Kenya is a
country of talents and this is evident in almost all walks of life. From being
international athletic champions severally to winning awards in writing, that
confirms the hype: Kenyans got talent! It no secrete and not trying to tout a
Kenyan writer. The likes of Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Grace Ogot, Binyavanga Wainaina
and the rest are just a few of the Kenya writers who leveraged the
international market with their fiery novels and poems...
In fact, I recently
come to realize that most of the US websites are Kenyan written. Most clients
from America tend to hire Kenyans to make up the contents they need for their
website or even businesses...To the newbies who want to make money online in
Kenya by writing; the question goes, is it really possible to achieve that?
With the
thousands of graduates flooding from colleges to a job limited society,
thousands have embarked into online writing jobs. Some have made it but some
left the journey a long time ago. I hope you will be among the lasting online workers
in Kenya after carefully reading this article to the end. Just to alert you, this
post is long, that is why it’s a tutorial, it’s meant to equip you as well as
provide the websites you need to make real dollars online. So, what’s the road
to making money by writing articles online like, and how can you begin?
Module
1:
Kick-start by reading American websites
Reading,
reading and reading is how you acquaint yourself with the necessary training
before signing up with an article writing service. This is simple! Moreover,
you are doing it even this very moment. It all begins by reading and reading
and reading mostly articles from America websites. Right now, you are on this
article, and that’s how professional writers begin. Don’t be shocked because of
how I am able to write such nice American English on my blog and on this
article, I also started from somewhere and now I enjoy much of American writing
style than any other…There is much you need to know from this article so stick
on to the end.
Module
2: Practice
your writing
They say,
writers write, and that’s true. However the only way to claim respect as a writer
is writing what is relevant and worthy to the reader. Practice being a writer
on a daily basis. “Nothing comes easy” is a saying you must have heard of, and
now that turns to reality when it comes to writing. You are not the first to
practice writing so don’t take it as a humiliating task. My advice is, make
sure you at least write a 500 words article daily without fail.
Isolation
and maximum attention
That means
you must have a personal computer because relying on cybercafe computers for
the practice might prove expensive or even distressful. Writing is a solitary
type of occupation because you need as less distractions as possible. It is a
private thing and the only way to effectively grow as a writer is to do it in a
solitary and calm environment. Your target is to write and make money online in
Kenya so you must work towards that with all your efforts and that means
isolation and maximum concentration.
Module
3: Start
blogging
A blog is
where you will now upload the many 500 words pieces you were writing during
writing practice. Since this is a tutorial, I beg to give a smart explanation
of what a blog is. SIMPLE: a blog is website where you publish content. Therefore,
since the content will meet readers, the posts you upload on your blog must be
informative and value adding to the audience. It is not just about littering
the internet with crappy articles, no; it is mainly about giving facts using
your writing talent, all contents must be directed to meet the reader’s needs.
Module
3a: Research
Setting up
a blog requires some research, check to know the niche that flows well with
you. To most people, deciding on what niche to leverage their blogging efforts
is often the greatest nightmare. However, use this as an advice, and chances of
you regretting of ever beginning a blog in a certain keyword will be lower. ADDIONTONAL
ADVICE: take a topic that is in line with your career...! Hope you’ve read that
part silently because it’s a secret that carry your online blogging success.
Module
3b: Understand
keywords and what they means
If you are
an aspiring writer, you must have heard about keywords and their importance. Moreover,
if not, the simplest and yet accurate explanation of it is, a keyword is the
theme of the content. It is the topic explained in the text of an article. For
your information, there are very many bloggers who make money online in Kenya on daily basis;
the text in blue is the keyword for this article. In fact, 97 percent of online
article writing is keyword focused. As a writer, you must have a specialty or
simply a niche to begin start with. I began my writing carrier from one
established article submission directory called EzineArticles where I picked writing articles as my niche.
