Things You Should Never Ignore

If You Want to be a Successful Content Writer

Deciding your career as a writer is not a child’s play. There are harsh competitions in the local and global market and you will need to set your firm position among them. If you want to be a successful writer, you need to think out of the box and get ready for

Bijal Shah
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Hard as well as smart work

Absolutely yes, to become a successful writer, you need to work hard as well as smart. Finding good opportunities to boost your writing skill is a key necessity. Once you establish your career, you don’t need to look back. The only thing you need is to deliver unmatched and appealing content to please your audience. Unique and well-researched content on different subjects is most essential to allure your audience.

Stay Efficient

As a successful writer, you need to develop good reading habits. You need to stay updated with all latest topics related to your field. Whatever, your writing expertise, you need to pour more knowledge in your mind as and when you get time. Lack of reading due to any reason will badly affect your writing career. Hence, stay updated with reading habits. Websites such as Medium.com offer best quality contents for fresher and experienced writers to understand which topics get maximum likes as well as all about recent topics.

Time Management

Always understand the value of time. If you are not good at managing your time, first you should join a mini course on time management available free on the Internet. It will be helpful in accomplishing your desirable goals in your career. Pre schedule your day or even an entire week. It helps you lots in managing your work more efficiently.

Enrich your vocabulary

As a best quality content writer, you need to increase the strength of your vocabulary which is a pillar of your writing ability.

Improve Your Grammar Skill

One of the basic qualities of a successful writer is their grammar skill. If you are not sure with your grammar ability, try to learn online as there are many free courses available for free to learn. Improving your grammar skill will definitely enhance your writing skills as well as boost your confidence.

Boost Your Research Talent

 

 

Before you start writing on any topic, you need to perform in-depth research about the subject. Nowadays, research based articles that provide statistics from surveys will give you more mileage in terms of money as well as ranking.

Stay Connected with Writers Network

Connect to people associated with writing fields and discuss your problem or query with them. Social networking sites such as LinkedIn where you can connect with groups of many professional people, or follow reputed writers on Twitter, Instagram and read their posts/blogs/articles, regularly. Today, through social media sites, you can connect with the novice as well as experienced writers from all across the world. You can also find many job opportunities through online job portals.

Update Your Resume Regularly

If you want to keep yourself ahead in any industry, it is vital to have your up-to-date resume. Whatever you learn new courses or get experience, add it to your resume. Try to learn new things that strengthen your resume. Today, several ways to create your profile such as a video profile. Your resume should look like that you are full of potentiality and enthusiasm to adopt any challenges and succeed.

Never Devalue Your Ability

Remember, you have to struggle hard in any field you choose even if you have not any extraordinary skills. Similarly to become a successful content writer, you will also find many up-stair/down-stairs in your career. But always remember, never devalue or underestimate your skill or efficiency. Boost your confidence level, read books on positivity in life and go ahead to accept challenges and defeat them in order to achieve a successful career.

Keep Writing

As a writer, every day you have to write even a page for yourself that is not related to your work or a part of your job. Make a list of topics that come into your mind and in your leisure time write on that topic. It will improve your writing skills and creativity to write on different topics. It also makes your mind ready to start thinking creatively.

Enroll in Free Online Courses

There are many websites offering free online courses on different subjects. As a novice writer, it is a boon for you. Join courses on your desirable subjects. It not only gives you knowledge about the subject, but also increases your self-confidence. You will find free courses on websites such as Udemy.com. It offers many free/paid useful courses on Time Management, English Language, Content management, SEO and others. Even many international universities also announce many free courses useful for writers.

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If you are looking for a content writer/freelance content writer for your outsourcing business needs or unique content writing services, write at bijalpandya10@gmail.com or contact at +91-9558906404.

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Looking for Your Career as A Successful Content Writer? 

The beginning of content writing services started around 1990 with the increasing popularities of online activities. Previously, writing was meant for print and television media, mainly. There were only limited scopes for writers and also importance was given not as much as in other fields. For instance, the writer who writes scripts was paid very less compared to other people associated with the movie or television serial. Similarly, in print media, writers received limited remuneration and they have to satisfy with their name and fame only. The other types of writers are those who have written their own book and got good reputation. Here also due to unavailability of the global platform, writers could not get more exposures of their creativity and writing skills. Even many popular writers could not publish their books due to lack of money for publishing their books.

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In present times, an online platform is just like a sky where there are no limits to explore your writing abilities. Using different online media and social networking sites, writers have many options and opportunities to choose their desirable fields. You can develop your career as a writer in any field. You can develop your career as a freelance writer from anywhere in the world without any age limit or at your convenient time.

With tremendous scopes in different fields as a writer, you can choose the best that justify your skills, interest and off course money is the most.  If you are best in academic writing, you can start your career as an academic writer, if travelling is your passion and if you are frequently visiting new places, you can also start your career as a travel blogger. As I have said in the beginning of this paragraph that an online platform is like a sky for writers and scopes are unlimited. But there are many pros and cons of developing your career as a content writer or a freelance writer.

Important Things to Consider for Selecting Your Career As a Writer

There are several things that you need to consider when you start your career as a content writer as follows.

