you know so one of the things that I was thinking about when I first started freelance writing is I had no clue what the best types of freelance writing jobs there were for beginner writers like myself I was new to writing I had to learn how to pitch I had to figure out my rates but I couldn't figure out my rates because I didn't know what kind of job to take was it white papers was it email was it blog post was it landing page did I have to learn SEO did I had to learn negotiating I had to get a website I had to get all these things as a beginner freelance writer and so the types of jobs just I had no idea and so I had to like stumble around to figure out what the best type of freelance writing job was for a new writer and then over the years I learned that there was just more than what I was doing there are other types of freelance writing jobs that either have cropped up since AI has happened or has always been and I just learned about them so I want to share where types of writing jobs for Freelancers that you can start if you're brand new to freelance writing hi my name is Elna Kane I blog over at el.com and on this channel I tell you some actionable freelance writing tips to help you become a freelance writer I do have programs for you if you're interested and then I will share throughout my videos so let's get to it now the first type of freelance writing job that you should probably have under your belt is SEO blog writing okay it's not just content writing it's not just blog writing it's Co based now I'm going to be honest with you not every client is going to give you a keyword and not every piece of post has to be optimized for search engines right but for the most part these businesses online they start a blog to get leads to their service or product and in order for them to get in front of those people they do have to Market on Google Now many of these businesses are leveraging social media and they're leveraging video content so they are using a multi- Channel or Omni CH channel uh marketing strategy but the Crux of it all is content on a Blog as an example beehive is one of my clients and they publish practically every day and they publish probably two to three posts a day this was 10 hours ago and 9 hours ago so this was on the same day this is on the 14th on the 1 1th on the 12th on the 11th and so on and so on so you can see here I recently had a post publish now I submitted this post for this company in September and they published it in October so not all companies do this my other client I give them the post and within a week it's already published all right so each client that you have will have different processes they have many writers on this blog and they have many content pieces on the blog so there's a lot of steps that go into this process for them to publish this post but here's an example of an SEO type of blog post I have the keyword that they gave me in the topic that they gave me which was event marketing email examples is probably the keyword and then another keyword is event marketing email or emails right that is the main topic of this blog post and the main keyword of this blog post so so when a client gives you a Content brief most likely they're going to give you the actual title of the piece that you're going to write the blog post and any related keywords associated with that blog post this is exactly what beehive has done with their content pieces they give me a G do and it's all just laid out there they give me even the outline which is great because I don't have to think about it I can just focus on what is important and what my main skill is which is writing online all right so I love these types of clients with SEO types of blog posts clients are expected you to understand how to write that you can always take a look at other business blogs to see how are they marketing their blog try to guesstimate what the keyword is I can guarantee you that it's going to be one of the you know first couple words in the title and then you can run a search Let's Run a search of event marketing email I've mentioned it 16 times U minus some of these that are already on the blog so I guess 15 and this does an encl so 14 13 around 13 times also they mentioned it in the subheadings I did not write that subheading so I can even you know reduce that so there's a handful of times that I've mentioned that keyword in here and that's fine they don't want to over stuff the main keyword in a blog post it is naturally displayed throughout the blog post here and it's not just topl loaded you can see I mention it way like almost 34s you can see the progress bar 34 down of the blog post here again even again so you can see how it is definitely placed strategically I did not go and say well I need to put this keyword in here it be it came natural to me so let's look at how to use beehive for your next event marketing email campaign you know I didn't write for your next campaign because this is specific to hosting event an event marketing email I knew that so I need to write that keyword in so having this type of skill under your belt will open the doors to practically every type of business online that needs a Blog poost writer that knows about SEO that knows about content writing I do have a master class called the FastTrack to SEO writing this is a course that teaches you how to find those topics how to write those keywords in and all that I'm in the process of updating it and increasing the price so if you want to get in early before I do that then I suggest you enroll in that course right now and you will get access to the new version of the master class video as well as the older version I always keep the older version in these master classes but the price will go up I have recently updated my writer sample master class and have increased the price on that all right so it's up to you if you want to enroll in that I'm not telling you have to but if you want to the next type of freelance writing job that beginner freelance writers can do successively is web copy a lot of copywriters lean into web copy to write the pages most likely if you're a freelance writer you're going to have to work on your own writer website and you're going to have to learn those tactics of how to write a you know about us page a bio page a lot of businesses have a products page with product descriptions if you're working with like solar preneurs they might have you know who are we uh what are our services what are our products and things like that so some copywriters work with let's say a photographer so for example you know Lindsay kennel is a photographer