Looking Ahead as a Freelance Content Marketing Writer
Plans for this New Year and a personal update.
New year wishes to you! Hope the new year showers its choicest blessings on you.
How has the start been? I am off to a blessed start this year. A client came knocking on my email inbox in the last week of December, through Linkedin. And things have worked out and I have started working for them editing email copy since the first Monday this January. I like it 🤞.
I wanted to earn more from Medium, but up until now I have barely grazed past $50/month. But nevertheless, it has helped me stretch my writing muscles and helped me build a decent portfolio and find my writing sweet spots — parenting, marketing, and business, in that order.
I've had a few business owners reaching out on Linkedin offering about $40-$50/1000 word articles, which is though not great but still gives me hope to completely turn to write for a living sometime soon.
As some of you might be aware, I recently moved to India and since Stripe is not available yet in India, I opted out of the Medium Partner Program. So I can no longer earn monetarily from Medium.
But I will continue to write on Medium. Substack is one temptation but I don't know if I should give in. Vocal is not my type of platform. You have the least control over your article on Vocal unless you're a paying member.
This year, I am shifting gears to full time writing for clients. Last year, I have spent enough time writing for myself with an occasional freelance gig now and then.
I hope to be active on Medium when I can. And good luck to you in your career and life.
If you're an aspirational freelance writer or copywriter or anything freelance and looking for job opportunities. Here are a few tips that can help.
- Build a freelance resume or a portfolio. Nothing fancy is needed. Just a pdf file. I prepared mine from Neville Medhora’s template.
- Stay active on FB groups in your niche. I landed a couple of gigs from Mompreneur groups and job hunt related groups.
- Don’t ignore Linkedin. It has huge job potential Keep posting on Linkedin, any valuable tips and tools.
- Focus on two-three social media platforms. If you’re everywhere you're nowhere. I focus on Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook.
- You can make a living freelancing without having thousands of followers. Read it again.
And if you’ve still not decided on any solid plan of action for 2022, you could consider James Clear’s 30 Days to Better Habits e-course. It’s free and value-packed.
Time to uncover your true identity, your strengths and your true potential. Here’s the link to sign up for the 30 Days to Better Habits e-course .
Go, live your best life.
