Writing Business with Just One Product or Service

Start a Writing Business

If you’re trying to build your writing business as a freelancer, you may think that the more services and products you have to offer the better.

Yet you can actually start a writing business with just one product or service.

Here’s how.

Make a list of the kinds of things you really enjoy writing.

Maybe you like putting together resumes or you love to write media releases.

Perhaps you enjoy writing how-to articles or you love to create reading passages and test questions for the educational markets.

Once you’ve made your list, whittle it down to no more than three items.

Next, narrow the list to just one item—the type of writing you are most passionate about.

Let’s say you love to write media releases and you are good at it.

You can easily charge between $50 and $350 to write a media release, depending on your expertise and experience.

With that in mind, if you wrote just one media release each day and charged just $50 per release, you could earn $250 each week.

As you got more experience and gained more confidence and improved your skills in this area, you could increase your income by charging $100 per media release.

Eventually you could charge $350 per release.

You could easily write just one release in a few hours, so right there you’d be earning more than $100 a day from a single assignment that would only take an hour or so of your time.

If you love to blog, you could decide on a specific target market you wish to blog for and then offer your blogging services to that target market.

Start out by searching for blogs (in your target market) that offer at least $50.00 per post and follow their submissions guidelines until you start landing a few of these gigs.

As you gain more experience blogging for your target market you can set your own prices and search for blogging clients on your own.

If you’re really good at writing resumes, you can easily charge $100 to $1,000 for a professional resume (again, depending on your experience and expertise).

It might take you an entire week to put together a professional resume for a high profile executive who has a lot of experience and training, but $1,000 for a week’s work would be well worth your time and effort.

Rather than trying to come up with more and more products and services, today focus on just one great product or service.

Once you’ve determined what that service or product will be, plan how you can start promoting this product or service or how you can find assignments for this type of work.

You don’t have to stick with JUST this product or service forever.

But, if you narrow your focus like this for a while, you’ll be able to start making more money more quickly.

You can simply scan the job boards every day for this type of assignment.

You can create your marketing materials and newsletter around this one service.

You’ll be narrowing your target market somewhat too, which is good because once you start working for this target market you’ll find out what other products and services they need.

Then you can expand your offerings to include one or more of those products or services, too.

Try it!