Writing Work: Create a Home-Based Writing Business

There’s so much writing work around these days that almost anyone can create a home-based writing services business. Expect that it will take around three months for you to replace your current full-time income, and surpass it.

Don’t know where to start? Here you go.

1. Web Sites Need Content: What Can You Write?

Many established magazine writers are making the transition to the web. Initially however the web can seem confusing. In the print world, you’re used to getting writing guides and you know how to approach magazine editors. Websites also have editors.

There are many hundreds of thousands of sites which buy content. Generally speaking, the larger the site, the more content they buy. For example AOL News currently employs 1500 writers. Yes, that’s just the News section of AOL — they expect to triple the number of writers in 2010. Of those 1500 writers, 1000 are full-timers, and the rest are freelancers.

To work out what you can write for the web, make a list of topics you enjoy writing about. Now look for websites in those areas. Check out the content on the sites.

Next, create a short list of sites for which you think you could write.

Realize that just as with magazines, websites already have a stable of writers. This means that to join the stable, you need to offer something which their current writers aren’t already covering. Come up with some ideas, and send your thoughts to one of the contacts listed on the websites’ About Us page.

2. Advertise Your New Business

To replace your full-time income, you need to advertise. The amount of advertising you do, and the kind of advertising, will depend on your own experience as a writer, and the markets you want to write for.

There many ways you can advertise, some free, and others you must pay for. Of course if you pay for advertising, you’ll get a better response, more quickly, than you will with free advertising.

3. Promote Your Writing Business Online and Offline

New writers tend to underestimate the amount of promotion their business will require. Here’s a big tip: when you start off, expect to spend several hours each day promoting your business.

Once your business is established, you still need to spend time marketing it every day.

Please don’t stop marketing the business once you’re snowed under with work. You’ll be amazed how quickly you complete the work and have no fresh orders coming in. The answer to the feast and famine syndrome that’s common to many freelancing occupations is constant marketing.

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