We’re probably all sick of hearing about AI that is the only thing I feel like we’ve been hearing about over the last few months but unfortunately, it’s here to stay and if you want to do anything revolving around making money creatively on the internet with your words then you’re gonna need to embrace it one way or another. You’re at least going to need to accept its existence and the sooner you start using it to help your workflow, the better off you’re gonna be. So we’re gonna discuss the 10 best ways to use AI writing tools as a freelance writer.

I’m not saying you need to use it to recreate yourself. You’re not trying to get it to do all the work for you but there are a lot of things you can do that are going to make some of your tasks easier. It’s going to help you with your thinking and allow you to be more creative and it’s essentially going to allow you to be a better writer, a better freelancer, a better blogger whatever it is.

So here’re the 10 ways you can use AI writing tools to grow your business rather than just condemn it and let it take over the world. If you’ve been reluctant to get into AI and if it feels too technical then this post is gonna help you out a lot.

1 Generate Ideas for Content

All right first way you can benefit from an AI writing tool is probably one of the most obvious ways, but you can use it to generate ideas for content seriously. Let’s say I want to write a blog post about the best content writing business ideas online, and it’s going to give me a bunch of ideas what I thought was interesting is I asked for this and then it not only gave me the ideas, it also gave me a little extra about why this post would be useful and why it would be beneficial.

So seriously the sky is the limit for how you can use Chat GPT to come up with ideas for content and ever since this came out i really have never struggled with ideas. As I already said in my previous post that AI is supposed to help the work of writers rather than eliminate them.

2 Draft A Letter of Introduction

The second thing you can do is you can use AI tools like Chat GPT or jasper to draft a letter of introduction for your freelance pitches, it really works well. So most of you know if you’ve been with my posts that when it comes to freelance writing, the best way to get clients is to send cold emails, send a cold pitch, send a cold letter of introduction where you’re finding people online you think might be a good fit and you were just introducing yourself but sometimes it can be a little bit of a struggle to know exactly what to say.

So you can go to chat GPT and say hey I would like to write a letter of introduction for a freelance writing client in this industry and behold! It’s going to come out with a great template. I would not recommend just copying and pasting this but you can use this template as an idea and as a starting point for what to say. Add in personalization make sure you’ve done some research on the client so there are some details that are pertinent to them so they know you’re not just copying and pasting the same thing and sending it to everybody.

So if you’re struggling with how to get going with ideas then you can just go into Chat GPT and ask the question a few times if you’re not happy with the result hit it again, regenerate content and it’s going to give you a whole new letter of introduction template. It’s pretty awesome how well it works so I suggest you experiment with it.

3 Transcribe Audio to Text

All right number three let’s get away from Chat GPT for a second let’s talk about how you can use AI to transcribe audio to text. So this is great if you have a podcast if you have a youtube channel and you want to basically have a transcription of that audio so that you can turn it into a blog post or turn it into social media posts or share it with your audience so I like to use a tool called Otter. So literally, it’s free all you have to do is hit play on a youtube video and it will transcribe the whole thing.

So there are all sorts of stuff you can do with it Otter is fantastic they’ve got a free version you can get started with and it’s definitely one i recommend checking out especially if you’ve got a podcast if you’ve got a video or you need to do transcription work on a regular basis.

4 Create Social Media Posts

All right number four is you can use AI to create social media posts. If you’ve spent any time on Twitter lately you will have seen or maybe you don’t realize you’re seeing it but people are using AI to come up with a massive amount of social media content whether that’s motivational tweets or Instagram captions. So AI can do this so quickly that you can use a tool like jasper.AI or again you can go straight to Chat GPT.

So if you want 10 tweets about freelance writing you can ask it to make 10 tweets about freelance writing. You make some light edits and boom! All of a sudden you’ve got a whole bunch of content in a matter of seconds. If you’re trying to build your Twitter profile you’re trying to automate things you can use a tool like Hypefury. So you go to Chat GPT, get a bunch of tweets, edit them and you can drop in like 30 40 50 tweets that are AI-generated in seconds and you can essentially create a full tweet calendar for the next month and then people can engage with it.

So having said that again, you want to make sure you’re not losing your creativity. You want to make sure you’re not losing your personality you want to make sure you’re not losing your point of view on things. So I suggest taking what it gives you making some light edits or at least adding your own spin into the mix as well so you’re not only relying on AI but if you’re at a point where you just need a lot of pretty good content pretty quickly, AI can be a great way to help you get there.

