How To Find Freelance Jobs That Pay

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With the economy today and how hard it is to find a decent job, many people have turned to freelance online. This is a great opportunity for people to create their own work, earn money writing for others, and offer their services as a freelance writer, logo designer, website builder, or expert in SEO. No matter what your talents, there is always a need for people to do different types of jobs online.

When you first start out as a freelancer online, most people will go to the typical websites who offer you work that is easy to do but pays such a low income. As a freelancer, don’t sell yourself short. There are hundreds of blog and websites that look for a great content writer every day. Furthermore, there are travel magazines who is always looking for a good travel writer. It isn’t that hard to find a few great clients as a freelance writer that you can work for on a daily or weekly basis. If you are good at what you do there is no need to join a content mill and work for pennies a day. Take pride in yourself and go for the jobs that actually pay you for your talents.

However, if you are new to the field and would like to get some experience, you can always check out Upwork, Toptal, Fiverr, Freelancer, Craigslist, Guru, and 99designs. Just keep in mind most of these sites don’t pay you a decent amount of money to write for them. Take for example 99design. Here you will need to compete with hundreds of other designers for a single payment if the client likes your design. Otherwise, you have spent the time to create and add your design to the competition and have walked away with nothing at all. Stop wasting your time and your talents. I would suggest that instead of looking in the typical places everyone online suggests, look in places nobody suggest. Here are a few great places you can find work that actually pays you a decent amount of money for your talents.

Photoshop Tutorials

Are you great with photoshop? Have you ever written some quick tips or even a tutorial to help your friends? Then this is the perfect place for you. You can write as many quick tips for photoshop and earn $50 for each tip you write up and submit. Just keep in mind the tutorial, tip you submit should be new and fresh. Otherwise, the site will reject your tip and you won’t get paid. Furthermore, you can earn $100 to $150 to write a tutorial. Just check the site to make sure the tutorial you want to write hasn’t been written before. If you want to earn decent money writing tutorials, you’ll need a good handle on the English grammar and the tutorial should be new and fresh.

Tuts+

Are you good at writing a tutorial about web development and technology? Are you an expert in PHP, Ruby, HTML, JavaScript, and more? Then check out this site. If you are fantastic at writing tutorial to help others learn HTML and web development, then you can earn $100 to $250 for each tutorial that you write. This is an excellent opportunity for freelance writers who love to help others and have a vast knowledge of web development and technology.

Write Naked

This is another great site that pays people $75 to write a guest post that is 450 to 650 words long. Just check out the site because they don’t always accept new content. The site does have a reading period where they will accept your pitches. So before going out and doing too much research, it will be necessary to check out the site, understand what they are looking for, prepare your pitch ahead of time, and make sure you get it submitted during one of their reading periods.

EnvatoTuts+

This is another great site that is looking for freelance writers to write tips and tutorials about Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Inkscape, Sketch App, CorelDRAW, and Typography content. If you write up a quick tip tutorial they are paying $50 to $75 for your tutorial. However, if you want to earn more, just write a full tutorial and earn $150 to $200.

These are ways for any freelancer to earn a lot more money working for yourself. The work is a bit harder, but in the end, you are actually paid for your time and efforts. If this sounds too complicated, you can always go check out UpWork and be paid $5 for writing a 500 to 750-word article for a client. Most of the time you’ll spend too much time rewriting the article. In the end, it feels like you should pay these people to just take the article you’ve written and not the other way around. Stop writing for peanuts and be proud of the work you do. Get paid for your talents and stay away from the typical content mills other people suggest.

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