To be continued after the previous post.....!
3. Writing and maintaining your Client's Personal blog
Both in our country and abroad, a lot of people are investing time and effort on a passive income source, via their own blog. They start a blog, monetize it, spend money on the SEO so that it reaches the right people, and then give a writer the job to continue working on it. If you are the writer hired for the job, you have to maintain a constant flow of articles on related topics.
Unfortunately, I can't add examples here because the job of a ghostwriter is to write behind the shadow of the "original" writer. You get it, right? If a professional chef has his/her own blog with recipes, they won't want other people to know that a ghostwriter is providing the articles, not themselves!
This is a great job opportunity for any writer; you get to provide a continuous supply of articles every day, every week or every month, as per the requirements of the client. It helps if you get to write on a topic that genuinely interests you. If the client is looking for more than just writing services, you might also land the responsibilities of sharing the articles on their Social Media sites, research the ideas for the articles, and manage the whole website/blog yourself. The client will simply drop in on the blog every now and then, and release your payments.
I had four to five such clients in the past, and I supplied them regular articles every week. I'll explain the whole project here.
My client was a doctor, specialized in Type-I and Type-II Diabetes. He has a website of his medical chamber, and a blog that I maintained for more than 6 months. Every two days, I had to write an article related to this illness and send it to the IT guy responsible for uploading them to the website. I would then share the article to the numerous Social Media sites, and promote both the disease and the doctor. If you are wondering what can a writer possibly write about Diabetes, here are some titles:
- Type I Diabetes: can it be avoided?
- How can you avoid getting Type II diabetes?
- Super foods for a diabetic patient
- What can you not eat if you have Type II diabetes?
- Can you completely cure diabetes?
- Can children get Type II diabetes?
- Who is at risk of Type I diabetes?
- Exercising if you are a diabetic, and so on.
So, you see, there will never be a lack of titles once you know how to research your topics.
4. Writing articles for your client's blogs on a Given Topic
Or, it could just be that your client will give you a topic, a subject matter or a title, or even just a few SEO-friendly phrases, and you have to write an entire article based on that. The articles need to be exactly as long as the client wants them to be, and supplied whenever they ask you to. This kind of job means you are simply an article writer hired by one or multiple clients, with almost no other responsibilities.
Of course, you can suggest topics to write about or titles for the articles, but it is up to the client whether they like your suggestion or not. I had this client for whom I researched and suggested 10 article titles per week, and she would choose five among them for me to write for that week.
The good thing about these kind of jobs is that you can work for multiple clients at the same time, depending on the time on your hand. If you want a week or two off, you can simply do double the amount of writing one week and then rest completely the next 7 days.
So, that, in a nutshell, is what it means to be a writer working on blogs. If I can think of some other categories, I will add them here.
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