Freelance writing has been around about as long as writing has. Someone needs an article written, they aren’t particularly good writers, or they don’t have the time to do it themselves and they turn to a freelancer. It used to be that this kind of freelance writing was only done in the city where the company was located for one simple reason. There were only two ways for article submission and one was not remotely expedient. Snail mail or just mail as it was called in the days before the internet isn’t all that slow. Mail something from inside the same state to someone and you can count on the submissions being to whoever asked for them in a day or two.
The other way to deliver article submissions was in person. If the office you are doing the work for is close by, dropping off your work was the best way to go about getting it in on the appointed deadline. With the arrival of the internet and with a few people who realized all that it can do, writing articles for pay has never been easier, and getting them to the clients who are asking for them has been revolutionized.
Whether you are working with a website that finds the clients for the writer, simply displays them, giving the freelancer the chance to choose exactly the type of article they want or if the site merely matches the writer and the client, and leaves it up to them, connection and submission is easy as the click of a button.
Certainly, the websites that allow you to submit your work to them, and allow the client to view and assess your work all on-site are easier than the ones you have to wait for an email response from. These sites are an all access type of vendor and most important for the authors, they know what butters their bread. The sites might take a little money off the top for the writing, but the best ones don’t take more than they need to run their business and the best don’t ask for exorbitant fees.
