Typing As A Skill For Freelancers

 How To Make Money With Your Typing Skills

Typing is perhaps one of the first things we learn to do with our computers. The more time you spend on your personal computer or laptop, the faster your typing skills get. The good news is, that typing is a skill you can monetize as a freelancer. Here are some gigs you can book with your typing skills.

Writing Jobs

Writing articles for online publications is a very common way to make money online. With the need for brands to be online website content needs to be constantly created. Another way to make money from a subject that you know well is to write a blog. All these writing jobs will require that you use your typing skills to type your words out. The faster you can type the more you can earn money as a freelancing writer.

Transcription Jobs

Transcribing is the translation of spoken words in video or audio format to written words. It is a great way to earn money online as a freelancer. You will be typing out words of video, podcasts, speeches, interviews and so much more. These jobs often pay per word or by transcription minute. It is consistent work that you could always do all year round.

E-books

With the migration of people online for knowledge and entertainment. You can always create e-books and sell them online for money. From romance novels to sci-fi e-books. Freelancers have taken to making passive income by writing and creating e-books. E-books retail from $0.99 to $5, which is an easy way to make money as a self-published author that doesn't have to ship anything to their customers.

Virtual Assistant Jobs

A virtual assistant helps their employers by being the additional set of hands needed. They fulfill anything from responding to emails, booking flights, creating expense reports and so much more. Often times virtual assistants are hired and fulfill their duties online which means your typing skills will be required in all the work and correspondence needed for this job. Virtual assistance start at around $20 per hour depending on the tasks to be fulfilled.

Translation Jobs

Translating jobs require that you take work in one language and type it into another. Translating jobs are useful for video or audio work available in one language but may have a wide audience in another language. Translation jobs are a constant in most freelancing platforms. Translating jobs pay per word or per hour and the pay will range from $30 to $100 per hour.

If you are wondering how fast your typing is you can always take a typing test, some websites will even give you a certificate which you can share with your potential employers. Do you make money with your typing skills? Comment below and share with our community of African freelancers.

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