Can You Make a Living Writing Content?

[blorgon416]

Obviously you can make a living out of writing content/ it's called be a freelancer. If you're asking about being part of a content mill that's a bit different.

 

[Writerly]

Well, I think it depends on what you think a fair amount of money is. Some people would gladly take 30 dollars because writing a 1000 word article is a piece of cake to them. Some writers actually write that fast, and they do proper research beforehand. You could also try blogging, but you would have to consider other social media outlets as well.

I don't think it takes that long. Like I said, a 1000 word article takes about an hour, if you are a fast typer, and if you are diligent enough to stay put until you are done.

 

[hasan7707]

Content writing ain't the biggest source of money; Copywriting is. Copywriting is straightly related to profit of the company, so they'll be happy to give you $1000 on a 1k word article if you can bring them 5k or more in profit.

Plus, writing eBooks is also a big option.

Hope this helps.

 

[blorgon416]

Well, I think it depends on what you think a fair amount of money is. Some people would gladly take 30 dollars because writing a 1000 word article is a piece of cake to them. Some writers actually write that fast, and they do proper research beforehand. You could also try blogging, but you would have to consider other social media outlets as well.

I don't think it takes that long. Like I said, a 1000 word article takes about an hour, if you are a fast typer, and if you are diligent enough to stay put until you are done.

Ughh...some people would do this. But that's under the standard rate for a native english speaker. As someone with a journalistic background it especially pisses me off when people undercut already low market rates.

 

[wanessmark]

Hope you don't try selling it here

I got the same feeling right away

 

[Bella Lopez]

I am a freelance copywriter and I find no difficulty earning my livelihood from it. Yes, it was difficult to begin with but it wasn't really about money for me.I wanted to write and earn from it. If you have a passion that drives you, I'd suggest you to save up a few dollars, start with part time writing while on job and quit once you have regular clients.

Just be persistent and don't give up.

 

[life2ifeless]

Fellow freelance writer here.

You definitely can make decent money from writing, whether its writing sales copy or blog posts.

One of the biggest challenge for any freelancer is finding consistent work. Some weeks you make bank money, while other weeks you got zero projects to work on.

If you can get yourself out of this 'feast-or-famine' cycle, then freelancing is definitely for you.

 

[Deleted member 657006]

100% yes.

if you can write correctly and study subjects and able to re write the subjects in a pro way then there money to be earnt easly.


written content is the number 1 wanted via google search engine, and if your good at it there thousands you can earn .

good luck.

 

[planck]

Some time ago I was considering the idea of writing content as a full-time vocation. But, I have got busy working in another field. Now I plan to revisit this idea.

Unfortunately, I find that there is very little value placed on high quality content. Let me rephrase that. It is very difficult to find anyone willing to pay a fair rate for good content.

I write this from the perspective of living in the United States. In areas where the cost of living is lower the calculus changes.

Where I live a teenage babysitter can earn $50 for sitting in your home and watching television for an evening while your children are asleep. An adult babysitter can easily get $15 to $20 an hour or more (cash). While a house cleaner can earn the same amount of money scrubbing your toilet and dusting your furniture.

A "university trained, native English speaker" gets perhaps $30 for a well researched, 1000 word article including rewrites and this is considered a good rate. How many well researched, well written articles can one write in a day? How long should it take?

I realize that over time, if you are lucky you might cultivate clients who pay more. But it is not easy.

If I am coming at this all wrong and I am missing a key piece of information I would very much appreciate someone pointing this out.

You can write 3 well re-searched >1000 words per day.

At the rate of $30 per 1000words, you'll be making $90 per day.

Good luck!

 

[Cepasa]

Why not create your own content site and start earning from ads then?

 

[sombra]

You can write 3 well re-searched >1000 words per day.

At the rate of $30 per 1000words, you'll be making $90 per day.

Good luck!

In the United States, $90 a day would allow you to qualify for a number of welfare programs as it would put you below the government's defined poverty level. Making a good living as an online marketer is just as elusive as doing so as a content writer. It most certainly can be done but most people underestimate the time it takes to establish yourself, the dedication and of course the talent required.

However, as on individual in this thread mentioned, writing content for your own site might be more productive.

 

[planck]

In the United States, $90 a day would allow you to qualify for a number of welfare programs as it would put you below the government's defined poverty level. Making a good living as an online marketer is just as elusive as doing so as a content writer. It most certainly can be done but most people underestimate the time it takes to establish yourself, the dedication and of course the talent required.

However, as on individual in this thread mentioned, writing content for your own site might be more productive.

