19 Writing Gigs You Can Easily Start To Make Money Online
By: Josef Cruz
Tags: Startup, Writing, Money, Business, Freelance

19 Writing Gigs You Can Easily Start To Make Money Online

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Making money through writing is a lot easier than you think.

You don’t need a client to hire you as a writer, and you don’t have to worry about not getting paid.

All you have to do is write articles, follow a particular writing guideline, submit your work, and get paid by these publications:

Note: Each link goes directly to the website’s writing guidelines.

1. Incomediary

This website provides the best content for web entrepreneurs.

Cost: $200

Website: Incomediary.com

Topics: Creating awesome websites, driving traffic, social media, making money online

2. Longreads

Features the best storytelling on the web from hundreds of publishers.

Cost: $250–$1500

Website: Longreads.com

Topics: Essays, blog posts, investigative projects

3. Informed Comment

They are interested in reporters or academics with original information or interviews on Middle Eastern politics and US foreign policy.

Cost: $100

Website: Informedcomment.com

Topics: Middle eastern politics, US foreign policy, religion, human rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights, energy, climate change

4. Transitions Abroad

A guide for paid work, volunteering, interning, study, language learning, travel, and living abroad.

Cost: $75

Website: Transitionsabroad.com

Topics: Travel

5. Back to college

News and information resource for adult re-entry students pursuing professional development or an advanced degree.

Cost: $55

Website: Backtocollege.com

Topics: Re-entry student experience story, financial aid assistance, campus education, online education, graduate school

6. Great escape publishing

Publishes articles on the craft and business of getting paid to travel, whether by writing, photography, tours, or other means. They only paid for personal stories, specific income tips, and interviews.

Cost: $150

Website: Greatescapepublishing.com

Topics: Interviews, personal stories, specific income tips

7. Elite personal finance

A network of industry experts looking to give you sound financial advice!

Cost: $300

Website: Elitepersonalfinance.com

Topics:

Personal finance, business, make money online, save money, loans, credit cards, identity theft, credit report, helpful tips

8. Copyhackers

The home of conversion copywriting.

Cost: $325

Website: Copyhackers.com

Topics:

Advanced techniques for freelance copywriters: negotiation, closing clients, networking

Virality and how you write blog posts that get shared wildly

Persuasion, psychology, and decision-making

Freelancing for lifestyle

Freelancing for money

Conversion copywriting

A/B testing, UX, UX vs UI vs copy

Product design

Identifying flaws in X

The startup lifestyle, starting your own business, startups vs small buzzes vs big buzzes

Google Analytics and other online biz tools that are mysteries to most people

Exhaustive insights into CTAs, headlines, or form design

The business need for things that don’t seem to have a clear business need

Product marketing and growth hacking

Things word geeks love: grammar, handwriting, hacks, lessons from authors, lessons from fiction writing

Direct response in today’s marketing landscape

Social media for data geeks and startup marketers

Email open rates, testing, and subject lines, email personalization

Adwords vs Facebook ads vs retargeting

Landing page copywriting

Converting free / trial users to paid users

9. Belt Magazine

Known for compelling long-form reportage and poignant personal essays.

Cost: $25 — $100

Website: Beltmag.com

Topics: Essay, poetry, photo essays, features

10. A fine parent

An online community for parents who believe that Great Parents are Made, Not Born.

Cost: $75

Website: Afineparent.com

Topics: Parenting, children, family

11. Metro Parent

An online parenting community offering expert advice, stories on parenting trends and issues, and numerous ways for parents to enrich their experience raising the next generation.

Cost: $25–$200

Website: Metroparent.com

Topics: Family fun, parenting, pregnancy, food, home, education, camps, classes, health

12. Cracked

A team of writers and editors knows that their audience is hungry to learn, and every article is crafted to keep their engaged and educated readership coming back.

Cost: $150–$200

Website: Cracked.com

Topics:

Movies, zombies, gaming, urban legends, behind the scenes, Game of Thrones

13. Digital Oceans

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size.

Cost: $300 — $400

Website: DigitalOceans.com

Topics:

Go tutorials that continue from our How To Code in Go series.

Python tutorials that supplement our library of Python content.

JavaScript tutorials that extend our library of JavaScript content.

React.js tutorials that build upon our growing React.js series.

Node.js tutorials that supplement our library of Node.js content.

ASP.NET Core tutorials on growing this topic area on Community.

14. Linode

A technical writing program for freelance contributors.

Cost: $300

Website: Linode.com

Topics:

DevOps Tools, sever infrastructure, storage, programming languages, Linux

15. RankPay

A digital marketing company.

Cost: $50

Website: Rankpay.com

Topics:

SEO, digital marketing, small business

16. Providence

Equipping the American Mind to Engage the Real World with Classic Christian Conviction.

Cost: $100

Website: Providence

Topics: Christian faith and theology, national security, foreign policy, international relations political theory, defense, war, terrorism, global economy, energy

17. Serious Eats

A food publication looking to pay writers for their contributions related to food, cooking, and eating.

Cost: $100

Website: Serious Eats

Topics: Food, eating, cooking

18. Listverse

Top 10 Lists that are hilarious, creepy, unexpected, and addictive. Three fact-filled top ten lists daily.

Cost: $100

Website: Listverse

Topics:

Entertainment, general knowledge, lifestyle, science, society

19. Sitepoint

Publisher of books, courses, and articles for web developers.

Cost: $100

Website: Sitepoint.com

Topics:

CSS, SaaS, HTML, Developer tools, Git, GitHub, and open source, Performance, Browser stats/trends, Task Runners (Grunt, Gulp, etc.)

I hope this list of websites will help you have a good start and make a living writing.