Learn to make REAL money blogging for hire
If you’re looking to grow your freelance writer portfolio, you may be ignoring the low-hanging fruit of the freelance writer world: regional and local print magazines and blogs.
Don’t write these usually free local magazines off. They make money from local ads for small businesses and they need and pay local writers for niche or lifestyle topics.
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When you decided to become a freelance blogger, did you immediately write up a 5-year business development plan? Calculate a full financial forecast?
If you did, you have everyone’s permission to skip this blog post and order more champagne while you wait for the rest of us to catch up.
But most freelance bloggers start with a talent for writing and then pick up a bit of business sense along the way. If that sounds more like you, don’t worry — you can still grow your blogging into a lucrative business. We just need to fill some of the gaps in your understanding of how your business works.
Here’s the important part, though: you need to fill the knowledge gaps in your business now, because every month they go unfilled is another month you go without the money you deserve.
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If you live or hail from Canada, you might be wondering where all the Canadian freelance writing gigs are. You’ve got the hometown advantage when pitching to Canadian publications (and some of them pay extremely well too). But most freelance writing job lists only include a handful of them.
So where are they?
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Wondering where all the GOOD freelance writing jobs hide out?
You’re not the only one.
Lots of freelance writers, especially beginners, go to Google and type in freelance writing jobs when they want to find work.
I’m guessing you’ve tried that yourself at least once.
So you already know there’s a ton of websites that put up freelance writing job ads, or run bidding wars in which writers compete to win gigs. But there’s too much to look at — you could spend hours scanning these opportunities and still be no closer to getting hired.
And when you check out blogs and podcasts for help, you quickly realise that they all recycle the same few tips… some of which are likely to work for the majority of people who use them properly, and some of which are MAJOR long shots that rarely work for anybody.
Problem is, you can’t tell which is which.
What you need is a way to narrow down your freelance writing job search and *only* do the things that are worth your time.
This guide shows you where to find good freelance writing jobs, how to get hired, and how to make yourself even more hireable (so you can win more work with more fantastic clients for more money).
You’ll probably find tips in here that are familiar to you, but you’ll also find ideas beyond the usual boilerplate advice — and sane expectations to balance the overoptimistic bullshit you might read elsewhere.
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You want some free stuff? Not just any free stuff, but genuinely useful things you’ll be glad you found?
Here are 52 things just like that.
See, I poke around the internet a lot. Every now and then I find something so good, I bookmark it and keep going back to use it again. The coolest thing, though, is that so much of what I find is free! You can take it, use it, don’t have to pay a cent.
With 52 free resources on this list, you can try a new one every week for the next year. Or, if you’re impatient like me, you can go nuts and grab ’em all today. Up to you. Take a look and help yourself to whatever you want.
This list contains only resources I’ve used and liked, and only resources that are free to use. If they cost anything, it’ll be your email address or maybe a tweet.
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