How to Find Freelance Writing Jobs Online

Video Transcript

"REBECCA SATO: Hi. I'm Rebecca Sato with ExpertVillage.com. And we were just talking about how to do a good job for the client and your portfolio and those things, and those are important. But on a practical level, how do you get jobs? How do you go out and consistently generate enough work that you could live off of it? Or--and even if you're just doing this as a hobby, how can you generate enough work to make it worth your time? Because if you're spending half your time trying to find a job, that just doesn't seem very efficient in terms of time and money. But there actually are a lot of places where you can find a lot of jobs very quickly. And one of those is on the Internet. A lot of writers are going online. There's a lot of different sites. This site happens to be called iFreelance.com, and right here, it has the people who need writers to work for them for contract positions. And over here, you have writers who are lining up, saying, "I'm willing to work for you." And it's just kinda through a bid process, and then there's a lots of different sites. There's Elance.com. You can go here and it is writing, ghost writers and all kinds of things. So there's all kinds of sites. It goes on and on. So what you want to do is just go online and do your research, look at different sites, and it doesn't hurt to go on and bid and sign up for these. I wouldn't recommend some sites trying to charge you a lot of money for the service, and some are free. I would recommend starting on the free sites and seeing what kind of business you generate from it. There are some that have a modest subscription, $3 to $4 a month, and that's probably worth your time as well if you want to give it a try. Another thing is Craigslist. And one thing I've mentioned earlier is actually if you do a good job with the first few clients you get, you might not have to keep looking for new jobs. Because they're going to refer you to their friends and business partners, and it will spread from there. So if you do a good job, you're not always going to have to be digging up new work."