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Your Month-by-Month Guide to Starting a Successful Freelance Blogging Business

Are you thinking of starting your own freelance blogging business?

I was in your shoes less than 6 months ago, weighing the benefits of keeping my sales job with the potential gains of quitting and doing my own thing, in an area I was more passionate about.

It’s not easy to take the jump if it means saying goodbye to something with great benefits and stability — especially if you have a mortgage, kids, and other dependencies.

Starting a successful freelance blogging business is not something that should be done with haste.

Instead, take some time to plan your course of action before taking the leap for a better chance at success and a lower amount of stress. Use this month-by-month guide to properly prepare yourself for what’s to come. [Read more…]

By Kelly Gurnett 24 Comments

15 Real-Life Freelance Bloggers Who Prove You Can Create a Successful Business from Nothing

Am I ever really going to make a go of this?

Why would I ever think I could be as successful as some of those other freelancers?

Should I just give up now?

Whether you’re just starting out as a freelance blogger or you’ve been doing it for a while and have reached a plateau, it’s easy to fall prey to fears and doubts like this — especially when you compare yourself against those bigger, better freelancers who seem to have already “made it.”

But here’s a little insider secret to success: There are no insider secrets to success.

Many of those bloggers you envy started out with nothing, just like you, and it’s only through a combination of skill, moxie and sheer dogged persistence they managed to get to where they are are today.

Know what that means for you?

You can get there too.

To prove it to you (and give you some super-helpful tips you can put to use today), we interviewed 15 freelance bloggers who built their own successful businesses from “nothing” and asked them how they did it, what they learned along the way and what they wish all aspiring freelancers knew about the journey. [Read more…]

By Alicia Rades 36 Comments

7 Ways to Make Your Free WordPress Site Look More Credible to Blogging Clients

You’ve finally decided to launch your freelance blogging career. Congrats!

Chances are, you’ve spent days researching how exactly to get started, and one thing you keep hearing is this: Your business needs a website.

Unfortunately, you don’t have the money on hand to launch a self-hosted site. After all, isn’t the whole point to make money with your business?

So you sign up for a WordPress account and decide to launch a free version of your site until you have the money to upgrade to a self-hosted option.

There’s no shame in that.

The only problem is that in general, a free WordPress.com site can make you look less professional. To clients, it says, “I’m not taking my business seriously.”

But that doesn’t always have to be the case.

If you get serious with your web design, you can get rid of that “unprofessional” feel all while maintaining your site on a free platform.

Want to look more credible to freelance blogging clients? Here’s what you can do to boost the professional appeal of your free WordPress site. [Read more…]

By Sophie Lizard 33 Comments

Why Starting a Freelance Business Is Nothing Like Having a Baby

Oh, you might think starting a business has a lot in common with having a baby.

They’re similar in a few ways, I admit.

But I was pregnant throughout the start of my freelance blogging business, so I can tell you from experience: the differences outweigh the similarities by approximately one metric shit-ton.

Sure, starting a business and having a baby both involve feeling excited, hopeful, and nervous all at once.

And sure, I can understand why some people call their businesses and blogs their “babies”. [I think it’s a bit wacky and melodramatic, but I can understand it.]

No matter how you slice it, though, there are vital differences between starting your freelance blogging business and having a baby.

SPOILER: The business is easier. [Read more…]

By Ashley Gainer 44 Comments

Freelance Blogging With No Time and No Money: How One Single Mom Made It Work

How much — or how little — could you earn and still be able to live above your “survival” threshold?

Who’s depending on you, and are you able to meet their needs? Could you make it work even if your income stuck you below the poverty line?

These are questions few people really need to answer, let alone consider. But not long ago, these weren’t just hypothetical questions I pondered. They were my life, day in and day out, for three years. Freelance blogging and editing became the answer to all of those questions. That, and a steely determination not to fail.

Today I’m sharing the ins and outs of what I did in my first three years of serious freelancing. Let me just say right here that my path from dabbler to successful freelance blogger and editor was not smooth. I had the skills to do the actual work of writing and editing, but I lacked skills in pretty much every other area necessary to get my business off the ground.

My story is not about a quick rise to the top. I never broke $4,000 in a single month, and I won’t tell you about how easy-peasy it was to become a successful freelancer. Because for me, it wasn’t easy. I made a lot of mistakes, learned most of my lessons the slow way, and wasted a lot of time.

That said, I did go from know-nothing beginner to being a paid blogger and editor capable of supporting my little family, with few resources and very little time to make it happen. Here’s how I did it. [Read more…]

Freelance Blogging Beginners

Need some help to launch *your* blogging business and land your first paying clients? Not sure where to begin? You're in the right place. :)

Need some help to launch your* blogging business and land your first paying clients? Not sure where to begin? You're in the right place. :)*