Build a Freelance Writing Career In The Snap Of a Finger

Writing articles is probably one of the best ways to make money online. Besides the fact that you don’t have to be bothered with scam affiliate programs or high investment business opportunities that usually don’t turn a profit or any real revenue. The online writing industry is so huge, people who have found themselves unemployed are now earning a full time income from home with little or no training. Here is how to make a full time income writing articles from home and methods/techniques to marketing yourself to webmasters and publishers:

Market Yourself Hard- If you want to make over $1000 a day or more writing articles, and then you have to market yourself. There are multiple ways to go about doing this, however there are few ways that are more popular and can get you the best results in the least amount of time.

·         Free Classified Ad- Most Internet Marketers will agree that free classified ads are not the best way to get traffic and should not be the sole method to gaining traffic; however, the traffic can become quite intense when you write multiple ads in bulk. Classified ads are best used when you are advertising a service instead of pre-written articles

·         Forums- This is one of the most popular ways to gain attention for your writing services. With forums, pre-written articles usually sell better. Most webmasters will pay for niche articles that are focused around a particular topic. PLR or Private Label Rights fast really fast because the buyer can get full rights and resell them if they wish. Most webmasters will submit them to the top article directories for traffic to their own products or services.

·         Cold Calling- Most writers (especially rookies) would cringe at this method. For one, most people are not comfortable with calling people for services because then they would be considered a telemarketer. However, if you are really into making the most bucks, this could work in your favor. There are many local businesses in your area that need the assistance of freelance writers (newspapers, magazines, community newsletters, insurance companies, etc). If you could secure 1 client per day, more than likely, if you do a good job, you can make more money. Making 100 calls per day can result in 1 client.

·         Email Marketing- The key to succeeding with email marketing is to find potential clients that would already be interested in freelance writing services. You can find them in forums or anyone who may have a website. Online magazines are also a good option for finding clients. The key to making clients respond by email is to make your message very personal. Don’t make the message sound to gimmicky or like a sales pitch. Just tell them your name and that you do freelance writing and you would like to offer them a discount or a good deal on your writing.

Popular Writing That Sells Fast- When you are in the online writing industry, any type of writing can sell very well, especially if it is well written and unique content. You can make more sales by selling certain type of content such as:

·         SEO Articles- SEO articles are optimized with low competition keywords. Webmasters love this type of content because they can get the most traffic for them from the search engines. If done properly, one SEO article can get you up to 100 views. The more views an article gets, the more sales the webmaster or publisher makes. This is why SEO articles can sell very well and like hot cakes. A good SEO article can easily sell for $20 or more.

·         PLR Articles- Webmasters love private label articles because they can buy them in packs at a dirt cheap price. If they are freshly written and not sold to too many buyers, webmasters can use the articles for multiple reasons and gain traffic to their landing page or website.  They can also claim themselves as the original author and/or writer making it easy to publish in article directories. Most PLR articles can sell for $1 per article. The buyer can also benefit from selling PLR articles because they can sell them over and over again. If the articles are freshly written, they can sell for $4 an article.

·         Pre-Written Original Articles- These is harder to sell, despite them being original and unique content. Many reasons for this are because webmasters are demanding SEO articles and promotional content in order to promote products and services. Original articles are still important, but the market is small because most publishers and webmasters that seek regular original content are looking for a certain article with certain criteria and guidelines. However, there is still a visible market and is expanding everyday. Original articles do well being sold at content marketplaces like Dailyarticle.com and Constant-Content.

·         Promotional Articles- Most webmasters look for SEO and promotional articles as one package deal; however they are not the same thing. Promotional articles basically are about a certain product, website or service. Promotional articles are popular because they are guaranteed to increase conversion rates for Internet marketers and promote sales. Promotional articles can be sold at forums, content marketplaces and are in demand just as much as SEO articles are.

As you can see, there are many ways to earn money on the Internet as a writer. When you are stepping into the online writing industry, things can seem quite hazy and very unaspiring with all of the low paying sites ($2-$5 per article writing gigs). Despite this fact, people can make a lot of money writing articles online. The best part if that you don’t have to invest any money to get started and you can do something that you already like to do and get paid for it at the same time. There are multiple writing sites on the web that can help you get a start in online writing (it is not recommended to stay writing for these sites for very long, but should only be used to increase your writing skills); Associated Content, Demand Studios and Ehow.