10 Steps to earn money from
content writing for Beginners: Short and Crisp
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A short & Crisp Article. We will not talk about superficial methods, which
look good in theory and are practically very tough or almost impossible for
beginners. In this very specific & crisp article, we will only talk about
freelancing content writing for beginners.
Earning money from freelance content writing is not as difficult as it seems to be. Achieving success will need skill, patience and a strong will to do something great in life. This is a great method to earn your side (passive) income, alongside your mainstream job.
All you need is: An honest guide
Let us not rush into this, and do it step by step (we will take baby steps).
Step 1: Understand Content Writing
·
Writing
Website Page Content
·
Writing Blog
Articles
·
Writing
Product Descriptions
·
Writing
content for Advertisements, Landing pages, Marketing Campaigns
·
Writing
content for Social Media Pages
·
Writing
Informative eBooks
Step 2: Choose your Niche
You
can choose your niche, on the basis of your prior knowledge, your related
education, your interest area, or something you will love writing about.
Once
you choose your area, try to narrow it down further to a niche. For example, if
you choose Website Page content, you can write for B2B websites, B2C websites,
Healthcare websites, Software websites and so on.
Try to master the skill of writing for one particular niche. Please focus on ONE NICHE AREA, this is where people get it wrong. They try to write for everything and end up reaching nowhere.
Step 3: Narrow down your chosen niche to one specific area
Step 4: Master the skill of
writing for your chosen specific area
You
should spend maximum time at this step.
Do
your complete homework. It is like, preparing well, before you go to a WAR. It
is indeed a WAR out there. Search as many websites as you can, whosever has
written for your chosen area. Read everything and try to replicate it, in your
own language. Watch Youtube videos on your chosen area.
Step 5: Build your content
writing profile
What
now, it’s time to make some money.
But
not so fast. Just think, why would someone give money to a novice (without
experience) for content writing.
You
have to prove your worth. But how?
Build
your content writing profile. Write on sample topics of your chosen niche area.
You must write 10-15 articles of atleast 1500 words.
If
you have chosen website page writing, try to write sample pages on hypothetical
products. If you have chosen eBooks, write a few sample eBooks on hypothetical
services.
Step 6: Publish your articles
on your free blog and Learn a bit about SEO
Go
to blogger.com or Wordpress and open a free blog.
Publish
your 10-15 sample articles on your blog.
Check
how your article is ranked on Google search.
Learn
about SEO from free sources, and add relevant keywords in your articles.
Blogging
in itself is great method of making money online. But, we cannot go off-track
in this article, so we will discuss blogging in some other article.
Step 7: Write a strong cover
letter to sell your services
This
is your first test. Write a convincing cover letter. Why should you be
selected?
Mention
links to your blog articles on your cover letter or your profile.
Step 8: Open account on
freelancing websites
Now
you are ready to face this shrewd world. Open your account on following freelancing
websites, and upload complete profile:
·
Upwork
·
Fiverr
·
Peopleperhour
·
Freelancer
·
Guru
Step 9: Apply for jobs
There
will be plenty of jobs available on these websites. You must look for job only
in your specific niche. Each of these websites have different algorithm of
showing jobs. Check all the websites, their tutorials, understand the jobs, its
requirements and find out what is expected from you.
Look
around how jobs are being posted, check how people are applying, open the
profiles of successful freelancers and learn which type of jobs, they have
completed. Check what type of skills, they have and how they have highlighted
them in their profile. Copy it. (With changed language)
Step 10: Customize your written
cover letter, and grab a job
Do
not apply everywhere with general cover letter. Customize your cover letter,
adding the keywords from the mentioned job requirements.
Be
very specific and answer this question: Why you should be hired for this
particular job.
Write
a very convincing cover letter, if needed, the client can chat with you, asking
for more details or specific information. Be ready for this and check the
platform frequently.
Getting
first job is most difficult. Once you complete one job, your chances of getting
more jobs increases exponentially.
Once
you land up on a job, give your hundred percent effort. Deliver high quality
content. Satisfy your client, even if these means to do some extra work at
lower price.
More
jobs you complete, more jobs you will get.
You
should not focus on money for initial 4-5 jobs, but must focus on building a
strong profile on all platforms.
Once
the job is complete, always ask for a positive review from your client.
Positive reviews will fetch you more jobs.
Three
things that will give you a positive review is: YOUR SKILL, QUALITY OF WORK
& PROFESSIONALISM.
Try
to be perfect on all three.
Step 11: Give me all your money. Well jokes apart. Thankfully, the steps are
over. There is no step 11. We have done it. Well, better said that done.
Rehearse on all the above mentioned steps, again and again, until you master
the skill, completely.
You
must present “Best Version of yourself” on all platforms.
Tools that will help:
As a beginner content writer,
you may start with following two type of tools:
·
AI Content Writing Tool (Writing, Grammar,
Plagiarism)
·
SEO tool
What is AI Content Writing Tool?
These
softwares use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to generate content
on any given topic. You have to provide these tools, a few related keywords,
and they will write an entire blog article for you, themselves. These AI softwares are based on latest GPT-3
platform, which uses machine learning and complex neural networks to write
content. GPT-3 technology uses more than 175 billion machine learning
parameters and is reportedly, one of the largest neural network ever produced.
Great, Isn’t it?
What does these AI tools do?
They
write for you. You can use it to write anything like Blog articles, Social
Media Content, Emails, website content, Marketing Ad copies, Case studies,
motivational quotes, song lyrics, letters, testimonials, and what not.
Who uses these AI writing
tools?
Homo
sapiens. To be more specific, all humans who want to write high quality
content. If you happen to be an academician, student, content writer, author,
blogger, screenwriter, professional, marketer or an essayist, these AI
softwares are meant for you.
How these tools will you?
These
AI-powered tools help you to write, improve content clarity & meaning,
check spellings, proofread text, corrects grammar, identify plagiarism and what
not. They will make sure that you always use appropriate words for any
situation. These tools will help you to become more fluent while also ensuring
that your language, tone, and style are all in perfect sync.
Which AI tool should I try?
As
per my experience, usage and analysis of all AI tools: Choosing the best AI
content writing tool depends upon, two things:
·
Who
you are, means which niche area, you have chosen?
·
What
you want to do with AI software, what type of content, you want to write?
You
can read and try free plans of following AI Content writing tools:
·
Jasper
AI
·
Copy
AI
·
Rytr
·
Quillbot
All
of these have in-built Grammar checker, Plagiarism checker & SEO
integrations.
What
about SEO?
You can try Surfer SEO,
which is considered to be the best in the business. Surfer is an
all-in-one SEO tool that does almost every SEO related task
quite nicely. It is a tool des```igned to help SEO-optimize written content and
works by analyzing the content of a page against “500+ on-page” signals.
But, you must learn about SEO
beforehand, many free articles and youtube videos are available on this.
All the Best:
I have deliberately written
this article in very simple words, so that it’s easy for all to understand and
implement. There are no big jargons or bookish content, also, as you must have
seen, I have kept it very short and to-the-point.
The motive was to give you a
direction. Once you start your journey, you will automatically learn all tricks
of the trade.
Also, I am available for any
help. You can reach out to me.
Why wait, let’s grow together.