6 ChatGPT Prompts That Get You Paid $1,000+ To Write In 2025 – Forbes
ByRachel Wells,
Contributor.
Writing is a multibillion-dollar industry that takes on a new meaning thanks to increased numbers of … More
Back in the day, you’d tell someone, “I’m a writer,” and the reaction would almost instantly be the embarrassing equivalent of booing.
“Oh really?” they’d query smugly. “How much does that pay?”
Nowadays, it’s a completely different story. The script has flipped, with content marketing reigning as king. In fact, content creation and marketing is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and much of it heavily depends on everyday writers who have harnessed their skills and interests to produce blogs, copy, and research worth reading. What’s even better, freelance writing offers you the opportunity to build your own career, create your own flexible lifestyle, and get paid lucratively, especially in some niches like business and tech.
And you don’t even need to be a professional writer to make money from this skill. You can build experience and a portfolio over time and earn along the way.
Freelance writers enjoy a level of freedom and career satisfaction that most professionals in non-creative industries or in traditional employment can only imagine. Quite a few are even making six figures, earning thousands each month.
There are several compelling reasons you should start writing today:
Note: I do not use ChatGPT or AI tools to generate and write my Forbes articles. I am a strong advocate for being authentic and transparent, and all of the stories and articles you see in my Forbes column are 100% human-written. The use cases provided here are suggestions for helping you make money through writing as a freelance writer, and even for other writing use cases which indirectly lead to revenue in a more efficient way, without full dependency on AI or using it to replace your voice.
Now for the prompts:
You’re a copywriter for a marketing agency and your client is a SaaS start-up specializing in CRM software. Create the outline for this 4,000-word SE-optimized article, using this brief [give it your client’s brief].
I am a freelance writer and I specialize in [your niche]. I want to pitch [name of client] who operates in [name of industry], so I can guest-write for them. Draft a concise cold pitch email that acknowledges their pain-point and positions me as a solution, without sounding salesy or cheesy. It should end with a CTA.
Give me a series of LinkedIn post ideas to promote my personal brand and service offering, for the next week. The tone is [describe your writing tone and brand voice]
I’m launching a paid newsletter on Medium called [newsletter name]. The theme will be focused on [what your newsletter is about, and include target audience and industry]. Generate some subject ideas for the next 90 days that I can follow loosely. The subject ideas must speak to a specific need that my audience has, and be highly unique, practical and tangible so they’ll want to pay to read it.
I’ve just written a blog and I want you to help me optimize it for SEO, as well as SGE, so it ranks highly in Google search and AI search results. Give me some suggestions on what can be done to improve it before I publish.
I’m writing an in-depth thought leadership piece called [name] for my B2B client [name of client], using research and the latest data to create a white paper-like study, which has the following goals, according to the client [list the goals]. Help me outline and structure each part of this paper, and list some relevant sources for real-time data and stats that I can pull from to make this a solid research-backed study.
This is how you write faster and smarter. Not through using AI to take away your own voice, but through using it strategically to:
Write smarter and faster by using AI to assist with ideation, not to take away your voice
Can you make money writing using ChatGPT?
Yes you can, but only if you don’t misuse it. People online are pretty good at detecting a fraud and can sniff when someone has used AI all over their writing, and it’s not a positive first impression either. Ensure you genuinely have something of value and in demand to offer.
Do I need to be an experienced writer to make money online?
No you don’t. You can make money as a beginner, offering your freelance writing services, and increase your rates as you gain experience.
