It is easy to lose sight of how important your work as a freelance writer really is. You may rarely venture out of the house on any given work day, and instead, you may keep your eyes and fingertips glued to your computer. You may send your completed works off across a digital oblivion, never to see them again. While a number of your friends and family members may be jealous about your ability to have such an “easy” job, you may know others who quietly scoff at the profession you have chosen to pursue. With all of these factors rolled together, it is easy to feel as though your efforts at freelance writing aren’t worth much except providing you with a paycheck. The fact is, however, that your efforts are truly important in a number of ways, and they may have a larger impact than you may ever realize.

Economic Impact

Freelance writers spend their days writing on different topics and for different purposes. Many, for example, write for business clients. They may produce product descriptions, SEO-rich content to boost website traffic, sales or promotional pieces and more. The ultimate point of most of these assignments is to boost sales and strengthen a company’s bottom line. With more consumers making buying decisions online, business content that you write does indeed serve a valuable purpose for companies by allowing them to visible to search engines and easily found by customers. Your work may convenience a customer to buy a certain product or to call a company for service. In these ways, your efforts have a direct economic impact that may not be measurable by you but that is real nonetheless.

A Helpful Word

While some freelance writing work is designed to promote sales and bolster profits, other work is designed to help people in some way. For example, you may write a healthcare piece, a piece on how to save money at the grocery store, tips on how to remove a stain from carpeting and more. While some of these pieces may be written with the intent to subtly promote a company’s products or services, others are intended truly and solely to help people.

The Scope of Your Work

Of course, just one of your pieces can have a huge impact on an individual, hundreds of individuals or even on an entire company. However, the scope of your work is more far-reaching than that. This is because if you are full-time freelance writer, you may write dozens of pieces during a day or week. It is not uncommon for a full-time professional to write hundreds of thousands of words over the course of a year, and these are all words that ultimately have an impact on the world. The more you write and the longer you write, the greater your impact is.

It is true that your job may not save a life like a doctor’s efforts might, and you may not help someone find a dream home like a real estate agent might. However, on the other hand, depending on the topics that you cover in your work, you actually just might!