Do you want to start your writing career but don’t know where to start? Then building your writing portfolio is a must! You will never get a client unless you submit a written sample of your work.

I was in the same position when I was a total beginner. I was thinking, “What side hustle should I do to have an income?” Since I am always curious, I dig deeper into the internet and one thing that I learned is to build your portfolio.

But can you build your portfolio without paying?

Definitely!

There are different websites out there where you can use their service for FREE and premium is just optional. In this blog, you will learn 5 websites that you can use to build your portfolio for FREE.

Build Your Writing Portfolio for FREE

Medium

Medium is popular and has a huge community on the internet. They offer a service where everyone can write and publish their works for free. You can even customize your Medium profile depending on your branding.

It is a huge community where different people write to it every single day. If you want to start your blogging career, better to start creating your Medium account and start publishing.

You can publish any topics that you are interested in as long as you follow the rules and terms and conditions of the platform.

Hive

Hive is a place for creators who love Web 3.0. It is a decentralized blogging platform where you can easily monetize your content right after you publish it.

There are different communities on Hive and you can always join them depending on the topic that you are interested in. For example, if you love talking about money and finance, you are welcome to LeoFinance and share your insights, knowledge, and learnings about finance.

There are also general-related topics for people who write different topics. One thing that makes this platform the best is that you can monetize your content immediately and get paid for your content.

I even shared a simple guide for beginners who wants to learn more about Hive. This is a free and short e-book that you can share with everyone.

You can always join Hive by using my link: Sign up on Hive. You can also contact me on Twitter if you need my help.

read.cash

read.cash used to give tips and upvotes to its users when you are going to publish on their website. They are giving payments in a form of cryptocurrency called Bitcoin cash. However, due to a lack of funds, the developers cannot provide any tips anymore.

The good thing is they keep the website for those users who still want to share their blogs. You can always publish blogs that are in a line with your interest. It has a different community where you can post your blog depending on your topic.

Beehiiv

If you want to start growing your newsletter subscribers while starting your blogging journey, then Beehiiv is the perfect place for you. It is a newsletter x blogging platform for those users who wants to share their blog on the internet.

When publishing your content, you can choose between the three options of a mode of publication:

1. Web
2. Email
3. Web + Email

If you are just starting you can always choose the web options. The best thing here is that you don’t have to take care of your SEO because they will do it for you. One thing that you need to do is to learn the basics of SEO like putting keywords, link building, and meta tags.

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WordPress

You heard it right! WordPress offers a good opportunity by offering their service for FREE. You can always start your website in WordPress without paying anything. They also have a community where you can interact and read other bloggers’ blogs on the platform.

Later on, once you learned that blogging is for you, you have the choice if you want to buy the domain that you choose and start removing the extension your_domain.wordpress.com.

There are several websites that you can use from the web but here are the websites that I think are user-friendly and will be helpful for your blogging journey. I had an experience on each website and I am staying with all of them.

I started writing on read.cash and started to explore more websites over time. You can also try these websites or look for another alternative and find the best one for you. But if you want to have quick exposure, I would suggest going to websites that have a community to interact with and start exposing yourself to them by interacting with them.