Work as a copywriter on the Advego exchange: how to organize earnings for mom on maternity leave

Making money online is a reality. On copywriting exchanges, even mom, on maternity leave, will be able to find a good side job, working at a convenient time.

Ekaterina, 32 years old

I have an economic education, my main specialty is an accountant. In childhood, she experienced a persistent disgust for works, the description of paintings or deeds of literary heroes caused despondency. I wrote correctly and received good grades, but I always considered myself an absolute techie alien to lyrics. In middle and high school, where the compulsory program involved 5–6 essays a year, these same 5–6 times a year I moped and became discouraged. It was easier for me to prove theorems and solve problems in algebra, physics, and learn chemistry. The school had one hope: I’ll go to the University and begin to study only my favorite numbers and there are no essays there ..! She entered, successfully graduated with honors and got a job as an accountant in a reputable company. I love my work, I make reports with pleasure and make a debit with a loan, but my story is not about that.

How it all began

When I saw two stripes on the test, I realized that life will soon change. After 7 months I will need to go on maternity leave, which means that our family will have to live only on the salary of her husband. Of course, there are still maternity payments and benefits, but compared to my usual earnings, this is not much. We are not spoiled by the support of parents, and rely only on our own strengths.

As soon as I let go toxicosis, i.e. at 4-5 months, I began to wonder how I would earn extra money while sitting at home and not in my profession. Unfortunately, a freelance accountant in our country is not in demand. So what else can I do? Yes, essentially nothing. 🙂 Okay, as they say, "you don’t know anything - go to trade." Well, I went to trade ... on the Internet. Like many people who are looking for opportunities to earn money remotely, she began trying to sell some goods over the Internet - she bought t-shirts, sweatshirts, bags in bulk (at wholesale sites), and sold them at retail. I chose good quality consumer goods, and I was not ashamed to “steam” it, I bought it myself and dressed all the relatives. But there was a lot of fuss with this trade, and earnings were from 30 to 50 dollars a month. This did not solve our problems.

Having knocked down a debit with a loan (I can do this), I realized that I was mistaken with the choice of a way to earn money.

I also sent resumes to various freelance exchanges on ads “I need employees for typing ...” (I quickly printed and assumed that I would earn more than $ 50 per month), but often I received a request to pay an “entry fee”, and it immediately became clear to me That this "company" is not looking for employees, but practicing one of the ways to take money from the population.

So, as usual googled the request “How to make money on maternity leave“, I came across an article that talked about such a form of earnings as copywriting. At first, I did not like the idea of ​​writing articles to order. I was confused by phrases such as: “Write articles”, “write articles on order”, “write articles on order on a given topic”.

I AM?! Write articles ?! It is hard to imagine that I will write articles! I immediately remembered school essays. But something caught on then ... simple, without fanciful words, promises of millions ... I was attracted to the fact that the author did not promise the golden mountains, but shared one of the ways to make money online. The girl was engaged in copywriting for 2-3 hours a day and earned up to $ 150 per month. Having studied the topic, I realized that this is a real income opportunity, and the plus is that I can do it in my free time, I build my work schedule myself and can write whenever I want.

My first Advego exchange and my first orders

In the article about copywriting, the author mentioned several exchanges, I decided to register on Advego. And on the first day we managed to take two small orders. This was the posting (repost) of news to his VKontakte page. The cost of such orders, of course, is not large, it turned out only 12 cents (why in cents and dollars? - just this currency is just on Advego), but it took literally 5 minutes to complete the task.

The next day, I took two more such orders, plus I took 2 work on writing messages on the forum (a forum on children's topics, my baby was already 6 months old and I already had some experience in caring for a child 🙂), I also took another order for rewrite articles (also on children's topics). For the article I received about $ 1.5, that is, exactly 10 more than for likes, reposts and comments, which I forever overtook to do.

Text rewriting is the processing of the source text in order to obtain a unique article that is identical in meaning to the original. That is, this is a rewriting of the article from the source / from the source in your own words.