5 Create Contracts

The fifth way you can use AI to create contracts. Let’s say you’re a budding freelance writer you don’t have a ton of money, you don’t want to spend money on a stock contract and you can’t find a free one online that you like. We’ll go to Chat GPT put in a little bit of pertinent information and boom! All of a sudden you have a contract that you can use, you can send to a client, and is going to work great you can also do this for invoices or essentially create any sort of written template that you need. Once again make sure to put your own spin and your own words on it to make sure that it’s accurate but if you’ve been struggling to find something that already exists then AI can help you create your own really quickly for free.

6 Write Scripts for Short Term Videos

You can use AI to write scripts for your short-term videos. We are living in a TikTok world Facebook reels, youtube shorts nobody has an attention span anymore so use AI to write short scripts for your content that is going to be catchy and compelling.

It is kind of amazing how well this works I can literally go to Chat GPT and say I would like to shoot a tik tok video about how to become a freelance writer, write me a 20-second script about this topic, and boom!

I might have a couple of edits but generally when I do that the stuff that it puts out is totally usable pretty accurate and pretty compelling it’s kind of scary how well it works. So if you’re looking to boost the output of your short-form content definitely try getting some of the scripts written with AI they can also help you with ideas and headlines if you haven’t figured that out by now.

7 Write Better Headlines

Number seven speaking of headlines. You can use AI to help you write better headlines. So let’s say you’ve got a basic how-to post you’re just like how do you start freelance writing and you don’t know how to make that compelling, you can go to any of those services and say hey I would like a more clickable headline for a topic around how to become a freelance writer and it’s going to give you a limitless number of ideas.

You find the one that seems most compelling to you and there you go. That’s one of the great things about AI they do a really good job with persuasive copywriting while a lot of AI’s knowledge on facts and current events can be a little suspect they’re really good at persuasion tactics.

So if you’re using it for sale sales copy or are using it to create something that’s going to get people to take action or click on something, it could be really really good for that and it’s also really good to experiment with it because it’s going to help you become a better copywriter in the process.

8 Create Custom Graphics

You can use AI to create custom graphics for you about whatever you want. Yeah AI is not just about text anymore you can literally create your own art there are services out there like dolly and mid-journey but even on a more consumer basis services like Canva and Jasper which I use both of now have their own art capabilities.

So you can literally type in I would like to see a cat as a king of the jungle and 10 seconds later you literally have a custom image of a kittie king in a jungle and you can say I want it to look realistic I want it to be arty I want it to be color I want it to be in black and white it’s pretty amazing like some of the stuff with the art is still a little suspect, but if you play around with it and you get really good at giving it prompts you’ll be surprised with how good of content you can get out of it.

So great news for this is if you’re constantly struggling to find images that don’t have copyright issues on your blog posts you can just go make your own through AI services so that’s definitely worth checking out.

9 Proofreaders and Grammer Checker

Okay, number nine this is one of the very first ways I’ve ever leveraged AI and I’ve been doing it for a long time and that is to use it as a proofreader and a grammar checker. So there are services like Grammarly which I highly recommend that you can install they’ve got a free version so anybody can get started with this and it will show you this is what you misspelled here’s how you can rewrite this could sound better if you do it this way.

So if you’re someone who’s writing a lot and you want an extra set of robotic eyes to help you out, I would definitely check out Grammarly. They’ve been around for a long time, they’re highly respected and no they’re not perfect but it’s definitely going to help give you a little bit of a leg up when it comes to proofreading as opposed to just using your own eyes and anyone that’s read my blog post knows I’m not always the best proofreader so I need all the help I can get.

10 Write Product Descriptions

And finally number 10 the last way I would recommend writers use AI services is to write product descriptions. One of the biggest job opportunities right now for freelance writers is writing product descriptions for e-commerce companies.

In many cases, these e-commerce companies are people selling on amazon they’re going to have thousands of products all of which need product descriptions. So assuming you feed it the correct information you can use AI to greatly expedite that process and is definitely something I would recommend if you do anything in that world.

So there you go! For anyone that’s doing writing work online, those are the 10 best ways you can leverage existing AI services to help you become more creative, get more clients, make more money, and generally just make your life easier. I do not think AI is going to take over the world of freelance writers but it is going to change the game a little bit and people that embrace it are going to succeed and they’re going to get better at their craft. People that fight it are going to struggle and people that ignore it completely. Well, you should probably find a different career because you’re not going to be successful here.

Cheers!