How to Sell Writing Services Online

As a blogger, you might be wondering how you could sell your writing skills online for profit. There are a variety of ways you could turn your words into cash, from selling articles to other bloggers and website owners to writing and selling your own information products or books.

Here are some tips for selling writing services online:

Article Writing for Clients

With average to above average writing ability, you can earn money writing articles and blog posts for others. To find people who are in need of writers, you can check various freelance bidding sites – like guru.com, freelancer.com or odesk.com, search the writing and editing jobs posted to each city on Craigslist.org, or run a search on your favorite social media website. When you find writing jobs that interest you, apply for them. If you’re hired, you can write articles and blog posts and accept payment via PayPal for instant access. Once you start writing for clients, you will begin to get referrals for other writing work, and recurring jobs from bloggers who have a need for consistently updated content.

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Article Writing for Revenue Sharing Sites

You can create accounts on various revenue sharing websites, like Squidoo, Examiner, eHow and others to post articles you write. These sites pay writers a portion of revenues earned based on how many visitors your pages get, or how many clicks the advertisements on your articles receive. Once you are writing for various revenue sharing sites, you can also link back to your personal blog from your articles to help generate additional traffic to your own site.

Information Products

Information products are an ideal way for bloggers and writers to generate passive income. Basically, you create the product once, and can sell it multiple times. You can set up an entire system so that the orders and delivery of the information products take place automatically, which turns the money you earn from the sales of the product into passive income. Information products can be reports, ebooks, instructions or how-to type documents, recipes – if you know about it and other people need to know about it – you can sell it! Clickbank.com is a good place to sell digital information products, or you can sell them yourself through your own website, blog or newsletters using a credit card processor.

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Books

For those of you who have more to say and the time to put it all together, you might consider writing a book. With a book, you have multiple options for selling your work – either by contacting and obtaining a traditional publishing contract or self publishing your book through one of the many companies that make it possible to create and sell copies of books. Amazon.com, the leading seller of books, has a self-publishing option that helps you create and format your book and then helps you sell it via their bookstore.

If you enjoy writing but haven’t made as much money through your blog as you would like, the above list of options for selling writing services may give you some ideas for increasing your income through writing.

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Frank Collins is an experienced writer and entrepreneur, sharing his experience about making money as a writer, selling and getting paid online. To find out more about how to accept payments for your services or goods visit the credit card processing blog.

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