If you are just starting to work in your exciting new career as a freelance writer, you no doubt have noticed that some assignments pay far better than others. In fact, the pay on some assignments is so low that you barely earn the equivalent of minimum wage for your efforts while others pay so well that you wish you could fill up a full work week regularly working on such assignments. In order to be truly successful as a freelance writer, you do want to find a way to stop spinning your wheels on lower paying assignments that equate to nothing more than “busy work” and find those assignments that truly pay you for what your talents and skills are worth. Here are some options to consider for maximizing your income as a freelance writer:
Selling Rights To Your Own Articles. One great way that you can really earn a tremendous amount of money as a freelance writer is to sell your own articles directly to clients on a site like ConstantContent and other such sites. These sites allow you to sell various levels of rights, and this includes usage rights. With usage rights, you can sell the same article over and over again. For instance, you may spend thirty minutes writing an article and sell its usage rights for $10. However, you can sell that article an unlimited amount of times. So you may realistically expect to earn $50 or even $100 for that thirty minutes of work!
Niche Work. Just about anyone can write on certain rather generic topics like vacuum cleaners, hotels, and so forth, and there are certainly plenty of assignments available that cover these topics as well as plenty of writers willing to work on those assignments. The law of supply and demand dictates that the price of these types of assignments will be lower than assignments that cover a specific niche. For instance, few people could write intelligently about such topics as commercial real estate finance, stewarding on a luxury yacht, and other such topics. If you have such unique skills and experiences under your belt, you can put your unique knowledge to use and command a higher rate.
Maximizing Research Efforts. Some assignments that you take on will require you to become an expert of sorts on a certain topic. You can spend a lot of your time researching a specific topic, and then may only write a few articles, an essay, or a short e-book on that topic. Now that you are somewhat of an expert on this particular topic, you can use your knowledge to find other niche work in this area or you can use your knowledge to write your own content or pieces on that topic. You can even consider writing articles and selling rights as mentioned above.
As you can see, there are some very specific options open to you as a freelance writer that can help you to get away from spinning your wheels with lower paying assignments. Put some of these strategies listed above to use, and you may just find that you can take your income as a freelance writer to new levels this year.
