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By Sophie Lizard 1 Comment

Creative Blogging Jobs: Get Paid to Write for Art, Design, Photography, Audio, & Video Blogs

Creative Blogging Jobs: Get Paid to Write for Art, Design, Photography, Audio, & Video Blogs

All the best-paying freelance blogging gigs are on topics like business and medicine, right?

Nope…

When you’ve got a creative skill that others want to learn, you can get paid to write about it. And if you’re anything like most eager freelance writers, your next question is probably “What can I earn?”

How much do creative blogging jobs pay?

Welp, the sites on this list pay from $50 to $400+ for each one-off post they accept, so the exact answer to how much you get paid is up to you. Offer a great post idea, discuss the length and complexity with the editor, and negotiate a rate you’re happy with! [Read more…]

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By Carol Tice 2 Comments

Freelance Blogging Work Dried Up? 5 Quick Steps to Get Back in Business

Freelance Blogging Work Dried Up? 5 Quick Steps to Get Back in Business

Has your freelance blogging work evaporated since COVID-19 hit and ‘isolation’ became the most-used word of 2020? Blog clients ghosting you, all of a sudden?

If so, don’t sit wringing your hands. Realize that rapid turnover is a hallmark of recession times.

Swing into action to replace your lost blog-writing jobs with these 5 steps. This action plan focuses on the fastest routes to landing clients quickly: [Read more…]

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By Sophie Lizard 91 Comments

What Your Freelance Blogging Portfolio Says About You: How Clients Decide Who to Hire

What Your Freelance Blogging Portfolio Says About You: How Clients Decide Who to Hire

Does the thought of a potential client checking out your freelance blogging portfolio make you so nervous, you get the hiccups?

When you’re freelancing, your portfolio is one of your biggest assets. It can get you hired on the spot, or dumped on the pile of instantly forgotten applicants who failed to impress.

So let’s ask the obvious question: what does your portfolio say about you? [Read more…]

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By Philipp Meier 8 Comments

How to Find an Email Address for Any Blog Editor in Minutes

How to Find an Email Address for Any Blog Editor in Minutes

You have a brilliant idea for a blog post.

You know how to pitch.

You’ve read the blog’s masthead, contact page, and About page.

You’ve worked out which editor to pitch to. Your fingers are twitching to type out your pitch and send it right away.

But you don’t see their email address listed on the site, and you have no clue how the fudge you’re supposed to find it out.

Sound familiar? 

Don’t fret, and don’t give up hope of getting your pitch into your dream editor’s hands.

I’ve been through this challenge myself, and I found some simple online tools that helped me get the email addresses I wanted.

Here’s a quick walk through the 6 tools I find the most helpful, and how I use them.

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By Carol Tice 9 Comments

5 Simple Ways Freelance Bloggers Can Move Up to Well-Paid Article Writing

5 Simple Ways Freelance Bloggers Can Move Up to Well-Paid Article Writing

Tired of earning small money for paid blogging? If you’re looking to move up, article writing can be a great next step in your freelance career.

After all, you already know how important headlines are online. And you know how to focus an idea into an article-sized slice, organizing it into subheads or a bulleted/numbered list.

All great fundamentals for article writing.

How can you cross over from the world of $50 blog posts to earning $1 a word and more for articles?

Here are five proven paths for moving up to writing articles:

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