If you are –or have ever wanted to be– a freelance writer, there are a thousands of websites that hire people to write articles for them. I found a site yesterday that is looking for talented writers to write about plastic surgery for them. Topics that interest them include:

• Celebrity plastic surgery
• Plastic surgery breakthroughs, procedures, new techniques
• Celebrity gossip about skin care, makeup and other beauty products used by stars
• Odd, strange, and funny stories related to plastic surgery

If you’re interested in writing for “the world’s largest website for all things plastic surgery, anti-aging, and beauty, with over a million members and over 400,000 monthly visitors,” click here to visit their writers’ guidelines page, and to apply to be a writer.

As I discussed in a previous post, eHow is a site where writers can write freelance articles for pay.  The pay is monthly residual pay. This means that an article you write today can earn you money this month, next month, and every single month for… well, forever.

Some of the big earners at eHow makes over $2,000 in residual income each month.  I’ve found an ebook detailing precisely how to turn writing articles for eHow into a profitable, lucrative at-home job.  It is full of absolutely everything there is to know about writing articles for eHow, and formatting them in such a way that you’ll reap rewards month after month.  The book is just $20.  The income you’ll earn by using the techniques you learn in this book, though, will more than cover the price of the book.   I can’t stress enough how beneficial this could be to help you achieve your work at home dream.   If you don’t have $20, tell a parent or other family member that you’ll gladly pay them back with your first month’s eHow earnings. Do what you can to get your hands on it.  Your future successful self will thank you.

To order your eHow ebook for just $20, click here.

During a recession, there are certain jobs that are considered recession-proof.   This means that no matter how bad the economy gets, people in these fields will still manage to hold onto their jobs.  Some of these require a lot of education (physicians, for instance), while others don’t require as much education or training.

One of these recession-proof jobs is also a work at home job:  resume writer. With the economy in a slump, thousands of people are losing their once-secure jobs, and finding themselves needing to search for new jobs.   A great many of these people either don’t know how to construct a powerful and effective resume, or they don’t have confidence in their abilities.  This is great news (and great business) for people who work as resume writers.

As a resume writer, you can control the amount of work you take on, and set your own hours.  AWAI’s Pro Resume Writing Program can teach you –in under seven hours– what you need to do to become a successful resume writer.  Search the any copywriters forum on the internet, and you’ll hear nothing  but good reviews about AWAI’s training programs.

I’m impressed with their resume writing program, and highly suggest that  you register for it if you have the means to do so.  For Just 48 hours (beginning right now, and ending at 11:59pm, on Wednesday, February 12, 2009), AWAI has agreed to give my readers a 50% off discount for their renowned work at home resume writing program.   The program is usually $99, but if you purchase within the 48 hour window they are giving my readers, you can purchase it for just $48.

I can’t fully express what a great deal this is, and what a wonderful, succeessful home-based career this can get you.   Borrow the money from a family member, or move some money around (don’t eat out for the next few weeks), in order to be able to purchase this program at the deeply discounted price.

This $48 can be the difference between you struggling to find a job and establishing a strong and sucessful career for yourself.

To start your work as a resume writer, order AWAI’s Pro Resume Writer for only $48 now.

Or learn more about becoming a work at home freelance resume writer.

eHow is an online site full of articles that answer the question “How do you…?”  All of eHow’s articles start with the words, “How to…” and follow with the writer’s description of how to do anything from “make a grilled cheese sandwich” to “clean a carburetor.”  eHow is the place for freelance writers to earn a little extra money by writing anything they want to write.  Registration is free, and you can begin writing the second after you’ve registered.  Payment is made monthly.  Don’t expect huge paychecks in the beginning, though.  Earnings are based on a number of things, including page views, ratings, comments, and a few other things.  Don’t be discouraged by your early earnings.  I’ve heard it takes about a month for your articles to be indexed by all of the search engines.  Some eHow freelance writers are making hundreds of dollars per month, and a select few make thousands.  What YOU end up making will depend on your writing and communication skills, number of articles you put on eHow, and your determination.  If you’re interested, go to eHow’s Frequently Asked Questions page to learn more.

