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.

• How much do blogging gigs pay?
• When clients try to take advantage of writers
• You’re stubborn, and that’s why you’re broke
• Yes, you can get paid to write online – but here’s your problem
• Last Call for Free Freelance Writer Support

While we do offer a paid guide on how to find writing jobs online, we’ve also put together this short(ish) video to show you how to locate paid writing gigs and writing jobs using search engines. There are actually quite a few different tips that you can gather from this video and we hope that you enjoy it.

Also – we do not have the video up on the main site yet, but if you want the transcript for this video, you can get that here.

• Freelance Writing Opportunities
• Getting Established as a Freelance Writer
• Why do online freelancers earn so little?
• If you can write, you can get paid
• How much do blogging gigs pay?