First good orders

The first solid order was a series of articles on the tourism theme. I had to describe resorts and hotels in the first person. Of course, I have not been to all these places that I needed to describe, but I reacted responsibly to the order: I looked for information on various tourist sites, looked for high-quality photographs, real reviews of tourists, watched videos on YouTube. This work took a lot of time, but the income became stable. It turned out to pass up to 15,000 characters a week, for which I received $ 30–35.

About a month later, having become bolder, having dealt with the exchange as much as possible, having earned positive reviews and a normal rating, I started taking everything in a row: tasks about boat motors, organization of cargo transportation, about medical centers and beauty salons, reviews about hotels, articles about building ventilation , forex robots, indoor plants, fireplaces, frame houses ... etc….

When you understand the principles of copywriting, it becomes all the same what to write about, the subject of the article no longer matters. Naturally, when it comes to standard content for sites, and I'm not talkingabout copyright analytical articles orhighly specialized consultations on the the topic medicine and jurisprudence. But, in general, we have experience in many areas: we saw and did something ourselves, we told you something. For example: I wrote about the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai. I've never been there, how can I convey the atmosphere of a place? The YouTube video about the construction of the “sail” helped. Very high-quality material turned out, the customer even gave a prize 🙂

The value of my orders gradually increased, and I gained the necessary experience. The work usually took no more than 4 hours a day, and somewhere in 3-4 months I already earned plus or minus 300 dollars a month. And for the year of work, I managed to earn more than 3.5 thousand dollars. This is a very substantial amount for our family budget. I began to write literally every free minute, it was already impossible to stop: I wrote on vacation on the beach, I wrote when the child slept in the afternoon, wrote late in the evening, when the child and husband sniffed peacefully in bed, sometimes they wrote early in the morning, before the family woke up .

What difficulties do you encounter at first?

• search for orders - the hand is not full, the eye is not trained, it takes a lot of time to subtract the task, to understand what they want from you. Good orders are parsed quickly, and at first you have to grab onto any work in order to increase your rating. It takes a lot of time to complete the order. Beginners are still not very well versed in what copywriting and rewriting are, how to look for information and how to process it, but over time, the speed of writing articles increases;
• ignorance of the basics and terms of copywriting. At first, phrases such as SEO-article, anchor, keywords, nausea of ​​the text frightened me, but over time you figure it out;
• fear to take the order - and suddenly I can’t cope, and suddenly they will refuse, and then I’ll disgrace myself ... (although before whom? I also had to struggle with my own fear that I could not cope, take an order and write some nonsense. There was fear about orders from a new category: copyright, SEO article, landing page text. It was a shame not to cope and disgrace. Although I myself understood that these fears are irrational: who is ashamed of? I don’t know the customers, they don’t know me ... Gradually you begin to adequately evaluate your own strengths, self-confidence and even excitement appear, allowing you to take on complex tasks and successfully cope with them.

To summarize

For 4 years I have been working as a copywriter. And I can say with confidence -copywriting is addictive. I sincerely became interested in this work, it brings me not only money, but also pleasure. I write on vacation (I already forgot when I went to the sea without a laptop), I write in the evenings and on holidays.

And, of course, I am happy to share information about copywriting with friends and colleagues. I'm not afraid of competition: there will be enough orders for everyone! I always actively campaign to try, because we don’t lose anything) And if you need work, register on copywriting exchanges and go! You do not need to invest any money to get started. All that is required: a computer / laptop and the Internet. And of the costs, only the exchange commission and the commission of your bank when withdrawing funds. But here we must reconcile and regard them as a production necessity.

I really hope that my experience will inspire those like me on maternity leave and those who are in a difficult financial situation. Making money on the Internet is a reality! I wish you all good luck!

P.S. And by the way, I told my husband and relatives about my occupation only when I withdrew my first $ 500 and showed my husband real money 🙂. I believe that this saved me from unnecessary reproaches (that I am sitting at the computer and not doing anything) and I will get forecasts about whether or not. Like this.

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