One of the many good things about being a freelance writer is that I'm not tied to an office - or even a country, for that matter. Thanks to the Internet and WiFi, I can write from my apartment in Algorfa, on the road to England while the motor home is parked up for the night, and from our static caravan overlooking Bigbury Bay in Devon.
I don't tend to write articles and blog posts when we're on the move, as there are too many distractions, but one thing I do concentrate on when we're mobile is forum posting. Believe it or not, there is a lucrative freelance market in paid forum posting. The rewards range from just a few cents a post on a traffic exchange site to a decent retainer for working on promoting an independent forum network.
I work on a combination of these. I have a client in the UK who pays me a fixed sum each month to create content and promote his network of seven forums, and a new client has just approached me to do the same for his forum - City Forum.org. Basically, it's a forum based on life and lifestyle around the world. It's an international forum, so there's a focus on American states, but also a Europe and Expat Life board, so there's plenty to interest people in Spain, as well as all aspects of lifestyle from Abuse and Addiction through to Weddings.
The forum's gone through an extensive beta testing phase, and it's now ready for the world to come through its portals, and earn a little extra cash while sharing your views and experiences with the world at large.
Through the Ambassador Programme,City Forum is prepared to pay $10 a month to people who can post 60 quality posts a month. That's just 2 posts a day, which shouldn't take too long. If you enjoy posting in forums, why not earn something for doing it? Take a look using the link above and see what you think.
You won't make your first million by forum posting, but once people get to know what you can do, you can certainly earn some useful sums if you want to, I get approached all the time to help with new forums, so I never have to go looking for freelance work these days - it all comes to me.
I get so much work because I treat a 50 - 100 word forum post in the same way I treat a 500 + word article or blog post. It has to be the best piece of writing I can do, with attention paid to grammar, spelling, sentence structure and readability.
As well as my freelance forum work, I also work for Postloop, which is a forum and blog traffic exchange. That's also interesting, but not as lucrative as private work. However, on the odd occasion when freelance work is thin on the ground, I know I can go to Postloop and earn a few dollars, and I also earn residual income from people who've joined as my referral.
If I've sparked your interest in paid forum posting and you want to know more, either comment here or send me a PM and I'll answer any questions you may have. Even if you don't aspire to being a fully fledged freelancer, you will enjoy paid forum posting, and you'll learn and earn as you do it!
