WAH Job Leads
Finding Freelance Writing Jobs
How do you find freelance writing jobs? This post will give you several job lead sources:
- Freelance Writing Job Blogs. There are a lot of blogs that offer daily job leads
- Craigslist. In all major cities is a writing job category
- Google Alerts. Set up a Google Alert for freelance writing jobs and you can even set on up for your specific niche.
- Google. Search on the type of writing job you want
- Writing Forums. There are internet forums dedicated to writers and these often have job listings in them.
Writers: Use The Web To Your Advantage!
If you want to become a writing wahm or just a freelance writer, the internet provides a wealth of opportunities for finding writing jobs. You can research how much a freelance writer gets paid, look at other writer’s sample resumes, set up your own writing website, and more.
Beyond the resources listed here, why not consider creating your own website to show your talents? Bring writing clients to you!
I’m a freelance writer, editor, and consultant and I support my family with my online income. I won’t say it’s easy but it’s very doable if you are motivated!
Can You Make Money With Amazon MTurk?
Amazon Mturk (mechanical turk) offers the ability to make money online from home. You can make cash if you have a US bank account or transfer earnings into an Amazon gift certificate and if you’ve been to Amazon lately you’ll know you can buy just about anything on the site!
what is the Amazon Mturk program?
Human intelligence tasks, aka HITS are offered to people who are members of the program and you can make a penny to several dollars for tasks that include things like writing, answering questions, doing admin work and more.
Is the pay on Mturk good?
The pay is really low. There are article writing jobs that pay much lower than you’d earn on many content sites and there are other tasks that are priced quite low as well but the site might be worth joining if you’d like to earn a bit of money in your down time for filler pay when not much else is available. This can be a good start for those just dipping their toe into the waters of working at home because:
Positives of Amazon Mturk
-it costs $0 to join
-Amazon is a trusted company
Negatives of Amazon Mturk
The negative side of things beyond difficulty cashing out if you’re not American, is that buyers have to choose to accept your work or you don’t get paid so if you’ve accepted a $10 job to write 10 articles and the buyer doesn’t like your work, you’ve wasted your time.
Writing on spec is something experienced writers don’t typically do because without a ‘kill fee’ that you’re paid if the buyer doesn’t like your writing, you can definitely lose out. Not all the jobs are writing though as some are research related or administrative.
There are a lot of ways to make money online beyond this site. Dig through my posts and you’ll see many online job opportunities. But, Mturk could provide you with some easy opportunities and the penny and nickel gigs could add up in your spare time for some spare change. Realise that you are financially responsible to pay tax for what you earn and again, you could spend time working on a project you won’t be paid for. I’d love to hear from other MTURK hit providers to see what their experience has been.
Tips To Make Extra Money For Christmas
If you’re just taking the plunge into working at home and are desperate for ways to make some quick money for the Christmas season, here are some helpful tips for you. This is by no means an exhaustive list of online money making options but for those looking to get started quickly to get some income flowing, these tips can help.
1. Sell some items on eBay. There is a wealth of information on the eBay site that’ll enable you to get started.
2. If you can write, start writing how-to articles for sites like Bukisa and eHow. These sites share revenue with you and some writers on ehow, for instance make over $900 a month in residuals. You may or may not hit payout in time for Christmas but if you start straight away you could at the very least have earned some funds before those first 2009 credit card bills come in.
3. If you can write, you may visit an online webmaster forum and look in the classifieds section to find pay per post jobs as well as people looking for virtual assistants.
4. Open your own online niche store. If you get started in November or early December you could cater to the hungry Christmas market.
5. Join a job bidding site like Elance where you can make money selling your services which could include writing, translation, technical or virtual assistant services.
