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From Journalism to Freelance Blogging: Here’s How to Make the Switch

From Journalism to Freelance Blogging: Here’s How to Make the Switch

Are you one of the thousands of journalists holding your breath and watching as the industry declines?

28,000 people in the United States lost their newsroom jobs between 2008 and 2018, according to the Pew Research Center. (That’s a quarter of all the news jobs in the US.)

If you work for a print publication, you’re probably taking the brunt of the downturn. But digital media isn’t off the hook. Nowadays, layoffs of digital media employees happen with frightening frequency, too.

Being laid off is nerve-wracking in any industry.

Most of us knew the downturn meant taking positions that offered lower pay. But with 25% of the jobs vanishing, that motivation is gone, and you may be wondering how to keep a roof over your head.

It’s time to channel that fear and anxiety and shape it into entrepreneurship: you’re going to make the switch from journalism to freelance blogging.

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How to Earn $1,500 a Year from ONE Blog Post

How to Earn $1,500 a Year from ONE Blog Post

Meaningful relationships create effortless rewards. So effortless you forget how miraculous they seem to others.

In your freelance blogging business — in any business — a seemingly insignificant effort may blossom into something grand, much like the growth of a garden. I’m going to show you how to step up a level in your freelancing business using complementary skills and relationship-building.

Here’s how one guest blog post landed me $1,500 per year.  [Read more…]

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How Dogged Persistence Landed My First Regular Blogging Gig

How Dogged Persistence Landed My First Regular Blogging Gig

Three months and 17 e-mails.

That’s how much effort it took to get my first blogging client. I know it sounds a smidge ridiculous, but it was a worthy and important lesson in patience and persistence.

You know what the waiting’s like. Some days you can’t get it off your mind. Others, you forget about it and move on. It’s just like the wait after you send out a traditional job application: hearing little or nothing is the torturous part.

Here’s how it went down, and the lessons I learned along the way.  [Read more…]