so you're just now diving into the world of
freelance writing you're trying to figure out how to get your first freelance writing jobs
you're you're looking for videos on how to find freelance writing jobs and you're seeing
the same crappy advice over and over and over again go to upward go to job board it's all
great and then you actually go to up work and you go to those job boards and it says oh
we're not looking for more writers oh you know you're too expensive oh we're gonna go hire
someone from Pakistan for a dollar and particle I get it that sucks and so then you probably
question what is this whole freelance writing thing anyway everyone says it's so easy everyone
says it's the easiest way to make money online and you're just like nah that's BS you can't
get work you can't get freelance writing jobs in 2019 2020 and beyond it's here to tell you
that's not true you just have to know where to look so in this video I'm gonna share with you
five freelance writing job boards that don't suck and can actually get you high quality
high paying regular work let's jump into it what's up if you don't know me I'm Sean o
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sitting in front of a computer it's like I said in today's video we're gonna talk about five
freelance writing job boards that don't suck let's be clear I think that freelance writing
job boards and job boards in general are one of the easiest ways to get started I do not think it
is the best way in order to get freelance writing work we'll cover that in other videos I think once
you actually learn how to send a proper cold email that's gonna be a much more effective way for
you to get freelance writing work but for now when you're just starting out maybe you don't
have a portfolio yet you've never done it you don't have a website you need to get started you
want to start building some positive momentum and job boards are a great way to do it but you got to
make sure you're going to the right job boards so let's give you my 5 favorite freelance writing job
boards okay the first one is one you've probably heard of because it's been around well basically
forever it's been around for over a decade and that's Pro blogger.com they're one of the OGIS of
blogging online and so it makes sense that their job boards are gonna be really good because they
attract other bloggers looking for high quality freelance writing work so I was just in there
this week and I was really surprised with how high-quality the opportunities were at the time
of me doing this video there was one for get rich slowly which is one of the best personal finance
blogs out there it was actually one of the sites that I first guest posted for and it led to my
biggest traffic day ever at the time of publishing it and now they're looking to hire writers that
are qualified in the personal finance space so that's just one example of a great opportunity
that I've seen on pro bloggers so that would be my first stop if you're not necessarily wanting
to go into like journalistic tight places you don't want to write for like major magazines or
publications or newspapers and you want to kind of stick to freelance blogging then pro blogger
is where it's at they've got opportunities and just about every niche imaginable and generally
they pay pretty well so I would start with pro blogger okay the second one is the aptly named
freelance writing dot-com a ton of opportunities on their job boards across a wide variety of
different industries it expands a little bit beyond just some of the blogging stuff that you
might see on problogger I saw SAS companies I saw construction companies sigh ecommerce companies I
saw everything from content writing to copywriting to ads I mean there's a ton of different things
there depending on what your skill set is so if you're looking for a broad base of opportunities
for freelance writing online I think that's a great way to go especially considering a lot
of these are positions that pay really well and a lot of them are you know part-time or
full-time remote work opportunities so if you don't necessarily want to go the freelance route
and you're actually looking for a job then there could be some opportunities there despite the
fact it is freelance writing comm freelance so there's plenty of freelance opportunities but
also some remote work opportunities as well so would check that out so now the third one
what if you are looking for jobs that are more in the journalistic space you know publications
magazines newspapers things like that well then I'd go to media bistro dot-com because they have
a lot of those types of opportunities so one of the things you'll find with these different job
boards is they each cater to kind of a slightly different market whether it's blogging whether
it's ecommerce whether it's you know magazines and so you kind of have to sift through to figure
out what the perfect fit for you is but the great thing is as a freelance writer you don't have to
be limited to one specific thing yes it's great if you find a niche and you become the Gulf writer
or the personal finance writer or whatever it is but one of the things you'll learn as you start
freelancing more as you start learning how to research quickly and how to write about all sorts
of different topics so by watching all of these sites rather than just locking it on one you're
gonna come across opportunities you might not have seen otherwise that have the potential to expand
your business in a whole different direction that might be really lucrative that you didn't consider
before so frequenting these sites on a regular basis is definitely something that I recommend
because the opportunity that ends up being the biggest and the best might not have been the one
you were initially considering and it might not have been in a direction that you had even thought
you might ever go so Mina bistros a great way to expand beyond just the blogging stuff find some
of the more actual journalistic opportunities that can make a lot of sense okay the next one kind
of along those same lines is journalism jobs.com and again most of these ones are going to be you
know pretty serious writing jobs for you know more major publications I've seen colleges that are
looking for freelance writing I've seen you know publications and magazines like us new I saw the
Daily Mail they were looking for a copywriter so there's lots of opportunities and just because
maybe you don't have a formal background in writing just because you didn't graduate with
a writing degree that doesn't mean you can't qualify for these jobs personality is a big factor
responsiveness is a big factor and knowledge base so if you've got skills in a particular niche then
there's a good chance you're going to win out over somebody who is a little bit more broad-based
so don't let the fact you may not have a writing degree put you off from applying to some of these
jobs because if you know how to write and you can be professional and you can be responsive there's
a good chance that one of these is gonna be a good fit for you so the fifth job board I recommend
checking out for freelance writing jobs online is going to be flex jobs.com now there's all sorts
of freelance jobs on Flex jobs but I've found some of the writing ones to be particularly good so one
of the questions I get asked a lot is how do you get started with technical writing technical
writing jobs tend to pay really well and it's doing things like writing instruction manuals and
things like that kind of boring but specialized work well in Flex jobs I've found quite a few
technical writing jobs that are available so I think that's a great place to get started if
that's the type of work that you're looking for but it's certainly not limited to just that I've
seen a lot of straight-up content jobs more SEO related jobs so there's a lot of opportunities
and I like how it's segmented out by part-time job or freelance job or full-time job so you can
really get a sense of what they're looking for in a writer so you can figure out if it's gonna be a
good fit for the type of work that you're looking for as well okay so I know I said we were only
gonna do five but I got one more for you so we're gonna throw on a six one and that is pangaean comm
so pangaean started out mostly for travel writing and travel job boards but it's expanded into all
types of different work now you've got to set up a free account in order to be able to view most
of the job opportunities but it's definitely one I would keep in mind again because it's just going
to provide a little bit of a different perspective than some of the other boards you know that's one
of the key things once you kind of start finding some of these niche job boards you know whether
it's one specifically for technical writing or specifically for travel that's when a lot of these
opportunities start to present themselves because usually someone who's looking to hire a writer
they know they're gonna have better luck on something that's a little bit more specialized
than something that's super like say upwork and that's why we're not recommending up work in
this video so there you go if you're just getting started those are six different job boards I would
check out to start getting freelance writing work and I would just keep this in mind that I don't
think job boards are the be-all end-all I don't think they are the best way to get high-paying
long-term clients will do a whole separate video all about how to craft a perfect pitch and find
the right people to pitch because I think that's a more sustainable way to get work in the long
term but this is a great way to supplement things and to get going so if you like this video make
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