Th3mmy:
Good afternoon ladywriter, please I would like to know more of this write-up and I have a dozen questions for you. Can you please hit me up with this email: ttopoladipupo500@gmail.com since your registered email on here is unavailable.
will be waiting
Thanks for your care.
Huge fan though!!!

My email is working. I just replied your request to send me a message. Check your email.

Macfortune:

I am also among those that benefited from her guides... The first day I read her thread on making $1000 from researching and writing, I found it a bit hard to believe, but was moved when I found out it was a lady that created the thread, I followed the thread and became regular here.
To cut it short, freelancer.com is paying me, at least I've been training myself in school with the little I make there. However, it has not been like a bed of roses for me on that platform, but all the same, God has used Ladywriter, Chidinho, and Tranxo to bless me. I hope to earn higher there in no distant time.

@Everyone.
Perseverance, hardwork, patience and putting God first is just the secret. You can start as an article writer, and also learn to craft other kinds of writing as time goes...
I wish everyone more butter to our breads...

Wow! Another great testimony! Hmmm! Glory be to the name of the Lord God. He will put wings beneath your arms and you will fly high above your equals. This shows that I am not wasting my time here. Lives are being transformed. All Glory to the king of kings and Lord of Lords!.

JohnXcel:
@ ladywriter: You wrote how you send an invoice to clients for payment, but how do you circumvent Paypal as that's what almost every one uses?
Do you require clients to sign up on Payoneer?

Actually, you can use any mode of payment that suits you. I like Payoneer because of its good invoicing system. Clients are not required to sign up to make payment. They can pay directly through the payment link in the invoice.

Chidinho10:
@Ladywriter:
Thanks madam for this exciting piece. I want to thank you for all you've been doing concerning the financial empowerment of youths. You are a role model, a star and God will continue to bless you richly. I am a living testimony of your good works and I believe there are thousands of other people who have benefited from you. Of course, I want to earn more as a writer and I will urgently practice the tricks you enumerated in your post.

@Everyone:
Whenever Ladywriter issues out guides to make a successful living in writing, I advise you all to follow her. She is an amazing mentor and a very successful writer. I started writing in November 2014 and it took me 8 - 10 months to get my breakthrough on freelancer.com. Ladywriter was supportive during that period. If you are having issues with freelancer.com, i will advise you to persevere and keep working hard. Rome was not built in a day!

Hmmm! Thank you dearie!. Testimonies like this inspires me to impact more lives. The rate of employment in this country saddens me. This is a business any one can do legally without cutting corners or scamming anyone. God helping me, I will keep writing and sharing freely from my experience.

AbuuUthaymeen:

Pls can you take a peek at my profile on freelancer and suggest any necessary change or ways to improve it. I've been on this for months and I haven't got a single order. This is the link to my profile: https://www.freelancer.com/u/Datepalm.html

Change your profile pic and put a good picture of yourself there. Bid continuously on different projects per day (like 10 bids daily). Within a week, you will get a project to do. Also, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Spread your wings to other platforms. You can try Fiverr too. Build a platform (a blog) where you can market your skills directly to clients.

Dolypson04:

Pls can I get your contact details?

virtualassistprof at gmail.com

Toks2008:
ladywriter Nice piece I must say.

I love freelance writing but I'm not just interested in making money out of it..maybe I see the process as cumbersome.

Maybe if you can help me set up a niche in the religion and romance topics I can do the write up and we share the proceeds.*winks*

. You have to learn how to do it yourself if you truly want to make money out of it. Don't let the process stop you. It is easier to make money from what you love doing. My love for writing and researching makes it a lot easier for me. It doesn't seem like a job, its like a hobby to me and I love it.

Hedonistically:
Pure gold.

Lady writer, I'll be in touch shortly.

Ok.

leofab:
Just joined Fiverr..,,

Great! let me know if you need help.

mooremoney:
Nice information, I have a personal story with over ten thousand words. How I'm not sure that this freelancer will not trick me and publish my story without paying me?

No. It is not a website where you can submit stories. You simply write for clients. You can sell your story on Amazon Kindle. Turn it into a kindle e-book and sell on the platform. That is another way to make money as a writer.

