Kirsty Stuart - Be a Freelance Blogger

About Kirsty Stuart

Kirsty Stuart is a freelance writer from London who quit her day job in 2012 in order to write, travel and live life on her own terms. She’s offering Be a Freelance Blogger readers a huge discount on her Udemy video course, How I Became a Freelance Writer Online – and Quit My Day Job, which includes everything from pitching templates to proven methods on how to join the highest-earning freelance bloggers online today. Use the coupon code: BAFB47 or click here now.

By Kirsty Stuart

Why Pitching to Blogging Clients Directly is Where the Money’s At

If you’re a freelance blogger (or want to be) you’re likely familiar with the obvious point I’m going to start with here:

Reputable businesses and online publications have a huge demand for high quality, valuable content for their websites.

Good news for you and your blogging career, right?

It gets better though. More specifically, these companies are looking for regular content. By definition, a blog is something that is constantly added to – it’s a process, a journey – so consistency is of the utmost importance.

Which is great news for your freelance blogging career (and subsequent bank balance).

To explain why this last point in particular is something to get so excited about, let me go out on a limb here by saying:

Pitching directly to clients for regular work is where the money’s at.

This is how I make my living from blogging, and I know it’s how many other successful online writers earn good money too.

That’s not to say that the writing gigs you can find on freelancing sites don’t have their place. They certainly do. In terms of earning a full-time living from blogging however, pitching directly to clients for regular and consistent work is your best shot at bringing in the big dollars.

Here’s how you can pitch to potential new blogging clients that will pay you a flat rate each and every month (or fortnight, or whatever) that you can come to rely on as regular income.

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By Kirsty Stuart

How to Earn More as a Freelance Blogger by “Providing Value”

(Important note: While you read this, give the phrase “providing value” the most childishly sarcastic tone you can muster.)

If you’re looking for ways to earn more as a freelance blogger, the phrase “providing value” is one that you may hear a lot. I don’t know about you, but it’s one that I tend to skim over a lot too.

It’s not that I don’t want to learn ways to provide more value to my freelance writing clients. I do. It’s just, well, the term doesn’t really mean anything on its own, does it?

The irony is, I’ve learned that I’m already providing plenty of this value people speak of, and it’s causing me to earn more. It’s just that I call it something else.

“Provide value” simply means:

Give more to somebody than you ask from them in return.

Permission to delve deeper into what that looks like?

Great. Here goes:

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By Kirsty Stuart

How to Stay Afloat in a Sea of Information Overload

Albert Einstein once said that “information is not knowledge.”

I’m sure you’ll agree old Albert was an all-round clever guy.

Because while continuous learning is great, consuming bucket-loads of information without proper application doesn’t make you Einstein – nor does it make you a better freelance blogger.

As a freelancer, you need to access only the right information in the right way to remain productive (and sane). As a blogger, it’s imperative that you keep up with a whole host of ever-evolving information about the online world – some of which can change daily.

But if you’re both? A freelancer and a blogger? Well, you’re likely to be in the “extremely high risk zone” when it comes to information overload. Up the proverbial creek without so much as a paddle, as it were.

Worry not – there are strategies you can put in place to avoid drowning spectacularly in a vast sea of information. Just grab on to the following life rafts to stay afloat and ward off that out-of-your-depth feeling.

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