A successful wfh career usually involves a blog at some point or another.

It doesn’t matter what your poison is: Affiliate marketing, MLMs, Writing, Editing, Graphic Design.

What matters is how often you talk about it. The best way to prove you’re an expert in your chosen field and the key to any work from home jobs, is Blogging. People can read a passionate tone. It shines through typos and grammar mistakes.

You want to prove your worth? Blog, blog often, and promote your content to anyone who is willing to listen. Here are 3 reasons why blogging is the perfect base for all work from home jobs.

1. Prove Your Passion

So your Upwork profile states your a freelance WordPress expert, eh? If you have a weak portfolio, how do you plan on proving your expert status to clients?

Blogging has you covered. You can talk about your expertise to your heart’s content. If the blog is strictly for portfolio purposes, we recommend you keep your personal life and professional gripes to yourself. You don’t want your client to get the wrong idea, or right idea if you really are the complaining and whiney type.

2. Learn to be an Extrovert

In order for people to find your blog, you’re going to have to tell people about it. This will involve you putting yourself out there on social media. Make friends with other people in your industry, both wfh freelancers like yourself as well as the people who hire wfh folks and the influencers that play both sides.

Even if your wfh and hate going outside, you can still successfully network like a pro on the web. This will not only help with networking and finding clients, but will also increase your visibility and Brand Awareness.

And yes, brand awareness as a freelancer is a thing.

If you have a MLM business, you’ll want to use Facebook not just for the groups but also for the parties. If you’re freelancing in a writing or editing capacity, Twitter and LinkedIn are going to be stellar for you. Photographer? Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest are likely your best bets.

These social sites are going to bring in the majority of your blog traffic for the first 3-6 months.

3. Learn Valuable SEO Techniques

“But I don’t even know what SEO is!”

Well…you should figure it out. No client is going to hire a freelancer for any kind of web work if they don’t have at least a minimum amount of SEO knowledge. This includes writers and editors.

There are plenty of ways to pick up the knowledge you need. Check out some of these resources:

SEO Training Crouse by Moz: It’s Free!

67 SEO Tips for Bloggers

SEO is not Hard

5 must-dos for SEO Beginners

Final Thoughts on How Work From Home Jobs Start with a Blog

So that’s the deal. There are a ton of great tutorials out there on the right way to start a blog. And now you’re aware of how it can help your efforts when looking for clients.

One thing we want to make clear. Never let your personal blog get in the way of the work from home job. Just because it’s a wfh gig doesn’t mean writing a blog should ever take precedence. Put the work first.

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