Dexema:
@ladywriter you just nailed the whole damn thing, writing on the content mill doesn't pay anymore especially with the huge competition out there. You ask for as low as between 8-10 dollars for a quality article and you still have people dropping bids for lower prices especially the frigging Indians on freelancer.com, it's just so annoying.
Although I will advise any newcomer to start from there.
Let me quickly share one of my secrets I use on freelancer.com for free here just in case there's someone out there that can benefit.
It might sound dumb but just give it a try.
Try to work more at night say between 10 pm and 3am, I do this to target the American market based on time difference. Nigeria is 6 hours ahead of the US (most parts) and 6 hours behind India so I look for hours when Americans are active (peak time) and most indians are not. During this period any American client that contacts you will have little choice than to at least pay something substantial, also the annoyingly low bidders won't be there to spoil your market. Good luck.

Wow! This is a good one. Thank you for sharing this secret.

plasay:
Wow! That was a masterpiece.with the great info, I can create a website, blog right?

Yes, you can. Contact me if you need help.

1miccza:
Op can i please chat with you outside this platform??

Yes please, get in touch with me on my email - virtualassistprof@gmail.com

kikio1992:



Nice one OP. I am a writee and my contents are on www.kikiotolu.com but i honestly dont know how to get jobs. Fiverr and frelance aint nigerian and Nigerians hardly use real identity to get jobs there. So i wanna know wat platform works for naija

You can register with your Nigerian IP on Fiverr and freelancer.com. I started while I was in Nigeria and I made good money. Send me your profile links on freelancer and Fiverr. I will help you out.

Abraham4christ:

How do you get $ directly to ur nigeria bank account.

You can sign up for payoneer mastercard at www.payoneer.com. You can withdraw your earnings directly into and cash out with any mastercard enabled ATM in Nigeria.

segxes23:
This is awesome @ ladywriter. Help me go through my fiverr account fiverr.com/oxhegun Still hoping to have my first sales.

Add videos to your gigs. It is not difficult to make. You can use PowerPoint and Windows Movie Maker to do it.

Geofavor:
GBAM!

9ice piece, I must say.

Thank you @Geofavor.

It is the goal of every freelance writer to make more money online. However, this can be a mirage if you don't know how to do it.

I started freelance writing online on Freelancer.com and the first article I wrote back then was $0.5 for 500 words. It was very low, but I was just starting out and I was eager to write and see dollars in my account.

As my writing skill improves, I placed my bids on more good paying writing jobs then, like $1.3 to $1.5 and I got some of them. The highest I made on 500 words on the site was around $5-$10 before I diverted to e-books, reports, and market research writings.

Now, last year - 2015, I discovered that I could earn more as a freelance writer and I drastically reduced my activity on freelancer.com to the barest minimum and started looking for writing jobs elsewhere. That was when I discovered that it is possible to earn more as a freelance writer outside the content mills (Freelancer.com, Fiverr.com and the rest of them).

A research carried out by Ryan Mccready on how much Freelance Writers actually make revealed that the majority of Freelance Writers make around $0.17 a word.

If you multiply that rate by 500 words you will have $85. Are you making $85 per 500 words?. The truth is, majority of freelance writers make the bottom pay rate of .01, which amounts to $5 per 500 words. Writers who are making $2.06 per word are not more knowledgeable than you.

The day I earned $150 for a 1,000-word article was the day I determined to build my freelance writing business outside the content mills. It was a liberating experience for me and it launched me into another level in my writing career.

In this article, I will be sharing with you what I did to get to that level and what you can do to earn more as a freelance writer.

1. Improve your writing skill
One thing that is sure is, you cannot expect to earn more as a Freelance Writer with the way you've been writing on content mills. Nah! It wouldn't work. The companies and individuals who pay a high rate for articles demand excellent, high quality and long-form articles with up to date research, statistics, quotes and other things that can increase the return on investment on the article. Every marketer or business owner wants to make a profit from the article you write.

Therefore, the articles you write for clients that pay high rate is totally different from the one you have been writing for your clients on content mills. This kind of articles require good research before you write. You need facts. You need to make it actionable, interesting and shareable. Each article you write should deliver value to the reader, only then will they take a desirable action. That is when the business owner can get a good return on investment.