I’ve found a place where you can work at home in the field of your choice, as a freelancer.  If you have skills in the fields of writing, photography, editing, web development, law, sales, engineering, and more, you need to check out elance.com.    Elance.com is a community-based site, where employers post jobs and projects and “providers” (freelance employees) make bids on the jobs.  Employers choose the provider they want to work with, and pay upon completion of the project.

Like eBay, elance has a feedback interface, so that potential employers can see how happy previous employers have been with a provider’s work.

In order to become an elance provider, you must complete ad Admissions Test.  The test covers concepts about elance, its terms of service, and their rules for employment.  This is so that elance can be sure that potential elance providers have a working knowledge of the site.

There is a free basic membership, which will allow you to bid on and complete projects for elance employers, but there are also different paid membership plans.  The paid membership plans rance in price from $9.95 – $39.95 per month.   The higher the monthly cost, the more benefits each plan has.  Again, you can find employment at elance with a basic free membership plan.  Paid memberships simply offer more perks and more job availablity.

Click-N-Work is a company that provides online workers for several brick-and-mortar companies. (Instead of outsourcing to companies overseas, these companies keep jobs in the US by using Click-N-Work home-based employers.) Their needs fluctuate, depending on the needs of the companies they service, and with the pool of homeworkers they have employed at any given time. Most of the time, though, they are in need of the following:

* Analysts/consultants – people with specific analyst/consulting skills that wish to work from home.

* Information professionals/specialists – business researchers with strong track records and proficiency at a range of information sources (Factiva, Lexis Nexis, Profound etc).

* Writers/Editors – writers with experience at high quality business writing.

* Web Searchers – individuals proficient at quickly finding information on the web to answer business questions.

* Data entry specialists – individuals skilled at rapid and accurate data entry.

* Shoppers, Trend spotters, Social observers – people keen to shop for certain products and adept at seeing trends, drawing parallels and generating valuable commercial insight.

* Telephone interviewers – people skilled at interviewing senior business people, discussing business issues and surfacing opinion on often sensitive business questions.

* Photographers – people able to take photos of buildings, inside stores and of products on shelves.

* Translators – people qualified to translate between popular business languages

To apply, click here to go to Click-N-Work’s registration page.

If you love words and have a wide vocabulary, newspapers and other publications will buy crossword puzzles that you create.  The New York Times pays the highest, but they also have the most competition. If you’re interested in learning more about this home job, read this eHow article.

A few months ago, I started writing for eHow. It was a little before Christmas, and I decided I had nothing to lose. I am so glad I did. Registering for eHow is absolutely free, and the work is simple. Members write simple how-to articles, and get paid for doing so. The best part is that the earnings keep rolling in, month after month, for articles that you’ve already written. In other words, the articles I wrote in November (my first month there), have earned me income every single month since then. In fact, some of my articles have earned MORE money, the longer they’ve been on eHow.

If you work as a freelance writer, or would like to, I can’t tell you how beneficial this residual income is. When I first started working as a freelance writer, I made $15 per article. Period. The articles that I write for eHow earn many times that amount over time. My highest earning article, for instance, as earned over $300 in its lifetime on eHow. I can’t express how amazing this earning opportunity is.

While writing for eHow, I started another blog, journaling my experiences as I write for ehow.   Please visit it, if you are interested in learning about my experiences and earnings on eHow.

I have also written an ebook about how to increase your earnings at eHow.   You don’t have to purchase the ebook to write for eHow, but it can help you tremendously.    Some writers make under $5 per month on eHow.  I now make over $1500 per month on eHow.

My ebook sells for $20, but you can receive a 25% off coupon (just $15 for an ebook that could boost your earning potential tremendously) by doing the following:

1) Make a comment on this post, below.  Your comment must include a genuine comment about how increasing your income with eHow will affect you AND must include your twitter user name.  If you don’t use twitter yet, click here to register your free account.

2) Follow me on Twitter.

3) Tweet the following message on Twitter:  Getting an ebook from @cynvela She makes over $1500/month w/ eHow residual income, & she’s teaching me how, too! http://tinyurl.com/l4ouz9

4) Wait for a direct message from me via Twitter.  I will send you the discount code that you can use in order to purchase your eHow ebook for just $15, instead of the regular price of $20.

Again, you can write for eHow absolutely free.   But I guarantee that if you learn the powerful techniques that I use when I write my eHow articles, your income will be higher than without (or before).