I have just put together an aggregated feed of writing jobs that are offered on the big bidding and job posting sites (currently we are tracking 25 sites). Rather than having to keep track of all sites, you can view the available jobs in one convenient location.

Freelance Writing Opportunities via email or feed reader

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Where do we get the Freelance Writing Jobs from?

Most of the sites are bidding sites. But we have also included some smaller sites that offer great freelance writing opportunities. We update the jobs that are displayed every 30 minutes, so you can be sure to get the latest.

Craig’s List

Elance.com - Read my review on elance and why it just got harder to get jobs.

GetACoder.com

Getafreelancer.com

GoFreelance.com

IFreelance.com - Read my review on ifreelance.

Indeed.com

Monster.com

ODesk.com

Project4Hire.com

RentACoder.com

Scriptlance.com

Yahoo Jobs

The smaller sites:

AgaveBlue.net

AuthenticJobs.com

BloggerJobs.biz

ContractedWork.com

CoroFlot.com

FreelanceSwitch.com

JournalismJobs.com

Krop.com

ProBlogger.net

VirtualVocations.com

WritingJobRoll.com

One important site we have not been able to integrate as yet is Guru.com (see review). But we are in contact to them to make that possible as well.

I have posted a range of projects for freelance writing work on bidding sites and worked with a few different writers. I often received great proposals with excellent samples from native English speakers. I was really excited to work with them. But their work was often below my expectations, because the topic was only researched and not filled with personal knowledge and first hand experience.

Now I only work with writers who live and breathe a particular topic. Research is useful for including the latest trends, but not to learn about a topic that you did not have any knowledge before. Whenever I see a profile of a writer that lists more than 10 topics that they feel well-versed in, I exclude them from any further consideration. And naturally even more so if they say that they will write on anything.

That is purely from a buyer’s perspective. Naturally you have to make sure that your chosen niche has enough demand to pay the bills. If there is enough demand, you have the advantage that little research is necessary, so you can produce more freelance writing work in less time. The result: a higher hourly rate.

While I have gained the bulk of my freelance writing jobs through bidding, there are more avenues for writing projects out there, beyond just bidding sites. In fact, the whole purpose of this site is to help you to see the potential in that underused and under publicized marketplace.

If you are uncomfortable with the idea of bidding for jobs for whatever reason, then it’s useful to know about alternative freelance writing markets. In this section, we will take a look at other places where you can look for a freelance writing assignment; I break them down below to give you a brief overview of what other opportunities you can expect in the writers market.

Offline writing opportunities

The most well publicized, and therefore the most competitive, jobs in the freelance writing market are those in the print media. Trade magazines and newspapers are the places where most aspiring writers go to get their start, and this can be deadly competitive, and often the wages are not too great either! Still, there are a huge number of potential markets for your writing, and you do have the ability to apply for positions that cater to your strengths.

The person to get into contact with for these freelance writing jobs is the editor of the newspaper or magazine you want to write for. This is usually done by way of a query letter; we will go into those a bit more in a further article. The most important part of the process is patience; you will often hear nothing at all, and it might be some time before you can get your shot!

Becoming a web content writer

Wait a second; I bet you are thinking I said that we wouldn’t be talking about online writing jobs in this section, right? Well, not exactly. What we aren’t talking about is gaining a freelance job through a bidding site, but there are a lot more ways to get a job as a web content writer other than through winning a bid, and I have made some good money doing them.

The web content writer’s market is not yet so saturated that everyone who has developed a website can easily find a good writer. There are plenty of people out there who can’t write at all, and then there are those who prefer to cut and paste, who just disappear, and who can’t seem to keep a deadline.

For this reason, most web site developers are constantly watching for opportunities to hire web content writers in the freelance writing market, and in this section I will point out some ways you can get them to approach you without having to go through a bidding process.

The most important step: finding those freelance writing jobs available online. When I first started writing, it caused me a lot of stress that it was pretty obvious that freelance writing jobs were readily available.

After all, there were articles all over the Internet, books, magazine articles, newspaper freelancers, and somebody wrote all those little blurbs that appeared in descriptions and so on. Actually let’s face it: there is a world of print out there!

Not all writers are created equal

The second thing that was obvious was that not a lot of people could actually write. Those of you who CAN write and are reading this know that this is true; how many times have you come across some absolute crap and wondered how it was that the person who penned or typed it could have though it was worthy of being read?

Those of you with freelancing experience know this from an even more important source, as far as the money side of things go. How many clients have you had who have told you how very hard it is to find someone who can actually write, using proper and easy to understand English? For my part, I am pretty sure that this is why the clients I do have are willing to put up with the odd missed deadline and so on.

Making the connection

So what exactly was the stressful part? Well, it lay in connecting the dots between those freelance writing jobs available and the people who were hiring to fill them.

That’s what made me successful; I know where to find jobs on the Internet. I am hoping that sooner or later we can build a community here with writers from several backgrounds who can help to point novices in the right direction, but for now this will probably be my focus.

So, here are some of the places where you will be able to make that connection between the need between the freelance writing jobs available to you and the people hiring to fill them.

Where you can look

• Writing sites
  Here’s one link that I recently found: www.bluegrasssolutions.org. These guys are hiring writers right now and they aren’t the only company doing so either. Keep your ear to the ground and your wits about you and you can find some too.
• Bidding sites
  My bread and butter: Elance.com, Guru.com, ifreelance.com. There are at least half a dozen other sites where clients are offering any type of freelance writing job you could think of.
• Direct appeal
  Every once in a while I get a positive response when I dare to write a website suggesting that they beef up their writing a bit.

Another great place to look is with companies who specialize in Search Engine Optimization. Writing articles is a big part of this so most web site companies retain a writer or two to help out their various clients.