Like most freelance writers, you may have found yourself in a bit of comfort zone. You may be actively writing for a few clients and your bills are getting paid, but, like all true professionals, you’re still not completely satisfied. Whether you have been at it for years or you’re just now getting started, you want to know how to branch out and make just a little more than you’re making right now. The good news is that there are a multitude of ways to make money as a freelance writer. If you have higher hopes for your career, put these freelance writing tips into action and start boosting your freelance writing income today.
Small Steps Equal Big Changes
Some of these freelance writing tips may not seem very big on the grander scale, but realize that the smallest steps can lead to massive changes down the line. You’ve probably heard the theory about the butterfly’s wings and how it can start a hurricane halfway around the world? That’s the idea behind these freelance tips. Just take the tips slowly and they are sure to pay off.
1. Write a Book
Writing a book is a great way to make more money. Take a subject you know a lot about or set out to write a fiction story that is sure to grab the readers by the boo-boo while they’re reading it. You can create the paperback version for free using Create Space or you can create an e-book using Kindle, or you can do both for maximum exposure. Get a book up for sale and you may create an income stream that supplements your main freelance writing income nicely.
2. Commission a Magazine Article
Choose your favorite magazine publication and write the editor a query letter asking to write an article for publication. You should thoroughly examine the magazine in question to see what types of articles they publish and you might even try to get to know the publisher on social media first. The query letter should mention an article that you already have in mind, the word count and your expected compensation. Some magazine publications will pay a thousand or more per article, so this is a great way to make more money as a freelance writer.
3. Network on Social Media
While you’re getting to know magazine publishers on social media, you might want to network with other likeminded people. You never know when you might form a partnership with another freelancer who might have some freelance writing tips of his own to share with you. Or you may find that your social media habits lead to higher paying clients somewhere down the line.
4. Create Information Products
Instead of merely writing a book, you may decide to write an entire course on how to excel online or how to break a horse or how to train a dog, change a baby without getting messy or anything else you decide to write about. That’s the beauty of these freelance tips; you can write about whatever you wish and there’s no limit to the amount of markets that you can tackle.
You can then put your information products up for sale on ClickBank or you can set up your own ecommerce site to sell them. Information products are a terrific way to make more money as a freelancer. You just have to get started, plan them out and take them to completion if you hope to be successful.
5. Start One or More Affiliate Marketing Campaigns
ClickBank, Amazon and other affiliate sites will allow you to sell others’ products without having to create one of your own. As a freelance writer, you should have no trouble convincing other people to want to buy the affiliate products you’re promoting. Again, choose the right market and put forth the right amount of effort and you will succeed at making more money with these freelance writing tips.
6. Blogging and Advertising
If you want a gradual, but high paying way to make more money, start a blog and build a healthy following. Social media marketing can also play a big part here. Get started reaching out to the ones who take the time to read your content and you’ll see that networking isn’t so difficult after all. Networking and being social is easy when people are praising your work, and it’s even easier when your audience is buying from you. You can then make even more money with your blog by establishing paid ads, such as using Adsense or another network to monetize your regularly-published posts. Many bloggers are making a heavy and steady income through paid ads. Follow in their footsteps and you, too, could take these freelance tips right to the bank.
7. Raise Your Rates or Take On More Clients
Of course, the most obvious and easiest way to make more money as a freelance writer is to either raise your prices, gain more clients or both. Social media will also help here. Get your name out there, let others know you’re available and clients will be lining up. If you do end up raising your rates, make sure you provide an equal amount of value to keep your clients happy.
There you have it. You now have several ways to make more money as a freelance writer using these simple freelance tips. Putting effort into them may not bear fruit today or tomorrow, but with enough effort and consistent focus, your income will surely improve; and it will probably come from several sources, which is the smartest way to approach the business of freelancing.
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