for creatives and so you can see on her page she does have a home and about a portfolio page let's chat and a Blog so a freelancer like yourself or beginner copywriter can pitch to let's say photographers and ask them if they need help optimizing their web copy and most likely it would be the homepage here the types of words that they're using you can take a look at how they're positioning themselves are they showing the best features of their services are they showing what they can do to help other creatives who their ideal audience is is it said easily here like can you find out easily what what she does is she only do wedding photography you know it looks like weddings and couples so it's more relationship based types of content that she produces for people here so you can see all of this so you can look at her on Instagram she probably markets a lot on Instagram right but they have to get to the web page so the end result for all that marketing she does on Instagram and social media is to get to the homepage and it might direct people to either her portfolio page here which there may not be a lot of copy cuz as a photographer it's just photos but you can definitely work on the homepage and then spruce up her about page and how she can have the right message for her audience so that they connect with her easier faster and that believe in her that she can do the job for them kind of thing so as a beginner copywriter web copy can be your doorway into more types of copy this photographer has a Blog and so she might need a couple blog posts from you she markets on Instagram you can Market your you know social media copy for that or you can give her these pieces of copy that she can use in different parts of her web pages in her social media in her email so it opens the doors to other types of deliverables that you can offer copy is one of the easiest and best types of freelance writing jobs for beginner writers so the next type of best freelance writing job that you can start doing is emails actually emails are a fun way to learn more copyrighting skills and it's a fun way to piece together ideas in a authentic way to help businesses or entrepreneurs now when I first started my email copy writing service I focused on coaches and course creators and so ones that were moms in particular since you know on Instagram this is where I was doing most of my marketing and on Instagram I share a lot of my mom stuff for twins mommy my other site that I have that caters to M preneurs so I was really focusing on M preneurs at one point on my Instagram profile and that attracted a couple of moms that were coaches that had services or that had some ways to monetize their business for example Alexa here reached out to me for her email copy and I did a welcome series for her so you can easily get into a freelance writing job by offering just a welcome series for brand new creatives for example or to take what they have their existing email series and tweak it so that they can actually have a call Action that actually leads to some sales down the road and so this is what Alexa wanted she I think I think I already had a welcome series I think it was just one email and I told her you know it's best to warm an audience in by having several welcome emails so they can get to know you their your products and how you can help them so for example here is the first email here so I tweaked you know her title I think she just had welcome to and her Blog name and I wanted to be more actionable so I added a quick learning activity you know people who enroll in her email course or whatever she has there was to get some free activities for kids cuz that's her business is she hosts U meetups with moms to do kid activities and she has books and things like that so she gets people what they want access to her members library and then I give exactly this tip here she provides a picture of all this stuff I put the links in here so that again there's some call to action here okay I formatted this email and all of that and then this is usually at the end she wanted something at the end of every welcome email so this is what she puts just a little heads up of up how where to follow her and all that stuff but as you can see this email is only a couple hundred words it's not long at all and that was just an intro to her and giving her audience a quick win and then we hashed out what the next email should be and how to lead them maybe we focus on her Instagram page or maybe she's going to do an Instagram a real that became popular where we can link to those reals that are popular for her or she might have a live that she put on her Instagram profile that we can link to that maybe shares all her products so they can get to know her on a deeper level and what she provides you know these are things that I talk through to these course creators these coaches to help them connect with their audience but also direct them to what they do the best how they can help them the best right so that's what you're going to do as a beginner freelance writer now you might need more help by let's say enrolling or signing up to different email service providers so you can start understanding how to use let's say kit for example or beehive I would also sign up to just other creative newsletters to see what they're all about you can sign up through Instagram to see who's has a website who has a lead magnet see if they if you get that lead magnet see if there is a welcome series after that do they mark it to you afterwards or do you just funneled into their newsletter with no like RAR reason about what products they have how they can serve you better right so you want to see that so that when you come at them say hey you know what I've been following you on Instagram for the for a while and I send up to your lead Magnet or signed up to whatever let's say your five-page checklist on Instagram uh real ideas and I really liked all these ideas but I noticed that you didn't have any continuation of this do you have any other products I'm an email copywriter I can help you direct your audience to your products or to any kind of live events that you're going to be hosting we can funnel those in and I can help you write those emails right so you you personalize your pitches that you know what the funnel is based on the email that you're receiving from them and then you can craft a nice pitch that doesn't demean them that doesn't put them down but encourages them that helps them maybe give them a quick win say I noticed this maybe if you did this in your email that might work and oh by the way I write emails for coaches just