How to Become a Content Writer?

There are about 1.2 billion websites on the internet and about 250,000 websites are created every single day. Every website runs on content, mainly text content. You need content to describe different topics, photos and videos, and so on. This gives us some idea of how important content is.

Content can be in different languages but since English is an international language our focus should be on English. We must improve our writing skills in English to become English content writers. English is understood by almost a billion inhabitants of the globe.

STEP 1. CREATE A PORTFOLIO

The first thing we may need is to have a portfolio. This portfolio is representative of what your capabilities are as a content writer. Start writing by selecting three topics e.g. Health, Technology, Blogging, Fashion, and Lifestyle. These may be referred to as niche topics. You will not be able to write on too many topics, so you must select your niche I.e., a topic on which you have the best command. Your topic may be different from the topics which I mentioned. You may start from just one topic also but the earlier mentioned are the most popular niches on the internet. Get yourself prepared to write three articles on three topics in your first week. This may be a start and you can increase in the weeks to come.

STEP 2. SELECT A GOOD BLOGGING WEBSITE

If you are starting from scratch, then you may start from a FREE website like www.medium.com. This website is like the ‘YouTube’ of articles. It has a lot of traffic and visitors really like to read articles on this website. You also get good visibility and if you attract a good number of visitors then you can also earn money from your articles. YOU HAVE TO BECOME A BLOGGER FIRST TO BECOME A CONTENT WRITER.

Always remember that you will find it extremely difficult to earn money from content writing if you use copied content in your articles.

STEP 3. WRITING 100% ORIGINAL CONTENT

Your content should be perfectly original and should not be a copy from some other webpage on the internet. If you have command over a topic and you can write anything on it, then that writeup should be 100% in your own words. It’s the most important thing in becoming a content writer. Start practicing it and you will learn in a few weeks how to write in your own words. Copying homework from other class fellow’s notebooks is not applicable anymore. You must remember that there are tools/websites on the internet that can identify plagiarism (or cheating and copying) within seconds. Therefore, copying will never work at all.

You have every right to do research on a topic but when you produce that research in writing, it should be in your own words. Practice makes the man perfect! Your skills will improve. www.grammarly.com and www.copyscape.com will help you very much with writing. Use both these websites as a tool to help you.

STEP 4. HOW TO EARN MONEY FROM CONTENT WRITING

The website which I mentioned I.e. www.medium.com will itself help you earn money after some time when you get smarter at writing articles. However, there are many ways to earn money from content writing. You may contact different bloggers who are running big blogs. These blogs always need content writers. You may contact Facebook Groups of content writers and introduce yourself by sending the links to your best articles. There are marketing companies that are always in need of content writers. The entire marketing work is done by sending information and communicating with the market. Content is again an important thing here.

At this stage, your portfolio plays a very important role. People will ask for your sample work. They may even ask to create content for a specific task. What you must remember here is that you should not share any fresh content with any of your news prospective clients. Always upload the content on your blog and ask your client to see that content from there. In this way, nobody will ever be able to cheat you by not paying for what you have written for them. Every content that you write and upload on your blog will become your property.

You may also create your profile on websites like www.fiverr.com, www.freelancer.comm & www.upwork.com and can offer your services. It’s a whole new world! People will offer content-writing jobs and you will present your charges. In the beginning, you may have to keep your charges small. Later, after your profile progresses you may increase your charges. Remember that you must continually improve your skills and the results will be obvious.

STEP 5. KEEP LEARNING AND KEEP IMPROVING YOUR SKILLS

Your improvement in learning and your research in content writing are very important. Dedicate one hour daily to this. CONTENT IS THE KING!