Online Writing: Make an Income in Your Spare Time
Online writing can be your answer to getting the cash you need in today’s challenged economy. Forget all the get-rich-quick-on-the-internet schemes. Here’s what you need to do to start getting a healthy income by working from home in your spare time.
First of all, take a few minutes to assess your interests.
Perhaps you have a medical background. That’s good, because health-care is a perpetually hot topic with many topics in which you can specialize. Or, perhaps you have an interest in pets, or real estate, or home improvement. It really doesn’t matter what your interest is. The important thing is to choose one so you can claim your niche as a specialist.
There are two very effective ways to claim your turf as a specialist: Start a blog on your chosen area of interest and/or submit articles on that area to any of the many article banks available (many of which even pay for each article they accept).
By consistently updating your blog and submitting informative articles, you will steadily build a reputation as the go-to person on that subject. Eventually people who need copy on that particular subject will come seeking you to do content just for them.
While you are working on your blog and your articles, you should also take a little time to build a simple website about your online writing skills. On that website, you can demonstrate your writing skills and your expertise in the subjects you have chosen. Having a website is essential: If you want to make it as an online writer, you must demonstrate that you know your way around the web-writing world. There’s no better way to do so than with a website.
One caveat: While your website doesn’t have to be anything fancy, it does have to be good. Proofread the content several times (and have someone else proofread it also) to make sure it is error-free. Make sure all hyperlinks work. When you review your website ask yourself, Would I want to buy this person’s online writing services? Why (or why not)?
Once you have built up an online presence with your website, your blog and your online article submissions, you can go one step further. Contact companies related to your particular area of expertise and offer your services. Point them to your blog and your website. Send a copy of one of your articles as an attachment. If you have an interest in cats, for example, send along your article on the particular health needs of Siamese kittens and offer to create or contribute to a blog. You may even want to offer to create an e-newsletter or an e-book for them. These are fun projects you can indeed do at home in your spare time.
Building an online writing career this way takes time but it can help you build a good source of spare-time income. If you need money faster than that, you may be tempted to short-cut the system by signing up at one of the freelance bidding sites. As the name implies, freelance writers submit bids on posted writing jobs. While you can get jobs quickly, be careful, because the majority of the jobs go to the lowest bidder and thus don’t pay as well as other routes. However, if you need pocket change quickly, this is one way to do it.
Unlike many scams on the internet, you can indeed make a healthy spare time income with online writing, even while you hold down a full-time job. Get started today.
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Online Writing: 5 New Skills You Must Develop
If you want to make it with your online writing business, you can do it — if you keep on top of the game. Here are five new skills you must develop in order to stay ahead of the pack.
1. Social networking. Face it; if you want to get the word out about your skills, you need to at least know about the various social networking platforms out there: Facebook, Twitter, you name it. You don’t necessarily have to take part in them but if you want to pass yourself off as an online writing expert, you have to know about the major outlets and how to write on them effectively. Otherwise, your potential client just may go elsewhere. (However, don’t let these sites become a time sink or else you won’t get your real work done.)
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2. HTML. Learn at least the basic codes so you can format your word correctly. As you get more familiar with it, you can advance to more complex tasks, such as Java, CSS etc. Not only will this make you more valuable to your clients, you can also make your own website a cut above the rest.
3. Internet marketing. Yes, you can make a healthy online writing income. But you won’t unless you know the secrets of driving traffic to your door. Your clients won’t seek your services unless they know how to find you. Join internet marketing forums and check out the various websites and articles devoted to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), pay-per-click advertising etc. Read the information, understand it and try to apply it to your own writing business.
4. Graphics. While the text you write is important, equally important is how that text appears on the page. We’ve all seen websites that fairly scream, ìI’m trying to sell you something.î It is much more effective to pair your persuasive copy with an attractive website that is not overcrowded with cheesy clip art. Your clients will appreciate the extra value you give them when you can say, ìI can also make recommendations as to the layout, if you wish.î
Here’s an exercise: Pick out a website that you dislike and then think of what you would do to change it. If you have the resources, create your own dummy or fake site and make it over the way you think it should be done. (Do not use a real company’s products unless you really plan to approach the company eventually with your new and improved version.)
