Marie M. Daniels Earns New Writing Badge

What is the Hot 500 Badge at Associated Content? Why and how did Marie M. Daniels get this award? 

from Associated Content "Hot 500 are the Associated Content Contributors with the largest audience, and most engaged readers, viewers and listeners. These badges are updated once per month, and grace the profiles of the top 500 active Contributors based on the previous month's page views."

I won the Hot 500 Badge at Associated Content!

Find 101 Niches for Freelance Writing on Squidoo

Another new freelance lens over at Squidoo.  This new Squidoo lens can help you find your new Niche for freelance writing if you haven't chosen one yet.  Niche writing is very profitable in the freelance world; take a look at the article to find a Niche that you like and can freelance write about.

101 Niches for Freelance Writing
So you want to find a freelance writing niche. There are so many niches to write about and you will find 101 Freelance Writing Niches to consider below. Discovering the right niche area for you can be difficult. Because there are so many niche category's...

Freelance Writing - Get Your Name Known

If you are new to freelance writing and you need to get your author name known I will give you some tips to get your name out there.

Even if you have been freelancing for a while you may want to know how to get your name on the web so that potential clients can find you easier and contact you for writing assignments.


I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk

Get Social:

• Sign up for a Twitter Account.
• Sign up on Facebook.
  
• Social Bookmark your best articles which include your byline.

 Put Your Writing on Content Sites: Great for showing samples of your work.

• EzineArticles - these articles could end up going viral.
• Associated Content
  
• EHow - the to do experts.
• Helium
  
• Bukisa
  

Blog about your favorite topics.

You can quickly get your author's name all over the web in a matter of a few days.  You only need to write one or two articles or posts at each place and include your name to get your name in lights.  Then you can do the all important Googling of your Name and you should pop up all over!

Find 101 Freelance Writing Jobs on Squidoo

I have written more over at Squidoo.  My new lens can help you find new freelance writing jobs if you are looking for more writing opportunity's then you might just find something at the link below.

101 Freelance Writing Jobs
Looking for Freelance Writing Jobs? Below you will find a great list of 101 Freelance Writing Opportunities. Freelance writing can be great for SAHM's and others who wish to make additional income writing from home. If you are just starting out freelance writing...

How to Write a How to Article

How to Article Writing

As a freelance writer you should know that how to articles can be very lucrative to write. Just putting How to ... in your title will not get you the page views that you are looking for though.

In order to make more money from your how to articles it must actually tell someone how to do the task step by step. One of the best places online to put your freelance how to articles is on Ehow.com If you freelance write at ehow then you already are familiar with thier simple set up.

Freelance Writing How to Articles at Ehow:
Ehow has everything set up for you in terms of writing a great how to article. They have slots for many pictures to add to your article for those visual people. I am one of those visual people who will gain much more from a picture than from a paragraph of instructions.

Ehow also has the step by step ease of a how to article. Writing freelance how to articles for ehow you should have an introductory paragraph or two and then go into the steps of how to complete the project, craft, DIY or other type of how to article. While I like pictures it is not necessary to have a picture for every step in your how to a few sprinkled around will do.

People know ehow and they trust them to find out how to do exactly what they were looking for. They can find your how to articles and then if they follow your directions they should come up with a completed project. You also have space for tips at the end of the how to article to tell them exactly how to get the best results.

Here is one of my Ehow articles:  How to Make Money Online Freelance Writing

How to Niche Articles
There are already how to articles on just about anything that is major or popular. So the best thing for you as a freelance writer to do is to narrow down that topic. Don't write: How to Lose Weight, but instead write: How to Lose Weight After 40. Just by adding a few words and narrowing down your category you have a more valuable article than just the general ones out there that are a dime a dozen. Which means your niche how to article has more of a chance of being seen by more people, and getting picked up by other websites.

Freelance Writing and Blogging for Income

If you are a freelance writer who currently writes online for some of the content writing sites such as Associated Content, Bukisa and Helium you might want to consider starting your own niche blog.

Blogging in your specialized freelance writing area can give you a much needed change from the strictness of intensive research and working with frustrating editors. When you start your own freelance writing blog based on your favorite writing area you get to show your knowledge and creativity. Many times when writers finish a freelance article it must be totally devoid of all personality and only list the facts. With a blog you can spend some time letting your personality shine through.

By freelance writing blog posts on your own blog you control what you write, when it is written and the advertisers on your blog. Which leads to making money with your blog. Many freelance writers will write daily for others and will not spend any time writing for their own blog because they don't believe that it could be profitable. You know that there are bloggers out their pulling in as much money as CEO's of huge corporations. Why? Because those bloggers know how to advertise and promote their blogs. Freelance writers can do the same with their blogs.

Ways to Earn Money From Your Blog:

• Google Adsense ads: By placing ads from Google or other advertisers you can make some money with your blog and freelance writing posts.

• Review Products: There are several places that will pay you to post a review on your blog. You need to make sure that these reviews are related to your niche though.

• Affiliate Marketing: You can promote Affiliate products and use affiliate links to recommend products to your readers.

• Informational Products: Recommending ebooks related to your blog's niche can help your blog to become prosperous and bring your blogging income up.
  

If you are a freelance writer you can see that if done right producing your own niche blog can bring you more money. Some freelance writers who once wrote hundreds of articles now only publish blog posts for their own very profitable blogs.

Where to Find Freelance Writing Jobs Online for the Newbie

Where to Find Freelance Writing Jobs Online for the Newbie

There are many freelance writing places online that will pay you to post your freelance articles. Many of these freelance writing jobs will have a 400 word minimum requirement, but some do not.

Most of these freelance writing sites are ad revenue sharing sites. Which means the freelance writing sites put your article up for free and then put advertisements on the same page. And those freelance writing jobs will share a little of the money they get from the advertisers.

Easy Freelance Writing Content places to get started freelance writing online:

Ehow
Squidoo
Helium
Associated Content
Triond
Epinions
Today.com
Constant Content

Go and browse around these online freelance writing sites, and sign up at the freelance writing jobs you like.

So You Want to be a Freelance Writer

So you are thinking about being a Freelance Writer.

The first thing you need to do if you want to become a freelance writer is to begin writing. Writing everyday will get you into practice and help your writing become better and you will find your writing style.

As a new freelance writer you want to know what you should begin writing about. If you know anything about gardening, home improvement, or parenting that is the place to begin. Freelance writers need to write about what they know. If you write about what you are knowledgable about then you will have writing authority. More people will want to read your articles because you have a commanding writing voice.

I suggest you begin writing at a few of the content writing sites such as www.Bukisa.com to start out your freelance writing career. Bukisa's writing site pays much more than others for page views, and you only have to write 250 word articles (much less than most) and it is a great way to get your freelance name out there.

Freelance Article Writing Takes Work

When you first sign up and start out with a freelance article place such as Bukisa or another site you may feel like you will never make any money. The first few articles will start to produce some change or if you are really good, lucky or know what your doing - a few dollars. But one can't live on spare change and a couple of bucks, right? That is why they call it starving artists. Well writers are kind of artists; they can paint images with words.

But writing articles just starts to compound, like money in the bank. The more articles you write and publish the more money you will start to get for them. If you were having a novel you wrote published you would get royalties from your book. Well I think of these monthly performance views or page views money as "royalties" for the freelance article writer.

I am still getting money or "royalties" from an article I wrote over 6 months ago. That is money I got today or now when I did the work a long time ago. I like that my freelance writing can still earn me money long after I finished it.

So the more articles you write the more money you will get. Eventually you can get to the point where you make full time income from your freelance writing. Just keep writing - daily!