IF you can write well you can easily start a career as a Content writer.
I'm going to tell you step by step the things you need to do in order to become a paid content writer. Now the skill you need for content writing is basically writing you need to be able to write in english properly. Some people also start a career as a content writer without knowing good english to be honest. But the payment gets real low in that case so what else against that if you want to make a career as a content writer make sure that you can write good english.
If your English is good if you can write good articles it's more than enough to get started as a content writer.I will tell you about how content writers are paid now. Majority of content writers are paid on per word basis that is they get paid on money per word. And it totally depends on what kind of niche they are working in the payment.
why so it goes something like this your client will ask you to write articles.
Let's say they have asked you to write 1000 word article per day for 30 days for a month that is if they are paying you about 0.2-0.15 cents of per word you will get paid on the monthly basis 6000 rupees by this particular a client for writing one 1000 word article every day for them.
However if you're getting paid 0.1 cent per word that means just for writing one article of thousand words every day for one person you'll get paid 300$ per month.
How much research you will be needed to do in order to write that particular article.
So technical writing,medical writing, academic writing,
These are niches that I really want you to target.
But when you're getting started niches like lifestyle are much more easier to get started.
There are people who are working for years as a Content writer and still haven't got paid that kind of money.
And some who makes a lots of money from content writing. it is definitely possible with the strategies.
That I'm gonna give you.
This is something that you should know.
This is like the potential for you as a Content writer there are many people who are like content writers for yours and are making 500$ to 1000$ per month easily. But even as a beginner.
I would say that it will be possible for you to make 200$ to 300$ in content writing from the very first month.
If you have some time like 1 to 2 hours per day at least and like 3 hours or four hours would be like very optimum for you.
So that's the kind of time investment and kind of returns that you can expect as a Content writer.If that sounds good to you please continue reading so the first thing you need to do if you want to get started as a Content writer is
Make samples of your work
There are so many ways to do this now some people just write normal articles and post them to their Facebook.
Some people post them to their website some people post it on LinkedIn some people also write on medium or on self-publishing platforms.
I highly suggest you to choose any of the platforms or like all of them.
It is very important for you to make the samples of your work because that's the first thing your client your possible client is gonna ask from you that send me your work examples so you need to have those Work examples ready do your best in the work examples and make sure that your work examples proves your expertise now don't overdo it.
Don't write an article that is extremely complicated.
Write a normal kind of an article like when you read a normal lifestyle blog the language is always pretty simple so make sure that you are sticking to it.
No matter what you are doing if you are ready in academic article obviously you have to use a lot of complicated words.
So it really depends on the kind of article you choose to write but make sure that
It is well presented and one of the best ways to put your best foot forward would be to analyze the previous articles that have been written in this particular topic don't plagiarize.
I highly emphasize on that never plagiarize. Because in that case your career will be over before it starts but make sure that you are analyzing older articles to get ideas and to get an idea about. How to write articles once you are done making these samples.
The next thing I want you to do is optimize your Facebook and LinkedIn profiles add your experience.
If you have any so far where ever you have studied and anything that you have already done like any kind of a job if you have and if you haven't just leave it blank and add the fact that you're a Content writer in your bio in the heading if you can.
Because that really optimizes your profile and you will understand another reason why I'm asking you to do this which is the second thing I want you to do this is the best thing to do if you want to become a paid freelance content writer and this is called
Networking
Networking is basically like you need to get to know and talk to a lot of people.
Who are in the industry one of the biggest reasons.Best way to do this is just search for the term content writing on the search bar of Instagram LinkedIn Facebook. The people who are content writers they probably would have added the fact that they are content writers in their bio just like you are gonna do so their names are gonna pop up immediately you're gonna know who these people are and you will be able to add them to your friend list and you will be able to talk to them and they will be so helpful to you.I would say like out of 10 people you add 2 to 3 people would actually become really nice and really good friends with you and if they are not you're probably not networking right.
And the next thing is actually networking right
networking right means that you have to approach these people in a nice way so what happens is that like even when I was getting started even when I was like just people just start to getting to know me.There is a lots of scams on online.Think you are walking down the road and someone comes to you and starts trying to sell you something.
But what's your first instinct your first instinct is like to run away okay well if someone comes up to you suddenly and asks you for help on the road. You think that they are scammy okay. That same thing online how do you expect. that someone is going to trust you online
100% excellent work
Whatever you do. Writing for your clients, especially the work that you write to someone. So you need to do your work in such a way that whenever clients have a job to write, they do it for you. Ask for it again.
This will increase your client's confidence. And he always connects with you.
Facebook page / website
Create a page on Facebook and upload your content on this page. That is the content that your client agrees with. And he will tell other people about you too, which will make your relationship better. In addition, you can join Facebook pages and groups.
And there you can work with a lot of people and become good content writers.
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