like yourself and I'd love to help you if you need more help right just open the invitation this is what happened on Instagram I watched all these ladies wonderful lives when I caught them I commented on their post and then I reached out to them once I signed up to their newsletter or whatever they were offering all right the next best freelance writing job that you can start earning money from is through social media copy and as I mentioned a lot of these businesses online are Omni Channel they have multiple ways of marketing their business and a lot of businesses are leveraging social media they're also leveraging influencer stuff so they're getting influencer sponsorships and things like that you can help these businesses with their social media copy now they may have already a social media team that doesn't have a copywriter on staff so you can open the doors by contacting their social media marketing team usually on Instagram or even on LinkedIn and connect with the social media team there and see if there's any wiggle room for a let's say a professional social media copywriter now they don't know that you're brand new but I want you to have enough confidence that you can write the soci social media copy most likely you have your own LinkedIn profile you have your own Instagram profile or Tik Tok or or X you're already on social media so you have an idea let's say it's been about two months and you were marketing your business you're figuring out all the best tactics to use have the confidence at that point that you can start offering that service to others okay I don't want you to come out here clean without knowing nothing about social media because that's not going to get you far you need to come with some proof and that proof is showing them your profiles that you understand social media marketing you can give a little tip like you know like I wrote this guest post about the latest Tik Tok Trends and how to opt how businesses can use Tik Tok to uh grab a younger audience you know you can write guest posts that shows exactly your knowledge in that topic all right I've done that in the past where I needed to break into uh landing page copy and I end up writing landing page copy for uh my clients and I would link to those and that would help me secure a job faster all right so think about that with social media copy so for example let's take this entrepreneur this is Cassandra she has the clutterbug YouTube channel the clutterbug blog she has a podcast she has sever books she was on um a TV show she was a host of the HGTV hot mess house so she's done a lot I don't know if she's still the host I don't know if they still have this but I followed her before she became a host on TV and so I know a lot about her um I even knew her when she was just doing daycare so she's really grown over the last 10 years of of me knowing Cassandra through like social media and through YouTube she would be a person that you could reach out to to help with uh social media content here she has lots of social media posts that she publishes on Instagram on Facebook she might be even um posting on LinkedIn say hey are you on Tik Tok are you on LinkedIn I can help you write the social content on that or I can help you with this I can do all your promotional videos and post about your latest podcast if you want these are latest blog posts so there's a lot here that you can work with to find creators that have you know a podcast they have courses they have books they have a YouTube channel all of those types of uh marketing channels these people have they need copy to Market that they need it and so most like they're going to hire a small team one or two people and you can be those one or two people all right for the last best type of freelance writing job you can have as a new freance riter is refreshing content now this is a new type of service that I noticed probably around the pandemic or right after the pandemic where uh people on LinkedIn were marketing refreshing content like this was something that they knew that businesses need because like after some a big event like that they need to sort of scrub some posts or they need to change some topics and especially with the SAS businesses where we talk about digital marketing things change social platforms change YouTube shorts was a brand new thing that we had to you know I had to go back and add to my content and things like so refreshing content is a service that new writers can can do and you can look and see how much it's needed if you take something like Shopify they have a Blog with thousands of blog posts and they even have a whole section of podcasts that go years and years and years of content there where they Pro they write the podcast out so there is a lot of content for the Shopify blog and they do hire writers simply for refreshing old content you can see just by looking at all of these posts you know if I go to all the posts here this is just under the topic products to sell you can see there are tons of pieces of content across two pages so a lot of these posts might need some updating especially if they're talking about certain types of businesses maybe a business uh is no longer and so they need to change that you know I can't use that KDP anymore I can't use that print on demand business anymore cuz they're out of business kind of thing it's something like that where they're going to have to update post and they'll hire writers because it is a big project I mean they have thousands of pieces of content that probably need updating and so they can hire a dedicated writer or two to really comb their blog and update the blog up update the images update the types of products that they're listing and any stats that might be old and outdated that have maybe a new St that maybe was just published recently okay so you can see something like this where you might have to update certain things all right so those are the five best types of freelance writing jobs for you let me know in the comments below if you're already doing any of these jobs or if you're interested in learning more about that like I said I do have my f track to SEO writing master class and my writing sample starter kit as well if you need help just writing those samples those are master classes for you and the writing sample master class is newly updated with the newest types of ways to write your writing sample if you need more help make sure to check out this video on the 11 best types of content that you can write to help you make more money as a writer otherwise like this video give 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