Making money on the internet is no longer as easy as it was a decade ago. Meanwhile, millions of people are doing it, and so you may finally be at the point where you’re saying: “If so many other people have created successful online businesses, then maybe I really can do it myself.” I’m going to tell it to you straight: you can.
However, with dozens of different types of businesses you can choose from one. Firstly, you should be deliberate in how you get started if you’re new to the whole online business world.
My best advice? Try your hand at freelance writing.
There are a lot of reasons as to why you should start freelance writing, but the basics are:
. It’s a skill you’ve already got.
. There’s a ton of demand.
. It’s easy to start quickly.
But the question is where do you start exactly from? Nevertheless, this article is to guide you on the basis of how to be a good remote creative writing job.
8 Remote Creative Writing Jobs (Even For A Total Beginner).
Well, that’s what we’re going to cover in this post. I’m going to share with you 8 remote writing jobs that you can do from home (or on the road) and this writing jobs are perfect for the beginning freelance writer.
1) Email Outreach.
We included email outreach as our first remote writing jobs, because I think it’s one of the most underrated opportunities out there right now.
As bloggers and businesses are continuing to double down on content marketing for their businesses, they’re also more actively working on their search engine optimization.
One of the ways they’re doing this is by sending out hundreds of emails to other website owners asking for guest posts and links. If you don’t know, links are the currency of the internet. The more links that point back to you, the better your site will do in search rankings.
The problem? Most people are horrible at this type of outreach. They automate it and make it impersonal, leading to poor results.
If you can improve your skills at writing personalized emails to real people, and build up those relationships on behalf of a blog owner? There is true value there and it’s something a lot of people will pay for.
The best way to get started? Ironically enough: cold email outreach.
2) Transcription Writing.
There’s nothing too different about transcribing content.
For example, when you listen to someone talk in a video, podcast, audio-note – and then you type out what you hear. There are automated services out there for this, but a lot of people prefer the extra accuracy of a human doing it.
There’s also a big opportunity in translation of work if you can speak two languages, or if you’re considering freelance writing as a non-native English speaker.
3) Proofreading Jobs.
With millions of blog posts being published on a daily basis, that means there are millions of grammatical and spelling errors, also being published on a daily basis.
In fact, even in this post there will be at least one grammatical errors on it.
Are you someone with great attention to detail? Then you may be an excellent proofreader or editor.
Some businesses succeed by having a proofreader check their services, while others will prefer not to spend money on it and do it themselves.
But this is one remote writing job that can be very lucrative if you find the right client.
Just one word of advice…
If you do cold outreach to bloggers offering proofreading services, don’t be a jerk. Choosing one of their blog posts and marking it up with red ink to show “how bad” their published work is? That’s a great way to get your email deleted and not get the job.
4) Blog Content Writing.
The blog content writing generate the ultimate entry point for people who truly want to look at freelance writing as a career.
However, with over 4 million blog posts being published each day there’s an incredible need for content out there to keep up with the competition.
As such there are so many opportunities for new freelance writers right now.
All of the professional will say “you have to niche down!” which honestly, isn’t bad advice.
But here’s the good news: if you don’t have a niche? You can still be a successful remote freelance writer!
But regardless of whether or not you become a freelance writing generalist, or if you already have a niche in mind, this is a fantastic place for beginners to start. It can be a lucrative long term career, or the ultimate bridge business.
How to Become a Freelance Writer.
Honestly, the only blog post on the internet you need if you want to start freelance writing is blog content writing.
5) Product Descriptions.
You know when you’re on Amazon, or any other online store and you read about a product?
Someone has to write all of those product descriptions.
Moreover, sure big box retailers have teams of people to do that. But with the millions of independent e-commerce and Amazon stores out there, there are tons of entrepreneurs out there that need people to write their product descriptions.
When I was first starting out online, I worked for a company selling industrial key boxes. They had hundreds of different SKUs. Guess who got to write the descriptions for them?
While not the most fun work, it can be a great foot in the door for new remote writers who are looking to make a little money, without having to be the driving creative force behind things.
How To Get Product Description work.
Search on Google: This seems stupid and obvious. But rather than link to a bunch of individual sites, the best starting point for finding product description work is simply on google: “Product Description Jobs.”
6) SEO Articles.
When I first started looking for remote writing jobs, there were a ton of people hiring “SEO writers.”
Now, this did not mean they were hiring SEO professionals to make their blog posts more SEO friendly.
Rather there was a specific SEO strategy called “article marketing.”
Essentially this means you write hundreds of low-quality articles and then publish them on one of a number of “article farms.”
Generally, these posts were never meant to be read by anyone. But each one had a backlink to a client’s page that they wanted to rank.
Remember how we said links are the currency of the internet.
Well despite the fact on their own, any one of these links weren’t worth much. When you did them by the hundreds? Or thousands? That could have an effect.
This industry is nowhere close to what it was 10 years ago, but there’s still people out there doing variations on this today.
The pay isn’t huge, but if you’re looking for a low-stress way to build some confidence as a freelance writer, then SEO writing jobs could be perfect for you.
7) Random Writing Jobs on Fiverr.
It’s not much of a secret that Fiverr is home to a lot of pretty random job.
However, fiverr can be a great place for a random writing job. Also it’s very important to do your little research on fiverr and get a creative idea in line with what you offer on your Fiverr profile. By so doing, you could have a (very) niche writing business that actually pays your bills
8) Copywriting.
Copywriting is kind of the creme de la creme of remote writing jobs.
You might be thinking “I thought this was a post for easy writing jobs?”
Well it depends on who you are. If you have a background in sales or marketing, copywriting may come very naturally to you – and actually, be the best starting point for a remote writing job.
But if you’re just starting out, and not feeling quite as confident in your writing or persuasive abilities? Then one of the other options listed above may be a better starting point.
That said, Copywriting can be an incredibly lucrative skill to master – whether you freelance it or not. So I’d recommend spending a little time studying.
In conclusion,
Creative remote writing job is one the best lucrative work that can provide you with adequate skills about freelance job.