Ways to find Freelance writing jobs

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Posted by on Thursday October 17, 2013 at 12:50:23:

When it comes to writing as a freelancer, it can be a little bit difficult to get jobs to do especially, if you are a beginner. This has discouraged a lot of beginners and even professionals who don’t have steady streams of jobs to make enough income to pay up there bill. But the truth is that, anybody can make a full living writing as a freelancer online.

But before you get to become a freelance article writer, make sure you that:

- Have a good enough writing skill

- Avoid plagiarism or copy writing other people’s articles

- Proofread you articles to avoid much mistakes.

This article would talk about different ways to find writing jobs as a freelancer. So sit back and read through some of these tips:

1. Freelancing Sites: These are sites that connect those who need jobs to be done for them and those who do the jobs, together. There are many freelancing sites which a writer can register with and start getting writing jobs. Examples include: Freelancer.com, elance.com, iwriter.com, guru.com. On these sites, job owner’s post their jobs while job seekers, bid on these jobs. At the end of the day, the job owner picks the best out of the proposals and assigns the job to the person. It is a great way to get jobs as a freelance writer because; thousands of jobs are posted there everyday. One disadvantage of this method is that, you might end up not getting any job there, because, a lot of people are bidding for the few jobs that are available there, especially, if you are a green horn

2. Create your own site to advertise: Another way you can get a job as a freelance writer is to build your own website and advertise it, so that people who are looking for writers can locate you and assign you projects. And setting up a website is no longer as complicated as it used to be. With a domain name of $3 from Godaddy purchased with a coupon code, and a hosting fee of $6, you are good to go in setting up a site with wordpress site.


3. Work for no bidding article writing sites: These are sites that post jobs frequently. And you don’t have to bid to get jobs there. And example of such site is iwriter.com. Jobs are very easy to get there and it is recommended for a new beginner in the article writing world.

4. Personally Advertise Your Skill: If you can't create a website or go through the stress of bidding for jobs on large freelancing websites, another way to get freelance writing jobs is to personally advertise your self and skill to the world. And this can be done by writing free articles for big article directory websites such as Ezinearticles.com which have thousands of visitors daily. The article most be free and very informative and remember to advertise what you do at the end of the article and drop your contact email address. This way anybody who likes your skill and wants similar job to be done for Him or Her, would get in touch with you.

So these are the various ways by which a freelancer can get writing jobs on the internet.