Earlier this month I took a position as a freelance blogger/journalist. If you enjoy blogging and have always wanted to work from home it might be something to consider. Naturally, your writing skills and you have to write articles that people are interested in. I though, I can do that so I applied for the position. I received the freelance blogging job, and I now write for a technology website. I mainly write about Apple and the Mac OS, but occasionally I’ll write about other things that are related to technology. Technology is something I enjoy, and read about daily, so it’s nice getting paid for what I know.
The beauty of writing on the WordPress platform is that I can utliize advanced posting so although I post on a daily basis many of the posts have been created in advance. One of the many things I like about WordPress is the advanced posting feature. It allows me to schedule posts well in advance. I use an offline editor for my personal website along with the website I write for so this greatly reduces the amount of time I spend in my Word Press admin.
The amount of people that make their living freelance writing is fairly high. Naturally, how well you do is based on your writing skills and how much effort you are willing to apply to land a job. If I wanted to I could depend on the money I make from freelance writing since it covers all my expenses. Personally know several freelance writers who make their entire income writing for other blogs.
When I see a position, I usually will forward it to someone I think would do well. It’s usually someone that has expressed an interest in working from home. At times, I’m surprised when the person doesn’t act on the job. However, I have had a few buddies that have. One of my buddies left his job six months ago and is now working for himself full-time. Guess what, many of us have that dream but how many of us are willing to do what it takes to turn that dream into a reality? I know I was, and I did it. If I have any say in what will happen I won’t be going back to working for someone else.
What’s his position? He’s a technical writer. He also writes for a variety of clients. He also works as a consultant. Thinking outside the box landed him the positions he has. He now can work from anywhere thanks to modern technology. The last job he acquired I sent his way. He received the position because he was qualified. It was blogging job. The website needed a blogger who had a strong background in Linux. He definitely fits that criteria. Many blogging jobs I’ve encountered the writers are paid a flat rate, after a set amount of page views they are paid either a percentage of the proceeds, or they are paid by page view. From that position alone he’s making over 3k monthly. That’s not a bad way to make a living, is it?
Although I haven’t been writing with the website for long, I’ve passed the flat rate, and now I’ve moved onto being paid per page view. The website owner has given all the writer’s access to the stats reports so we are able to see which stories are doing well. The majority of my stories have ranked #1 when you search Business in Google news. Having that top position usually guarantees you will get a lot of traffic. Writing at a highly trafficked website has given me ideas of how I want my network of blogs to grow. If you think, I had been planning to write for a large blog network you are correct. I figured if I wrote for a highly trafficked website I would get ideas of what I need to do to make my own blogging network thrive. What I’ve learned has enhanced my blogs and the amount I’m making is increasing.
If you search “blog writers” on any of the search engines you usually will find numerous websites that are looking for blog writers also frequenting websites like freelance writing gigs can score you some valuable jobs but you do have to apply, and write good content. I’m always looking for ways to improve my writing skills so I write often, interact with other writers, and have purchased books that have helped me enhance my writing.
In other news I’m still having email issues.
Question: Getting paid to blog, would you do it?
[tags]freelance blogger, blogging for pay[/tags]
I should have known something was up when my emails from a few of my accounts dwindled down to nothing. If I remember correctly this happened very early last week. Early this morning I decided to check to see what was up. I had sent off a few attachments and articles last week, followed up a few times with a few people but heard nothing. That was odd since that wasn’t like them. Although I’m not sure if any of my emails were received I know I wasn’t getting any of them. What caused this major screw up I had accidentally deleted my email account and had to set it up again however, when it came to setting up my “incoming mail” I used the wrong information.
Another day another contest well maybe not today; However, there will be another contest coming to