How You Can Make Money Online Today Doing Writing Jobs

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Living in the 21st century has become arguably more expensive than ever before in time. So drastically has the cost of living increased that people are deciding to have fewer children, to a greater extent than what had previously been the case in the past couple of decades.

If you are a frequent visitor of this blog, Saving Money and Budgeting may be topics you may have already read about. For those who have already mastered this, you may already be looking into Paying Off Your Debt. These are all crucial elements that you need to bed down when you hope to achieve Financial Freedom within a time that is on any level remarkable.

Thankfully, the 21st century has not only brought us its woes, but also some pretty remarkable solutions to helping you make more money. Those who read this blog often will know that I am all for Saving, Budgeting, and Minimalism, but only to the end that it will allow you to focus your energy and finances on achieving Financial Freedom by creating multiple streams of income, more so, true Passive Income. (Read more about Defining TRUE Passive Income by clicking here).

Yes, Live Frugally, But Also Learn to Make More Money

When I don’t have enough money, my knee-jerk reaction without a doubt is to think of how I can Make More Money. Saving and creating a tighter budget, to be honest, are an afterthought. Nothing has been quite as liberating for my mind, and thus my finances.

It is now super easy for you to Make Yourself Extra Money. Online freelance jobs have become an easy side hustle for people looking to convert any skills or free time they may have into an additional source of income.

I have decided to compile a short list of companies that you can work with to start or add to your portfolio of side hustles. I have arranged them according to type, so if you have a preference, you can head on over to that section that you like most. I have also arranged them in alphabetical order for ease of browsing.

Writing

CloudPeeps

is a platform that allows freelancers and clients to work together on a range of marketing ventures, encompassing projects like content, copywriting, SEO, strategy, and whatever would be related to digital marketing. CloudPeeps is for more experienced marketers.

Freelance Writing Gigs

is the perfect site for anybody who loves to write. It has a global reach, offering freelance opportunities for you if you can write, edit, blog, or publish.

GetASlogan

GetASlogan allows you to try to meet the requirements of client requests and coming up with slogans for their business, advertisements or campaigns. You get to submit your ideas and they choose the best, and this would be how and when you get paid.

Naming Force

pays you to up to $500 for helping companies come up with creative names. This is achieved by way of contests run by the respective companies. Unfortunately, Naming Force only works with US-based individuals at the moment.

MediaBistro

is an online job board that connects writers, editors, and journalists with acclaimed magazines and publications. You could join the site free or choose the Paid AvantGuild membership at $45/year.  The paid membership would afford you supplementary benefits such as advice on how to pitch national magazines. Unfortunately, most of the work is for U.S. based individuals only.

Problogger Jobs

is an online job board that connects freelance bloggers with work for various clients. This site seeks to service, for the most part, bloggers, thus most of the freelance jobs are blogging related, but you could find posts for other kinds of writing on this site.

Squadhelp

is another crowdsourcing marketplace where creative minds can freelance the coining of company names, taglines and slogans, business logos, viral marketing materials, and more creative-type work. Their process includes partaking in competitions broadcasted on their website. Associates and competitors contend among one another to complete the branding project. The client in question will then choose a winner. The winner will be conferred a prearranged amount. The website is open to everyone.

SloganSlingers

is a site where you can earn up to $999 submitting slogans or taglines via slogan competitions created by clients. This site does not have any minimum requirements per se, so you are welcome to join. 

Text Broker

can make available to you various freelance writing opportunities. It is great in that it pays you according to the quality of your work, which places you in a ranking, and thus a paygrade. This is not fixed though, so you can work your way up the ranks. Unfortunately, membership is currently only restricted to persons living in the US.

My Final Thoughts

While all of these websites offer you the opportunity to make extra money, you need to remember that each of these websites are businesses themselves, more specifically, brokers. Their first obligation is to their clients, the companies on whose behalf they are sourcing freelance work. Thus this is who they will focus on creating better value for.

This may be at the expense of you, a contractor. The more contractors they have, the more this becomes the case, because if you won’t be willing to do it, somebody perhaps a little more desperate than you will.

Increasing your streams of income is a fantastic idea and a much better way to take control of your finances than merely Saving Money and Budgeting, then hoping for the best. It puts you in a position where your desire to be in a better financial position does not disempower you, but instead empowers you. Freelancing, however, creates a unique problem. You still have to:

• depend on being accepted by each of these companies,
• wait for work to be available, and
• be paid a rate that will be determined by the competitiveness that the broker wants to offer the client which may not be commensurate with the time you spend, your level of skill and your standard of delivery

My Favorite Way to Make Money Online

It’s not all doom and gloom though. There is a better way to make money online. This way has several critical advantages in contrast to side these hustles:

• It puts the power in your hands
• There is no limit to the amount of money you can make
• Meritocracy; If you work hard you can get paid accordingly
• If you are good at what you do you can get paid very well
• You work online
• It does not take a lot of money to start
• You literally turn your passion into your career

Starting a Blog hosted by Bluehost has been the best decision I have made this far with regards to my career and finances. I have never been happier in my vocation.

Find out more by reading, Why I Became a Blogger, and also, How to Start Your Blog Today.

Don’t know much about how blogs make money? Read How to Make Money Blogging and chart your own path to making money with your blog.

I do both, running my blog and freelancing, through a good number of these sites, although you can probably tell by now that my primary focus is my blog.

If freelancing is more your thing, keep doing it, but just take control of your finances by empowering yourself to make more money, even if it’s only through these side hustles. This state of mind is the single most important facet you need to develop to win with your finances.

All of the best!