Win At Freelance Writing

By Gertrude Nonterah

Do you want start a home-based freelance writing business TODAY that makes you $1000-$5000 per month and creates more freedom and family time?

Or perhaps you've been yearning to start another stream of income that brings in money so things are not so tight all the time?

Or maybe, you're a mom who would love to stay at home and raise your kids but you realize the bills still need to be paid because money is tight?

Whatever the case is: I wrote this book for YOU!

In this fun, honest, and straight-to-the-point read, I will share my own story of building a stream of income as a freelancer in 2015 and how that saved my family and me when I suddenly got laid off.

You will also learn:

- What you need to do BEFORE you "open for business" as a freelance writer - and no, it's not about getting business cards!
- How to build proof for your freelance business so you look like a PRO and get high-paying clients from day one
- How to turn education and experience into starting a freelance writing business
- How to use internet marketing and personal branding to earn more clients as a home-based freelance writer
- How to grow your freelance writing business once you start it
- The online tools you should have so you can be an uber-successful freelance writer
- The productivity tips you ABSOLUTELY need if you want to succeed in your home-based freelance business
- 29 industries you can offer your freelance writing services in

If you're excited to start a home-based freelance writing business that offers you flexible hours and more time with your family, scroll up to the top and hit that BUY button.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gertrude Nonterah
• Release date: Jan 19, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224803378

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Win At Freelance Writing

Learn how to make your first $1000-$5000 per month with freelance writing.

Gertrude Nonterah

Copyright © 2020 by Gertrude Nonterah

All rights reserved.

No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

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Contents

1.Welcome

2.Freelancing changed my life

3.Will AI change the landscape for freelance writers?

4.Let's talk about GRIT

5.You deserve to be well-paid

6.Write down the dream

7.Break the dream down into tangible goals

8.Choose a niche to write in

9.Get those clients!

10.Where to find clients

11.Your writer website

12.Staying productive as a freelance writer

13.Tips for working with clients

14.Tools to run your freelance writing business

15.Invest in your learning

16.Congratulations!

Chapter 1

Welcome

It’s about time! I’ve been waiting for you. Let me guess:

You want to start a business, but you’ve been overwhelmed by ideas.

You want to stay at home with your children and not sacrifice your power to earn an income, but you do not know what to do.

Maybe you would like a side income that doesn't require you to become a unicorn tech founder, so you can have more control over time.

Or perhaps you heard of freelance writing but never had a step-by-step guide to help you start and grow your freelance writing business.

And somehow in your quest to find out more about freelance writing, you picked up this book. Or maybe I did not mention your reason at all but you are here anyway. Well, whatever your reason is, I'm here to tell you that it is not a mistake that you picked up this book. A lot of people dream of starting a business. You've taken the first step to make it happen.

Congratulations.

Just like you, I have a story. And that story is going to be just as important as all the steps and techniques you’ll learn in this book to help you become a freelance writer who makes $1000, $5000, or even $10,000 per month.

Here’s that story.

You will find the online resources I mention in this book at this link: https://geenonterah.com/freelancewritingbook/

Chapter 2

Freelancing changed my life

In June 2015, my family and I got ready to move to San Diego, California. I had just landed a position as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego. The chance to move away from the snow-prone East Coast of the United States was an exciting prospect and we were not about to miss it for the world! It didn’t take us long after moving to San Diego to realize that life cost three to four times as much as it did in Philadelphia where we had just moved from.

It’s easy to find a basic two-bedroom apartment in San Diego going for over $2000 per month in a decent part of town. For perspective, that is more than I got paid per month as a stipend when I first started my Ph.D. in 2009. That $2000 monthly bill doesn’t include electricity, water, or internet. Life was expensive and we needed the money to survive if we were going to continue living here.

At this point, I had been running my first blog MyOnlineBizJourney.com, for about a year. I had been reading and studying a lot about how to make money with a blog and everything I read talked about creating a digital product like an eBook or course and selling that. But from my limited experience, I knew unless I was selling a high-ticket course or coaching program or had an email list of at least 1000 people, the chance at making money this way was limited. So, when I stumbled on freelancing as a way to start making money online, I was elated!

I didn’t need a huge email list or social media following.

I didn’t need to create a high-ticket program. I honestly had no idea how to create one. (And now that I know how high ticket programs work unless I am charging a corporation or high net worth individual those amounts, I don't feel comfortable charging those prices.)

But I did have skills I could sell.

When I started my blog in July of 2014, I needed to build traffic to it. Because of this, I created accounts on Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook so that I could get people to read my blog. It didn’t take me long to build a small following on these platforms who then started to read the blog. That traffic kept on growing month by month. Within six months, I went from a blog nobody read to receiving 1000 blog visits per month. It wasn’t an astronomical amount of traffic but I proved a concept – I could write content that an audience would read. Audience-building is no easy feat. In addition to my social media skills, I was already writing content that people were happy to read and come back again to read.

Now I had a second skill I could sell – I could offer to write other people’s blog posts for them. I jumped at the opportunity to sell those skills and announced to my husband that I was starting a