Daily Writing Jobs

It seems that there is a large gap between “print” writing rates, and the rates that some online freelance writers charge.  Maybe it’s not all about how much they charge, rather, it’s about how much they get paid.  I’ll attempt to outline some of the reasons why some web-content writers earn so much less than what traditional print writers earn.

Reason #1 – qualifications

In a lot of cases, when you take on a writing job online — you don’t really need a writing background.  Sure, some jobs will require it, but in many (many) cases — you just need to know how to write and need to be able to demonstrate that.  Maybe you’re an 18-year old kid, fresh out of high school, or a 65-year old, never-finished-high-school retiree just looking for a few extra bucks… when you’re looking to freelance as a writer on the ‘net, it largely doesn’t matter.

Reason #2 – publishing location

If you look at the whole of the writing jobs available today, they are predominantly projects for  Joe AverageGuy and Jane AverageGal — not some city-wide, state-wide, or nation-wide publication.  Jane and Joe don’t have a lot of money, and because the freelance writing rates have been driven down over the years, they really don’t need a lot of money, even to hire a college-educated writer, unfortunately.  If you’re writing for a startup, especially if the startup is backed by a $5-per-month web hosting account and a couple of domain names — these people can’t pay a lot for writing services.

Reason #3 – huge competition

This kind of ties into the first point, and affects the second point, but competition is a huge factor in pricing for freelance writing services.   Quite literally, you have “writers” who should be paying you to take their work advertising their services alongside 20-year writing veterans, trying to compete for the same $5-per-article job.  If you’ve looked over the main website, you’ll stumble upon this little blurb (unless I change the sales page):

You do not have to be a great writer to get paid, you don’t even have to be a good writer – if you can write at an eighth grade level or better, you can make money online as a freelance writer

This is probably an understatement, too. You have people who have no business pretending to be a writer, who are soliciting writing gigs and clogging up the system because just about anybody can get paid to write content on the internet.  Now, I’m in no way speaking about writers who are  a bit rough around the edges (the ‘no business’ part), I’m talking about the writers who produce content that looks like it was written by picking random words out of an 18th-century dictionary.  And then mixed up a bit for good measure.

Yes, there is a huge gap between print writing rates and web-content writing rates, or at least there can be.  Web-content writers can make a lot of money, even those who have no writing background.  On the other hand, college-educated writers can earn $3-$5 per article just as easily.  Not all online writing gigs are low-pay, but they certainly are out there.

If you want to learn how to make more money as a freelance writer, I highly suggest that you check out the Daily Writing Jobs report.  Right now, the report is less than $9.  However, very (very) soon, I’m going to be adding some new content to it, adding a couple of videos, and a whole slew of stuff for those who want to make money online in the freelance writing field.  If you purchase today, you are guaranteed access to the upgrades, even after the price increases.