Even if you’re not an experienced writer, there are many opportunties available for educated homemakers and college students to make money online by providing various writing services.  If soliciting your writing skills is something that you’ve been considering it’s important for you to realize that even though there is plenty of work, getting your foot in the door and producing a salary requires lots of research, hard work and determination.

One of the most vital pieces of advice I give to newbie content providers is to make sure you expand your horizons and spread yourself out across a healthy playing field – preventing yourself from getting pigeon-holed and relying on a single medium of writing to produce your monthly income.

Here are a few ways you can expand your writing horizons to increase visibility and earnings:

• Provide a monthly blog posting service on a recurring subscription basis.  For example, you will write and publish 5 blog posts per month for $57.  Set up your client via Paypal’s monthly subscription option and enjoy the benefits of a steady monthly payment for a modest amount of work.  Acquire 20-30 of these clients and you’ve got yourself a fruitful business model that can be outsourced and expanded.
• Provide a customer service/email answering package for your clients.  Have them outsource various support related tasks to you for an adequate monthly fee.  You can charge them by the hour or for a flat rate per month – which includes x-amount of hours.  Anything over the allotted time banked would be extra.
• Provide a content editing service for web publishers who speak English as a second language.  This may be tricky regarding your regular communications with potential clients, but once the ball is rolling you will have yourself a nice monthly source of income for a few hours of work per day – depending on how much work you decide to take on.  This could also be an add-on service available to your blog post clients.

As you can see, there are many ways for individuals to make money writing online – regardless of the economy.  The Internet never slows down, it never shrinks and it will never go away.  As long as there are websites, there will be a need for talented writers who can churn out quality content.