Writing articles and taglines in your free time can earn you anywhere between $5 to $500.
Have you ever written an article for your corporate newsletter or university publication before? Have you ever received feedback from anyone that you write well? If you answer “Yes” or if you want to earn extra income on the side by writing articles, check out this list of websites below.
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Some of them may not pay much but it can provide you with the opportunity to really practice composing and writing articles. The secret to excelling in writing is to practice, practice, and more practice!
Trade your time writing articles and earn anywhere between $5 to $500 or more! Writing and copywriting (writing for websites and blogs) still ranks among the top 20 highest paid freelance jobs today.
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Fiverr is the largest marketplace to buy and sell digital services. You can post jobs ranging from article writing, web development, voice over projects, proofreading, social media moderation, logo design, and a lot more. The site claims to have served over 950+ services per hour last year.
You can post your article writing services with Fiverr and price it anywhere between $5 to $950 or more. Posting your service is free but when customers pay, 20% goes to Fiverr and 80% goes to you. Fiverr also made it very easy for customers to include tips on their payment. This means more money if your services are really good.
You can write almost anything with Fiverr including; personal finance, wealth creation, banking, health, natural sciences, inspirational, relationships, psychology, just about anything really. Post your gig and if someone is interested, they will avail of your services.
You can set different prices according to the word count or depth of research that you will do. It is all up to you.
Fiverr is available for all countries worldwide and you can withdraw your earnings via PayPal, Payoneer, bank transfer, or direct deposit if you are in the US.
This website will literally make you say “Wow!” Women on Writing (WoW) has a huge collection of interesting articles about – you guessed it, women and writing. It talks about practical tips on how to write better articles, tips on publishing, marketing, freelancing, different how-to articles, inspirational, and much more. They even have book suggestions and classes you can take to really excel in writing. The website runs 2 quarterly contests for fiction and non-fiction where you can earn anywhere between $200-$500 or $25 Amazon gift cards.
Check out the contest mechanics here.
Ok, you will not write complete articles with Slogan Slingers but rather short and catchy taglines (or slogans) for different startup companies. Taglines reflect the values of a company and are so important that others outsource it to gather the best ideas.
Companies basically run contests on Slogan Slingers to gather tagline ideas. They post their individual requirements on the website with the corresponding timeline and prize to be won.
If the slogan or tagline you created gets selected, you get to earn anywhere between $50 to $999. You can turn ON Slogan Slinger’s automatic notification so you get an email whenever there is a new contest available.
The earnings are not much, and frankly, it is very difficult to win as you compete with a thousand other contributors, but the process of brainstorming taglines are really fun to do.
You can write poems that capture human emotions such as love, family, missing someone and friendship. Blue Mountain Arts holds regular contests for writing poems choosing 3 winners per round. 1st place winner gets $350, 2nd place gets $200, and 3rd place gets $100. The next deadline for submission is coming really soon on December 30, 2019.
Everyone in the world can join and submit their entries to the website. Prizes are paid using PayPal.
Freelancewriting.com displays available writing jobs in a list format from 7 sources including Indeed.com, FreelanceJobOpenings.com, FLW Exclusive, Craigslist, FreelanceBloggingJobs, Ed2010, and BloggingPro. You can filter available jobs according to location, skills and job source.
Jobs posted from this website are applicable in the US.
Unlike other writing jobs websites, PubLoft takes care of all client interactions for you so that you can focus purely on writing. No need to find and sell your work to customers. It is like working as a freelancer under PubLoft itself.
Before you get accepted with PWN (PubLoft Writer Network), you are expected to already have some degree of writing experience. You will need to demonstrate your skills with grammar, fluency, and research during the application process.
PubLoft is a good way to find high paying and quality writing jobs. You can earn anywhere between $75 to $250 per post, paid biweekly via Paypal.
Summary
Fiverr – is where you can post and advertise your writing services.
Women on Writing – Let’s you contribute articles about writing.
Slogan Slingers – Allows you to join a contest and write creative taglines or slogans.
Blue Mountain Arts – Get a chance to win $350 for poems about human emotions.
FreelanceWriting.com – Aggregates a list of available writing jobs from different sources (US only).
PubLoft – Never worry about clients, just write and PubLoft will take care of the rest.
