Top Upwork freelancers find a mention in Copyblogger

[rekasesh]

Hi Everyone,

Found this article on Copyblogger that talks about freelance writing niches for 2024.

Among the examples of high-earning professionals are some Upwork freelancers including a forum frequenter and Technical Writer -- Jennifer M. 

I am not familiar with the others.

I am adding the link for anyone interested in reading the post.

https://copyblogger.com/freelance-writing-niches/

[williamtcooper]

Rekha,

Interesting!

[allpurposewriter]

Except for AI writing, none of that information has changed since the dawn of time. If any professional writer thinks content writing or blog writing is lucrative, then there's a bridge across San Francisco Bay that I'd like to sell them. 

[rekasesh]

Maybe, maybe not. If you work with brands, it could be lucrative. 

[allpurposewriter]

I suppose you're right. A few years back, however, SEO writing was the top of the Internet food chain. Writers I knew were getting $1 and $2 per word.

To do that, of course, you had to work directly for the company in question. The writing was corrupt, as all SEO writing is -- basically, it's subliminal advertising -- but you still had to have sound writing chops to convince a major corporation to hire you as a freelance writer. 

Further down the pyramid was content writing and under that, at least 10 years ago, was blog writing, which still tended to mean 300-word (to stretch the term) essays written by stay-at-home types trying to monetize their insights into cooking, gardening, or raising kids. When they ran out of insights, they hired ghostwriters or gave novices a chance to see their writing published with a byline. Anyway, that was the pecking order 10-15 years ago.

[rekasesh]

Yes, blog writing began as a personal journal of sorts, but became an attractive form of writing aimed at SERP for company or ecom sites with a few static pages. It then became a 3000-word monster what with marketing gurus like Neil Patel extolling its versatility and value.

The highest I earned from finance blogs aka tax guides (for a couple of Indian clients) was $120 per post before I moved into food and nutrition (sadly not high paying unlike other niches). 

You can't survive on blog writing in western countries unless it's a side gig or you work with a few corporates clients that pay $300 for mid-form blogging at the minimum.

Case studies, data driven posts, trade pubs, and whitepapers are the pots of gold at the end of the rainbow.

But in countries with a higher $ or € exchange rates rather than lower costs of living, blogging (for international clients not cheapos) provides a decent white collar income.

[ravi_iitian]

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Rekha S wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Found this article on Copyblogger that talks about freelance writing niches for 2024.

Among the examples of high-earning professionals are some Upwork freelancers including a forum frequenter and Technical Writer -- Jennifer M. 

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Ah, the lady with pink hair?

For quite some time, the usual suspects that frequented Coffee Break have gone silent.

[rekasesh]

Yes, many have quit the platform in Nov and Dec.

The "lady with the pink hair" was on the forum the other day with her tarty, snarky comments.

[ravi_iitian]

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Rekha S wrote:

Yes, many have quit the platform in Nov and Dec.

The "lady with the pink hair" was on the forum the other day with her tarty, snarky comments.

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No, the people I am referring to have been gone for a much longer time.

Years, I think.

Remember the time all hell broke loose with the “renaming” of Coffee Break to Coconut Break?

That was two years ago.

https://community.upwork.com/t5/Coffee-Break/Violation-of-forum-rules-in-the-coconut-section/m-p/994...

[rekasesh]

Yes, I remember that, although I haven't frequented the forum much in the past 3 years.

Nicole, Sir Douglas, Rahul, Vikram, and Renee are still around but rarely visit the forum.

Petra is very much active on Reddit/Upwork subs.

There were a few others like Wendy, and Bill, with whom I interacted through 2016-19, who left long ago, during Covid I think.

I haven't seen Preston since July.

I guess they all upped and left when Upwork changed the way it operated.