Great Places to Start a Freelance Writing Career

Most freelance workers have a website or two that they rely on to gain the greater part of their work projects. Hopefully, a good freelance worker will also have a digital bag of tricks up their sleeve as well when it comes to other resources that may need to be tapped into when the regular projects slow down or even run out. Be aware, some of the freelance writing job sites available require some fairly extensive knowledge and research. However, also remember that as long as you retain the willingness to learn, all of them are attainable at some point in your freelance writing career.

Pay Per View Sites

Pay per view sites or PPV, will not pay off immediately regardless of how fantastic your writing skills are. They will however, provide you with the opportunity to perfect your writing style while putting your name out there, as well as one or two URL’s that you are free to be self promotional with. Although PPV may not seem to offer much benefit to begin with, the benefit to your writing career they provide is nearly immeasurable.

Suite101

Associated Content

Squidoo

Hubpages

Helium

Busika

Triond

eHow

Content Divas

Xomba

Technorati

Remember, some pay per view sites will require passing anything from very lenient to the extremely strict in guidelines. Additionally, some are one shot parties, meaning you have one chance to pass their submission requirements, no second chances. Also, it is very important to understand that this type of pay will start out slow and increase over time. The reason for this is that a new article has to be indexed and find its place on the search engines. Once it does, and as long as your post or article supplies helpful information, as time passes the views on the article will accumulate. An article that is viewed 100 times this year, may be viewed by 1000 times in the next.

Direct Pay Write Sites

Many of the write sites offer direct pay. Some of those even offer direct pay, plus pay per view or Google Adsense pay. You can expect these sites to have everything from fledgling writers to college professors. Your chances of succeeding on them are in direct correlation with your skills.

Bright Hub

About

Break Studios

Copypress

Ecopywriters

Research Writing Center

Desklancer

Seed

Love2Know
Always read the small print on any site you apply to. Site such as Seed do pay some incredible rates, however, usually only one submission is chosen. Other sites such as Desklancer have short burst work that can include registering for a forum at no cost, but the pay is also minimal. However, for the rest of the direct pay sites listed, you can expect to be put through a submission process that usually involves supplying at least one original article, sometimes on their choice of topics. So be prepared and be impressive.

Blog Jobs

There are two different manners in which you can make money blogging. There are sites that will pay you to blog for them or for their clients, as well as sites that will place advertisements on your blog, so that you can earn pay per click percentages. Of course the first option likely pays the best, but all are worth taking the time to investigate if you are looking to expand on your currently freelance writing options.

Flixya

Sponsored Reviews

b5Media

Blogitave

Pay Per Post

451Press

Smorty

Got an Opinion? (And superb writing skills?)

Some writers find they have a natural skill for writing product and service reviews. There are actually some fairly lucrative sites that hire writers for reviews only.

RateitAll

Review Party

Carrot Reviews

Epinions

Software Judge
Forum Posting

Smart small business owners utilize organic marketing techniques to promote their blogs, websites, products or services. For this reason there is a large industry that gathers writers as well as clients who desire this form of marketing, that can provide a freelance writer with additional lucrative work.

myLot

Kick Start Your Forums

Best Forum Posting

Crazoo

Forum Booster

All of these sites listed above have been tested personally and do have many more benefits then just monetary ones. One of the greatest benefits to using the blogger options or the pay per view sites is that these are top notch and high ranking sites. A good keyworded SEO article can quickly shoot straight to the top of search engines with the assistance of some incredible marketing that you do not have to pay for, that in fact, you actually profit from, albeit slowly at first. If your article goes to the top of a search engine, so does your name, your profile and any personal links you have included within it.