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The Ultimate Side Hustle

Be your own boss.

By Nikki McwilliamsPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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The Ultimate Side Hustle
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You've probably heard the term “content marketing” before. The idea is simple, a business produces content like blog post, YouTube videos, podcast and Instagram images in order to build an audience people see the content either on the company website or through social media and eventually the business will be able to convert a certain percentage of these followers entertaining customers. If you scroll through your Facebook feed or look through your email box you'll probably find a dozen businesses right now who’s content you consume on a daily basis. All these different businesses need people who can create content for them whether it’s writing articles or videos scripts, with a little work you can turn your turn your writing abilities into A powerful and comfortable skill.

You can do this by utilizing 2 strategies:

1.) Find the blogs and businesses in the industry that you like to write about. Send an email and see if they're looking for content. You might need to do some free work at first just to get your foot in the door but this will lead to paying gigs time after time.

2.)Use sites like problogger.com or upwork.com there are tons of jobs to be found on these platforms. I've seen countless people pull in $ 2000 to $3,000 per month in less than 6 months.

At that point there are two options:

Option 1) use your cash flow to bankroll your own business like creating a digital product or a membership site

Option 2) simply double down on your writing and turn your freelancing into a Content agency. What starts out as a few freelancing gigs grows to a business that could support your entire family.

Being an entrepreneur is hard work it's a lot of go out and find your own work and it's okay to fail you pick yourself up and you try again because there are always jobs in the market and these days there's more remote online jobs that you can do right from home on your laptop with just a little effort and research you can find these jobs as well.

For beginners freelance writing is the easiest it is also the most common and if you decide that you like it I can become a career and the best part is you get to choose what you write about there's no set stories you have to write in order to save your career. you also get to choose when you do all this riding there is no set schedule no deadlines unless of course you take on jobs that require used to have the content written within a certain time frame but normally the businesses you're riding for understand if they're not your only business and that you might have other jobs you are working on and give you extensions and work with you on the time it might take you to write the content they are requesting .

If you do the jobs well you will get better recommendations more requests to make more money. If this is something you can see yourself doing then I hope these tips help you I know they sure help me once you develop a strategy and a system the rest of the easy and it comes natural as long as you have confidence in yourself and do what you set out to do and to be who you set out to be. Just remember if you get stumped take a moment or take a walk our imaginations are a wonderful thing

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About the Creator

Nikki Mcwilliams

So Ima Trader @ MTI. I trade the forex markets I've also traded stocks and options. In my experience there's lots of money to be made as well as lots of money to loose (if your just guessing or wishing) that is.

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