Are You Cut Out For Article Writing?
The headline got my attention:
Can Article Writing Be An Online Business?
Well, obviously, we’ve done quite well with it at Article Content Provider.
I first started out in Internet marketing by writing articles. Many Internet marketers do start there and it’s a good place to start because article writing teaches you the basics of search engine optimization. Notice that I said the basics. We’re not talking about upper level link building, social media optimization, and advance SEO techniques. Those are all useful and should be learned by anyone wanting to succeed online today. But article marketing is a good primer for these other pursuits.
The reason I say that is because article marketing, as an Internet marketing technique, is one of the oldest tactics of online marketing. It’s been around since at least 1995. Even before search engine optimization and pay-per-click took over our imaginations, successful webmasters were writing articles and publishing them on other people’s website to drive traffic back to their own. It worked then and it still works today - although now it is much more competitive than it was then.
But can you make a living writing articles for someone else?
Believe it or not, article writing can be an online business that you can have success with. No matter what type of web site a person has, quality content is something that everybody can use. And the problem with many people’s web sites is repetitive content.
You would be surprised at how many people are willing to spend money for content. While many people have ideas, they do not necessarily know how to put it into words. That is where you come in. If you are a decent writer, you can make quality money off of writing for people.
In a word, yes. There are several ways you can go about seeking employment as an online article writer. You can build a website and open up your own freelance business, you can attempt to get business through the social media websites and freelance sites online, you partner with someone else and share the work (and the profits), or work for someone else. There are advantages and disadvantages to each method. If you run your own freelance writing business you’ll have to do your own marketing, which is an expense in time and money, and you’ll run the risk of customers not paying you for your work or spend countless time on collections activities. While most customers are good and pay what they owe on time, it is a risk of doing business on your own.
For these reasons, many beginning article writers can benefit by working under the tutelage of a more experienced article writer and marketer who takes care of the collections, billing, marketing and sales, and other similar aspects of running a freelance writing business. If you are a skilled writer you might want to spend more time writing and less time marketing and collecting money. Our most productive article writers make a full-time income at writing articles for others and they learn how to get results for our clients. If you think you have what it takes to be an article writer, try applying at Article Content Provider and let us do the hard work for you.
