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Can you make money from freelance writing
Are you looking to bump up your current income? Or transition to a career that gives you more freedom and flexibility? Want to make six figures working from home in your pajamas? If you like writing, then freelancing might be the business for you.
Miranda Marquit has been freelance writing for more than 20 years. Her work has appeared in Forbes, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications and media outlets. Miranda also teaches people how to get into freelance writing, and she is developing a course to help journalists transition into freelancing. And she does it all from home in her pajamas!
On this episode of Queer Money, Miranda joins us to explain how she got into freelance writing and why she chose money as a niche. Miranda describes what she likes and dislikes about freelancing and walks us through the tools she uses to do her job as a freelance writer.
Listen in for Miranda’s insight on writing as a generalist versus specializing in a niche and find out what steps you can take TODAY to break into freelance writing as a side hustle or full-time business!
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Topics covered on how freelance writing can make you more money
- How the desire to stay home with her son led Miranda to freelance writing
- Some of Miranda’s first gigs as a new freelancer and how she stumbled into the money niche
- What Miranda likes and dislikes about being a freelance writer
- How to generate a few hundred dollars a month freelance writing as a side hustle
- Miranda’s advice on how to make freelance writing a career
- Why the field is NOT too crowded to make a living as a freelance writer
- How the freelance writer’s job may change as AI tools evolve
- Why Miranda suggests starting out as a generalist but specializing in a niche to earn more money
- The tools Miranda relies on to do her job as a freelance writer
- What freelance writers can do when a client doesn’t pay
- Why Miranda recommends that freelance writers create their own products
- The first 3 steps you can take TODAY to break into freelance writing
Connect with Miranda Marquit
Resources on how freelance writing can make you more money
- Miranda’s Blog: Looking for Freelance Jobs? Here’s Where to Start
- Confessions of a Professional Blogger: How I Make Money as an Online Writer by Miranda Marquit
- Freelance Writer Academy on Gumroad
- Forex Market Makers
- ProBlogger
- Bankrate/CNET AI Fiasco
- Semrush
- Ahrefs
- Emily Guy Birken on Twitter
- Financial Feminist
- Grammarly Premium
- Hemingway App
- Copyscape
- Kindle Vella
- CreditWise
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We’re David and John Auten-Schneider, the Debt Free Guys (www.debtfreeguys.com) and hosts of the Queer Money® podcast. We help queer people (and allies) live fabulously not fabulously broke by helping them 1) pay off credit card debt, 2) become part- or full-time entrepreneurs and 3) save and invest for retirement.