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gav

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Put your writing stuff online and earn money
« on: March 10, 2015, 06:00:12 AM »
If you have good writing skills and want to earn money online, then here are some of the top Freelance article writing services providers, you should visit.

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Re: Put your writing stuff online and earn money
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2015, 11:56:30 AM »
This stuff is always interesting in theory, but I would like to see some case studies on what people actually made, and what their return per hour ended up being.

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Re: Put your writing stuff online and earn money
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2015, 02:08:42 PM »
I'm curious about this as well. Is there anyone on the forum who has actually done free-lance writing for websites like these and can share some perspective?

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Re: Put your writing stuff online and earn money
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2015, 03:36:06 PM »
I'm adding this to my to-do list.  If I ever make any money at it I will let you know.

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Re: Put your writing stuff online and earn money
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2015, 03:44:26 PM »
I am a freelance writer with private clients. I'm currently making about $10 an hour, but the hourly rate will go up as I raise my prices and get faster.

If you write super fast, you might make money on those sites. But I think it's better to pursue clients outside of these huge sites. Find bloggers, freelance writers, and content marketing managers. Pay attention to them when they mention needing help or wanting to hire. There will be a lot less competition and it will be a better conversion rate in actually getting the gig.

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Re: Put your writing stuff online and earn money
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2015, 05:57:56 AM »
I plan to try to specialise in a skill or two that seem relatively popular on these sites to supplement my income post-FIRE - I think there is money to be made if you become sought after and can command decent rates - also the flexibility is fantastic for the FI lifesytle.

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Re: Put your writing stuff online and earn money
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2015, 06:55:56 AM »
I dabble on Textbroker.  I'm a level 4 writer there--5 is the highest but you have to jump through some major hoops to get there.  I wrote six articles and made roughly $34.  At best, it's a good place to start for a professional writing beginner but it's strictly a side gig; you'll never make quit-your-day-job money there.   

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Re: Put your writing stuff online and earn money
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2015, 05:58:37 PM »
I have written for a few of those sites. Elance, Odesk and the like -- eh. Too much competition and time just scrambling for work. They were how I broke into the business. I'm a freelance writer for a living -- have been for over a decade. I make around 50K a year. DH is a freelance artist, operating mainly through Fiverr (although his gigs now sell for much more than $5) and he makes about 20K a year. Granted, he has only been at it for a couple of years and thus far his income has only gone up each year.

Textbroker is low pay, but easy, mindless work if you can write clean copy on the first pass. Payments are reliable, but you can only excel at it if you have a vast store of knowledge, type fast, and are generally a good writer. I still do a bit of writing there for clients that prefer to use the TB system for processing their orders. These are direct orders, which are set to a higher price than those available in the general author pool. There are higher paying content mills out there, which I also use for the guaranteed paid out. These pay more in the realm of $25 to $50 for a 400-500 word piece of copy.

I also sell to magazines, do web copy for private clients, and write and sell curriculum materials via Kindle. I used to ghost write for kindle "authors," until I realized I was just making someone else rich.

As for hours worked -- I start my mornings at 5:30 am and work until noon. Mon through Fri, with the occasional weekend. This leaves me free to homeschool my kids (project based learning style), hike, do DIY, and have a full life outside of work.

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Re: Put your writing stuff online and earn money
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2015, 03:15:30 PM »
I am a proofreader/copy editor and found a couple of those sites to be useless to me. The ones where you need to bid on a job - there are people from various foreign countries offering to do a job for virtually nothing (maybe with the exchange in their country it's a good deal? I don't know). Proofreading is not as valued as writing but still - I was a full-time freelancer the past 2 years charging $50 per hour. Occasionally I have seen people post ads wanting proofreading for $10-$14/hour (minimum wage here) and I laugh at them. I think they are basically for desperation only or when you have absolutely nothing better to do. That being said, I do not have experience with ALL of the sites named.