How I Make Money From Home

Let’s see a show of hands of people who could use an extra $100 today and nearly every day. Okay, that’s what I thought. Most of you can or you wouldn’t be reading this article. The simple fact is that most people can make money from home on the Internet with just a little effort.

The following technique is only one way I make money from home. I’ve been using this technique for several years now and I’ve built up quite a following of Clients. Needless to say, I no longer have to advertise my services and I make way more than $100. But it wasn’t always that way!

This technique will involve you writing articles. If you don’t like to write, I guess you can pass on this opportunity. If you’ve always wanted to write but thought it was too hard, take heed. You don’t need an English degree to make good money writing from home. I’m not the best writer in the World, but I pull down some good money with my articles.

I will tell you this. Your Clients will expect there to be few, if any, spelling errors and for the most part, your grammar needs to be in order. What I’m trying to say is your article should sound like you and I were having a conversation and you are telling me how to do something or you’re telling me about a cool new product or service. Don’t write like you’re trying to sell me something!

Programs like MS Word have spellcheckers and grammar checkers, so there is no excuse to have an article full of errors. Oh sure, a grammar error here and there isn’t bad. But if your article is hard to read, people will not want to buy it.

Where To Advertise Your Writing Services

There are several places where you can advertise your services for little or no charge. Some of the best places I ever advertised was Craigslist under the Services section and DigitalPoint forums in the Marketplace section. I’ve used other places to get work, but these two really brought in the Clients.

You can even sign up at Job boards like eLance.com, rent-a-coder, I-need-articles and much more. This will keep you steady while you  build your own Clientele from your own advertising.

Join A Freelance Writers Membership Job Board

This is probably the easiest way to make money as a freelance writer. Basically what you do is join a freelance writers job board. These job boards take orders from individuals and companies alike for articles that need written. They then post them to their own forums and let their members pick which ones they want to work on. They can also see what the job will pay.

You look through the job offers and decide if you want to “accept” a freelance writing job or not. Many of these writing jobs will be simple research on a subject and then writing a simple article over it. This is the way I workd for quite a while and the money was good!

There have been a few times that a certain company or individual requested my work. After that started to happen, I really started putting more effort into getting my own clients. It wasn’t nearly has hard as I thought it would. Many of these people need articles written for websites. If you can put together a sentence and paragraph, you can probably make money with freelance writing.

How much can I make as a freelance writer?

For beginners first starting out, you can expect to get paid about $5 per a 500 word article on DigitalPoint forums.  That isn’t a whole lot, but even as a beginner I would research an article quickly and type out 500 words in about 15 minutes, sometimes 20 tops. That comes out to  between 15 and 20 per hour.

Once I started getting quicker and better at writing web content, I started writing my own articles and selling them online. I was able to get between $30 ad $50 per 3 articles over 1 subject. It wasn’t long before I was making a couple hundred dollars per day as a freelance writer. I’d say in all, it took me about 6 months to really command higher prices for my writing. But even when I began, the $5 per 500 word articles really came in handy. The money was good and I was getting some very good experience!

Some freelance home writers command several hundred dollars for ebooks. It normally took me a couple hours of research and typing to come up with an ebook. I could normally work out, research and write a 50 page ebook in two days. For most of this work, I would make between $400 and $800 dollars, sometimes more if the Internet Marketer wanted a longer or more detailed ebook.

Writing from home is easy. Most people can do it, other are surprised at how easy it is after doing it a while. So if you need some extra cash, go and get started working from home with freelance writing articles for others!