Get Started as a Freelance Blog Writer
By Pasi Kaarakainen
Freelance blog writing is one of the best ways to start making money online as it requires no or minimal overheards and the only requirement is a computer and an Internet connection. Almost every second a new blog in created online. This alone shows you how much potential does this niche of freelance writing has in store for you.
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The best thing to be a freelance writer is that you are in complete control of your life. You get to choose your own working hours and also how much money you can make.
To get started as a blog writer, all you need to do is find blogs that are not being updated on a regular basis. Search engines like Google offer blog search (http://blogsearch.google.com) that can help you in finding blogs on virtually any subject. There are two reasons for this.
- The blog owner is too busy to keep up with their own blog.
- The blog owner is not really comfortable writing blog articles.
Regardless of the above reasons, there is huge potential to make money as a freelance blog writer. So, how do you turn this into a sustainable home business?
Creating Your Portfolio
The fastest way to get started is to go to Blogger.com or wordpress.com and set up your own blog. Then write as many articles as you can to kick start your blog. This will help you create a portfolio of your writing samples. However, don't be in a hurry to do this. Good publishers can easily distinguish a skilled professional form an unskilled one.
Finding Customers
Your nest step would be to find possible clients. You can quickly find customers by going to discussion forums and letting people know you're available to write. Big-Boards.com is a great place to find discussion forums on every topic. You can also search on Google by appending "forum" to your desired topic in the search query. For example, if you are looking for weight loss forums, then you can search in Google using "weight loss forums" as keyword.
How Much to Charge?
On an average decent writers charge around $5 per 250 word article. However, when you are just starting and looking to establish a client base, you cannot afford to charge that much. Once you become proficient in writing, you can easily write 4 or more 250 word articles per hour and at the same time slowly increase your rate. So slowly, you can be making around $20 per hour writing around 4 of these articles at $5 per piece.
Although this doesn't make you rich, you can certainly make a decent living sitting at home as a blog writer. You can start is part-time and then slowly scale it to a full-time home based business.
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