Don’t Have a Popular Blog Yet? Here’s How You Can Still Make Money From Freelance Blogging

Freelance blogging is rather under-appreciated as an income stream among bloggers.

It probably has something to do with it not being that sexy at first. After all, freelance blogging is 100 percent active income where you directly exchange your time for money.

However, the nice thing is that if you need X number of dollars by, say, the end of the month then there’s really nothing that comes even close to freelance blogging.

What’s freelance blogging about

I should probably explain the idea of freelance blogging just a bit to get everybody up to speed.

In its most basic form, freelance blogging is about writing posts for other people’s blogs.

The great thing about it is that you can choose your clients, as well as moderate how much work you’re willing to do every month.

And while I will admit that building a dependable career that way can be tough, getting started and earning your first dollars is actually way easier than going the traditional “make money” route:

Freelance blogging is the quicker approach, and you don’t need to be extremely successful or popular to pull it off.

There are three main steps in the process:

Step #1: Getting the initial setup out of the way

To get started, you need two elements: a blog of your own and a portfolio of posts.

The key here is to have posts that are of good quality and provide some useful information. But I guess this is something you’re working on right now anyway, so we can probably scratch this off the list.

By the way, if you indeed are in the middle of launching a niche blog then you don’t need to go far for some on-point advice, or even more advice.

Here’s what to do to make your portfolio appealing:

Make sure that your blog has at least 20 quality posts and that it’s been online for at least 3 months. This is the evidence that you know your main craft – writing.Land 5+ guest posts on other blogs that are respectable in the community. You will use them to prove to your prospective clients that the work you do spreads further than just your blog.

This really is enough for a start. Chances are that any prospective client won’t spend hours checking you out across various corners of the web. They will just have a quick look at your most recent work.