10 Tips on How to Make More Money as a Technical Writer

By Michelle WithaM, published Sep 21, 2006
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It is possible to make more money even if you only get paid $15.00 an hour as a technical writer employee for a nine to five job. Here are ten tips on how to make more money as a technical writer.

1. You can do freelance work as a technical writer for hundreds of dollars or more for each project completed on time and accurate. You can write manuals, employee manuals, or any other type of technical manual related work. Technical writers can make an extremely large amount of money after each project is complete doing freelance work.

2. Companies constantly hire technical writers almost all the time. It is pretty easy to get a part time writing project as a technical writer when you have previous experience. You can search the Internet to bid on technical writing projects such at www.elance.com website.

3. You can find leads for freelance work jobs at http://www.writersrow.com/deborahng/freelancewritingjobs.html website. A professional freelance writer named Deb NG updates the website almost each day with new job leads for different type of writers. She lists job leads on there such as technical writer, freelance writers, and copywriter job leads. It is a excellent place and probably one of the best website to get job leads from the Internet.

4. It is possible to make a enough money to be able to freelance technical writing as your main job or career. Freelance work allows you the freedom to work whenever you want as long as you meet the due dates and have projects completed.

5. You can do most technical writing from your house. Freelance technical writing enables you to set the price per hour or price per project completed that you want. Don't agree to complete a project for a lower price than what you know you are worth.

6. You need to send a e-mail to the writing technical job leads. Show them a few of your writing clips and tell a little bit of information about every company that you have done technical writing with in the past. You want to tell them exactly what type of text that you have wrote such as employee manuals or appliance manuals and other types of technical writing.

Takeaways
  • You can do freelance work as a technical writer for hundreds of dollars.
  • Find job leads for freelance technical writers.
  • Decide what your time and skills are worth each hour or per project.
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Thanks for the good info!

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