Making money online as a freelance writer or writing for yourself
One of the problems of making money online by managing many content websites is finding people willing to write quality content for you. If your websites are on a narrow niche which requires special knowledge and skills the problem becomes even worse.
Even if what I said above is true there are options for finding good freelance writers on specialized forums. They’re not cheap but if you play your cards right the outcome can exceed expectations.
The question
Freelance Writing
I thing this situation makes people ask themselves the following question: is it better to write content as freelancer or build your own websites and monetize them? I don’t have the right answer, but I can make a list of pros and cons of doing so. The decision is ultimately yours.
So with no further talk here’s my take on making money by writing content: writing content as a freelancer means getting paid per article so your productivity is proportional with the money you earn. On the other hand you get a steady cash flow from the first months when you start writing. If you’re fine with this go ahead.
Building a website needs some additional skills. Promoting it needs other skills so your initial costs are higher (more details on how to do those things can be found on ehow.com). Couple this with the fact that money won’t start flowing in the first months (or years) and you get a picture of why people choose the first option.
But those are not your only two choices. You could take the middle road which means starting off with writing articles to get some money you’ll later invest in building your own website(s). Once you get some money from your own business you can start making the switch at your own pace.
If you are curretly employed and can’t leave the 9 to 5 race then you better prepare to do some extra work. Explain this to your family and prepare them for a 1-2 years period of time when you’ll be, let’s say, unavailable.
It’s important to realize that things won’t change for themselves. You’ll have to work hard to accomplish success online, but the satisfaction is worth it. After all this translates to a simple question: are you willing to trade a few years of your life for a good life or you like to crawl gently through life from one paycheck to another.