$90 per day is not below the poverty line in the US of America.
It is actually amounts to about $2700 per month and $32400 per year.
The median annual household income in the US is about $50,000 but the median annual individual income in the US is $32,400

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Making money online is hard work indeed; but, if you put in the work, you'll make it.
Off course, you need to know what you are doing.

 

[sombra]

$90 per day is not below the poverty line in the US of America.
It is actually amounts to about $2700 per month and $32400 per year.
The median annual household income in the US is about $50,000 but the median annual individual income in the US is $32,400

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Making money online is hard work indeed; but, if you put in the work, you'll make it.
Off course, you need to know what you are doing.

Yes working 7 days a week, 365 days a year will boost anyone's income. But let us treat this as a job. 5 days a week at 52 weeks a year (no holidays, time off, sick days or vacation) is less than $24,000 a year. Still above poverty level but most certainly not a sustainable income. In other words you are valued about the same as someone who makes fries and wears a paper hat.

 

[Seven4]

I know many freelancers that just do content creation. They seem to make some decent money from it. One guy has two kids to support and I know that he gets paid quite well for his work. Plus he has the comfort of working when the kids are napping or during the middle of the night.

 

[planck]

I do not know of anyone who makes a living by exclusively writing content online. I know that copywriters get paid a fat chunk of change. When I was making my VSL for a tinnitus product, which I launched a while back, the video company tried to persuade to buy a 10,000word in-house sales copy for $4,000. I off course, declined.

Nonetheless, that kind of ridiculous money for copy is out there.

But, as we all know, the money is not in huge profit margins. The money is in continuous re-orders (subscriptions baby! That’s how you create a passive income).


Let’s return to content creation

The best way to make money by creating content is not to sell the content directly; rather to publish the content on your own site; then build traffic to that site. That way, you can monetize your own content with adsense, chitika, infolinks, media.net, etc.

As we have all learnt from bitter experience, you do not want to put your content on squidoo, hubpages, weebly, wetpaint, etc. From one day to the next, these content hosts can change their TOS or even close down. Then, all your efforts would have been lost and you’ll have to re-start from zero.

 

[4ContactUK]

My partner is a copywriter and his best day was 6000 words, so practice makes perfect. The reason he can type so fast is that he's a touch typer.

He is on 2 different freelancer platforms and has his own private clients. Spread your work over a few like that and you would be full-time in 6 months, although he did it in a year without promoting or a website until now.

The ongoing contracts are where the money is. 2 large e-commerce stores with regular new products have endless work. Both of them have experienced crappy writers and ones that just can't stick it for very long. White papers are supposed to pay well.

Yes, you may get bored with some of the repetitive work but it pays enough to support our family.

You will probably have to increase your rates a few times to get to the rate you want once you have experience.

Use Grammarly for your grammar and spellings, it's a free extension.
Good luck.

 

[planck]

You are right about "Ongoing contracts are where the money is"
The key to make money online is not one-time sales with huge profit margins.
The key is in a steady flow of re-orders.
If you can't figure out how to get your customers to re-order, you won't be making it big.
It is really that simple.

 

[nocturnae]

If you become (somewhat) of an expert in a field you can ask a fair amount of money for your writing, perhaps even co-author (e-)books and negotiate a fee, both fixed for writing and perhaps even a % of sales revenue. But it will most likely take you months to build up that ‘status’.

If you can write engaging blog posts you could focus on writing on Medium or Steemit, as both have a way for you to earn income from the readers.

 

[planck]

If you become (somewhat) of an expert in a field you can ask a fair amount of money for your writing, perhaps even co-author (e-)books and negotiate a fee, both fixed for writing and perhaps even a % of sales revenue. But it will most likely take you months to build up that ‘status’.

If you can write engaging blog posts you could focus on writing on Medium or Steemit, as both have a way for you to earn income from the readers.

It is a very bad idea to write for sites such as medium.com or steemit.com. You do not own any content you post on these sites. They could change their TOS from one day to the next and stop monetizing your content. They could sell their platform to another platform which has a totally different policy.


Just look at what happened to squidoo. In 2014, Seth Godin, former founder and owner of Squidoo sold the platform to hupPages. The new owners at HupPages immediately stopped squidoo’s long-standing revenue-sharing program. And all the contributors who had spent years building on layers upon layers of content, thinking that they could rely on it as a dependable online asset, found themselves ruined.


This happens all the time. If you want a long-term source of income, you have to buy your own domain and set-up your own site. You cannot rely on Facebook, tumblr, blogspot, wordpress, etc. You have to own the domain name, under which, you publish your content; else, you are almost guaranteeing your future ruin.

 

[AnastasiaAff]

Actually, you are telling right things and you can earn on it very good as a freelancer, but you will do more in case you create your own site with services!