A recent study showed that up to 86% of freelancers work from home every week.
If this is you, are you doing everything you can to have a professional and more organized working environment?
No matter how long you have been freelance writing, there’s always room for improvement in your workflow and organization.
According to Inc., in April alone last year, up to four million people quit their job for good.
The Great Resignation is upon us and people are realizing that freelancing, starting a side hustle or just working for themselves is the ultimate job to have.
Are you part of the “I Quit” crowd of four million and counting? Looking to start freelance writing perhaps? Well, it’s not as easy as looking at Upwork or Fiverr for writing jobs that can pay the bills.
Are you tired of digging around Google looking for sites that pay you to write?
Or maybe you’re frustrated because job boards are not yielding the results you want?
When you’re trying to break into freelance writing and make money online, you don’t have time to wade through thousands of results looking for paid gigs in your niche.
Do you slack at your job?
Workplace procrastination is a real thing, but so is cyberslacking or soldiering when you work from home.
The perpetual state of trying to play catch-up with freelance writing deadlines and staying ahead of your workload causes a lot of procrastination.
We are living in a pandemic right now, and health is on everyone’s mind.
Up to 5% of all searches on Google are health related.
And what’s great in this day and age is that healthcare digital advertising spending will exceed and overtake healthcare TV ad spending for the first time.
Are you planning on starting a freelance writing career? Or are you hoping to transition your side-hustle into a full-time gig?
Before you jump into the world of freelancing and self-employment, it’s important to be prepared.
Doing so involves more than creating a blog and responding to job postings.
When I first started as a freelance writer, I definitely had imposter syndrome at work.
When a certain freelance writing client hired me to write blog content, I noticed other writers (the ones I looked up to) also writing for this client and I immediately felt like a huge fraud.
Learning how to deal with imposter syndrome at work would settle in and I had a very hard time writing for this client.
It’s no lie –
I’ve been freelance writing since 2014 and have worked with amazing small businesses, influencers and big brands.
During this time, I learned I didn’t have to hustle as hard or write as much, or be fully booked to make a living as a writer.
Want to know the most sought-after skill businesses seek from their hires?
The idea of clear, concise, engaging and converting writing is an elusive skill not many posses.
Did you know that Cracked, Reader’s Digest and The New Yorker all have comedy writing jobs for you?
Whether you want to write comedy for TV, have a column of humours stories in a magazine or assist in some way to make people laugh online, getting paid to write comedy is a legit and fun job to have.
Check out different comedy writing jobs and places to find jobs online.
