Web Writing — How to Get Started and Make Money
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Want to make some quick cash? If you can write, you can make money writing for the Web. There’s a hunger for information online — if you can feed that hunger you’ll be well paid.
Assess Your Skills: What Can YOU Write?
Your first step is to assess your writing skills. What can you write, that Web content buyers will pay for?
If you’re writing marketing collateral in your day job — press releases, product descriptions for catalogs, advertising — these copywriting skills are all transferable to the Web.
Yes, you’ll need to discover how Web copywriting differs from writing copy for print, but you already have basic skills. You just need to get your name out on the Web, and create some initial writing samples, so buyers can see what you can do.
Perhaps you’ve never been paid for your writing skills at all. In that case, you’ll find that building a great Web writing career is easy, if you follow several simple steps.
Here they are.
1. Create a Blog — a Blog Is a Fast-To-Create Web Site
A blog is fast to create and it achieves a vital goal for you: it gets your name out on the Web.
Important tip: use your own name as the title for your blog; don’t make up a name. Your aim is to create a brand: to become known as a Web writer.
Please remember this — it’s vital. In your first few years as a Web writer, you must focus on branding yourself. If you choose a cute or clever title for your blog you’re wasting an opportunity.
2. Post Content to the Blog — Every Post Is a Writing Sample
The more you get your words online, the more buyers you will have. If you skimp on writing, you’ll always be hunting for Web writing jobs, rather than having buyers approach you.
Important tip 2: you have a choice online. You can be a price taker (when you hunt for writing jobs) or you can be a price maker when buyers approach you, and you tell them what your fees are.
3. Advertise Your Writing Services on Your Blog
When you get your “name” blog online, and consistently create content for it, buyers find you. Ensure they know that they can hire you, by mentioning it on your blog posts. Don’t be shy about this — talk about your writing skills and the fact that you’re a writer for hire.
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There’s great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.
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