When I first ventured into freelance writing, I really thought there wasn’t any difference in writing website copy and writing articles. That was until I started bidding on website copywriting jobs, and had potential clients offering to pay me for every sign-up that went through my website copy. Read the rest of this entry

If you decide on being paid to write, one of the most important decisions you need to make is your specialization, meaning, what sub-industry in writing you want to concentrate on.

These are the most well known sub-industries in freelance writing:

* Academic Writing

Some very good examples of this are thesis papers and the like. It’s basically research writing for scholars. Read the rest of this entry

When it comes to article writing, one of the many things that get in the way is the sheer stress of writing itself. While some people write like they eat (read: effortlessly), most simply find writing an uphill climb.

If you are like most people but who happens to own website, this can be bad news if you let it. After all, what drives websites to the top of the search engines is content, whether it’s posted on your website or submitted to article directories. Read the rest of this entry

Professional copywriters know how tough the market is. It’s really not about the lack of jobs. Rather, it’s about the dirt cheap rates that companies and individual website owners are more than willing to give to freelance copywriters. There’s really nothing inherently wrong with it. Hey, if you can get a Chanel bag for $1, why not, right? But I should warn clients; it’s a different ball game where copy writing is concerned. Read the rest of this entry

People who venture into online businesses are surprised to find out that, at least in the beginning, the amount of work needed to get the business up and running is, in two words, A LOT.

If you own a website, you will know that the easiest part of setting up an online business is registering the domain name and associating it with a hosting account. What needs to be done next is something that takes up time, a lot of time: putting content to your website.

What It Takes To Make It Big

The difference between successful websites and crappy ones is great and authoritative content. People will always buy from websites they trust, and you can only create trust with great content.

But without tools for automating certain aspects of content generation, writing itself can become a full-time job. For people who hold full-time jobs and who have families to raise, this is NOT the way to go, because you could end up losing EVERYTHING before making anything on the Internet.

What Takes Times

In writing content, what takes the bulk of your time is the research. Unless if you are already an expert in your field, like a surgeon, there is no way you’ll know which information is valuable in your particular niche, unless if you spend a lot of your time researching. Depending on your research skills and the subject matter, this could take from ten minutes to two hours. Writing a single article takes about 30 to one hour, depending on your writing skills.

While 2 hours is just 1/12 of a 24-hour day, wouldn’t you rather spend it writing your article or doing something else?

You can give yourself more time to do other things by subscribing to paid automated writing tools. They are relatively inexpensive, yet they can save you a lot of time, especially in the research part of writing.