What you need to know when you start your career as a writer

  Freelance Writer or Working as a Writer

You need to first decide, what you want to opt, there are many options to set your career as a writer. If you have just completed your graduation and are looking to start your career as a writer, better you find an organization where you can get good experience of writing for different subjects and different industries. Starting your career as a freelance writer is full of struggling. You need to struggle hard for getting new works and projects every time and people offer less money to writers if they have less experience. Even experienced writers also have difficulties in getting regular work. Hence, if you are ready to struggle hard from the beginning of your career or confident enough with your expertise, you can choose your career as a freelance writer. [There are many pros and cons of selecting your career as a freelance writer which I will discuss in another blog.]

This is vital in the beginning of your career to work in any organization and get good work experience as a content writer. It will not only enhance your writing skills but you will also get familiar with overall business operations of different organizations.

For instance, if you are working in any web designing company as a content writer, you will understand how to write website content that perfectly matches with the theme of websites. What are the important factors required to consider when writing any website content? What is SEO content writing? How many words need to write any title? And there are so many things you can understand when you actually work in any organization. There are different sections for designing, developing, writing, SEO, hence, you will understand the integration of the entire work process and many more things. It also helps you to learn from your colleagues. 

No doubt, you can do it with searching on the Internet as you have lots of tutorials ready to boost your knowledge, but this is my advice to novice writers to add up work experience in two three different organizations before they choose their career as a freelance writer. Even when you work in any organization, you can continue your freelance writing work in your leisure time or on holiday.

Your proficiency or expertise in the subject

There are many writers who have the capabilities to write in any subjects. They just need a topic or 2-3 keywords and they can write content on the given topic. If you have writing experience and ability to well-research the topic and make a best feast of content, you can join any good company who offers you the best package with job satisfaction. Nowadays, companies offer good packages to content writers if you have even two to five years of good experience and skill to comprehend the writing needs of businesses.

Industry Specific Writer

When you search on the Internet to find any writer, you will find millions of writers that make your mind full of muddle with thoughts such that can I succeed in my career as a writer? Here, your thoughts are perfectly fine, and you need to think out of the box for making your career successful as a writer. Take a pen and list out your expertise in writing for particular industries.

• If you are a science student and expert enough with writing content related to academics, I must say, it is really the best choice. With the increasing need of online education in the present scenario, the demands for academic writers are also increasing rapidly.
• If you are a law student with sound knowledge of your domain, you can boost your career as a writer for law firms, trade businesses, or MNC companies having great demand for lawful matters for their daily business operations.
• There are several other industries such as pharmaceutical, automobile, chemical, textile, petroleum, food processing, real estate, entertainment, travelling and many more. Organizations associated with such industry need precise technical content related to their products. It requires accurate terminologies to describe all about their products, processes, etc. Hence, based on your educational degree and knowledge, you can choose the particular industry to set your career as a writer. I must prefer to become an industry-specific writer, if you are associated with any particular industry and skills to deliver the best content.

SEO Writer

As a writer, you must know the importance of search engine optimization (SEO). All we know is that SEO is an on-going process that every website needs for top ranking in search engine result pages. When you choose to become an SEO writer, first of all, you should understand all important guidelines for SEO writing. How best you can write website title, Meta tags, description and other website content. From head tag to ALT tag, you should know everything from writing best quality content to getting advantages in positioning featured snippets of Google search. Understand who your target audience is, what the key information you require is and how good you are utilizing primary and secondary keywords and keyword phrases in your content are some important aspects. Choosing your career as An SEO writer is definitely a good choice but, at the same time, you need to continuously keep your knowledge updated about the latest guidelines of SEO writing. Moreover, you also need skill to prepare the best SEO Content that helps in attracting target audience as well as search engines. With good expertise and experience as an SEO writer, you will definitely enjoy good remuneration of your work.

Blog Writer/Article Writer

If you do not want to set your career as a writer who delivers all types of content, but want to set your career as a particular writer such as a blog writer or an article writer, it becomes a good choice. With increasing numbers of blogger sites, you will have a broad platform to utilize your skills. Here, also tremendous options for writing blogs such blogs on parenting, lifestyle, movies, foods recipes, healthcare, yoga, home décor and many more. There are many blogging and micro-blogging sites where you can publish your blogs. You can earn good money by publishing your blogs/articles/story on websites such as Medium, Upwork, Fiverr and several other websites where you can earn good money by posting quality blogs or articles.

Story Writer

Story writer is also an interesting and creative field if you are passionate about creating new stories. If you love to write stories for kids, there are great opportunities but, for that you should also find good pictures related to your stories. You can hire any good freelance artist to prepare sketches to make your story creative and interesting. Remember, kids always prefer picture based stories. The different types of stories such as comedy, horror, action, suspense, love, poetry as well as reality. You can even make your own story books and publish online on Kindle Direct Publishing, Apple Ebook Books, Scribd, Smashwords and many more. You can set your career as a story writer based on your expertise, imagination skills and creativity to convert your innovative thoughts into successful stories.

Selecting your career as a writer needs hard working as well as smart working and other important things that you should never ignore as a writer. [I will discuss more on this topic soon in a separate blog]. Please stay connected to read interesting blogs. For more information, or your need for blog writing services, email at bijalpandya10@gmail.com or contact at +91-9558906404.