I wanted to share with you a few sites that may be beneficial to you if you are looking for freelance writing jobs or gigs. These sites connect writers with buyers and offer up work in nearly every area of writing.

The first site is called WriterLance
I've never had the opportunity personally to try them out yet but I have received a few emails from people who recommended them. - So I'd appreciate any feedback anyone has on this company now that it has switched to more reliable owners.

The next site is Elance. I have had a few jobs from Elance and it is a great way to get started and if you are lucky you can find jobs that last for an extensive period of time as well as many that are brief gigs.

I will add to this list later as I know there are a few other sites that connect writers with work and some that allow writers to bid on jobs and set their own price.

Online Work – Is it the way to go?

These are economically troubled times which are putting a lot of pressure on companies to find a way to save on cost. Employee’s jobs are being cut as one method in which to cut cost and more cost effective methods of filling those positions are being sought out. One of the most cost effective methods for these companies is to outsource their work to freelancers who can do the work online. This increases the potential one has if they choose online work and possess the qualities these companies are looking for.
Those who do online work are often hired on as Independent contractors and reduce the amount of money a company would have to pay to a full time onsite employee. As an independent contractor you may stumble upon this online work being advertised in papers or online classifieds such as craigslist or you can search out online work you are qualified for on sites such as Elance, ODesk and Guru.
Online work can be extremely convenient for both company and worker. As a company you can avoid such costs as insurance and hourly wages and instead pay a predetermined amount for the task at hand. As a worker you save money by not having to drive back and forth to work, no worries if you forget to pack a lunch and no money wasted fast food if you do. Not to mention if you happen to be an online work at home mom or dad you can save hundreds a month on childcare costs.

So, in my most humble of opinions, I believe that online work in our economy is definitely the way to go.
Every Friday I try to post on at least one specific aspect to working at home or online work and here in the near future I will be adding more direct and specific resources for you.

I stumbled across AC a few months back and have taken on a few of their C4C - calls for content (C4C are article ideas offered by the site that you can claim and write about if you don't have an idea of your own) and I have found that it is not a bad site for writers. Not the best paying place on the web for writers but it does give you the opportunity to earn a residual income on any of your articles that you submit.

You are also given the freedom if you submit an article 100% yours to choose what rights you want to assign the site Exclusive - Non-Exclusive or Display Only. For Exclusive articles you will typically (depending on the quality and length of the article) be offered a small up front payment and then be allowed to earn money from page views on the article.

You can also choose Non-Exclusive which you can still earn a small upfront payment for your article and page views but your still own the rights to the article and can choose to remove it from the site if you so chose.

The other option is Display only (DO). This method retains all your rights to the article you publish allows you to get paid for page views you can edit it anytime even after it's published (which you can't with Ex or Non Ex) but you don't get a small upfront payment.

Now unlike eHow AC is not yet so popular with the search engines so you will have to work harder to get article views.

I still recommend them if you are just starting out writing for money and even if you aren't it couldn't hurt to throw a few articles up on the site and let them sit and earn some money for you. It is actually probably one of the easier sites I have ran across.