategy for your online freelance writing that includes all these above mentioned points. You will be easily building your fortune from online freelance writing.