How to Earn Online as an Academic Writer in 2024?

1000$ to 5000$ per month is your ideal income when you work in an ideal academic writing business environment in 2024 as a writer. You can earn up to 5000$ to 10000$ when you work as an academic writing agency. But how to get started? Read the complete article to construct your roadmap.

What is Academic Writing Business?

Writing, editing and proofreading assignments, theses, proposals and essays for university or college students is called academic writing.

How do you earn?

Students are your customers who pay you for your expert services. The more you write; the more you earn. On the other hand, academic writing agencies actively hire academic writers and pay around 1.5PKR to 4PKR. But there are boatloads of fake agencies that actively exploit writers. So, before starting to work with academic writing agencies, check their past work history.

How do you master the art of academic writing?

Read my article "How to become an academic writer in 2024?" to understand the depth and breadth of the academic writing business.

Now, the most frequently asked question is "How do you score direct clients or students?". To answer this question, I would recommend you to read my post "How to score direct clients?".

But I will also give you a detailed step-by-step guide here:

Two ways that can lead you to direct clients: personal connections and brand building. Personal connections can give you clients in one day or a week. However, brand building can take up to six months to one year. Personal connections mean your relatives and friends study abroad and they share your number with their peers. But I will only talk about brand building.

Where to build your brand?

Your number one priority is LinkedIn because here you can write posts and articles that can be seen on Google if proper SEO is performed. Your posts and pictures can be displayed in Google Images search. This helps build trust because the more you are popular; the more you are trustworthy.

Agencies directly hire from LinkedIn. If you are a newbie writer, start working with an authentic agency which pays a minimum of 2 PKR per word.

However, if you are a pro, PhD scholars and some master's students also contact via LinkedIn. So, your authentic presence is a must on LinkedIn. Authentic means you create content to address student problems in performing academic writing tasks.

You create content related to data analysis, data collection, research methodologies, critical writing tips, and formatting of the tasks. Use proper hashtags like #academicwriter #academicwriting #researchwriting

The next platform to build your online presence is TikTok, but it is only possible when you make short videos. TikTok has a crazy reach. You can directly get connected to students in the UK, Australia and Germany. Don't forget to use proper hashtags.

Instagram is also a wonderful platform to share your academic content writing stories. You should share small reels and carousels with trending music to attract clients directly.

The wildest of all platforms is Snapchat because you can create videos and upload them on Snapchat Spotlight. Spotlight gives a blasting response to short content. You don't need to reveal your face.

Always avoid Facebook groups for content writing or academic writing because they are full of scammers. No agency pays good money that hires via Facebook. Facebook is a red alert for academic writers.

Make Business WhatsApp in advance because when your number goes viral, it is extremely risky to convert your personal number to WhatsApp Business because you are likely to lose your data and contacts.

Does it look like a lengthy process?

Yes, it takes a minimum of six months to build your academic writing brand. But once you have built your brand, there is no way back because nobody leaves a quality academic content writer who has the art of getting A+ grades.

Similar to all careers, you have to take this road very seriously because without learning a boatload of skills and software you cannot make your way in this industry.

Why would somebody give you work? The only reason somebody will give you work is when you can work better than them. Learn to work better than everyone!

Thank you for reading the article this far. If you want to learn how to build your brand on LinkedIn step-by-step, do let me know in the comments below. I will write the next part of the article.

Muhammad Umar is a full-time academic writer on LinkedIn. He is an experienced academic essay writer with a decorated work history. He is one of the best freelance academic writers in the online academic writing market. Muhammad Umar is the co-founder of Research Whale (academic content killers).