Module
4: Article
writing services
Quite a
good number of websites can hire you to write for them. All you need to do is
simply register or sign up with them and begin. Clients post jobs which you
will be required to pick and writer as fast as possible, then submit for
approval. Depending of the guidelines of the article writing service you can
pick more than one job, which you’ll be required to submit after a few hours,
or simply submit before 24hours from the time you picked the job. Some article
writing services carry geographical restrictions. Meaning only writers from
certain English speaking countries can register on their sites. However, there
are also few websites that will accept Kenyan writers, these include;
Module
4a: Article
writing services to make money online writing in Kenya:
-Hotype: This is a UK based article writing
service but they accept writers from Kenya and some other countries.
hotype.co.uk has it special way of deciding the amount payable per article, that
is they only pay for the words that Google sees during content ranking. The
stop words are not paid for. These stop words include: you, I, we, should, tell
a lie, the, them, etc., literary the words used as either conjunctions or
adverbs and any other word that is meant to enhance content flow but not really
necessary for ranking on search engines. Try your luck here hotype.co.uk
-Iwriter:
is US based and
serves and an international market for outsourcing contents. The writers on the
iwriter.com platform are able to writer articles, web contents, and e-books or
anything else that a client requests. Various levels of writing are exhibited
on this platform which include: Standard, Premium, Elite
and Elite Plus. All these levels are meant to define the expertise and
competitiveness of a writer. The levels are earned through hard work, meaning
you must consistently submit high quality articles to be approved and ranked
highly. Go to iwriter.com and try your luck!
-Paypercontent
I don’t know much
about these site, all I know is that you are required to submit a test article
based on the keyword generated by the system. In addition, the site is kinder
like still new so I don’t know whether they have clients yet. You can check
paypercontent.com and let us know your experience in the comment section
below.
-Omada.com: not much is available about this
website, but it claims to offer online jobs for writers...
-Briliantwriters:
There are many
complaints about this website, it seems they don’t pay, however, they may they
have changed or something...! My advice is, don’t join the site unless you’ve
done enough research to ascertain its legitimacy
Module
4ab: Freelancing websites you can bid to make money online writing articles
in Kenya. Almost
all of these share the guidelines and rules that a writer must accept and keep
to obtain and sustain membership. You are given a certain number of “credit
bids” that you will use to bid for the jobs posted by clients. Below are a
common few:
Module
4abc: Writing
for Direct Clients
The
sweetest part of writing is when you have direct clients in your portfolio. The
direct client may present themselves as website owners or a private writing
company. Mostly, clients who want content for their own website may request
articles occasionally, they may not be consistent, so you will not have a
steady income working for them. While on the other hand, clients who own an
article writing company may hire you on a permanent basis. That is, they will
require your services on a full time basis.
How you
get direct clients is now the biggest hurdle, but once you get them, your
writing life and carries will certainly change drastically. This is because you
will have the opportunity to write daily and on different topics. That will
sharpen everything in your writing career, right from the typing speed to
accuracy in details as well as ferreting out grammatical and spelling errors.
So
in what ways can you get direct clients?
A-Referral
from friends and relatives
You trust
your article writing abilities? Find out whether some of your friends or
relatives are into writing and the kind of clients they work for. If they are
working for an article writing company you can request them to introduce you to
the service by recommending your writing to the concerned client, or website
admin.
B-From other websites
Here
we talking of the biding websites. Before using the below method to get
yourself direct clients, be warned that it it is not allowed. And once the
administrators notice you are sharing contact information through their
platform, your email address will be blocked an you can even get banned
permanently from the site. Hope that has sunk well...? Ideally, when you bid
and get a paying client, let him or her initiate the idea of direct work
relation but not you. That is, the client might decide the contract be worked
off the platform because of reasons best known to him or her, all you have to
do is just accept the offer, but let him or her prove that they are not a scammer.
Conclusion
Ideally,
there are many avenues you can make money online writing articles in Kenya. The
only problems is getting established, a thing you can work on with time. Just
ensure your writing skills, and speed are above average. Kenyans are very
competitive and you obviously want to standout, which means you must work on
your skills all round.
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