The first thing I did and still doing is to read lots of popular blogs on content marketing. I read a lot of them and studied how they write. Then, I started writing on one of my websites. I did this for about six months. However, it may not take you this long to get it, you can take a shorter route which is, to take writing courses designed specifically for that. It will really shorten the learning curve for you.
I learned how to write different forms of articles such as:
• Listicles
• Personal stories
• Opinion pieces
• How-to-Guides
• Feature announcements
• Link roundups
• Interview based posts
• Presentations

In Content marketing, there is something we call the buying cycle. It is the circle a customer goes through before purchasing a product or service.The buying stages are awareness, consideration, preference, purchase and, repurchase.

Now, each of these circle requires a different type of content to help the business owner convert the visitors to buyers. For example Listicles are good for driving traffic to websites. How-to-guides can be used to nurture customers who has purchased a product or service etc.
If you want to earn more money as a freelance writer, you must know how to write the different types of articles listed above and many more.

2. Get a website
If you plan to earn more as a freelance writer, you need a platform to showcase your writing samples. This is where you need to create a website. The first WordPress website I had was done by a website developer. I discovered that it is very easy to create a website, so I searched for how to create a WordPress blog on Google, read a lot of content on it and practiced it. It is damn easy! I created my writing website - alwaysontopbiz.com and my content marketing website by myself.

You need to first of all get a domain name. You can buy one from Godaddy, Namecheap or Bluehost. I use Godaddy. Before you purchase a new domain, look for coupons. It will help you to reduce the cost of the domain. Search for recent coupons for the month. For example, "GoDaddy coupons in July". You can get as high as 93% off your domain name. So head off to Godaddy.com and type in your preferred domain name. Fill the form and apply the coupon code, you can choose to pay for two years to have enough time to concentrate on your business.

When you are done, head over to HostGator and buy a baby plan. You can also search for coupon codes for Hostgator on Google.com, apply and use it to reduce the cost. At the end of the day, you may not spend up to $50 for two years hosting and domain name.
You see, it is not that expensive.

The next thing you need is a content management system (cms). Wordpress is a good one. I love it because it does not require any programming skills and there is a lot of plugins to achieve whatever I want to do on the site. You can install WordPress right from your Hostgator account.

If you want to operate on zero budget, go for or Blogger.com. They are free. All you need is a platform to showcase your writing samples or portfolio to your prospective clients.

3. Guest post on top authority websites
When I became confident enough of my writing skill, I started applying for guest-posts on authority websites, so I could get my name out there. I became a contributor on top business websites because I love writing in that niche. The website includes business2community.com, incomediary.com, ducttatapemarketing.com. womenonbusiness.com etc.

As you guest post on top article websites, it will help you to prospect for bigger clients. When prospective clients see your links on popular websites, they will trust in your ability to write well.

4. Search for premium clients

Now, you are ready to begin your search for clients who will be able to afford your fees. Here, you want to avoid informational websites as much as possible. They include websites that are primarily set up to provide information for their customers. In order words, they are a business to customers (b2c) businesses. They don't really offer much. The list you can get from there is around $10-30 for a 500-word post.

However, if you are looking forward to earning more as a freelance writer, go for top paying clients. These are business to business owners (b2b). Those are the kind of businesses that sells products and valuable services. They are in business to make money and they have budgets for content creation.

In the 2016 content marketing institute research, conducted by content marketing institute and Marketingprofs, it was discovered that b2b businesses allocates about 28% of their budgets on content marketing. These are the kind of businesses that can pay high rates. But the question is, how do you access them?

I discussed this in detail in my writing course. But let me share one of the ways you can get them here.
The first thing you do is to look for where they congregate. Most of these businesses have a presence on LinkedIn. So, all you need to do is search for them using these criteria:
i. they must have a marketing department
ii have a content marketer or manager
iii. have a blog that is active

Then, you look for their groups on LinkedIn and send a personal cold pitch/email to them. If they need your services, you will see their response. If there is no response, continue to prospect to other businesses.

5. Have a good payment system
Most employers do not want problems with payment processors. It will augur well for you to find a payment processor that will allow you to send an invoice and receive payments. I use Payoneer for this purpose. They allow you to send invoices to employers and they collect the payment and deposit it in your account.

If you have any question, comment or you want to share how you earn as a freelance writer, respond below.

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