Awhile back, Matt Mansfield emailed me about looking over his new program, “Earn More By Finding Freelance Jobs Online”. I was kind of skeptical, because as I’ve written about here before, some of the options for earning money online have lots of ethical/financial issues, and I have a pretty strong opinion about them. By the time I was done going through the course, I told Matt to raise the price and asked him if I could review it here, because it’s a very solid toolbox for writers, and has a ton of value built into it.
Put simply, if you’re just getting started writing online, you need this program.
It’s common internet wisdom that there are millions of writing jobs all over the internet. The problem comes when you start looking, and all you can find are jobs that A) require you write on spec, and B) aren’t in an area where you can convincingly position yourself as an expert.
As ambivalent as I am about some of the writing job sites online, I’m definitely of the opinion that writing on spec is pretty much always something that you should say no to. There are too many writing jobs out there that pay (even if it’s not much) for you to be giving someone your talent for free. Matt’s course gives you a pretty much endless number of places to find paying jobs, and he breaks them down neatly into different categories. If you don’t want to deal with the job sites, you’ve got lots of other options. If you don’t like the content sites like Demand Studio, you’ve still got lots of places to pick from.
What’s even better is that Matt goes through all this information(in both written and video form), and tells you what makes all of these sites different from each other from the user’s perspective. He explains how to sign up, how to easily use them to find the jobs that you want, and the positives and negatives of each.
I’ve done a fair amount of research into freelance writing online, and Matt had job sources in this course that I had never found or heard of. They were also job sources that looked really incredible (there’s a whole site for just awesome blogging jobs?!).
While this course has something for everyone, I suspect that people who are just starting out online would benefit hugely from it. Matt’s course takes the scary out of finding the work, and allows you to spend more time actually writing. If this had been around when I started I would have been all over it.
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