Make money from blogging and freelancing as a teenager

In this article, I will tell you how you can make money as a teenager from blogging and freelancing.

Most of the people are doing some types of additional business to generate an extra amount of money. Since, with the up gradation of  technology, you can do everything with the help of internet. 

Teenagers are becoming more obsessed with the use of technologies and internet to earn money online, you can do that too, there are various options are available for making money as a teenager and growing your own additional business. 

Some teenagers may get confused to choose which path is best for them, Freelancing and Blogging are the popular ways for online earning in 2021. 

So, I would recommend every teenager to go into these fields for making money blogging and freelancing, Take a look at a survey of blogging and freelancing, 60% bloggers in United States earn an average of $25000 per month and 76% of freelancers in United States earn an average of $50000 per month. 

So, these are some facts about blogging and freelancing career in United States, Now, you understand why these two careers are some of the most successful and popular careers to make a good amount of money as a teenager.

If you are a teenager and worried about investment or your qualifications to start these careers then don't worry because, Blogging and freelancing does not require any investment, degree and experience to get work, Your blogging income is majorly dependent upon you and in freelancing you make money based on your skills but here is a little bit difficulty for you to choose that which is a better option to make money as a teenager.

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So, what is freelancing and blogging ?

 BLOGGING: In simple language, Blogging is content writing work, you have to use your writing skills to provides your readers a special information or your opinion. 

As a blogger, You publish your content and all earning is depends on your blog posts and your posts views. Blogging is a reliable option that helps people ta earn money as a passive income, because once your content get regular readers then you can make money while you are sleeping. 

Initially in blogging, you have to work hard to posts your blogs consistently and spend time to get views on your blog with the help of social media and it is not easy to get your first income instantly from blogging. 

Generally, It takes 3 to 4 months to get enough views on your content to make money. 

  FREELANCING: Freelancing is career where you work for companies and clients to earn money, Freelancing helps you to earn a good amount of money instantly by completing your clients work.

You may think that as a teenager, it's hard to be a freelancer, it's not true, if you have skills then there is no age limit for you, skills like content writing alone can help you make money from freelancing as a teenager.

You have to create a good profile and showcase your skills to get a job easily, you can earn money from freelancing instantly not like in blogging, You get paid for your job, So, to earn money as a freelancer, you have to get clients and getting clients in freelancing is not easy. 

Clients offer work based on your skills and your salary. So, Initially, your primary focus should be on to get clients and impress them by your genuine work and it helps you in long term.

The Similarity between blogging and freelancing, 

- You don't have to go an office or anywhere, you can work from home with the help of internet.  

- You are ultimately self-employed. 

- Your earning is fully depends upon you. 

- You can make these two career a part-time job or a full time job. 

Now, Lets talk about Pros and cons of blogging and freelancing.

-Freelancing Pros 

1-  Independence: Freelancing offers independence, Its all up to you to fix the timing of your job and you are free to decide everything about your job. 

2- Flexibility: Freelancers enjoy their flexible job time because they can work Full-time or Part-time. You can enjoy your Flexibility in Freelancing.  

3- Control on workload: You can choose your projects to avoid excessive workload, Freelancers can work as much or as little as they want, I think this is the best benefit of being a Freelancer. 

-Freelancing Cons 

1- Irregular Income: This is probably one of the biggest negatives in Freelancing. Freelancers always have think about their next job because if you don't have a job then you won't get paid. 

2- Lack of Free time: you wont be able to separate work time from personal time, You not only have to do the work, you have to find the work for money. 

3- It can be stressful sometimes: Being a freelancer is not a cup of tea, You can't take  holidays or a break because you can't make money while you are off. Before making freelancing a full time career, think about it.

-Blogging Pros

1- You can start start your career free of cost: Blogging require low investment , you only have to pay for your domain and web hosting fees and the fees is around 3000 per year. 

There is a Free website available for blogging, blogger.com is a Free website to start blogging and it is hosted by google. You can use Blogger, if you don't want to invest your money. 

2-  Flexibility: There's no deadlines to stress, you can write your blogs whenever you want and it does not effect your earning because blogging makes money via passive income and your blogs can make money any time of the day. 

3- Lot of different ways to make money: Blogging helps you to earn money in lot of different ways .

There are couple of options are available for you to make money from blogging as a teenager.

- Ad revenue ( making money from Adsense google is the best way of earning for beginners 

- Advertising content ( You can advertise companies products on your blog post and company will pay you for advertising their products )

- Selling your own products and services (Selling your own products and services is an effective way to make money from blogging) 

-Blogging cons

1- It's time consuming: writing a good content is not easy and to get views, your content should be at least 800 words. 

Other than writing, you have to spend time getting traffic on your blog and it takes time because you always have to be updated on social media and you need to post on social media more frequently to catch the reader's attention. 

2- It takes time to earn money: Earning from blogging is a slow process and sometimes it takes 1 year to start making a good amount of money. you need to be patience in your blogging career because you can't make money instantly from blogging. 

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3- Consistency: You need to be consistent in posting your content, sometimes it can be frustrating because writing a quality content with over 800 words and in the beginning you have to post your content daily and it is not easy to post blog on daily basis. 

I hope, this article will help you to choose which option is better for you. 

In my opinion, Blogging is a better path for those who want to generate passive income and I think this is the best thing about blogging , You don't have to work daily and it doesn't effect your earning. So, In blogging you can make money while you sleep.

So, if you are a teenager then blogging and freelancing is the best option for you to make money because it doesn't require any investment to start blogging and freelancing career.

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