Your experience with Freelance writing gigs/websites

No site is guaranteed to be the highest paying. You have to trawl through the ads to find jobs that pay well, place your bids and then beat the others who also bid on the jobs. There are lots of sites out there that you can look at. Also why not place your ad in the Warriors for Hire section in here?

freelance portals are flooded with unskilled techies. Besides that most of the time you gonna find yourself fighting over pennies with other freelancers. No matter how lower you bid some folks from third worlds will outbid you for sure.

LOL, only because I want you to earn something!

For freelance writing sites/"content-mills", nothing compares with Constant-Content.

But I wouldn't try to write 500-word articles for $10. You'll do better (I don't mean just at C-C) trying to write 1,000-word articles for $50. Really. There are more customers, and they're better customers. I'll try to explain why ...

Key concept (i): at the bottom end of the market, there are almost as many service-providers as customers, so that's the hardest way to earn anything.

Key concept (ii): what attracts customers to buy the services of people who write articles for $10 is the price: as soon as that increases, all the customers disappear (to become customers of one of the thousands of other people from all over the world offering the service at that price), and the service-provider effectively has to start all over again.

Key concept (iii): the main reason you see providers of $10 articles continually advertising and marketing is that their clients businesses' tend not to survive (mostly because they don't know how to use the product, rather than because the product itself is no good - though that can also sometimes be true), so they have to replace their customers all the time. The main reason you don't see providers of $100-$150 articles advertising at all is that their clients know how to use the product, profit from it and return regularly for more articles, with the effect that those writers tend to have all the work they want without needing to advertise at all. (A small proportion of those articles do actually change hands through Constant-Content, as well.) At lower prices, article-writers need continually to be marketing their own services. People who want their income to depend entirely on their own marketing skills should become marketers, not service providers.

If you want some more information on the big, common mistakes involved in starting an article-writing business, these resources may prove valuable ...

Warrior Forum resources:
Writing Articles - I'm Done
How much can you make writing articles?
How do I make money writing articles???
Would you still do freelance writing?
Can anyone suggest good pay, high quality writing jobs?
Content Writing - Still Viable?
Are There Many Clients Who Pay $50/Article?
The appropriate rate for written content is ?
You must be a superstar professional writer BUT I can only pay you $2 per article - say WHAT?
Any point in trying to find clients on Warrior Forum..?
Is it hard to make 30K a year from writing?

Other resources:
Jennifer Mattern's blog
Carol Tice's blog
Free report on how to attract new freelance writing clients during a recession
The Renegade Writer Blog
The "Irreverent Freelancer" blog
The Well-Fed Writer: Lucrative Commercial Freelance Writing - Land Lucrative Freelance Writing Jobs
Words on the Page.

I haven't, myself, clicked on all of these for a few months, so apologies in advance for any defunct links, above (which there easily could be, by now ).


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Can you really charge $50 per article at constant contact? And where else can you get away charging that, I didn't realize that kind of money to be made writing articles was possible... I mean I knew it was, but I thought only for well known, previously published authors kind of thing. Is it hard to get approved at constant contact? Thanks Alexa! I'll check out your links too

Also Alexa I saw this awhile back in a warrior's sig and bookmarked it... have you heard of any of these sites? Would you recommend any of them? 120+ sites that pay upto $150 for guest posts,make money writing | seekdefo.com

The best way is to apply for all those that have good reviews.

You will never know when you will get hired. So just go out there and register and try it yourself. What works for me might not work for you.

Good luck

CAmarketing, there are more approaches you can take to be successful at C-C. Some go down the lower priced article and higher turnover route, others do the opposite and ask more for their articles, but sell fewer of them.

As Alexa pointed out, the most money you can make at C-C is from private requests. But to reach a point where you make a lot of money from them, you need to be very good in your niches, otherwise you won't get asked to write articles privately, so it's definitely not overnight. Even if your aim is to sell articles written "on-spec" (on speculation), you need to give it time. Some articles never sell at all, and most of them take many weeks, if not months, to sell. You will get the occasional "instant hit", but it generally requires patience.

Anyway, Celeste Steward is one of the most successful writers at C-C. (https://www.constant-content.com/authors.php)

She has a blog where she talks about writing in general and writing for C-C. It's worth reading it. Here it is: Digital Products |

If you have some money to spare, you can buy her book, Celeste Stewart's Secrets to Success on...
There is another kindle book written on the same topic, but by another writer, Here it is: The Freelance Writer's Guide to Making Money on...

Out of the two, I think Celeste's book is better.

Since earning money fast is your goal, have you considered applying for a permanent or seasonal position on a blog as a content curator or writer? Surely this type of job would pay more than an occasional gig sale. If you have good references/credentials and work samples you should be able to secure a job position like this. You could check Craigslist, though there are some online 'work at home sites' that specialize in listing open jobs at websites.