1. Affiliate Marketing: Writing content for affiliate marketing can be a hugely demanding job because without good content to attract traffic to affiliate products/services, it is pretty difficult to succeed in marketing the products/services. A good affiliate marketing content writer must be able to write good content in form of educative articles, product reviews, and blogs. It is this content that helps to attract the traffic the affiliate marketing needs to be able to market affiliate products/services effectively. As a content writer, you get paid for writing quality articles for the affiliate website and if your content is embedded with affiliate links, you can earn good commissions from sales made through these links. This is more so if you decide to join reputable affiliate marketing programs like Strong Future International, SFI. On SFI, when someone buys a product/service through your reference affiliate link, you’ll get a percentage of the commission on the sale. It gets more interesting when you also earn a certain percentage as override commissions from the activities of the affiliates on your downline up to 12 generations.
2. Blogging: Starting and running your own blog is a good money-making idea on the internet. It is a wider form of content marketing for digital marketers. Once your blog is up and running and you’ve built a good readership, you can explore various methods to monetize the blog. You quickly get to this stage when your blog content is of high quality and impactful. You can make money from the blog by promoting affiliate links on the content to earn commissions from affiliate sales, allowing Google to run ads on the blog through Google AdSense and you get paid for such ads as a publisher, getting paid for the sponsored posts you publish on the blog, selling ads spaces to sundry advertisers and so on.
3. Freelance Journalism: If you want to make money as a freelance journalist writer, you must regularly create good quality content that people want to see and read. If you have journalistic skills and a bit of training, you can write columns and news articles for popular and reputable media outfits and news sites and you get paid handsomely. When and how you get paid is however highly dependent on your writing abilities, skills, subject-matter grasp and knowledge.
4. Academic Writer: If you have the background qualifications and really good at your academics, you can earn money from academic writing. You can work on sponsored projects with other academics, work independently with research grants or even help up-and-coming academics as well as students with their research papers, thesis, and other essay writing jobs. You get paid for your services depending on your location, expertise, and academic background/qualifications.
5. Writing on Medium Website: If you are a good writer, you can earn money writing on Medium website. Medium is one of the few writing sites that allow writers to make quick registration, posting of content, and receive payment for articles within a month. To make money writing on Medium, you need to get one of its membership plans and post your value-adding content to share it with the Medium audience. You earn money by the number of persons who read your articles and also commissions from non-member sign-ups a month who sign up after reading your content. Quite a great place to make money if you are a really good writer. Some of the best authors on Medium.com do make over $30k per month.
6. Write and Publish Your Own Book: You can earn money even as residual income if you can write and publish a good book. Writing your own book can be quite rewarding in that regard! After writing a good book, you can decide to hand it over to a reputable publisher at negotiated fees or you publish it yourself through self-publishing. How you have it published largely depends on the key element of how to sell it to earn money from it. The advantage of using traditional and reputable publishers is that they already have a vast marketing network and experience, they can help you reach this audience, they can offer you advance fees even before sales commence and they handle all costs related to publicity and marketing the book. Thereafter the author will only earn a certain percentage of the amount on each book sale.
7. Social Media Content Writer: To make money as a social media content writer, you must have a creative approach to generating engaging and impactful quality content even at short shifts and across different platforms. The demands of job may include but not limited to writing Twitter threads, LinkedIn long posts, regular Facebook posts, quality video content on YouTube, Instagram and even TikTok. Writing social media content for big companies and corporations can earn you an average of over $50k per annum in pay.
8. Ad Copywriter: Ad copywriters are experts at creating content that persuades readers to purchase a good/service. Good Ad Copywriters usually create content in an incredibly brief form. These are very brief (about 100 characters or less) highly captivating messages that can easily arrest attention. Such messages on social media or as Google ads can be effective to compel viewers to click through and read more. Good ad copywriters earn an average of about $50 per hour depending on the task accomplished.
9. Ghostwriting: You can use ghostwriting in a variety of contexts. The commonest among these contexts are: web copies, book publishing, news stories, SEO copywriting and blogs. You can share your pieces with journalists or published in magazines but without your real name. You can adopt a ghost name and even an Avatar for a picture. Rates of pay for ghostwriters are quite varied depending on the niche or subject matter but they are generally very good pay for job done.
10. YouTube Script Writer: The essence of writing for YouTube is to help drive engagement. To enhance this, your scripts must be well crafted, of high quality and impactful. If you are good at script writing particularly for videos, you can easily get hired by YouTubers to write scripts for their short videos which are mostly how-to videos, explainer videos and the likes. Good YouTube scripts get paid for on per-word basis or per-minute basis or per-hour basis and the pay is good.
Wrapping Up
Writing to make money and writing from the confines and convenience of your home is now becoming hugely popular with good freelance writers as a way of making money and still free with your time to do what you like doing. Not just because the jobs are highly rewarding but also because of the time and convenience freedom that comes with the jobs. Once you have the educational background, skills, knowledge and the flare for writing, you too can work from home and make money as a freelance writer. The foregoing are some of the best opportunities you can quickly grab.
