According to a recent hiring trend report from Elance (dot com), article writing is one of the top 5 skills that businesses are outsourcing to freelancers. It seems like everywhere I turn, there are companies looking for good article writers. It’s really no surprise, especially since Elance caters mostly to online businesses. After all, what is the Internet made of? Words, images and video. These words are actually crucially important.
Most Internet marketers don’t have the patience to sit and write an article for their blog, for distribution to article directories, etc. Some don’t actually have the skill. Either way, marketers online would prefer to work on creating their next product instead of writing articles.
Time is money. Since marketers and online business owners have no time to write their own articles, thousands of jobs writing articles online are available everyday. This creates a lucrative opportunity for people like you with some writing skills.
You can actually start out writing articles as a means of getting your “Feet wet,” and building up your writing portfolio. Once your portfolio is large and you have become an expert article writer, then you can move on from there. There is no other time than now because the jobs are in abundance.
Article writing can lead to other lucrative jobs such as writing research papers, essays, etc, as you would find on the website hiringwriters (dot com). You can then move on to online ghostwriting. You would find the bigger bucks as a ghostwriter. There are other in-demand skills for online ghostwriting. And those in-demand skills are, copy writing, blog writer, press release writer, email marketing specialist, and don’t forget, white papers and more.
So what does this mean for you? Well it means that you can acquire specialized skills, which leads to less competition for you and more opportunities. The key to standing out above the crowd in any job market is to have a specialized skill…high demand but low supply. This way you can actually charge more for your services.
Many copywriters make six-figures annually. They do this with just a few job annually. Wouldn’t you prefer to earn $2,000 – $10,000+ for writing just one sales letter, versus article writing for $10 an article? I rest my case.