5. Brevity. While it’s not a new skill by any means, it is essential in the fast-paced online writing marketing. You need to learn how to research quickly and write quickly so that your copy reads quickly. When you read your copy over, think about it: Where is the fluff? Can you eliminate any words without sacrificing content? Are you offering real information? Remember that online writing is generally meant to be skimmed over quickly. No-one is going to be sitting by the fireside with a cup of cocoa reading this text on a cold night, so don’t worry about the high art of writing. Just get your message out clearly and succinctly.
So, where do you get these online writing skills? Where else? Look online for all the writing resources you could need. The sooner you start, the sooner you will succeed.
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Get Started Writing Online
Online writing is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has wanted to write but didn’t quite know how. It’s never been easier to get a writing career going. Forget the stereotypical starving artist shivering in a garret somewhere; use these tips to get started.
1. Consider what kind of writing you want to do: Do you want to write fiction or non-fiction? Do you want to write short stories, a novel, articles, a book? Do you want to work for yourself or to write for clients?
2. What experience do you already have? If you haven’t written anything since high school, don’t despair: There are plenty of opportunities for you to brush up your writing skills. You may want to take an online writing class, but there are plenty of them available, many of them for free.
3. What subjects do you like to write about? For example, if you are a nurse, you may enjoy writing accounts of day-to-day life at the hospital. (You will probably need to fictionalize some details for patient confidentiality.) Or you may want to write about health-care developments. Likewise, if technology fascinates you, you can write about your experience with the latest digital camera.
4. Once you’ve given these questions some thought, search for online writing opportunities. There are many websites for all sorts of writers. If you write fiction (or want to), there are some sites that give you ideas to write about and that also allow you to post your efforts online (either privately or for review by others).
5. If you write nonfiction, the sky’s the limit: There are article banks that allow you to write articles on any subject (they can provide the topic or you can submit whatever you like). These articles are purchased by clients who use them on their websites. Who gets the money from the purchase? You do, along with the website. How much you get paid depends on the website and the subject (some topics are more popular than others), but this is a great way to get your “brand” established as a writer.
Another option for nonfiction online writing can be found in freelance job sites. Writers can read project proposals (for articles, e-books, website creation etc.) and submit bids indicating how much they would charge to do the project and how long it would take to do it. Working these sites can be tricky because many clients simply choose the lowest bid, but with a little know-how, you can get a lot of interesting, well-paying work.
Still another option is to advertise your services: Set up a website that tells about yourself, the online writing services you offer and some samples of your work. Post ads on Craigslist, internet marketing forums, social networking sites, etc. Don’t forget to tell your friends and co-workers (word of mouth will always be the best advertising).
While it may take a little time to get your online writing career going full steam, if you work at it consistently, you can start making some real money in a very short amount of time. But it will only happen if you get started now.
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Article Writing: Write and Sell Articles With Money-Making Headlines
Are your articles making great money for you? If they’re not, the headline may be at fault. Discover how to write great headlines, and cash in on your article writing.
In a sense, the headline is the most important part of your article: you must attract attention. However, there are other things you need to keep in mind too.
Before we get into tips which will help you, let’s mention search engine optimization. To be read, web articles must be found by the search engines and returned in the search results. This means that you need to include your keyword in the title. There’s lots more to search engine optimization secrets for articles, but when it comes to headlines, remember you to include your keyword.
1. What’s the Response? Decide What You Want Readers to Do
Before you worry about the headline, decide what you want readers to do as a result of reading your article. If you’re being paid to write an article by someone else, ask them what they want the reader to do.
You can’t write a headline or any part of the article without having the response clear in your own mind.
2. Easy Headlines: What’s the Pain? Deliver the Aspirin
Pain gets readers’ attention. If you watch the nightly news, you’d be forgiven for thinking that all six billion people on the planet constantly suffer through fire and flood, war and famine, and that bodies litter the average suburban street.
The old newsman’s saying “if it bleeds, it leads” contains an essential truth. If you remind people of their pain in your headline, they’ll read your article.
So think about the audience for your article and the response you want. What’s their pain? Make a list of pains that your readers have, and select one. This forms the basis for your headline.
3. The Missing Link: Promote Your Articles
You may be wondering what promotion has to do with your headline. We’re talking about headlines, not about promotion… or are we?
If you want to have the best success with your articles, realize that you need to promote them.
If you’re writing for someone else, they will handle the promotion. However if you’re writing articles for yourself, you’ll need to promote them yourself.
Consider promotion when you’re writing the headline. Some headlines are very easy to promote on the social networking sites and elsewhere, others less so.
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