Writing is an extremely versatile profession. Writing jobs run the gamut from freelancing for consumer magazines to self-publishing on the Internet. Typically work-at-home writers and editors work as freelancers. However, some companies do hire telecommuting employees for writing jobs.
About.com contracts with more than 600 guides who are experts in their many different fields. They write online content from home and are paid a minimum of $675/month to start. However, compensation increases with page view growth.
Writers are paid based on the performance of their "brand" or page views of the news content they write.
Associated Content is an open content network, which allows people to publishing content on any topic, in any format (text, video, audio and images). Its writing jobs are very self-directed in that writers reap financial rewards based on the number of page views the articles they choose to publish receive.
Like a search engine but with live work-at-home guides answering the questions, ChaCha pays per answer, which it says averages out to $3-9 per hour.
Freelance writing jobs offered by this company include those for U.S.-based guitar transcribers, piano arrangers and educational music authors.
Demand Studios accepts applicants with writing, editing and filmmaking skills. They are assigned to produce made-for-the-Internet content that appear on sites like eHow.com, LIVESTRONG.COM and dozens more sites. Writers are paid both on a flat fee and revenue sharing basis.
Writing jobs at Examiner.com are for writers with insights and knowledge about local events and communities in topics ranging from sports and parenting to food and green living. Pay is based on the size of your readership.
HubPages bills itself as the "leading online publishing ecosystem." Writers sign up and publish their work. Revenue from Adsense and affiliates is split with HubPages, which receives a 40 percent share.
Internet media company that operates community and e-commerce web sites in the automotive, careers, home, shopping, and travel and leisure categories hires telecommuting writers and editors.
Mahalo calls itself "a human-powered search engine dedicated to delivering carefully curated search results featuring the highest quality, spam-free links available." It hires freelance writers for $10-12 an hour for a minimum of 20 hours a week to fulfill this mission.
